Chapter 1 Rev

Is the underlined portion of the following statement true, or does it need to be replaced with one of the other fragments that appear below?

As a cloud service, Microsoft Azure enables your organization to budget IT infrastructure costs as a capital expenditure.

• as an operational expenditure.

• on an annual basis.

• using the Azure Pricing Estimator.

• No change is needed

The cost per subscriber decreases as the number of Azure subscribers increases. Which benefit of cloud computing does this statement describe?

• Agility

• Scalability

• Economy of scale

• Elasticity

You are an IT manager for a small company that hosts a web application for e-commerce. The web application uses two web servers and a small database cluster. As demand increases through a peak season, you want to add additional web servers to handle the increased demand, then remove those additional servers as demand decreases. You propose moving the application to Azure. Which of the following statements is true?

• The web servers can be moved to Azure but the database cluster must remain on premises,  which represents a hybrid cloud model.

• Horizontal scaling enables you to add and remove web servers to meet demand changes.

• Vertical scaling enables you to add and remove web servers to meet demand changes.

• Azure will automatically add the web servers for you as demand approaches a threshold set by the Azure App Service.

You are an IT director for Contoso and are preparing a proposal to your CIO to move all IT infrastructure to Azure. Which of the following is an advantage to moving your infrastructure to a public cloud provider?

• You will have complete control over all infrastructure, network, applications, and all other resources in the cloud.

• You can scale your infrastructure horizontally or vertically without capital expenditure costs.

• You will reduce your operational expenditures.

• The cloud provider will manage all infrastructure for you, enabling Contoso to reduce IT staff.

Contoso is building a web application that uses a SQL database to store data. Which of the following represents a hybrid cloud scenario?

(Choose all that apply.)

• A virtual machine in Azure that hosts the web application and a second virtual machine in Azure running SQL Server

• A two-node SQL cluster in a third-party data center that hosts the data and two virtual machines in Azure running the web application

• A web application hosted in Azure that stores its data in an Azure SQL database

• A web application hosted in Azure that sends data to and from a database hosted in Contoso’s on-premises data center

Is the underlined portion of the following statement true, or does it need to be replaced with one of the other fragments that appear below?

Moving servers from an on-premises data center to virtual machines in Azure enables you to reduce IT staffing because Microsoft manages the infrastructure for you.

• enables you to pay for only the Azure resources you consume on a monthly basis.

•  represents a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution.

• . enables you to use additional firewall services only available in Azure to protect against security risks.

• No change is needed.

You are the application development director for Contoso. Your team needs to develop and bring a new web application online quickly with minimal expense. You consider using Azure Web Apps, Azure Functions, and Azure Database for MySQL. Which Azure service category does this represent?

• Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)

• Platform-as-a-service (PaaS)

• Software-as-a-service (SaaS)

• Development-as-a-service (DaaS)

Your company currently installs Microsoft Office on each user’s computer using perpetual licenses that you have purchased from a licensing vendor. You propose to the CIO to transition your users to Microsoft 365 to use Office applications hosted by Microsoft, which enables your organization to work with documents in a web browser and also receive Office application updates automatically. This represents which service category?

• Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)

• Platform-as-a-service (PaaS)

• Software-as-a-service (SaaS)

• None of the above

You are a server administrator for Wingtip Toys, a small company that makes and distributes wooden toys. You manage a custom line-of-business (LOB) application for order management and shipping. The solution is hosted on aging servers in a server room in your manufacturing facility. You want to eventually move the application’s functions to Microsoft Dynamics 365 and eliminate the custom application. You propose to your manager that you first migrate the servers into virtual machines hosted in Azure to avoid purchasing new, up-to-date hardware. The current application will run on these new VMs. This proposal represents which of the following?

• Software-as-a-service (SaaS)

• Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)

• Platform-as-a-service (PaaS)

• A hybrid cloud scenario

You are the CIO for a company and are concerned about the security of your data in the cloud. You need to implement a cloud solution in which you gain the flexibility and agility of a cloud solution but maintain full control of your data and infrastructure. You propose to your CEO that you contract with a third-party cloud vendor to host your IT services, and the infrastructure on which your services will be hosted will not be used by any other organization. This represents which type of cloud model?You are the CIO for a company and are concerned about the security of your data in the cloud. You need to implement a cloud solution in which you gain the flexibility and agility of a cloud solution but maintain full control of your data and infrastructure. You propose to your CEO that you contract with a third-party cloud vendor to host your IT services, and the infrastructure on which your services will be hosted will not be used by any other organization. This represents which type of cloud model?

• Public cloud

• Private cloud

• Hybrid cloud

• Both A and B