QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
BUNDLED
●● What NIST publication number defines cloud computing?
Answer: 800-145
●● What ISO/IEC standard provides information on cloud computing?
Answer: 17788
●● What is another way of describing a functional business
requirement?
Answer: necessary
●● What is another way of describing a nonfunctional business
requirement?
Answer: not necessary
●● What is the greatest driver pushing orgs to the cloud?
Answer: Cost savings
●● What is cloud bursting?
,Answer: Ability to increase available cloud resources on demand
●● What are 3 characteristics of cloud computing?
Answer: Elasticity
Simplicity
Scalability
●● What is a cloud customer?
Answer: Anyone purchasing cloud services
●● What is a cloud user?
Answer: Anyone using cloud services
●● What are the three cloud computing service models?
Answer: SaaS(Software as a service)
PaaS(Platform as a service)
IaaS(Infrastructure as a service)
●● What is IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)?
Answer: Cloud provider provides all the physical capability and
administration, while the customer is responsible for logical resources.
,●● What is PaaS (Platform as a Service)?
Answer: A cloud computing service that provides the hardware and the
operating system and is responsible for updating and maintaining both.
●● What is SaaS (Software As A Service)?
Answer: Cloud provider manages everything.
●● What are the four cloud deployment models?
Answer: Public
Private
Community
Hybrid
●● What cloud model is owned by a single organization?
Answer: Private
●● What cloud model is an arrangement of two or more cloud servers?
Answer: Hybrid
●● What cloud model is a shared setup between orgs?
Answer: Community
, ●● What cloud model is open for free usage?
Answer: Public
●● What is a cloud service provider?
Answer: Cloud service provider manages and provides entire hosting
ability
●● What is a Cloud Access Security Broker?
Answer: Third-party acting as an intermediary for identity and access
management
●● What do regulators do?
Answer: Ensure organizations are in compliance with regulatory
framework.
●● What word in the CIA triad describes: What protects information
from unauthorized access/dissemination?
Answer: Confidentiality
●● What word in the CIA triad describes: Ensuring that information is
not subject to unauthorized modification?
Answer: Integrity