Chapter 6: Cloud computing

You are in the process of preparing to install Windows 11 Professional on your Windows 10 laptop. You have already verified that your laptop hardware is compatible with a Windows 11 installation.

Which of the following pre-installation steps should you perform next?

• Upgrade your laptop's RAM.

• Run Disk Cleanup on the hard drive.

• Back up existing data.

  
  

• Plug your laptop into an uninterruptible power source.

You want to upgrade your Windows 10 Professional computer to Windows 11 Professional. You begin by checking the hardware and discover that it has 2 GB of RAM, a 2.0 GHz dual-core processor, a 256 GB solid-state drive, and a video adapter with 128 MB of RAM and DirectX 12 support. You want to install the 64-bit version of Windows 11.

What should you do?

• Upgrade to a processor with at least four cores.

• Add more memory.

• Upgrade the video adapter.

• Install a larger solid-state drive or hard drive.

• Upgrade to a faster processor

You need to install Windows 11 on a new computer system that uses a SATA SSD device to store data.

• Install Windows the same way you would install a system that uses a standard hard disk drive.

• Set the SATA configuration in the UEFI firmware to RAID.

• Load the drivers for the SSD device during the initial phase of the Windows installation.

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  Add a standard hard disk to the system and install Windows on the disk instead of the SSD device.

You recently purchased a copy of Windows 11 from a retail store. The system that you want to install Windows on does not have an optical drive.

What is the BEST option for installing Windows in this scenario?

• Perform a reset installation.

• Download an ISO copy of the installation files to a USB flash drive.

• Install Windows on a system that has an optical drive and then create a disk image and copy it to the system that you originally wanted to install Windows on.

• Install the system over the network from a Windows Deployment Services (WDS) server.

You were recently hired by a small startup company. The company is in a small office and has several remote employees.

You have been asked to find a business service that would accommodate the company's current size but would also be able to scale as the company grows. The service needs to provide adequate storage as well as additional computing power.

Which cloud service model would BEST fit these requirements?

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  DaaS

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  PaaS

• IaaS

• SaaS

What does the term cloud mean when referring to cloud computing?

• It refers to the virtual hardware that cloud computing is built on.

  Correct Answer:

• It is the name of an operating system that anyone can use to design, build, and provide cloud services.

• It is a metaphor for a data storage service with an ever-growing capacity, like storm clouds.

• It is a metaphor for the internet based on the basic cloud drawing used to represent a telephone network.

You have been tasked with creating a new software application and test the development of the software. You want an environment that can be isolated from the production network for the development and testing.

What virtualization feature will BEST meet your application development requirements?

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  Hardware optimization

• Cross-platform virtualization

• Sandbox virtualization

• Application virtualization

As the network engineer for a large financial institution, you have been given the responsibility to provide a new financial desktop to the financial advisors in all company branch offices.

The requirements for the software desktop include:

• It must be a virtualization solution.

• It must be hosted in the cloud by a third party.

• It must run on a tablet.

Which of the following virtualization types BEST meets your desktop software requirements?

• Type 1 hypervisor

• Container virtualization

• Type 2 hypervisor

• VDI