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As a recent college graduate you are thinking of creating a start-up company and you are looking for a simple and low cost way of storing, processing, and accessing your data. In addition, you want to minimize risks and expenses as much as possible. What is the best solution that will meet the criteria above?
Cloud Computing
Which of the following is a Cloud Service model that is responsible for infrastructure, application stack, and application?
Iaas
Henry has a start-up company and is thinking of implementing cloud computing. What is something he should do to avoid bad cloud computing practices?
A) Research a vendor and not choose one based on familiarity
B) Educate himself on cloud computing
C) Make sure the architects, product team, and security professionals have a broad understanding of cloud computing
D) Understand the risk and points of failure of the design
E) All of the Above (correct)
Which of the following is an agreement between the cloud service provider (CSP) and the cloud service consumer (CSC) that sets an expectation level of service between the two parties?
SLA
XYZ Company has its headquarters in Manhattan. It is continuing to grow, and to accommodate for the lack of office space, it opens another office across the Hudson River in Jersey City. What type of network should be used to connect the two locations?
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
You have just created a new social networking website. Based on the opinions of users and investors of the site, you expect it to grow very rapidly. You project that the website could go from just 20,000 users this year to 1,000,000 users by the next year. What server solution would you recommend to a company with growth of this velocity?
Cloud Computing
You are the CEO of a start-up that is in its beginning stages. You are looking for a cloud service that is not complex and requires little investment in expertise, but one that still allows you to be flexible. Which service should you choose?
Platform as a service
Characteristics that influence defining service level agreements (SLAs) include all of the following except...
A) Consumer vs Enterprise Customers
B) Paying vs Nonpaying Customers
C) Regulated industry vs Unregulated industry
D) Public vs Private Sector Customers (correct)
JMU was founded in 1908, and since then many changes had occurred. Today we can easily communicate with anybody at the Rose library while being at the Memorial hall. What type of network is used by JMU?
Backbone Network (BN)
What was the example of the Start-up that went from a zero to a billion overnight?
The cloud infrastructure that is provided for exclusive use by a single organization comprising multiple consumers and also can be owned managed and operated by the organization, a third party, or some combination of them is
Private cloud
Donald Duck wants to use the Spotify premium, how the SLA for this transaction will be defined?
Consumer, paying, nonregulated industry, personally identifiable
What has been the biggest technological shift since the birth of the personal computer?
Cloud computing
Which is NOT one of the three cloud service models?
A) Information as a Service (correct)
B) Software as a Service
C) Infrastructure as a Service
D) Platform as a Service
John is looking for a cloud service that does not save or store any information from previous requests or responses. What kind of service is he looking for?
Stateless service
When an organization uses risk control strategy, which of the following is NOT an action that the organization will take in reference to the risk?
A) Consume it (correct)
B) Accept it
C) Mitigate it
D) Share it
E) Defer it
The acronym ISP stands for...
Internet Service Provider
Netflix uses cloud computing as a competitive advantage for all the reasons EXCEPT...
A) The ability to scale at amazing levels
B) Controlling costs
C) Using a centralized architecture (correct)
D) Reducing risk of downtime
The acronym IaaS stands for...
Infrastructure as a Service
The Service Level Agreements (SLA) discussed in this chapter are...
Private, Public, and Hybrid
Microsoft programmers created a new software package that was being used by a few in the marketplace, but is not accepted by industry leaders and standardized for widespread use. What type of standard does this software currently have?
De facto
When cloud computing was first introduced, what types of entities most likely did not adopt the technology early on?
Enterprises
After a customer has logged into an e-commerce site, they begin to add items for purchase to their "shopping cart" by interacting within the user interface. This action represents which part of the Cloud Stack?
Application
A healthcare provider is looking for an SLA that needs to have certain characteristics due to the nature of their regulated business. Which characteristic of an SLA is MOST necessary in this scenario?
Strong performance
Which one is not a component of a network?
A) Client
B) Circuit
C) Server
D) Internet (correct)
Cloud computing does all of the following except for
A) Allows payment of cloud services on-demand
B) Improves the internet speed of the user (correct)
C) Facilitates massive amounts of computing resources
D) Broadens the network access over the internet
Amazon Web Services offers a collection of services that can be accessed and automated from code and/or web-based management consoles. AWS is known as a
IaaS
Common metrics-based SLAs used in contracts between providers and enterprise cloud consumers include all of the following except
A) Transaction processing times
B) Incident resolution times
C) Security and privacy safeguards
D) Overall uptime of application/service
Adam works in a service company and is responsible for making sure that the hardware and softwork products the company purchases complement eachother. In the standardization process he uses, he goes through the stages of specification, indentification of choices and acceptance. He is using the ____________ standardization process.
De jure
Adam has recently acquired cloud technology and is presuming that it will cut pack costs and bring in great revenue. On the Gartner Hype Cycle, where is Adam positioned?
Peak of inflate expectation
In the service model SAAS, which Cloud Stack category is omitted?
User
XYZ Company Inc., is using a client-server architecture where their workload is being distributed across the different PCs. They are starting to notice that their applications have gaping security holes resulting in security breaches, identify thefts, and cyber-threats. The company is experiencing an effect known as ...
Wild West Effect
XYZ Company Inc. is moving to cloud computing. However, the company's developers still want to have full control over the design and coding of their applications. They do not want give up their flexibility on coding, such as figuring out memory allocation and stack configurations. What service model should the company use?
Iaas
Yay Company owns a social media site that allows its users to chat live with people around the world and only require their name and email address to create a free account. What SLAs should the company have in place for their users?
SLAs around privacy
From the five layer Internet model, which layer is responsible for detecting and correcting any errors that may have occurred during transmission?
Data link layer
Jim is planning on using the cloud computing model to develop his new music-sharing application. He claims that cloud computing will allow him to use a pay-as-you-go billing/pricing model, without having to buy any hardware, and _______.
Without having to build any data centers
ABC Company wants to use a cloud service model which will allow them not to have to support the application infrastructure, provide maintenance, and hire staff to manage it all. Instead they want to pay a subscription fee and simply use the service over the Internet as a browser-based service. Which cloud service model should ABC choose?
SaaS
George is an IT professional at a medium sized company and has been assigned to improve their network. He first needs to figure out what kind of network he is working with. The employees each have a work station that is equal to all the other ones and do not rely on a central server. What kind of network is this?
Peer-to-peer network
George continues to work with the medium sized company and finds that he thinks the best decision is to connect to a new Metropolitan network because the the company is geographically located in a place where they can access two different networks. What is this component of network known as?
Backbone network
In order to maintain a strong cloud computing environment for its users, there had to be an establishment of standards and rules. Who makes these?
NIST & CSA
A new bank is opening up in a small town and is using cloud computing to backbone their systems. They are negotiating with a couple cloud computing companies to see who would be the most secure. A good indicator of this would be…
A high amount of SLA’s
Who is an SLA agreement between?
CSP & CSC
Diamond Games LLC is modifying its website and adding features including e-mail and video embeds. Which standard may apply to these changes? (Hint: Think about the network layer)
MPEG
KO Ledge Inc. is developing an iOS app called FratChat. They don't know how many users they will have three months after launching. They plan to utilize cloud computing, why is that a smart idea?
Cloud computing resources can be bought on a pay-as-you-go basis so the company won't have to pay for users they don't have
A freelance developer is releasing a social networking app soon. He is deciding which cloud computing deployment model to use. He wants to mitigate the chance of any data leaks and regulatory problems. Which model is best for him?
Private
E-Nut-Butter is an e-commerce company that is seeking a new PaaS. What is something in the SLA that will not be too important to E-Nut-Butter, with regards to metrics?
Twitter shares per minute
A local company has a complex network of workstations, switches, and servers. The network is only accessible from within the workstations on site, and it never accesses any data from off-site. This type of network would best be described as a(n) __.
Intranet
Cloud computing has been most quickly adopted by small and medium businesses (SMBs) as opposed to large corporations for what reason?
Expensiveness of moving legacy applications into a new computing environment
Gliffy, a diagram drawing software provided via the internet, offers users the ability to draw flowcharts, network diagrams, and activity charts, all for a price of five dollar per month. Gliffy is best categorized as which of the following?
Software as a Service
Sam works at a small office in Harrisonburg VA. This is the company's only office. What kind of network does this company use to connect its computers?
LAN
ABC Company is having several problems. They have spent thousands of dollars on buying multiple servers, but they are still unable to compete with companies that bought and managed infrastructure and data centers. What should ABC Company do?
Switch to cloud computing and pay-as-you-go
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of a Public Cloud?
Control
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