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Coding Interview Prep Cloud Native Architecture — practice questions

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An application built as one united codebase is described as a:Read the answer and worked solution →A self contained unit that implements a single business capability is a:Read the answer and worked solution →The number of key principles of cloud native development listed is:Read the answer and worked solution →A team must add capacity to just the payment component of a monolith. They must duplicate:Read the answer and worked solution →Microservices are described as small services that are loosely:Read the answer and worked solution →If one microservice in an application fails, the rest of the application is:Read the answer and worked solution →A team can rewrite one microservice in a different language because microservices are:Read the answer and worked solution →Compared with a monolith, scaling a microservices architecture is:Read the answer and worked solution →Microservices usually communicate with each other using lightweight REST calls that are:Read the answer and worked solution →A standardised unit of software that logically isolates an application is a:Read the answer and worked solution →Containers are lightweight because they are isolated from the computer's:Read the answer and worked solution →Containers start, scale and shut down quickly mainly because of their:Read the answer and worked solution →Running the same container consistently on any platform makes it good for:Read the answer and worked solution →The read only template from which containers are created is called an:Read the answer and worked solution →Running containers are best described as instances of a container:Read the answer and worked solution →A container image is built up from an operating system base plus further:Read the answer and worked solution →An advantage of the layered image hierarchy is that layers can be:Read the answer and worked solution →Software that manages where and how many containers run is a container:Read the answer and worked solution →Teams commit code for microservices through a pipeline known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Containers improve build, test and deployment speed, which boosts:Read the answer and worked solution →Containers can lower running costs because they need fewer:Read the answer and worked solution →Legacy applications moved as they are to a cloud provider are usually still:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the cloud native ideasRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the container gainsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the architecture gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the cloud termsRead the answer and worked solution →Monolith or microserviceRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the cloud native partsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Cloud native bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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An application built as one united codebase is described as a:

  1. Monolith
  2. Microsite
  3. Multitool
  4. Megabyte
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Correct answer: A. Monolith

1. All the software units share a single codebase. 2. Nothing is split into separate deployable pieces. 3. That design is a monolith. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Computer Science, Chapter 12, Cloud-Native Applications Development._

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A self contained unit that implements a single business capability is a:

  1. Microscope
  2. Microservice
  3. Microsecond
  4. Microphone
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Correct answer: B. Microservice

1. Each unit does one job for the business. 2. It runs on its own and talks over a network. 3. That unit is a microservice. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Computer Science, Chapter 12, Cloud-Native Applications Development._

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The number of key principles of cloud native development listed is:

  1. 4
  2. 3
  3. 5
  4. 6
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Correct answer: A. 4

1. Microservices and containerisation are two of them. 2. Continuous delivery and DevOps complete the list. 3. So there are 4 principles. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Computer Science, Chapter 12, Cloud-Native Applications Development._

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