Knowledge quiz

It’s time to put what you’ve learned to the test, get 8 questions right to pass this week.

What is a Service Mesh and what is its job? - A service mesh controls communication between containers and it provides …

There are three correct answers.

Traffic Management

Security

Observability

Durability

Which alternative ways of creating Fiori UIs do exist?

There are three correct answers.

SAP Fiori Elements

SAP UI5

UI5 Web Components

SAP Fiori Components

What are benefits of API management in cloud platform scenarios?

There are three correct answers.

In general, API Management allows to expose services from on-prem applications or cloud applications to other cloud applications more flexibly

It allows to abstract from authentication mechanisms

It allows to introduce monitoring in order to guardrail APIs

It improves throughput and prevents downtimes because it can cache all possible API calls

What does the Shared Repository pattern realize?

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An architecture where all components communicate through a repository that is known and accessible by all affected components.

An architecture where all components communicate through a shared pipeline establishing point to point connections. It is used consecutively by all affected components.

An architecture where all components communicate through method calls.

An architecture where components only communicate with shared resources when an overarching mediator allows them to.

What are the differences between the SAP Integration Suite and the SAP Extension Suite?

There are three correct answers.

The integration suite helps to connect heterogeneous applications to allow for seamless end-to-end processes

The exentsion suite supports developers to extend existing SAP solutions with additional functionality or attach new apps to provide specific functionality required by users

The distinction between the integration suite and the extension suite is not always clear, as the suites work together to eachive a seamless and coherent user experience.

The integration suite is the successor of the extension suite

On the difference between Operators and Controllers, which statements are correct?

There are three correct answers.

Controllers are more fine grained ( micro level )

Operators perform upon several controllers (macro level)

Operators usually need access to workloads, signals, and logs to work correctly

Operators and controllers are interchangable if one changes the internal color from green to red and vice versa

Why is the Kubernetes architecture so resilient / robust?

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Because each controller tries to rectify the state it is in

Because the Kubernetes cluster is protected by a doubled firewall

Because it was evolved from the already stable three-tier architecture

Because the central operator will quickly reboot controllers that do not comply to its goals

What was the bottleneck of previous, old planning applications?

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Many entities were loaded to the application layer, filtered there and the results also needed to be reflected in persisted aggregates.

Planning needed to be done twice, once in the application layer and once in the database layer.

Table names needed to be translated at runtime.

Authorization had to be refreshed on a hourly basis.

What types of extensions are supported on the BTP?

There are two correct answers.

In-App Extensions

Side-by-Side Extensions

Inside-Out Extensions

Autonomous Extensions

10.

What are operators used for?

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To automate maintenance tasks usually done by human staff as much as possible

To translate services for different operating systems

To speed up data intensive tasks by pre-warming the pipelines

To connect different cloud-services through old telephone landlines