CompTia Cloud + Practice Exam - Mid Term Flashcards
Q. Which of the following statements correctly explains the benefit of cloud computing?
Q 1 Options
A) Cloud computing delivers a wide range of services.
B) Cloud computing is procured by the IT department.
C) Cloud computing delivers IT capacity on demand.
D) Cloud computing delivers IT capabilities that scale with demand.
D) Cloud computing delivers IT capabilities that scale with demand.
Q. It is easy to exchange small text messages through Twitter. What is this an example of?
A) IaaS
B) PaaS
C) SaaS
D) None of the above
C) SaaS
Q. Which of the following statements best defines virtualization?
Q 3 Options
A) Virtualization is a method to organize servers in a more efficient manner.
B) Virtualization is a set of techniques for hiding software resources behind hardware abstractions.
C) Virtualization is a method to structure data in a more efficient manner.
D) Virtualization is a set of techniques for hiding hardware resources behind software abstractions.
D) Virtualization is a set of techniques for hiding hardware resources behind software abstractions.
Q. When provisioning new virtual servers, which of the following must be done? (Choose two.)
A) Specify cloud backup for the virtual server.
B) Specify the maximum server log file size.
C) Specify user credentials to use with the virtual server.
D) Specify the amount of RAM the virtual server will use.
C) Specify user credentials to use with the virtual server.
D) Specify the amount of RAM the virtual server will use.
Q. Which definition applies to time-sharing?
A) Individuals using computing resources at different times
B) Individuals using computing resources simultaneously within isolated computing sessions
C) Individuals using the same virtual servers simultaneously in the cloud
D) Individuals using computing resources simultaneously within a shared computing session
B) Individuals using computing resources simultaneously within isolated computing sessions
Q. Which of the following statements are true regarding cloud services? (Choose two.)
A) Cloud services use a “pay-as-you-go” payment scheme.
B) Cloud services are always less expensive than in-house hosted solutions.
C) Cloud data storage is less secure than storing data locally.
D) Cloud services can be provisioned quickly.
A) Cloud services use a “pay-as-you-go” payment scheme.
D) Cloud services can be provisioned quickly.
Q. How can cloud computing improve the flexibility of businesses?
A) Easier access by users outside of the organization
B) Rapidly growing and shrinking capacity
C) Faster deployment of applications
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
D) All of the above
Q. Cloud computing might not be beneficial for which of the following?
A) Small engineering start-up
B) Email system for the Pentagon
C) Rapidly growing email system
D) Web site of a large newspaper
B) Email system for the Pentagon
Q. Syl, a developer, is using cloud services to create and test a new application. What type of cloud service is Syl using?
A) PaaS
B) SaaS
C) XaaS
D) IaaS
A) PaaS
Q. Which of the following is not a typical business objective realized by IT outsourcing and cloud computing?
A) Eliminating noncore activities
B) Lack of skilled staff
C) Improving cost structure
D) Solving security problems
D) Solving security problems
Q. Which of the following statements is true?
A) Cloud computing and outsourcing are the same.
B) Outsourcing is specific to IT.
C) Cloud computing is specific to IT.
D) Outsourcing is cheaper than cloud computing.
C) Cloud computing is specific to IT.
Q. Acme Incorporated is using a specific line-of-business piece of software and does not have
A) the skilled help-desk staff required to support the software. What solution should Acme Incorporated employ?
B) Migrate the application to the cloud.
C) Virtualize the software.
D) Host the software in house.
E) Outsource the help-desk staff requirement.
E) Outsource the help-desk staff requirement.
Q. You are the IT administrator for a small regional airline that is opening a new office. To meet the airline’s computing needs, you order server and desktop hardware, as well as the required software. Cloud computing can reduce or, in some cases, entirely eliminate these responsibilities from their customers. To which cloud characteristic does this scenario apply?
A) Time to market
B) Vendor lock-in
C) Scalability
D) Security
C) Scalability
Q. For a software development firm, which of the following cloud benefits is realized with PaaS?
A) Time to market
B) Vendor lock-in
C) Scalability
D) Security
A) Time to market
Q. How does cloud computing affect a cloud customer’s cost structure?
A) OPEX becomes CAPEX.
B) CAPEX becomes OPEX.
C) CAPEX increases.
D) OPEX decreases.
B) CAPEX becomes OPEX.
Q. Stacey, a financial analyst, is describing the business benefits of public cloud computing to her colleagues. Which of the following might she state? (Choose two.)
A) Shorter time to market
B) Decrease in operating expenses
C) Facilitated data collaboration
D) Increase in operating expenses
A) Shorter time to market
C) Facilitated data collaboration
Q. With a cloud solution, which of the following IT tasks are the responsibility of the cloud provider? (Choose three.)
A) Purchasing hardware
B) Purchasing and licensing software
C) Assigning user permissions to cloud data
D) Updating software
A) Purchasing hardware
B) Purchasing and licensing software
D) Updating software
Q. While __________ and __________ are important IT considerations to a business, they are not specific to cloud computing.
A) backup, disaster recovery
B) SLAs, SaaS
C) virtualization, PaaS
D) time to market, reduced CAPEX
A) backup, disaster recovery
Q. Which statement regarding private clouds is true?
A) SLAs are not required.
B) Server virtualization is used only in public clouds.
C) They are more secure than public clouds.
D) They are for the exclusive use of a single organization.
D) They are for the exclusive use of a single organization.
Q. Your organization uses on-premises servers to authenticate user logon requests. You would like to authorize user access to cloud email accounts using their local credentials. Which solution should you employ?
A) Replicate local user accounts to the cloud.
B) Use identity federation.
C) Implement SaaS.
D) Re-create user accounts in the cloud.
B) Use identity federation.
Q. Numerous cloud customers sharing the same computing services while having isolated computing environments is described as which of the following?
A) Multitenancy
B) Elasticity
C) Virtualization
D) XaaS
A) Multitenancy
Q. Which of the following are specific examples of IaaS? (Choose all that apply.)
A) SLAs
B) Software code libraries
C) Cloud email accounts
D) Cloud storage
D) Cloud storage
Q. You are designing a solution to ensure your on-premises users will always have access to public cloud services. What should you consider?
A) Identity federation
B) Tablets instead of smartphones
C) Redundant network connections
D) Encryption
C) Redundant network connections
Q. Relocating web content closer to users for quicker access is done using __________.
A) content distribution networks
B) identity federation
C) virtualization
D) cloud relocation
A) content distribution networks
Q. Which of the following statements is true?
A) PaaS is used to create web services.
B) PaaS is used by end users.
C) SaaS is used by software developers.
D) Applications cannot be developed in the cloud.
B) PaaS is used by end users.
Q. Cloud adoption does not remove the need for on-premises IT personnel. Which task must local IT personnel undertake to ensure cloud solutions are delivering business value?
A) Setting limits on OPEX costs
B) Monitoring application performance
C) Creating new virtual machines
D) Removing active virtual machines
C) Creating new virtual machines
Q. What benefits are derived from PaaS?
A) OPEX instead of CAPEX
B) Cloud backup
C) Rapid application development
D) Elasticity
A) OPEX instead of CAPEX
Q. Which application should be migrated to the cloud for initial cloud testing?
A) Financial management system
B) Word processing
C) Customer transaction database
D) Emergency response system
C) Customer transaction database
Q. Which of the following are risks associated with depending on cloud providers? (Choose two.)
A) Proprietary data formats
B) Lack of security
C) Vendor lock-in
D) User authentication
A) Proprietary data formats
C) Vendor lock-in
Q. Cloud solutions that can tolerate failures yet still provide service are referred to as what?
A) IaaS
B) Highly portable
C) PaaS
D) Highly available
D) Highly available
Q. You are evaluating cloud backup offerings from various cloud providers. What type of cloud service is cloud backup?
A) SaaS
B) IaaS
C) PaaS
D) DaaS
B) IaaS
Q. Your company’s application development team requires a self-provisioned software development solution that can quickly grow or shrink based on each project’s parameters. Existing customer data will be used from a customized line-of-business application. What would you suggest?
A) Private PaaS
B) Private IaaS
C) Public PaaS
D) Public IaaS
B) Private IaaS
Q. What is used to automate the provisioning of virtual machines?
A) SaaS
B) Management software
C) PaaS
D) Software libraries
B) Management software
Q. Which item usually presents a single point of failure in regard to cloud computing?
A) Network connection
B) Hard disk
C) Cloud backup
D) Virtual server
A) Network connection
Q. Which of the following statements regarding a change in IT roles as a result of cloud adoption is accurate?
A) In-house IT personnel are no longer required.
B) There will be an emphasis on managing operating expenses instead of capital expenses.
C) There is no longer a need to back up business data.
D) Private clouds could require IT personnel to provision services.
D) Private clouds could require IT personnel to provision services.
Q. What must be done to ensure the ongoing success of cloud service adoption?
A) Software updates must be applied.
B) Financial audits must take place.
C) Industry compliance audits must take place.
D) IT services must be coupled with specific business processes.
D) IT services must be coupled with specific business processes.
Q. For in-house IT personnel, which IT task will be emphasized with cloud adoption?
A) Application performance monitoring
B) Security auditing
C) Data backup
D) High availability
A) Application performance monitoring
Q. When evaluating cloud solutions, you conclude that some existing end-user software hosted on premises is not available as SaaS. What other should you consider?
A) Evaluate other functionally equivalent SaaS offerings.
B) Keep using the on-premises end-user software.
C) Use cloud backup for the end-user software data.
D) Use PaaS instead.
A) Evaluate other functionally equivalent SaaS offerings.
Q. Your company currently has six virtual servers hosted on premises using two clustered physical servers. The two physical servers on which the six virtual servers are running must be replaced. You have been asked to recommend the quickest solution to run the six virtual machines in the cloud instead of on the premises. What should you recommend?
A) Back up the existing virtual servers. Create new cloud virtual servers and restore the data into them.
B) Migrate the existing virtual machines to the cloud.
C) You cannot migrate virtual machines to the cloud.
D) Re-create the six virtual machines in the cloud from scratch.
B) Migrate the existing virtual machines to the cloud.
Q. Which of the following is a reason to migrate an application to the cloud?
A) Elasticity.
B) Data encryption.
C) High availability.
D) It will be cheaper than hosting the application in house.
A) Elasticity.
Q. Which of the following items would show up in an SLA? (Choose all that apply.)
A) Type of virtual server operating systems available
B) PKI certificate for identity federation
C) Degree of service elasticity
D) Guaranteed level of service
C) Degree of service elasticity
D) Guaranteed level of service
Q. Cloud adoption can increase the workload for cloud customer internal IT staff members in which way?
A) Applying software patches
B) Acquiring server hardware
C) Monitoring cloud service performance
D) Performing data backups
C) Monitoring cloud service performance
Q. Encouraging cloud service use during minimal load times applies to which ITIL Service Strategy process?
A) Capacity Management
B) Demand Management
C) Financial Management
D) Service Level Management
B) Demand Management
Q. Planning disk capacity requirements in the cloud applies to which service management phase?
A) Service Design
B) Service Strategy
C) Service Operation
D) Service Transition
A) Service Design
Q. Which process of the ITIL Service Design phase relates to ensuring cloud services are always accessible?
A) Service Level Management
B) Capacity Management
C) Information Security Management
D) Availability and Service Continuity Management
D) Availability and Service Continuity Management
Q. Choosing a cloud service that provides the same functionality as an in-house system applies to which ITIL life-cycle phase?
A) Service Design
B) Service Strategy
C) Service Operation
D) Service Transition
A) Service Design
Q. The manipulation of people to disclose confidential information defines what type of risk?
A) Malware
B) Denial of service
C) Password cracking
D) Social engineering
D) Social engineering
Q. The manipulation of people to disclose confidential information defines what type of risk?
A) Malware
B) Denial of service
C) Password cracking
D) Social engineering
B) Data must be stored within national boundaries.
Q. What new IT service risk is a result of cloud adoption?
A) Loss of network connectivity
B) Loss of encryption keys
C) Loss of decryption keys
D) Failure of a hard disk
A) Loss of network connectivity
Q. How does cloud adoption affect IT budgets?
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A) IT budgets increase.
B) IT budgets decrease.
C) IT budgets remain the same.
D) IT budgets must account for the “pay-as-you-go” model.
D) IT budgets must account for the “pay-as-you-go” model.
