4.1 Summarize Cloud Computing Concepts

Question 1

Cloud Models - Private Cloud

Answer 1

Your own virtualized local data center

Question 2

Cloud Models - Public Cloud

Answer 2

Available to everyone over the internet

Question 3

Cloud Models - Hybrid Cloud

Answer 3

Have a section of the cloud that is both private and public

Question 4

Cloud Models - Community Cloud

Answer 4

Time share type where multiple organizations each chip in for the equipment and set up of a cloud-based data center

Question 5

Cloud Models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Answer 5

Outsource the hardware from somewhere else such as CPU and storage, end user is still responsible for building the application

Question 6

Cloud Models - Software as a service (SaaS)

Answer 6

Service that does not require end user to be responsible for building applications

Question 7

Cloud Models - Platform as a service (PaaS)

Answer 7

Service that provides modules for end user to use to build applications

Question 8

Cloud Characteristics - Shared Resources

Answer 8

Internal cloud, build your own cloud

Question 9

Cloud Characteristics - Metered Utilization

Answer 9

Only pay as you use

Question 10

Cloud Characteristics - Rapid Elasticity

Answer 10

Scale up or down capacity as needed

Question 11

Cloud Characteristics - High Availability

Answer 11

Redundancy built into platform

Question 12

Cloud Characteristics - File Synchronization

Answer 12

Information can be deployed across multiple cloud locations

Question 13

Desktop Virtualization - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Answer 13

Can run entire desktop windows from the cloud