Cloud Computing Activity

The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the internet to store, manage, & process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.

• Hybrid cloud

• Server virtualization

• Cloud computing

• Private cloud

A large group of networked computer servers typically used by organizations for the remote storage, processing, or distribution of large amounts of data. Another term for a data center.

• Cloud

• Internet

• Intranet

• Server farms

A computer language that makes it easier to exchange data among various applications and validate and interpret data.

• Extensible markup language (XML)

• Hypertext markup language (HTML)

• Simple object access protocol (SOAP)

• Web services description language (WSDL)

Which of the following is not a sample of cloud computing?

• Google

• Apple iCloud

• Dropbox

• Random Access Memory (RAM)

Cloud computing is a model of IT management in which companies own their IT infrastructure (their software, hardware, networks, and data management) and maintain it in their data centers.

• True

• False

A technology that applies the unused processing resources of many geographically dispersed computers in a network to form a virtual supercomputer.

• web services

• server visualization

• grid computing

• cloud computing

Cloud computing can improve organizational flexibility and competitiveness.

• True

• False

An example of a Platform-as-a-Service cloud computing service is

• Amazon

• Google

• Microsoft Windows Azure

• Apple iCloud

Cloud computing uses limited network access.

• True

• False

IaaS in cloud computing means

• Internet-as-a-Service

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service

• Information-as-a-Service

• Intranet-as-a-Service