Terms

Question 1

Cloud Provider

Answer 1

Company offering/providing cloud services (e.g. Microsoft, Amazon, Google)

Question 2

Virtual Machine

Answer 2

An emulation of a computer

Question 3

Containers

Answer 3

Provide a consistent, isolated execution environment for applications without the need for a guest operating systems

Question 4

Serverless computing

Answer 4

Lets you run application code without creating, configuring, or maintaining a server. The application is broken into different separate functions that run when triggered by some action.

Question 5

Fault tolerance

Answer 5

Redundancy is built into cloud services architecture so in case a component fails a backup component takes its place

Question 6

Capital expenditure (CapEx)

Answer 6

Spending of money on physical infrastructure upfront and deducting it from your tax bill later on

Question 7

Operational expenditure (OpEx)

Answer 7

• Spending money on services/products now and being billed for them now. You can deduct these expense from you tax bill in the same year.
• No upfront costs
• Pay-per-use

Question 8

CLI

Answer 8

Command-line interface

Question 9

GUI

Answer 9

Graphical User Interface