Cloud service categories and deployment models
Cloud characteristics and capabilities
Cloud roles and responsibilites
Design and security
Quantum Computing
100

This deployment model provides fully managed applications such as email

What is a SaaS Model?

100

Allows the customer to grow or shrink the IT footprint to meet needs without excess capacity

 What is rapid elasticity and scalability?

100

A company that delivers on-demand IT resources like storage, servers, databases, and software over the internet

What is a cloud service provider?

100

This defines uptime and performance guarantees between provider and customer

 What is a Service Level Agreement (SLA)?

100

This thought experiment, often cited in quantum mechanics, features a cat that is both alive and dead.

What is Schrödinger's Cat?

200

As part of a recent shift in cloud deployment and delivery services, the company has employed a shift to a cloud that is used quite commonly amongst customers and is deploying througha system where they only need to control the application.

Public SaaS Model

200

 Enables users to independently provision computing resources

 What is on-demand self-service?

200

This role helps connect customer with cloud providers and manages services.

 what is a cloud security broker?

200

This aspect(s) of Cloud Operational Considerations would be accomplished by redundant data centers.

What is Availability and Resilience?

200

This concept, achieved by Google in 2019, marks the point where a quantum device solves a problem no classical computer can in a feasible amount of time.

What is quantum supremacy

300

This deployment model and cloud service type manage the updates of the system, application, though the hardware is owned by a privately-hired specialised company. 


What is a Private IaaS Model?

300

Typically follows a pay-as-you-go or subscription model, reducing cost for hardware and software.

What is cost efficiency?

300

 This role manages configurations, monitors, and supports database administrators

What is a cloud administrator?

300

This identifies critical systems and the impact if they fail.

What is Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?

300

This term describes the fragile state where a qubit loses its quantum behavior due to environmental interference.

What is decoherence?

400

What are the advantages of using a Multi-Cloud System compared to the development of a Community Cloud System?

Lack of Vendor Lock-In, Tailored Feature Subscriptions

400

The provider's computing resources are shared to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model

What is Resource pooling?

400

In a SaaS model, this party is responsible for maintenance and updates

Who is the provider?

400

This type of field maintains security by design and in constant functionality.

What is DevSecOps?

400

This algorithm provides a quadratic speedup for searching unsorted databases.

What is Grover's algorithm?

500

What’s the best deployment model for companies wanting to have easy controls to learn but private holdings?  

What is a Hybrid Deployment Model?

500

What is the term for automation within the cloud platform that is repeatable and speeds the effectiveness of compute resources and tasks

Orchestration

500

This role belongs to a person who often maintains the relations between a cloud provider and a cloud customer

What is a Cloud Service Partner?

500

These are the disadvantages of incorporating Edge Computing compared to a regular remote system.

Heavy Processing Power at Remote Network, and Pressure of Data Security in Transit

500

This phenomenon allows qubits to be linked, such that the state of one instantly influences another, regardless of distance.

What is entanglement?