6.3 ~ Cloud Computing

Your company currently has an on-premises cloud solution that provides services to its employees. However, the company would like to begin offering some services to the public from the cloud. Which of the following cloud computing solutions would BEST meet your company's new cloud computing requirements? a. Hybrid cloud b. Public cloud c. Community cloud d. Private cloud

a. Hybrid cloud

Which of the following cloud computing solutions delivers software applications to a client either over the internet or on a local area network? a. SaaS b. DaaS c. IaaS d. PaaS

a. SaaS

You were recently hired by a small startup company. The company is in a small office and has several remote employees. You have been asked to find a business service that would accommodate the company's current size but would also be able to scale as the company grows. The service needs to provide adequate storage as well as additional computing power. Which cloud service model would BEST fit these requirements? a. PaaS b. IaaS c. DaaS d. SaaS

b. IaaS

What does the term cloud mean when referring to cloud computing? a. It is the name of an operating system that anyone can use to design, build, and provide cloud services. b. It is a metaphor for the internet based on the basic cloud drawing used to represent a telephone network. c. It is a metaphor for a data storage service with an ever-growing capacity, like storm clouds. d. It refers to the virtual hardware that cloud computing is built on.

b. It is a metaphor for the internet based on the basic cloud drawing used to represent a telephone network.

Which of the following BEST describes a community cloud implementation? a. Designed to be used by a single organization. b. Designed to be accessed by the general public. c. Designed to be shared by several organizations. d. Designed to be a combination of public and private cloud resources.

c. Designed to be shared by several organizations.

Match each cloud computing definition on the left with the appropriate characteristic on the right. Each characteristic may be used once, more than once, or not at all. 1. Provides resources to a single organization. 2. Combines public, private, and community cloud resources from different service providers. 3. Designed to be shared by several organizations. 4. Provides computing resources that are accessible to the general public. 5. Keeps an organization's data separate and secure from any other organization using the same service provider. a. Private cloud b. Public cloud c. Community cloud d. Hybrid cloud e. Private cloud

1. e. 2. d. 3. c. 4. b. 5. a.

Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure are some of the most widely used cloud storage solutions for enterprises. Which of the following factors prompt companies to take advantage of cloud storage? (Select two.) a. Need to bring costs down b. Need for software to manage enterprise applications c. Growing demand for storage d. Need for a platform to develop applications e. Need for a storage provider to manage access control

a. Need to bring costs down c. Growing demand for storage

Your company cloud service currently provides data storage, processing, and network connectivity that hosts several services and applications used by your employees. You want to transition to a cloud service that provides many of these services and applications natively without the IT department needing to constantly maintain and update the services and applications. In addition, the IT department wants to make sure that the cloud service provides employees with resources that are segregated from other employees. Which of the following cloud service solutions meets these requirements? a. PaaS with a simple multi-tenancy implementation. b. SaaS with a simple multi-tenancy implementation. c. SaaS with a fine-grain multi-tenancy implementation. d. PaaS with a fine-grain multi-tenancy implementation.

b. SaaS with a simple multi-tenancy implementation.

A company has subscribed to a cloud service that offers cloud applications and storage space. Through acquisition, the number of company employees quickly doubled. The cloud service vendor was able to add cloud services for these additional employees without requiring hardware changes. Which of the following cloud concepts does this represent? a. On-demand b. Rapid elasticity c. Measured service d. Resource pooling

b. Rapid elasticity

Which of the following BEST describes the Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud computing service model? a. PaaS stores and provides data from a centralized location without the need for local collection and storage. b. PaaS delivers infrastructure to the client, such as processing, storage, networks, and virtualized environments. c. PaaS delivers everything a developer needs to build an application on the existing cloud infrastructure. d. PaaS delivers software applications to the client either over the internet or on a local area network.

c. PaaS delivers everything a developer needs to build an application on the existing cloud infrastructure.