Practice Global Load Balancing and Scalability - 4.1.1.4 | Week 2: Network Virtualization and Geo-distributed Clouds | Distributed and Cloud Systems Micro Specialization
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4.1.1.4 - Global Load Balancing and Scalability

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What is global load balancing?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how services manage traffic.

Question 2

Easy

Define latency in the context of networking.

πŸ’‘ Hint: It's about the speed of information flow.

Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation

Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What does global load balancing primarily aim to optimize?

  • Data storage
  • Application performance
  • Network design

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about user experience.

Question 2

Latency is related to which of the following?

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: It directly impacts how fast things load.

Solve 1 more question and get performance evaluation

Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Evaluate a scenario where a cloud service is experiencing high latency for users located in Asia despite having data centers in the U.S. What steps can be taken to improve this situation?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Focus on geographic accessibility and reducing travel distance for data.

Question 2

Assuming you have control over a network that uses MPLS, describe how you would set up traffic management to prioritize time-sensitive data such as video conferencing over standard data requests.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how you can separate traffic types and their paths.

Challenge and get performance evaluation