Assessment: Cloud Architecture

Explain

• How would you scale an AI API?
• How would you secure private data stores?
• How would you design for high availability?
• How would you estimate model inference cost?
• How would you monitor an AI platform?

Build

• Design a production cloud AI platform.
• Choose database, cache, vector store, and object storage.
• Define backup and restore strategy.

Debug

• Latency is high. What do you inspect?
• Monthly cost is too high. What do you optimize?
• An external model provider is down. What happens?

Completion Gate

• Can draw a full cloud architecture.
• Can justify service choices.
• Can explain operations and cost.