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5 questions in Deployment Diagrams.

  1. Deployment Diagrams intermediate Multiple choice

    An auditor asks what happens to your service if a single availability zone fails. Which diagram answers the question directly?

    3 min answer deploymentavailability zonesquorumresilience
  2. Deployment Diagrams beginner Multiple choice

    Forty minutes into an incident someone asks whether a particular batch host could have written to the production object store. The deployment diagram is current and shows every host, subnet, zone and region correctly. Which missing annotation stops it answering?

    3 min answer deployment-diagramsworkload-identityblast-radiusincident-response
  3. Deployment Diagrams intermediate

    What does a deployment diagram communicate that a container diagram cannot, and what is most often missing from it?

    2 min answer deployment-diagramtopologyfailure-domainscloudflare
  4. Deployment Diagrams intermediate Multiple choice

    What does a deployment diagram show that a container diagram cannot?

    2 min answer deploymentfailure-domainsredundancyblast-radius
  5. Deployment Diagrams intermediate

    Your deployment diagram shows three availability zones with every service replicated into each and a mesh spreading calls evenly across zones. Finance asks why network charges are $14k of a $90k monthly cloud bill. Estimate the cross-zone traffic implied by that number and say what you would annotate on the diagram.

    3 min answer deployment-diagramcross-zonecostannotation