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CompTIA Cloud Essentials

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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
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Question 1

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With cloud computing services, the hardware purchases, software purchases, and IT support are the responsibility of whom? -
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  • Internet service provider
  • RraaS provider
  • SaaS provider
  • Application service provider

Question 2

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Which term best describes the ability to rapidly increase user accounts for a given cloud service?
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  • Volatility
  • Synchronicity
  • Viability
  • Elasticity

Question 3

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Which option describes a benefit of virtualized servers?
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  • 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

Question 4

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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?
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  • 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.

Question 5

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Which term from the past describes the sharing of mainframe computing resources?
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  • Time-sharing
  • Time division multiplexing
  • Mainframe-sharing
  • XaaS

Question 6

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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?
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  • Virtualization
  • Application service provider
  • Platform as a service
  • Private cloud

Question 7

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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?
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  • Community cloud
  • Retail cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Public cloud

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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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?
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  • PaaS
  • SaaS
  • IaaS
  • Xaas

Question 11

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How are cloud computing and outsourcing similar?
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  • Immediate scalability
  • Vendor lock-in
  • Long contract renegotiation
  • Tailor-made client solutions

Question 12

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Which of the following is a benefit of outsourcing?
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  • Immediate scalability
  • Vendor lock-in
  • Long contract renegotiation
  • Tailor-made client solutions

Question 13

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

Question 14

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What cloud computing characteristic ensures services and data are always reachable?
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  • Confidentiality
  • Integrity
  • Availability
  • Scalability

Question 15

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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?
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  • Confidentiality
  • Integrity
  • Availability
  • Scalability

Question 16

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[Blank] protects data contents, while [blank] ensures that data has not been tampered with.
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  • Availability, scalability
  • Integrity, confidentiality
  • Scalability, availability
  • Confidentiality, integrity

Question 17

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Which of the following are related to cloud computing costs? (Choose two.)
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  • Monthly subscription
  • Server hardware costs
  • Usage fees
  • Software licensing costs

Question 18

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How does cloud computing help an organization as new opportunities arise? (Choose two.)
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  • Shifting operating expenses to capital expenses
  • Speedy addition of computing resources
  • Less cost for new server hardware
  • Speedy removal of computing resources

Question 19

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[Blank] and [blank] give cloud customers a competitive advantage.
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  • Integrity, confidentiality
  • Availability, integrity
  • Time to market, collaboration
  • Collaboration, confidentiality

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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When creating cloud virtual servers, which of the following must be specified? (Choose two.)
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  • Username and password
  • Server name
  • IP address
  • Operating system licensing

Question 23

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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?
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  • Identity trust
  • XML provider
  • Relying party trust
  • JSON provider

Question 24

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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?
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  • Elasticity
  • Automation
  • Self-service
  • Disk latency

Question 25

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Which of the following might factor into an exit strategy for a cloud customer?
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  • Vendor lock-in
  • Self-service
  • Standardization
  • Automation

Question 26

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Which of the following is not considered a cloud computing risk?
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  • Loss of network connectivity
  • Data stored in the cloud
  • Network latency
  • Host-based firewalls

Question 27

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What is a benefit of PaaS?
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  • Rapid application development
  • Replication
  • High bandwidth
  • Low latency

Question 28

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Developers build these components in the cloud.
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  • Federation identity providers
  • Cloud load balancers
  • SaaS user mailboxes
  • Web services

Question 29

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Which component is a set of programming instructions and standards for accessing a web based program?
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  • Platform
  • Web API
  • Web Browser
  • Web Application

Question 30

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Identify the client that uses a web browser as an interface to connect to the cloud.
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  • Thick
  • Thin
  • Mobile
  • Web API

Question 31

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Which model facilitates sharing of a complex computational task across multiple computers?
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  • Client Server
  • Peer to Peer
  • Grid Computing
  • Virtualization

Question 32

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All applications accessed through the Internet are cloud applications.
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  • True
  • False

Question 33

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What are the benefits of DBaas? (Choose Three)
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  • Higher availability of resources
  • Better Service
  • Reduced Risks
  • High Costs

Question 34

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Distributed computing helps to perform data intrusive tasks for applications.
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  • True
  • False

Question 35

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What are the business drivers of cloud computing? (Choose three.)
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  • Increased time to market
  • Cost efficiency maximization
  • Strategic Planning
  • Accommodation of unpredictable demand

Question 36

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

Question 37

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Which type of scaling involves the addition of additional processors, RAM, or disk space to a server?
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  • Load Balancing
  • Vertical Scaling
  • Horizontal Scaling
  • Diagonal Scaling

Question 38

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Scalability provides a flexible infrastructure architecture to software organizations.
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  • True
  • False

Question 39

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What are the major security concerns with regard to cloud computing? (Choose three.)
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  • Data integration
  • Data location
  • Recovery
  • Long-term viability

Question 40

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

Question 41

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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?
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  • Utility
  • Process Transformation
  • Business Model Innovation
  • Smart Metering

Question 42

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What are the elements of an organization that are deployed at the Utility level? (Choose three.)
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  • Labor
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Business Model

Question 43

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

Question 44

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What are the essential components of a cloud network? (Choose three.)
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  • Scalability
  • Hypervisor
  • Latency
  • Storage
  • Operating System

Question 45

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Network node latency can be reduced by using optimized fabric.
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  • True
  • False

Question 46

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What are the key benefits of cloud automation? (Choose three.)
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  • Optimal utilization of the cloud resources
  • Minimal cost incurred for maintenance (power consumption)
  • High operating costs
  • Adherence to compliance standards for data security.

Question 47

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User authentication is the basic attribute of self-service.
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  • True
  • False

Question 48

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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.
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  • True
  • False

Question 49

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What are the chief characteristics of the Cloud Gateway? (Choose three.)
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  • Data resiliency
  • Data backup
  • Cloud cache
  • Provisioning of network resources

Question 50

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

Question 51

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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.)
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  • Cloud Security Alliance
  • The Green Grid
  • SAS 70
  • Cloud Computing interoperability forum

Question 52

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Identify the challenges involved in cloud service backup. (Choose three.)
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  • Bandwidth
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Recovery

Question 53

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

Question 54

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Identify the challenges involved in performance of cloud applications. (Choose three.)
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  • Monitoring operating systems
  • Monitoring databases
  • Monitoring servers
  • Monitoring usage

Question 55

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Identify the benefits of cloud databases. (Choose three.)
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  • Improved security
  • Increased accessibility
  • Automated scalability
  • Minimal investment

Question 56

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Identify the challenges involved in data integration. (Choose three.)
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  • Speed of change
  • Data distribution
  • Data volumes
  • Data privacy

Question 57

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Identify the challenges involved in migrating data to the could. (Choose three.)
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  • Liability
  • Data protection
  • Data distribution
  • Data interruption

Question 58

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Identify the challenges involved in implementing cloud security. (Choose three.)
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  • Scalability
  • Security controls
  • Sharing of resources
  • Loss of control

Question 59

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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.
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  • True
  • False

Question 60

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

Question 61

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Identify the architecture that splits the workload over multiple servers to improve processing power.
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  • Traditional application
  • Scale-up
  • Scale-out
  • Multi-tier application

Question 62

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Identify the feature that helps you determine the level of service provided by the cloud vendor.
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  • Historical performance
  • Redundancy
  • Monitoring
  • SLA

Question 63

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

Question 64

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

Question 65

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

Question 66

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

Question 67

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

Question 68

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

Question 69

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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.
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  • Lowest
  • Middle
  • Highest

Question 70

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Which Lifecycle phase is concerned with building and testing a service before it is delivered to the customers?
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  • Service Design
  • Service Operation
  • Service Transition
  • Continual Service Improvement

Question 71

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Which lifecycle phase is concerned with financial planning?
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  • Service Design
  • Service Strategy
  • Service Operation
  • Service planning

Question 72

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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?
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  • Service Transition
  • Service Measurement
  • Service Design
  • Continual Service Improvement

Question 73

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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?
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  • Service Design
  • Service Operation
  • Service Transition
  • Service Strategy

Question 74

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Identify the three different phases of Service Strategy.
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  • Portfolio Management
  • Demand Management
  • Change Management
  • Financial Management

Question 75

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What is the overall goal of demand management?
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  • 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.

Question 76

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Who also should be included in making service strategy decisions along with the cloud providers?
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  • Capacity Manager
  • IT Staff
  • Consumer Business Managers
  • Security Manager

Question 77

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

Question 78

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Which of the following is an internal agreement between the support teams of an IT service provider?
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  • Department Support Agreement
  • Service Level Agreement
  • IT Support Agreement
  • Operational Level Agreement

Question 79

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

Question 80

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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?
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  • Availability Management
  • Capacity Management
  • Service Level Management
  • Supplier Management

Question 81

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

Question 82

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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?
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  • Change management
  • SACM
  • Release and deployment management
  • Knowledge management

Question 83

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

Question 84

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

Question 85

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

Question 86

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During which step of the CSI Process Model are stakeholders informed about whether or not goals have been achieved?
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  • Process data
  • Present and use information
  • Implement corrective action
  • Analyze data

Question 87

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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?
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  • 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

Question 88

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Name the security risk factors associated with the delivery model of cloud services. (Choose three.)
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  • Scalability
  • Loss of management control
  • Vendor Lock-in
  • Compliance regulations

Question 89

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

Question 90

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When does an organization become prone to a man-in-the-middle attack?
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  • When there is a denial of service.
  • When there is a loss of encryption keys.
  • When there is interception of data in transit.

Question 91

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What are the legislation risks involved while adopting cloud services? (Choose three.)
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  • Data performance
  • Jurisdiction issues
  • High cost and latency
  • Lawful access

Question 92

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

Question 93

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Identify the indirect costs that affect TCO(total cost of ownership) in an organization. (Choose three.)
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  • Security
  • Value-added services.
  • Scalability
  • Interoperability.

Question 94

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What is the correct definition of TCO?
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  • 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.

Question 95

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

Question 96

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

Question 97

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What compliance and governance requirements should be ascertained by organizations before opting for cloud services? (Choose three.)
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  • Audit
  • Monitoring the cloud model
  • Detection and Forensics
  • Encryption Standards
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