Exam 16: Cloud Computing

Server farms are often inefficient but ensure an organization can scale up quickly when customer demand increases.

Cloud computing has the following benefit for companies:

________ clouds allow you to build cloud infrastructure and applications more multiple businesses in an industry.

Which of the following cloud computing characteristics gives customers elasticity and flexibility because it allows customers to access needed computing resources automatically?

________ can perform a wide variety of tasks from automating business processes to integrating components of an enterprisewide system to streamlining online buying and selling.

________ computing pools various hardware and software components to create a single IT environment with shared resources.

Modern organizations do not use mainframes because cloud computing is much more efficient.

________ allow organizational personnel to access remote or local data without having to understand the complexities of that process.

Which of the following cloud computing characteristics represents the organization's ability to access its computing resources using any device?

The NSA uses a public cloud because it is analyzing public data.

Cloud computing has the following benefit for employees:

The computing resources from the evolution of the modern IT infrastructure are cumulative; this means some organizations still use mainframes today.

________ allows MIS professionals to search for needed web services by creating public or private searchable directories of these services.

XML and HTML are both markup languages used to create the look and feel of the internet.

________ computing makes scalability easy.

___ computing pools various hardware and software components to create a single IT environment with shared resources.

Private clouds provide IT activities and applications as a service over ________.

________ is a set of rules that define how messages can be exchange among different network systems and applications.

________ is the most recent evolution of the modern IT infrastructure.

Describe the four types of clouds. Suppose you are a large, online retailer, what type of cloud would you want to implement (why)? Suppose you are a small, 5-person retailer, what type of cloud would you want to implement (why)? Explain why your answers are similar or different for these two company sizes.