Question 1

Why is the term pooled used to describe the cloud?

Accepted Answer

Cloud resources are pooled because many different organizations use the same physical hardware,which they share through virtualization.Cloud vendors dynamically allocate virtual machines to physical hardware as customer needs increase or decrease.

Question 2

What is a private cloud? What are its limitations?

Accepted Answer

A private cloud is a cloud that is owned and operated by an organization for its own benefit.Private clouds provide the advantages of elasticity,but to a questionable benefit.Organizations cannot repurpose their idle servers for use by other companies.Even a large conglomerate or major international company that uses the idle servers to balance processing loads across subsidiary business units and across different geographical regions is unlikely to save money or time.It is unimaginable that any noncloud company could build and operate a cloud service facility that competes with those provided by the existing large cloud vendors.Also,most organizations choose not to replicate database servers because of the complexity of managing multiple database servers.

Question 3

As standard practice,customers are regularly updated by cloud vendors about the location and number of copies made of their data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

Database management system (DBMS)products are included in infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Cloud computing is likely to lead to an increase in the number of technology-based startups.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

What are the factors that have made cloud-based hosting advantageous?

Accepted Answer

Three factors have made cloud-based host

Question 7

A tunnel is a virtual,private pathway over a public or shared network from the virtual private network (VPN)client to the VPN server.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

What is a virtual private network?

Accepted Answer

A) It is a markup language that fixes several HyperText Markup Language (HTML)deficiencies and is commonly used for program-to-program interaction over the Web. 
B) It is an add-on to browsers that was developed by Adobe and is useful for providing animation,movies,and other advanced graphics inside a browser. 
C) It is the most common language for defining the structure and layout of Web pages. 
D) It is a connection that uses the Internet to create secure point-to-point connections. 
A) It is a markup language that fixes several HyperText Markup Language (HTML)deficiencies and is commonly used for program-to-program interaction over the Web. 
B) It is an add-on to browsers that was developed by Adobe and is useful for providing animation,movies,and other advanced graphics inside a browser. 
C) It is the most common language for defining the structure and layout of Web pages. 
D) It is a connection that uses the Internet to create secure point-to-point connections.

Question 9

What are the advantages of building an internal information system using Web services?

Accepted Answer

Organizations can use Web services to bu

Question 10

Explain how a content delivery network ensures fast delivery of data on demand.

Accepted Answer

A content delivery network (CDN)is a sys

Question 11

Why is cloud hosting preferred to in-house hosting?

Accepted Answer

Cloud hosting allows the number of serve

Question 12

The cloud-based service that provides the hardware and allows customers to load an operating system of their choice is known as ________.

Accepted Answer

A) application virtualization 
B) platform as a service (PaaS) 
C) infrastructure as a service (IaaS) 
D) network functions virtualization (NFV) 
A) application virtualization 
B) platform as a service (PaaS) 
C) infrastructure as a service (IaaS) 
D) network functions virtualization (NFV)

Question 13

A small company is likely to choose infrastructure as a service (IaaS)as it does not require much technical expertise to load operating systems on a server.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Content delivery networks (CDNs)are used to store and deliver content that rarely changes.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Organizations can dynamically reuse servers that use Web services internally by ________.

Accepted Answer

A) creating a private cloud 
B) replicating the servers 
C) allocating different servers for different services 
D) making the servers elastic 
A) creating a private cloud 
B) replicating the servers 
C) allocating different servers for different services 
D) making the servers elastic

Question 16

Cloud computing can enable organizations to readily obtain elastic resources at very low costs.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Which of the following statements is true of content delivery networks (CDNs)?

Accepted Answer

A) They reduce access costs by delivering data faster. 
B) They distribute data on different servers without any data replication. 
C) They use geographic proximity as the factor to decide which server should deliver a requested content. 
D) They use predetermined servers to deliver content to each location irrespective of traffic changes. 
A) They reduce access costs by delivering data faster. 
B) They distribute data on different servers without any data replication. 
C) They use geographic proximity as the factor to decide which server should deliver a requested content. 
D) They use predetermined servers to deliver content to each location irrespective of traffic changes.

Question 18

Which of the following is an advantage of a virtual private network (VPN)?

Accepted Answer

A) It can be used to physically connect a client and the server. 
B) It helps to securely access information over the public Internet. 
C) It facilitates easy access to an organization's data without requiring security access. 
D) It does not depend on the Internet to function effectively. 
A) It can be used to physically connect a client and the server. 
B) It helps to securely access information over the public Internet. 
C) It facilitates easy access to an organization's data without requiring security access. 
D) It does not depend on the Internet to function effectively.

Question 19

Explain why cloud-based hosting does not make sense for some organizations.

Accepted Answer

The only organizations for which cloud h

Question 20

Explain how software as a service (SaaS)works.

Accepted Answer

Software as a service (SaaS)is a categor

Exam 6: The Cloud

Why is the term pooled used to describe the cloud?

What is a private cloud? What are its limitations?

As standard practice,customers are regularly updated by cloud vendors about the location and number of copies made of their data.

Database management system (DBMS)products are included in infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

Cloud computing is likely to lead to an increase in the number of technology-based startups.

What are the factors that have made cloud-based hosting advantageous?

A tunnel is a virtual,private pathway over a public or shared network from the virtual private network (VPN)client to the VPN server.

What is a virtual private network?

What are the advantages of building an internal information system using Web services?

Explain how a content delivery network ensures fast delivery of data on demand.

Why is cloud hosting preferred to in-house hosting?

The cloud-based service that provides the hardware and allows customers to load an operating system of their choice is known as ________.

A small company is likely to choose infrastructure as a service (IaaS)as it does not require much technical expertise to load operating systems on a server.

Content delivery networks (CDNs)are used to store and deliver content that rarely changes.

Organizations can dynamically reuse servers that use Web services internally by ________.

Cloud computing can enable organizations to readily obtain elastic resources at very low costs.

Which of the following statements is true of content delivery networks (CDNs)?

Which of the following is an advantage of a virtual private network (VPN)?

Explain why cloud-based hosting does not make sense for some organizations.

Explain how software as a service (SaaS)works.

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