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1
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What is structured data

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Data stored with high degree of organisation
SQL, CSV

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2
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Is tags and elements structured or semi-structured

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Semi-structured

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3
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Why use cloud databases?

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Ease of access
Faster time to market
Reduce risks
Lower costs
Scalability
Diaster Recovery

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4
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In a SQL Database each row is identified via a

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primary key

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5
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The statements of inserting, retrieving , updating and deleting
data in relational databases are made by queries which are
written in

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SQL

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Advantages of Relational Databases (3)

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Simple model and queries
Data accuracy (non-repetive)
Data integrity
High security

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Limitations of Relational Databases (3)

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  • Difficult to maintain
  • Cost to setup and main tain
  • Large physical memory required
  • Lack of scalability
  • Complexity of structure
  • Decrease in performance over time
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8
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What usecases widely make use of relational databases? (2)

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-Store financial records of the whole industry
-Keep track of inventory
-Hold customer and supplier information
-Keep track of customer orders
-Keep record on employees

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9
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NoSQL is what type of database

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Non_relational

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10
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NoSQL stores data in

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Documents

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11
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Unique properties of NoSql vs SQL

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Flexible data models (post deployment)

Handle huge volmes of rapidly changing unstructured data

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What would this look like in NoSQL?

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13
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Advantages of NoSQL databases

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Scale-out architecture - handle large volumes of data

Store strucutred, unstructured, semi-structured

EAsily update schemeas

Big Data

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Disadvantages of NoSQL databases

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Lack of standardization

Lack of cross-platform support

Security

Data consistency

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Types of NoSQL databases

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16
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What is a graph database

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Use graph to define relationsships between stored data points

Store and navigate relationships

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17
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Give examples of graph databses

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Neo4j, Graph DB

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18
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Key-value databsed

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 Use a simple key-value
method to store data
 Stores data as a collection
of key-value pairs
 Key servers as a unique
identifier

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19
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What database stores content by colums rather than rows?

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Wide-column database

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20
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Advatnages of a wide-columned database

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Big data

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21
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Examples of wide columed databases

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Google Cloud Bigtable, HBASE

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22
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Explain visual difference between row and column store

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23
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SQL and NoSQL Scaling

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SQL = Vertical
NoSQL = Horizontal

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24
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Vertical scaling refers to

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Adding more resources to your server as demand increases.

Existing code need not change

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Horizontal scaling

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Adding more servers as demand increases

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Vertical vs Horizontal: Downtime

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Longer downtime on Vertical

Less downtime on Horizonal

Single point of failure

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Vertical vs Horizontal: Message passing

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Easy Data sharing and message sharing on Vertical

Complex data sharing and message sharing on horizontal

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28
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Vertical vs Horizontal: Complexity

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Horizontal increases complexity

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29
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2 types of database consistency models

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ACID
BASE

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30
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ACID stands for

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Atomic
Consistency
Isolation
Durability

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31
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ACID is used in ___ databases

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SQL

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32
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BASE stands for

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Basically Available - spread across node
Soft state = due to lack of immediate consistency, values may change
Eventually consistent - eventually reach consistent state

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33
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ACID v BASE

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34
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Difference between strong and eventualy cosnsitency

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Strong consistency = Consistent the amount something sent

Eventual consistency = consistent after time as updates propogate

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35
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Eventual Consistency: server to client flows

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36
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Strong Consistency: server to client flows

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37
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What is Cap Theorem / Brewers Theorem related too?

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Impossible for distribued system to provide certain charateristics

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38
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What guarantees does Cap theorem / Bewer’s refer to?

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  • Consistency - all clients see same view of data, even after updates
  • Available- All clients can find a replicate of data set in case of partial node failure
  • Partition-tolerance - system continues to work in case of network failure
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39
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Why is CAP theorem called CAP?

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Acronym
Consitency
Avaliability
Partitioning

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40
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NoSQL schema type?

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Pre-define or dynamic schema

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41
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What database type is preferred for large large amounts of data

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NoSQL

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42
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Where a traditional web application might use PhP and MySQL, a Google Cloud website using Apps may use

A

AppEngine
Datastore

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43
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GQL stnads for

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Google Query Language

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44
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Firebase

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  • Cloud hosted Real-time database
  • Data is stored as JSON and synchronized in realtime to every connected client
  • Automatically receive updates with the newest data
  • Support: iOS, Android, Web, REST API, C++, Unit and Admin
    Setup
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45
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Peformance v Scalability

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Scalability is number of nodes
Peformance is how effective each node is

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46
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Scalng up/down

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Vertical Scaling

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47
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Scaling out/in

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Horizon scaling

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48
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On a simple level the “Horizontal Scaling Compute Pattern” is acheived by

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Adding or releasing compute nodes

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49
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Is Horizontal Scaling Compute Pattern reversible

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Yes

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50
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What controls the Horizontal Scaling Compute Pattern?

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Cloud Platform Management Systems

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51
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UseCases for Horizontal Scaling Compute Pattern

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Cost efficient scaling required

Application capacity requirements exceed capacity of largest node

Variable requirements

Minimal downtime

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52
Q

What pattern fits the following use cases?

Cost efficient scaling required

Application capacity requirements exceed capacity of largest node

Variable requirements

Minimal downtime

A

Horizontal Scaling Pattern

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53
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What are some caveats of Horizontal Scaling Compute Pattern

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  • Efficient utilization of resources
  • Operational efficiency
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54
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What is:
The measure of how a module depends on other modules?

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Coupling

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55
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Difference between couipling and cohesion

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Cohesion - within the same module
Coupling - inbetween modules

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56
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Types of coupling

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Tightly - Many dependencies
Loosely - some dependencies
Uncoupled

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57
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Limitations of tightly coupled

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Increased complexity over time

Reduces scalability, portability

If service fails, entire app fails

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58
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Advantages of loosely coupled

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A Failure in one component != casecase

System is more resilient

Graceful failure

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59
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What design pattern allows you to achieve decoupling?

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Queue-centric workflow pattern

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60
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Queue provides a good way of ….

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front end and backend decoupling

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61
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FIFO stands for

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First in First Out

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62
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In a Queue-centric workflow the name of the bus is

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Message Queue

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63
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Is a queue synchronous or asynchronous

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Asynchrous

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64
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Are queues relaible?

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Yes (e.g. triplicate nodes, multiple workers etc)

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What compoennts are the traditional”back end” compoennts of a queue

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Worker role

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66
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Can multiple workers read from a service bus queue

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Usually yes

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67
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Can multiple “front end” instnaces feed to a single queue

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Yes

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68
Q

What pattern would the following use cases suggest?

Work is time consuming

Work requires external service

Work is resource intensive

Work benefits from rate levelling

A

Queue-centric workflow pattern

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69
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Queues help to enable tiers to..

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Scale indpendantly

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70
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What queue pattern aims to:
Optimize resources AND
Minimize Human Intervention

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Auto scaling

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71
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How does an auto scaling pattern work

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Continous monitoring of resources

Templetes

Deploy new resources automatically

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72
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Is vertical scaling pattern of the auto scaling pattern?

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No

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73
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Types of auto scaling

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Reactive
Predictive - machine learning loads
Scheduled - user defined

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74
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Benefits of auto scaling pattern

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Lower cost
Automation
Service availability

Reliable performance levels
Improved fault tolernace

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75
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What types of cloud patterns are to do with scalability?

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Horizontal Scaling COmpute Pattern
Queue-centric workflow pattern
Auto-scaling pattern

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76
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What types of patterns are to do with Eventual COnsistency?

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MapReduce Pattern
Database Sharding Pattern

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77
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What is the logic for databse sharding pattern?

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One database can’t handle all of data

Split data across multiple databases

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78
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In database sharding apttern each database node is a

79
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In a database sharding pattern which compoennts is reponsible for maintaining knowledge of where each piece of data is kept

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Shard Map Manager

80
Q

Caveats of sharding

A

Complex for implementation

Unbalanced Shard

81
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What is an unbalanced shard?

A

Shard gets too big compared to peer shards

82
Q

Map Reduce is a…

A

Programming model and associated implemention for BIG dataases

83
Q

What type of data is MapReduce pattern used for

A

Big data

Parallel, distributed algorithm

84
Q

How is MapReduce pattern implemtned

A

Clsuter

Many nodes working in parallel on different parts of the data

85
Q

Describe Visualize Map Reduce at a very high level

A

Splitters
Map functions
Reduce functions
Outputs

86
Q

Two min phases of MapReduce Pattern

A

Map
Reduce

87
Q

What phase is between Map & Reduce in map reduce patterb

A

Shuffle & Sort

88
Q

What is the role of the mapper?

A

Reads data as key/value pairs

Outputs data as key/value pairs

89
Q

Descibe a mapper on colours

A

Input - different colour objects
Output - key == colour, value == number of objects

90
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Role of shuffle & sort

A

Bring similar values together

91
Q

Describe the overall MapReduce pattern process

A

Input
Splitting
Mapping
Shuffling / Sort
Reducing
Output

92
Q

What was the MapReduce pattern designed for?

A

Processing large amounts of data

93
Q

Example of MapReduce platform

94
Q

Does MongoDB implement automatic sharding?

95
Q

Patterns related to multitenancy and commodity hardware

A

Busy signal pattern
Node failure pattern

96
Q

Patterns related to network latency

A

Colocate pattern
Valet key pattern
CDN pattern
Multisite deployment pattern

97
Q

Multi-tenant

A

Same application, different databases

How different dataabses is enforced depends **

98
Q

Adv of Multi Tenancy

A

Cost savings
Upgrades are easier (but more impact if goes wrong)

99
Q

Types of multi-tenant models

A

Single database - shared schema
Signle Database - seperate schema

Seperate database

Multiple database, multiple tents per database, shared schema

100
Q

Multi-tenant: Single Database, Shared Schema

A

One database

ID used to distinqiush per tennants in database

101
Q

Multi-tenant: Single Database, Shared Schema - Advantages

A

Maintainabily

102
Q

Multi-tenant: Single Database, Shared Schema - DisAdvantages

A

Security

No tenant isolation

Scalability - limited

103
Q

Multi-tenant: Single Database, Seperate Schema

A

Seperate schema per tenant

104
Q

Multi-tenant: Single Database, Seperate Schema - Advantages & Disadvnatages

A

Maintainability

Disadvantages:
Security & Scalability

105
Q

Multi-tenant: Seperate database + Advnatages and Disadvantages

A

Each tenant has their own database

Highest level of isolation

106
Q

A hubrid of single dataabse,shared schema and seperate database is

A

Multiple Databases, Multiple Tenants Per Database,
Shared Schema

107
Q

Avanages of Multiple Databases, Multiple Tenants Per Database,
Shared Schema

A

Scalability

108
Q

Commodity hardware refers to

A

Cheap, stnadardized servers

109
Q

This focuses on how an application should react when a cloud service responds to a programmatic request with a busy signal rather than success

A

Busy Signal Pattern

110
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Busy Signal Pattern

A

How application responds to busy signal

Handles transient failures

111
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Types of faults

A

Transient

Intermittent

Permenant

112
Q

What is explciit throttling

A

Protect servers against over utalizing services

Throttling limit set at app, resource or api level

113
Q

HTTP codes for throttling

A

HTTP status code 429
(“Too many requests”) or 503
(“Server Too Busy”)

114
Q

a limit is applied to the
number of requests per
second the users from any one
tenant can submit.

A

Explicit throttling

115
Q

Two methods of handling transient faults

A

Retry
Expoential backoff

116
Q

What is expoential back off

A

Client perodically retries a failured request with increasing delays between requests

117
Q

What pattern:
How application handles a compute node failure

A

Node Failure Pattern

118
Q

RAID is related to what pattern

A

Node Failure Pattern

119
Q

Node failure apttern works by

A

Splitting data into blocks - distributing across nodes

RAID defines mechanism and expected levels of avaliabiltiy

120
Q

What failure level does node failure pattern allow

121
Q

Node fialure and queue-centric pattern can be combiend to achieve

A

Stop partiallyl completed work being lost

122
Q

Busy signal pattern cab be used to enable …

123
Q

Causes of latency

A

Distance

Transmissions mediums

Routers - processing delay

Storage delay

124
Q

Idea behind co-locate pattern

A

Distance adds latency

Locate nodes together

125
Q

Impact of colocate pattern

A

Cost optimization
Scalability
User Experience

126
Q

Context for colocate pattern

A

One node makes frequent use of another node

127
Q

How do you use colocate pattern

A

Set region

128
Q

What is the focus of the valet key pattern?

A

Efficiently using cloud storage services with intrusted clients

129
Q

How does a valey key pattern work

A

Application issue an ephemeral (equivalent key) - limited scope and time

Client uses the key to access some resource directly

130
Q

CDN pattern

A

CDN store cached content on edge servers

131
Q

Name of location at edge on CDN pattern where users first hit

A

Point of Presence (PoP)

132
Q

Pattern - focuses on deploying a single application to more than one data center

A

Multisite Deployment Pattern

133
Q

Reason for multisite deployment pattern

A

Deploying to multiple data centres helps reduce network latency

Routing a client to nearest data centre

134
Q

In multisite deployment pattern, data centres stay in ____

135
Q

API

A

Intermediate software agent that allows dependent application to communicate with each toher

136
Q

Types of APIs

A

REST-Based
SOAP-Based
GraphQL-Based

137
Q

REST stands for

A

Representational State Transfer

138
Q

Use JSON for data formatting

A

REST-Based API

139
Q

Properties of JSON

A

Lightweight text based data interchange format

Language independent

Most programming languages can easily read it and instantiate

Easy to understand and manipulate

140
Q

Is JSON ordered

141
Q

SOAP stands for

A

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

142
Q

SOAP architecture

A

Function Driven Architecture

Uses XML schema data format

143
Q

Scalability - SOAP v REST

A

SOAP scales more easily and efficiently than REST

144
Q

XML properties

A

eXtensible Markup Language

Human- and machine- readable (verus JSON’s more Machine readable)

145
Q

GraphQL

A

Query Language

More flexible an data-intesive opreations approach in API management

146
Q

Whom developed GraphQL

147
Q

Image shown in a rest _ api might translate to what in graph ql

A

Target speciifc queries in query - more like an SQL query in some ways

148
Q

Functional programming is a programming _______

149
Q

Functional programming is a way of writing applications using

A

only pure functions and immutable values

150
Q

The following terminology is associated with what:
Immutalbe data
Closure
First-class function
Modularity
Referential Transparency

A

Functional Programming

151
Q

Referential transparency

A

Functional programs should perform operations just like as if it for the first time

152
Q

Closure

A

Inner function which can access variables of parent functions

153
Q

Benefits of functional programming

A

Easier to test

Parallel processing

Better modularity

154
Q

Limitations of functional programming

A

Immutable values & recursion might lead to reduction in performance

Writing pure functions causes a reduction in readability

155
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Functinal Programming fits with what cloud computing architecture

A

Serverless

156
Q

Reasons for serverless

A

No wasted resources

Low management overhead

Scalable

Cost effective

157
Q

Limitations of serverless architecture

A

Debugging

Security

Vendor limitations

Latency

158
Q

Serverless architecture components on common cloud platforms

A

OPEM OpenWhisk

AWS:
API Gateway
Lambda

Google Cloud Functions

Microsoft Azure Functuins

159
Q

FaaS v Serverless

A

Subset of serverless

160
Q

Micro-services are ..

A

small, indpendent and loosely coupled services

161
Q

Benefits of Micro-services

A

Agility

Small-focused teams

Fault isolation

Data isolation

162
Q

Deployment of micro-services

A

Services can be deployed independently

163
Q

Challenges of micro-services

A

Complexity

Lack of governance -different languages and frameworks at each level

Network congestion and latency

Data integrity - each micro-service for its own data persistence

164
Q

Types of Google Cloud Functions

A

Foreground functions (Synchronous) - directly invoked via HTTP

Background functions (Asynchronous) - invoked via ann event.

165
Q

What two google services can currently invokve backgroind/asynchronous cloud functions

A

Google CLud Storage

Pub/Sub events

166
Q

Storage in Google Cloud generates what type of event

A

Object Change Notification (OCN)

167
Q

Service MEsh

A

How different parts of an application share data with one another

Dedicate infrastructure layer

168
Q

What type pf service architecture is associated with a service mesh

A

Microservice

169
Q

What type of testing is related to :
- Peformance testing
- Security testing
- Usability testing
- Compatability testing

A

Non-unfctional

170
Q

What type of testing is related to :
- Unit testing
-Integration testing
- System testing
- Acceptance testing

A

Functional testing

171
Q

Functional testing

A

Verifies each function

172
Q

Types of functuonal testing

A

Unit
Integration
Systemm
Acceptance

173
Q

ADvantages of unit tests

A

Capture early

Reduce bugs

Modular

174
Q

Integration testing

A

Tests multiple components in single test

175
Q

Approaches to integration testing

A

Big Bang
Bottom Up
Top down
Sandwhich

176
Q

Integration testing - Big bang

A

Everything tested all as once

efficient

good for small systems

177
Q

Integration testing - Bottom-up

A

Lower level module are tested first

Easier fault location

Critical modules tested last

No prototyping possible

178
Q

Integration testing - Top-down approach

A

Higher level modules tested first

early prototype possible

Critical modules tested on priority

179
Q

Integration testing - divide and conquer method

A

Sndwhich testing approach

180
Q

What testing evaluates system specification?

A

System testing

181
Q

Types of system testing

A

Load testing
Stress testing

182
Q

Acceptance testing

A

Present product to users

183
Q

Usability testing involves..

A

Setting upa user-friendly group and following:
1. Plan the test
2. Recruit participants
3. Prepare materials
4. Setup enviroment
5. Conduct the test
6. Analyze data
7. Report results

184
Q

Code covergae refers to

A

How much of code is being covered

Quantitive

185
Q

Code Coverage Methods

A

Statement Coverage

Decision Coverage

Branch Coverage

Condition Coverage

186
Q

Statement Coverage

A

Calculation of the number of statement in source code which have been execited

187
Q

Formula for satement coverage

A

(number of executed satements/total statements) * 100

188
Q

What is covered by satement coverage?

A

Unused statements
Dead code
#Unused Branches
Missing Sattements

189
Q

Decision Coverage

A

ensuring that each branch of every possible decision point is executed at once

190
Q

Decison Coverage FOrmula

A

Number of decision outcomed / Total number of decision outcomes

191
Q

Branch Coverage Formula

A

Number of executed branches/ Total number of branches

192
Q

Condition Coverage

A

Check individual outcomes for each logical condition

193
Q

Python Test Runner

A

A program that runs the tests

unittest
pytest
Nose
Twisted

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