6.3.3 PQ NET126

What does the term cloud mean when referring to cloud computing?

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

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?

Rapid elasticity

Which of the following cloud computing solutions delivers software applications to a client either over the internet or on a local area network?

SaaS

Which of the following BEST describes the Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud computing service model?

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

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?

Hybrid cloud

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?

IaaS

Which of the following BEST describes a community cloud implementation?

Designed to be shared by several organizations.

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.)

Need to bring costs down Growing demand for storage

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.

Provides resources to a single organization. Private cloud Combines public, private, and community cloud resources from different service providers. Hybrid cloud Designed to be shared by several organizations. Community cloud Provides computing resources that are accessible to the general public. Public cloud Keeps an organization's data separate and secure from any other organization using the same service provider. Private cloud

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?

SaaS with a simple multi-tenancy implementation.