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