Intelligent Workloads at the Edge

Appendix 1 – Answer Key

This appendix provides the answer key for each set of questions at the end of the book's chapters. Some questions were open-ended in that they did not have an explicit right or wrong answer. For these questions, we have provided sample responses for you to evaluate against your own.

Chapter 1

1. A cyber-physical solution is any interoperation between the analog and digital worlds. An edge solution may include cyber-physical interfaces and also interoperates with other entities in a network topology at a point furthest away from the topology's center of gravity.
2. Automobiles that are now edge solutions have built-in wireless communications for exchanging messages with a remote service for purposes of logging runtime operations ...