Cloud Infrastructure Chp 1

What are the ideal goals of cloud system deployment from the perspective of the user? Name three.

1. Reduce your it costs by not having to maintain on site servers. 2. Ability to "Pay-as-you-grow", avoiding prohibitive up front costs when you're first starting out. 3. Ability to access applications/software without necessarily having it locally installed.

Which type of cloud service model is most likely to be used by Software developers? A. SaaS B. PaaS C. CaaS D. IaaS

B. PaaS

Which term is used to define the increasing number of services delivered over the Internet? A. XaaS B. CaaS C. MaaS D. C-MaaS

A. XaaS is a collective term that means "Anything as a Service" (or "Everything as a Service").

A website administrator is storing a large amount of multimedia objects in binary format for the corporate website. What type of storage object is this considered to be? A. BLOB B. Replica C. Metadata D. Object ID

A. A BLOB is a collection of binary data that is stored as a single entity. BLOBs are primarily used to store images, videos, and sound.

Which of the following statements would be used to explain a private cloud but not a public cloud? A. Used as a service via the Internet B. Dedicated to a single organization C. Requires users to pay a monthly fee to access services D. Provides incremental scalability

A private cloud is dedicated to a single organization and is contained with the corporate firewall.

Which of the following statements is a benefit of a hybrid cloud? A. Data security management B. Requirement of a major financial investment C. Dependency of internal IT department D. Complex networking

A. A hybrid cloud offers the ability to keep the organization's mission-critical data behind a firewall and outside of the public cloud.

What type of computing solution would be defined as a platform that is implemented within the corporate firewall and is under the control of the IT department? A. Private cloud B. Public cloud C. VLAN D. VPN

A. A private cloud is a cloud computing solution that is implemented behind a corporate firewall and is under the control of the internal IT department.

Storing huge number of files in the cloud for a variety of projects makes it difficult to locate files related to a single project. Which solution involves the least amount of administrative effort? A. Add project name metadata to cloud-stored files. B. Configure each project in its own cloud tenancy. C. Enable file auto-scaling D. Enable departmental chargeback

A. Add project name metadata to cloud-stored files

Your organization has decided to use a public cloud provider to host their existing on-premises PBX telephony solution instead. Which category of cloud services does this apply to? A. CaaS B. SaaS C. PaaS D. IaaS

A. CaaS

Which statement defines chargeback? A. The recovery of costs from consumers of cloud services B. The process of identifying costs and assigning them to specific cost categories C. A method of ensuring that cloud computing becomes a profit instead of a cost D. A system for confirming that billing occurs for the cloud services being used

A. The purpose of a chargeback system is to measure the costs of IT services, hardware, or software and recover them from the business unit that used them.

Which of the following is a cloud computing characteristic? Correct! A. Tracking the amount of hours a virtual machine has been running B. Running virtual machines on a hypervisor C. Centralized patch management D. Automatic backup

A. Tracking the amount of hours a virtual machine has been running

A public website experiences unpredictable usage spikes for the past few months and had slowed down the application to unacceptable levels. What should be configured to ensure performance is optimal during usage spikes? A. Faster Internet connection from on premises to the cloud B. Auto-scaling C. Reduced virtual machine logging D. Content delivery network

B. Auto-scaling

Which of the following would be considered an advantage of cloud computing? A. Increased security B. Ability to scale to meet growing usage demands C. Ease of integrating equipment hosted in other data centers D. Increased privacy for corporate data

B. One of the benefits of cloud computing is the ability to easily scale and add resources to meet the growth of the organization.

A cloud deployment has been created explicitly for the finance department. What type of cloud deployment would this be defined as? A. Public cloud B. Hybrid cloud C. Community cloud D. Private cloud

C. A community cloud is a cloud solution that provides services to a specific or limited number of individuals who share a common computing need.

When you run out of computer resources in your internal data center and expand to an external cloud on demand, this is an example of what? A. SaaS B. Hybrid cloud C. Cloud bursting D. Elasticity

C. Cloud bursting allows you to add additional resources from an external cloud on an on-demand basis. The internal resource is the private cloud and the external resource is the public cloud.

Which of the following models should a company use if they need to archive records for long periods of time? A. SaaS B. PaaS C. IaaS D. CaaS

C. IaaS

Which of the following statement regarding cloud computing is correct? A. Infrastructure provisioning time is increased. B. IT capital expenditures are increased. C. Infrastructure provisioning time is decreased. D. Application provisioning is increased

C. Infrastructure provisioning time is decreased.

Which of the following is usually accessed via a web browser? A. IaaS B. SaaS C. PaaS D. Virtual machines

C. PaaS provides a platform to allow developers to build applications and services over the Internet. PaaS is hosted in the cloud and accessed with a web browser.

Which of the following would be considered an example of IaaS? A. Providing productivity software for use over the Internet B. A multiuser program that is hosted by a third party C. Providing hardware resources over the Internet D. A database that is hosted in the cloud.

C. Providing hardware resources over the Internet.

An IT consultant for a medium-sized medical practice has been asked to determine which outsourced cloud solutions would best meet regulatory requirements for the health industry. Which type of cloud is best suited for this scenario? A. Private B. Public C. Health D. Community

D. Community

Which of the following cloud solutions provides only hardware and network resources to make up a cloud environment? A. SaaS B. CaaS C. PaaS D. IaaS

D. In a cloud service model, IaaS providers offer computers and other hardware resources. Organizations would outsource the equipment needed to support their business.

Which type of document details baseline performance measurements for cloud resource performance? A. BIA B. BCP C. DRP D. SLA

D. SLA

Voice over IP (VoIP) is an example of what type of cloud service? A. IaaS B. PaaS C. MaaS D. CaaS

D. Voice over IP is an example of CaaS.

Your company stores budget forecasting data on a local file server at headquarters. An on-premises virtual machine periodically replicates file server data to the public cloud as an off-site backup. What type of cloud is used for this scenario? A. Community B. Private C. Hybrid D. Public

Hybrid