1. Describe any 3 security issues addressed by the industry technology standard: NIST SP 800-144 used in cloud computing solutions and services. Why is it important to follow standards?
2. a. Explain how you use instance types to select industry standard hardware. What are the features and use cases of general purpose, compute optimised, memory optimized, accelerated computing and storage optimised?
4. 2b. Describe the AWS service that you used to implement instance types. What did you consider when selecting the instance type for the web service?
5. Explain what these web-scale cloud components are:

• structured query language (SQL) and NoSQL databases

1. Explain the differences of each component.
2. Explain the benefits of each component.
3. Explain the functions or use case of each component.
4. Use examples from your lab work/project in your explanations.
5. Explain what these web-scale cloud components are:

• monolithic and microservice architectures

1. Explain the differences of each component.
2. Explain the benefits of each component.
3. Explain the functions or use case of each component.
4. Use examples from your lab work/project in your explanations.
7. Explain what these web-scale cloud components are:

• virtual, container and serverless compute models

1. Explain the differences of each component.
2. Explain the benefits of each component.
3. Explain the functions or use case of each component.
4. Use examples from your lab work/project in your explanations.
7. Explain what these web-scale cloud components are:

• content delivery networks and in-memory data stores

1. Explain the differences of each component.
2. Explain the benefits of each component.
3. Explain the functions or use case of each component.
4. Use examples from your lab work/project in your explanations.

1. Explain what these web-scale cloud components are:

• highly cohesive and loosely coupled systems

1. Explain the differences of each component.
2. Explain the benefits of each component.
3. Explain the functions or use case of each component.
4. Use examples from your lab work/project in your explanations.

1. Explain what these web-scale cloud components are:

• database and storage services for persistent data storage

1. Explain the differences of each component.
2. Explain the benefits of each component.
3. Explain the functions or use case of each component.
4. Use examples from your lab work/project in your explanations.
7. Define an application program interface (API) and describe how you used an API in your AWS labs. What is the function or use case for an API?
8. Define messaging and queuing services in AWS and describe how you used this service in your project. What is the function or use case for a message queue?

1. Describe the testing and debugging techniques and tools you used to implement and test your project. What tool did you use to simulate a load test and how did it work? What tool/s did you use to evaluate the results of a load test? What techniques did you use to debug code

1. Describe the principles of web-scaling and how it achieves the goal of availability.
2. Describe the web components that you built into your web-scale cloud infrastructure (project).
3. Describe the role of component to provide high availability