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• 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?

• What are some of the business limitations of the public cloud?

• How does software-defined networking differ from virtual networking?

• What is the difference between deploying containers inside a VM vs directly on bare metal?

• What are the benefits of converged infrastructure in cloud computing?

• Why should businesses secure an Active Directory?

• Why is it important to have change management tools in place for enterprise systems?

• How do companies maximize uptime?

• How do companies manage database changes?

• How is a private cloud platform different from a public cloud platform?

• What is tunneling as it applies to a virtual network?

• How do containers differ from virtual machines?

• What problems do query plan monitoring techniques fix?

• Why should managers guard against database redundancy?

• How do professionals use visual query building tools?

• What are some of the biggest challenges with legacy migration?

• How do companies create a business-driven data architecture?

• What are some core principles of data governance?

• What does a SQL compliance manager do?

• How did people interact with computers before monitors were commonplace?

• What does defragmentation do for SQL systems?

• How does predictive alerting work?

• How do engineers monitor SQL queries?

• What does a central DBMS interface do?

• How do companies create a server inventory?

• What is the difference between C and C++?

• What are the biggest uses of SQL today?

• What kind of maintenance is required for an IT infrastructure?

• What is the difference between alpha testing and beta testing?

• How is IT infrastructure different from network infrastructure?

• What components make up an IT infrastructure, and how do they work together?

• How is Office 365 different from other versions of Microsoft Office?

• What is a virtual local area network (VLAN) and why would I use one?

• What is the difference between a composite key, primary key and foreign key?

• How is application software different from system software?

• What is the difference between security architecture and security design?

• How can I secure my Facebook account?

• What does secure browsing mean?

• How can a hard drive be erased securely?

• How does SQL monitoring work as part of general server monitoring?

• How does LAN monitoring differ from larger network monitoring?

• What is the appeal of NoSQL databases and what pushes companies to move toward implementing them?

• What does partitioning mean in regards to a database?

• What circumstances led to the rise of the big data ecosystem?

• What is the difference between a NoSQL database and a traditional database management system?

• How can existing data warehouse environments best scale to meet the needs of big data analytics?

• What considerations are most important when deciding which big data solutions to implement?

• With more big data solutions moving to the cloud, how will that impact network performance and security?