Terms

Question 1

Weblogic

Answer 1

An Online Transaction Processing platform (OLTP) to support transaction applications through a distributed computing environment. A middle-tier server software application which runs between database and clients.

Question 2

Gradle

Answer 2

Open-Source build automation tool flexible enough to build almost any type of software.

Question 3

Jenkins

Answer 3

A tool which provides a simple way to set up a continuous integration and continuous delivery environment for almost any combination of languages. Lots of plugins

Question 4

CircleCI

Answer 4

A cloud-based continuous integration system. You don’t need to administrate it and it supports some languages out of the box.

Question 5

TravisCI

Answer 5

A cloud-based continuous integration system. You don’t need to adminstrate it and it supports a lot of languages out of the box.

Question 6

Maven

Answer 6

A build automation tool. 1) It describes how a software is built 2) It describes dependencies of a software

Question 7

FAI

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Fully Automation Installation: A tool for unattended mass deployment of Linux on computers as well as virtual machines.

Question 8

Chef

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A configuration management tool to streamline the task of configuring and maintaining companies servers.

Question 9

PredixCI

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A CI/CD pipeline platform

Question 10

memcached

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A general-purpose distributed memory caching system used to speed up dynamic data-base-driven websites.

Question 11

RabbitMQ

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A middleware messaging broker which gives applications a common platform to send and receive messages.

Question 12

Ant

Answer 12

A build automation tool

Question 13

Capistrano

Answer 13

Open-source tool for running scripts on multiple servers. Main use is deploying web applications and automates the process of making a new version of an application available one or more web-servers.

Question 14

Solaris Containers

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A tool which uses virtualization to allow you to maintain the one-application-per-server deployment model, while sharing hardware resources.

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Ansible

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An open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment tool.

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Docker

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A computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization which makes it easier to create, deploy, and run applications using containers.

Question 17

Containers

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A place where developers can package up an application with all parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies.

Question 18

Linux

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An open-source operating system

Question 19

Windows

Answer 19

A computer operating system

Question 20

Unix

Answer 20

A family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems

Question 21

MacOS X

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An operating system built by Apple.

Question 22

Vagrant

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An open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software development environments to simplify software configuration management of virtualization in order to increase development productivity.

Question 23

Hadoop

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an open source distributed processing framework that manages data processing and storage for big data applications running in clustered systems.

Question 24

Puppet

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an open-core software configuration management tool.

Question 25

Websphere

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A collection of IBM middleware software

Question 26

Elastic Container Service

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ECS is a container orchestration system

Question 27

EC2

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Elastic Compute Cloud virtual machine instances pre-installed with Docker

Question 28

Kubernetes

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an open-source container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management.

Question 29

Cloud Instance

Answer 29

a virtual machine

Question 30

Runner

Answer 30

a tool that picks up a source code directory that contains unit tests, and a bunch of settings, and then executes them and writes the test results to the console or log files

Question 31

Isomorphic Application

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An application whos code can run both in the server and the client (ex. Javascript app)

Question 32

Monolithic Application

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a single-tiered software application in which the user interface and data access code are combined into a single program from a single platform. It is self-contained, and independent from other computing applications

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GCP

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a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure

Question 34

Pulumi

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an infrastructure as code platform

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Daemon

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a long-running background process ****that answers requests for services.

Question 36

Unit Test

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a level of software testing where individual components are tested

Question 37

ELK Stack

Answer 37

elastics open-source products (elasticsearch, logstash, kibana)

Question 38

Grafana

Answer 38

an open source metric analytics & visualization suite

Question 39

HashiCorp

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a company based in San Francisco that solves development, operations, and security challenges in infrastructure

Question 40

Docker Compose

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Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. One command can start all services

Question 41

Load Balancer

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Improves the distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources. It aims to optimize resource use, maximize throughput, and minimize response time.

Question 42

Kafka

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an open-source stream-processing software which aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds.

Question 43

Logstash

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a light-weight, open-source, server-side data processing pipeline that allows you to collect data from a variety of sources, transform it on the fly, and send it to your desired destination.

Question 44

RestAPI

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Representational State Transfer API which typically takes advantage of HTTP so developers to not need to install libraries or additional software.

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Helm

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The first application package manager running atop Kubernetes

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CLI

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Command Line Interface

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DevOps

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DevOps is a set of practices that automates the processes between software development and IT teams, in order that they can build, test, and release software faster and more reliably. The concept of DevOps is founded on building a culture of collaboration between teams that historically functioned in relative siloes.

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Cobbler

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A Linux provisioning server that facilitates and automates

Question 49

AWS

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An on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals

Question 50

Azure

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Set of Microsoft services including cloud storage and DevOps tools?