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
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.
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