You are working as a cloud administrator at the XYZ company. The company CIO asks you to ensure that cloud service providers provide the various types of fault tolerance at substantial savings. Which aspect of cloud design does this refer to?

• Environment

• Network

• Redundancy

• Upgrades

You are working as a cloud engineer at XYZ Inc. You are managing the MySQL database backend that runs on a multi-CPU instance that has reached 100 percent utilization. The database can run on only a single server. What should you use to support the requirements of this database?

• Cloudbursting

• Vertical scaling

• Serverless computing

• Horizontal scaling

Which of the following consolidates multiple servers into one physical computer?

• On-premises servers

• Web servers

• Hypervisors

• Virtual machines

Which of the following is a reliability mechanism that is provided by Microsoft Azure for its cloud-based services?

• Azure consolidates multiple servers into one physical computer.

• Azure eliminates the need for physical security, which is furnished by the provider.

• Azure hosts all applications on two separate server instances.

• Azure provides a secured web-based portal that enables administrators to access all their subscription services using one interface.

Which of the following creates and hosts cloud services in-house in a private enterprise data center?

• on-demand

• Off-premise

• Pay-as-you-grow

• On-premise

How many hours of downtime per year are allowed by a 99.9 percent (or three nines) contract?

• 9.99

• 8.76

• 5.36

• 3.65

Which of the following permissions does a cloud service provider grant to a Microsoft Exchange Online subscriber?

• Access only to the Office applications

• Administrative access to the Exchange Server application

• Access to the underlying operating system on which the Exchange server application is running

• Access to the physical hardware of the host system

Which of the following is the addition or subtraction of virtual hardware resources in a VM?

• Horizontal scaling

• Consolidation

• Vertical scaling

• Cloudbursting

In which of the following types of public cloud deployment do subscribers access services that a third-party provider implements on hardware that might be used by other subscribers at the same time?

• Virtual public cloud

• Hosted public cloud

• Dedicated public cloud

• Shared public cloud

Jillian is a senior cloud architect at BigCo. She is working on a project to interconnect her company's private data center to a cloud company that offers e-mail and other services that can provide burstable compute capacity. Which of the following cloud environments has she used?

• Public cloud

• Hybrid cloud

• Private cloud

• Dedicated public cloud