EH Chapter 15: Cloud Computing And The Internet Of Things

Which of these is not an example of an IoT device?

Chromebook

Why is REST a common approach to web application design?

HTTP is stateless.

Which of these cloud offerings relies on the customer having the most responsibility?

Infrastructure as a service

Which of these is less likely to be a common element of cloud‐native design?

Virtual machines

Which of these is not an advantage of using automation in a cloud environment?

Fault tolerance

What common element of a general‐purpose computing platform does an IoT not typically have?

External keyboards

If you wanted to share documents with someone using a cloud provider, which service would you be most likely to use?

Storage as a service

What tool could you use to identify IoT devices on a network?

nmap

What might you be most likely to use to develop a web application that used a mobile application for the user interface?

RESTful API

Which of these might be a concern with moving services to a cloud provider, away from on‐premise services?

Inability to implement security controls

What modern capability does fog computing support?

IoT

Which of these is an example of grid computing?

SETI@home

What is a botnet an example of?

Grid computing

Which of these would be least likely as a vulnerability to serverless web applications?

Command injection

No matter what cloud‐based service model is being used, which of these is the customer always responsible for?

Data

What devices would you find at the lowest layer of the Purdue model and, as a result, should be the best protected?

Sensors and actuators

What aspect of the Purdue model is considered essential from a security perspective?

Segmentation

What is a good mitigation against credential compromise in cloud‐based services?

Requiring MFA

Which of these might be a common problem with a cloud‐based service leading to data exposure?

Public buckets

Which of these would not be used to automate deployment of systems into a cloud environment?

Containers