CLO-001 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following is a business reason for IT outsourcing and cloud computing?

A. Improving cost structure

B. Improving customer satisfaction

C. Increasing control over IT systems

D. Decrease of security issues

Why do management tools introduce a risk?

A. The management tools present a vendor lock-in

B. The management tools are indispensible above a specific scale of operation

C. The migration may not be successful

D. Too many software licenses are needed

How can an organization successfully implement an IaaS strategy?

A. Standardize on a limited set of virtual machines

B. Continuously execute performance analytics

C. Open up internal databases with Web service access

D. Take inventory of the application portfolio and select external suppliers

All of the following are availability risks that are introduced by cloud computing EXCEPT:

A. Dependence on an external provider.

B. Dependence on internal IT

C. Increase in users who can change data.

D. Network connectivity

Which of the following is a negative business impact of cloud computing?

A. It lowers the company's overall application processing availability.

B. It is difficult to implement problem management.

C. It is more difficult to ensure policy compliance.

D. It slows down the company's ability to deal with server capacity issues.

Which of the following is an important factor for maintaining strategic flexibility?

A. Return on investment

B. Integrity

C. Elasticity

D. Vendor lock-in

Which of the following services represents an environment where the computing architecture is providing a hosted service to a limited group inside a corporate firewall?

A. Public Cloud

B. VLAN

C. Private Cloud

D. VPN

Which of the following is one way to mitigate the issue of non-secure communication methods used by cloud providers?

A. Insist that the provider switch to secure protocols, such as SSH instead of Telnet.

B. Insist that the provider use authentication to connect to the non-secure applications.

C. Insist that the provider place firewalls and routers at the border of the cloud environment.

D. Insist that the provider implement username/password on all protocols.

Which of the following processes should be implemented to validate the application security of the cloud provider's SaaS application?

A. Periodic integrity testing

B. Periodic penetration testing

C. Review of operating system configuration

D. Application load testing

Which of the following would represent a successful implementation of a cloud service strategy?

A. An organization has identified services, investments, partners, and delivery channels designed to meet requirements.

B. An organization has identified patterns of business activities that use services and manage activities to influence demand.

C. An organization has managed the investment portfolio for services available to users of the cloud services.

D. An organization has managed budgeting and accounting for cloud services needed for the organization.

Which of the following are the common elements of platform as a service and software as a service? (Select two.)

A. Both allow the OS to be patched by the customer.

B. Both take advantage of the incremental scalability.

C. Both require the customer to maintain the hardware.

D. Both provide granular access to the backend storage.

E. Both implement hardware abstraction.

Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) will present challenges for the network administrator as they move their users to the cloud. Which of the following would be considered a major challenge?

A. Developing a back up environment for the end user

B. Troubleshooting the users' applications

C. Supporting multiple devices (e.g. tablets, thin clients)

D. Centralizing the applications

A graphic design company regularly runs out of storage space on its file servers due to the large size of its customer artwork files. The company is considering migrating to cloud computing to solve this problem. Which of the following characteristics of cloud computing is the MOST beneficial reason the company should implement a cloud solution?

A. Scalability

B. Security

C. Variable costs

D. Hardware independence

A small software development startup is looking at the cloud as a way to quickly deploy and interconnect a

large number of servers. The startup will deploy a VPN and other dedicated servers to maintain control of

the security configurations.

Which of the following cloud offerings is best suited for the startup?

A. IaaS

B. SaaS

C. BPaaS

D. PaaS

A company houses all its networking equipment in a third-party data center, but uses its technicians to support the networking equipment. Of which of the following types of clouds is this an example?

A. PaaS

B. XaaS

C. IaaS

D. SaaS