CompTIA Cloud Essentials

Question 1 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Internet service provider
RraaS provider
SaaS provider
Application service provider

Explanation

Question 2 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Volatility
Synchronicity
Viability
Elasticity

Explanation

Question 3 of 97

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Which option describes a benefit of virtualized servers?

Select one of the following:

Shared hardware
Individual hardware per virtual server
Physical servers taking less room space than virtual servers
Virtual servers taking less disk space than physical servers

Explanation

Question 4 of 97

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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?

Select one of the following:

Create a new cloud server, install web services, and install and configure web applications.
Create a new cloud server, install web services, and import web application data.
Migrate your in-house web application server to the cloud.
This cannot be done — only generic applications are available through the cloud.

Explanation

Question 5 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Time-sharing
Time division multiplexing
Mainframe-sharing
XaaS

Explanation

Question 6 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Virtualization
Application service provider
Platform as a service
Private cloud

Explanation

Question 7 of 97

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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?

Select one of the following:

Community cloud
Retail cloud
Private cloud
Public cloud

Explanation

Question 8 of 97

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For which businesses would cloud computing be best suited? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Waterfront marketplace that thrives during the summer tourist season
Rural medical practice with four employees
Law enforcement agency
A new company start-up that manufactures watercraft

Explanation

Question 9 of 97

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Which of the following are valid reasons for a firm's not adopting a cloud solution? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Local hardware is being fully utilized for unchanging IT workloads.
The number of employees rarely changes.
The number of employees changes often.
The firm experiences unpredictable project spikes throughout the year.

Explanation

Question 10 of 97

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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?

Select one of the following:

PaaS
SaaS
IaaS
Xaas

Explanation

Question 11 of 97

1

How are cloud computing and outsourcing similar?

Select one of the following:

Immediate scalability
Vendor lock-in
Long contract renegotiation
Tailor-made client solutions

Explanation

Question 12 of 97

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Which of the following is a benefit of outsourcing?

Select one of the following:

Immediate scalability
Vendor lock-in
Long contract renegotiation
Tailor-made client solutions

Explanation

Question 13 of 97

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True or false? Cloud computing is a form of outsourcing.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 14 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Scalability

Explanation

Question 15 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Scalability

Explanation

Question 16 of 97

1

[Blank] protects data contents, while [blank] ensures that data has not been tampered with.

Select one of the following:

Availability, scalability
Integrity, confidentiality
Scalability, availability
Confidentiality, integrity

Explanation

Question 17 of 97

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Which of the following are related to cloud computing costs? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Monthly subscription
Server hardware costs
Usage fees
Software licensing costs

Explanation

Question 18 of 97

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How does cloud computing help an organization as new opportunities arise? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Shifting operating expenses to capital expenses
Speedy addition of computing resources
Less cost for new server hardware
Speedy removal of computing resources

Explanation

Question 19 of 97

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[Blank] and [blank] give cloud customers a competitive advantage.

Select one of the following:

Integrity, confidentiality
Availability, integrity
Time to market, collaboration
Collaboration, confidentiality

Explanation

Question 20 of 97

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Which of the following statements are true? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Public clouds are for the exclusive use of a single organization.
Private clouds are for the exclusive use of a single organization
Public clouds are offered over an intranet.
Public clouds are offered over the Internet.

Explanation

Question 21 of 97

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True or false? Virtual servers are used only in public clouds.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 22 of 97

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When creating cloud virtual servers, which of the following must be specified? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Username and password
Server name
IP address
Operating system licensing

Explanation

Question 23 of 97

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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?

Select one of the following:

Identity trust
XML provider
Relying party trust
JSON provider

Explanation

Question 24 of 97

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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?

Select one of the following:

Elasticity
Automation
Self-service
Disk latency

Explanation

Question 25 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Vendor lock-in
Self-service
Standardization
Automation

Explanation

Question 26 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Loss of network connectivity
Data stored in the cloud
Network latency
Host-based firewalls

Explanation

Question 27 of 97

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What is a benefit of PaaS?

Select one of the following:

Rapid application development
Replication
High bandwidth
Low latency

Explanation

Question 28 of 97

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Developers build these components in the cloud.

Select one of the following:

Federation identity providers
Cloud load balancers
SaaS user mailboxes
Web services

Explanation

Question 29 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Platform
Web API
Web Browser
Web Application

Explanation

Question 30 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Thick
Thin
Mobile
Web API

Explanation

Question 31 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Client Server
Peer to Peer
Grid Computing
Virtualization

Explanation

Question 32 of 97

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All applications accessed through the Internet are cloud applications.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 33 of 97

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What are the benefits of DBaas? (Choose Three)

Select one or more of the following:

Higher availability of resources
Better Service
Reduced Risks
High Costs

Explanation

Question 34 of 97

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Distributed computing helps to perform data intrusive tasks for applications.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 35 of 97

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What are the business drivers of cloud computing? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Increased time to market
Cost efficiency maximization
Strategic Planning
Accommodation of unpredictable demand

Explanation

Question 36 of 97

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SaaS provides services to an organization that requires the standard business process infrastructure such as CRM.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 37 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Load Balancing
Vertical Scaling
Horizontal Scaling
Diagonal Scaling

Explanation

Question 38 of 97

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Scalability provides a flexible infrastructure architecture to software organizations.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 39 of 97

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What are the major security concerns with regard to cloud computing? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Data integration
Data location
Recovery
Long-term viability

Explanation

Question 40 of 97

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Cloud security is deployed to protect data, applications, and the infrastructure of cloud computing.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 41 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Utility
Process Transformation
Business Model Innovation
Smart Metering

Explanation

Question 42 of 97

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What are the elements of an organization that are deployed at the Utility level? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Labor
Software
Hardware
Business Model

Explanation

Question 43 of 97

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When costs are being shared among fewer users, public cloud computing is a more expensive venture.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 44 of 97

1

What are the essential components of a cloud network? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Scalability
Hypervisor
Latency
Storage
Operating System

Explanation

Question 45 of 97

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Network node latency can be reduced by using optimized fabric.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 46 of 97

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What are the key benefits of cloud automation? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Optimal utilization of the cloud resources
Minimal cost incurred for maintenance (power consumption)
High operating costs
Adherence to compliance standards for data security.

Explanation

Question 47 of 97

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User authentication is the basic attribute of self-service.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 48 of 97

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The use of pseudonyms is not encouraged in user identity management systems of a federated cloud environment because it is a breach of trust.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 49 of 97

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What are the chief characteristics of the Cloud Gateway? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Data resiliency
Data backup
Cloud cache
Provisioning of network resources

Explanation

Question 50 of 97

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Interoperability in federated cloud reduces the need for vendor lock-in.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 51 of 97

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What are the various standards adopted by the service providers to ensure the security of data in a federated cloud environment? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Cloud Security Alliance
The Green Grid
SAS 70
Cloud Computing interoperability forum

Explanation

Question 52 of 97

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Identify the challenges involved in cloud service backup. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Bandwidth
Security
Reliability
Recovery

Explanation

Question 53 of 97

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In cloud computing, there is a trade-off between reliability and the speed of deployment.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 54 of 97

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Identify the challenges involved in performance of cloud applications. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Monitoring operating systems
Monitoring databases
Monitoring servers
Monitoring usage

Explanation

Question 55 of 97

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Identify the benefits of cloud databases. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Improved security
Increased accessibility
Automated scalability
Minimal investment

Explanation

Question 56 of 97

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Identify the challenges involved in data integration. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Speed of change
Data distribution
Data volumes
Data privacy

Explanation

Question 57 of 97

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Identify the challenges involved in migrating data to the could. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Liability
Data protection
Data distribution
Data interruption

Explanation

Question 58 of 97

1

Identify the challenges involved in implementing cloud security. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Scalability
Security controls
Sharing of resources
Loss of control

Explanation

Question 59 of 97

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PCI is not a specific set of auditing standards; instead, cloud providers are responsible for choosing their own controls and the goals of those controls intend to achieve.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 60 of 97

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The traditional architecture is designed to balance heavy workload in the cloud.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 61 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Traditional application
Scale-up
Scale-out
Multi-tier application

Explanation

Question 62 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Historical performance
Redundancy
Monitoring
SLA

Explanation

Question 63 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Drawing an outline with the critical criteria that determines the desired cloud vendor.
Analyzing the organization
Comparing cloud vendors based on the selected criteria
Finalizing the cloud vendor.

Explanation

Question 64 of 97

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Identify the activities that help you determine cloud readiness. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Optimize the current environment by providing an internal set of cloud services and enabling the incorporation of external services.
Draft the Service level Agreement (SLA).
Designate a cross-functional team to monitor cloud services.
Undertake pilot projects with various services.

Explanation

Question 65 of 97

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What are the tasks involved in drafting a plan for cloud migration? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Run "what-if" analysis to make build vs. buy cloud computing decisions such as on-premise private cloud, hosted private cloud, and public cloud.
Determine cost and value trade-offs of your cloud computing architectures.
Design and manage cloud performance KPI's such as unit rate reduction goals and return on assets (ROA).
Analyze the organization

Explanation

Question 66 of 97

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Identify ways to minimize threats to data integrity. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Determine how well the vendor meets your detailed requirements.
Back up data regularly
Control access to data using security mechanisms
Design user interfaces that prevent the input of invalid data.

Explanation

Question 67 of 97

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The externalized aspect of outsourcing makes it harder to maintain data integrity and privacy.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 68 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Service facade pattern
Re-host and optimize
Application re-hosting
Re-architect

Explanation

Question 69 of 97

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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.

Select one of the following:

Lowest
Middle
Highest

Explanation

Question 70 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Service Design
Service Operation
Service Transition
Continual Service Improvement

Explanation

Question 71 of 97

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Which lifecycle phase is concerned with financial planning?

Select one of the following:

Service Design
Service Strategy
Service Operation
Service planning

Explanation

Question 72 of 97

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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?

Select one of the following:

Service Transition
Service Measurement
Service Design
Continual Service Improvement

Explanation

Question 73 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Service Design
Service Operation
Service Transition
Service Strategy

Explanation

Question 74 of 97

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Identify the three different phases of Service Strategy.

Select one or more of the following:

Portfolio Management
Demand Management
Change Management
Financial Management

Explanation

Question 75 of 97

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What is the overall goal of demand management?

Select one of the following:

To determine the best possible use of its monetary resources to provide services.
To determine a balance between the offering of a service and the demand for that service.
To deliver and support operational IT services to achieve business and deliver forecasted business benefits.
To deliver service value by facilitating the desired outcome that customers want to achieve.

Explanation

Question 76 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Capacity Manager
IT Staff
Consumer Business Managers
Security Manager

Explanation

Question 77 of 97

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Identify the risks that are involved in the three stages of Service Strategy. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Failure to identify the specific delivery model of cloud will result in service delays when fixing incidents and problems.
Failure to provide services and meet demands ahead of time.
Failure to measure the demand exactly could result in agreed demand levels going beyond and penalties being imposed by the cloud suppliers.
Failure to specify and measure performance requirements during peak periods could result in unwarranted delays for users of cloud based services.

Explanation

Question 78 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Department Support Agreement
Service Level Agreement
IT Support Agreement
Operational Level Agreement

Explanation

Question 79 of 97

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The ability of an organization to restore Service Operations after a catastrophic failure is the goal of availability management.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 80 of 97

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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?

Select one of the following:

Availability Management
Capacity Management
Service Level Management
Supplier Management

Explanation

Question 81 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

To develop strategies on what the business needs, and what it does not.
To develop a strategy for restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible following a disruption.
To continually realign IT services to changing business needs
To plan and manage the resources to establish a new or changed service into production within constraints.

Explanation

Question 82 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Change management
SACM
Release and deployment management
Knowledge management

Explanation

Question 83 of 97

1

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

Select one of the following:

A DNS Server has had its IP address changed.
A user logs on to her workstation.
A customer attempts to place an order through your company website, and the transaction gets caught in a loop and never completes.
A network drive has reached 65% capacity, which is within the boundaries of the SLA.

Explanation

Question 84 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

A customer is unable to log on to her account, even after entering her user name and password correctly.
An unauthorized attempt to access the wireless network was blocked
No one can access a database, and its discovered that the password database is offline, but the reason for the database to go offline is unknown.

Explanation

Question 85 of 97

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Which of the following occurs in the financial authorization activity of the request Fulfillment process? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Determining a cost prior to handling the request.
Verifying that the users budget allows for the request to be made.
Determining the cost after a user makes a request
Determining that the request falls within you fulfillment budget.

Explanation

Question 86 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Process data
Present and use information
Implement corrective action
Analyze data

Explanation

Question 87 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

They run out of business, lose their services or restructure their business services.
They look for more financial support
They allocate new resources.
They cancel the SLA's

Explanation

Question 88 of 97

1

Name the security risk factors associated with the delivery model of cloud services. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Scalability
Loss of management control
Vendor Lock-in
Compliance regulations

Explanation

Question 89 of 97

1

In a public cloud, service providers give complete assurance for data security.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 90 of 97

1

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

Select one of the following:

When there is a denial of service.
When there is a loss of encryption keys.
When there is interception of data in transit.

Explanation

Question 91 of 97

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What are the legislation risks involved while adopting cloud services? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Data performance
Jurisdiction issues
High cost and latency
Lawful access

Explanation

Question 92 of 97

1

Online licensing checks help ensure the availability of software licenses when adopting cloud services.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 93 of 97

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Identify the indirect costs that affect TCO(total cost of ownership) in an organization. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Security
Value-added services.
Scalability
Interoperability.

Explanation

Question 94 of 97

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What is the correct definition of TCO?

Select one of the following:

TCO provides value added services to a customer.
TCO identifies only the intangible costs associated with a product or system.
TCO is a cost calculation designed to evaluate direct and indirect costs of a product or system.
TCO is a performance metric used to measure the efficiency of an investment.

Explanation

Question 95 of 97

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Identify the various cost factors for an IaaS cloud provider. (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

No server maintenance costs.
No ongoing IT support costs or operation costs involved.
No outsourcing of IT infrastructure.
Low subscription fees for the IT help desk.

Explanation

Question 96 of 97

1

Organizations with defined demand levels can adopt public cloud services as their demand for resources is always constant.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 97 of 97

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What compliance and governance requirements should be ascertained by organizations before opting for cloud services? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Audit
Monitoring the cloud model
Detection and Forensics
Encryption Standards

	Created by Cameron Gray about 9 years ago

This is a quiz to prep for the CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification. Content is gathered from a combination of online test exams as well as test questions from the 3 day New Horizons pre certification class

CompTIA Cloud Essentials

Question 1 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 97

Which option describes a benefit of virtualized servers?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 4 of 97

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?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 6 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 7 of 97

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 97

For which businesses would cloud computing be best suited? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 9 of 97

Which of the following are valid reasons for a firm's not adopting a cloud solution? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 97

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?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 97

How are cloud computing and outsourcing similar?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 97

Which of the following is a benefit of outsourcing?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 13 of 97

True or false? Cloud computing is a form of outsourcing.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 14 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 15 of 97

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

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 16 of 97

[Blank] protects data contents, while [blank] ensures that data has not been tampered with.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 17 of 97

Which of the following are related to cloud computing costs? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 18 of 97

How does cloud computing help an organization as new opportunities arise? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 19 of 97

[Blank] and [blank] give cloud customers a competitive advantage.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 20 of 97

Which of the following statements are true? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following: