Quiz: OpenStack Services and Application Workloads

Estimated reading time: 1 minutes.

Objective

Assess the learner’s understanding of the purpose and utility of the fundamental OpenStack services.

Questions

  1. Which of the following OpenStack services are required by a standalone application, which you will install inside a VM only because it is incompatible with your personal workstation, and you need it for only a short period of time?

    • Identity (Keystone)

    • Compute (Nova)

    • Block Storage (Cinder)

    • Networking (Neutron)

    • Image (Glance)

  2. Which of the following OpenStack services are required by a database server whose data is expected to be recoverable after catastrophic events such as hardware failures of a compute server?

    • Identity (Keystone)

    • Compute (Nova)

    • Block Storage (Cinder)

    • Networking (Neutron)

    • Image (Glance)

  3. Which of the following OpenStack services are required by a web application which you require to easily deploy into multiple OpenStack clusters, in different countries your company has data centers?

    • Identity (Keystone)

    • Compute (Nova)

    • Block Storage (Cinder)

    • Networking (Neutron)

    • Image (Glance)

  4. Which of the following OpenStack services are required by a monitoring application that collects performance metrics from OpenStack clusters, services, and compute nodes?

    • Identity (Keystone)

    • Compute (Nova)

    • Block Storage (Cinder)

    • Networking (Neutron)

    • Image (Glance)