ISE 231 Test 1

When a service has been migrated to the cloud, where is it really located?

Almost anywhere

Which benefit of cloud automation eases Christmas data center support in particular, compared to traditional data centers?

Availability

Which function of cloud storage gateways is intended to improve response time to data requests?

Caching

Physical computing hardware is an example of what type of expense?

Capital

What is another term for a flexible pool of computing resources available to network clients and managed by self-service on-demand automated tools?

Cloud computing

Which type of cloud allows an organization to share its local cloud services with its partners?

Community

Which factor contributes to network latency primarily because of oversubscription?

Congestion

Which fundamental technology provides cloud computing with its ability to split up processes across multiple resource pools?

Distributed application design

Which category of "as a Service" models is not specifically identified by NIST?

Everything as a Service (NIST defines IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)

Adoption of public cloud services requires an organization to first implement server virualization and private hybrid clouds. T/F

False

All cloud services fall into _only_ one of the NIST models: SaaS, PaaS, Iaas. T/F

False

An organization should not be concerned with relying on a single vendor or proprietary technology base.

False

Cloud computing is inherently an ecologically green technology. T/F

False

Cloud computing is the same as virtualized computing. T/F

False

Organizations with a workforce that is distributed geographically would not benefit from public cloud services. T/F

False

______________________ cloud services can provide interconnections between cloud functioning, allowing multiple clouds to be managed as a single cloud resource pool.

Federated

What characteristics of cloud computing reduces data center costs?

Flexibility and sustainability of cloud service models

An organization that blends Google Docs forms and Microsoft's Azure services for data collection and management is using what type of cloud deployment?

Hybrid

What type of cloud model would enable cloud bursting?

Hybrid

Which NIST "as a Service" model is best suited to full customization for an organization's services?

Infrastructure as a Service

Which level of the cloud service model pyramid allows the greatest flexibility for application development?

Infrastructure as a Service

What is the term used in system virtualization to reflect more than one operating system or instance running on a single host server?

Multitenancy

Where does the term cloud come from?

Network diagrams

A software development company wants to move its application development to the cloud. Which type of service is most appropriate?

PaaS

At what NIST "as a Service" model level is the current concern of vendor/proprietary lock-in greatest for custom applications developed for the cloud?

Platform as a Service

Which type of cloud computing definitely involves resources in the organization's own data center?

Private

Which type of cloud is often used when external mandates require a high degree of data governance?

Private

A company decides to subscribe to a new CRM service. Which service type is most likely to be implemented?

SaaS

Twitter is a service that allows users to exchange short text messages. What type of cloud service is it?

SaaS

What type of cloud service is the most common?

SaaS

Elastic computing is related to which of the following cloud characteristics?

Scalability

When networks are architected for cloud services, which quality address the ability to expand to meet variable data requirements?

Scalability

What characteristic of cloud computing reduces administrative costs?

Self-service or automated resource management

Which type of client lacks storage for applications?

Thin

Adding additional memory to a server is an example of what type of scalability?

Vertical

Cloud service opportunities should be identified based on what criteria?

a. Business needs

What should a company do if a cloud provider ceases to uphold its contract?

a. Consult the company's exit plan.

How does cloud computing improve business flexibility?

a. Faster deployment of applications. b. Rapid response to changing capacity. c. Rapid provisioning of resources. d. Easier access by users from external locations.

Why does cloud computing shift capital cost to variable cost?

a. IT assets are not owned by the customer.

Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) is a facility for providing virtual servers. It is an example of which of the following?

a. IaaS

Which of the following cloud service models would be used for renting hardware, computing power and storage from a cloud service provider?

a. IaaS

Which of the following is an advantage of cloud computing?

a. Increased scalability to meet usage demands.

An organization subscribes to a public SaaS cloud. For which of the following does the subscriber NOT depend on the supplier?

a. Internet bandwidth and packet latency.

How can cloud computing help to reduce data integrity risks?

a. More easily available back-ups.

How does cloud computing affect service operations? Choose the best ANS.

a. The launching servers is quicker.

What is the role of a cross-functional team representing all business elements of an organization in determining readiness for cloud services?

a. To participate in the pilot program and identify areas of concern.

Which of the following is an early example of a cloud service?

a. Web e-mail.

Of the following activities involved in cloud services adoption, which should be performed first?

b. Identify business processes and their dependencies.

Which of the following statements is true about Windows Azure?

b. It is PaaS and IaaS.

Which of the following is a drawback of direct costs when implementing cloud computing?

b. It is harder to budget for.

In cloud computing, how does a business benefit by the ability to scale resources on demand.

b. It is more cost effective to pay for resources used rather than having to pay for resources capable of meeting peak demand at all times.

Which capability of cloud service automation allows memory and processing power to be dynamically assigned?

b. Resource pooling

Which of the following best describe virtualization?

c. A set of techniques for hiding hardware resources behind software abstractions.

Which of the following is a private cloud application?

c. An application for internal use only, on company-owned systems.

Which of the following SLA elements should be of high concern to an organization considering putting mission-critical data or services in the cloud?

c. Availability and performance requirements

Prior to cloud services adoption, technical and business staff must work together to perform what action?

c. Both A and C a. Identify business processes and their dependencies b. Determine changes to the organization's infrastructure c. Both A and C d. Determine the impact to business processes [Should be a and b]

Which of the following considerations would be most likely to persuade a company to use SaaS?

c. Elimination of application maintenance.

Which of the following is the most significant benefit of private PaaS?

c. Improve the speed of development and deployment process.

Why is the standardization of data formats important? Choose the best ANS.

c. It facilitates movement from one provider to another

Which of the following distinguishes private from public cloud services?

c. Private cloud services are dedicated for the use of one organization.

A cloud provider supplies storage, processing, and memory to multiple tenants using physical and virtual resources. This is an example of which of the following cloud characteristics?

c. Resource pooling.

What instrument identifies the roles and responsibilities of both the customer and the cloud service provider?

c. Service-level agreement

Which of the following is not an essential characteristic of cloud computing?

c. Sustainability.

Which of the following is the BEST example of how the fees charged by a cloud service provider might vary on a monthly basis?

c. The fee depends on the number of virtual servers needed to house the client's data at the provider's datacenter.

Which of the following is not an example of cloud computing?

d. A company is going to consolidate 5 web servers on to a single physical server based at it datacenter.

Which of the following applications is MOST suitable for a cloud computing pilot?

d. Applications which are easy to migrate and have some business value.

Which of the following is the most important requirement of a contract with a cloud service provider, if the customer wishes to retain the ability to bring the service back in-house?

d. Customer retains ownership of data.

Which of the following tasks cannot be transferred to a cloud computing provider?

d. Ensuring compliance

Which of the following is not a business driver for cloud computing?

d. Increasing capital expenses

Which of the following is a characteristic of cloud computing?

d. It is typically based on open Internet technologies.

Which of the following is a definition of how much data can be sent across a network link in one second?

d. Network speed. [Bandwidth seems like the correct answer.]

Which of the following is an essential feature of virtualization?

d. Shared hardware.

In order for a cloud solution to be successfully implemented, which of the following is required?

d. The organization should perform and successfully complete a cloud readiness assessment.