Deck 10: Using Virtual Computing in a Cloud Environment

Question 1

After deploying a Virtual Private Cloud service, and configuring a routed network for your VM, you find that you are unable to access any ports assigned to services on the VM. What is most likely the issue?

A) The Edge Gateway is blocking all incoming ports.
B) The Virtual Private Cloud service was deployed in the wrong region.
C) No public IP addresses are assigned to the gateway.
D) The routed network has not been added to the Edge Gateway as an allowed network.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What is not one of the items defined by the control components of OpenStack?

A) Application Programming Interfaces (API) services
B) Web interface
C) identity management
D) Virtual machine image management

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What NIST defined cloud characteristic describes access to services over the network using a Web browser and standard interfaces from any location with a variety of devices including desktop, laptop, and tablet computers?

A) on-demand self-service
B) broad network access
C) resource pooling
D) pay-as-you-go

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Elasticity is the NIST defined characteristic that allows resources to be managed by the consumer and quickly scaled out to provide more capability or quickly scaled in to release unneeded capacity and costs.

Question 5

Both VMware vCloud and Microsoft Azure are generally classified as IaaS cloud platforms.

Question 6

No vCloud account is required in order to set up a vCloud virtual data center (VDC), although it is preferred.

Question 7

What hosts Web objects such as images and text as well as software and documents across a global network of high bandwidth servers?

A) A Content Delivery Network (CDN).
B) A Domain Name Concentrator (DNC).
C) A Domain Replication Cloud (DRC).
D) A Media Delivery Network (MDN)

Question 8

What is the amount of storage that is provided when using the vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud starter pack resource?

A) 100 GB
B) 500 GB
C) 1 TB
D) 2 TB

Question 9

How can you create a DMZ-like zone within a virtual data center using vCloud Air?

A) The "DMZ" network option can be selected in the edge gateway for desired DMZ member VMs.
B) A combination of both routed and isolated networks can be used to establish a DMZ.
C) A private NAT network can be created, then bridged to a public routed network, establishing a DMZ.
D) A special request to VMware must be made to provision a virtual switch that will provide DMZ access for a network.

Question 10

Virtual Machine Manager can provide support for only a single private cloud.

Question 11

What Azure File Storage replication strategy supports replication across multiple facilities as well as the ability to read data from primary or secondary locations?

A) ZRS
B) LRS
C) GRS
D) RA-GRS

Question 12

What is the vCloud Air equivalent of the VMware NSX software defined networking environment?

A) Air vNet
B) vCloud Advanced Network Manager
C) Advanced Networking Services
D) vCloud Software Defined Network

Question 13

Under what tab in the vRealize Automation dashboard will a user be able to deploy services that they have been entitled to?

A) Catalog
B) Items
C) Requests
D) Inbox

Question 14

What are the two different options available for connecting vCloud Air and your vSphere data center?

A) A connection can be made over the public Internet or an IPSec VPN can be utilized.
B) An IPSec VPN can be utilized, or a peering agreement can be created between your network and VMware.
C) A connection can be made over the public Internet, or a peering agreement can be created between your network and VMware.
D) The vCloud Connector can be configured to establish the connection with another Connector instance, or an IPSec VPN can be utilized.

Question 15

What statement regarding the use of vCloud Air is accurate?

A) The dedicated cloud account is more expensive than the Virtual Private Cloud account.
B) The Virtual Private Cloud account is more expensive than the dedicated cloud account.
C) Only the Virtual Private Cloud account can select a region that will become your primary data center.
D) Only the dedicated cloud account type can select the region in which the primary data center is located.

Question 16

You are attempting to map a drive letter to a Microsoft Azure File Storage cloud share, but the attempt fails with errors. What is most likely the issue, given the problems presented?

A) Microsoft Azure File Storage requires the installation of a special client in order to support mapped drives.
B) Microsoft Azure File Storage does not support the use of mapped drive letter shares over the Internet.
C) Your ISP or router is blocking the use of port 445 outside your local network.
D) Your ISP or router is blocking the use of port 139 outside your local network.

Question 17

A cloud-based disaster recovery service is known as what type of service?

A) Infrastructure as a Service
B) Platform as a Service
C) Backup as a Service
D) Recovery as a Service

Question 18

What Microsoft Azure cloud service does not fall under the Security and Identity category?

A) Active Directory Domain Services
B) Multi-Factor Authentication
C) Key Vault
D) Digital Rights Management

Question 19

What VMware vCloud suite component provides self service and policy based infrastructure, and provides on-demand cloud services to consumers through the use of catalogs?

A) VMware vRealize Automation
B) VMware vRealize Operations
C) VMware vRealize Business
D) VMware vRealize Self-Serve

Question 20

The Virtual Private Cloud service is a multi-tenancy service in that multiple organizations will share the same hardware that is logically divided into separate virtual data centers.

Question 22

What is the Advanced Networking Service provided by vCloud Air, and what does it do?

Question 23

What database is not available as a choice for use with OpenStack?

A) MySQL
B) MariaDB
C) PostgreSQL
D) MSSQL

Question 24

What are some of the advantages of using vCloud Air to extend a data center?

Question 25

What Microsoft Azure cloud service provides developers with the ability to track application crashes and usage?

A) DevTest Labs
B) Visual Studio Application Insights
C) Visual Studio Team Services
D) Visual Studio App Debug

Question 26

What functionality does the StorSimple Azure cloud service provide?

A) It securely stores passwords and keys in a cloud networking environment.
B) It protects user and application data by storing multiple copies across different servers.
C) It provides hybrid storage, combining cloud storage for less frequently accessed data and local storage for high performance needs.
D) It is used to replicate private clouds and provide automatic recovery in the event of failure.

Question 27

What OpenStack component serves as the standard hypervisor that interacts with other modules that make up a cloud environment?

A) Nova
B) Keystone
C) Glance
D) Neutron

Question 28

You have been tasked with deploying a cloud based Microsoft Azure service that creates predictive analytics models. What Azure service should you use?

A) Machine Learning
B) DevTest Labs
C) App Service
D) Log Analytics

Question 29

What Azure cloud services fall under the "Compute" category?

Question 30

What are some of the essential characteristics of cloud computing as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)?

Question 31

What is the name of the virtual machine image management component used by OpenStack?

A) Glance
B) StackMon
C) VirtManager
D) ActiveMQ

Question 32

What is the vCloud Connector, and how does it facilitate the creation of a functional hybrid cloud environment?

Question 33

What is the Offline Data Transfer (ODT) service, and what features does it provide?

Question 34

What is NOT one of the popular message buses utilized as a storage component for OpenStack?

A) RabbitMQ
B) Qpid
C) ActiveMQ
D) BusMQ

Question 35

What statement regarding the use of Microsoft Azure cloud services to deploy a VM is NOT accurate?

A) Extensions can be used to add features to virtual machines.
B) High Availability groups multiple virtual machines together into an availability set to ensure at least one of the virtual machines is available at all times.
C) Virtual machines are automatically configured with solid state drives for performance.
D) Monitoring can be enabled on a virtual machine to provide minute by minute updates and statistics.

Question 36

What are the four steps involved in extending a data center with vCloud Air?

Question 37

The Service Bus and StorSimple services on Microsoft Azure fall under what Azure cloud service category?

A) Compute
B) Web and Mobile
C) Storage
D) Enterprise Integration

Question 38

What is the difference between a dedicated cloud service and a Virtual Private Cloud service?

Question 39

What are some of the vRealize software products that an organization can install, and what do they do?

Question 40

What role does the Neutron component of OpenStack serve?

A) It is the virtual machine image management component that serves as the registry within an OpenStack deployment, which is used to manage the disk images.
B) It is the OpenStack frontend to a set of agents that manages Networking as a Service using the Software Defined Networking infrastructure.
C) It is the standard OpenStack hypervisor component that is used to interact with the other modules that make up a cloud environment.
D) It is the identity management component that handles tenants, users, and roles and provides catalog of services and resources for all the components.

Question 41

What are the component categories defined by the OpenStack architecture, and what do they do?