Cloud Services( Comptia Objective 4.1)

Question 1

What is Cloud based email hosting?

Answer 1

• Flat cost per month per user
• Personal options may have no direct cost
• Looks and feels the same for the user.
  Examples Google mail, Microsoft office 365

Question 2

What is virtual application streaming?

Answer 2

• on demand applications
• Nothing locally stored at all in the cloud when services needed they are downloaded from the cloud.
• Easy to update.

Question 3

What is a cloud hosted virtual desktop?

Answer 3

• A virtual desktop infrastructure in the cloud
• Users connect to a prebuilt desktop.
• Access from almost any Operating system.
• Uses a virtual NIC so all of the data on the physical host machine remains seperate.
• Example of this would be Amazon Workspaces.