Basics of Cloud Computing

This quiz contains MCQs on the basics, types and attributes, advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing.

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__ as a utility is a dream that dates from the beginning of the computing industry itself.

Model

Computing

Software

All of the above

Point out the wrong statement among these.

All applications benefit from deployment in the cloud

With cloud computing, you can start very small and become big very fast

Cloud computing is revolutionary, even if the technology it is built on is evolutionary

None of the above

Which of the following cloud concept is related to pooling and sharing of resources?

Polymorphism

Abstraction

Virtualization

None of the above

__ has many characteristics of what is now being called cloud computing.

Internet

Softwares

Web Service

All of the above

Which of the following can be identified as cloud?

Web Applications

Intranet

Hadoop

All of the above

Cloud computing is an abstraction based on pooling physical resources and presenting them as a __ resource.

Real

Virtual

Cloud

None of the above

Which of the following is a cloud platform by Amazon?

Azure

AWS

Cloudera

All of the above

__ computing refers to applications and services that run on a distributed network using virtualized resources.

Distributed

Cloud

Soft

Parallel

Which of the following is an essential concept when related to Cloud?

Reliability

Productivity

Abstraction

All of the above

Point out the wrong statement among these.

The massive scale of cloud computing systems was enabled by the popularization of the Internet

Soft computing represents a real paradigm shift in the way in which systems are deployed

Cloud computing makes the long-held dream of utility computing possible with a pay-as-you-go, infinitely scalable, universally available system

All of the above

Which of the following was one of the top five cloud applications in 2010?

Cloud backup

Web applications

Business applications

All of the above

Point out the correct statement among these.

Google’s cloud includes perhaps some 10 data centers worldwide

Flipkart.com’s infrastructure was built to support elastic demand so the system could accommodate peak traffic

Data centers have been sited to optimize the overall system latency

All of the above

Which of the following benefits is related to creates resources that are pooled together in a system that supports multi-tenant usage?

On-demand self-service

Broad network access

Resource pooling

All of the above

The __ is something you can obtain under contract from your vendor.

PoS

QoS

SoS

All of the above

All cloud computing applications suffer from the inherent __ intrinsic in their WAN connectivity.

Propagation

Latency

Noise

All of the above

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Basics of Cloud Computing
Questions: 15
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