Practice Test Flashcards

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Which cloud deployment model lets users use multiple cloud models working together seamlessly?
Hybrid
Broad Network Access
Public
Private
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Hybrid

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Which of these are essential characteristics of the Cloud? Select two.
Single-tenant
On-demand self-service
Resource pooling
Fixed fee
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On Demand self service

Resource pooling

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What are some cloud computing benefits? Select two.
Purchasing off-the-shelf software and upgrades
Diversity of standardization in how the constantly evolving technologies integrate and interoperate.
Competitive advantage
Flexibility and efficiency

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Competitive advantage

Flexibility and efficiency

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According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), what is that crucial ability that will make cloud computing essential for businesses to succeed, sustain, and compete in today’s markets?
Cognitively-enabled workflows
Multi-cloud infrastructures
Applied exponential technologies such as AI, Automation, IoT, and Blockchain
Data-driven decisions

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Data-driven decisions

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IoT, AI, Blockchain, and Analytics are emerging technologies enabled by the cloud. What are some of the attributes of cloud computing that enable these technologies? Select two.
Cloud resources are offered in a single-tenant model
The power and scale of cloud resources
Computing resources can be accessed via internet connection
Cloud offers on-demand computing

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The power and scale of cloud resources

Cloud offers on-demand computing

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In the car analogy used to explain the differences between the three cloud service models, which of the provided options is an analogy for PaaS?
Renting a car
Leasing a car
Buying a car
Hiring a taxi
A

Renting a car

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Which of these scenarios are good use cases for Public Cloud? Select two.
Reducing time-to-market for products and services
Managing business critical platforms and applications
Disaster recovery, data protection, and business continuity
Applications with stable capacity and resourcing needs

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Reducing time-to-market for products and services

Disaster recovery, data protection, and business continuity

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Private cloud platforms can be implemented internally or externally. What is an example of external private cloud platform?
Platform that is owned, managed, and operated by the organization
Controlled access and customized security measures
Virtual Private Cloud or VPC
Cloud platform that runs on-premises

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Virtual Private Cloud or VPC

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The infrastructure layer is the foundation of the cloud and consists of physical resources. Where do these physical resources reside?
Virtual Servers, Bare Metal Servers, and Serverless computing resources
Regions, Zones, and Data Centers
In a warehouse that houses a centralized mainframe server
Compute, Storage, and Networking Resources

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Regions, Zones, and Data Centers

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Why do bare metal servers take longer to provision than virtual servers?
They are physical servers that can be customized to specified capacity
Customer configures the physical servers
GPUs for data analytics are hard to configure and provision
They’re multi-tenant servers, and all tenants must help configure them

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They are physical servers that can be customized to specified capacity

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Containers provide isolation of applications. What is one of the benefits this provides?
Open sourced runtime engine
Abstraction from the host operating system
Repackaged into containers or containerized microservices
Help keep malicious code in one container from impacting other containers

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Help keep malicious code in one container from impacting other containers

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What makes File storage an ideal solution for scenarios where common storage (a landing zone for incoming files) is needed?
Mounted from remote storage appliances
File storage can be mounted to multiple compute nodes at a time
Its consistently high speed
File Storage is mounted to compute nodes via an ethernet network

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File storage can be mounted to multiple compute nodes at a time

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Which of these scenarios are best suited for Block Storage? Select two.
Workloads that need low-latency storage
Workloads that need disk sharing between compute nodes
Low cost is a consideration
Applications that need consistent fast access to disk, such as databases

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Workloads that need low-latency storage

Applications that need consistent fast access to disk, such as databases

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Which of the following is NOT a good fit for Object Storage?
Operating systems or applications like databases
Files or objects that are static
Data that does not require fast read and write speeds
Storage needs are finite and can be pre-defined

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Operating systems or applications like databases

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What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?
Network topology
A network link
A network node
A distributed server network
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A distributed server network

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What are some of the benefits of using microservices architecture? Select two.
Application components can be developed and updated independently of each other
Each microservice of an application needs to use the same stack and runtime environment
Components facing varied amounts of load can be scaled independently
Each line of code for a microservice needs to be written from scratch

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Application components can be developed and updated independently of each other
Components facing varied amounts of load can be scaled independently

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What are the characteristics of a cloud native application?
Collection of microservices with tightly coupled UI, business logic layer, and data layer
Collection of microservices that are built as one huge piece of software
Collection of microservices that need to be scaled and updated in relation to each other
Collection of microservices working together as a whole to comprise an application

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Collection of microservices working together as a whole to comprise an application

18
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DevOps’ tools, practices, and processes are helping tackle some of the complexities and challenges posed by the cloud. Identify two ways in which DevOps is mitigating these challenges. Select two.
DevOps processes outline the development principles that need to be followed to modernize monolithic applications to cloud native applications
By creating an automated deployment pipeline
By fully automating the infrastructure installation process in a way that is documented, repeatable, verifiable, and traceable
DevOps best practices eliminate the need to provision servers, build middleware, and install application code

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By creating an automated deployment pipeline
By fully automating the infrastructure installation process in a way that is documented, repeatable, verifiable, and traceable