Week 1

Question 1

Server

Answer 1

Software or a machine that provides services to other software or machines

Question 2

Procurement

Answer 2

First stage of the hardware life cycle. This is when the hardware is purchased for use by an employee.

Question 3

Deployment

Answer 3

This is when the hardware is set up so the employee can do their job

Question 4

Maintenance

Answer 4

Stage when software is updated and issues are fixed if/when they occur

Question 5

Retirement

Answer 5

When hardware is unusable or no longer needed

Question 6

Rollback

Answer 6

Reverting to a previous state

Question 7

What commands will start scripting what you are doing and put it in a file when you exit scripting mode for linux and Windows?

Answer 7

script (Linux)

Start-Transcript (Windows)

Question 8

Production

Answer 8

The parts of the infrastructure where a certain service is executed and served to its users

Question 9

Test environment

Answer 9

A virtual machine running the same configuration as the production environment, but isn’t actually serving any users of the service

Question 10

Secondary or Standby machine

Answer 10

This machine will be exactly the same as the production machine, but won’t receive any traffic from actual users until you enable it to do so

Question 11

Canaries

Answer 11

Small group of servers used to check for changes that will ultimately be used for the larger system if all goes well

Question 12

Reproduction case

Answer 12

Creating a roadmap to retrace the steps that led the user to an unexpected outcome