Cloud Revision Quiz No 2

Which cloud characteristic lets customers provision resources automatically without human interaction?

• Ubiquitous access

• On-demand self-service

• Chargeback

• Rapid deployment

“Resource pooling” means a provider can:

• Physically separate hardware for each tenant

• Dynamically assign shared hardware to multiple tenants

• Prevent over-commitment of any CPU core

• Guarantee 100% uptime

A community cloud is designed for organisations that:

• Need complete physical isolation on-premises

• Share a common mission or regulatory requirement

• Operate only in the public sector

• Require burst capacity into a public provider

Several hospitals collaborating on sensitive research would most likely choose which deployment model?

• Public

• Private

• Community

• Hybrid

Inside an enterprise, chargeback is best described as:

• Refunding unused cloud spend

• Billing business units for their actual resource consumption

• A penalty for SLA violations

• A security control for insider threats

“Rapid deployment” primarily delivers which business benefit?

• Eliminates vendor lock-in

• Cuts provisioning time from weeks to minutes

• Reduces electricity usage

• Guarantees 99.999% availability

Hardware independence in cloud computing lets applications:

• Run only on ARM processors

• Decouple from specific physical servers

• Ignore operating-system patches

• Avoid virtualisation entirely

For a globally dispersed mobile workforce, the chief attraction of cloud services is:

• Ubiquitous internet-based access

• Mandatory long-term licences

Reducing time-to-market is especially associated with which cloud advantage?

• Capital depreciation allowances

• Rapid availability of pre-built platforms and services

• Long procurement lead times

• Elimination of compliance audits

In which service model does the customer supply application code but not manage the runtime or operating system?

• SaaS

• PaaS

• IaaS

• CaaS