CompTIA Cloud Essentials

With cloud computing services, the hardware purchases, software purchases, and IT support are the responsibility of whom? -

Which term best describes the ability to rapidly increase user accounts for a given cloud service?

Which option describes a benefit of virtualized servers?

Your company runs a virtualized web application server in-house. You decide to make the web applications available over the Internet through a cloud provider. Which method represents the quickest way to accomplish this?

Which term from the past describes the sharing of mainframe computing resources?

Purchasing software and providing it to a third party that installs and manages that software is an example of which of the following?

You are the IT director for a retail clothing outlet. Your competitors are using Internet-delivered inventory, storage, and backup solutions from a specific provider. You conclude it is best that your company use the same services from the same provider. What type of cloud will you be subscribing to?

As a developer for a software company, you have decided to build and test your web applications in a cloud environment. Which type of cloud service best meets your needs?

How are cloud computing and outsourcing similar?

Which of the following is a benefit of outsourcing?

What cloud computing characteristic ensures services and data are always reachable?

You must ensure that your business computing resources can quickly grow as business demands change. Which of the following allows this?

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You are linking your company’s Microsoft Active Directory user accounts to your cloud provider for federated identity management. What type of configuration must you create within your company?

Your public cloud environment is configured such that additional cloud storage is allocated to a virtual server when the used disk space on that server reaches more than 80 percent of disk capacity. Which term best describes this configuration?

Which of the following might factor into an exit strategy for a cloud customer?

Which of the following is not considered a cloud computing risk?

What is a benefit of PaaS?

Developers build these components in the cloud.

Which component is a set of programming instructions and standards for accessing a web based program?

Identify the client that uses a web browser as an interface to connect to the cloud.

Which model facilitates sharing of a complex computational task across multiple computers?

Which type of scaling involves the addition of additional processors, RAM, or disk space to a server?

At which level does an organization benefit through the availability of elastic computing resources and pay-per-use models of cloud computing?

Identify the architecture that splits the workload over multiple servers to improve processing power.

Identify the feature that helps you determine the level of service provided by the cloud vendor.

What is the first step involved in the vendor selection process?

Identify the cloud migration pattern that is most appropriate for the separation of application logic and database components in the current application.

identify the degree of multi-tenancy that allows the database schema to be shared and supports customization of the business logic and user-interface layers.

Which Lifecycle phase is concerned with building and testing a service before it is delivered to the customers?

Which lifecycle phase is concerned with financial planning?

Which phase is a larger, all encompassing phase in the IT Service Life-cycle that can be applied at any point in the Life-cycle?

Which Lifecycle phase consists of processes and functions that are required for the service to be provided at the agreed-upon service level?

What is the overall goal of demand management?

Who also should be included in making service strategy decisions along with the cloud providers?

Which of the following is an internal agreement between the support teams of an IT service provider?

Samuel establishes a formal agreement with a client to set up the service hours of operation, transaction response times, and throughput expectations. This activity is part of which process of the Service Design Phase?

Which of the following is an objective of the Service Transition phase?

Which of the following processes of the Service Transition phase manages the building, testing, and delivering of new or changed service components?

Which of the following is the best example of an incident?

Which of the following is the best example of a problem?

During which step of the CSI Process Model are stakeholders informed about whether or not goals have been achieved?

What happens to cloud providers when they face a new market technology, competitive pressure, an inadequate business strategy, or lack of financial support?

When does an organization become prone to a man-in-the-middle attack?

What is the correct definition of TCO?