Chapter 6: The Cloud

Which of the following is defined as the elastic leasing of pooled computer resources over the Internet?

• broadband

• wiki

• the cloud

• Bluetooth

• SSD

________ are large-scale high-speed centralized computers, used for internal corporate data processing needs.

• Mainframes

• Thin clients

• Hosts

• Clients

• NAS

The term ________ means that the computing resources leased can be increased or decreased dynamically in a short span of time and that organizations pay for just the resources that they use.

• portable

• pooled

• programmatic

• elastic

• incremental

Cloud resources are ________ because many different organizations use the same physical hardware.

• elastic

• pooled

• programmatic

• portable

• shared

Which of the following characteristics is a disadvantage of cloud-based hosting?

• It involves high dependency on vendor.

• It involves significant requirement of capital.

• It involves high annual maintenance costs.

• It involves high ongoing support costs.

• It involves high cost uncertainties.

In cloud computing, resources are said to be "pooled" because organizations ________.

• use the public Internet to create the appearance of a private connection

• use open source standards that enable users to modify a program's source code

• offer their services to each other free of charge, in a give-and-take arrangement

• share the same physical hardware through virtualization

• share the same physical address range

Which of the following is an example of SaaS?

• iCloud

• Microsoft Azure

• Oracle On Demand

• Amazon S3

• Google App Engine

Which of the following is the most basic cloud offering?

• SaaS

• CDN

• IaaS

• VPN

• SAS

Jerry wants to use ________ so that he can add his own application on top of the hosted platform.

• Apple iCloud

• Amazon S3

• Microsoft Azure

• Office 365

• Skype

________ is a category of cloud hosting where vendors provide hosted computers with an operating system, runtime environment, and middleware like a Web server or a DBMS.

• SaaS

• PaaS

• IaaS

• BaaS

• TaaS