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Quiz: How Well Do You Speak Cloud?

By Dennis McCafferty on 2011-05-26


Do you know your Django from your Hadoop? If so, then you'll ace this quiz, designed to challenge your grasp of cloud jargon and terminology. If these terms leave you feeling a little "lost in the cloud," fear not. The questions and answers you'll find in this quiz are based on a very CIO-friendly glossary provided in the recent book " Building Applications in the Cloud: Concepts, Patterns and Projects " (Addison-Wesley Professional/available now). In the book, author Christopher Moyer provides insights that can help managers maximize the value of their cloud applications. Here are two freebies to get you started: Django is an open-source Web app framework written in Python; Hadoop is a specific implementation of the Map/Reduce pattern implemented in Java). Challenge yourself to see how many of these other six cloud-related questions you can nail. And remember, we work on the honor system here: No seeking Google help as you attempt to define these terms:

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This type of Cloud Service is a subset of Hardware as a Service and is most likely to involve sharing products such as firewalls or virtual private network hardware.

Answer


Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas)

Question


Which open standard allows users to share private resources stored on one site with another site, without having to hand out credentials, username or password? (Hint: This is widely used by Twitter.)

Answer


Open authorization, or "oAuth" if you want to talk like your tech folks.

Question:


What is a popular framework for writing Web applications that are language-independent?

Answer


Web Service Gateway Interface (WSGI). It defines how headers, data and URL parameters are passed into a script no matter what language it's written in.

Question


Which method of scaling requires you to add more machines to your app, as opposed to adding hardware to the same machine?

Answer


Horizontal scaling. (We'll also accept the answer, "scaling out.")

Question


Which guideline requires you to use only lowercase alphanumeric characters, starting with a letter, and dashes in domain names?

Answer


DNS Safe. (And don't think about using underscores either, because they're not supported.)

Question


What are a set of instances that all perform the same function, and allow for more instances to be added in order to scale out?

Answer


An auto-scaling group, a configuration that automatically scales up or down based upon a pre-specified set of triggers provided, such as CPU utilization. (Got all of that?)

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