Moving Applications to the Cloud

This quiz contains MCQs on cloud and application APIs, application attributes and applications in the clouds.

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Which of the following is a property of ACID?

Atomicity

Consistency

Isolation

All of the above

Which of the following ACID properties states that the system must go from one known state to another and maintain its integrity?

Atomicity

Consistency

Isolation

Durability

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

Local

Cloud

Both local and cloud

None of the above

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

Scalability

Costs

Ubiquitous access

All of the above

An application that needed __ storage alone might not benefit from a cloud deployment at all.

Online

Offline

Virtual

All of the above

The __ property states that the system must have a mechanism to recover from committed transactions should it be necessary.

Atomicity

Consistency

Isolation

Durability

Which of the following properties defines a transaction as something that cannot be subdivided and must be completed or abandoned as a unit?

Atomicity

Consistency

Isolation

Durability

Which of the following mechanisms are contained by Cloud API for accessing cloud services?

Abstraction

Authentication

Replication

All of the above

Which of the following is a cross-platform API based on generalizing the major cloud vendor APIs?

Deltacloud

Simple Cloud API

Design Cloud

All of the above

Applications using managed cloud storage are __ as a Service Web service.

Infrastructure

Platform

Service

All of the above

Which of the following presents the developer with their APIs?

VMWare vCloud

Racksapce Cloud Servers

RimuHosting

None of the above

Which of the following storages is presented to a user as a ready-to-use disk drive?

Managed

Unmanaged

Unavailable

None of the above

Which of the following cloud storages involve(s) provisioning a raw virtualized disk?

Managed

Unmanaged

Unavailable

All of the above

Which of the following storage options is available for managed storage?

Formatting

Partitioning

Replicating data

All of the above

The set of properties that guarantee a reliable transaction in databases and other applications are referred to as

BASE

ACID

ATOM

All of the above

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Moving Applications to the Cloud
Questions: 15
Contributed by:
Ivan