Test Your Web-scale IQ!

17 Questions | By Nutanix | Updated: Mar 22, 2022 | Attempts: 219

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Web-scale IT is a better approach to designing, building and managing datacenter infrastructure pioneered by web companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook - and it's becoming rapidly relevant for the enterprise. What's your web-scale IQ? Take the short quiz to find out!

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1.

What is your Twitter handle?
2.

What is your email address?
3.

Which of the following are NOT problems with traditional network-based storage?
- A.
  
  Network performance bottlenecks as server resources are scaled and more applications come online
- B.
  
  Storage managed with different granularity than VMs (e.g., LUNs, files)
- C.
  
  Creates separately-managed resource silos because solutions are not versatile for a wide range of use cases
- D.
  
  So simple to manage and troubleshoot that admins have free time to fill
4.

Which aspect of IT infrastructure does web-scale infrastructure simplify?
- A.
  
  Buying
- B.
  
  Deploying
- C.
  
  Managing
- D.
  
  Scaling
- E.
  
  All of the above
5.

Paxos is a:
- A.
  
  Declarative model-based approach to IT automation
- B.
  
  Protocol for solving consensus in a network of unreliable processors or participants
- C.
  
  Centralized repository of configuration information
- D.
  
  Microkernel operating system
6.

Cassandra is a:
- A.
  
  Scalable, distributed no-SQL database built to run on commodity servers
- B.
  
  Protocol for solving consensus in a network of unreliable processors
- C.
  
  Beatles song
- D.
  
  System for serializing structured data
7.

Zookeeper is a:
- A.
  
  XML-based build framework for software projects
- B.
  
  Powerful monitoring system that enables proactive issue resolution
- C.
  
  Service that provides centralized configuration, naming, and distributed synchronization in a clustered environment
- D.
  
  Nickname for VCs who incubate wild ideas in the Silicon Valley
8.

Protocol buffer is a:
- A.
  
  Method for encoding structured data extensibly and efficiently
- B.
  
  Next-generation WAN-optimization technique
- C.
  
  Declarative model-based approach to IT automation
- D.
  
  Distributed hash table to store (key, value) pairs
9.

What is the typical ratio of admin to servers managed in web-scale datacenters?
- A.
  
  1:65
- B.
  
  1:450
- C.
  
  1:1,000
- D.
  
  1:10,000+
10.

Web-scale datacenters use extensive automation to achieve operational efficiency. TRUE/FALSE?
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
11.

The only way to get web-scale infrastructure in your datacenter is to build it yourself the way Facebook and Google do. TRUE/FALSE?
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
12.

Which of the following are NOT common traits found in web-scale datacenters?
- A.
  
  Standard hardware components
- B.
  
  Distributed, massively parallel software
- C.
  
  Specialized, single-function hardware appliances
- D.
  
  Maintaining data close to compute resources
13.

Massive parallelism with a distributed scale-out architecture is essential to scale infrastructure without limits. TRUE/FALSE?
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
14.

Web-scale infrastructure is only relevant to web companies with millions of users and petabytes of data to store and manage. TRUE/FALSE?
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
15.

Which of the following are NOT benefits of web-scale infrastructure?
- A.
  
  Eliminates the need for specialized IT skills
- B.
  
  Eliminates islands of storage
- C.
  
  Enables infrastructure elasticity and rapid growth
- D.
  
  Delivers overall system resiliency by building hardware that does not fail
16.

It is not possible to achieve strict consistency in a scale-out system at large scale. TRUE/FALSE?
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
17.

Getting the full benefit of web-scale infrastructure requires applications to be custom-built to use underlying infrastructure capabilities. TRUE/FALSE?
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False