Cloud Concepts

Question 1

Availability

Answer 1

what percentage of time does a system respond properly to requests,
expressed as a percentage over time

Question 2

High Availability

Answer 2

a system specifically designed to be resilient when some component of
the system fails

Question 3

Scalability

Answer 3

the ability of a system to grow it’s capacity “easily” when a system reaches its
maximum capacity

Question 4

Elasticity

Answer 4

the ability of a system to automatically grow when maximum capacity is
reached, and automatically shrink to minimize w

Question 5

Agility

Answer 5

the ability to respond to change “rapidly” based on changes to market or
environment

Question 6

Fault Tolerance

Answer 6

the ability to tolerate hardware failures in your system, required to
achieve high availability

Question 7

Disaster Recovery

Answer 7

the ability to recover from a big failure within an acceptable period of
time, with an acceptable amount of data lost

Question 8

Economies of Scale

Answer 8

the more you buy something, the cheaper it is per unit to buy; and
the cheaper it is to maintain