Cloud Essentials Study Guide Flashcards
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With cloud computing services, hardware purchases, software purchases, and IT support are the responsibility of whom?
A. Internet service provider
B. RraaS provider
C. SaaS provider
D. Application service provider
SaaS provider
Which term best describes the ability to rapidly increase user accounts for a given cloud service?
A. Volatility
B. Synchronicity
C. Viability
D. Elasticity
Elasticity
Which option describes a benefit of virtualized servers?
A. Shared hardware
B. Individual hardware per virtual server
C. Physical servers taking less room space than virtual servers
D. Virtual servers taking less disk space than physical servers
Shared hardware
Your company runs a virtualized web application server in-house. You decide to make the web applications available over the Internet through a cloud provider. Which method represents the quickest way to accomplish this?
A. Create a new cloud server, install web services, and install and configure web applications.
B. Create a new cloud server, install web services, and import web application data.
C. Migrate your in-house web application server to the cloud.
D. This cannot be done — only generic applications are available through the cloud.
Migrate your in-house web application server to the cloud.
Which term from the past describes the sharing of mainframe computing resources?
A. Time-sharing
B. Time division multiplexing
C. Mainframe-sharing
D. XaaS
Time-sharing
Purchasing software and providing it to a third party that installs and manages that software is an example of which of the following?
A. Virtualization
B. Application service provider
C. Platform as a service
D. Private cloud
Application service provider
You are the IT director for a retail clothing outlet. Your competitors are using Internet-delivered inventory, storage, and backup solutions from a specific provider. You conclude it is best that your company use the same services from the same provider. What type of cloud will you be subscribing to?
A. Community cloud
B. Retail cloud
C. Private cloud
D. Public cloud
Community cloud
For which businesses would cloud computing be best suited? (Choose two.)
A. Waterfront marketplace that thrives during the summer tourist season
B. Rural medical practice with four employees
C. Law enforcement agency
D. A new company start-up that manufactures watercraft
- Waterfront marketplace that thrives during the summer tourist season
- A new company start-up that manufactures watercraft
Which of the following are valid reasons for a firm’s not adopting a cloud solution? (Choose two.)
A. Local hardware is being fully utilized for unchanging IT workloads.
B. The number of employees rarely changes.
C. The number of employees changes often.
D. The firm experiences unpredictable project spikes throughout the year.
- Local hardware is being fully utilized for unchanging IT workloads.
- The number of employees rarely changes.
As a developer for a software company, you have decided to build and test your web applications in a cloud environment. Which type of cloud service best meets your needs?
A. PaaS
B. SaaS
C. IaaS
D. Xaas
PaaS
How are cloud computing and outsourcing similar?
A. Immediate scalability
B. Vendor lock-in
C. Long contract renegotiation
D. Tailor-made client solutions
Vendor lock-in
Which of the following is a benefit of outsourcing?
A. Immediate scalability
B. Vendor lock-in
C. Long contract renegotiation
D. Tailor-made client solutions
Tailor-made client solutions
True or false? Cloud computing is a form of outsourcing.
True
What cloud computing characteristic ensures services and data are always reachable?
A. Confidentiality
B. Integrity
C. Availability
D. Scalability
Availability
You must ensure that your business computing resources can quickly grow as business demands change. Which of the following allows this?
A. Confidentiality
B. Integrity
C. Availability
D. Scalability
Scalability
__________ protects data contents, while _____ ensures that data has not been tampered with.
A. Availability, scalability
B. Integrity, confidentiality
C. Scalability, availability
D. Confidentiality, integrity
Confidentiality, integrity
Which of the following are related to cloud computing costs? (Choose two.)
A. Monthly subscription
B. Server hardware costs
C. Usage fees
D. Software licensing costs
- Monthly subscription
* Usage fees
How does cloud computing help an organization as new opportunities arise? (Choose two.)
A. Shifting operating expenses to capital expenses
B. Speedy addition of computing resources
C. Less cost for new server hardware
D. Speedy removal of computing resources
- Speedy addition of computing resources
* Speedy removal of computing resources
________ and __________ give cloud customers a competitive advantage.
A. Integrity, confidentiality
B. Availability, integrity
C. Time to market, collaboration
D. Collaboration, confidentiality
Time to market, collaboration
Which of the following statements are true? (Choose two.)
A. Public clouds are for the exclusive use of a single organization.
B. Private clouds are for the exclusive use of a single organization
C. Public clouds are offered over an intranet.
D. Public clouds are offered over the Internet.
- Private clouds are for the exclusive use of a single organization
- Public clouds are offered over the Internet.
A military facility is NOT able to fully embrace cloud computing because of which of the
following?
A. High degree of confidentiality and operational assurance
B. The associates cost and infrastructure needs
C. Constantly changing and unpredictable workloads
D. Constantly changing data and accessibility needs
High degree of confidentiality and operational assurance
Why does cloud computing shift capital cost to variable cost?
A. Cloud computing is more cost-efficient
B. IT assets are not owned by the customer
C. Servers are better utilized
D. Staff is no longer hired by the customer
IT assets are not owned by the customer
Twitter is a service that allows users to exchange short text messages. This is an example
of:
A. PaaS
B. SaaS
C. IaaS
D. QoS
SaaS
Which of the following does the server virtualization layer do?
A. It allows the underling physical server hardware to be shared
B. It allows the virtual machines to be dependent on each other
C. It allows the virtual machines to be load balanced
D. It prohibits the use of virtual machines by unauthorized users
It allows the underling physical server hardware to be shared
A cloud subscriber may come under certain security constraints when hosting sensitive
data in the cloud due to government regulations. Which of the following is the BEST
mitigating control that could be implemented by the cloud provider?
A. Offer multi-tenancy software as a service with segregated physical infrastructure.
B. Offer a single-tenancy software service with segregated virtualized infrastructure.
C. Offer multi-tenancy software as a service with logically segregated infrastructure.
D. Offer a single-tenancy software service with monitored intrusion detection systems.
Offer multi-tenancy software as a service with segregated physical infrastructure.
In order to maintain strategic flexibility and the ability to bring a cloud system back
internally, which of the following is the MOST important requirement in the contract?
A. Yearly independent audit is performed to measure performance
B. Cloud provider has ability to terminate contract
C. One week timeframe for termination of service
D. Cloud subscriber maintains ownership of their data
Cloud subscriber maintains ownership of their data
Which of the following processes should be implemented to validate the application
security of the cloud provider’s SaaS application?
A. Periodic integrity testing
B. Periodic penetration testing
C. Review of operating system configuration
D. Application load testing
Periodic penetration testing
Which of the following processes needs to be changed to better handle Change Management in the cloud?
A. Financial chargeback
B. Security management
C. Hardware maintenance
D. Software distribution
Software distribution
Private clouds are operated solely for _______________ organization(s)
A. governmental
B. specific
C. for-profit
D. multiple
specific
Which of the following is a differentiating characteristic of private cloud solutions compared
to public cloud solutions?
A. Private cloud solutions are dedicated for use by a single organization.
B. Private cloud solutions are never accessible via the public Internet.
C. Private cloud solutions do not provide incremental scalability.
D. Private cloud solutions save considerably more money than a public cloud solution.
Private cloud solutions are dedicated for use by a single organization.
How can the internal IT department successfully react to cloud computing?
A. By becoming an external cloud provider
B. By becoming an internal cloud provider
C. By outsourcing all IT services
D. By solely focusing on security issues
By becoming an internal cloud provider
Which of the following is the function of orchestration services?
A. Assemble functional requirements for application development
B. Configure application clusters with Web services
C. Enable and disable load balancers
D. Manage the starting and stopping of application server clusters
Manage the starting and stopping of application server clusters
Which of the following is indicated by a high number of variations of different virtual
servers?
A. Lack of an automated provisioning process of the virtual machines
B. Lack of automation of virtual machine image manufacturing
C. Lack of manpower to monitor the virtual machines
D. Lack of physical servers to accommodate the different virtual servers
Lack of automation of virtual machine image manufacturing
Which of the following is the MOST significant difference between SaaS and IaaS?
A. IaaS can test network configurations.
B. SaaS is accessible anywhere.
C. SaaS is used for only public clouds.
D. IaaS can be secured and encrypted.
IaaS can test network configurations.
How does scalability work with cloud computing?
A. Servers and storage can be added quickly.
B. Servers and storage can be released quickly.
C. Users can be added and removed quickly.
D. All of the above is correct.
Servers and storage can be added quickly.
Servers and storage can be released quickly.
Users can be added and removed quickly.
(All of the above are correct.)
An organization is in the process of selecting a SaaS provider to replace its current internal customer relationship management system. The business expects better functionality than what is provided with the internal system. Which of the following is the BEST reason for moving to a SaaS cloud service?
A. Understand who the most experienced IaaS cloud providers are so that a recommendation can be made to the business based on what other industry vendors are doing.
B. Understand the current SLA’s of the cloud providers to ensure that they can exceed the current expected business SLA’s.
C. Understand current functional and non-functional requirements of the system in order to ensure the new system can meet and provide value add to current business needs.
D. Understand the cost model of the hosted infrastructure and whether the current system can be hosted on cloud provided infrastructure.
Understand current functional and non-functional requirements of the system in order to ensure the new system can meet and provide value add to current business needs.
Which of the following is an example of an early cloud adoption?
A. Data center
B. Virtualization
C. Video streaming
D. Web email
Web email
Which of the following business benefits do cloud computing and IT outsourcing have in
common?
A. Clarity and budgeting ease of upfront costs
B. Improvement of employee skills sets
C. Reduction of capital expenditures
D. Flexible contracts
Reduction of capital expenditures
Which of the following is the BEST example of a cloud vendor’s monthly hosting fee
changing based on cost allocations?
A. The company’s fee varies based on the projected quarterly revenue of the client’s company.
B. The company’s fee varies based on the number of their IT staff required to support the infrastructure.
C. The company’s fee varies based on the number of servers needed to house data in the datacenter.
D. The company’s fee varies based on the energy consumption of each server in the datacenter.
The company’s fee varies based on the number of servers needed to house data in the datacenter.
Elastic computing is important to businesses as it relates to which of the following cloud
characteristics?
A. Scalability
B. Security
C. Integrity
D. Distribution
Integrity
A technology manager is explaining the company’s latest move toward cloud computing.
Which of the following statements would NOT be an example of cloud computing?
A. The company is moving their email to a third party web application.
B. The company is consolidating their 10 web servers to one physical server located in the datacenter.
C. The company is going to leverage hosted servers to handle any additional processing power needed for the application developers.
D. The employees will now access their hosted finance application via their web browser.
The company is consolidating their 10 web servers to one physical server located in the datacenter.
A company has hired a third-party vendor to provide email and spam/anti-malware filtering
services. The type of cloud service provided by the vendor is BEST described as which of
the following?
A. SaaS
B. IaaS
C. CaaS
D. PaaS
SaaS
Which of the following would be considered in a private cloud?
A. Organizational direct attached storage
B. Organizational SAN
C. Vendor leased co-hosted storage
D. Encrypted shared drive
Organizational SAN
Cloud computing _____________capital cost to variable cost.
A. increases
B. reduces
C. shifts
D. equates
shifts
Which of the following organizations are MOST likely to consider confidentiality
requirements before implementing a backup and disaster recovery cloud solution?
A. An advertising company
B. A public library
C. A recreational park district
D. A hospital and outpatient facility
A hospital and outpatient facility
Which of the following factors of service must be managed effectively by a SaaS provider in
a cloud computing environment?
A. Application access levels
B. Client background checks
C. Availability
D. User acceptance
Availability
How does cloud computing influence service operations?
A. Cloud computing is more cost effective
B. The provisioning of servers and services is quicker or ceases to be an issue
C. The provisioning of servers and services can be much slower
D. The security level will increase
The provisioning of servers and services is quicker or ceases to be an issue
Why can cloud computing be a challenge in relation to compliance risks (e.g. compliance
with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act)?
A. It makes it harder to know where a company’s important assets are.
B. It is harder to limit the provider’s liability in the contract.
C. It makes it harder to know where a company’s physical assets are.
D. Industry regulations change more frequently to ensure compliance.
It makes it harder to know where a company’s important assets are.
Which of the following is true when mitigating risks in a cloud environment while avoiding
impact to performance?
A. When securing cloud resources, only the most sensitive data should be secured.
B. When securing cloud resources, it is always a best practice to encrypt all data stored in the cloud.
C. When securing cloud resources, data security is not an issue.
D. When securing cloud resources, it is always a best practice to use the strongest security on the most sensitive data.
When securing cloud resources, only the most sensitive data should be secured.
Which of the following is an important skill for an organization wanting to adopt an IaaS
strategy?
A. Visualization technology
B. Application service procurement
C. Customer relations
D. Security and risk management
Visualization technology
Which of the following assets have risks related to a cloud provider going out of business?
A. Data stored at the provider
B. Cloud management tools housed at the provider
C. Investment in servers at the provider
D. Machine capacity at the provider
Data stored at the provider
When an organization moves to a cloud service for IaaS the cost model changes. Which of
the following illustrates that cost model?
A. Move from an ongoing OPEX model for infrastructure to an ongoing service charge for the life of the infrastructure
B. Move from a depreciation model of infrastructure to a leasing model of infrastructure with bundled support and maintenance.
C. Move from a CAPEX model for infrastructure to an ongoing OPEX charge with bundled support and ongoing maintenance.
D. Move from an OPEX model for infrastructure to an ongoing CAPEX charge with bundled support and ongoing maintenance.
Move from a CAPEX model for infrastructure to an ongoing OPEX charge with bundled support and ongoing maintenance.
A company decides to reduce its IT labor force by hiring an external company to manage
various aspects of IT administration, such as software patch management, desktop
virtualization, and remote network maintenance. The company will still retain technicians
for maintenance and storage administration. Which of the following services has this
company implemented?
A. Outsourcing
B. Virtualization
C. PaaS
D. IaaS
Outsourcing
The IT department has migrated company email to a web-based cloud provider. Which of
the following dependencies placed on the cloud computing vendor will have the MOST
affect on all company staff?
A. Cost of service
B. Availability of service
C. Maintainability of service
D. Location of service
Availability of service
Which of the following critical success factors would likely persuade a company to use a
SaaS service?
A. The elimination of company driven application maintenance and backups
B. The lowering of thin client management costs
C. The decrease of company-owned physical system downtime
D. The increase of web presence
The elimination of company driven application maintenance and backups
Since the implementation of a cloud infrastructure, a senior level network administrator’s
job description has changed from being responsible for maintaining the hardware of the
network infrastructure to more of a management position, ensuring the cloud vendor is
providing the services specified in the contract with the company. Which of the following
has been impacted the MOST by the change in job responsibility?
A. Service Transition
B. Service Design
C. Service Operation
D. Service Strategy
Service Design
Which of the following is important to standardize?
A. Information standards and applications
B. User names and hardware providers
C. Virtual machine images and applications
D. Virtual machine images and identity information standards
Virtual machine images and identity information standards
Which of the following is a service level management tool aimed at quantifying a cloud
offerings’ performance?
A. Mean Time to Recovery
B. Risk Assessment
C. Business Impact Analysis
D. Request for Proposal
Mean Time to Recovery
Which of the following is a benefit of implementing cloud computing via the ITIL guideline?
A. Increased costs
B. Larger knowledge base
C. Increased free hard drive space
D. Improved service level
Improved service level
Why do management tools introduce a risk?
A. The management tools present a vendor lock-in
B. The management tools are indispensable above a specific scale of operation
C. The migration may not be successful
D. Too many software licenses are needed
The management tools present a vendor lock-in
Company A has a SaaS cloud that hosts their office suite software. Company B has an
IaaS cloud that provides all their server hardware, including the server hosting their office
suite software. Which of the following is a similarity between both company’s clouds?
A. Backups synchronize with the hot site
B. Servers are on-site
C. Software is hosted
D. Multiple servers are clustered
Backups synchronize with the hot site
Which of the following roles can the IT department play in the selection process of cloud
computing providers?
A. Help understand and explain the application lifecycle
B. Help understand performance parameters
C. Help understand provider quality
D. All of the above are correct
Help understand and explain the application lifecycle
Help understand performance parameters
Help understand provider quality
In which of the following scenarios would a hybrid cloud be the BEST choice for an
organization to use?
A. A security organization that performs a large percentage of penetration testing.
B. A financial organization that must keep all data under their control.
C. A retail organization that needs to maintain all processing in their own datacenter.
D. A large development firm that creates applications for the customer to host on their cloud.
A large development firm that creates applications for the customer to host on their cloud.
Which of the following is the MOST important impact of cloud computing on managing
service levels?
A. Capacity can be more elastic.
B. External providers can deny a capacity increase when required.
C. Providers measure their own performance.
D. Scarcity of resources can occur if not monitored
Capacity can be more elastic.
A company is implementing a system replacement which has application components that
are internally hosted and multiple application components that are hosted as software as a
service by different cloud providers. Which of the following represents the challenge of this
architecture?
A. Complexity
B. Time to market
C. Cost saving
D. Elasticity
Complexity
A university has migrated several services from their internal infrastructure to a third-party
cloud provider. Which of the following is MOST important to the university in order to
ensure an appropriate security posture?
A. Regular patching applied by the university
B. Governance and oversight by the cloud provider
C. Antivirus checks performed by the cloud provider
D. SLA and metrics requested by the cloud provider
Governance and oversight by the cloud provider
Which of the following risk results if cloud computing providers limit their Service Level
Agreement (SLA) liabilities?
A. Compliance risk
B. Legal risk
C. Privacy risk
D. Security risk
Legal risk
Which of the following is BEST used when setting up security for services being used
within a public cloud?
A. LDAP
B. SFTP
C. SNMP
D. SSL
SSL
Which of the following is a benefit of cloud computing?
A. Cloud computing delivers IT capabilities that scale with demand.
B. Cloud computing delivers a wide range of services that are easily accessible to users
C. Cloud computing delivers IT capacity on demand.
D. Cloud computing negates the need for a procurement department.
Cloud computing delivers IT capabilities that scale with demand.
Which of the following is the BEST way to mitigate the security and privacy issues
associated with cloud computing?
A. Allowing only cloud administrators to have access to cloud resources
B. Removing firewalls and access control routers from the network
C. Implementation and enforcement of a comprehensive security policy
D. Removing virtualized hardware from the organization
Implementation and enforcement of a comprehensive security policy
Which of the following would help an organization’s IT department set their objectives and
expectations for a cloud computing solution?
A. Service Transition
B. Service Operation
C. Service Strategy
D. Service Design
Service Strategy
Which of the following is a negative business impact of cloud computing?
A. It lowers the company’s overall application processing availability.
B. It is difficult to implement problem management.
C. It is more difficult to ensure policy compliance.
D. It slows down the company’s ability to deal with server capacity issues.
It is more difficult to ensure policy compliance.
A legal hold has been requested on an employee’s mailbox by the company’s legal office.
The company IT group is unable to implement the legal hold since the email system has
recently been outsourced to the cloud. Which of the following has the company failed to
consider when migrating the email service to the cloud?
A. Business continuity plan
B. Email restoration process
C. Archival procedures
D. Retention policy
Retention policy
An existing capability is being migrated into the cloud. Capacity management issues have
been noticed in the past and an exercise is being performed to calculate current and future
volumes. In which of the following lifecycle phases is this likely to be performed?
A. Operation
B. Design
C. Transition
D. Strategy
Design
Which of the following questions should be considered BEFORE selecting a cloud
computing vendor?
A. What cloud computing product will fit the business need?
B. What is the vendor policy on telecommuting?
C. What is the timeline for transition to the vendor?
D. What is the datacenter’s power consumption?
What cloud computing product will fit the business need?
Which of the following does IT outsourcing and cloud computing typically have in common?
A. Pay as you go agreements
B. Short-term financial commitment
C. Tailor-made applications based on client needs
D. Vendor lock-in potential
Vendor lock-in potential
Which of the following cloud service characteristics would impact how a current application
will adapt in the future according to how quickly a business will grow?
A. Time to market
B. Scalability
C. Hardware independence
D. Security
Scalability
Web hosting is a service that enables customers to deploy a website quickly. This is an
example of:
A. IaaS. B. SaaS C. PaaS. D. On-demand software. E. None of the above.
PaaS.