introduction to cloud computing coursera week 4 quiz answers

Practice Quiz: Emergent Trends and Practices

1. What is serverless computing?

  • An approach to computing that removes servers from a computing environment and increases responsibility for common infrastructure management tasks.
  • An approach to computing that increases responsibility for common infrastructure management tasks.
  • An approach to computing that offloads responsibility for common infrastructure management tasks.
  • An approach to computing that removes servers from a computing environment.

2. What is the microservices architecture approach?

  • An approach in which a single application consists of many loosely coupled and independently deplovable smaller components or services
  • An approach in which a single application monitors an enterprises security network
  • An approach in which all enterprise data is stored in a single repository
  • An approach in which a single application controls a server for an enterprise.

3. Which of the following lists all three microservices communication methods?

  • APIs, cloud monitoring, and message brokers
  • APIs, event streaming, and resource brokers
  • APIs, event streaming, and message brokers
  • Event streaming, message brokers, and cloud encryption

4. Which of the following contains the two environments where a hybrid cloud environment connects?

  • Public and resource clouds
  • Private and security clouds
  • Public and private clouds
  • Private and resource clouds

5. Which of the following options describes a multi-cloud strategy?

  • Dedicated cloud strategy
  • Infrastructure cloud strategy
  • Enterprise cloud strategy
  • Cloud adoption strategy

Practice Quiz: Cloud Native Applications, DevOps, and Application Modernization

6. Which of the following is a development principle for cloud-native applications?

  • Combine applications to create microservices with multiple functions
  • Containerize the microservices for maximum flexibility, scalability, and portability
  • Tightly couple the different functions of the application so that they can work together as a whole
  • Bring the various single-function components of an application into one huge piece of software

7. Which of the following statements describes the DevOps approach and process?

  • A collaborative approach where business owners and development, operations, and quality assurance teams collaborate to deliver software continuously
  • Eliminates the need to provision servers, build middleware, and install application code
  • Allows teams to freely build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications according to an informal, loosely defined set of guidelines
  • Eliminates the need to monitor performance and availability

8. Which of the provided options encapsulates the complete application modernization journey?

  • The journey from the waterfall and agile development methodologies to DevOps
  • The journey from monolithic and service-oriented architecture to microservices architecture, from physical servers and VMs to cloud infrastructure, and from the waterfall and agile methodology to DevOps
  • The journey from monolithic and service-oriented architecture to microservices architecture
  • The journey from physical servers and VMs to cloud infrastructure

Module 4 Graded Quiz: Emergent Trends and Practices

9. Which of the following options describes a development principle, or action, for cloud native applications?

  • Containerize the microservices for maximum flexibility, scalability, and portability.
  • Tightly coupling the different functions of the application so that they can work together as a whole.
  • Combine applications to create microservices with multiple functions.
  • Bring the various single-function components of an application into one huge piece of software.

10. Which of the following statements describes the DevOps approach and process?

  • Eliminates the need to monitor performance and availability.
  • A collaborative approach where business owners and development, operations, and quality assurance teams collaborate to deliver software continuously.
  • Allows teams to freely build, deploy, and manage cloud native applications according to an informal, loosely defined set of guidelines.
  • Eliminates the need to provision servers, build middleware, and install application code.

11. Which of the provided options encapsulates the complete application modernization journey?

  • The journev from monolithic and service-oriented architecture to microservices architecture
  • The journey from physical servers and VMs to cloud infrastructure
  • The journey from monolithic and service-oriented architecture to microservices architecture, from physical servers and VMs to cloud infrastructure, and from the waterfall and agile methodology to DevOps.
  • The journey from the waterfall and agile development methodologies to DevOps.

12. How would a global flower delivery company leverage the Hybrid Multicloud architecture to meet its requirement of varying capacity demands across different geographies?

  • By scaling up their on-premises architecture
  • By using the automatic provisioning and de-provisioning of resources that the cloud offers.
  • By distributing their delivery service application across multiple cloud environments and providers spread across multiple geographies.

13. Which of the following statements describes the DevOps approach and process?

  • DevOps process is a collaborative approach that defines how people build, deploy, and manage applications in a cloud-native environment to deliver software continuously.
  • An approach that utilizes cloud applications to monitor systems.
  • Eliminates the need to monitor performance and availability.
  • Eliminates the need to provision servers, build middleware, and install application code.

14. Which of these scenarios is NOT a good use case for serverless architecture?

  • Stream processing workloads
  • Microservices that can be built as stateless functions
  • Workloads characterized by long-running processes
  • Supporting microservices architecture

15. Which of the provided options encapsulates the complete application modernization journey?

  • The journey from monolithic and service-oriented architecture to microservices architecture, from physical servers and VMs to cloud infrastructure, and from waterfall and agile methodology to DevOps.
  • The journey from physical servers and VMs to cloud infrastructure.
  • The journey from Waterfall and Agile development methodologies to DevOps.
  • The journey from monolithic and service-oriented architecture to microservices architecture.

16. Fill in the blank. Microservices architecture is an approach in which a _____ coupled and independently deployable smaller components or services.

  • Repository application
  • Cloud service
  • Single application
  • Server

17. What does a cloud native application consist of?

  • Microservices
  • Executable containers
  • Application containers
  • Executable files

18. DevOps and Cloud share a ______ relationship.

  • Customer
  • General partnership
  • Vendor
  • Symbiotic

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