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Cloud Computing Management
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Cloud computing management involves administering web based services, data storage, and network security protocols. This subject is heavily featured in the computer aptitude sections of banking and government recruitment tests. The practice questions address SaaS backup, cross region storage replication, and serverless application designs.
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Cloud Computing Management Questions
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It automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
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It provides integrated certificate management and SSL decryption.
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It can also be used in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
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All of the above
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Both (1) and (2)
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All are correct statements about Elastic Load Balancing.
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It provides the core database functions of data indexing and querying.
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It makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
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It provides a high performance, globally distributed content delivery system.
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It provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
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Both (1) and (2)
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Amazon SimpleDB provides the capability to store data quickly and efficiently by using data indexing techniques.
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Amazon EC2 instances
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AWS resources
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Custom metrics
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Accessing Amazon CloudWatch metrics
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None of the above
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All are the correct statements.
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It provides increased visibility of user activity.
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It manage log file storage and delivery.
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It notified for Log File Delivery.
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It provides flexible cloud hosting Services.
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Both (3) and (4)
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AWS CloudTrail service does not provide flexible cloud hosting Services.
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EC2 provides flexible cloud hosting services.
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EC2 provides reliability.
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EC2 provides security.
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EC2 is expensive.
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Both (3) and (4)
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This is false statement as this service provides very low rate for the compute capacity.
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The cloud computing security implementation should support the large workloads and the underlying infrastructure.
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There should be a cloud security policy design that can be enforced consistently in both physical and virtual environments.
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The user credentials should be authenticated.
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The cloud security implementation should be automated.
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Both (1) and (4).
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This is true about 'Scalability and performance' and these consideration is applicable for high density virtual machines.
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There should be a cloud security policy design for cloud security solution.
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The security controls need to be implemented to secure the logical entities.
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The cloud security needs to provisioned as a automated process.
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All of the above.
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Both (2) and (3).
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These are the correct statements.
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Secure cloud infrastructure
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Cloud security services
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Secure cloud access and communication solutions
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All of the above
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Both (2) and (3)
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These are the correct statements.
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Logs and audit trails
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Data recovery and business continuity
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Additional security concerns around data jurisdiction
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All of the above
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Both (2) and (3)
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Yes, it is the correct answer.
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Identity management
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Availability
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Privacy
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Compliance
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Application security
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''Security and privacy' dimension does not include compliances. This is another one of the dimension of Cloud computing security.
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The information among the customers is not isolated.
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The operations in the data center might cause data corruption and information leakage.
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The reliability problem in shared environment.
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Multiple cloud services at a time might cause authentication problems.
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All of the above.
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All are the correct statements.
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Reporting and auditing
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Platform integrity and security
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User privileges
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Data store compliance
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None of the above
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All are the compliance factors.
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Encryption problems can make data totally unusable.
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The sensitive data processed outside the enterprise might bring an inherent level of risk.
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Data segregation can cause policy related problems.
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The integrity of the data can be lost in Data segregation.
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Both (1) and (2).
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The data in the cloud is typically in a shared environment alongside data from other customers, so Encryption is not so effective. This is called Data segregation.
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Privacy
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Information Security Laws
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Auditing
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All of the above
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Both (2) and (3)
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All are the statements related to Compliances and contracts in cloud security.
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The virtual machines belonging to different security zones, should not be hosted on the same virtual server.
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The host operating system must be free from malware.
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The host operating system should not have internet connectivity.
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There should be encryption and authentication mechanism at each network level.
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All of the above.
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Yes, it is the correct answer.