Cloud Architecture Terminologies

Question 1

What are the Cloud Architecture Terminologies?

Answer 1

High Scalability
High Elasticity
Highly Fault Tolerance
High Durability
High Availability

Question 2

What is the difference between vertical scaling and horizontal scaling?

Answer 2

Vertical Scaling, scaling up, means upgrading to a bigger server.

Horizontal Scaling, scaling out, means adding more servers of the same size.

Question 3

What is High Elasticity?

Answer 3

Your ability to automatically increase or decrease your capacity based on the current demand of traffic, memory and computing power.

Question 4

What is Highly Fault Tolerant?

Answer 4

The ability for your service to ensure there is no single point of failure. Preventing the chance of failure.

Question 5

What is High Durability?

Answer 5

Your ability to recover from a disaster and to prevent the loss of data. Solutions that recover from a disaster is known as Disaster Recovery

Question 6

What is High Availability?

Answer 6

The ability for your service to remain available by ensuring there is no single point of failure and/or ensure a certain level of performance.