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Quiz · 10 · Cloud Platforms

22 questions from 5 pages

These are the Check Yourself questions from each page of the module, collected in course order. Each heading links back to the page the questions test. All module quizzes →

AWS Bedrock

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  1. A nightly job summarizes 200,000 support tickets; results are needed by morning. Which Bedrock lever cuts cost most directly?
  2. How is access to serverless Bedrock models controlled today?
  3. Why would a team choose Bedrock's Converse API over calling each model provider's native SDK directly?
  4. What's the AWS-side equivalent of Vertex AI's RAG Engine?
  5. Do you still need to request model access in Bedrock?
  6. Do Bedrock Guardrails apply per-model or account-wide?

Databricks & Spark

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  1. A bad pipeline run overwrote yesterday's Silver table. Which Delta Lake feature lets you inspect and restore the previous state?
  2. Which PySpark operation is most likely to trigger a shuffle?
  3. What does "time travel" mean in Delta Lake, concretely?
  4. What problem does Unity Catalog solve that Delta Lake alone doesn't?
  5. Why would a platform team push production ML training onto job clusters instead of all-purpose clusters?

Microsoft Foundry

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  1. Which Google Cloud service is the closest match to Cosmos DB?
  2. What is Microsoft Foundry's naming history?
  3. What's the single biggest architectural difference between Microsoft Fabric and BigQuery?
  4. Why might a team pick Cosmos DB as a vector store instead of a dedicated vector database?

Google Cloud Agent Platform

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  1. A job description asks for 'Vertex AI Agent Engine' experience. What is the current equivalent?
  2. Which AWS and Azure services are the closest counterparts to Google's agent platform runtime?

Platform Comparison Table

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  1. What is the closest AWS counterpart to Google Spanner?
  2. Why might a team run open-model inference on a provider like Together AI or Fireworks instead of a hyperscaler?
  3. What's the AWS equivalent of Vertex AI's RAG Engine?
  4. What's the Azure equivalent of BigQuery?
  5. Which AWS service is the closest match to Google Spanner?