Course #1 Practice Test

Question 1

What is a key broad theme applicable across many cloud benefits like scalability, high availability, reliability, and predictability?

a) Centralized control
b) Manual resource allocation
c) Automation plus instantly available resources
d) Limited flexibility

Answer 1

c) Automation plus instantly available resources

Question 2

What does high availability in the cloud primarily mean?

a) Low cost
b) Systems are always available, even automatically
c) Easy management
d) High performance

Answer 2

b) Systems are always available, even automatically

Question 3

Scalability in the cloud refers to what types of scaling and resource provision?

a) Only scaling up manually
b) Scaling out (horizontal) or scaling up (vertical), while automatically providing resources
c) Reducing resource usage
d) Fixed resource allocation

Answer 3

b) Scaling out (horizontal) or scaling up (vertical), while automatically providing resources

Question 4

Reliability in the cloud, as described, concerns the ability to tolerate what?

a) High costs
b) Failures or even total disasters
c) Security breaches
d) Slow performance

Answer 4

b) Failures or even total disasters

Question 5

Predictability in the cloud involves knowing what aspects of your application?

a) Only future costs
b) Only current performance
c) Always knowing expected minimum performance and cost (now and future)
d) Only security vulnerabilities

Answer 5

c) Always knowing expected minimum performance and cost (now and future)

Question 6

Which cloud service type is most easily thought of as managed infrastructure and is almost always synonymous with virtual machines (VMs)?

a) SaaS
b) PaaS
c) IaaS
d) Serverless

Answer 6

c) IaaS

Question 7

Compared to other cloud service models, which one offers the most amount of control and flexibility, but also the most customer responsibility?

a) Software as a Service (SaaS)
b) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
c) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
d) Serverless

Answer 7

c) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS

Question 8

Which cloud service type is defined as a fully managed cloud solution where the vendor handles the underlying infrastructure, freeing the customer to focus on application development?

a) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
b) Software as a Service (SaaS)
c) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
d) Managed Infrastructure Service

Answer 8

c) Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Question 9

Serverless computing is described as an extreme version of which cloud service type?

a) IaaS
b) PaaS
c) SaaS
d) Hybrid Cloud

Answer 9

b) PaaS

Question 10

Which cloud service type is defined as ready-to-go cloud-based software, typically productivity applications, accessed over the internet with hosting and scaling handled?

a) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
b) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
c) Software as a Service (SaaS)
d) Serverless

Answer 10

c) Software as a Service (SaaS)

Question 11

What is the definition of cloud computing?

a) Storing data off-site
b) Renting physical servers
c) The on-demand delivery of compute services over the internet
d) Building a private data center

Answer 11

c) The on-demand delivery of compute services over the internet

Question 12

In the shared responsibility model, what is the customer always responsible for?

a) Physical host, physical network, physical data center access
b) Information and data, device security, and accounts and identities c) Operating system updates
d) Physical security

Answer 12

b) Information and data, device security, and accounts and identities

Question 13

In the shared responsibility model, what is the cloud provider always responsible for?

a) Customer data
b) Device security
c) Accounts and identities
d) All the physical assets like physical host, physical network, and the physical data center access

Answer 13

d) All the physical assets like physical host, physical network, and the physical data center access

Question 14

Which cloud model is described as a cloud for one customer, similar to an on-premises data center, not available to the general public?

a) Public cloud
b) Hybrid cloud
c) Private cloud
d) Community cloud

Answer 14

c) Private cloud

Question 15

What is the key difference between Capital Expenditures (CapEx) and Operational Expenditures (OpEx)?

a) CapEx is pay-as-you-go, OpEx is upfront
b) OpEx is a pay-as-you-go structure versus the large upfront investments of CapEx
c) CapEx is operational cost, OpEx is capital investment
d) Both involve forecasting long-term needs

Answer 15

b) OpEx is a pay-as-you-go structure versus the large upfront investments of CapEx