Deck 24: Storage, Virtual Machines, and Cloud Services: a Comprehensive Guide

Question 1

___________offers various Linux distributions upon which you can build a virtual machine.

A)bagvapp
B)jcinacio
C)helpdesklive
D)all of the mentioned

Answer 1

jcinacio

Question 2

___________    is a CPU emulator and virtual machine monitor.

A)imaging
B)parallels
C)qemu
D)none of the mentioned

Answer 2

qemu

Question 3

Which of the following is storage data interchange interface for stored data objects?

A)occ
B)occi
C)ocmi
D)all of the mentioned

Answer 3

occi

Question 4

Point out the correct statement.

A)to determine whether your application will port successfully, you should perform a functionality mapping exercise
B)cloud computing supports some application features better than others
C)cloud bursting is an overflow solution that clones the application to the cloud and directs traffic to the cloud during times of high traffic
D)all of the mentioned

Question 5

Cloud storage data usage in the year 2020 is estimated to be __________    percent resident by IDC.

A)10
B)15
C)20
D)none of the mentioned

Question 6

Point out the wrong statement.

A)some apis are both exposed as soap and rest
B)the role of a cloud vendor specific api has impact on porting an application
C)there are mainly three types of cloud storage
D)none of the mentioned

Question 7

Which of the following system does not provision storage to most users?

A)paas
B)iaas
C)caas
D)saas

Question 8

The addition of a software package on top of a cloud storage volume makes most cloud storage offerings conform to a ___________as a Service model.

A)software
B)platform
C)analytics
D)none of the mentioned

Question 9

How many categories of storage devices broadly exist in cloud?

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)none of the mentioned

Question 10

Which of the following storage devices exposes its storage to clients as Raw storage that can be partitioned to create volumes?

A)block
B)file
C)disk
D)all of the mentioned

Question 11

Which of the following impose additional overhead on clients and offer faster transfer?

A)block storage
B)file storage
C)file server
D)all of the mentioned

Question 12

Which of the following should be used considering factors shown in the figure?

A)simpledb
B)rds
C)amazon ec2
D)all of the mentioned

Question 13

Point out the wrong statement.

A)amazon machine instances are sized at various levels and rented on a computing/hour basis
B)the metrics obtained by cloudwatch may be used to enable a feature called auto scaling
C)a number of tools are used to support ec2 services
D)none of the mentioned

Question 14

Which of the following is an edge-storage or content-delivery system that caches data in different physical locations?

A)amazon relational database service
B)amazon simpledb
C)amazon cloudfront
D)amazon associates web services

Question 15

Which of the following allows you to create instances of the MySQL database to support your Web sites?

A)amazon elastic compute cloud
B)amazon simple queue service
C)amazon relational database service
D)amazon simple storage system

Question 16

Point out the correct statement.

A)amazon elastic cloud is a system for creating virtual disks(volume)
B)simpledb interoperates with both amazon ec2 and amazon s3
C)ec3 is an analytics as a service provider
D)none of the mentioned

Question 17

Which of the following is the machinery for interacting with Amazon's vast product data and eCommerce catalog function?

A)amazon elastic compute cloud
B)amazon associates web services
C)alexa web information service
D)all of the mentioned

Question 18

Which of the following is a billing and account management service?

A)amazon elastic mapreduce
B)amazon mechanical turk
C)amazon devpay
D)multi-factor authentication

Question 19

Which of the following is a means for accessing human researchers or consultants to help solve problems on a contractual or temporary basis?

A)amazon elastic mapreduce
B)amazon mechanical turk
C)amazon devpay
D)multi-factor authentication

Question 20

Which of the following is built on top of a Hadoop framework using the Elastic Compute Cloud?

A)amazon elastic mapreduce
B)amazon mechanical turk
C)amazon devpay
D)multi-factor authentication

Question 21

The properties necessary to guarantee a reliable transaction in databases and other applications is referred to as __________    

A)base
B)acid
C)atom
D)all of the mentioned

Question 22

Which of the following is property of ACID principle?

A)atomicity
B)consistency
C)isolation
D)all of the mentioned

Question 23

Which of the following ACID property states that the system must go from one known state to another and that the system integrity must be maintained?

A)atomicity
B)consistency
C)isolation
D)durability

Question 24

Which of the following component is required for both online and local data access in hybrid application?

A)local
B)cloud
C)both local and cloud
D)none of the mentioned

Question 25

Which of the following factors might offset the cost of offline access in hybrid applications?

A)scalability
B)costs
C)ubiquitous access
D)all of the mentioned