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Cloud Engineering Fundamentals

The core ideas a cloud engineer works with every day: service models and regions, identity and access, virtual networks, compute, storage, managed databases, disaster recovery and cost. Examples use real AWS, Azure and Google Cloud service names.

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Cloud Service Models, Regions and Availability Zones
What IaaS, PaaS and SaaS hand to the provider, who secures what under the shared responsibility model, and how regions, availability zones and edge locations are laid out.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
40 total questions
Identity and Access Management in the Cloud
How cloud providers decide who can do what: users, groups, roles and service accounts, how policies are written and evaluated, and how to grant only what is needed with short-lived credentials.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 11
41 total questions
Virtual Networks: VPCs, Subnets, Routing and Security Groups
How a private network is built in the cloud: VPCs and subnets, route tables, internet and NAT gateways, security groups and network ACLs, peering and private endpoints.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 11
Locked · 41 questions inside
Compute: Virtual Machines, Autoscaling and Serverless
Running code in the cloud: choosing instance types and images, scaling groups of virtual machines, serverless functions and their limits, and managed container services at a high level.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
Locked · 40 questions inside
Cloud Storage: Object, Block and File
The three kinds of cloud storage and when to use each: object storage with buckets, storage classes and lifecycle rules, block volumes and snapshots, and shared file systems.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
Locked · 40 questions inside
Managed Databases and Data Services
Databases the provider runs for you: managed relational engines with replicas and standby copies, key-value and document stores, managed caches, and how to choose between them.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
Locked · 40 questions inside
High Availability, Backup and Disaster Recovery
Keeping systems running and getting them back after a failure: RPO and RTO, backups versus replication, and the four disaster recovery strategies from backup and restore to multi-site active-active.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
Locked · 40 questions inside
Cloud Cost Management and FinOps
How cloud bills are made and kept under control: on-demand, commitment and spot pricing, tagging and allocating costs, rightsizing, data transfer charges, budgets and FinOps practice.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 11
Pair match: 10
Locked · 39 questions inside
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