IT Infrastructure Quiz

What is the main purpose of hosting options in IT infrastructure?

• To define how infrastructure is deployed

• To provide power and cooling

• To purchase, deploy, host, and manage the infrastructure

• To manage the outsourcing party

What is the primary advantage of a colocation hosting option?

• Provides power, cooling, and physical security

• Provides enough space and an uninterruptable power supply

• Racks are empty and infrastructure components must be provided by the organization

• Frees the organization from investing in hardware

What is the main disadvantage of a hyperconverged infrastructure?

• More storage can be purchased without additional compute

• Only one vendor and all updates in one service pack

• Easy scalability and vendor lock-in

• Scaling can only be done in fixed building blocks

What is the key characteristic of cloud computing related to resource usage?

• On demand self-service

• Measured service

• Rapid elasticity

• Broad network access

What type of cloud deployment is accessible through the internet and available to the general public?

• Hybrid cloud

• Private cloud

• Community cloud

• Public cloud

Which type of cloud service delivers full applications that need little or no configuration?

• Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• Managed service

• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

What does Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provide to users?

• Scalable, high available, open programming platform

• Full applications that need little or no configuration

• High availability, High performance, and Security controls

• Virtual machines, Virtualized storage, and Virtualized networking

What is the philosophy behind Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) regarding hardware failure?

• To provide basic services like billing and monitoring

• To keep the cost down by allowing the hardware to fail every now and then

• To provide resources from a shared pool

• To quickly scale-up and scale-down resources

What is the responsibility of the user in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)?

• Replacing or removing failed components from the pool of available resources

• Patching and maintaining the operating systems and application software

• Creating and starting a new server, and then installing an operating system and applications

• Providing power, cooling, and physical security

What is the main characteristic of cloud computing related to billing?

• On demand self-service and broad network access

• Operational expenses instead of capital expenses

• Measured service and rapid elasticity

• Shared pool of configurable computing resources