Additional Flashcards

1
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Components of IBM Cloud Platform

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Robust Console
IAM
Catalog
Account and Billing Management System

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2
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IBM cloud regions

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Dallas, Washington, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney

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3
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Multi zone cluster

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provides fault tolerance capability so that a single failure event affects only a single zone.

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4
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Hierarchy of Geographic Locations

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Geography, Country, Metro, Data center

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5
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Federal zones

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Ashburn, VA and Dallas, TX

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6
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cost estimator tool

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AI services , infrastructure services , Kubernetes clusters

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Resource groups

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easily provide access to multiple resources at once.

The first resource group created is automatically named Default

Are specified at service creation time.

Cannot be changed. (a resource’s resource group cannot be changed)

Have no geographical restrictions.

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8
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Access policy

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combination of a subject (which is a user or an access group), their role, and a target, resource, or resource group

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9
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Virtual Servers

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offer a range of operating systems and configurable random-access memory (RAM) and processing power

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10
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Bare metal

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provide horsepower for processing intensive and disk input/output (I/O) intensive workloads.

Images:
VMware
Citrix
Cloud Linux
No operating system
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11
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Power systems

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Choose from various AIX and IBM images or bring your own

used to deliver flexible compute capacity for power system workloads

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12
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Hyper Protect Servers

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allow for the creation and running of virtual servers on IBM LinuxONE

can only be deployed to specific data centers in Dallas, Frankfurt, Sydney, and Washington

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13
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Block Storage Service

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provides virtual servers and bare metal servers with SAN-like Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSi) storage

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File Storage Service

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provides virtual and bare metal servers with a network file system (NFS) based storage

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15
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Cloud Backup Service

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is an enterprise level backup storage and disaster recovery solution.

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16
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Benefits of cloud backup service

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Customize Backup
Management Portal
Plugin Availability
Data Encryption
Geo Redundancy
17
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Object storage

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Objects can be very small up to 10 TB.

All requests and responses to access data from IBM Cloud Object Storage using a RESTful API are using HTTPS protocol.

Leverage Aspera to upload data quickly

levels of resiliency: cross region, regional, and single data center.

Tiers: Smart, Standard, Vault, Cold Vault

18
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Cloud Internet Services

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provides reliable, secure options for internet-facing application by leveraging Cloudflare

19
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Gateway Appliance

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Enables creation of virtual routers, firewalls, and private networking devices.

Choice of a Juniper or AT&T-based appliance.

20
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CDN

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CDN is a highly distributed platform of servers used to help minimize delays. IBM Cloud’s CDN services is based off Akamai. Usage based pricing

21
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Load balancer

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A load balancer is used to distribute traffic among virtual servers. Customers can choose between an IBM Cloud load balancer or a Citrix NetscalerVPX load balancer.

22
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VMware Solution Dedicated

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Single tenant bare metal solution.
Options for vCenter Server or VMware vSphere.
Root level access to the hypervisor.

23
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VMware Solution Shared

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Multi tenant solution using shared infrastructure.
Provides a VMware environment based on vCloudDirector.
Perfect for temporary migration and bursts.

24
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Veeam

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Allows for easy backup and replication of virtual machines on VMware.

25
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Zerto

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Assists in creating and managing disaster recovery with VMware.

26
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Big IP

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Assists with networking and security related tools for VMware solutions.

27
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Challenge for serverless

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A challenge of going serverless in low-latency financial applications is that containers may need to cold start resulting in delays

28
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Use cases for serverless

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Serverless APIs
Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) workloads
Internet of Things (IoT)
Alarm driven

29
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Database-as-a-Service

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cloud computing service that allows users to access and use a cloud database system without purchasing and setting up their own hardware, installing their own database software, or managing the database themselves

30
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IBM Cloud Relational Database

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Db2
Db2 Hosted
MySQL
Postgre

31
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IBM Cloud Document Database

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MongoDB - document database; available as a managed service on IBM Cloud,HIPPA compliant.

Cloudant - IBM’s Database-as-a-Service based on Apache’s CouchDB; provides a 99.99% service level agreement

Elasticsearch - IBM Cloud’s enterprise-ready fully managed solution for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document indexing and full text search capabilities

32
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IBM Cloud Key Value Databases

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Redis - Open source in memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker
etcd - Object relational database management system with an emphasis on extensibility and on standards compliance

33
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Event Streams

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Leverage availability zone support from IBM Kubernetes services to ensure application will continue to work if an entire zone is unavailable.

Integrate with Watson Internet of Things (IoT) and IBM Cloud function to leverage event streams.

34
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Watson Studio

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A suite of tools and collaborative environment for data scientists, developers, and domain experts.

35
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Watson ML

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Run and deploy machine learning models anywhere across any cloud

36
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Watson knowledge catalog

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Discover, curate, categorize and share data assets and models with asset control.

37
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Watson openscale

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Measure and manage AI models in production to promote trust and confidence