Grading

Grade construction#

• 55% written examination (individual).
• 45% project work (15% per sprint).

Project work grading#

• You will incur a -15% penalty if your Exoscale account runs out of budget from the project work only. Make sure you monitor your Exoscale account.

Sprint 1:#

• 5% for having a running instance pool and a network load balancer, running the designated load generator.
• 10% for implementing the instance pool and network load balancer setup in Terraform.

Sprint 2:#

• 5% for having a working Prometheus installation that monitors the instances in the instance pool.
• 5% for automating the installation procedure of Prometheus via Terraform.
• 5% for implementing the Prometheus service discovery yourself. (Your solution must be in a different programming language than the provided example, or must be substantially different.)

Sprint 3:#

• 5% for having a working autoscaling behavior.
• 5% for having a complete automated setup of the instance pools, NLB, monitoring server via Terraform.
• 5% for implementing the autoscaling web service yourself. (Your solution must be in a different programming language than the provided example, or must be substantially different.)

Marks#

Positive grade: Minimum 60% score in written exam plus 60% of overall score required.