Multiple Choice Questions and Answers on Cloud Types for Freshers

1. _________ model consists of the particular types of services that you can access on a cloud computing platform.

a) Service
b) Deployment
c) Application
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: a

Explanation: Service models describe the type of service that the service provider is offering.

2. Point out the correct statement :

a) The use of the word “cloud” makes reference to the two essential concepts
b) Cloud computing abstracts systems by pooling and sharing resources
c) cloud computing is nothing more than the Internet
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: Abstraction and Virtualization are the two essential concepts.

3. ________ refers to the location and management of the cloud’s infrastructure.

a) Service
b) Deployment
c) Application
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: The deployment model tells you where the cloud is located and for what purpose.

4. Which of the following is deployment model ?

a) public
b) private
c) hybrid
d) all of the mentioned

Answer: d

Explanation: Public, private, community, and hybrid clouds are deployment models.

5. Point out the wrong statement :

a) Cloud Computing has two distinct sets of models
b) Amazon has built a worldwide network of datacenters to service its search engine
c) Azure enables .NET Framework applications to run over the Internet
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: Google has built mega data centres for its search engine.

6. Which of the following is best known service model ?

a) SaaS
b) IaaS
c) PaaS
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d

Explanation: The best-known service models are Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service—the SPI model.

7. The __________ model originally did not require a cloud to use virtualization to pool resources.

a) NEFT
b) NIST
c) NIT
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: NIST stands for National Institute of Standards and Technology.

8. _______ model attempts to categorize a cloud network based on four dimensional factors.

a) Cloud Square
b) Cloud Service
c) Cloud Cube
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: c

Explanation: Cloud Cube model is mainly used for secure collaboration.

9. How many types of dimensions exists in Cloud Cube Model ?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

Answer: d

Explanation: There are four types of dimensions in Cloud Cube.

10. Which of the following dimension is related to organization’s boundaries ?

a) Physical location of data
b) Ownership
c) Security boundary
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: a

Explanation: Internal (I) / External (E) determines your organization’s boundaries.

11. How many types of security boundary values exist in Cloud Cube model ?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: There are two types depending upon network firewall.

12. Point out the correct statement :

a) A deployment model defines the purpose of the cloud and the nature of how the cloud is located
b) Service model defines the purpose of the cloud and the nature of how the cloud is located
c) Cloud Square Model is meant to show is that the traditional notion of a network boundary being the network’s firewall no longer applies in cloud computing
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: a

Explanation: Four types of deployment models exist.

13. Which of the following is provided by ownership dimension of Cloud Cube Model ?

a) Proprietary
b) Owner
c) P
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: P stands for Proprietary ownership.

14. __________is a measure of whether the operation is inside or outside the security boundary or network firewall.

a) Per
b) P
c) Pre
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d

Explanation: Per stands for Perimeterised.

15. Point out the wrong statement :

a) Public cloud may be managed by the constituent organization(s) or by a third party
b) A community cloud may be managed by the constituent organization(s) or by a third party
c) Private clouds may be either on- or off-premises
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: a

Explanation: The public cloud infrastructure is available for public use alternatively for a large industry group.

16. Which of the following is related to service provided by Cloud ?

a) Sourcing
b) Ownership
c) Reliability
d) AaaS

Answer: a

Explanation: Insourced or Outsourced means whether the service is provided by the customer or the service provider.

17. ________ dimension corresponds to two different states in the eight possible cloud forms.

a) Physical location of data
b) Ownership
c) Security boundary
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: d

Explanation: The sourcing dimension addresses the deliverer of the service.

18. The ________ cloud infrastructure is operated for the exclusive use of an organization.

a) Public
b) Private
c) Community
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: The cloud may be managed by that organization or a third party.

19. __________ cloud is one where the cloud has been organized to serve a common function or purpose.

a) Public
b) Private
c) Community
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: c

Explanation: A community cloud may be managed by the constituent organization(s) or by a third party.

20. A hybrid cloud combines multiple clouds where those clouds retain their unique identities, but are bound together as a unit.

a) Public
b) Private
c) Community
d) Hybrid

Answer: d

Explanation: A hybrid cloud may offer standardized or proprietary access to data and applications, as well as application portability.

21. Which of the following is owned by an organization selling cloud services ?

a) Public
b) Private
c) Community
d) Hybrid

Answer: a

Explanation: The public cloud infrastructure is available for public use alternatively for a large industry group.

22. Point out the wrong statement :

a) Everything from the application down to the infrastructure is the vendor’s responsibility
b) In the deployment model, different cloud types are an expression of the manner in which infrastructure is deployed
c) AaaS provides virtual machines, operating systems, applications, services, development frameworks, transactions, and control structures
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: c

Explanation: PaaS provides virtual machines, operating systems, applications, services, development frameworks, transactions, and control structures.

23. _______ provides virtual machines, virtual storage, virtual infrastructure, and other hardware assets

a) IaaS
b) SaaS
c) PaaS
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: a

Explanation: The IaaS service provider manages all the infrastructure, while the client is responsible for all other aspects of the deployment.

24. Which of the following provides development frameworks and control structures ?

a) IaaS
b) SaaS
c) PaaS
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: c

Explanation: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a form of cloud computing that provides virtualized computing resources over the Internet.

25. Point out the wrong statement :

a) A PaaS service adds integration features, middleware, and other orchestration and choreography services to the IaaS model
b) XaaS or ‘anything as a service’ is the delivery of IT as a Service through hybrid Cloud computing
c) Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) is at present still an emerging piece of the Cloud jigsaw
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: d

Explanation: Monitoring as a Service provides the option to offload a large majority of those costs by having it run as a service as opposed to a fully invested in house tool.

26. _______ is a complete operating environment with applications, management, and the user interface.

a) IaaS
b) SaaS
c) PaaS
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: In the SaaS model, the application is provided to the client through a thin client interface.

27. How many types of service model are mainly present in Cloud ?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

Answer: c

Explanation: Three types of Service model exist.

28. The three different service models is together known as the _____ model of cloud computing.

a) SPI
b) SIP
c) CPI
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: a

Explanation: Many other service models are also present.

29. CaaS stands for _____________ as service.

a) Compliance
b) Computer
c) Community
d) Communication

Answer: d

Explanation: Communication as a Service (CaaS), enables the consumer to utilize Enterprise level VoIP, VPNs, PBX and Unified Communications without the costly investment of purchasing, hosting and managing the infrastructure.

30. Which of the following is IaaS service provider ?

a) EC2
b) EC1
c) EC10
d) Hybrid

Answer: a

Explanation: On Amazon EC2, a client would provision a computer in the form of a virtual machine image.