Question of the Day!
Azure Fundamentals
DI Survivors
Azure Migration Terminology
Snowflake
100

The concept of being able to get your applications and data running in another environment quickly - abbreviated as "BCDR"

What is Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery?

100

_________ are software emulations of physical computers. They include a virtual processor, memory, storage, and networking resources.  

What are Virtual machines?

100

This small, white and fluffy dog knows how to dance. Featured in last PI Planning's Thriller video!

What is Marshmallow?

100

A graph database query language supported by several different platforms including Datastax and CosmosDB

What is Gremlin?

100

Snowflake is considered a Software-as-a-______ meaning it is a complete software product that is hosted and managed by a provider

What is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)?

200

Which service is responsible for providing the platform to users for verification (one answer)? 

  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Azure Active Directory (AAD)
  • Identity Services
  • Authentication

What is MFA?

200

A ______ cloud consists of computing resources used exclusively by users from one business or organization. It can be physically located at your organization's on-site (on-premises) datacenter, or it can be hosted by a third-party service provider.  

What is a Private cloud?

200

This person recently completed a full marathon. Phew!

What is Tom Burns?

200

A _______ is any node that also serves as one of that network's relayers and proxy servers, handling data flow and connections for other users.

What is a supernode?

200

A _________ database houses data structured in columns and rows. It presents the data in straightforward tables.  

What is Relational?
300

What does it mean if a service is in General Availability (GA) mode (one answer)?

  • Anyone can use the service for any reason
  • Anyone can use the service but it must be for non prod use
  • The service has now reached the public preview, and Microsoft will provide support for it
  • You have to apply to get selected in order to use the service

What is Anyone can use the service for any reason?

300

A _____ cloud is a computing environment that combines a public cloud and a private cloud by allowing data and applications to be shared between them.

What is a Hybrid Cloud?

300

This SVOC member loves to bake fancy desserts in her spare time.

What is Shalini De?

300

____ is an Elasticsearch plugin for building fuzzy name retrieval and matching applications for persons, locations, and organizations

What is Rosette Name Indexer (RNI)?

300

In comparison to flat files like CSVs, which use relational “columns and rows”, __________ files store data in a nested format.

What is semi-structured data?

400

The max number of virtual machines that can be managed under a single Virtual Machine scale set.

What is 1000?

400

________ is the deployment and management service for Azure. It provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account

What is Azure Resource Manager?

400

Minecraft armor and pickeaxe, Indianapolis Indians baseball player, and _______. What was the last costume in this SVOC's member's Halloween family outing?

Hint:
A. Gryffindor
B. Hufflepuff
C. Ravenclaw
D. Slytherin

What is Hufflepuff?

400

Kubernetes package manager

What is Helm?

400

Snowflake’s unique architecture consists of these three key layers.

What is Database Storage, Query Processing, and Cloud Services?


500

Select all of the following component(s) is Azure Kubernetes Service cluster architecture based on?

  • Pods
  • Node
  • Node Pools
  • Node Selector
  • Trigger

What is Azure Kubernetes Service cluster architecture is based on Node, Node Pools, Node Selectors and Pods?

500

Azure ________ is a platform for collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and potentially taking action based on the metric and logging data from your entire Azure and on-premises environment

What is Azure Monitor?

500

This person recently went on a cruise to Alaska and hiking trip in Seattle!

What is Kevin Honce?

500

The delivery of computing services over the internet, which is otherwise known as the cloud. These services include servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence.

What is Cloud Computing?

500

True or False: Snowflake’s unique architecture can ingest and combine both the structured (SQL) and semi-structured data sets many businesses need to make informed business decisions. 

What is True?