Cloud Computing Quiz 1 Flashcard – 24 Questions & Answers

Which of the following fall(s) under the “essential characteristics” of cloud computing?
A) Resource Pooling
B) Measured Service
C) Rapid Elasticity
D) Latency

“Google Doc” is an example of :
A) PaaS
B) IaaS
C) SaaS
D) FaaS

Business-Process-as-a-Service is not a part of XaaS.
A) True
B) False

Network Function Virtualization involves the implementation of _____ function in software that can run on a range of industry-standard servers _____.

Which are the following applications for SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture?
A) Billing software
B) CRM
C) App engines

Web access to commercial software is one of the SaaS characteristics in the cloud computing paradigm.
A) True
B) False

In the case of the client-server model which statement is correct:
Statement (i) Virtualization is a core concept; Statement
(ii) system can scale infinitely

Client-server model is always load-balanced
A) True
B) False

PaaS (Platform as a Service) brings the benefits:
(i) Creation of software
(ii) Integration of web services and databases.
Which Statement(s) is/are True?

A distributed system is preferred when the task is: i)Data-intensive; ii) Computing-intensive.
Which statement(s) is/are True?

The “Grid” in the distributed grid computing paradigm links together power plants of different kinds. A) True B) False

Which one of the following is/are the advantage(s) of cloud computing?
A) Resource pooling
B) It requires an always-on internet connection.
C) Ubiquitous
D) On-demand payment policy

What is(are) the characteristic(s) of using cluster computing?
A) Parallel programming
B) Faster network than a typical LAN
C) Low-latency communication protocols.

Examples of PaaS (Platform as a Service) tools are:

What are the main requirements of a Cloud Service Provider (CSP)?

Which of the following is an example of Public cloud?
A) Microsoft ECI data centre
B) Amazon EC2

Which of the following is/are XML parser API(s)?
A) XaaS
B) SAX
C) DOM

In the case of on-site private cloud, organizations consider (i) network dependency; (ii) no risk from multi-tenancy. Which statement(s) is/are true?

____ is an XML language for processing XML.

____ generally stores the cloud subscriber’s metadata like user credentials and OS images.

Which is responsible for the operation of a collection of computers that are connected via high speed local area networks in the cloud computing paradigm?

Hypervisor is also known as

Which problems are addressed through Web services:

XML is designed to describe _________.