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Knowledge Check
3 minutes

Check your knowledge

1. Which term from the list below would be viewed as benefits of using cloud services?
 Unpredictable costs
 Elasticity ＂
Elasticity, Agility and Economies of scale are the correct answers, and
would be seen as benefits that you can gain from using cloud
services.
 Local reach only

2. Suppose you have two types of applications: legacy applications that require specialized
mainframe hardware and newer applications that can run on commodity hardware. Which
cloud deployment model would be best for you?
 Public cloud
 Private cloud
 Hybrid cloud ＂
A hybrid cloud is a public and private cloud combined. You can run
your new applications on commodity hardware you rent from the
public cloud and maintain your specialized mainframe hardware on-
premises.

3. You're developing an application and want to focus on building, testing, and deploying. You
don't want to worry about managing the underlying hardware or software. Which cloud
service type is best for you?
 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
 Platform as a Service (PaaS) ＂
Platform as a Service is the best choice here because the PaaS
services handle the IT management tasks for you, so you can focus on
writing code.
 Software as a Service (SaaS)
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