Which of the following describes a benefit of cloud services?
Economies of scale
Fixed workloads
Unpredictable costs
Answer is Economies of scale. Economies of scale is the ability to do things more cheaply and more efficiently when operating at a larger scale in comparison to operating at a smaller scale.
Question 2
Which of the following refers to spending money upfront and then deducting that expense over time?
Capital expenditure
Operational expenditures
Supply and demand
Answer is Capital expenditure. Capital expenditure refers to spending of money on physical infrastructure up front, and then deducting that expense from your tax bill over time.
Question 3
Which of the following terms refer to making a service available with no downtime for an extended period of time?
Agility
Fault tolerance
High availability
Answer is High availability. High availability keeps services up and running for long periods of time, with little downtime, depending on the service in question.
Question 4
Which term from the list below would be viewed as benefits of using cloud services?
Unpredictable costs
Local reach only
Elasticity
Elasticity, agility and economies of scale are the correct answers, and would be seen as benefits that you can gain from using cloud services.
Question 5
From the choices below, what is one of the advantages of moving your infrastructure to Azure?
The move reduces Capital Expenditures. (CapEx)
The move reduces Operational Expenses (OpEx).
The move allows for complete control of infrastructure resources.
Answer is The move reduces Capital Expenditures. (CapEx)
Public Cloud deployments reduce Capital Expenditures because there is far less infrastructure to buy; you effectively rent only what you use as you use it – CapEx is the best answer.
Question 6
Which cloud model provides the greatest degree of ownership and control?
Hybrid
Private
Public
Answer is Private. The private cloud provides the greatest degree of ownership and control.
Question 7
Which cloud model provides the greatest degree of flexibility?
Public
Private
Hybrid
Answer is Hybrid. The hybrid cloud model provides the greatest degree of flexibility, as you have the option to choose either public or private depending on your requirements.
Question 8
Which of the following describes a public cloud?
Is owned and operated by the organization that uses the resources from that cloud.
Lets organizations run applications in the cloud or on-premises.
Provides resources and services to multiple organizations and users, who connect through a secure network connection.
Answer is Provides resources and services to multiple organizations and users, who connect through a secure network connection.
The public cloud provides resources and services to multiple organizations and users, who connect through a secure network connection.
Question 9
You have legacy applications that require specialized mainframe hardware and you have newer shared applications. Which cloud deployment model would be best for you?
Public cloud
Private cloud
Hybrid cloud
Answer is Hybrid cloud.
Hybrid cloud. A hybrid cloud is a public and private cloud combined. You can run your newer applications on commodity hardware you rent from the public cloud and maintain your specialized mainframe hardware on-premises.
Question 10
Microsoft Office 365 is an example of?
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
Answer is Software as a Service.
SaaS is typically licensed through a monthly or annual subscription.