MIS Module 5 Quiz

Before moving to AWS, the Fanatics infrastructure team spent most of its time maintaining 1,800 servers across five data centers. Which on-premises problem does this BEST illustrate?

A. Vendor lock-in with a single cloud provider

B. The need for dedicated IT staff to manage and maintain the infrastructure

C. Too much elasticity during sports peak seasons

D. The complexity of managing several public cloud providers

B. The need for dedicated IT staff to manage and maintain the infrastructure

Fanatics is moving its Oracle and SQL Server databases to Amazon RDS, a managed database service where AWS handles the operating system, patching, and scaling. Which service model is this?

A. Platform as a Service (PaaS)

B. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

C. Software as a Service (SaaS)

D. Private cloud

A. Platform as a Service (PaaS)

After its migration, Fanatics runs its systems in three AWS Regions instead of five of its own data centers. Which risk is Fanatics MOST likely to still face?

A. Paying a huge upfront amount for new servers

B. Not being able to scale up for sports peak seasons

C. Depending heavily on AWS, making it costly to switch providers or to handle an AWS outage

D. Needing a bigger server room for its warehouse systems

C. Depending heavily on AWS, making it costly to switch providers or to handle an AWS outage

The Fanatics case reports "up to 48% infrastructure cost savings." Which statement describes this number MOST accurately?

A. It is a final result confirmed by an independent auditor

B. It proves that the cloud is always cheaper than on-premises

C. It applies to every company that moves to AWS

D. It is a projected saving Fanatics is on track to achieve, reported in a case study written by AWS

D. It is a projected saving Fanatics is on track to achieve, reported in a case study written by AWS

Capital One has about 100 million customers, and any downtime means they cannot reach their accounts or make payments. Which action did Capital One take on AWS to reduce this risk?

A. It kept all customer-facing systems on-premises

B. It set up automated failover that switches to backup systems, even across AWS Regions

C. It moved only its email to a SaaS product

D. It stopped testing its systems to avoid causing outages

B. It set up automated failover that switches to backup systems, even across AWS Regions

Every month, Capital One runs AWS GameDay exercises where teams break things on purpose in a safe sandbox. What is the main business reason for doing this?

A. To find weak spots before a real outage happens, like a fire drill

B. To lower the monthly AWS bill

C. To train customers on how to use the mobile app

D. To avoid needing any IT staff

A. To find weak spots before a real outage happens, like a fire drill

In the class scenario, a fictional regional bank wanted real-time fraud detection for debit card swipes. Its older core account system runs on-premises, card activity jumps during the holidays, and its IT team is small. Which solution BEST fits the reasoning from class?

A. Move everything, including the core account system, to on-premises servers only

B. Use a single SaaS email tool for fraud detection

C. Keep the core account system on-premises and run fraud detection in the cloud so it can scale for the holidays

D. Buy enough on-premises servers for the busiest holiday day and keep them all year

C. Keep the core account system on-premises and run fraud detection in the cloud so it can scale for the holidays

In the same fictional bank scenario, which factor pushed TOWARD keeping part of the system on-premises?

A. Card activity spikes during the holiday season

B. The IT team is small

C. Leadership wants the system launched quickly

D. The data is sensitive and regulated, and the old core system may not easily migrate

D. The data is sensitive and regulated, and the old core system may not easily migrate

Blackboard sees a huge jump in traffic during the first week of each semester and much less traffic in the summer. If the company ran Blackboard only on its own servers, what would MOST likely happen for most of the year?

A. Servers bought for the busiest week would sit idle, a problem called under-utilization

B. The servers would automatically shrink to match demand

C. The company would pay only for what it used, like a utility bill

D. The servers would crash every day

A. Servers bought for the busiest week would sit idle, a problem called under-utilization

Gartner notes that AWS experience is "practically a default hiring requirement." Because many companies use AWS, more workers learn AWS, and that pool of skilled workers attracts even more companies to AWS. Which concept does this cycle show?

A. Long tail

B. Network effect

C. Disintermediation

D Green computing

B. Network effect

An accounting department switches to QuickBooks Online. Who is responsible for installing software updates and maintaining the servers?

A. The accounting department

B. The company's own IT team

C. The provider, because this is SaaS

D. Nobody, because cloud software never needs updates

C. The provider, because this is SaaS

A web development company rents virtual servers on Amazon EC2 to host client apps and installs and manages its own operating systems. Under this model, which layers does the company STILL manage?

A. Only the applications

B. Nothing; the provider manages everything

C. The physical servers and storage drives

D. The operating system, data, and applications

D. The operating system, data, and applications

A hospital keeps patient records in its own private cloud because of privacy rules but runs its public appointment website on Microsoft Azure so it can handle busy mornings. Which deployment model is this?

A. Hybrid cloud

B. Multicloud

C. Public cloud only

D. On-premises only

A. Hybrid cloud

Gartner describes a 14-hour outage in AWS's U.S.-East-1 region. A company that runs its online store entirely in that region wants to reduce the impact of the next outage. Which strategy BEST addresses this risk?

A. Switch from IaaS to SaaS for the online store

B. Use more than one cloud provider or region so the store can fail over if one goes down

C. Sign a longer contract with the same provider

D. Move all data to employees' laptops

B. Use more than one cloud provider or region so the store can fail over if one goes down

Your laptop dies at 11 PM and your group project is due at 9 AM. Your files are in OneDrive, so you continue from a library computer. Then the library Wi-Fi goes down. Which cloud benefit do you LOSE until the connection returns?

A. Backup and recovery of files already saved

B. The fact that your files are stored on remote servers

C. Real-time collaboration with your teammates

D. Storage offloading from your laptop

C. Real-time collaboration with your teammates

The Capital One case shows that banks are not allowed to move their core systems to a public cloud.

TRUE or FALSE

FALSE

Fanatics consolidated its systems into AWS Regions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific partly to reduce slow performance for employees in places like Bangkok and Hyderabad.

TRUE or FALSE

TRUE

A two-person startup working from a shared coworking space benefits from the cloud because it avoids large upfront spending on servers, space, and IT staff.

TRUE or FALSE

TRUE

If the Tuscaloosa game-day gear shop moves its website to the cloud, it is guaranteed to spend less than it would on-premises in every situation.

TRUE or FALSE

FALSE

A marketing team that uses Salesforce to manage customers and campaigns must patch and update Salesforce's servers itself.

TRUE or FALSE

FALSE

When a company shuts down its small server room and moves its workloads to a large cloud provider's data center, it can reduce energy use because centralized data centers and virtualization use power more efficiently.

TRUE or FALSE

TRUE

An accounting department logs into QuickBooks Online with no setup

SaaS

A web development company rents virtual servers on Amazon EC2 and installs its own operating systems

IaaS

A bank keeps its core account system on-premises and runs fraud detection in a public cloud

Hybrid Cloud

A retailer runs its website on AWS and its analytics on Google Cloud at the same time

Multicloud

Fanatics moves its databases to Amazon RDS, a managed database service

PaaS

Years after migrating, Fanatics would find it hard and costly to leave AWS if prices rose

Vendor lock-in

An IT manager can no longer inspect or configure the physical servers that run the company's app

Loss of control

A company receives reports of ransomware and leaked customer data, like the Secure Legends GameDay challenge

Security and privacy

A country's law requires that citizens' data be stored inside its borders

Compliance

A 14-hour outage in AWS's U.S.-East-1 region stops online orders

Downtime

Complete the sentence about the Fanatics case: Fanatics said it does not want to run _______, so it moved to AWS, replaced rigid multi-year contracts with ______ pricing, and can now scale up during sports _______.

1. data centers

2. pay-as-you-go

3. peak seasons

Complete the sentence about the Capital One case: Using automated _____ across AWS Regions, Capital One cut its recovery time from ______ to ________.

1. failover

2. hours

3. minutes

Complete the sentence about the service models: Moving from ______ to ______ to ______, a company gives up control and customization but gains convenience.

1. IaaS

2. PaaS

3. SaaS