Chapter 6: Securing the Cloud

Question 1

Private Cloud

Answer 1

A cloud for exclusive use by a single organization

Question 2

Public Cloud

Answer 2

Cloud for the use of the general public

Question 3

Community Cloud

Answer 3

A cloud used by a small group of organizations with similar interests

Question 4

Hybrid Cloud

Answer 4

Combination of the other clouds

Question 5

Cloud Bursting

Answer 5

When your servers become too busy, you offload traffic to resources from a cloud provider

Question 6

Type I Hypervisor (bare metal)

Answer 6

Independent of the operating system and boots before the OS

Question 7

Type II Hypervisor (hosted)

Answer 7

Dependent on the OS and cannot boot until the OS is up and running

Question 8

Host (virtualization)

Answer 8

The machine on which virtualization software is running.

Question 9

Guests (virtualization)

Answer 9

The virtual machines themselves

Question 10

Snapshots

Answer 10

Allow you to take an image of a system at a particular point in time.

Question 11

Standard Minimal Downtime

Answer 11

99.999% uptime (Five 9s)

Question 12

Security Control Testing (SCT)

Answer 12

Looking for weaknesses in your infrastructure provider for virtualization

Question 13

Sandboxing

Answer 13

Restricting an application to a safe/restricted resource area.