Cloud Computing Quiz by Gaurav Sharma

What would be used to satisfy a requirement for an on premises cloud installation?

• The IBM Smart Business Development and Test Cloud

• The IBM Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud

• IBM CloudBurst

• IBM CloudBurst for Development and Test

Which product helps manage software license and compliance risk?

• IBM CloudBurst

• IBM Service Management Center for Cloud Computing

• IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT

• IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager

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

How is a business approval process related to a cloud computing environment?

• A cloud computing environment requires an expedited business approval process.

• A cloud computing environment can be implemented without a business approval process.

• A business approval process must be documented before implementing a cloud computing environment.

• A business approval process is required to deploy a cloud computing environment.

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.

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

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

Which statement is true about the maintenance of a cloud computing environment?

• In a Software as a Service (SaaS) environment, patches are automatically installed on the clients.

• In an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment, customers do not need to worry about installing patches in the virtual instances.

• In a SaaS environment, customers do not need to worry about installing patches in the virtual instances.

• d. In an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment, patches are automatically installed on the clients.

In order to save time and reduce travel costs, a company is looking for a way to host virtual customer meetings. Features such as video casting, desktop sharing, participant rosters, and polling are important. Because the goal is to reduce cost, the company does not want to incur the expense of deploying and managing an onsite infrastructure but would like to leverage the services offered by the cloud.

Which IBM offering would best meet their needs?

• IBM Lotus Sametime

• IBM Lotus Web Conferences

• IBM LotusLive Meetings

• IBM LotusLive Connections

A company currently experiences 7 to 10 percent utilization of its development and test computing resources. The company would like to consolidate to reduce the number of total resources in their data center and decrease energy costs. Which feature pf cloud computing allows resource consolidation?

• Automation

• Elasticity

• Provisioning

• Virtualization

How can resources used by an application running in a shared virtual environment be measured?

• Use the hypervisor management console.

• Each machine receives equal resources in the environment.

• Use IBM Tivoli Monitoring to calculate the usage based on CPU utilization.

• Use IBM Tivoli Usage & Accounting Manager to collect the metrics for the resources and produce report based on the application.

A company that originally planned its web based IT system to support 10,000 users suddenly notices that there is a four times increase in demand. Assuming that the company has deployed its system in a true cloud environment, what are the incremental maintenance costs to adding new resources to this environment?

• Four times its original costs of deployment.

• Negligible

• Twice its original costs.

• Three times its original costs.