Available vs Custom Code

CNM Cyber

Available vs Custom Code (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the lesson part of the Soft behind CNM Cloud lesson that introduces its participants to CNM Cloud. This lesson belongs to the Introduction to CNM Cloud session of the CNM Cyber Orientation.

Content

The successor predecessor lectio is Structure of CNM Cloud.

Script

The overwhelming majority of the software solutions that CNM Cloud employs are commercial off-the-shell (COTS). Why?

In most cases, custom coding is more expensive than using pieces of software that have already been created. Custom code is also time-consuming; besides coding, custom code also requires software design, planning, testing, and bug-fixing.

Periodically, CNM Cyber Team reviews those COTS solutions that are included in CNM Cloud and researches the market. The review encounters the history of bug tickets and identified troubles. The research encounters official websites and professional sources.

If new candidates are identified, they are deployed at CNM Next Server to be tested. The CNM Technology Board decides to deploy or not to deploy them as a part of CNM apps. To make the decision, the Board takes into consideration three factors:

1. Review and testing results;
2. The popularity, including the number of installs and the number of contributors; and
3. The job market demands.

If no software solution is available on the market, the Team may decide to custom code it. For instance, the software behind the user management system at WorldOpp Middleware is custom coded using PHP programming language.

Any custom-coded solution that CNM Cloud uses is being constantly updated since its development is a living project.

COTS in CNM Cloud is the successor lectio.

Questions

Lectio quiz

The answer is recorded for the lectio completion purpose:

• CNM Cabin is hosted by:
  1. CNM Cloud Next
  2. WorldOpp Federated Servers
  3. CNM Fellow Servers
  4. CNM HandsOn Servers
  5. None of the other answers is correct.
• Which statement below is correct:
  1. CNM Cyber may include three identical CNM apps.
  2. While taking this course, you work on the CNM Fellow Servers.
  3. Future administrators of CNM apps get hands-on training at the CNM Cloud Next.
  4. All of the other substantive answers are correct.
  5. None of the other answers is correct.

Placement entrance exam

True/False questions

• CNM Cloud Foundation has (does not have) four groups of servers.
• (wlcm-cloud-00003) Each of CNM Cyber's services is (not) powered by CNM app.
• (wlcm-cloud-00006) CNM Cloud Next hosts systems used in hands-on training.
• (wlcm-cloud-00008) CNM HandsOn Servers is (not) designed to be used for training of CNM Cloud administrators and their experiments.
• CNM Cloud Foundation is (not) the combination of computing servers that host CNM Cloud.
• CNM Cloud Foundation is (not) the combination of computing servers.
• WorldOpp Federated Servers (do not) host WorldOpp Middleware and its software applications.
• Federated Server (does not) host CNM Cabin.
• WorldOpp Federated Server (does not) host CNM Cabin.
• CNM HandsOn Apps are (not) installed on the CNM HandsOn Servers.
• CNM HandsOn Servers are (not) used for the hands-on training of CNM Cyber service administrators.
• WikiHandsOn, TubeHandsOn, and MailHandsOn are (not) the examples of CNM HandsOn Apps.
• CNM Next Apps are (not) installed on CNM Cloud Next.
• CNM Next Apps are (not) installed on WorldOpp Federated Servers.
• CNM Next Apps are (not) installed on CNM HandsOn Servers.
• CNM Cloud Next are (not) used for the experiential learning of CNM Cloud administrators.
• CNM HandsOn Servers are (not) used for the experiential learning of CNM Cloud administrators.

Fill-in-blanks (short answer) questions

• CNM Cabin is hosted by _______ Server.
• CNM Next Apps are installed on CNM _______Servers.
• CNM _________Apps are installed on CNM Cloud Next.
• CNM ____________ Servers are used for the experiential learning of CNM Cloud administrators.
• WikiHandsOn, TubeHandsOn, and MailHandsOn are the examples of CNM __________ Apps.
• For hands-on training during CNM Cyber Placement, you will be using CNM _________ Apps.
• CNM Cyber ___________ is the combination of computing servers that host CNM Cloud.
• Last, but not least, all the other CNM apps are installed on the CNM Fellow Servers.
• CNM Cert is installed on CNM _________ Server.
• CNM Page is installed on CNM _________ Server.
• CNM Wiki is installed on CNM _________ Server.
• CNM Tube is installed on CNM _________ Server.
• All the apps of the CNM Action Suite are installed on CNM __________ Server.