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Cloud Computing Demystified for Aspiring Professionals

By : David Santana
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Book Image

Cloud Computing Demystified for Aspiring Professionals

5 (1)
By: David Santana

Overview of this book

If you want to upskill yourself in cloud computing domains to thrive in the IT industry, then you’ve come to the right place. Cloud Computing Demystified for Aspiring Professionals helps you to master cloud computing essentials and important technologies offered by cloud service providers needed to succeed in a cloud-centric job role. This book begins with an overview of transformation from traditional to modern-day cloud computing infrastructure, and various types and models of cloud computing. You’ll learn how to implement secure virtual networks, virtual machines, and data warehouse resources including data lake services used in big data analytics — as well as when to use SQL and NoSQL databases and how to build microservices using multi-cloud Kubernetes services across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. You'll also get step-by-step demonstrations of infrastructure, platform, and software cloud services and optimization recommendations derived from certified industry experts using hands-on tutorials, self-assessment questions, and real-world case studies. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to successfully implement cloud computing standardized concepts, services, and best practices in your workplace.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Journey to Cloud Computing
5
Part 2: Implementing Cloud Deployment Models
9
Part 3: Cloud Infrastructure Services in Action
13
Part 4: Administrating Database and Security on the Cloud
18
Part 5: Roadmap for a Successful Journey in Cloud Engineering

Questions

  1. Who is ARPANET?
    1. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
    2. Department of Defense
    3. Bell Laboratories
    4. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
  2. You are a cloud engineer tasked with deploying a Linux VM instance for Pharmakinematics, an enterprise organization. The IT department needs you to make use of the appropriate cloud computing service model. Which model do you make use of?
    1. FaaS
    2. PaaS
    3. Public
    4. IaaS
  3. Which design strategy should you consider when planning cloud computing architectural recommendations for distributed computing services across AZs that provide a highly available architecture?
    1. Design for agility
    2. Design for scalability
    3. Design for failure
    4. Design microservices
  4. Which data center tier supports an annual downtime of 26.3 minutes?
    1. Tier 4
    2. Tier 3
    3. Tier 2
    4. Tier 1
  5. Which of the following refers to company-owned and operated enterprise data centers?
    1. Off-premises
    2. Cloud
    3. Co-located
    4. On-premises
  6. What is virtualization?
    1. Docker resources
    2. Apple iOS
    3. The abstraction of physical resources
    4. Linux kernel
  7. What is the Microsoft application virtualization service?
    1. Citrix
    2. Container
    3. App-V
    4. Hyper-V
  8. What are some attributes that distributed computing systems display? (Choose all that apply.)
    1. SOA
    2. Monolithic
    3. DevOps
    4. Queue
  9. NIST declares the following regarding cloud computing (Choose all that apply):
    1. On-demand self-service
    2. Resource pooling
    3. Rapid elasticity
    4. Poly Cloud
  10. In terms of HA, what does an AZ provide?
    1. Fault tolerance
    2. Regional redundancy
    3. Energy reduction
    4. Identity and Access Management (IAM)