Final Exam: CloudOps Apprentice

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

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  List the core products and developers’ tools provided by splunk that can be used to collect data, index and implement visualization service for operational intelligence
  

  outline the primary multi-cloud operating model and strategies used to transition to the cloud and multi-cloud environments
  

  recall the prominent deployment strategies that can be adopted to plan deployment mechanism in the cloud
  

  recall the different types of outages that need to be addressed using high availability solutions
  

  describe the basic principles of failover along with the features of real application clusters to implement in high availability systems
  

  configure a template that defines ec2 instances and use it to create an ec2 auto-scaling group
  

  classify the benefits of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud and identify the challenges faced by enterprises when transforming to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures
  

  describe the concept and characteristics of elasticity and scalability provided by cloud
  

  create a simple multi-cloud docker cluster involving aws and azure using docker swarm
  

  recall the key cloud architecture patterns used to design high availability solutions and help avoid a single point of failure at each layer
  

  recall the key design considerations and benefits of setting up a multi-cloud disaster recovery process in aws and azure
  

  list the prominent benefits that are driving the growth of multi-cloud deployments along with the key considerations for planning multi-cloud deployments
  

  describe the features of splunk that helps implement observability solution for cloudops
  

  recall the critical multi-cloud deployment challenges along with the camp and tosca principles that are applied to facilitate flexible multi-cloud deployments
  

  list the primary aws services used for setting up operating models and implementing hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
  

  define the concept of clustering and outline the different cluster architectures that can be configured to support failover and load balancing in traditional deployments
  

  implement a pool of docker hosts into a single virtual server to allow clustering with built-in swarm orchestration
  

  recognize the role of virtual machines and cluster virtualization in data centers and name prominent clustered environment resource managers
  

  recognize the various flavours of splunk along with the benefits of using splunk cloud
  

  recognize the various multi-cloud architecture designs that form part of an effective cloud deployment strategy
  

  list the cloud and container orchestration tools used to allocate virtual machines and containers for additional resource integration
  

  recall the critical use cases that illustrate the need for adopting a multi-cloud deployment strategy
  

  recognize the benefits and pitfalls of implementing high availability deployment
  

  demonstrate the steps involved in configuring aws to connect with other public cloud platforms
  

  name the standard network topologies used for hybrid and multi-cloud setups that also apply cloud and cloudops best practices
  

  recognize the features of the prominent tools that are used for multi-cloud deployment, management and cost control
  

  recall the challenges of monitoring hybrid and multi-cloud environments along with the features afforded by prominent monitoring tools to address the challenges
  

  list the prominent tools that help set up, configure, and deploy applications in multi-cloud environments
  

  list and compare the features of clustering topologies and name the critical cluster components used to manage enterprise applications
  

  identify the features of the prominent tools that are used for multi-cloud deployment, management and cost control
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  define a path for successful devops transformation that can, in turn, help leverage the principles and practices of continuous integration and continuous delivery
  

  compare the differences between hybrid, on-premises, and single cloud deployment solutions
  

  set up monitoring tools to monitor solutions deployed in hybrid environments
  

  recognize the critical challenges faced by enterprises when implementing a hybrid cloud environment with devops practices
  

  recognize how agile and lean principles used in the devops lifecycle help build effective practices for enterprises to ensure effective governance in ops-enabled full stack organizations  
  

  identify the critical problems that can be eliminated by adopting devops principles and practices and in doing so, evolve the appropriate techniques for progression solution adoption
  

  define the concept of a hybrid cloud and describe the key components of a hybrid cloud solution
  

  list the steps involved in hybrid cloud migration strategies that help realize the full potential of hybrid computing
  

  recall the different types of release management processes that help adapt to changing architectures and delivery processes  
  

  describe the different types of automation approaches that can be adopted to build robust devops practices for solutioning complex applications with diversified integrations  
  

  recognize the business challenges that drive enterprises to adopt hybrid cloud solutions
  

  list the devops practices that help enterprises innovate faster through automation and the streamlining of software development and infrastructure management processes
  

  configure hybrid cloud connectivity between aws and on-premises environments
  

  recall the core devops principles that help define strategies for successful devops implementation
  

  outline the process of enabling devops in a hybrid cloud environment
  

  outline the devops principles that guide implementation to achieve quicker and more reliable software development and delivery
  

  recognize the capabilities of splunk that help discover problems and use operational intelligence to gain insights for business productivity
  

  recognize the role of container orchestration in implementing ci/cd pipelines
  

  create and configure aws outpost to run aws services on-premises
  

  compare physical and virtual clusters and define the concept of virtual clusters based on application partitioning
  

  deploy applications to multiple regions of high availability environment using the aws codepipeline to improve the latency and availability of application
  

  configure an instance for high availability in gcp
  

  identify the key components of splunk search processing language that can be used to get expected outcomes from datasets
  

  recall the approach to transition from traditional multi-cloud deployment to secure ci/cd deployment
  

  recall the ci/cd process used to implement continuous delivery and release of applications in single cloud environment
  

  describe the data model, datasets, dataset fields, field types, categories and inheritance used to create reports
  

  use the data model editor to design new data model, add root event dataset and root search dataset to the data model
  

  describe the key components of splunk search processing language that can be used to get expected outcomes from datasets
  

  recall the key components of integrated solution design that can be used to manage and optimize the multi-cloud environment and administration of different environments
  

  recall the key considerations and mindset change required to build cloudops pipelines for multi-cloud application deployment