Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Cloud Services

This quiz contains multiple-choice problems on Amazon’s web services and their components, such as machine images, storage systems and elastic block store, and Microsoft’s cloud services, such as the Azure platform, Azure AppFabric and Azure content delivery network of windows.

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Which of the following tools is used to measure the I/O of systems in estimating transaction costs?

EBS IOSTAT ESW All of the above

The connection between storage and Microsoft’s Content Delivery Network is at least __ per cent uptime.

90 95 99.9 None of the above

Which of the following was formerly called Windows Live Dev?

Live Services Windows Live Messenger Connect Windows Control Foundation All of the above

Which of the following ways can be used to access Windows Live?

By navigating to the service from the command on the navigation bar at the top of Windows Live By directly entering the URL of the service By selecting the application from the Windows Live Essentials folder on the Start menu All of the above

__ is a management service for Windows Live ID and relationships.

Windows Live Account Windows Live Admin Center Windows Live Management All of the above

Which of the following is based on Microsoft Sharepoint?

Sharepoint services

.NET services

Windows services

All of the above

Which of the following is a worldwide content caching and delivery system for Windows Azure blob content?

CDN

CND

DNC

All of the above

Which of the following tools is used to measure the I/O of systems in estimating transaction costs?

EBS

IOSTAT

ESW

All of the above

Which of the following is also known as edge computing?

CloudWave

CloudFront

CloudSpot

All of the above

CloudFront supports __ data by performing static data transfers and streaming content from one CloudFront location to another.

Table caching

Geocaching

Index caching

Windows Media Server

Data stored in __ domains does not require schema maintenance.

SimpleDB

SQL Server

Oracle

RDS

Which of the following does Amazon provide as a relational database service?

SimpleDB

SQL Server

Oracle

RDS

Which of the following can be considered a distributed caching system?

CND

CDN

CWD

All of the above

Amazon Relational Database Service is a variant of the __ 5.1 database system.

Oracle

MySQL

SQL Server

All of the above

SQL Azure is a cloud-based relational database service based on

Oracle

SQL Server

MySQL

All of the above

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Cloud Services
Questions: 15
Contributed by:
Ivan