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Google App Engine, Heroku, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk all provide cloud services aimed at developers by providing hardware and operating system (OS) services, relieving the consumer of responsibility of hardware maintenance and upgrades, driver installation, and OS tasks. Which of the following terms describes this type of cloud service solution?

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Resource Pooling

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in order to fit the definition of a cloud service, the service must be scalable, able to combine resources, and allocate them in an on-demand basis that abstracts those resources from the consumer. Define the term for this.

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Resource Pooling

An IT professional is starting a new job. The job responsibilities are purchasing managed virtual machines from the Cloud Service Provider for company employees to access and utilize from anywhere. Which type of cloud service might the professional suggest?

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Resource Pooling

Partner organizations often have security needs to consider while also sharing resources. Which cloud deployment model best fits those needs?

• hybrid cloud d

• public cloud service

• private cloud

• community cloud

A popular video streaming service is reaching its bandwidth capacity. The company decides to invest in more servers and compute nodes to facilitate the functioning of the streaming service and expand overall capacity. Determine what type of scaling the company is doing.

• Scale-out

• Scale-up

• Auto-scaling

• Right-sizing

What is typically the most cost efficient cloud deployment model?

• hybrid cloud

• public cloud service

• private cloud

• community cloud

By definition, cloud services must be scalable and have the ability to provision and release resources to adjust for demand and consumption. What is the term for this ability?

• Rapid elasticity

• On-demand self-service

• Cloud Service Providers (CSP)

• community cloud

Some cloud applications place responsibility for updates and patching the application and operating system (OS) the application runs on. Which deployment model is this?

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Resource Pooling

When a company is upgrading with more total RAM and storage space, what type of scaling model are they utilizing?

• Scale-out

• Scale-up

• Auto-scaling

• Right-sizing

A development team requires hardware and compute resources beyond what they have access to in-house. One of the team members suggests using cloud services. The team agrees, but the team leader reminds the group that they will need to have control over the development environment and be able to install software at will. Suggest a cloud service model that fits the development team's needs.

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Resource Pooling