Cloud Computing 4.1

Question 1

The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the internet

Answer 1

Cloud Computing

Question 2

• Services experience very little downtime when using the cloud
• ______ is the percentage of uptime versus downtime

Answer 2

High Availability

Question 3

increase the number of items in a system at a linear rate or less

Answer 3

Scalability

Question 4

increasing the power of the existing resources in the working environment such adding more RAM or CPU

Answer 4

Vertical Scaling (Scaling Up)

Question 5

Adding additional resources to help handle the extra load being experienced such as another more servers

Answer 5

Horizontal Scaling (Scaling Out)

Question 6

The ability to quickly scale up or down

Answer 6

Rapid Elasticity

Question 7

• Being charged for a service on a pay per use basis
• the benefit of using the cloud is that most things are done on a metered basis

Answer 7

Metered Utilization

Question 8

• Charging is based upon the actual usage of the service being consumed

Answer 8

Measured services

Question 9

• The ability to minimize the costs by putting VMs on other servers
• _____ is pooling together all the hardware to make a cloud provider

Answer 9

Shared Resources

Question 10

The ability to store data that can spread to other places depending on the configuration

Answer 10

File Synchronization

Question 11

Systems and users interact with devices on public networks, such as the internet and other clouds

Answer 11

Public Cloud

Question 12

Systems and users that only have access with other devices inside the same private cloud or system

Answer 12

Private Cloud

Question 13

Combo of private and public clouds

Answer 13

Hybrid Cloud

Question 14

Collaborative effort where infrastructure is shared between several organizations with common service needs

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Community Cloud

Question 15

Allows customers to share computing resources in a public or private cloud

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Multitenancy

Question 16

Assigns a particular resource to a single organization

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Single tenancy

Question 17

• Needs to procure hardware, software, and personnel necessary to run the organization’s cloud

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On-Premise Solution

Question 18

____ solution allows the ability to control all the physical and logical access to servers

Answer 18

On premise solution

Question 19

Third party service provider that provides all the hardware and facilities needed to maintain a cloud solution

Answer 19

Hosted Solution

Question 20

Hosts desktop OSs within a virtualized environment hosted by a centralized server or server farm

Answer 20

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Question 21

Data in _____ solution may be exposed to other servers

Answer 21

multitenancy

Question 22

Maintained by a service provider and provided to the end user as a service

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Hosted Model/ Desktop as a Service (DAAS)

Question 23

Performs all the application processing and data storage

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Sever

Question 24

Hosts all the desktop instances on a single server or sever farm

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Centralized Model

Question 25

Amount of space on a cloud based server as file storage

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Cloud Storage Application

Question 26

the ability to synchronize from different devices using a single account

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File Synchronization

Question 27

Network of servers that locates the nearest server to minimize delay or download time

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Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Question 28

Enables the network to be intelligently and centrally controlled, or programmed, using software applications

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Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Question 29

Focuses on the communication resource requests or info about the network as a whole

Answer 29

Application Layer

Question 30

uses the info from the applications and decides how to route a data packet on the network

Answer 30

Control Layer

Question 31

Contains the network devices that receive info about where to move the data

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Infrastructure Layer

Question 32

Used to monitor traffic conditions and the status of the network

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Management Plane