Module Quiz: Production Environments

When a database is split into chunks, with each server holding one chunk, and an additional server is present to provide overall lookups, this is called what?
- Reverse proxy
- Sharding
- Master-slave replication
- Caching
A reverse proxy can be used to serve what parts of a web application, leaving the rest to be handled by the web server?
- Application URLs
- API calls
- Database calls
- Static files
When internal applications or microservices are communicating across private IP spaces, _____ may be necessary.
- A content delivery network
- External client requests
- Private load balancing
- Public load balancing
Tools like load balancers, computing units, and storage are typically offered as part of which service model?
- DBaaS
- IaaS
- SaaS
- PaaS
What are some of the traits of a type-1 hypervisor? Select all that apply.
- More efficient
- Has a simple management console
- Runs on bare metal servers
- Runs on top of an operating system
Which of the following terms are used in containerization? Select all that apply.
- Hypervisors
- Virtual machine
- Kubernetes
- Pods
- Docker
Which type of server will automatically collect static files from a web server when they change?
- Hypervisor
- Push CDN
- Load balancer
- Pull CDN
Which of the following items are true about scalability? Select all that apply.
- In horizontal scaling, you keep adding processing cores, RAM and storage in the server.
- In vertical scaling, you keep adding processing cores, RAM and storage in the server.
- In horizontal scaling, you keep adding more computing units in the network.
- In auto-scaling, the scalability is managed by the cloud provider, and the capacity increases or decreases according to the load.
- In vertical scaling, you keep adding more computing units in the network.
On-demand virtual machines available through public cloud providers are also called _____.
- Object storage
- Containers
- Volatile storage
- Computing units
The process of imitating the development environment and running tests to ensure the code will perform as expected is called what?
- Serverless computing
- Continuous integration (CI)
- Continuous deployment (CD)
- Version control

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