Exam 16: Cloud Computing

________ clouds provide IT activities and applications as a service over an intranet within an enterprise.

Dropbox and Amazon are so reliable that companies know they can be trusted with the most time-sensitive data.

Vertical clouds are the most secure type of cloud because they ensure every business in an industry only uses one internet-connected server.

Grid computing makes it easy to scale up or down based on processing needs.

The ___-as-a-service delivery model is the most widely used service model.

Cloud computing complicates privacy because sensitive data is in the hands of a third party.

________ cloud services may be free or offered on a pay-per-usage model.

Organizations that want to maintain higher security standards for some data but have less-sensitive data that does not require intranet-level protection should use a ________ cloud.

In the ___-as-a-service model, customers rent servers, Oss, storage, a database, software development technologies, and network capacity over the internet.

________ computing allows service providers to make computing resources and infrastructure management available to customers as needed and then charges a ________ rate.

________ allow organizations to create new applications quickly and easily.

________ permit different systems to "talk" with one another without requiring human beings to translate the conversations.

Cloud computing vendors are addressing security issues through the use of least-privilege authorization.

In the ________ model, customers rent servers, operating systems, storage, a database, software development technologies, and network capacity over the internet.

________ is the most widely used service model.

Define grid computing in your own words. Why would an organization like Amazon want to invest in grid computing?

IaaS is the most widely used service model.

___ is a type of computing that delivers convenient, on-demand, pay-as-you-go access for multiple customers to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly and easily accessed over the internet.

___ clouds are IT infrastructures that can be accessed only by a single entity or by an exclusive group of related entities that share the same purpose and requirements.

Cloud computing has the following benefit for employees: