Selling to Customers On Their Cloud Journey
True or False: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings are technologies delivered over the internet and licensed on a subscription basis.
True!
Select the best definition for "Rapid Elasticity":
The ability to get resources in line as quickly as needed.
The ability to expand to additional systems and users.
The ability to quickly expand an organization's footprint in the cloud.
The ability to move between on premise and cloud hardware
The ability to get resources in line as quickly as needed.
Which personas would be accountable for delivering service, application and infrastructure performance reliability to support business initiatives that leverage the cloud? Select all that apply.
IT director
CISO
Systems Admin
VP of IT Operations
It Director
VP of IT Operations
What is DevOps?
A culture, practice, and set of tools that allow efficient cooperation between
What are some characteristics of microservices?
Highly maintainable and testable, Independently deployable, Language independent
The lead player in the public cloud platform space is___?
Amazon
The ___________ cost refers to the cost of migrating from on-premise to the public cloud
Transitional
Application Performance Monitoring is a use case that helps organizations _________ new applications in the cloud that use distributed microservices. Select all that apply.
Monitor
Troubleshoot
Collaborate on
Develop
Monitor and Troubleshoot
What does DevOps lead to?
Faster time to market, Lower failure of new releases, Improving mean time to recover
Which terms best describe a microservices architecture?
Independently scalable, multiple layers deep, simple services, complex communication
Which of the following is a “digital initiative” company?
a. Air bnb
b. Splunk
c. Dominos
Air bnb
Which type of cloud deployment model does the organization own the hardware on which the cloud runs?
Private
What AWS system lets you monitor newly launched instances and capture log issues?
Cloudwatch
When people say "DevOps enables CI/CD." CI/CD means:
Continuous Integration/ Continuous deployment
What are some benefits of using microservices? (name at least 2)
Small code blocks organized around business functions, Automatic scalability, Avoid code dependencies due to data isolation
What is one of the key pains customers experience when going through digital transformation?
Picking the correct platform
Volume, velocity, variety of data
Slower innovation
Volume, Velocity, and Variety of data
AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform are examples of which type of cloud service?
IaaS
ABC Corp is considering which Cloud provider to use. How will ABC calculate the data it has available to make a decision?
By using weighted ranking
Synthetic monitoring is a method to monitor your applications by simulating users.
True
Using a single programming language is typically a characteristic of which architecture?
Monolithic Architecture
In which situation would you keep an application on-premises rather than transition it to the cloud?
When it is not cost effective to move to the cloud.
Which of the following personas would be concerned about improving software delivery process in response to business change, project delivery, or at a workflow level.
System/solution architect
DevOps Engineer/Practicioner
Fraud Analyst
DevOps Engineer/Practitioner
Name two key DevOps personas
DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (there can be more than just these correct answers)
Using many cloud-based hosts is typically a characteristic of which architecture?
Microservices Architecture