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Cloud Computing Concepts, Models, and Terminology

1. Your organization has decided to use cloud storage for long-term archiving

of financial records. Which type of cloud service model is this?

A. SaaS

B. PaaS

C. IaaS

D. CaaS

 

2. Instead of hosting an on-premises PBX telephony solution, your organization

has chosen to outsource this to a public cloud provider. Which category of

cloud services does this apply to?

A. CaaS

B. SaaS

C. PaaS

D. IaaS

 

3. Marcia is an IT consultant for a medium-sized medical practice. She has

been asked to determine which outsourced cloud solutions would best meet

regulatory requirements for the health industry. Which type of cloud is best

suited for this scenario?

A. Private

B. Public

C. Health

D. Community

 

4. Software developers are most likely to consume which type of cloud service

model?

A. SaaS

B. PaaS

C. CaaS

D. IaaS

 

5. Your company stores budget forecasting data on a local file server atheadquarters. An on-premises virtual machine periodically replicates file

server data to the public cloud as an off-site backup. What type of cloud is

used for this scenario?

A. Community

B. Private

C. Hybrid

D. Public

 

6. Which of the following are cloud computing characteristics? Choose two.

A. Tracking the amount of hours a virtual machine has been running

B. Running virtual machines on a hypervisor

C. Centralized patch management

D. Automatically adding virtual machines to meet application workload

demands

 

7. Refer to the diagram in Figure 1-1. Which term best describes the scenario?

A. Cloud reaching

B. Active cloud computing

C. Passive cloud computing

D. Cloud bursting

 

Figure 1-1

 

 

 

8. A public website experiences unpredictable usage spikes that have

historically slowed down the application to unacceptable levels. What should

be configured to ensure performance is optimal during usage spikes?

A. Faster Internet connection from on premises to the cloud

B. Auto-scaling

C. Reduced virtual machine logging

D. Content delivery network

 

9. Your organization uses a private cloud for various departments. Resource

usage is tracked for each department for the purpose of ____________.

A. Chargeback

B. Depreciation

C. Disaster recovery planning

D. Penetration testing

 

10. Developers in your organization make improvements to various web

applications regularly. Currently, the process involves the manual

deployment of cloud-based virtual machines, web server configurations, and

back-end databases. What should be used to streamline this workflow?

A. Configuration management

B. Operating system imaging

C. Cloud bursting

D. Orchestration

 

11. In Figure 1-2, match the terms on the left with the associated descriptions on

the right.

 

Figure 1-2

 

 

12. Project managers complain that storing files in the cloud for a variety of

projects makes it difficult to locate files related to a single project. Which

solution involves the least amount of administrative effort?

A. Add project name metadata to cloud-stored files

B. Configure each project in its own cloud tenancy

C. Enable file auto-scaling

D. Enable departmental chargeback

 

13. Which of the following statements regarding cloud computing are correct?

Choose two.

A. Infrastructure provisioning time is increased.

B. IT capital expenditures are increased.

C. Infrastructure provisioning time is decreased.

D. IT capital expenditures are decreased.

 

14. In which cloud computing model does virtual machine operating system

patching fall under the cloud provider’s responsibility? Choose two.

A. SaaS

B. IaaS

C. PaaS

D. XaaS

 

15. Which type of document details baseline performance measurements for

cloud resource performance?

A. BIA

B. BCP

C. DRP

D. SLA

 

16. You are responsible for the migration of an on-premises Human Resources

department web application to the public cloud. Which of the following must

you do? Choose two.

A. Identify source hosts

B. Enable cloud bursting

C. Identify target hosts

D. Encrypt all cloud content

 

17. Zoey, an executive, asks the IT team to provide a list of pros and cons related

to the use of cloud computing. Which of the following are benefits of cloud

computing? Choose two.

A. Increased control of IT resources

B. Rapid deployment of IT resources

C. Focus on using technology instead of configuring it

D. SLA created by the cloud tenant

 

18. Which cloud data option provides high availability?

A. SLA

B. Virtual machines

C. Replicas

D. BLOBs

 

19. Which statement regarding a single SaaS offering is true?

A. Each cloud tenant runs an instance of the same application.

B. Each cloud tenant runs an instance of a separate application.

C. The cloud provider is responsible for data backup.

D. Cloud tenant data is accessible to other tenants.

 

20. Which of the following statements are correct? Choose two.

A. Cloud bursting relates to private and public cloud IT solutions.

B. Cloud bursting must be performed manually on-demand.

C. Elasticity allows for rapid resource provisioning.

D. Elasticity must be performed manually on-demand.

 

21. Outsourcing VoIP IT systems to public cloud providers is a form of

____________.

A. SaaS

B. PaaS

C. CaaS

D. IaaS

 

22. What is used by software developers to hook into cloud-provided

programmatic libraries?

A. Baseline

B. Object ID

C. API

D. Auto-scaling

 

23. Cloud data replication falls under which type of cloud model?

A. CaaS

B. IaaS

C. PaaS

D. SaaS

 

24. Which benefit is realized by developers using public cloud PaaS?

A. Quicker time to market

B. More control than an on-premises equivalent solution

C. No dependency on network connections

D. Wider selection of programming tools than an on-premises equivalent

solution

 

 

 

QUICK ANSWER KEY

1. C

2. A

3. D

4. B

5. C

6. A, D

7. D

8. B

9. A

10. D

11. See “In-Depth Answers.”

12. A

13. C, D

14. A, C

15. D

16. A, C

17. B, C

18. C

19. A

20. A, C

21. C

22. C

23. B

24. A

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