CDL Term Flash Cards

Question 1

Name key characteristics of the Cloud

Answer 1

On demand, Self service, Rapid Elasticity, Pay as you consume, Resource pooling

Question 2

Name key characteristics of traditional/On prem

Answer 2

Managed and owned by the organisation, high initial capex costs, organisation maintains complete control over the enviroment

Question 3

What provides virtualised compute resources over the internet

Answer 3

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Question 4

Offers hardware and software tools over the internet, typically for app development

Answer 4

Platform as a service (PaaS)

Question 5

Delivers software apps over the internet on demand and typically via subscription

Answer 5

Software as a service

Question 6

When would you use IaaS?

Answer 6

When you want to consume infrastructure from a cloud provider without worrying about data centers, IT staff and hardware (Servers) Normally targetted at IT admins

Question 7

When might you use PaaS?

Answer 7

When you do not want to focus on provisioning or configuring OS/Hardware. Normally used by Developers

Question 8

When might you use SaaS

Answer 8

As an end customer consuming a product you do not worry about the how the service runs

Question 9

Your ability to ensure a service remains available eg. launch redundant workloads in multiple Zones (datacenters)

Answer 9

Availability

Question 10

Your ability to grow rapidly or unimpeded eg. Vertical or Horizontal Scaling

Answer 10

Scalability

Question 11

Your ability to shrink and grow to meet the demand eg. Horizontal Scaling Managed Instance Groups (MIG) and Autoscaling Policies

Answer 11

Elasticity

Question 12

Your ability to prevent a failure eg. Having a standby database in case primary database fails

Answer 12

Fault Tolerance

Question 13

Software that allows you to emulate physical machine or hardware on a computer

Answer 13

Virtualization

Question 14

Software that acts like a real computer with an operating system on a machine

Answer 14

Virtual Machine

Question 15

The software or firmware that create a Virtual Machine

Answer 15

Hypervisor

Question 16

Independent geographic areas that consist of zones.

Answer 16

Regions

Question 17

a physical location made up of one or more datacenter.

Answer 17

Zones

Question 18

a cloud-native development model that allows developers to build and run applications without having to manage servers.

Answer 18

Serverless computing

Question 19

assemble data, and are built to analyse and report on massive multi dimensional datasets in real time. Can consolidate both structured and semi structured data

Answer 19

Date warehouse

Question 20

repository to store, process and secure large amounts of data (Structured, unstructured and semi). No Size limits

Can be made up of many different products

Answer 20

Data Lake

Question 21

an organised collection of data generally stored in tables and accessed electronically from a computer system.

Answer 21

Database

Question 22

emails, HTML files and NO SQL databases are what types of data

Answer 22

Semi structured

Question 23

Organised, include names, addresses, credit card numbers are what types of data

Answer 23

Structured

Question 24

audio, images, video files are types of what data

Answer 24

unstructured

Question 25

baseline level for the quality, availability and reliability of the service

Answer 25

SLA

Question 26

Is the goal for the cloud service performance level - crucial element within the SLA, and shared between the cloud provider and customer

Answer 26

SLO

Question 27

data that needs to be accessed frequently

Answer 27

standard storage

Question 28

Data that needs to be accessed within 30 days

Answer 28

nearline storage

Question 29

Data that needs to be accessed within 90 days

Answer 29

coldline storage

Question 30

Data that needs to be accessed within 365 days

Answer 30

archive storage