Cloud Conundrums
This type of cloud is when a company pays another company to host and manage a cloud environment
What is a Public Cloud?
This type of service allows the vendor to provide the entire solution
What is SaaS (Software as a Service)
This type of Cloud Service provides your company with application hosting such as productivity applications, calendaring software, and development tools, that the employees can access over the Internet from wherever they are.
What is SaaS, or Software as a Service?
In this Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), all desktop instances are stored in a single server which requires significant processing power on the server.
What is a Centralized Server?
Users manage virtualized computing resources over the internet in this cloud service model. What is it?
What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?
This type of cloud service offers the best security
What is a Private Cloud?
This type of service involves the vendor providing the hardware platform and software running on the platform
What is PaaS (Platform as a Service)
Your company produces software and employs about 20 developers. They need to program apps for different operating systems. You decide to purchase cloud-based services to support the development team. This type of service is what you should purchase so that they can develop their programs and then test them in environments other than where they were developed.
What is PaaS or Platform as a Service?
This software allows Virtual Machines to exist.
What is Hypervisor?
This cloud service model allows developers to build, deploy, and manage applications without worrying about underlying infrastructure. What is it?
What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)?
Your company has decided to purchase cloud computing services from Google. They will be getting infrastructure with on-demand computing services including processing power, storage, and bandwidth over the Internet. Anyone can purchase these same services from Google, and a third party is responsible for maintaining and managing the hardware. This type of cloud is what Google is providing for your company.
What is a Public Cloud?
___________ adds resources as needed on the fly and releases said resources when they are no longer required.
What is Rapid Elasticity?
A new update for Windows 11 has come out. Your manager wants to make sure none of the applications we currently run are affected by the new update. This virtualization feature is what you would want to place the update into first.
What is a Sandbox?
This emulator is offered by Microsoft free of charge and you can use it to download and emulate virtual desktop environments.
What is XP Mode?
Users access and use software applications over the internet without installation or maintenance in this cloud service model. What is it?
What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?
This cloud computing model combines on premises infrastructure and Internet accessed resources
What is a Hybrid Cloud?
A company wants to migrate services to the cloud but cannot decide on the migration schedule. Management wants to pay for cloud computing based on usage, not a fixed flat rate. This payment model would be recommended to them.
What is Metered Utilization?
This technology allows multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine simultaneously. What is it?
What is virtualization?
______ Hosts desktop Operating Systems within a virtual environment in a centralized server.
What is VDI?
In this cloud service model, the provider offers virtualized hardware resources like virtual machines and storage. What is it?
What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?
A group of real estate agents has realized that they have similar computing resource needs and have reached out collectively to an IT services company to ask if there was a solution that will let them pool their resources to save money, possibly sharing industry-specific software, but still have their servers and info held securely and locally. This type of cloud would best suit them.
What is a community cloud?
This cloud service model involves the delivery of software applications over the internet on a subscription basis. What is it?
What is Software as a Service (SaaS)
This type of virtualization allows for the emulation of hardware components or systems within a software environment. What is it?
What is hardware virtualization?
_______ is the segregation of virtual environments for security purposes.
What is a Sandbox?
Users build, deploy, and manage applications without worrying about underlying infrastructure in this cloud service model. What is it?
What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)?