CLO-001 CompTIA Cloud Essentials Questions and Answers

Network bandwidth

Network QoS

Network latency

Network speed

Data integration

Security

Project management

Hardware management

It reduces financial risks to the business

The IT department does not accommodate variable costs

They can better measure the provider's quality

They can use their own payment options

SaaS

IaaS

PaaS

XaaS

Consult the company's exit plan.

Move the company data to the backup provider that was selected earlier.

Re-host all critical applications on the company's internal servers.

Evaluate the company's strategic options for an alternative provider

Supply manager

Commercial manager

Infrastructure project manager

Credit risk manager

Confirm a continual assurance framework is in place to measure the cloud provider's performance in line with organizational objectives.

Have independent security testing performed against the cloud provider to ensure that the business's customer data is safe.

Ask the cloud provider to lower the cost before each contractual renewal so that the business is obtaining value for money.

Have independent stress and volume testing performed against the cloud provider to measure the availability SLA.

BPaaS

PaaS

IaaS

SaaS

Data is accessible when the Internet is not functioning

In-house IT staff controls all data

Increase in encryption technologies

Decrease in IT management of the platform

Financial chargeback

Security management

Hardware maintenance

Software distribution

Preferred monitoring application

The Application Programming Interface

Service Level Agreements

Application list

Rapid elasticity

Cloud bursting

Universal access

Network pooling

Insist that the provider switch to secure protocols, such as SSH instead of Telnet.

Insist that the provider use authentication to connect to the non-secure applications.

Insist that the provider place firewalls and routers at the border of the cloud environment.

Insist that the provider implement username/password on all protocols.

Cost of implementation

Current productivity

Use of current skills

Business needs

PaaS

SaaS.

IaaS.

None of the above.

Easier access by users outside of the organization

Faster deployment of applications

Rapidly growing and shrinking capacity

All of the above are correct

Virtualize, Paas, IaaS, and SaaS

SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and Virtualize

Virtualize, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

IaaS, PaaS, Virtualize, and SaaS

Hypervisors

Image factory

Security procedures

Trained IT staff

Ensure that as part of the change management process the events are sequenced to include the cloud provider and that they have resources available.

Ensure that monitoring controls are implemented by the cloud provider to ensures that the system is highly available and that performance can be measured.

Ensure that the SLA's for availability have been well documented and agreed to as part of the contract arrangement between the two companies.

Ensure that the capacity and storage is available to meet the current and future demands of the solution of the cloud provider's infrastructure.

Data access

Data transparency

Data availability

Data localization

IaaS

SaaS

BPaaS

PaaS

Maintenance becomes irrelevant

Cloud provider takes care of it

Hardware vendor takes care of it

Operating system vendor takes care of it

The company's fee varies based on the projected quarterly revenue of the client's company.

The company's fee varies based on the number of their IT staff required to support the infrastructure.

The company's fee varies based on the number of servers needed to house data in the datacenter.

The company's fee varies based on the energy consumption of each server in the datacenter.

Scalability

Security

Hardware independence

Variable costs

Yearly independent audit is performed to measure performance

Cloud provider has ability to terminate contract

One week timeframe for termination of service

Cloud subscriber maintains ownership of their data

Both allow the OS to be patched by the customer.

Both take advantage of the incremental scalability.

Both require the customer to maintain the hardware.

Both provide granular access to the backend storage.

Both implement hardware abstraction.

Virtual to Virtual

Physical to Virtual

Physical to Physical

Virtual to Physical

Assess, proof of concept, migrate data, migrate application, automation/scaling, and optimizing

Migrate the data and rebuild the application using APIs

Purchase service from cloud provider, migrate the user accounts, and disable the internal infrastructure

Decommission the internal infrastructure, purchase service from the cloud provider, and enable for business users

Design, build and test a robust security access program

Encrypt the database

Encrypt the data stream

Use certificate services for database access

In-sourcing

Outsourcing

Virtualization

Abstraction

Typically, industry definitions state that cloud computing and IT outsourcing are synonymous terms with the same meaning.

Cloud computing only works when there is satisfactory Internet connectivity whereas outsourcing requires dedicated WAN links.

Cloud computing generally allows for on-demand utilization, whereas outsourcing is typically defined by contract terms.

Cloud computing provides only external IT equipment to a company whereas outsourcing involves external only resources managing internal company equipment.

Applications that are currently expensive to maintain because of interconnections

Applications that are easy to migrate and have some business value

Applications with high risk and little business value

Legacy applications that are coupled to specific hardware and systems software

Increasing the company carbon footprint

Upgrading the company datacenter

Implementing new IT strategies

Increasing the MTTR after an incident

The primary instance of the application will be locally hosted with a weekly copy of the instance sent to a cloud service provider.

The primary instance of the application will be locally hosted with a nightly file-level backup being performed to an off-site location.

The primary instance of the application will be running a cloud service provider's hosted environment with a continuous backup to the company's local infrastructure.

The primary instance of the application will be locally hosted with a nightly copy of the instance sent to a cloud service provider.

Contracts are in years as opposed to days or months

Internal IT staff move from one organization to another

There are no upfront CAPEX costs for hardware

Infrastructure is stored within a datacenter

Choose the SaaS provider; Design the application; Choose whether to develop the service application in-house or outsource; Operate the service application in the cloud.

Decide whether to implement on the cloud; Choose a XaaS provider; Design the application; Choose where to develop the service application; Operate the service application in the cloud.

Decide whether to implement the application on the cloud; Choose an IaaS provider; Choose whether to develop the service in-house; Operate the service application in the cloud.

Strategize which IaaS provider to use; Design the application; Transition the development process to the cloud; Operate the service application in the cloud.

Centralized management of user access to the application.

Aversion of the software that will be accessed in the cloud.

The ability to perform fine grained customizations to the software.

The ability to access the application from the internal company network.