CLO-001 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following is an important new skill for an IT organization to develop in the context of cloud computing?

A. Provisioning services

B. Incident management

C. Technology upgrade monitoring D. Security and risk management

Why does cloud computing shift capital cost to variable cost?

A. Cloud computing is more cost-efficient

B. IT assets are not owned by the customer

C. Servers are better utilized

D. Staff is no longer hired by the customer

Which of the following is the BEST example of maintaining 'strategic flexibility'?

A. Cloud provisioning models have a risk of not maintaining flexibility once services have been migrated.

B. When choosing services to migrate into the cloud, there should be a focus on ensuring that future migration between different cloud providers can be facilitated.

C. Cloud providers need to provide countermeasures to any consequences of not maintaining flexibility of services in a strategic manner.

D. When choosing services to migrate into the cloud, it should be ensured that the cloud provider can change underlying hardware platforms in case the customer needs change.

Cloud computing can BEST reduce costs for a business by: A. Utilizing services as needed.

B. Increasing available data storage.

C. Utilizing local resources.

D. Increasing sales potential.

Which of the following cloud services would be used to rent hardware, computing and network space, and storage over the Internet?

A. SaaS

B. IaaS

C. PaaS

D. XaaS

Which of the following BEST describes the properly of cloud computing that enables services to be readily on hand?

A. Integrity

B. Confidentiality

C. Availability

D. Scalability

Which of the following are the MOST important benefits of a cloud computing solution for an application development provider? (Select two.)

A. Reduced training time for new developers

B. Reduced storage requirements

C. Reduced complexity for users

D. Reduced bandwidth usage

E. Reduced cost

F. Reduced development timeframe

Which of the following virtualization characteristics allows the use of different types of physical servers?

A. Security

B. Hardware independence

C. Scalability

D. Variable costs

The IT department is planning the migration of their customer billing database to an external cloud provider. They have resolved most technical concerns but are worried about data interception between the

cloud and branch offices. Which of the following is the BEST way to address this concern?

A. Design, build and test a robust security access program

B. Encrypt the database

C. Encrypt the data stream

D. Use certificate services for database access

A company houses all its networking equipment in a third-party data center, but uses its technicians to support the networking equipment. Of which of the following types of clouds is this an example?

A. PaaS

B. XaaS

C. IaaS

D. SaaS