Cloud Essentials - Chapter 1, 2 & 3 - Sybex

Question 1

What term is used for the division of a DB into small data sets for processing in the cloud?

Accepted Answer

Sharding

Question 2

T/F: Adoption of public cloud services requires an org to first implement private/hybrid clouds

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 3

Which type of cloud computing only involves resources in the organisation's own data centre?

Accepted Answer

Private

Question 4

Which level of management is provided by all cloud service providers, for all types of *aaS?

Accepted Answer

Infrastructure

Question 5

T/F: Vendor lock-in concerns only relate to PaaS cloud implementations

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 6

When a service has been migrated into the cloud, where is it really located?

Accepted Answer

Almost anywhere

Question 7

Which model of cloud best represents the current (US) electrical utility grid?

Accepted Answer

Public

Question 8

Another name for a pool of resources managed by self-service on-demand automation tools

Accepted Answer

Cloud Computing

Question 9

What characteristic of cloud computing reduces data centre costs?

Accepted Answer

Flexibility and sustainability of cloud service models

Question 10

Which technology allows cloud computing to split up processes across multiple resource pools?

Accepted Answer

Distributed Application Design

Question 11

At what IT infrastructure level are server costs capital expenses rather than operational?

Accepted Answer

Traditional

Question 12

What is the term used in virtualisation to reflect more than 1 OS running on 1 host server

Accepted Answer

Multi-tenancy

Question 13

At which NIST "aaS" level is the current concern of vendor lock-in for custom apps greatest?

Accepted Answer

PaaS

Question 14

What type of cloud model would enable cloud bursting?

Accepted Answer

Hybrid

Question 15

T/F: Application life cycle management in the cloud is more complex than in traditional models.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 16

Which type of cloud is not specified expressly by NIST?

Accepted Answer

Partitioned Public

Question 17

What characteristic of cloud computing reduces admin costs?

Accepted Answer

Self-service or automated resource management

Question 18

Which level of the cloud service pyramid allows greatest flexibility for app development?

Accepted Answer

IaaS

Question 19

Which type of cloud allows an organisation to share its local cloud services with its partners?

Accepted Answer

Community

Question 20

Which type of cloud is used when external mandates require a high degree of data governance?

Accepted Answer

Private

Question 21

What type of cloud service is the most common?

Accepted Answer

SaaS

Question 22

Blending Google Docs and MS Azure for data collection and management is a __.

Accepted Answer

Hybrid cloud deployment

Question 23

Which NIST "aaS" model is best suited to full customisation for an organisation's services?

Accepted Answer

IaaS

Question 24

Where does the term cloud come from?

Accepted Answer

Network Diagrams

Question 25

T/F: All cloud services fall into only one of the NIST models

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 26

Which type of client lacks storage for applications?

Accepted Answer

Thin

Question 27

T/F: Cloud computing is the same as virtualised computing

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 28

Which example of new cloud computing roles will focus more on financial matters?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Service Manager

Question 29

Which category of "as a Service" models is not specifically identified by NIST?

Accepted Answer

Everything as a Service

Question 30

T/F: Cloud computing is inherently an ecologically green technology

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Cloud Essentials - Chapter 1, 2 & 3 - Sybex

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Cloud Essentials - Chapter 1, 2 & 3 - Sybex

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