CSR301-Unit1

Which technology is generally required to build resource pools?

• Virtualization
• VLANs
• The Internet
• CPUs and memory

What is the key difference between traditional virtualization and cloud?

• Hypervisors
• Abstraction
• Orchestration
• Commercial virtualization software

Which of the following is *not* a key potential benefit of cloud computing:

• Resiliency
• Compliance
• Economics
• Agility

What business benefit(s) was Amazon attempting to realize when they created their internal cloud computing program? Select all that apply.

• Better match real-time capacity to fluctuating demand
• Faster time to deploy developer resources
• Build a world-class public cloud computing platform
• Beat Microsoft

Resource pools permanently assign resources to users.

• True
• False

Cloud computing supports scaling up of required resources, but not scaling down.

• True
• False

Which of the following appear in both the NIST and ISO/IEC cloud computing definitions? Select all that apply.

• On-demand
• Rapid provisioning
• Resource pools
• Self Service
• Network access

Services scaling out and scaling in quickly are an example of which essential characteristic of cloud.

• Rapid Elasticity
• Measured Service
• On-Demand Self Service
• Resource Pooling
• Broad Network Access

Which of the following is not an emergent property of resource pooling?

• Governance
• Broad Network Access
• Isolation
• Segmentation

Which service model would a cloud database be considered?

• Storage as a Service
• Infrastructure as a Service
• Platform as a Service
• Software as a Service