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• What does "layered security" really mean?

• How might companies use Apache Mahout for machine learning?

• What are some factors that contribute to AI "drift"?

• How is SIEM different from general event log management and monitoring?

• Why might a company shut down a chatbot AI project?

• Why might companies use Amazon Machine Learning and related tools?

• How is bandwidth monitoring different from other types of network monitoring?

• Why is scalable machine learning important?

• What are some best practices for cloud encryption?

• Why do systems benefit from event log monitoring?

• Is big data a one-size-fits-all solution?

• What's the difference between a CPU and a GPU?

• What's the difference between a host name, a domain name and a fully qualified domain name (FDQN)?

• How does visibility help with the uncertainty of handing data to a cloud provider?

• How can companies maintain application availability standards?

• What is the difference between cloud computing and virtualization?

• Why do cloud providers seek FEDRamp certification?

• What's the difference between augmented reality and virtual reality?

• What’s the difference between artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning?

• How might a team make an app "cloud-ready"?

• Why does loosely coupled architecture help to scale some types of systems?

• Why is Python so popular in machine learning?

• How might companies deal with hardware dependencies while moving toward a virtualization model?

• Why does virtualization speed up server deployment?

• What is the virtualization "backlash" and why is it important?

• Why could a "resource hog" make virtualization difficult?

• How might a company utilize a virtualization resource summary?

• Why do undersized VMs lead to latency and other problems?

• What are some of the positives of a demand-driven migration model?

• Why should cloud services offer both elasticity and scalability?

• What are some of the values of real-time hybrid cloud monitoring?

• Why might a company assess right-sizing on-premises versus in the cloud?

• How can companies deal with “dynamic unpredictability?”

• What performance issues do users face due to wireless interference problems in an enterprise setting?

• What kinds of devices can interfere with wireless signals?

• How do you mitigate wireless interference sources in an enterprise network?

• What are some basic ideas for optimizing hybrid cloud?

• Why do some companies choose Azure or AWS over open-source technologies like OpenStack?

• What are some advantages and drawbacks of stateless applications?

• Why is it important to look at the "full stack" in virtualization?

• How does automation help individual system operators?

• How can security be both a project and process?

• How do companies develop a "data center BMI"?

• How can companies tally up cloud costs for multi-cloud or complex cloud systems?

• How can IT security be measured?

• Why is a good HTML5 interface important for a business project?

• How do companies work toward composable infrastructure?

• How can you securely delete files?

• How can a manager use a workload chart?

• What can virtual machine use cases tell companies about systems?

• How can companies work to achieve a desired state?

• How can companies cultivate a better approach to “object-based” network changes?

• Why do naming conventions for virtual machines help with IT organization?

• What are some common challenges in decommissioning applications?

• Why is reserve capacity important in systems?

• What are some values of cloud-native architecture?

• Why is it important to match uptime to infrastructure?

• What's commonly involved in site reliability engineering?

• What are some important considerations for implementing PaaS?

• What are some challenges with handling an architecture's storage layers?

• What are some of the benefits of software-defined storage?

• What are some things that rightsizing virtual environments can do for a business?

• What are some benefits of continuous real-time placement of user workloads?

• How can stakeholders use the three key operations phases of autonomic hyperconvergent management?

• Why would managers suspend VMs when VDI instances are not in use?

• Why do companies choose either persistent or non-persistent VDI?

• Why would managers differentiate storage for I/O-intensive workloads?

• Why would companies assess quality of service for VMs?

• What's the utility of a cluster capacity dashboard?

• How can companies use raw device mapping?

• Why might someone use an N+1 approach for a cluster?

• Why do companies consider platform diversity to be important for cloud systems?

• What strategies companies are using to mitigate DDoS attacks?

• How do companies balance security, cost, scalability and data access for cloud services?

• How do engineers use availability zones in cloud and networking admin?

• How do companies battle application sprawl?

• What are some benefits of self-driving data centers?

• What are some concerns companies might have with a "lift and shift" cloud approach?

• What is involved in choosing the right EC2 instances for AWS?

• What are some benefits of workload abstraction?

• What are some challenges of scaling in OpenStack?

• Why would companies invest in decision automation?

• How do companies use Kubernetes?

• What methods do companies use to improve app performance in cloud models?

• What are some advantages of multi-cloud deployments?

• How do businesses use virtualization health charts?

• What does secured with WEP mean?

• How can you securely erase an SSD?

• How can passwords be stored securely in a database?

• Why is learning assembly language still important?

• What are the benefits of cloud-in-a-box deployments?

• What are some of the factors that prevent companies from fully adopting the cloud?

• Will converged, hyper-converged and super-converged systems lead to the demise of stand-alone servers?

• What are some of the benefits of private cloud?

• What are the compliance limitations of public cloud?

• How do firms collect data "at the edge" of a network?

• What makes application performance monitoring important?

• What is the difference between convergence, hyperconvergence and superconvergence in cloud computing?