Cloud Security Flashcards

1
Q

A way of offering on-demand services that extend the traditional
capabilities of a computer or network

A

Cloud Security

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2
Q

allows a cloud provider to offer a full desktop operating system to an
end user from a centralized server

A

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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3
Q

A service provider makes resources available to the end users over the
Internet

A

Public Cloud

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4
Q

A company creates its own cloud environment that only it can utilize as
an internal enterprise resource

A

Private Cloud

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5
Q

Resources and costs are shared among several different organizations
who have common service needs

A

Community Cloud

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6
Q

Provides all the hardware, operating system, software, and applications
needed for a complete service to be delivered

A

Software As a Service (Saas)

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7
Q

Provides all the hardware, operating system, and backend software
needed in order to develop your own software or service

A

Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS)

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8
Q

Provides your organization with the hardware and software needed for a
specific service to operate

A

Platform as a Service(PaaS)

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9
Q

Provides your organization with various types of security services without
the need to maintain a cybersecurity staff

A

Security as a Service(SaaS)

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10
Q

Utilizes separate virtual networks to allow security professionals to test
suspicious or malicious files

A

Sandboxing

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11
Q

Servers are used to store, transfer, migrate, synchronize, and archive files
for your organization

A

File Servers

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12
Q

A specialized type of file server that is used to host files for distribution
across the web

A

FTP Server

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13
Q

A server that acts as a central repository of all the user accounts and their
associated passwords for the network

A

Domain Controller

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14
Q

Enterprise management software designed to mediate access to cloud
services by users across all types of devices

A

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

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15
Q

A security appliance or host positioned at the client
network edge that forwards user traffic to the cloud
network if the contents of that traffic comply with policy

A

Forward Proxy

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16
Q

An appliance positioned at the cloud network edge and
directs traffic to cloud services if the contents of that
traffic comply with policy

A

Reverse Proxy

17
Q

A method that uses the brokers connections between the
cloud service and the cloud consumer
A library of programming utilities used to enable software developers to
access functions of another application

A

Application Programming Interface (API)

18
Q

A tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported
protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP,
FILE)

A

curl

19
Q

A cloud service model that supports serverless software architecture by
provisioning runtime containers in which code is executed in a particular
programming language

A

Function as a Service(FaaS)

20
Q

A software architecture that runs functions within virtualized runtime
containers in a cloud rather than on dedicated server instances

A

Serverless

21
Q

A content delivery network policy that instructs the browser to treat
requests from nominated domains as safe

A

Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Policy