(Units 1 of 3) Infrastructure as a Service

Question 1

What is the CLOUD PROVIDER responsible for regarding IaaS?

Answer 1

1. Hardware.
2. Network connectivity (to the internet)
3. Physical security.

Question 2

What are YOU responsible for regarding IaaS?

Answer 2

You’re responsible for:
1. Operating system installation
2. Configuration
3. Maintenance;
4. Network configuration
5. Database and storage configuration

Question 3

Give some common examples of IaaS Scenarios (1)

Answer 3

Lift-and-shift migration: You’re standing up cloud resources similar to your on-prem datacenter, and then simply moving the things running on-prem to running on the IaaS infrastructure.

Question 4

Give some common examples of IaaS (2)

Answer 4

Testing and development: You have established configurations for development and test environments that you need to rapidly replicate.

Question 5

Give some common examples of IaaS (3)

Answer 5

Big Data Analysis:IaaS can manage, store and analyze big data because it can handle large workloads and can incorporate with business intelligence tools.