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Introduction To Cloud Computing

This document contains 10 multiple choice questions that assess knowledge of introductory cloud computing concepts. Key points covered include: - Cloud computing refers to applications and services that run on distributed, virtualized resources accessed over the internet. - Cloud computing allows for utility, pay-as-you-go computing and makes resources seem limitless and abstracted from physical systems. - Virtualization is a core cloud concept related to pooling and sharing physical resources. - Amazon Web Services is a successful example of a cloud computing platform.

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Introduction To Cloud Computing

This document contains 10 multiple choice questions that assess knowledge of introductory cloud computing concepts. Key points covered include: - Cloud computing refers to applications and services that run on distributed, virtualized resources accessed over the internet. - Cloud computing allows for utility, pay-as-you-go computing and makes resources seem limitless and abstracted from physical systems. - Virtualization is a core cloud concept related to pooling and sharing physical resources. - Amazon Web Services is a successful example of a cloud computing platform.

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This set of Cloud Computing Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on

Introduction to Cloud Computing.


1. _________ computing refers to applications and services that run on a distributed network
using virtualized resources.
a) Distributed
b) Cloud
c) Soft
d) Parallel
View Answer
Answer:b
Explanation:Cloud Computing applications are accessed by common Internet protocols and
networking standards.
2. Point out the wrong statement :
a) The massive scale of cloud computing systems was enabled by the popularization of the
Internet
b) Soft computing represents a real paradigm shift in the way in which systems are deployed
c) Cloud computing makes the long-held dream of utility computing possible with a pay-as-yougo, infinitely scalable, universally available system
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer:b
Explanation:Cloud Computing is distinguished by the notion that resources are virtual and
limitless and that details of the physical systems on which software runs are abstracted from the
user.
3. ________ as a utility is a dream that dates from the beginning of the computing industry itself.
a) Model
b) Computing
c) Software
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer:b
Explanation:Cloud computing takes the technology, services, and applications that are similar to
those on the Internet and turns them into a self-service utility.
4. Which of the following is essential concept related to Cloud ?
a) Reliability
b) Productivity
c) Abstraction
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer:c
Explanation:Cloud computing abstracts the details of system implementation from users and
developers.
5. Point out the wrong statement :
a) All applications benefit from deployment in the cloud
b) With cloud computing, you can start very small and become big very fast
c) Cloud computing is revolutionary, even if the technology it is built on is evolutionary
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer:a
Explanation:Issues with latency, transaction control, and in particular security and regulatory
compliance are of particular concern.
6. Which of the following cloud concept is related to pooling and sharing of resources ?
a) Polymorphism
b) Abstraction
c) Virtualization
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer:c
Explanation:Applications run on physical systems that arent specified, data is stored in locations
that are unknown, administration of systems is outsourced to others, and access by users is
ubiquitous.
7. ________ has many of the characteristics of what is now being called cloud computing.
a) Internet
b) Softwares
c) Web Service
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer:a
Explanation:The Internet offers abstraction, runs using the same set of protocols and standards,
and uses the same applications and operating systems.
8. Which of the following can be identified as cloud ?
a) Web Applications
b) Intranet
c) Hadoop
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer:c
Explanation:When an intranet becomes large enough that a diagram no longer wishes to
differentiate between individual physical systems, the intranet too becomes identified as a cloud.
9. Cloud computing is an abstraction based on the notion of pooling physical resources and
presenting them as a ________ resource.
a) real
b) virtual
c) cloud
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer:b
Explanation:Cloud Computing is a new model for provisioning resources, for staging
applications, and for platform-independent user access to services.
10. Which of the following is Cloud Platform by Amazon ?
a) Azure
b) AWS
c) Cloudera
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer:c
Explanation:One of the most successful cloud-based businesses is Amazon Web Services, which
is an Infrastructure as a Service offering that lets you rent virtual computers on Amazons own
infrastructure.

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