Section 2.2 Virtualization and Cloud Computing Concepts

Question 1

What do you call a distributed web service that allows network services to be distributed from a central web based cloud?

Answer 1

Cloud Computing

Question 2

Cloud computing uses _________ to keep all devices updated.

Answer 2

syncing

Question 3

Cloud computing allows software to be run as what kind of application?

Answer 3

A web-based application

Question 4

What concept was developed to improve the response time of very bandwidth-intensive, speed dependent activities by bringing the content to devices that are closer to the end user?

Answer 4

Edge computing

Question 5

What concept places a layer between edge devices and the cloud and takes all the data from the edge devices and decides what should be sent to the cloud?

Answer 5

Fog computing

Question 6

What are MSP’s?

Answer 6

Managed Service Provider

Question 7

What are MSSP’s?

Answer 7

Managed Security Service Provider

Question 8

What cloud service model provides the ability to quickly stand up VM’s, storage devices, and other infrastructure that would otherwise require the purchase of physical devices?

Answer 8

IaaS

Question 9

What is a CSP?

Answer 9

Cloud Service Provider

Question 10

What cloud service model provides the framework of an operating system and associated software required to perform a function (ex: Linux OS and components needed to run a web server)?

Answer 10

PaaS

Question 11

What cloud service model allows a customer to essential lease a software, such as applications and databases, thus enabling rapid rollout to the greater user community?

Answer 11

Software as a Service

Question 12

What CLOUD SERVICE MODEL allows an organization to offload its security monitoring and administration to a 3rd party provider on a subscription model?

Answer 12

SECaaS

Question 13

What concept tracks all service providers in one place to ensure maximum return on value?

Answer 13

SIAM

Question 14

What is SIAM

Answer 14

Services and Integration Management

Question 15

What cloud deployment model is available only to one organization and can be managed either internally by the organization or externally by a third party?

Answer 15

Private Cloud

Question 16

What cloud deployment model is available to the greater public, with security segmentation between users?

Answer 16

Public Cloud

Question 17

What cloud deployment model is created when two or more organizations create a mutual cloud?

Answer 17

Community Cloud

Question 18

What cloud deployment model combines two or more different cloud deployment models (private + community cloud = ?)

Answer 18

Hybrid Cloud

Question 19

What cloud deployment model offers an organization the ability to provision a logically isolated section and launch resources in a virtual network as defined by the organization’s requirements?

Answer 19

Virtual Private Cloud

Question 20

What do you call a network transit hub that connects the VPC and on-premises networks?

Answer 20

Transit Gateway

Question 21

What technology concept allows computer desktops or servers to host and run additional virtual computers?

Answer 21

Virtualization Technology

Question 22

What concept is the managing and provisioning of infrastructure through code, using configuration files that contain infrastructure specifications?

Answer 22

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Question 23

What concept is networking that uses software-based controllers or API’s to communicate with underlying hardware infrastructure and direct traffic on a network?

Answer 23

Software-defined Networking

Question 24

What concept pulls feeds from network and security data collection and analysis tools into one seamless visibility fabric?

Answer 24

Software-defined Visibility

Question 25

Virtual systems provide improved security, high availability, and better disaster recovery by?

Answer 25

running as a separate processes on the same hardware

Question 26

What concept allows resources to be divided as needed with minimum or no down time?

Answer 26

Elasticity

Question 27

What do you call a collection of small services coupled together that operate on top of a well-defined application programming interface, allowing more rapid software developments with easier integration?

Answer 27

Microservices

Question 28

What do you call an application that creates and runs VM’s?

Answer 28

Hypervisors

Question 29

What type of hypervisors are basically an OS designed to run VM’s?

Answer 29

Type 1 Hypervisor

Question 30

What type of hypervisors run as an application on top of an OS, often used in small environments?

Answer 30

Type 2 Hypervisors

Question 31

One risk of virtualization is that the host machine represents what?

Answer 31

A single point of failure

Question 32

What is it called when VM’s get out of hand?

Answer 32

VM Sprawl

Question 33

What do you call an attack that attempts to break out of the VM environment and attack the hypervisor, or even the host operating system?

Answer 33

VM Escape

Question 34

What do you call the creation of discrete services that may be accessed by users in a black box fashion?

Answer 34

Service Oriented Architecture

Question 35

What do you call fine-grained services with a discrete function?

Answer 35

Microservices

Question 36

What do you call a set of exposed interfaces that allow programmatic interaction between services?

Answer 36

API’s

Question 37

What do you call a network architecture approach that enables the network to be intelligently and centrally controlled, or ‘programmed’ using software?

Answer 37

SDN (Software Defined Networks)

Question 38

How do you secure Software Defined Networking?

Answer 38

with TLS

Question 39

What do you call a cloud computing execution model where the cloud provider dynamically manages the allocation and provisioning of servers?

Answer 39

Serverless Architecture

Question 40

What do you call the provisioning of multiple business services combined with different IT services to provide a single business solution?

Answer 40

Services Integration

Question 41

What do you call policies that state what level of access someone has to data or a particular resource?

Answer 41

Resource Policies

Question 42

What do you call a network hub that acts as a regional virtual router to interconnect virtual private clouds (VPC) and VPN connections?

Answer 42

Transit Gateway