Knowledge quiz

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

What kinds of cloud platforms do exist? Note: There are 3 correct answers to this question.

There are three correct answers.

Product extension platform

Oil platform

Developer platform

Marketplace platform

What kind of coding tasks need to be covered by an extension platform?

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Low/no code, business coding tools, and full-control development

Spaghetti code, dead code, and productive code

Eventual consistent coding

Survey coding

Why do we need a north star architecture?

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To define a target architecture, allowing to guide the ongoing development into a set direction

To have a counterpart to the so called South Star architecture

To enable secure cloud computing during the night

We do not need a North Star Architecture

Which technical milestone led to SAPs success starting in 1995?

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The switch from mainframe too client-server architecture

The invention of CD-ROMs

The widespread availability of graphical processing units

The invention of faster RAM

Which of the following statements are true for OLTP (compared to OLAP)? Note: There are 3 correct answers to this question.

There are three correct answers.

High Query selectivity

Large (intermediate) result sets

Read and write access

Expensive updates

What is now possible with in-memory databases and real-time business by having OLTP and OLAP in one system? Note: There are 3 correct answers to this question.

There are three correct answers.

Digital boardrooms with information on your fingertips

Complex and much faster computation of business challenges (such as spatial and graph)

Customer orders are delivered faster than before

Technical implementation of business processes is simplified

What was the main strategy of SAP to accelerate its transformation to a cloud company?

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Acquisitions

Intrapreneurship

Marketing

Training in Meterology

What properties does a product extension platform have? Note: There are 3 correct answers to this question.

There are three correct answers.

Make the product better through 3rd party developers

Results in combination of developer tools and marketplace

Primary relationship with consumers

Typically no connection to end-users

Assume you have six systems that you need to integrate with each other. How many connections do you need for point to point integration?

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10.

What is the difference between scale up and scale out?

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Scale up is only for RAM, scale out only for CPUs

Scale-up is only possible in servers with at least 4 height units, whereas scale-out requires at least two data centers

Scale-up means using a more performant machine, whereas scale out means using multiple or more machines

Scale-up means using more energy, whereas scale-out means using more space