CL0-001: CompTia Cloud Essentials
Which of the following statements represents the correct definition of the terms 'cost allocation' and 'chargeback'?
'Cost allocation' relates to identifying costs and assigning them to specific cost categories. 'Chargeback' is focused on recovering costs from consumers of the cloud-delivered services.
Which of the following organizations are most liking to consider confidentiality requirements before implementing a backup and disaster recovery cloud solution?
A hospital and outpatient facility
Which of the following are the appropriate steps to migrating a backwards compatible application into the cloud?
Assess, proof of concept, migrate data, migrate application, automation/scaling, and optimizing
Which of the following should be implemented to best roll out desktop images from a cloud network?
Automation and self service
Which of the following factors of service must be managed effectively by a SaaS provider in a cloud computing environment?
Availability
The IT department has migrated company email to a web-based cloud provider. Which of the following dependencies placed on the cloud computing vendor will have the most affect on all company staff?
Availability of service
Company A has a SaaS cloud that hosts their office suite software. Company B has an IaaS cloud that provides all their server hardware, including the server hosting their office suite software. Which of the following is a similarity between both company's clouds?
Backups synchronize with the hot site
How does using cloud computing help to enhance business value?
By paying for actual usage, cloud computing allows businesses to convert fixed costs into variable costs.
Which of the following is a difference between cloud computing and visualization when implementing IaaS?
Cloud computing may use visualization, while visualization does not require cloud services
In order to maintain strategic flexibility and the ability to bring a cloud system back internally, which of the following is the most important requirement in the contract?
Cloud subscriber maintains ownership of their data
A specific cloud deployment has been established specifically for financial services companies to consume. Which of the following best describes this type of cloud environment?
Community cloud
A company is implementing a system replacement which has application components that are internally hosted and multiple application components that are hosted as software as a service by different cloud providers. Which of the following represents the challenge of this architecture?
Complexity
Which of the following would be a method to ensure ongoing benefits of a cloud agreement?
Confirm a continual assurance framework is in place to measure the cloud provider's performance in line with organizational objectives.
A company is using an Internet-based cloud service provided by a third party. Which of the following can the third party not guarantee when providing cloud resources?
Cost
Which of the following skills is most needed by the cloud vendor to communicate with the subscriber?
Customer service
Which of the following can be deployed by a cloud provider to reduce storage costs?
Data de-duplication
Which of the following aspects of public cloud computing would a company most likely need to consider to ensure information security?
Data integrity
An external cloud service provider has been chosen by a financial company to deliver some capabilities that used to be performed in-house. Which of the following would provide the best amount of coverage to the financial company by way of continually asserting that there is an acceptable security posture being achieved by the service provider?
Define required security service levels, agree on security evaluation criteria, and perform regular compliance checks based on the service levels and evaluation criteria.
A software development platform is in the process of being migrated from an in-house framework to a cloud-based PaaS. Which of the following development aspects is likely to be applicable in the PaaS environment?
Familiarization will be required with cloud provider-based APIs, web services, and development frameworks.
A university has migrated several services from their internal infrastructure to a third-party cloud provider. Which of the following is most important to the university in order to ensure an appropriate security posture?
Governance and oversight by the cloud provider
Which of the following cloud services would be used to rent hardware, computing and network space, and storage over the Internet?
IaaS
Which of the following only provides configurable physical hardware and network resources used to make up the cloud?
IaaS
Which of the following is the most significant difference between SaaS and IaaS?
IaaS can test network configurations.
Which of the following is the best way to mitigate the security and privacy issues associated with cloud computing?
Implementation and enforcement of a comprehensive security policy
A new Chief Information Officer (CIO) has been hired to develop competitive advantage strategies for the company, which is falling behind the competition. The CIO is looking at cloud computing to give the company a competitive edge. Which of the following is the CIO most interested in?
Implementing new IT strategies
Which of the following is a benefit of implementing cloud computing via the ITIL guideline?
Improved service level
Which of the following is an advantage of cloud computing for an organization?
Increased scalability to meet usage demands
An organization has just gone to a start-up cloud provider for its entire infrastructure. Which of the following is one of the new organizational roles required at the cloud provider?
Infrastructure project manager
Elastic computing is important to businesses as it relates to which of the following cloud characteristics?
Integrity
An organization subscribes to a public cloud. For which of the following does the subscriber not depend on the vendor?
Internet bandwidth and packet latency
In cloud computing, the ability to scale resources on demand, benefits the business in which of the following ways?
It is more cost effective to pay for what is needed rather than pay for peak demand upfront.
Which of the following is a negative business impact of cloud computing?
It is more difficult to ensure policy compliance.
Which of the following risks are associated with using a customized proprietary cloud application?
Locking into the cloud provider and increasing costs over the long term
When an organization moves to a cloud service for IaaS the cost model changes. Which of the following illustrates that cost model?
Move from a CAPEX model for infrastructure to an ongoing OPEX charge with bundled support and ongoing maintenance.
Which of the following capabilities must a vendor be able to fulfill in order to provide a successful IaaS solution? select two
Network maintenance and Physical security
A cloud subscriber may come under certain security constraints when hosting sensitive data in the cloud due to government regulations. Which of the following is the best mitigating control that could be implemented by the cloud provider?
Offer a single-tenancy software service with segregated virtualized infrastructure.
Which of the following would be considered in a private cloud?
Organizational SAN
A software development company would like to deploy all of their application development using their own software to the cloud. The type of cloud they will most likely choose to implement is which of the following?
PaaS
A financial services company plans to move its existing CRM system into the cloud. The current system hosts 50 million customers. Which of the following steps should be done first for moving this application into the cloud?
Perform security testing of the application to ensure that there are no new security vulnerabilities being introduced.
Which of the following is a differentiating characteristic of private cloud solutions compared to public cloud solutions?
Private cloud solutions are dedicated for use by a single organization.
A provider supplies storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth to multiple tenants, using physical and virtual resources. This is an example of which of the following cloud characteristics?
Resource pooling
Which of the following is improved by choosing cloud computing versus traditional IT infrastructure outsourcing?
Resource spending
Which of the following is best used when setting up security for services being used within a public cloud?
SSL
A company has hired a third party vendor to provide email and spam/anti-malware filtering services. The type of cloud service provided by the vendor is best described as which of the following?
SaaS
Which of the following is an effect of cloud computing on application development?
SaaS inhibits vendor interoperability on application platforms.
Which of the following best describes the properly of cloud computing that allows changes in transaction volume without major changes to the system?
Scalability
Which of the following characteristics of cloud computing describes the ability to grow easily in response to an increase in demand?
Scalability
Which of the following cloud service characteristics would impact how a current application will adapt in the future according to how quickly a business will grow?
Scalability
Which of the following is an advantage of cloud computing that can enhance business value?
Scalability
Since the implementation of a cloud infrastructure, a senior level network administrator's job description has changed from being responsible for maintaining the hardware of the network infrastructure to more of a management position, ensuring the cloud vendor is providing the services specified in the contract with the company. Which of the following has been impacted the most by the change in job responsibility?
Service Design
A company's IT department currently spends several hours a day maintaining the hardware of the database server. The company migrates the server to the cloud. Which of the following job responsibilities of the IT department has been most impacted by this change?
Service Operation
Which of the following would help an organization's IT department set their objectives and expectations for a cloud computing solution?
Service Strategy
As part of a critical SaaS application, one of the contractual statements by the cloud provider is a requirement to perform scheduled maintenance. This has a direct impact on which of the following?
Service operation
A private cloud generally has which of the following characteristics?
Services are restricted to members of the same organization
An organization requires that it federates its internal systems and their externally hosted SaaS finance system so a user does not have to re-authenticate. This is an example of which of the following?
Single sign-on
A company is trying to understand the IT service management impacts of adopting cloud computing as the delivery vehicle for a new service. Which of the following lifecycle phases would be likely to see these impacts evaluated?
Strategy
A technology manager is explaining the company's latest move toward cloud computing. Which of the following statements would not be an example of cloud computing?
The company is consolidating their 10 web servers to one physical server located in the datacenter.
Which of the following critical success factors would likely persuade a company to use a SaaS service?
The elimination of company driven application maintenance and backups
Cloud computing can best reduce costs for a business by:
Utilizing services as needed.
Which of the following is an important factor for maintaining strategic flexibility?
Vendor lock-in
Which of the following must be implemented by a cloud provider to ensure that different entities can authenticate and share basic user accounting information?
Virtualization
Which of the following is true when mitigating risks in a cloud environment while avoiding impact to performance?
When securing cloud resources, only the most sensitive data should be secured.
Which of the following companies would best benefit from moving to a cloud service?
that has a history of peaks and troughs throughout the year with its online shopping application.
