Chapter 1 ■ Architectural Concepts Review Questions

Programming as a service (PaaS)

Which of the following is not a common cloud service model?

Quantum computing

Which one of the following emerging technologies, if fully implemented, would jeopardize the security of current encryption technology?

Service-­level agreements (SLAs)

Cloud vendors are held to contractual obligations with specified metrics by

Business requirements

________ drive security decisions.

Availability

If a cloud customer cannot get access to the cloud provider, this affects what portion of the CIA triad?

Regulator

You recently worked with a third-­party vendor to help you implement a SaaS offering provided by a different company. Which one of the following cloud service roles is not represented here?

Type 1 hypervisors

Which of the following hypervisor types is most likely to be seen in a cloud provider’s data center?

Risks

All of these are reasons an organization may want to consider cloud migration except ___________________.

Negating the need for backups

The generally accepted definition of cloud computing includes all of the following characteristics except ___________________.

Interoperability

You are working on a governance project designed to make sure the different cloud services used in your organization work well together. What goal are you attempting to achieve?

Vendor lock- in

The risk that a customer might not be able to switch cloud providers at a later date is known as ___________________.

Diminished elasticity

All of these are characteristics of cloud computing except __________________.

Cloud customer

When a cloud customer uploads personally identifiable information (PII) to a cloud provider, who is ultimately responsible for the security of that PII?

Business impact analysis (BIA)

We use which of the following to determine the critical paths, processes, and assets of an organization?

Private

If an organization owns all of the hardware and infrastructure of a cloud data center that is used only by members of that organization, which cloud deployment model would this be?

Public

The cloud deployment model that features ownership by a cloud provider, with services offered to anyone who wants to subscribe, is known as ___________________.

Community

The cloud deployment model that features joint ownership of assets among an affinity group is known as ___________________.

VM escape

You are concerned that an attacker might be able to use a guest virtual machine to gain access to the underlying hypervisor. What term describes this threat?

SaaS

You are considering purchasing an e-­commerce system where the cloud provider runs a hosted application on their own servers. What cloud service category is the provider offering?

IaaS

If a cloud customer wants to build their own computing environment using storage, networking, and compute resources offered by a cloud provider, which cloud service category would probably be best?