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Cards In This Set
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Name three business (vs. IT) benefits of cloud computing.
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Movement of IT expenses from Capital Expenditures to Operational Expenditures; Improvement of service quality; Access to new technologies and services.
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Name the three general types of cloud services.
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Software as a service (SaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
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What is a container?
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A container is a type of lightweight image that holds a stand-alone executable package that contains everything needed to run a piece of software.
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What are the four common cloud deployment types?
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Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and community cloud
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What is the name of the agreement type that specifies what the Cloud Service Provider is obligated to deliver to the customer?
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Service Level Agreement (SLA)
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Name five issues with applications that may indicate that the application is not a good choice for a cloud deployment.
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Applications that require direct access to hardware; Applications that use or required hard-coded IP addresses; Latency sensitive apps; Apps that transfer very large files; Apps that use outdated APIs or APIs that are not supported by the CSP
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What is cloud automation?
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Cloud automation is the completion of a cloud related administrative tasks without human intervention.
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Describe orchestration.
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Orchestration is where administrators can create workflows such that entire administrative functions can be automated and run in sequence. For example, an administrator can orchestrate a series of scripts to run when a new VM must be added to a web farm.
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What are the three common uses for cloud orchestration?
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Resource orchestration, workload orchestration and service orchestration.
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What is meant by "Infrastructure as Code"?
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The phrase refers to the practice of bringing a DevOps approach to infrastructure management.
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Name and describe the seven items that should be addressed in any cloud deployment plan.
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(1) Business goals and milestones - should state the 6 to 12 month and one to three year vision and goals of the project. (2) Key stakeholders and personnel - need buy-in from executives and key department heads impacted by the project. (3) Cloud deployment workflow - actual project plan. (4) Dependencies - the relationships for preceding steps to succeeding tasks. (5) Risks and problems - look at ways to mitigate risks and to obtain assistance should risks progress into being actual problems. (6) Resources - indentification of all resources required for the project. (7) Communications - everyone on the team is well versed in the plan, when they may be needed, their requirements, etc.
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What are five benefits of a devops approach to infrastructure management?
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Fast implementation times, more stable and reliable operations environments, early detection and more rapid correction of issues, improved collaboration between business, development and operations improving business agility and continuous release, deployment, testing and monitoring of apps.
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Name the seven items that should, at a minimum, be a part of a change management process.
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Identifying the change or to developing a solution to address a problem, recording the change, assessing the impact of the change, notifying stakeholders of the changes or requesting approval to make changes, scheduling implementation of changes, monitoring the impact of the change and rolling back changes if required to address issues that arise from the changes.
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What are five items that should be included by the cloud team when assessing the impact of a change?
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Impact to project schedules, impact on project dependencies, impact to project goals, impact on project costs and impact to projected project ROI.
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What are the five steps in a cloud deployment workflow?
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Provision the cloud environment, Install and configure applications, Secure the production environment, Perform a trial migration and Perform full migration and cutover.
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