Chapter 16 - Exam 3

Question 1

Explain Cloud Storage in the past and why many people did not use it.

Answer 1

• iDrives offered by GoDaddy.com

- internet speed was too slow

Question 2

What is a CSP and what does it offer?

Answer 2

Cloud Storage Providers

• offers permanent storage to customers
• customer doesn’t need internal hard drive

Question 3

What is a disadvantage to CSPs?

Answer 3

Privacy

CSP can see all your data if specified in TOS (terms of service)

Question 4

What is IaaS? When is it used?

Answer 4

Infrastructure as a Service
-connects you to another computer to use it’s applications

-used when influx of temporary work and do not have necessary resources

Question 5

How are customers charged when using IaaS?

Answer 5

Pay-as-you-go Model

Question 6

What is SaaS and who is it offered by?

Answer 6

Software as a Service

• provided by CSPs
• is common application software made available to CSP customers to use as needed

Question 7

“On-Demand” Software

Answer 7

common application software that CSP identifies and installs on it’s cloud for customers to use

Question 8

Disadvantage of SaaS?

Answer 8

software is usually not the most popular of its kind on the market

Question 9

6 examples of CSPs/StaaS?

Answer 9

• google
• microsoft
• dropbox
• Amazon S3
• Fibertown
• Rackspace

Question 10

SaaS application software that most resembles Microsoft Office?

Answer 10

Apache OpenOffice

Question 11

Apaches OpenOffice's: 
Writer 
Calc 
Impress 
Base 
Draw
Correspond to what?

Answer 11

Writer - Microsoft Word
Calc - Microsoft Excel
Impress - Microsoft Powerpoint
Base - Microsoft Access
Draw - Adobe Photoshop

Question 12

Paying more for storing more data with a StaaS provider (CSP) is know as ___

Answer 12

Scaling

Question 13

PONO stands for what?

Answer 13

Purchase Order Number

Question 14

PaaS

Answer 14

Platform as a Service

• offers programming applications to companies
• used by Large Companies

Question 15

Disadvantage to PaaS?

Answer 15

Signing contract with PaaS can decrease a business’s Flexibility

Question 16

3 Examples of SaaS?

Answer 16

Oracle
Net Suite
SAP

Question 17

GIGO stands for

Answer 17

Garbage In Garbage Out

*let bad data in, get bad data out

Question 18

4 Examples of PaaS?

Answer 18

Google App Engine
Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk
Microsoft Azure
Force.com
AWS

Question 19

CSP provider’s name that A&M just switched to for storage of confidential information on employees?

Answer 19

Workday

Question 20

Why is A&M considered a hybrid?

Answer 20

Stores students emails with CSP google but stores confidential information by itself

Question 21

On A&M campus, Animal Industries building is rumored to be haunted by ___

Answer 21

Roy Simmons

Question 22

Query design uses a ___ environment

Answer 22

QBE environment

Question 23

In the video shown in class:

WagsHotel made counter-tops out of what?

Answer 23

Recycled Glass

Question 24

In the video shown in class:

WagsHotel was switching to cloud computing. Who was selling them this service?

Answer 24

SalesForce.com

Question 25

The CEO of SalesForce.com is ___

Answer 25

Marc Benoff

Question 26

Tableau

Answer 26

largest organization that helps companies analyze their data

Question 27

A zero minimum on an ER diagram can mean what two things?

Answer 27

- optional | - timing issue

Question 28

Silos

Answer 28

Before databases, a company only knew it's own information and no one elses

Question 29

Pinterest launched with over ___ pictures | Pinterest's CSP is ___

Answer 29

50 billion pictures | Amazon S3

Question 30

Data is on ___ servers across multiple data centers to provide data ___ and protect against ___ loss of data or ___

Answer 30

Redundant Redundancy Accidental Natural Disasters

Question 31

3 common problems local companies experience switching to cloud computing

Answer 31

- poor communication (complex pricing) - hidden costs - longer than expected downtimes, bad user support, performance issues