Module 10

Question 1

What is cloud computing?

Answer 1

An on-demand infrastructure to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released.

Question 2

What are cloud service providers?

Answer 2

Entities that offer cloud computing resources.

Question 3

What is a public cloud?

Answer 3

A type of cloud in which the services and infrastructure are offered to all users with access provided remotely through the Internet.

Question 4

What is a community cloud?

Answer 4

A type of cloud that is open only to specific organizations that have common concerns.

Question 5

What is a private cloud?

Answer 5

A type of cloud that is created and maintained on a private network.

Question 6

What is a hybrid cloud?

Answer 6

A combination of public and private clouds.

Question 7

What are 4 reasons that make cloud computing cheap?

Answer 7

1. Elasticity and scalability
2. pay per use
3. On demand
4. Resiliency

Question 8

What is on premise vs off premise cloud computing?

Answer 8

• On premise: Computing resources located on the campus of the organization
• Off premise: A computing resource hosted and supported by a third party

Question 9

What is fog? (computing location)

Answer 9

A decentralized computing infrastructure in which data, compute capabilities, storage, and applications are located between the data source and the cloud

Question 10

What is edge? (computing location)

Answer 10

Computing that is performed at or very near to the source of data instead of relying on the cloud or on-prem for processing

Question 11

What is cloud? (location)

Answer 11

Remote facility for computing

Question 12

What are three elements that make up cloud architecture?

Answer 12

1. Thin Client: A computer that runs from resources stored on a central cloud server instead of a localized hard drive.
2. Transit Gateway: An Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology that allows organizations to connect all existing virtual private clouds (VPC), physical data centers, remote offices, and remote gateways into a single managed source.
3. Serverless Infrastructure: A cloud infrastructure in which the capacity planning, installation, setup, and management are all invisible to the user because they are handled by the cloud provider.

Question 13

What are the four service models in cloud computing