Intro to cloud

What benefits do runtime engines provide to containers?

Share the operating system (OS) with other containers

there are four main types of cloud storage available. Which storage type is sometimes called "Local Storage"?

Direct Attached

Which of these vendors are known more for their SaaS offerings?

amazon web services

What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?

A CDN is a distributed server network that delivers temporarily stored or cached copies of website content to users based on the user's geographic location.

Which of these statements best reflects the symbiotic relationship between AI and IoT on the Cloud?

AI consumes data produced by IoT devices. Based on conclusions drawn by AI algorithms on patterns emerging this data, IoT devices learn to anticipate user actions based on past actions and respond to them based on their preferences.

Private cloud platforms can be implemented internally or externally. What is an external private cloud platform?

When the platform is provisioned over a logically isolated part of a cloud provider's public infrastructure, and is owned, managed, and operated by the service provider.

If an organization needs to run a highly sensitive and mission critical application with unpredictable performance and capacity requirements, which of the following models would best meet its requirements?

With a Hybrid Cloud, organizations can choose to run their mission-critical applications on the private cloud while leveraging additional public cloud capacity to accommodate spikes in demand for their application.

what is the three-way relationship between blockchain, AI, and the Cloud?

blockchain provides the trusted, decentralized source of truth, AI powers the analytics and decisions made from the collected data, and cloud provides the globally distributed, scalable, and cost-efficient computing resources to support both technologies.

What are some cloud computing benefits?

flexibility and efficiency and competitive advantage

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), what is that crucial ability that will make cloud computing essential for businesses to succeed, sustain, and compete in today's markets?

muliti cloud infrasctures

Which of these are essential characteristics of the Cloud?

on demand self service Users can access cloud resources such as the processing power, storage, and network using a simple interface, without requiring human interaction with each service provider. and resource poolingloud resources are dynamically assigned and reassigned, according to demand, without consumers needing to concern themselves with the physical location of these resources.

What 1950s technology helped evolve to Virtual Machines (VMs)?

shared access mainframe

Which of these statements are true of Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)?

A VPC is a public cloud offering that lets an organization establish its own private and secure cloud-like computing environment in a logically isolated part of a shared public cloud.While the infrastructure is tailored to an individual organization's unique needs, it is still owned, managed, and operated by the public cloud service provider.

What are the characteristics of a cloud native application?

A cloud native application consists of microservices working together as independent units of software working as a whole.

What tasks do hypervisors accomplish?

A hypervisor is a small software layer that enables multiple operating systems to run alongside each other, sharing the same physical computing resources./Hypervisors also separate virtual machines logically, assigning each its ow slice of the underlying computing power, memory and storage, preventing the virtual machines from interfering with each other.

What do we mean when we say that the Hybrid Cloud is interoperable?

An interoperable Hybrid Cloud gives organizations the flexibility to move workloads freely between the public and private clouds as needs change.The public and private cloud services can understand each other's APIs, configuration, data formats, and forms of authentication and authorization

Why do bare metal servers take longer to provision than virtual servers?

Bare-metal servers are physical machines and take longer to provision than virtual servers as physical resources with specified capacity may need to be configured by the cloud provider before they are made available to users.

How does Blockchain support AI?

Blockchain provides the trusted, decentralized source of truth lending trust and transparency to the decisions made by AI algorithms.

An IBM Institute for Business Value study says that more than three-quarters of enterprises today are using cloud computing to expand into new industries. What additional benefits do organizations find when adopting the cloud:

Cloud enables businesses to respond quickly to marketplace changes, use analytics to understand customer experience, and to apply that understanding to adapt their products and service from what they learn.

IoT, AI, Blockchain, and Analytics are emerging technologies enabled by the cloud. What are some of the attributes of cloud computing that enable these technologies?

Cloud resources scale up and down in response to the workload demand, with users paying only for resources that they use. This makes it cost-viable for organizations to leverage emerging technologies on the cloud./Emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, Blockchain, and Analytics process and generate an unprecedented amount of data. Cloud provides the scalability and processing power required to gather, store, and process this data.

which of these scenarios are good use cases for Public Cloud?

Cloud-based applications and platforms free up internal IT teams to focus on building and testing applications, thereby reducing time-to-market for products and services.

Cloud adoption is an integral part of application modernization. What are the other two important components of modernization?

Correct,

What are some of the benefits of using microservices architecture?

Each component can be scaled independently, reducing the waste and cost associated with having to scale entire applications./Microservices are function specific independent components that can be developed and updated by multiple developers working independently on the individual components.

Cloud native applications follow a consistent set of development principles. Identify two of these development principles from the provided options.

Each microservice in a cloud native application is packaged with its libraries and dependencies into individual containers.

What is File Storage sometimes called?

File Storage is mounted to compute nodes via an ethernet network and is sometimes referred to as 'Network File Storage' or NFS.

According to the IaaS video, which one of these is NOT a likely use case for IaaS?

For an organization looking for greater control over the configuration, management, workload availability, and performance of their infrastructure, it is unlikely that they would opt for IaaS.

What are the key elements of a Hybrid Multicloud strategy?

Hybrid Multicloud implies that you have the flexibility to work across cloud models and service providers without being locked-in to a specific vendor or model./Hybrid Multicloud strategy allows you to work across public and private clouds behaving as if they are part of the same infrastructure.

Which one of the provided options is true for Infrastructure-as-a-Service

In Infrastructure-as-a-Service, the cloud provider manages the data centers, cooling, power, networking, security, servers, and storage.

Which are some of the key components of cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service?

In most IaaS models, end users do not interact directly with the physical infrastructure but experience it as a service provided to them

Which one of the following is a key characteristic of Software-as-a-Service

Infrastructure and application code—are all maintained centrally and accessed by all users.

What is the three-way symbiotic relationship between IoT, AI, and Cloud?

IoT delivers the data, AI powers the insights, and both emerging technologies leverage cloud's scalability and processing power

Which one of these is an attribute of the microservices architecture approach?

Microservices architecture is an approach in which a single application is composed of many loosely coupled and independently deployable smaller components or services.

Serverless might not be the best fit for all applications or scenarios. Which of these attributes qualify an application for a serverless architecture?

Microservices that can be built as functions that are stateless

How does Cloud Computing help IoT devices?

Minimize latency in reporting and responding to data collected through IoT sensors from around the world / provide the resources to store and process the data produced by IoT devices and uses

In the use case illustrated in the video, how does the global flower delivery company leverage the Hybrid Multicloud architecture to meet its requirement of varying capacity demands across different geographies?

Moving their UI and Billing capabilities over to a North American Public Cloud Data Center, while their core application continues to reside in an on-premise data center in Europe, allowed the flower delivery company to scale up portions of their application in response to a surge in demand over the American holidays.

In the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition of "cloud computing", what does the statement "shared pool of configurable computing resources" include?

Networks, servers, storage, applications, and services

Which of the following is NOT a good fit for Object Storage?

Object storage is not suitable for running operating systems, databases, or anything else where the contents of the file changes

Which one of the following is a good use case for SaaS?

Organizations are moving to SaaS as part of their strategic transformation to reduce on-premises IT infrastructure and reduce capital expenditure.

which of these scenarios are good use cases for PaaS?

Organizations are using PaaS to develop, run, manage, and secure APIs and microservices./PaaS clouds are distinguished by the high level of abstraction they provide to the users, eliminating the complexity of building,

Which of the following are essential characteristics of Platform-as-a-Service?

PaaS offerings support middleware capabilities that assists developers by reducing the amount of code that must be written to expand the application's functional capabilities PaaS offerings support a range of middleware capabilities, such as application servers, database management systems, integration services, business process management systems, rules engines, and complex event processing systems.PaaS clouds typically include a variety of capabilities such as APIs for distributed caching, queuing and messaging, file and data storage, workload management, user identity, and analytics, thus eliminating the need to integrate disparate components.

Which of these statements is a characteristic of Public Clouds

Public cloud is a virtualized multi-tenant architecture that enables users to share computing resources residing outside their firewalls.

What are some of the cloud benefits that make it lower-risk for enterprises to adopt cloud

Renting by the hour as opposed to the huge upfront cost of investing and re-investing in hardware and software makes cloud adoption a low-risk option for enterprises./The speed and productivity provided by the cloud make cloud adoption lower-risk for enterprises.

One of the key characteristics of Hybrid Multicloud is portability. What does portability mean in the context of Hybrid Cloud?

Since you're no longer locked-in with a specific vendor, you can move applications and data not just between on-premise and cloud systems, but also between cloud service providers.

Which part of a logically segmented cloud network is the main area where security is implemented?

Subnets are the smaller segments of networking spaces where cloud resources are deployed and security is implemented.

The infrastructure layer is the foundation of the cloud and consists of physical resources. Where do these physical resources reside?

The physical resources of a cloud's IT infrastructure are housed in data centers, that are located with Availability Zones that are clustered within Regions.

Which type of Virtual Machine (VM) takes advantage of unused capacity in data centers at a much lower cost than regular VMs of similar sizes?

Transient or Spot VMs offer unused capacity to users as lower costs—they deprovision and reclaim capacity as needed.

Virtualization is the process of creating a software-based or virtual version of something. What is typically created with virtualization in the cloud?

Virtualization is the process of creating a software-based or virtual version of physical resources, such as Virtual Servers or VMs, and is the foundation of cloud computing.

Which cloud deployment model lets users use multiple cloud models working together seamlessly?

hybrid