Section 14: Automation

Question 1

Orchestration

Answer 1

Automation of multiple steps in a process. It’s the automation of automations.

Question 2

Rapid elasticity would not be possible without

Answer 2

Orchestration

Question 3

What are the three types of Orchestration?

Answer 3

Resource, Workload, and Service

Question 4

Continuous Integration Workflow

Answer 4

A software development method where code updates are tested and committed to a development or build server/code repository; can test and commit updates multiple times per day; detects and resolves development conflicts early and often

Question 5

Continuous Delivery

Answer 5

You have to do continuous integration in order to do this. A software development method where application and platform requirements are frequently tested and validated for immediate availability. Focused on automated testing of code getting it READY for release.

Question 6

Continuous Deployment

Answer 6

A software development method where application and platform updates are committed to production rapidly. Automated testing and release of code in order to get it into the production environment more quickly.

Question 7

DevOps

Answer 7

An organization culture shift that combines software development and systems operations by referring to the practice of integrating the two disciplines within a company

Question 8

DevSecOps

Answer 8

A combination of software development, security, operations, and systems operations by integrating each discipline with the others.

Question 9

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Answer 9

A provisioning architecture in which deployment of resources is performed by scripted automation and orchestration

Question 10

What are the three main areas of IaC?

Answer 10

Templates, Scripts, and Policies

Question 11

Snowflake Systems

Answer 11

Any system that is different in its configuration compared to a standard template within an infrastructure as code architecture

Question 12

Idempotence

Answer 12

A property of IaC that an automation or orchestration action always produces the same result, regardless of the component’s previous state

Question 13

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Answer 13

The science of creating machines with the ability to develop problem solving and analysis strategies without significant human direction or intervention.

Question 14

Machine Learning (ML)

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A component of AI that enables a machine to develop strategies for solving a task given a labeled dataset where features have been manually identified but without further explicit instructions

Question 15

Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

Answer 15

An architecture of input, hidden, and output layers that can perform algorithmic analysis of a dataset to achieve outcome objectives

Question 16

Deep Learning

Answer 16

A refinement of machine learning that enables a machine to develop strategies for solving a task given a labeled dataset and without further explicit instructions