Cloud Computing Questions

Question 1:
What is cloud computing?
A. Cloud computing means providing virtual servers over the Internet.
B. Cloud computing means providing virtual storage over the Internet.
C. Cloud computing means providing software as a service over the Internet
D. All of the above

Question 2:
Which of the following options is the feature of cloud computing?
A. Metered billing model
B. On-demand service
C. Scalability
D. All of the above

Question 3:
Which of the following options is not a cloud service provider?
A. Google
B. Apple
C. Microsoft
D. Amazon

Question 4:
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Cloud computing and distributed computing are the same terms — two different names.
B. Cloud computing and distributed computing are not related concepts at all.
C. Cloud computing is conceptually distributed computing.
D. All distributed applications are based on cloud computing.

Question 5:
Which of the following statements is correct about cloud computing?
A. The word “cloud” in cloud computing is a metaphor.
B. Cloud computing providers provide services over the Internet.
C. Cloud computing abstracts out systems by pooling the shared resources.
D. All of the above

Question 6:
Which of the following statements is not correct?
A. Cloud computing can be a good choice for applications having highly scalable requirements.
B. Cloud computing can be a good choice for applications in need of reducing costs on their IT infrastructure.
C. Applications having strong low-latency, security, audit, and regulatory SLA can be the right fit for cloud computing.
D. Cloud computing can be a good choice for applications having high availability requirements.

Question 7:
Which of the following options about architecture is not related to cloud computing?
A. Micro-Services
B. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
C. Monolith
D. None of them

Question 8:
Which of the following statements is true about cloud computing?
A. cloud computing provides virtual servers
B. cloud computing helps to get rid of on-prem data centers for computing needs
C. cloud computing helps cut costs on maintenance staff for 24×7 operations
D. all of the above

Question 9:
Which of the following options is correct to make a system horizontally scalable?
A. Increase size of disk
B. Increase RAM size
C. Increase CPU clock speed
D. Add an additional server in the cluster

Question 10:
Which of the following options is correct to make a system vertically scalable?
A. Increase size of disk
B. Increase RAM size
C. Increase CPU clock speed
D. all of them

Question 11:
Which of the following options is the advantage of a flexible pricing model in cloud computing?
A. The flexible pricing model helps customer to get unlimited bandwidth.
B. The flexible pricing model enables customers to pay for what they use.
C. The flexible pricing model enables customers get storage free but will be changed for virtual servers.
D. The flexible pricing model enables customers to dynamically add resources when the resources are needed without any extra charge.

Question 12:
Which of the following statements is correct with respect to a use case of cloud computing?
A. A company has several hundreds of documents that need to be indexed in a few minutes.
B. A company needs a CRM solution as its customer base is increasing and it would like to provide the best customer service to its customers. However, it doesn't have time to build its home-grown solution for CRM as they don't have the resource and time for it.
C. A company engineering team needs servers to try out some POC type of work for 2-4 weeks. The servers are needed — lay idle — when POC is complete.
D. all of them

Question 13:
Cloud computing environments can be of both types: multi-tenant or single-tenant. Though the multi-tenant type of cloud computing environment is more common. Which of the following options is an advantage of a multi-tenant cloud computing environment over a single-tenant cloud computing environment?
A. enhanced data security
B. faster performance
C. cost savings
D. all of them

Question 14:
Which of the following cloud services does IaaS offer?
A. virtual server
B. virtual storage
C. virtual network
D. all of them

Question 15:
In Infrastructure-as-a-Service type of cloud computing, which of the following type of resources is generally provided by cloud providers?
A. software applications
B. virtual network
C. virtual servers
D. middleware

Question 16:
In cloud computing, which layer provides software-as-a-service?
A. application layer
B. infrastructure layer
C. data layer
D. none of them

Question 17:
Which of the following options is of software-as-a-service cloud computing type?
A. data service provider
B. application service provider
C. internet service provider
D. infrastructure service provider

Question 18:
A start-up company is entering into an infrastructure-as-a-service business where the company will provide virtual servers to its customers. Which of the following options is the best choice to set up a user interface to deliver IaaS to its consumers?
A. The company should build UI based on XML RPC.
B. The company should build UI based REST API.
C. The company should provide a command line interface.
D. all of them

Question 19:
A software company has recently deployed its new application in production to its customers in a cloud environment. The software is multi-tiered and includes many bigdata related frameworks. The software is deployed in a tight schedule and there are reports of constant reporting of issues. How can the provisioning feature of cloud computing be used by the support team to debug issues reported by its customers?
A. The provisioning feature can help product support deploy software faster in order to debug issues
B. It reduces the number of separate environments the team create to debug issues
C. It helps the team find bugs in code faster
D. all of them

Question 20:
A start-up software organization would like to test and deploy its software solutions on the cloud platform in order to save cost to avoid buying and maintaining expensive servers. The company is looking for a cloud provider which offers virtual servers provisioning and on-demand storage services. Which of the following cloud computing delivery models is the start-up company looking for?
A. Software-as-a-Service
B. Platform-as-a-Service
C. Application-as-a-Service
D. Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Question 21:
In which distribution model of cloud computing, a software application is hosted on the cloud and users can access the software using the Internet?
A. Software-as-a-Service
B. Platform-as-a-Service
C. Infrastructure-as-a-Service
D. all of them

Question 22:
In general, how is the software-as-a-service (SaaS) type of application accessed?
A. Web browser
B. client software needs to be installed to access SaaS applications
C. command line
D. none of them

Question 23:
A cloud provider provides software tools and platforms to develop applications that can be run from the customer's environment. What is the cloud computing delivery model of the cloud provider?
A. Software-as-a-Service
B. Platform-as-a-Service
C. Infrastructure-as-a-Service
D. Desktop-as-a-Service

Question 24:
A start-up company CEO has attended a webinar on cloud computing. He wants to leverage the platform-as-a-service delivery model of the cloud. computing. How can his company utilize platform-as-a-service?
A. His company does a lot of computational type of work on big data which requires additional computation resources. He can leverage platform-as-a-service.
B. The start-up company CEO is thinking to use CRM software to use from a cloud provider. This is an example of platform-as-a-service.
C. His company needs additional storage to store analytical results of running batch jobs. He is thinking to get the extra storage on cloud using a cloud provider. This is an example of platform-as-a-service.
D. The start-up CEO is thinking to leverage software tools and platforms from a cloud provider to build the application and deploy the application on the cloud. This is an example of platform-as-a-service.

Question 25:
A web-based email application running in a cloud environment is an example of which type of cloud computing?
A. Software-as-a-Service
B. Platform-as-a-Service
C. Infrastructure-as-a-Service
D. all of them

Question 26:
Which of the following statements is correct with respect to a use case of cloud computing?
A. A company has several hundreds of documents that need to be indexed in a few minutes.
B. A company needs a CRM solution as its customer base is increasing and it would like to provide the best customer service to its customers. However, it doesn't have time to build its home-grown solution for CRM as they don't have the resource and time for it.
C. A company engineering team needs servers to try out some POC type of work for 2-4 weeks. The servers are needed — lay idle — when POC is complete.
D. all of them

Question 27:
Which of following statements is true about an application service provider?v A. An application service provider uses the software-as-a-service delivery model to provide software as a service over the Internet.
B. The provider essentially provides virtual servers over the Internet
C. The provider provides platform-as-a-service.
D. all of them

Question 28:
You are a cloud engineer in a start-up organization. You have been asked to provide access to virtual machines in a cloud environment. Which of the following cloud computing delivery models would you leverage?
A. Platform-as-a-Service
B. Infrastructure-as-a-Service
C. Function-as-a-Service
D. Software-as-a-Service

Question 29:
Which of following SaaS software is the multi-tenant type?
A. Microsoft Office 365
B. Facebook
C. Gmail
D. all of them

Question 30:
Which of the following statements is not correct?
A. Cloud computing can be a good choice for applications having highly scalable requirements.
B. Cloud computing can be a good choice for applications in need of reducing costs on their IT infrastructure.
C. Applications having strong low-latency, security, audit, and regulatory SLA can be the right fit for cloud computing.
D. Cloud computing can be a good choice for applications having high availability requirements.

Question 31:
A startup company has developed a web application that is doing extremely well with local customers. Looking at the popularity of the software, the company is thinking of rollout this application worldwide. The company engineering president is thinking to deploy this application on a cloud computing platform. Which attribute of cloud computing is helpful to decide if cloud computing is the right choice for deploying the application on the cloud platform?
A. Availability
B. Scalability
C. Flexible pricing such as pay-as-you-go or metered pricing model
D. All the above

Question 32:
Which one is the best scenario for the public cloud deployment model?
A. An organization that has highly sensitive information about users
B. Applications computing needs are constant — the same number of users and the same use cases.
C. The organization has to constantly deal with scalability issues — as the load on the system is unpredictable.
D. The organization has underutilized computing resources.

Question 33:
Which is the best use case of a private cloud?
A. The organization doesn't need to be concerned about data control. There is no legal or regulatory requirement of where data should data be kept. With regards to the load, the overall load on the system is consistent.
B. The organization needs to have maximum control over its data as data is of a highly sensitive type. With regards to the load, the overall load on the system is extremely unpredictable and the organization doesn't have the IT infrastructure capacity to manage unpredictable compute resource requirements.
C. The organization doesn't care where data is stored as data is not of a sensitive type. With regards to the load, the overall load patten on the system is consistent.
D. The organization development teams are involved in many short-term projects and sometimes demand computing resources are unpredictable but manageable with its internal IT infrastructure.

Question 34:
Which of the following options is the best use case for using a hybrid cloud?
A. An organization that has a fairly large IT infrastructure and there are no regulatory requirements. Additionally, the organization doesn't have any sensitive data and applications.
B. An organization that has sensitive data and applications along with regulatory requirements. However, the organization needs additional computing and storage resources for non-critical dev and test applications to save costs on IT infrastructure.
C. An organization whose IT infrastructure is under-utilized and on average the load is consistent.
D. A start-up that is developing its product needs servers for dev and test environment only, but the demand for computing resources are unpredictable. The production date is yet decided as the company is in a highly competitive domain. That's the company management is very careful in releasing the product.

Question 35:
Which of the following options is the best selection choice with regards to cloud computing security?
A. A private cloud is a better option if you need tight control over sensitive data.
B. Cloud computing is not for multitenant applications.
C. It doesn't matter if you choose public or private cloud with regards to the security of data.
D. A community cloud is more secure than a private cloud.

Question 36:

Which of the following cloud deployment models is the best characterization of AWS?
A. Public
B. Private
C. Hybrid
D. Community

Question 37:
In virtualization, which of the following type of hypervisors provides better performance?

A. software based
B. firmware based
C. storage based
D. none of them

Question 38:
In cloud computing, which of the following options is used to separate and assign physical resources such as memory and CPU?

A. Load Balancer
B. Switch
C. BIOS
D. Hypervisor