Cloud Infrastructure Engineering - (6 Months) Entry Assessment

Objective

This assessment aims to test your resourcefulness, the ability to understand IT concepts, and produce a viable answer to the problems listed.

Please answer all questions to the best of your ability. The test is designed to assess your foundational knowledge for IT Infrastructure. This test aims to evaluate your core understanding of IT Infrastructure through open-ended questions and there is no single correct or incorrect answer for them.

For addressing technical queries, you can answer it in a wide range of resources, including up-to-date online searches, to ensure the information is comprehensive and current. The goal is to see how you approach and solve these questions; there's no strictly right or wrong answer. Your ability to navigate and utilize available information effectively is what's being assessed.

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Submission

Use the registration form in NTU SCTP

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Expected Audience

• Individuals with an IT background to diversify/expand their skills and/or intending to switch to a cloud engineering role.
  • Those with IT or Engineering degree/diploma, or
  • Those with IT or Engineering experience professionally
• Individuals with systems and infrastructure administration background.
• Individuals who have attended basic infrastructure or cloud courses.
• Individuals without an IT background but want to expand their skills and/or intending to switch to a cloud engineering role.

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Problems

Please attempt the solve the problems described:

Question 1 - IP Address

What is the Bash command to discover the IP Address of www.skillsunion.com?

# Answer here

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Question 2 - Copy a Directory

What is the command to copy a directory from ~/my_project to /etc/projects?

# Answer here

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Question 3 - Shell Scripting

Implement a bash script that does the follow:

1. Convert a string "one,two,three" into an array delimited by comma (,).
2. Loop through the array and print each element.

# Answer here

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Question 4 - System Architecture Diagram

Use draw.io to draw a system architecture diagram as described below:

• A load balancer to manage request between 4 application servers.
• The load balancer is connected to the internet gateway.
• All application servers are connected to a cluster of database.
• The cluster of database contains an instance for reading and another instance for writing.
• The database must not be connected to the internet gateway.

Share the link to your image of diagram.

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Question 5 - System Error Management

Alan has deployed his web application to Amazon Web Service. Unfortunately, the web application encountered errors as complained by the customers (public users). Whenever there is a complaint, Alan would take a long time to trace the issue and get back to the customers.

Q5A: Which of the following described the scenario given?

A - The principle of security is not applied.

B - The principle of observability is not applied.

C - The principle of availability is not applied.

D - The principle of performance is not applied.

Q5B: What do you suggest could be done to improve the situation?

Answer here

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