CLOUD TECHNOLOGY AND SOLUTIONS

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Question 1 As a developer for a software company, you have decided to build and test your web
applications in a cloud environment. Which type of cloud service best meets your
needs?

A. Private cloud
B. Public cloud
C. Community cloud

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 

Question 2 You are the IT director for a retail clothing outlet. Your competitors are using
Internet-delivered inventory, storage, and backup solutions from a specific provider.
You conclude it is best that your company use the same services from the same
provider. What type of cloud will you be subscribing to?

A. PaaS
B. SaaS
C. IaaS

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 

Question 3 Your company runs a virtualized web application server in-house. You decide to
make the web applications available over the Internet through a cloud provider.
Which method represents the quickest way to accomplish this?

A. Create a new cloud server, install web services, and install and configure
web applications.
B. Create a new cloud server, install web services, and import web
application data.
C. Migrate your in-house web application server to the cloud.
D. This cannot be done — only generic applications are available through the
cloud.

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 
(iv) D 

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Question 4 The characteristic of a software program that enables an instance of the program to
serve different consumers (tenants) whereby each is isolated from the other, is
referred to as ____________.

A. multitenancy
B. measured usage
C. on-demand usage

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 

Question 5 A cloud consumer can unilaterally access cloud-based IT resources giving the cloud
consumer the freedom to self-provision these IT resources. Once configured, usage
of the self-provisioned IT resources can be automated, requiring no further human
involvement by the cloud consumer or cloud provider.

A. multitenancy
B. measured usage
C. on-demand usage

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 

Question 6 The ____________characteristic represents the ability of a cloud platform to keep

track of the usage of its IT resources, primarily by cloud consumers.

A. multitenancy
B. measured usage
C. on-demand usage

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 

Question 7 ____________, from an IT resource perspective, represents the ability of the IT

resource to handle increased or decreased usage demands.

A. Resilient computing
B. Elasticity
C. Scaling

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 

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Question 8 Purchasing software and providing it to a third party that installs and manages that
software is an example of which of the following?

A. Virtualization
B. Application service provider
C. Platform as a service

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 

Question 9 ____________clients are general computers that have adequate processing

capability. They have sufficient capability for independent work.

A. Thick
B. Thin
C. Mobile

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 

Question 10 ____________a fundamental part of visualization infrastructure that is primarily used

to generate virtual server instances of a physical server.

A. load balancer
B. hypervisor
C. cloud usage monitor
D. virtual infrastructure manager (VIM)

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 
(iv) D 

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Question 11 ____________performs automated horizontal scaling by balancing a given runtime

workload across two or more IT resources to increase performance and capacity
beyond a single IT resource.

A. load balancer
B. hypervisor
C. cloud usage monitor
D. virtual infrastructure manager (VIM)

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 
(iv) D 

Question 12 ____________ is a commercial product that can be used to manage a range of

virtual IT resources across multiple physical servers

A. load balancer
B. hypervisor
C. cloud usage monitor
D. virtual infrastructure manager (VIM)

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 
(iv) D 

Question 13 In____________, the hardware is not simulated. The guest software run their own
isolated domains.

A. Full virtualization
B. Hardware-Assisted Virtualization
C. Paravirtualization

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 

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Question 14 The ____________ is a combination of virtual switches and their uplinks to a

physical network that isolates a network environment.

A. virtual network
B. virtual switch
C. virtual disk

(i) A 
(ii) B 
(iii) C 

Question 15 Select three organizations that are responsible for cloud security.

A. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

B. CSA (Cloud Security Alliance)
C. ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union)
D. OCC (Open Cloud Consortium)

(i) A,B and C 

(ii) B, C and D 
(iii) A, B and D 