(Quiz) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the delivery of computer hardware

Servers

Networking Technology

Storage

Data center space

Software platforms

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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) may include the delivery of operating systems and virtualization technology to manage the resources

True

False

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Renting or buying?

The IaaS customer (1) transparent computing resources instead of (2) and installing them in their own data canter.

drag and drop the selected option to the right place

rents

buying

renting

buys

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A cloud service provider will typically charge IaaS customer for IaaS services even if they are not used

True

False

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Is it possible for an IaaS customer to include dynamic scaling of resources? or it is a fixed setup?

Dynamic Scaling may be included

A fixed setup and customer cannot change it

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How can an IaaS customer limit dynamic increase of resources to meet application demand?

Not an option, resources will keep increasing to respond to application demand

It is possible to keep dynamic demand of resources to certain limits

Resource demand has to be managed manually

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________ as applied to infrastructure means that the infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down, based on the requirements of the application

Flexible scaling

Dynamic scaling

Auto scaling

Immediate scaling

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Service Level

The following is an example of a service level agreement that a cloud service provider can give to the client

The resources will be available 99.999 percent of the time and that more resources will be provided dynamically if greater than 80 percent of any given resource is being used.

True

False

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Why companies with research-intensive projects are a natural fit for IaaS?

Because they have discounted corporate agreements with cloud service providers

Because cloud services allow unprecedented analysis and testing that cannot be achieved without access to additional computing resources

Because they are trained to use cloud services

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