1. Question 1

According to NIST, meaning of “a shared pool of configurable computing resources”?

❌ Leveraging cloud services over the open internet on hardware owned by the cloud provider.
❌ Data security associated with data loss or unavailability causing business disruption.
✅ Networks, servers, storage, applications, and services.
❌ Five essential characteristics, three deployment, and three service models.

Explanation: NIST’s “shared pool of configurable computing resources” refers to the collection of compute, storage, network, applications and services that can be provisioned and scaled.

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2. Question 2

What tasks do hypervisors accomplish?

❌ Facilitate access to mainframes for multiple users to access the same data storage layer
❌ Scale on demand to support fluctuating workloads
❌ Fluctuates workloads and facilitates access to mainframes
✅ Enable multiple operating systems to run alongside each other and separate VMs logically

Explanation: Hypervisors virtualize hardware so multiple OS instances (VMs) can run isolated on the same physical host.

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3. Question 3

Which key considerations drive cloud selection re: off-the-shelf software/upgrades?

❌ Risk exposure
✅ Software as a service and development platforms
❌ Infrastructure and workloads
❌ Speed and productivity

Explanation: Choosing SaaS and platform options affects ongoing costs for off-the-shelf software and reduces upgrade/integration burden.

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4. Question 4

Which statement describes a benefit of cloud computing?

❌ Data security associated with loss or unavailability of data
❌ Hardware failures do not result in data loss because of backups maintained on the network
✅ Business continuity
❌ Lack of standardization in how constantly evolving technologies integrate

Explanation: Cloud services support business continuity through redundancy, failover, and distributed resources.

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5. Question 5

Which provider offers one of the largest cloud-based data management platforms?

✅ Oracle Cloud
❌ Alibaba Cloud
❌ IBM Cloud
❌ Salesforce

Explanation: Oracle is widely recognized for its large, enterprise-focused cloud data management and database platforms.

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6. Question 6

Which provider uses its cloud internally for end-user products with automatic resource allocation?

❌ SAP
❌ Microsoft Azure
✅ Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
❌ Oracle Cloud

Explanation: Google uses GCP technologies internally (search, apps) and builds auto-scaling infrastructure for its services.

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7. Question 7

According to IDC, what crucial ability makes cloud essential for business success?

❌ Cognitively enabled workflows
❌ Applied exponential technologies such as AI, Automation, IoT, and Blockchain
✅ Data-driven decisions
❌ Multi-cloud infrastructures

Explanation: IDC emphasizes that the ability to make fast, data-driven decisions using cloud-enabled analytics is critical to compete.

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8. Question 8

Why did American Airlines require a new technology platform?

❌ To reduce dependency on cloud-based platform for low-latency delivery
✅ To migrate applications to cloud-native microservices for faster and more reliable customer service
❌ To automate flight scheduling and maintenance
❌ To expand their global presence and accelerate growth

Explanation: The move to microservices/cloud-native architecture improves agility, reliability, and customer experience.

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9. Question 9

How does Cloud Computing help IoT devices?

❌ Stores data on an encrypted physical drive
❌ Draws insights from data collected from the IoT devices and users
❌ Provides a fixed physical location for the data collected from IoT devices
✅ Provides the resources to store and process the data produced by IoT devices and users.

Explanation: Cloud supplies scalable compute/storage and processing power for IoT telemetry, analytics, and storage.

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10. Question 10

Relationship between Blockchain, AI, and cloud?

❌ Blockchain provides the distributed computing resources, AI powers the analytics, and the cloud records the data
❌ Blockchain lends trust and transparency to AI by recording the data and variables that go into a decision made in an AI algorithm, and the cloud provides an immutable network
✅ Blockchain provides a decentralized source of truth, AI powers analytics and decision-making, and the cloud provides globally distributed computing resources.
❌ Blockchain provides an immutable network, AI provides distributed computing resources and cloud powers decision-making

Explanation: Best description: blockchain = decentralized ledger/trust, AI = analytics/decisions, cloud = scalable, distributed compute and storage.

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