Cloud+ Pre-Assessment

Bob is accessing a self-service portal in the cloud to instantly create additional servers, storage, and database instances for his firm's DevOps group, Which of the following options best describes this operation?

• Bursting

• Pay-as-you-grow

• Multitenancy

• On-demand

Jillian is working on a project to interconnect her company's private data center to a cloud company that offers email services and another that can provider burstable compute capacity. What type of cloud delivery model is she creating?

• Public

• Hybrid

• Community

• Private

Carl is learning how cloud service providers allocate physical resources into a group. These resources are then dynamically associated with cloud services as demand requires. What best describes this?

• On-demand virtualization

• Dynamic scaling

• Resource pooling

• Elasticity

Liza is a new Cloud+ architect for BigCo Inc. She is investigating cloud services that provide server hardware, but not application. What cloud service is she using?

• IaaS

• PaaS

• SaaS

• CaaS

Harold is investigating his options to migrate his company's time and attendance application to the cloud. He wants to be responsible only for maintaining the application and would prefer that the public cloud company manage all underlying infrastructure and servers that are required to support his application. Harold calls you and asks for assistance in selecting a cloud service model that would meet his requirements. What would you suggest that he implement?

• IaaS

• PaaS

• SaaS

• CaaS

Jane is a Cloud+ architect working on a physical-to-virtual migration to the public cloud. She has matched VM performance levels to her established baselines. She knows that her organization may need to adjust hardware resources in the future. What cloud characteristics can she use to match cloud capacity with future growth? (Choose three)

• Elasticity

• Resource pooling

• Availability zones

• On-demand computing

• Pay-as-you-grow

What are two elements that together distinguish the cloud from a traditional data center operation? (Choose two)

• Load balancing

• Automation

• Autoscaling groups

• Virtualization

Dawn is interested in selecting a community cloud provider that offers a specialized financial reporting application. What type of cloud model would you recommend Dawn investigate to meet her requirements?

• IaaS

• PaaS

• SaaS

• CaaS

Carol is a cloud customer that your consulting company is assisting with their migration. She is asking you about the demarcation point of operations for her public PaaS service. Which of the following defines what you are responsible for and the responsibility of the provider?

• Availability zones

• Community

• Shared responsibility model

• Baselines

Jonathan is architecting his client's global public cloud presence for an upcoming e-commerce deployment. You have been brought on to help design the network. He asks about providing local connections in Singapore and Malaysia. What would you suggest that he investigate?

• Regions

• Auto-scaling groups

• Availabilty zones

• Global DNS affinity