CLOUD COMPUTING QUIZ 4

What advantage is there for an enterprise to adopt a virtual private cloud model?

• Reduce costs by adopting a flexible pricing model for the entire operation.

• Reduce infrastructure costs since all data centers will be managed in a third party cloud.

• Manage sensitive data in a compliant and secure manner and benefit from flexible pricing models for select services or infrastructure.

• Obtain maximum control over aspects such as security and performance since the entire infrastructure will be managed within the IT department.

A company interested in cloud computing is looking for a provider who offers a set of basic services such as virtual server provisioning and on demand storage that can be combined into a platform for deploying and running customized applications. What type of cloud computing model fits these requirements?

• Platform as a Service

• Software as a Service

• Application as a Service

• Infrastructure as a Service

A company operates data centers in two different regions. Energy costs for one of the data centers increases during the warmer, summer months. The company already uses server virtualization techniques in order to consolidate the total number of required resources. How might the company further reduce operating costs at this data center?

• The company can shut down the data center in the summer season.

• The company does not need to do anything because they are already using server virtualization techniques.

• The company can leverage provisioning to optimize the availability of their environments in the summer season.

• The company can further leverage virtualization to easily and quickly move as many assets from the data center in the warmer region to the data center in the cooler region during the summer season.

A company has peak customer demand for its IT services in the month of April. It has enough IT resources to handle off peak demand but not peak load. What is the best approach to handle this situation?

• Outsource all of IT services to a cloud based provider.

• Virtualize its servers and implement a cloud based system.

• Utilize an external cloud service provider to handle the peak load.

• Acquire additional IT resources and design the system to handle the peak load.

............................is used to monitor the individual cloud instances.

• Nagios

• Hyperic SIGAR API

• ARIMA

• Zabbix

Which of the following are the common system administrator duties?

• Accomplish routine audits of systems and software

• Execute backups

• Install operating system patches, configuration changes and updates

• Connect and configure new hardware and software

• Create, update or remove user account data, reset passwords etc.

A...........................is a software update comprised code inserted into the code of an executable program.

• Patch

• Updates

• Package

• Executable

..................is a method of problem solving, regularly applied to repair failed products or procedures.

• Upgrading

• Troubleshooting

• Calibration

• Overhauling

If you turn on a PC and the boot up process halts and you get the error message "Non system disk or Disk Error...... Replace and press any Key when ready.." What do you think could be the problem?

• A bootable Floppy Disk is in the Floppy disk drive

• A bootable Floppy Disk is in the Floppy disk drive and it should be removed.

• A non bootable Floppy Disk is in the Floppy disk drive and it should not be removed.

• A non-bootable Floppy Disk is in the Floppy disk drive

Which process is used to ensure that the assets required to deliver services are properly organized, and that accurate and reliable information about those assets is available when and where it is required?

• Service Catalog management

• Service level management

• Configuration management

• Service management