CS 498 - CCA: Cloud Computing Foundations (Week 1)

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Which approach is the most sensible for the following scenario: a new startup needs to quickly scale their infrastructure to server 1,000,000 customers, or risk losing market share to their competitors. A. Cloud Computing B. In-house Servers C. Hybrid Approach

Cloud Computing

What approach is more economical for the following scenario: a long-running business needs 10,000 computers for one-time data processing. A. Cloud Computing B. In-house Servers C. Hybrid Approach

Cloud Computing

True/False: Cloud services need to be cheaper (ie, through economies of scale) to be economical compared to in-house servers

False

Cloud providers prefer variable jobs that have A. Positive Correlation B. Negative Correlation

Negative Correlation

In what decade did John McCarthy say "Computing may someday be organized as a public utility, just as the telephone system is organized as a public utility...The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry" A. 1960s B. 1970s C. 1980s D. 1990s

1960s

True/False: A commercial off the shelf laptop, disconnected from the internet, has the storage, memory, and computational capacity to process Big Data in a timely manner

False

What approach is more economical for the following scenario: a long-running business serves 1,000 daily but 1,000,000 during the holiday season. A. Hybrid approach B. Cloud Computing C. In-house Servers

Hybrid Approach

DigitalOcean, Linode, Rackspace, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco Metapod, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine (GCE) are examples of: A. IaaS B. SaaS C. PaaS

IaaS

The following are characteristics of IaaS/SaaS/PaaS? * Resources are available as a service * Cost varies depending on consumption * Services are highly scalable * Multiple users on a single piece of hardware * Organization retain complete control of the infrastructure * Dynamic and flexible

IaaS

What is the best model of delivery for the following scenario: a custom, lightning-fast solution for a gigantic amount of data. A. SaaS B. IaaS C. PaaS

IaaS

Which approach is feasible for the following scenario with minimum effort: ACME company needs to be able to change the cloud provider frequently A. Packaged Software B. SaaS C. PaaS D. IaaS

IaaS

Which approach is feasible for the following scenario with minimum effort: ACME company needs to deploy a system with a modified OS. A. SaaS B. PaaS C. IaaS D. Packaged Software

IaaS

Which approach is more economical for the following scenario: an established, mature business serves 10,000 users during business hours (9-5) and 100 users outside of business hours each day. A. Hybrid Approach B. Cloud Computing C. In-house Servers

In-house servers

It is likely that a move towards Internet of Things in the near future will A. Increase the utility of clouds, because the IoT devices will generate a huge amount of data that will be processed by the clouds B. Decrease the utility of the clouds, because IoT brings computational power closer to the user, while cloud computing is far from the user C. Have no effect on clouds, since they are totally unrelated technologies

Increase the utility of clouds because the IoT devices will generate a huge amount of data that will be processed by the clouds

A company determines that the most economical decision is to use in-house servers. Over time, the company's peak demand for computing resources decreases sharply, while its average demand remains steady. Should the company consider switching from in-house servers to a cloud approach? A. Yes B. No

No

AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Windows Azure, Heroku, Force.com, Google App Engine, Apache Stratos, and OpenShift are examples of: A. IaaS B. SaaS C. PaaS

PaaS

The following are characteristics of IaaS/SaaS/PaaS? * Builds on virtualization technology, so resources can easily be scaled up or down as your business changes * Provides a variety of services to assist with the development, testing, and deployment of apps * Accessible to numerous users via the same development application * Integrates web services and databases

PaaS

What is the best model of delivery for the following scenario: a web hosting solution for PHP web applications. A. PaaS B. SaaS C. IaaS

PaaS

Google Apps, Dropbox, Salesforce, Cisco WebEx, Concur, and GoToMeeting are examples of: A. IaaS B. SaaS C. PaaS

SaaS

The following are characteristics of IaaS/SaaS/PaaS? * Managed from a central location * Hosted on a remote server * Accessible over the internet * Users not responsible for hardware or software updates

SaaS

What is the best model of delivery for the following scenario: an Electronic Health Record system for clinics and doctors. A. PaaS B. IaaS C. SaaS

SaaS

Which approach is feasible for the following scenario with minimum effort: ACME company needs to provide a widely used application for its marketing team. A. IaaS B. Packaged Software C. SaaS D. PaaS

SaaS

True/False: Multiplexing demand in a cloud infrastructure leads to higher utilization

True

PaaS definition

a framework for developers that they can build upon and use to create customized applications

SaaS definition

a method of software delivery and licensing in which software is accessed online via a subscription, rather than bought and installed on individual computers

IaaS definition

cloud infrastructure services made of highly scalable and automated compute resources


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