DevOps and infrastructure trivia

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• Which technology places files on servers near the user in advance so they download quickly?DevOps and infrastructure
• Which device blocks or allows traffic to and from a server according to rules?DevOps and infrastructure
• What do we call returning to the previous version when something goes wrong with a newly deployed one?DevOps and infrastructure
• What do we call renting as much computing as you need instead of buying server hardware?DevOps and infrastructure
• Which task keeps a separate copy against the loss of data?DevOps and infrastructure
• Which task watches a server's state and metrics continuously to catch anything wrong?DevOps and infrastructure
• Which record keeps what happened on a server in order of time, used to find the cause of a problem?DevOps and infrastructure
• Which feature raises and lowers the number of servers automatically with the traffic?DevOps and infrastructure
• What do we call keeping several copies of the same setup so the service continues when one machine stops?DevOps and infrastructure
• Which device spreads incoming requests across several servers to distribute the load?DevOps and infrastructure
• Auto scaling is the setting that fixes the number of servers so it never changes however much traffic grows.DevOps and infrastructure
• A rollback is returning to the previous version when something goes wrong with a newly deployed one.DevOps and infrastructure
• A CDN is the technology that ties users worldwide to downloading files from a single origin server.DevOps and infrastructure
• A firewall is not a device that blocks or allows traffic by rules but a device that compresses data.DevOps and infrastructure
• Keeping several copies of the same setup so that the service continues when one server stops is called redundancy.DevOps and infrastructure
• Server logs are of no help at all in finding the cause when something goes wrong.DevOps and infrastructure
• A backup is keeping a separate copy against the loss of data.DevOps and infrastructure
• Monitoring is watching a server's state and metrics continuously to catch anything wrong.DevOps and infrastructure
• A load balancer spreads incoming requests across several servers to distribute the load.DevOps and infrastructure
• Using the cloud means a company has to buy and manage the server hardware itself.DevOps and infrastructure