Which of the following actions should a company take if a cloud computing provider ceases to uphold their contract?
A. Consult the company's exit plan.
B. Move the company data to the backup provider that was selected earlier.
C. Re-host all critical applications on the company's internal servers.
D. Evaluate the company's strategic options for an alternative provider
Privacy is the right of________ to selectively disclose information about _________ and restrict the further use of that information by any party.
A. companies, others
B. companies, themselves
C. individuals, others
D. individuals, themselves
Which of the following risk results if cloud computing providers limit their Service Level Agreement (SLA) liabilities?
A. Compliance risk
B. Legal risk
C. Privacy risk
D. Security risk
A specific cloud deployment has been established specifically for financial services companies to consume. Which of the following BEST describes this type of cloud environment?
A. Private cloud
B. Community cloud
C. Hybrid cloud
D. Public cloud
Which of the following cloud service characteristics would impact how a current application will adapt in the future according to how quickly a business will grow?
A. Time to market
B. Scalability
C. Hardware independence
D. Security
A technology manager is explaining the company's latest move toward cloud computing. Which of the following statements would NOT be an example of cloud computing?
A. The company is moving their email to a third party web application.
B. The company is consolidating their 10 web servers to one physical server located in the datacenter.
C. The company is going to leverage hosted servers to handle any additional processing power needed for the application developers.
D. The employees will now access their hosted finance application via their web browser.
Which of the following will allow an organization to integrate internal identity management services with a cloud provider in order to provide single sign-on across the internal and cloud-hosted environments?
A. Virtualization
B. Federation
C. Role-based authentication
D. Outsourcing
Which of the following is a potential advantage of using Storage as a Service?
A. Data is accessible when the Internet is not functioning
B. In-house IT staff controls all data
C. Increase in encryption technologies
D. Decrease in IT management of the platform
A Chief Information Officer (CIO) decides to implement a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan that requires using tapes of full image backups store recover the company's datacenter onto a virtualized environment provided by a DR site provider. In the event that such a plan is invoked, which following migration methods should be employed?
A. Virtual to Virtual
B. Physical to Virtual
C. Physical to Physical
D. Virtual to Physical
Which of the following key elements should be applied in order to build effective private clouds that allow for interoperability with IaaS services?
A. Structure and consistency
B. Security and consistency
C. Strategy and consistency
D. Structure and security