Module 2 Flashcards
Cloud adoption
strategy used by enterprises to improve the scalability of internet-based database capabilities while reducing cost and risks
The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts:
by 2025, the total amount of digital data created worldwide will rise to 163 zettabytes (where one zettabyte is equivalent to a trillion gigabytes). Thirty-percent of this data will be real-time information.
Internet of things (IOT)
The concept of connecting any device (so long as it has an on/off switch) to the Internet and to other connected devices. The IoT is a huge network of connected things and people –all of which collect and share data about the way they are used and about the environment around them.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is a field which combines computer science and robust datasets to enable problem solving. It also has been defined as asimulation of human intelligence in machines programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions.
Blockchain
Is a secure, distributed open technology that helps speed up processes, lower costs, and build transparency and traceability in transactional applications. Blockchain provides the trusted, decentralized source of truth
Which of the following provided the foundation for the transformation to the cloud?
The power, scalability, flexibility, and pay-as-you-go economics.
According to an IBM Institute for Business Value study what percentage of enterprises today are using cloud computing to expand into new industries?
75 Percent
As its client base grew, which of the following solutions did ActivTrades provision in order to cut latency, accelerate execution, and streamline the delivery of new functions?
t migrated three major systems from on-premises infrastructure to IBM Cloud for VMware solutions, backed by data storage, networking, and security offerings on the IBM Cloud.
A secure, distributed and open technology with lower costs that builds transparency and traceability in transactional applications describes which of the following?
Blockchain
An IBM retail client wants help with gathering data on their customers’ buying habits relative to their five top products. Which one of the following cloud services can be added to help support the client with this request?
Analytics
What type of relationship exists between IoT, AI, and the cloud?
Symbiotic
Which of the following best describes the software application that continues to learn about user preferences based on the frequency of use?
Smart assistant
he IDC predicts by the year 2025, the total amount of digital data created worldwide will rise to how many zettabytes?
163
In the use case examples which one of the following companies recognized the opportunity to remove the constraints of their existing customer-facing applications based on monolithic code into cloud-native-based microservices architecture on the cloud?
American Airlines
How can the adoption of cloud computing technologies allow a company to adapt quickly to changes in the marketplace?
loud adoption can help a companyso it can quickly provision services without any upfront cost so it can experiment with low risk to capital as opportunities arise. Cloud adoption can also help a company adapt quickly to changes in the marketplace.
