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| Serverless: Past, Present and Future(Exam) Answers |
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Exam Question
Single answer1.Which component enables Alibaba Cloud to schedule pods on Elastic Container Instance (ECI) in Serverless Kubernetes?
A. Kubernetes master plane
B. Etcd
C. Virtual Kubelet
D. ECI is not supported on Serverless Kubernetes
B. Etcd
C. Virtual Kubelet
D. ECI is not supported on Serverless Kubernetes
Single answer
2.Which of the following is NOT a future outlook for serverless?
A. Applying serverless to every problem
B. FaaS / BaaS / DBaaS more blurred (XaaS)
C. Better tools for running locally
D. More control over underlying infrastructure and state storage
B. FaaS / BaaS / DBaaS more blurred (XaaS)
C. Better tools for running locally
D. More control over underlying infrastructure and state storage
Single answer
3.What is a cold start?
A. Running a function for the first time, which adds latency
B. Deep Dive into serverless
C. The added latency for every request
B. Deep Dive into serverless
C. The added latency for every request
Single answer
4.How can tools like Knative help you if you are on a 'regular' Kubernetes cluster?
A. It allows you to use Serverless Kubernetes
B. Knative can use Function Compute to run your code
C. It enables developers to apply the serverless paradigm to applications running on Kubernetes
D. Knative has nothing to do with serverless
B. Knative can use Function Compute to run your code
C. It enables developers to apply the serverless paradigm to applications running on Kubernetes
D. Knative has nothing to do with serverless
Single answer
5.Which one of these problems is one of the biggest challenges of serverless?
A. High complexity code
B. Impossible to deployment with Terraform
C. State management
D. Log collection
B. Impossible to deployment with Terraform
C. State management
D. Log collection
Single answer
6.How can serverless help if you're on a constrained budget?
A. It is always cheaper than running normal workloads
B. It will automatically optimize your cloud cost
C. Serverless incurs idle fees
D. It can be cheaper than normal workloads because you only pay for what you run
B. It will automatically optimize your cloud cost
C. Serverless incurs idle fees
D. It can be cheaper than normal workloads because you only pay for what you run
Single answer
7.In 2018, how many companies were using or planning to use serverless?
A. 0-25%
B. 25-50%
C. 50-75%
D. over 75%
B. 25-50%
C. 50-75%
D. over 75%
Single answer
8.How do we normally refer to the function that is called when you trigger Function Compute?
A. Main function
B. Handler function
C. FC function
D. Compute function
B. Handler function
C. FC function
D. Compute function
True/False
9.Serverless workflow can solve some of the state management issues for serverless functions.
True
False
False
True/False
10.With Serverless Kubernetes, you are responsible for managing the master plane.
True
False
False
True/False
11.Serverless means there are no servers at all.
True
False
False
True/False
12.Serverless on Kubernetes means that you don't have to manage your cluster at all.
True
False
False
Multiple answers
13.Which of the following are serverless solutions? (correct answers: 2)
A. ApsaraDB for RDS
B. Elastic Compute Service
C. Tablestore
D. Object Storage Service
B. Elastic Compute Service
C. Tablestore
D. Object Storage Service
Multiple answers
14.Which of the following statements apply to serverless? (correct answers: 2)
A. Managed by third-party
B. Only pay for what you use
C. Cannot scale properly
D. Only applies to compute resources
B. Only pay for what you use
C. Cannot scale properly
D. Only applies to compute resources
Multiple answers
15.What types of applications are a good fit for serverless? (correct answers: 3)
A. Extract-transform-load jobs
B. Backend REST API
C. FTP server
D. Internet-of-Things platform
B. Backend REST API
C. FTP server
D. Internet-of-Things platform