Module 3: Cloud Computing Service and Deployment Models

Question 1

What would be a use case for the private cloud?

Answer 1

Providing an opportunity to modernize and unify an organization’s in-house and legacy applications

Question 2

In which service model does the cloud service provider take responsibility for the installation, configuration, and operation of the application infrastructure?

Answer 2

PaaS

In a PaaS service model, the cloud service provider takes responsibility for the installation, configuration, and operation of the application infrastructure.

Question 3

What is a benefit of the hybrid cloud deployment model?

Answer 3

It offers resource optimization

One of the benefits to the hybrid cloud is it offers resource optimization − not being locked in with a specific vendor.

Question 4

What would be a use case for the public cloud?

Answer 4

Using it for computing resources to build secondary infrastructures for disaster recovery, data protection, and business continuity

Question 5

What would be another use case for a public cloud?

Answer 5

Increasingly opting to access cloud-based applications and platforms so an organization’s teams can focus on building and testing applications and platforms, thus reducing time-to-market for their products and services.

Question 6

What represents a use case for SaaS?

Answer 6

Leveraging it to avoid the need for ongoing upgrades, maintenance, and patching.

Leveraging SaaS to avoid the need for ongoing software upgrades, maintenance, and patching is considered a use case for SaaS.

Question 7

Interoperability, scalability, and portability are key tenets of which cloud deployment model?

Answer 7

Hybrid

The key tenets of a hybrid cloud are interoperability, scalability, and portability.

Question 8

It may be owned, managed, and operated by the organization, a third party or some combination of those functions and may exist on or off premises identifies characteristics of which cloud deployment model?

Answer 8

Private cloud

Two characteristics of a private cloud deployment model are it may be owned, managed, and operated by the organization, a third party or some combination of those functions and it may exist on or off premises.

Question 9

A virtualized, multi-tenant architecture enabling tenants or users to share computing resources residing outside their firewalls best describes a characteristic for which cloud type?

Answer 9

Public cloud

A public cloud is a virtualized, multi-tenant architecture enabling tenants or users to share computing resources residing outside their firewalls.

Question 10

You have been working with a client to secure a business deal involving one of their infrastructure platforms; subsequently, they have decided to implement IaaS for the wide range of services it provides.

Who will be the typical user for IaaS?

Answer 10

System administrator

The user/persona for IaaS is the system administrator.