What is the cloud?

Which of these is an advantage of cloud storage?

• The user has no control over their data

• Viruses is the most common problem

• Accessible anywhere with an internet connection

• Portability

Easy to share information: You can share information with colleagues and employees far more easily using the cloud.

• True

• False

Makes life of people easier: For example, students can save and upload their documents on cloud storage applications such as Google drive and they can download or print those documents anywhere so no need to use a pen drive.

• True

• False

Shared resources can be assessed by multiple users.

• True

• False

Which of the following is an example of remote data storage?

• Saving a digital picture to a hard drive

• Saving a digital photo to a CD

• Saving a digital photo to an online photo album

• Saving a digital photo to a flash drive

If you use gmail, your emails are probably stored locally.

• True

• False

Online Storage

• MS Word

• Google Drive

• MS PowerPoint

• Scratch

What do you need to access cloud storage

• Internet

• A computer or mobile device

• All of the above

web applications—or web apps—that run in the cloud and do not need to be installed on your computer.

• True

• False

You can store all types of information in the cloud, including files and email. This means you can access these things from any computer or mobile device with an Internet connection, not just your home computer. Dropbox and Google Drive are some of the most popular cloud-based storage services.

• True

• False