Practice Exercises

You have been tasked with developing the cloud architecture for your organization. You need to deploy and manage your organization’s applications for thousands of concurrent customers, as well as store data that are sensitive. What type of cloud architecture will meet your organization’s needs?

As your organization grows, you need to update the cloud architecture. The organization needs a flexible working environment that offers competitive pricing and robust security, as well as automation and scalability. What type of cloud architecture will meet your organization’s needs at this point?

Your organization recently experienced a system failure that resulted in downtime and cost the organization more than a million dollars. To prevent this situation from occurring again, you have recommended that the organization implement a multicloud solution. Why are you recommending this?

To convince your organization to implement a multicloud solution, you explain that one advantage is robust security. Why is robust security an advantage of multicloud solutions?

You need storage services that provide quick, direct access to files and give you the ability to track and manage how your data are changed. Which type of storage service will best meet your needs and how does this storage service manage data?

If you have a limited budget and more flexibility in the timing of your tasks, what type of compute service are you likely to use and why?

What is one of the most critical issues that organizations resolve by using web and mobile application services?

Your colleague wants to build an application. You suggest using a container management service. What are the next steps to do this?

Your colleague wants to implement a cloud solution but is concerned because their business handles a large database with data that must be written and captured quickly. What advice do you offer them about cloud solutions?

Turn your smartphone into an IoT device by implementing and documenting a solution based on one of the following tutorials:

• Azure IoT Samples for iOS Platform
• Turn Your Smartphone into an IoT Device

Unity Barracuda is a lightweight cross-platform neural networks inference library for Unity. Barracuda can run neural networks both on GPU and CPU. Follow the instructions for installing Barracuda, read the documentation and the starter kit documentation. Get the BlazeFaceBarracuda project to run and deploy.

You have hired a developer to create a video game. Prepare a flowchart of what you expect the video game to do, noting which features should be VR, AR, and/or XR.

Perform research on the Internet and document applications of XR/the metaverse that are being applied in industries other than health care.

Perform research on the Internet and document the vendor solutions that are currently available to support the six key layers of the metaverse, namely: infrastructure, access/interface, virtualization tools, virtual worlds, economic infrastructure, and experiences.

Research and document the feasibility of nanorobots.