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• 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?

• 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?