Certified Cloud Technology Associate

Welcome to your Certified Cloud Technology Associate

Instructions

All 40 questions should be attempted.
All answers are to be marked on the question paper itself.
You have 1 hour to complete this paper
You must achieve 26 or more out of possible 40 marks (65%) to pass this exam

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15. Why are standards used in Cloud Computing?

Standards provide location independence.

Standards provide security.

Standards provide portability.

Standards provide compliance.

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2. Virtualization is a key architectural feature of Cloud computing. What is another one of these key characteristics of Cloud computing?

the use of the Internet

the use of secured access

the use of Service Level Agreements

the use of standard protocol

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What are the main hardware components of a local Cloud environment?

Virtual desktop, blade server, load balancer, storage

Blade server, virtual desktop, Local Area Network (LAN), load balancer

Blade server, Local Area Network (LAN), load balancer, storage

Virtual desktop, Local Area Network (LAN), load balancer, storage

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You are a small business owner who wants to move all of your IT to the Cloud.

You are growing and want dynamic scaling. You expect the desktops of your employees

to be virtualized. You discuss some policy-based services with the Cloud provider.

What type of service model will you be discussing?

XaaS

PaaS

SaaS

IaaS

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13. What is Abuse of Cloud Services?

An intolerable system slowdown leaves all of the legitimate service users confused And angry as to why the service isn’t responding.

Some of the cloud providers staff or sub-contractor staff may be untrustworthy.

Compliance to legislation and regulations during external audits.

Cloud provider may not only host your data and applications, but also malicious software.

Moving into the Cloud may make it more difficult for organizations to prove their

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16. What is a major limitation in using applications on mobile platforms?

lack of applications available for mobile platforms

limited memory of mobile phones

there is no enterprise applications available for the mobile platforms

not all applications are available for all mobile platforms.

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8. Which service model allows the customer to choose more layers in the Computing architecture?

There is no difference between the service models.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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17. What is an important limitation of Cloud Computing?

automation

privacy

shared resources

increased costs

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What is not a mitigating measure against data loss?

audits

encryption

authentication and authorization

Storage area network (SAN)

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14. Why is a trial period needed when considering to use Software as a Service (SaaS)?

to establish the required bandwidth for using the cloud services

to find out whether the vendor will meet the Service level agreement (SLA)

to evaluate whether the cloud services will be useful

to have time to accommodate the local network to use of the new services

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11.

Authentication means asking: “Who are you?” Authorization means asking:

“What are you allowed to do?”

What does the Accounting characteristic from triple-A ask?

How much money do you need to pay?

What are you going to do?

What did you do?

What resources will you need?

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18. In a cloud environment, consumers become dependent upon providers for products and services. What is a term used to describe the difficulties in migrating a software application from one provider to another?

Vendor lock-in

Data conversion plan

Loyalty program

Marketing strategy

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13.

Why did virtualization boost the emergence of Cloud Computing?

Virtualization leads to better network utilization.

Virtual machines have greater performance than their physical counterparts.

A virtual machine is more secure than a physical machine.

Virtualization made it easier and cheaper to share resources between users.

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14.

What is a risk of providing Cloud based services?

virtualization

data continuity

self-service

elasticity

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15.

1. What is an important concern for the customer in multi-tenant environments?

Security

Network bandwidth

Network latency

Availability

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9. What is an example of a single purpose environment?

interface to a large computer

any application on any server

Mainframe

interface to large storage

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17.

What is not a valid reason for the customer asking a Cloud provider where their servers are located?

The geographical location may tell something about legislation.

Geographical location may tell something about network latency.

The number of sites tells you something about disaster recovery possibilities.

When a server breaks down, the customer wants to send a technician to fix the problem as soon as possible.

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18.

What is information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single Person or can be used with other sources to uniquely identify a single individual?

Single sign-on (SSO)

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Personal Identifiable Information (PII)

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What is a correct definition of Cloud Computing?

a service architecture based on thin clients

a large pool of usable and accessible virtualized resources

a network of globally interconnected client computers

a service offered by a Service provider, not limited by a Service level agreement (SLA)

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6. What is Multi-tenancy?

An architecture in which each customer has their own software instance.

A way of thinking in terms of services and service-based development and the outcomes Of services.

An architecture in which a single instance of a software application serves multiple customers.

The act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (But not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), Storage device or computer network resources.

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21.

What is the purpose of the HIPAA Privacy Rule?

to protect personal health information

to protect personal financial and accounting information

to have the Hypervisor protect private data

to protect private information in HTML documents

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22.

What is an important benefit of Cloud Computing?

reduced cost

independency from the Internet

highly protected data

small bandwidth

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7. The ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 standard requires that ISO/IEC 20000 processes are documented. Who needs to show that they are familiar with the processes and adhere to the procedures and working instructions?

Only the organization, because they are responsible for the processes.

Both the organization and the Cloud service provider, because they share responsibility.

Neither the organization, nor the Cloud service provider, because the processes within Cloud computing are outside the scope of ISO/IEC 20000.

Only the Cloud service provider, because they take over all responsibility.

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20. What is a Virtual Private Network (VPN)?

an operating system for private network systems

a virtual network device for private purposes

a secured private cloud for a single user

a secured connection for remote access to a Local Area Network (LAN)

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10. What is Federation in Identity management?

the identity of a group of users sharing the same cloud resources

systems in the Cloud sharing information about the identity of users

cloud-based Identity management enabling single sign-on (SSO) for multiple systems

the cloud of all systems accessible by a single user

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26.

Failover is the capacity to switch automatically to another system or resource in the event of a failure. Which Cloud property makes failover easier to scale in the Cloud than on physical servers?

Internet connection

multi-purpose

virtualization

multi-tenancy

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What can be done to make maximum use of the interoperability principle of Cloud Computing?

Use standard protocols.

Use hardware and software of a single vendor.

Only use cloud providers located in Europe.

Employ multiple system integrators to build your private cloud.

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11. What is the benefit of storage availability in the Cloud?

Storage in the Cloud is easier to protect against intrusion.

Additional storage does not require budget for new large storage devices.

Storage in the Cloud has shorter access times than storage in the LAN.

Storage in the Cloud has a higher availability than storage devices in the Local Area Network (LAN).

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29.

What top threat to Cloud computing refers to components that may not have been developed for multi-tenant architecture and may cause security issues?

Malicious Insiders

Denial of Service (DoS)

Account or Service Traffic Hijacking

Shared Technology Vulnerabilities

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30.

Why is it beneficial to businesses that Cloud computing involves managed services?

The business own IT department can shift the focus away from operational issues.

All services are managed, even when a Cloud provider goes out of business.

The business does not have to worry about the performance of Cloud services.

Cloud services automatically comply with the national and international legislation.

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19. What is a staffing benefit of Cloud Computing?

managed services

fewer IT-staff

higher recruitment

self-service

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12. Which question do you not have to ask when moving your local Cloud network to a hybrid environment?

What happens to my data when I’m not using it?

How well is my data protected against theft?

What will my customers notice from the move?

How do I test if my provider has everything under control?

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Which process is not covered by ISOIEC 20000?

People management

Service level management

Supplier management

Configuration management

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4. What is a benefit of Cloud Computing for IT staff?

less interruption of work caused by users asking for support

higher payment of IT staff involved in Cloud Computing

less knowledge needed: Cloud Computing does not require special skills

lower stress levels: less worry about normal daily activities like making back-ups

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35.

What risk is minimized by proper HR vetting procedures?

malicious insiders

insecure application interfaces

shared technology vulnerabilities

account, service, and traffic hijacking

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36.

What is an important requirement for applications to be accessible in the Cloud?

The application should use the same programming language as the clients.

The user should know on which server the application is located.

The application should be compatible with the browser of the user's computer.

The user's identity should be known by the application.

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3. Where did the Internet begin?

computer hobbyists

the CIA

the Department of Defense of the USA

a cluster of cooperating universities in the USA

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38.

How does Cloud Computing change the relationship between provider and customer?

less focus on SLAs

less compliance to standards

more focus on training

increased focus on Service level agreements (SLAs)

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5. What is a correct description of a Thin Client?

a Personal Computer without a hard drive

a mobile phone with access to the Internet

a user terminal without a processor

a Client computer without a screen

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40.

What is a big benefit of Cloud based services for a small Internet based business starting up?

the data security and privacy

the high Operational Expenditure (OPEX)

the short implementation time

the service level agreement (SLA)

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