CompTIA CLO-001 CompTIA Cloud Essentials Exam Practice Test

The primary instance of the application will be locally hosted with a weekly copy of the instance sent to a cloud service provider.

The primary instance of the application will be locally hosted with a nightly file-level backup being performed to an off-site location.

The primary instance of the application will be running a cloud service provider's hosted environment with a continuous backup to the company's local infrastructure.

The primary instance of the application will be locally hosted with a nightly copy of the instance sent to a cloud service provider.

Hardware maintenance

Installing operating system patches

Performance monitoring

Server maintenance

Offsite data storage

Increase potential Internet sales of the company

Reduce IT infrastructure and management costs

Increase profits by reducing CAPEX

Allowing only cloud administrators to have access to cloud resources

Removing firewalls and access control routers from the network

Implementation and enforcement of a comprehensive security policy

Removing virtualized hardware from the organization

Enhances fixed expenditures for hardware and software

Contributes to the quality of user input data

Reduces OPEX costs for application and databases

Adds flexibility and agility to enterprise architecture

Maintenance becomes irrelevant

Cloud provider takes care of it

Hardware vendor takes care of it

Operating system vendor takes care of it

It is more straightforward to continue utilizing internally hosted servers.

Cloud deployments are generally a cheaper option for this type of site.

It is more reliable to utilize the cloud because of more advanced IT processes.

Cloud computing cannot be used when a company already has IT processes in place.

A retail company that has a history of peaks and troughs throughout the year with its online shopping application.

A family business that does not have any IT applications, but runs off manual processes and good customer service.

A financial services company that is having a number of security issues with its customer internet banking platform.

An insurance company that has a mature, low cost and efficient IT infrastructure that does not have significant change.

LDAP

SFTP

SNMP

SSL

Reduced training time for new developers

Reduced storage requirements

Reduced complexity for users

Reduced bandwidth usage

Reduced cost

Reduced development timeframe

Moving the least accessed data to a flash disk

Moving the least accessed data to SSD

Moving the most accessed data to capacity disk

Moving the most accessed data to performance disk

Private cloud solutions are dedicated for use by a single organization.

Private cloud solutions are never accessible via the public Internet.

Private cloud solutions do not provide incremental scalability.

Private cloud solutions save considerably more money than a public cloud solution.

Capacity can be more elastic.

External providers can deny a capacity increase when required.

Providers measure their own performance.

Scarcity of resources can occur if not monitored

Gather stakeholder requirements, select potentially suitable cloud providers, perform a pilot, and select the most appropriate provider.

Choose the most well known cloud provider for the given service and negotiate a short-lived contract with strong penalty clauses.

Request a list of reference sites from the potential cloud provider and interview a reference from within the same industry sector. If the site reference check is positive, then choose the cloud provider.

Workshop selection criteria items with company management and choose the service provider based on the strongest formal responses from cloud providers.

Identify the location of the physical machine

Select identity providers

Select security credentials

Select the application set that will run on it

Company information can be transmitted electronically

Digitizing information makes it easier to copy

Government regulations require data to be disclosed

Having files stored on the servers of a cloud provider

Business users will bypass the IT department

Cloud providers will take over the role of the IT department

Service providers will bypass the IT department

All of the above are correct

Data stored in other countries could be accessed by the local government

Data stored in other countries could slow down application response

Data stored in other countries could impact access latency

Data stored in other countries could reduce revenue for the originating country

Select a machine image to run, select an application set to run, select security credentials.

Select a machine image to run, select an application set to run, select the size of the virtual machine.

Select a machine image to run, select security credentials, select the size of the virtual machine.

Select an application set to run, select security credentials, select the size of the virtual machine.

Inability to deploy new services quickly

Inability to rapidly change to a different technology

Capital tied up in hardware that might become obsolete

Additional resources must be hired to maintain each server

Confirm a continual assurance framework is in place to measure the cloud provider's performance in line with organizational objectives.

Have independent security testing performed against the cloud provider to ensure that the business's customer data is safe.

Ask the cloud provider to lower the cost before each contractual renewal so that the business is obtaining value for money.

Have independent stress and volume testing performed against the cloud provider to measure the availability SLA.

What cloud computing product will fit the business need?

What is the vendor policy on telecommuting?

What is the timeline for transition to the vendor?

What is the datacenter's power consumption?

Cloud computing makes it easier to have a backup available.

Cloud computing makes it easier to monitor access and usage of data.

Cloud computing makes it easier to give people access to data in the cloud.

Cloud computing makes it easier to have redundancy capabilities.

Cloud computing is typically based on open Internet technology

Cloud computing is typically based on web technology

Cloud computing is cheaper compared to virtualization

Cloud computing typically uses XML or JSON technologies

The distributed identity of a database pool can lend added security to their stored information.

The ability to add flexibility to licensing options helps add to the ease of system implementation and use.

The initial capital expenditures are greatly reduced and additional costs are controlled in variation.

The number of virtual network components in several configurations can be varied and unlimited.

VPN

Public cloud

Private cloud

VTP

The management tools present a vendor lock-in

The management tools are indispensible above a specific scale of operation

The migration may not be successful

Too many software licenses are needed

Time to market

Scalability

Hardware independence

Security

Involvement of external staff

Improved flexibility

Reduced expense

Shorter time to market

Public cloud

Private community cloud

Private cloud

Community cloud

Identity provider

Relying party

SaaS provider

User

Design, build and test a robust security access program

Encrypt the database

Encrypt the data stream

Use certificate services for database access

Improving cost structure

Improving customer satisfaction

Increasing control over IT systems

Decrease of security issues

Scalability

Federation

Virtualization

Self service

It makes it harder to know where a company's important assets are.

It is harder to limit the provider's liability in the contract.

It makes it harder to know where a company’s physical assets are.

Industry regulations change more frequently to ensure compliance.

Applications that are currently expensive to maintain because of interconnections

Applications that are easy to migrate and have some business value

Applications with high risk and little business value

Legacy applications that are coupled to specific hardware and systems software

Hardware independence

Scalability

Variability

Security

A third-party identity provider.

The customer organization.

The SaaS provider.

A user.

Amount of data stored

Connectivity speed

Confidentiality of the data

Uptime requirements

Current cost structure of IT

Quality of web-based user interfaces

Security of current IT solutions

Technical maintenance of current IT assets

IaaS

SaaS

BPaaS

PaaS