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BTMA 317 - Tech Guide 3 3.4 - 3.8 - Cloud Computing Flashcards

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What are the seven items that are looked at when considering control between the vendor and the customer?

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1) Applications
2) Data
3) Operating Systems
4) Servers
5) Virtualization
6) Storage
7) Networking

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Describe control in a on premise software

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Customer controls the applications, data, operating system, virtualization, networks, storage, and servers

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Describe control in a software as a service

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Vendor controls the applications, data, operating system, servers, virtualization, storage, and networks.

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Describe control in a infrastructure as a service

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Customer controls the applications, data, and operating system.
Vendors controls the networks, servers, storage, virtualization

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Describe control in a platform as a service

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Customer controls the applications and data
Vendor controls the operating system, servers, networks, storage, and virtualization.

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What are the three shared characteristics between Iaas, Paas, and, SaaS

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1) The customer rents them instead of buying them
2) Vendors responsible for maintenance, admin, planning, troubleshooting, and backups
3) Obtaining additional information is usually fast and easy

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What is infrastructure as a service?

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A model with which cloud computing providers offer remotely accessible servers, networks, and storage capacity.

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What is the most common type of user of the IaaS. Why this group?

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Technology companies with IT expertise. They want access to computing power, but do not want to be responsible for installing and maintaining it.

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Describe using the infrastructure as a service.

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Essentially the customer will deploy their applications, operating servers, and the data onto the vendors cloud computing computers. Each user is responsible for maintaining its own operating system and apps. They are billed based on how much they use.

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What is cloud data management?

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The practice of storing a company’s data on an offsite server that is typically owned by a vendor that specializes in cloud data hosting.

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What are the benefits of cloud data management?

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1) Security
2) Scalability
3) Governed access
4) Automated backups, disaster recovery, and updates
5) Improved data quality
6) Sustainability

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Describe security.

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The idea that there is a reduce risk of data loss if there is device or damage failure. Cloud vendors also are implement advanced security measures.

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Describe scalability and savings

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Add and subtract storage and computing needed, resulting in cost savings.

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Described governed access/ Data democratization

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Allows authorized users to access data from where they are, supporting collaborative work culture.

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Describe improved data quality

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Help company’s remove data silos and create a single truth of every data point. Clean, consistent, and current.

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Describe automated backups, disaster recovery, and updates

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Backups data often in case of emergency. Apps updated automatically so clients do not have to stop work.

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What is the single source of truth meaning?

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Everyone in an organization bases business decisions on the same data.

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Describe sustainability

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Reduce carbon footprint created by their own IT facilities.

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What is technical debt?

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Implied cost of additional rework by choosing an easy solution now instead of a better approach that would take longer to implement.

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What is platform as a service

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A model in which customers rent servers, operating systems, storage, database, software development technologies such as Java and .net, and network capacity over the internet.

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Who is the main customer for the platform as a service?

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Software developers, as the PaaS can assist them in building, test, deploy, maintain, and manage every step of the development lifecycle of applications.

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What are the advantages of the PaaS

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1) Application developers can run their software on the cloud without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the hardware and software.
2) Computing and storage resources adjust to the application demand.
3) Operating system features upgraded frequently
4) Geographically disbursed teams can work on software development projects together.
5) Can be provided by diverse sources all around the globe.
6) Initial and ongoing costs can be reduced by using a single vendor rather than maintaining multipole hardware facilities.

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What is the software as a service?

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Delivery model, where the cloud computing vendor provides software that is specific to the customers requirements. A domain for end users or business clients.

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What is an example of SaaS. What is the changing rate? Is this the most widely used model?

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Google Apps, Salesforce, and Dropbox. They charge a monthly or yearly subscription, and it is the most widely used service.

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Describe the SaaS system.

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The applications reside in the cloud and not in the users hard drive or data centre. The host will manage the software and infrastructure that runs the software and process the data. Customers have no control, limiting the need for apps on the users computer, simplifying the process.

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What is the key difference between the SaaS and the IaaS and PaaS?

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The ability to scale. Apps will run on many servers to meet the changing demands.

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How is risk managed under the Software as a Service?

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The SaaS provider will backup the data frequently and the customer can also back up their own data.

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What is a Desktop as a Service (DAAS) / cloud desktop / desktop in the cloud?

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It is a subset of the SaaS, where they provide a software environment for a personal computer, including productivity and collaboration software.

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What is the advantage of a DaaS.

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Financially advantageous as you do not need to buy a fully configured computer or a fat client. Simple to deploy and administer.

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What is a functions as a service (FaaS) / Everything as a Service (XaaS)

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A category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage application functions without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure associated with developing and deploying an app.

30
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What is serverless computing

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Cloud computing execution model in which the cloud vendor run the server and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources.

31
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What is the difference between the serverless computing and FaaS.

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The server less computing ensures that the customer does not have to be concerned with configuration of the server when deploying apps whereas under FaaS they do need to be concerned.

32
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What is Security as a Service (SECaaS)

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A category of cloud services where an external provider handles and managers cyber security for an organization including services like data loss prevention, anti virus management, and intrusion detection among others.

33
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What is the low code and no code cloud services?

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Allows anybody, regardless of their programming knowledge to create applications and use data to solve problems.

34
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What are the benefits of cloud computing?

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1) Cloud computing has a positive impact on employees.
2) Cloud computing can save the money
3) Cloud computing can improve organizational flexibility and competitiveness.

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Describe the positive impacts on employees of cloud computing.

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Allows them to access information no matter where they are, what device they use, or whom they are working with.

36
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Describe the way that cloud computing can save you money.

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Eliminate the need to purchase hardware, build and install infrastructure, and pay licensing fees.

37
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Describe the organizational flexibility and competitiveness that comes from cloud computing.

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Lets them use only the resources that they need at a given time. Scale operations up or down depending om the business conditions.

38
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What are the risks and concerns with cloud computing?

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1) Legacy IT systems
2) Reliability
3) Privacy
4) Security
5)Regulatory and Legal Environment
6) Criminal Use of Cloud Computing

39
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What is the legacy IT systems?

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Organizations have a diversity of hardware, operating systems, and applications. These are called legacy spaghetti. Cannot be easily transferred to the cloud as they must be untangled and simplified.

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Describe the concern with reliability

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It is not as reliable as a well managed on-premise IT infrastructure, outages still occur quite frequently.

41
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Describe the concern with privacy

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The providers control, and thus lawfully or unlawfully monitor, the stored data and communications between the user and the host company. They may not remain in the same system or the same data centre leading to legal concerns.

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Describe the concern with security.

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Due to the varying nature between the traditional IT infrastructure and the cloud there are concerns regarding the access to sensitive data, data segregation(among customer), privacy, error exploitation, recovery, accountability, malicious insiders, and account control. There is a great unease among the public and private sectors

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What is cloud lock?

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Provides a security system to protect its clients information assets located in public cloud applications like google apps.

44
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What issues does cloud lock resolve?

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1) Data inventory - # of information assets and their types.
2) Which information assets are shared over the internet and are public.
3) Who has access to what information assets, and which information assets are accessible to whom.

45
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Describe the concern with the regulatory and legal environment.

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There are many legal barriers to cloud computing, which involve data access and transport. For example, in the EU cloud vendors cannot send EU consumer data to other countries not within the EU.

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What are web services?

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Applications that are delivered over the internet (the cloud) that MIS professionals can select and combine through almost any device, from personal computers to mobile phones.

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What are the benefits of web services?

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1)The organization can use the existing internet infrastructure without having to use any new technologies
2) Organizational personnel can access remote or local data without having to understand the complexities of the process.
3) The organization can create new applications quickly and easily.

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What is a service oriented architecture? (SOA)

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An IT architecture that makes it possible to construct business applications using WEB services.

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What are the four components that web services are based on?

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XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI

50
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What is the Extensible Markup Language? (XML)

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A computer language that makes it easier to exchange data among a variety of applications and to validate and interpret this data. More powerful and flexible compared to HTML.

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What is the Hypertext Markup language (HTML)

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A page description language for specifying how text, graphics, videos, and sound are placed on a web page document.

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What is Hypertext Markup Language 5 (HTML5)

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1) A page description language that makes it possible to embed images, audio, and video directly into a document without add-ons.
2)Makes it easier for web page to function across different display devices, like mobile and desktops.
3) Supports storage of data offline.

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What is the major problem with HTML?

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HTML was designed to connect static documents consisting of mostly text. However, nowadays it consists of lots of interactive media. This creates an issue as add-on applications like Java, Silverlight, or Flash are required to run this media.

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What are examples of sites that use HTML5.

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Safari, Google, Firefox, Facebook, YouTube, netFlix, Apple, Instagram, Microsoft

55
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What is the major difference between HTML and XML.

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The HTML is limited to how the data should be presented. The XML presents, communicates, and stores data.

56
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What is the simple object access protocol? (SOAP)

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A set of rules that define how messages can be exchanged among different network systems and applications through the use of XML.

57
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What is web service description language? (WSDL)

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Used to create the XML document that describes the tasks performed by the various Web Services.

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What is the Universal description, discovery, and integration (UDDI)

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1)Allows MIS professionals to search for web services they need, by creating public or private searchable directories of these services.
2) A registry of descriptions of web services.

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What are the big three public cloud vendors?

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Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform.

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What are the similarities among the three public cloud vendors?

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1) They support relational and NoSQL databases, and data warehouses.
2) All support server less computing.
3) Comparable prices as they compete.

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What is the benefits of amazon web services?

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1) High configuration options, monitoring, policy features, security, and reliability.
2) Partner ecosystem and general product strategy are market leading.

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What is the disadvantage of Amazon web services?

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Since the benefits are so high where there is great policy features, configurability, reliability, security, and monitoring, it posses the risk of shut down and loss of critical data if they place all their information and data into this one cloud vendor.

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What is a binary large object (blob)

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A collection of binary data stored as a single entity in its database management system.

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What is the benefits of Microsoft Azure?

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If Microsoft is already heavily integrated in the firm than this seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft products making the transition easier.

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What is the disadvantage of Microsoft Azure?

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There have been lots of outages.

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What is the advantage of the Google Cloud platform?

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1) Google excels in machine learning, and has lots of expertise with open source technology.
2) Strengths in big data, analytics, machine learning, and cloud native applications.

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