Cloud Security Essentials
Essential concepts in cloud security including access controls, encryption, and securing cloud infrastructure and data centers
Questions
Which of the following security techniques applied on database provides guarantee that only those who are authorized to access the data?
- Force.com
- Access control
- Output reconciliation control
- Input validation control
- Transport level encryption
Which of the following security mechanisms is used to protect against outside attacks launched against the data centre?
- Virtual machine technology
- Input validation control
- Web application firewall
- Access control list
- Transport level encryption
Which of the following security mechanisms, when applied on data, is used to protect against known or unknown vulnerabilities in the operating system?
- Hardening of the server
- Access control list
- Transport level encryption
- Output reconciliation control
- Client server computing
Which of the following security techniques applied on the database is used to make certain that data is operated accurately in structured files?
- File control
- Output reconciliation control
- Input validation control
- Transport level encryption
- Virtual machine technology
Which of the following security mechanisms applied on the data is used to protect against unauthorized access at the data center?
- Payroll
- Storage encryption
- Access control list
- Transport level security
- Encryption
Which of the following storage as the service is online storage and its component is also one part of Microsoft latest venture into cloud computing?
- Peer-to-peer computing
- Sales force
- CouchDB
- Wuala
- Live mesh
Which of the following storage services is a cloud-based file synchronization and storage device?
- Collaborative computing
- Sify my storage
- CouchDB
- Zumo
- Wuala
The most central and well-known of which of the following services is Amazon EC2 resizable compute capacity?
- Payroll
- Service based SLA
- Force.com
- Platform-as-a service
- Amazon web service
Which of the following security techniques applied on the database is used to ensure that data cannot be changed without proper agreement?
- Virtual machine technology
- Access control list
- Change management control
- Output reconciliation control
- Input validation control
Which of the following security mechanisms applied on the data is used to protect against illegal physical access to data?
- Sales force
- Physical security
- Transport level security
- Encryption
- Output reconciliation control
Which of the following technologies is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted serves over the internet?
- Cloud computing
- Peer-to-peer computing
- Collaborative computing
- Platform-as-a service
- Force.com
Which of the following levels of SLA is an agreement with an individual customer group, covering all the services?
- Payroll
- Customer base SLA
- Serviced base SLA
- Corporate level SLA
- Platform-as-a service
Which of the following data stores is used to processing of moving data that is no longer actively used to a separate data storage device for long term retention?
- Data archival
- LucidDB
- CouchDB
- Sify my storage
- Client server computing