Baylor DSC 3310 Midterm (Module 1-7)

According to Larry Ellison, Co-Founder CEO of Oracle in 2008, what percent of "hot air" is Cloud computing?

100

According to Larry Ellison, Co-Founder CEO of Oracle in 2008, what percent of "hot air" is Cloud computing? Select the best answer below then click Check Answer.

100

In what year did AWS launch EC2 & S3, the first modern Cloud computing infrastructure?

2006

The service AWS ____ provides free tier usage alerts.

Budgets

What federal department is NIST under?

Commerce

A Pro of the Silo Isolation Model is onboarding automation.

False

A composite alarm goes into ALARM state only if meeting some conditions of the rule.

False

AWS EC2 stands for Amazon Elastic Compute.

False

AWS Step Functions does not have built-in fault tolerance and maintains service capacity across multiple Availability Zones in each region to protect applications against individual machine or data center failures.

False

AWS VPC Flow log data can be published to Amazon CloudView Logs or Amazon S3. After you've created a flow log, you can retrieve and view its data in the chosen destination.

False

According to Gartner Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is 4th in their top six public Cloud end-user spending 2020 forecast?

False

According to NCCP, Cloud model promotes availability and is composed of five essential characteristics (On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Managed Service)?

False

According to NCCP, the key enabling technologies include: (1) fast wide-area networks, (2) powerful, inexpensive server computers, (3) high-performance virtualization for commodity hardware, and (4) inexpensive storage?

False

All three top market share Cloud platforms provide 12-month free trials? Choose True or False below.

False

Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) uniquely identify AWS resources and specify a resource unambiguously within regions of AWS. Select True or False below.

False

An AWS Edge location is always located within an AWS Region?

False

An AWS Local Zone is the same as an availability zone?

False

An AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is an isolated network you define on AWS infrastructure (an availability zone construct)?

False

An AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is an isolated network you define on AWS infrastructure (an availability zone construct)? Select True or False below.

False

An AWS VPC only supports IPv4 Subnets?

False

An Elastic IP address changes over time after initially being allocated to your account and then associated with an instance or a network interface.

False

An Elastic IP address changes over time after initially being allocated to your account and then associated with an instance or a network interface. Select True or False below.

False

Both Azure and AWS provide dollar credits for services outside of the free tier?

False

CloudWatch natively integrates with more than 250 AWS services.

False

Free tier services rollover from month to month during the trial period?

False

Free tier services rollover from month to month during the trial period? Choose True or False below.

False

IAM policies do not require an additional "Decrypt" action for access to encrypted resources.

False

It is impossible to develop AWS applications without an AWS Virtual Private Cloud.

False

Only AWS and GCP offer multi-factor authentication as part of IAM? Choose True or False below.

False

Only Azure and AWS have the concept of groups in IAM? True or False below.

False

Operational Excellence & Performance Efficiency are two of the four pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework (prior to December 2021)?

False

Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the amount of downtime a business can't tolerate? Choose True or False below.

False

Rejuvenate, Iterate, Innovate, and Pioneer are the dimensions McKinsey research identifies and pools of value for Cloud adoption?

False

Rejuvenate, Iterate, Innovate, and Pioneer are the dimensions McKinsey research identifies and pools of value for Cloud adoption? Select True or False below.

False

Selected uses of a key or modification to its policy logs to AWS CloudTrail for auditing purposes.

False

The least secure way to grant "least privilege" is to write a custom policy with only the permissions needed by your team. Select True or False below.

False

When you create a subnet, you do not have to specify the IPv4 CIDR block for the subnet, which is a subset of the VPC CIDR block.

False

Zones are unique physical locations within a cluster made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking?

False

Zones are unique physical locations within a cluster made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking? Choose True or False below.

False

Azure account creation requires either a Microsoft or a _______ account credential.

GitHub

For an instance in an AWS VPC to communicate via the Internet a/an_______ gateway and instance _______ are required.

Internet/Routing Table

The best way to get someone to watch a video on IAM is to put ________ in the title?

Ninja

In 2006 AWS launched a new IaaS Cloud Service called EC2 with a unique pricing model called _______?

On-Demand

A reference to a colocation center that supplies rack space for remotely accessible computers with redundant electricity and internet connectivity is known as ping, power, and _______.

Pipe

The four Cloud deployment models are Public, ______, ______ and Hybrid?

Private/Community

The top priority of all public Cloud vendors is _______.

Security

The top priority of all public Cloud vendors is _______. Select the best answer below.

SecurityS

A CloudFormation best practice is installing a "lint" plugin to your favorite editor that also does auto-complete.

True

A Pro of the Silo Isolation Model is limited blast radius.

True

A Region is a physical location around the world where data centers are clustered? Choose True or False below.

True

A VPC network performance is sufficient to accomplish synchronous replication between AZs.

True

A processor is virtualizable when access to special operating system instructions causes an error that privileged software can intercept or trap.

True

AWS EC2 has over 350 different instance types

True

AWS Encryption SDK supports AWS KMS as a root key provider for developers who need to encrypt/decrypt data locally within their applications.

True

AWS KMS supports three types of CMKs (customer-managed keys): Customer-managed, AWS-managed, and AWS-owned.

True

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) is an extension of AWS CloudFormation.

True

AWS VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC?

True

AWS services manage the AWS KMS encryption/decryption mechanics for you, so you don't have to understand the details of how it works.

True

AZs are physically separated by a significant distance, many kilometers, from any other AZ, although all are within 100 km (60 miles) of each other.

True

AZs make partitioning applications for high availability easy. With partitioned applications across AZs, companies are better isolated and protected from issues such as power outages, lightning strikes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and more.

True

According to Gartner regardless of the pandemic CIO's are still losing their appetite for private data centers?

True

According to NCCP, Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction?

True

According to NCCP, Clouds have three service models (Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS), Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)); and, four deployment models (Private Cloud, Community Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud)?

True

Alarm actions send notifications to an Amazon SNS topic, performing an Amazon EC2 action or an Auto Scaling action, or creating an OpsItem or incident in Systems Manager.

True

All three top market share Cloud platforms provide free tier services even after the initial free trial period and conversion to a paid account?

True

All three top market share Cloud platforms provide free tier services even after the initial free trial period and conversion to a paid account? Choose True or False below.

True

An AWS Elastic IP address is a static IPv4 address allocated to your AWS account until released. It can mask the failure of an instance or software by rapidly remapping the address to another in your account. Select True of False below.

True

An AWS VPC subnet splits an extensive network into smaller efficient networks. Within an AWS VPC, a subnet is an availability zone construct?

True

An AWS VPC subnet splits an extensive network into smaller efficient networks. Within an AWS VPC, a subnet is an availability zone construct? Select True or False below.

True

An AWS security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic. A VPC has a default used when launching instances. Select True or False below.

True

An organizational unit (OU) is a group of AWS accounts within an organization. An OU can also contain other OUs enabling you to create a hierarchy. Select True or False below.

True

Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) is one of Cloud computings "as a services"?

True

CloudFormation provides a mechanism for telling the system what you want your architecture to look like, and the tool figures out how to make it happen.

True

GCP implements a layer of abstraction between zones and the physical clusters where the zones are hosted representing a distinct physical infrastructure that is housed in a data center?

True

Hyper-scalability is an attribute McKinsey notes as part of the "innovate" dimension of value?

True

IAM policies express themselves in terms of "grants" and service control policies (SCPs) in terms of "deny." Select True or False below.

True

Larry Ellison, Co-Founder & CEO of Oracle in 2008 called Cloud Computing "Complete Gibberish?"

True

Moore's law posits in 1965 a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit. In 1975, looking forward to the next decade, he revised the forecast to doubling every two years?

True

Multiple alarms can be attached to a metric, and in turn, each with numerous actions.

True

Nimbus is a type of Cloud just not a computing one?

True

Nitro Enclaves provide a signed attestation document to prove its identity to another party or service.

True

Public Clouds allow and integrate with 3rd party identity systems using standards-based federation technology?

True

Quantum computing is an example of one of McKinsey's 7 drivers of Cloud computing value "Adoption of emerging technologies?"

True

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is a measurement of time from the failure, disaster, or comparable loss-causing event. RPOs measure back in time to when your data was preserved in a usable format, usually to the most recent backup? Choose True or False below.

True

Resource policies help access objects in different accounts typical of larger organizations. Select True or False below.

True

Resources that live in a zone are referred to as zonal resources. Other resources, like static external IP addresses, are regional. Regional resources can be used by any resource in that region, regardless of zone, while zonal resources can only be used by other resources in the same zone?

True

Resources that live in a zone are referred to as zonal resources. Other resources, like static external IP addresses, are regional. Regional resources can be used by any resource in that region, regardless of zone, while zonal resources can only be used by other resources in the same zone? Choose True or False below.

True

Step Functions can coordinate any application that can make an HTTPS connection, regardless of hosting location.

True

The code name for Windows Azure at Microsoft was "Project Red-Dog?"

True

The pillars of the Azure and AWS Well-Architected Frameworks are exactly the same (prior to December 2021)?

True

Three caveats of multi-region deployment are complexity, cost, and data sync issues?

True

Canalys projects Q1 2021 market share for Google ___%, Azure ____%, AWS ___ %?

b) 7/19/32

AWS Nitro Enclaves is an isolated, ________, and highly constrained virtual machine.

hardened

An AWS VPC ______ connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them using the internal AWS Cloud network

peering

Most on premise Cloud migrations happen in phases to minimize risk and speed up time to production. The most common approach is to lift-and-shift (also known as "_____") an application and its data with as few changes as possible?

rehost

AWS network access lists are ______, while security groups are ________.

stateless/stateful