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CompTIA Cloud Essentials Questions and Answers

Question 1

A small company with an in-house IT staff is considering implementing a new technology that their current IT staff is unfamiliar with. The company would like to implement the new technology as soon as possible but does not have the budget to hire new IT staff. Which of the following should this company consider?

Options:

A.

Cloud computing

B.

New hardware

C.

Outsourcing

D.

Virtualization

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Question 2

Cloud computing _____________capital cost to variable cost.

Options:

A.

increases

B.

reduces

C.

shifts

D.

equates

Question 3

Which change in the security processes is introduced by cloud computing?

Options:

A.

Increased security of accessing credit card information

B.

Regulations need to be updated more frequently

C.

Storing passwords in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

D.

Working with multiple providers of user identities

Question 4

How can an organization successfully implement an IaaS strategy?

Options:

A.

Standardize on a limited set of virtual machines

B.

Continuously execute performance analytics

C.

Open up internal databases with Web service access

D.

Take inventory of the application portfolio and select external suppliers

Question 5

Companies that are looking to move from capital expenses to operating expenses benefit from cloud services.

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

Question 6

Which of the following only provides configurable physical hardware and network resources used to make up the cloud?

Options:

A.

IaaS

B.

SaaS

C.

PaaS

D.

CaaS

Question 7

Which of the following roles can the IT department play in the selection process of cloud computing providers?

Options:

A.

Help understand and explain the application lifecycle

B.

Help understand performance parameters

C.

Help understand provider quality

D.

All of the above are correct

Question 8

Which of the following indicates the BEST method for maintaining Strategic Flexibility?

Options:

A.

Single datacenter location

B.

Single cloud vendor

C.

Multiple cloud vendors who are geographically separated

D.

Multiple cloud vendors who are geographically co-located

Question 9

How does using cloud computing help to enhance business value?

Options:

A.

By using cloud computing, businesses are able to realize lower asset utilization for personnel.

B.

By paying for actual usage, cloud computing allows businesses to convert fixed costs into variable costs.

C.

By using cloud computing, businesses are able to lower server utilization.

D.

By paying for actual usage, cloud computing allows businesses to convert variable costs into fixed costs.

Question 10

Which of the following is an advantage of cloud computing that can enhance business value?

Options:

A.

Hardware dependence

B.

Scalability

C.

Fixed costs

D.

Security

Question 11

Which of the following skills is MOST needed by the cloud vendor to communicate with the subscriber?

Options:

A.

Project management

B.

Customer service

C.

Industry best practices

D.

Visualization

Question 12

Which of the following should be measured with a direct cost chargeback method?

Options:

A.

Power and cooling consumed

B.

CPU cycles used

C.

Technical staff

D.

Square footage cost of the facility

Question 13

Which of the following is an important factor for maintaining strategic flexibility?

Options:

A.

Return on investment

B.

Integrity

C.

Elasticity

D.

Vendor lock-in

Question 14

In the Service Strategy model when considering a cloud solution, which of the following BEST demonstrates the Analyze phase?

Options:

A.

Service Portfolio Authorization

B.

Communication Resource Allocation

C.

Value Proposition Prioritization

D.

Inventories Business Case

Question 15

Which IT process is likely to take more effort with cloud computing?

Options:

A.

Hardware maintenance

B.

Installing operating system patches

C.

Performance monitoring

D.

Server maintenance

Question 16

Privacy is the right of________ to selectively disclose information about _________ and restrict the further use of that information by any party.

Options:

A.

companies, others

B.

companies, themselves

C.

individuals, others

D.

individuals, themselves

Question 17

Consumption statistics for individual cloud service offering is used by which of the following ITIL processes?

Options:

A.

Supplier management

B.

Continuous service improvement

C.

Service level management

D.

Information security management

Question 18

Which of the following ITIL processes would manage the datacenter in a public cloud environment?

Options:

A.

Technology management

B.

Information security management

C.

Applications management

D.

Facilities management

Question 19

Cloud computing brings new challenges to ___________ management, because traditional licensing models do not fit well with scalable resources.

Options:

A.

commercial

B.

financial

C.

legal

D.

service

Question 20

A critical internal IT server provisioning process is under review and the IT manager is considering moving the process to the cloud. The IT staff has selected the cloud provider and must now migrate the process. Which of the following MUST the IT staff do to ensure the transition meets the IT manager's requirements?

Options:

A.

Pilot the process using cloud resources and perform a comprehensive test.

B.

Survey the business users and implement the solution that received the most positive feedback.

C.

Ask the server administrator to sign off and approve the implementation plan.

D.

Shift the current process to the cloud since the SLA will guarantee 99.999% availability.

Question 21

Which of the following consequences does IT outsourcing and cloud computing have in common?

Options:

A.

Involvement of external staff

B.

Improved flexibility

C.

Reduced expense

D.

Shorter time to market

Question 22

Which of the following BEST describes the properly of cloud computing that allows changes in transaction volume without major changes to the system?

Options:

A.

Scalability

B.

Reliability

C.

Integrity

D.

Availability

Question 23

A small book company is growing at a rapid rate and cannot afford to purchase and manage additional in-house computing resources. The company decides to subscribe to cloud services for additional computing resources and management of those computing resource. Which of the following is LEAST likely to enhance the overall value of the additional cloud services?

Options:

A.

Offsite data storage

B.

Increase potential Internet sales of the company

C.

Reduce IT infrastructure and management costs

D.

Increase profits by reducing CAPEX

Question 24

A provider supplies storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth to multiple tenants, using physical and virtual resources. This is an example of which of the following cloud characteristics?

Options:

A.

On-demand self-service

B.

Measured service

C.

Resource pooling

D.

Rapid elasticity

Question 25

Why does hardware and operating system maintenance take less effort with SaaS?

Options:

A.

Maintenance becomes irrelevant

B.

Cloud provider takes care of it

C.

Hardware vendor takes care of it

D.

Operating system vendor takes care of it

Question 26

Which of the following cloud computing risks is compliance related?

Options:

A.

Access rights that are handled by a cloud provider

B.

Capacity management that is handled by a cloud provider

C.

Cross-charging policies that are handled by both clients

D.

Provider reputation

Question 27

Which of the following is the MOST complex security provisioning problem in a cloud environment?

Options:

A.

Handling credit cards for purchasing cloud services

B.

Keeping track of cloud provider performance

C.

Managing users and their rights across multiple providers

D.

Software assets that are introduced and can expire

Question 28

Which of the following applications would be a good candidate to move to a cloud-based platform?

Options:

A.

Mission critical financial data

B.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

C.

High-performance computing

D.

Database that requires a low latency for indexing

Question 29

An organization subscribes to a public cloud. For which of the following does the subscriber NOT depend on the vendor?

Options:

A.

Internet bandwidth and packet latency

B.

Service Level Agreement

C.

Data backups

D.

Infrastructure availability

Question 30

An organization is moving web server clusters to a public IaaS cloud while keeping database servers in the company owned datacenter. The organization will continue utilizing the internal service desk to manage the application. Which of the following ITIL processes will plan the move?

Options:

A.

Release Management

B.

Incident Management

C.

Problem Management

D.

Change Management

Question 31

An organization requires that it federates its internal systems and their externally hosted SaaS finance system so a user does not have to re-authenticate. This is an example of which of the following?

Options:

A.

Open authentication

B.

Single sign-on

C.

Biometric scanning

D.

Multifactor authentication

Question 32

An entrepreneur has decided to open an e-commerce site to complement their retail store. After researching their options, they decide that a PaaS solution will be sufficient. To reduce upfront cost, the entrepreneur intends to build the site themselves. Which of the following skill-sets will be needed?

Options:

A.

Firewall Administration

B.

Web-Server Administration

C.

Security standard development

D.

Application development

Question 33

Which of the following is a differentiating characteristic of private cloud solutions compared to public cloud solutions?

Options:

A.

Private cloud solutions are dedicated for use by a single organization.

B.

Private cloud solutions are never accessible via the public Internet.

C.

Private cloud solutions do not provide incremental scalability.

D.

Private cloud solutions save considerably more money than a public cloud solution.

Question 34

A cloud subscriber may come under certain security constraints when hosting sensitive data in the cloud due to government regulations. Which of the following is the BEST mitigating control that could be implemented by the cloud provider?

Options:

A.

Offer multi-tenancy software as a service with segregated physical infrastructure.

B.

Offer a single-tenancy software service with segregated virtualized infrastructure.

C.

Offer multi-tenancy software as a service with logically segregated infrastructure.

D.

Offer a single-tenancy software service with monitored intrusion detection systems.

Question 35

A retail company has decided to move its inventory software to the cloud. The company is concerned about maintaining PCI compliance for credit card data and does not want to have this data compromised. Which of the following can the company do to BEST help mitigate security concerns? (Select TWO).

Options:

A.

Work with the cloud vendor to encrypt data

B.

Manually enter credit card numbers into the software

C.

Recycle all paperwork containing full credit card numbers

D.

Perform regular onsite backups of the data

E.

Perform quarterly audits with a third party

Question 36

A graphic design company regularly runs out of storage space on its file servers due to the large size of its customer artwork files. The company is considering migrating to cloud computing to solve this problem. Which of the following characteristics of cloud computing is the MOST beneficial reason the company should implement a cloud solution?

Options:

A.

Scalability

B.

Security

C.

Variable costs

D.

Hardware independence

Question 37

Which of the following risk results if cloud computing providers limit their Service Level Agreement (SLA) liabilities?

Options:

A.

Compliance risk

B.

Legal risk

C.

Privacy risk

D.

Security risk

Question 38

A company is using an Internet-based cloud service provided by a third party. Which of the following can the third party NOT guarantee when providing cloud resources?

Options:

A.

Capacity

B.

Scalability

C.

Network path

D.

Cost

Question 39

A company's IT department currently spends several hours a day maintaining the hardware of the database server. The company migrates the server to the cloud. Which of the following job responsibilities of the IT department has been MOST impacted by this change?

Options:

A.

Service Strategy

B.

Service Operation

C.

Service Design

D.

Service Transition

Question 40

Which of the following is the MOST important factor to define before designing a monitoring solution for cloud-based applications?

Options:

A.

Preferred monitoring application

B.

The Application Programming Interface

C.

Service Level Agreements

D.

Application list

Question 41

An external cloud service provider has been chosen by a financial company to deliver some capabilities that used to be performed in-house. Which of the following would provide the BEST amount of coverage to the financial company byway of continually asserting that there is an acceptable security posture being achieved by the service provider?

Options:

A.

Define required security service levels, agree on security evaluation criteria, and perform regular compliance checks based on the service levels and evaluation criteria.

B.

Perform a penetration test every 6 to 12 months and mandate that any unacceptably high issues or risks are mitigated.

C.

Perform a risk assessment annually and mandate that any unacceptably high risks are mitigated.

D.

Ensure that the service provider aligns to an industry standard, such as ISO 27000 series or another regulatory compliance framework and request that they self-monitor annually.

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