Cloud Computing

Question 1

On-Demand, self service, resource pooling, elastic, accessible and measurable are accepted characteristics of what?

Answer 1

Cloud computing

Question 2

The on demand nature of what provides IT professionals the means to provision new servers, applications and other resources in a self service manner often within minutes of the request

Answer 2

Cloud computing

Question 3

Blank, such as Amazon web services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and GCP, purchase and manage vast quantities of computer storage and networking resources around the world

Answer 3

Cloud providers

Question 4

Blank, often referred to as scalability, allows you to leverage cloud provider resources during busy months and recede back to your own data center for the rest of the year.

Answer 4

Elasticity

Question 5

Services in the cloud must be what, which alludes to the way you pay for services in the cloud. You are charged for what you consume.

Answer 5

Measurable

Question 6

Name three types of cloud service models

Answer 6

IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Question 7

Blank refers to the physical servers, storage, and networking that is required to exist before you can create any virtual servers or install any applications

Answer 7

Infrastructure

Question 8

In the IaaS, who owns and maintains the underlying infrastructure.

Answer 8

Cloud provider

Question 9

The three cornerstones of IaaS are?

Answer 9

Server virtualization, Storage virtualization, and network virtualization

Question 10

In the IaaS model, who manages VM configuration, its operating system, and all the patches.

Answer 10

You do

Question 11

In the IaaS model, who manages the hypervisor and the underlying hardware?

Answer 11

Cloud provider

Question 12

Cloud providers are able to create what for each of their customers to keep networks isolated from each other?

Answer 12

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks

Question 13

In the PaaS model, the blank is responsible for the virtual servers and in some cases the servers that run on top of them.

Answer 13

Cloud provider

Question 14

One example of PaaS is what?

Answer 14

Simple web hosting

Question 15

What term is means that the consumer of the service typically is not even aware of the number of servers in the backend to run the application?

Answer 15

Serverless computing

Question 16

PaaS solutions are attractive to who because it allows them to deploy their code to an application runtime environment that is backed by an ambiguous pool of computer resources

Answer 16

Application developers

Question 17

What model of cloud service could represent nearly anything you consume over the internet?

Answer 17

SaaS

Question 18

The differentiating factor in cloud deployment models is what?

Answer 18

Responsibility

Question 19

What cloud deployment model is associated with equipment hosted within a single company’s on-premises data center?

Answer 19

Private

Question 20

In the private cloud deployment model, if a failure occurs who is responsible for repairing the problem themselves?

Answer 20

The company

Question 21

What is the term for a private cloud that is not hosted within the company’s data center?

Answer 21

Co-locating or Co-Lo solution

Question 22

The ownership and control that a company has over the equipment is the primary advantage of what cloud deployment model?

Answer 22

Private

Question 23

What cloud deployment model refers to the ownership and maintenance of the underlying infrastructure and facilities by a cloud service provider?

Answer 23

Public

Question 24

What concept in public clouds means that multiple tenants share the same physical resources?

Answer 24

Multi-tenancy

Question 25

What cloud deployment model is uncommon in the commercial sector, but may be found in universities and government agencies?

Answer 25

Community cloud

Question 26

What cloud deployment model is most commonly associated with companies that extend their apps and services between their data center and that of a public cloud provider.

Answer 26

Hybrid Cloud

Question 27

What cloud deployment model leverages the services of multiple cloud providers?

Answer 27

Multi-cloud

Question 28

In the hybrid cloud deployment model, what is needed between the on-premises data center and the public cloud provider’s data center?

Answer 28

Virtual Private Network (VPN) Connection