Cloud Computing Mid - I, September - 2014

1.What is/are the key characteristic/s of cloud computing?
  • Service offering
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
  • All
Answer: D
2._____ is a type of cloud computing that delivers applications through a browser to customers using a multiuser architecture.
  • IaaS
  • PaaS
  • SaaS
  • CaaS
Answer: C
3.Who is/are offering SaaS in their cloud computing environment?
  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • IBM
  • All
Answer: D
4.Which is ranked first as the greatest challenge or issue of cloud computing?
  • Security
  • Cost
  • Availability
  • Performance
Answer: A
5.Which of the Amazon EC2 feature is used to build failure-resilient application?
  • EBS
  • SQS
  • Simple DB
  • Cloud Front
Answer: A
6.Which service provides delivery of computer infrastructure as service.
  • CaaS
  • IaaS
  • SaaS
  • All
Answer: B
7.The biggest challenge for the cloud is
  • Secure data storage
  • High speed access to the Internet
  • Standardization
  • All
Answer: A
8.How many common methods are there to achieve identity federation?
  • 3
  • 4
  • 2
  • 5
Answer: B
9._________ works by exposing Amazon’s web-scale messaging infrastructure as a service
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon Simple DB
  • Amazon SQS
  • Amazon EC2
Answer: C
10._____ is a type of cloud computing that delivers applications through a browser to customers using a multiuser architecture.
  • IaaS
  • PaaS
  • SaaS
  • CaaS
Answer: C
11.Amazon ________________ is a web service for content delivery.
Answer: Cloud front
12.In Cloud Computing the IaaS means __________________________
Answer: Infrastructure as a Service
13.______________ enables sharing of resources and costs among a large pool of users.
Answer: Multitenancy
14.The term _______________ has been used historically as a metaphor for the Internet.
Answer: Cloud
15.SaaS stands for _______________________.
Answer: Software as a Service
16._____________________ is a core component of an entity’s real-time identity.
Answer: Presence
17.__________________is a method of running multiple independent virtual operating systems on a single physical computer.
Answer: Virtualization
18.___________ is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XM stanzas.
Answer: Federation
19._________ is a web application hosting service and cloud platform provider that bills on a utility computing basis.
Answer: Mosso
20.__________________ is an enabling technology for peer to peer interaction.
Answer: Presence