Cloud Infrastructure Chapter 1
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What are the ideal goals of cloud system deployment from the perspective of the user? Name three.

What are the ideal goals of cloud system deployment from the perspective of the user? Name three.


1. Reduce your it costs by not having to maintain on site servers.


2. Ability to "Pay-as-you-grow", avoiding prohibitive up front costs when you're first starting out.


3. Ability to access applications/software without necessarily having it locally installed.

Which of the following statement regarding cloud computing is correct?

Which of the following statement regarding cloud computing is correct?


A. Infrastructure provisioning time is increased.

B. IT capital expenditures are increased.

C. Infrastructure provisioning time is decreased.

D. Application provisioning is increased


Answer: C. Infrastructure provisioning time is decreased.

Storing huge number of 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?

Storing huge number of 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


Answer: A. Add project name metadata to cloud-stored files

A public website experiences unpredictable usage spikes for the past few months and had slowed down the application to unacceptable levels. What should be configured to ensure performance is optimal during usage spikes?

A public website experiences unpredictable usage spikes for the past few months and had 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


Answer: B. Auto-scaling

Which of the following is a cloud computing characteristic?

Which of the following is a cloud computing characteristic?



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

B. Running virtual machines on a hypervisor

C. Centralized patch management

D. Automatic backup


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

Your company stores budget forecasting data on a local file server at headquarters. 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?

Your company stores budget forecasting data on a local file server at headquarters. 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


Answer: Hybrid

An IT consultant for a medium-sized medical practice 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?

An IT consultant for a medium-sized medical practice 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


Answer: D. Community

A website administrator is storing a large amount of multimedia objects in binary format for the corporate website. What type of storage object is this considered to be?

A website administrator is storing a large amount of multimedia objects in binary format for the corporate website. What type of storage object is this considered to be?


A. BLOB

B. Replica

C. Metadata

D. Object ID


Answer: A. A BLOB is a collection of binary data that is stored as a single entity. BLOBs are primarily used to store images, videos, and sound.


When you run out of computer resources in your internal data center and expand to an external cloud on demand, this is an example of what?

When you run out of computer resources in your internal data center and expand to an external cloud on demand, this is an example of what?


A. SaaS

B. Hybrid cloud

C. Cloud bursting

D. Elasticity


Answer: C. Cloud bursting allows you to add additional resources from an external cloud on an on-demand basis. The internal resource is the private cloud and the external resource is the public cloud.


Which statement defines chargeback?

Which statement defines chargeback?


A. The recovery of costs from consumers of cloud services

B. The process of identifying costs and assigning them to specific cost categories

C. A method of ensuring that cloud computing becomes a profit instead of a cost

D. A system for confirming that billing occurs for the cloud services being used


Answer: A. The purpose of a chargeback system is to measure the costs of IT services, hardware, or software and recover them from the business unit that used them.


Which of the following would be considered an advantage of cloud computing?

Which of the following would be considered an advantage of cloud computing?


A. Increased security

B. Ability to scale to meet growing usage demands

C. Ease of integrating equipment hosted in other data centers

D. Increased privacy for corporate data


Answer: B. One of the benefits of cloud computing is the ability to easily scale and add resources to meet the growth of the organization.

Which of the following statements is a benefit of a hybrid cloud?

Which of the following statements is a benefit of a hybrid cloud?


A. Data security management

B. Requirement of a major financial investment

C. Dependency of internal IT department

D. Complex networking


Answer: A. A hybrid cloud offers the ability to keep the organization's mission-critical data behind a firewall and outside of the public cloud.


Which of the following statements would be used to explain a private cloud but not a public cloud?

Which of the following statements would be used to explain a private cloud but not a public cloud?


A. Used as a service via the Internet

B. Dedicated to a single organization

C. Requires users to pay a monthly fee to access services

D. Provides incremental scalability


Answer: A private cloud is dedicated to a single organization and is contained with the corporate firewall.

A cloud deployment has been created explicitly for the finance department. What type of cloud deployment would this be defined as?

A cloud deployment has been created explicitly for the finance department. What type of cloud deployment would this be defined as?


A. Public cloud

B. Hybrid cloud

C. Community cloud

D. Private cloud


Answer: C. A community cloud is a cloud solution that provides services to a specific or limited number of individuals who share a common computing need.


What type of computing solution would be defined as a platform that is implemented within the corporate firewall and is under the control of the IT department?

What type of computing solution would be defined as a platform that is implemented within the corporate firewall and is under the control of the IT department?


A. Private cloud

B. Public cloud

C. VLAN

D. VPN


Answer: A. A private cloud is a cloud computing solution that is implemented behind a corporate firewall and is under the control of the internal IT department.


Which of the following is usually accessed via a web browser?

Which of the following is usually accessed via a web browser?


A. IaaS

B. SaaS

C. PaaS

D. Virtual machines


Answer: C. PaaS provides a platform to allow developers to build applications and services over the Internet. PaaS is hosted in the cloud and accessed with a web browser.


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