Cloud Computing MCQ

Unit 4
1) Amazon Web Services falls into which of the following cloud-computing category?

a) Platform as a Service

b) Software as a Service

c) Infrastructure as a Service

d) Back-end as a Service

Ans: c

Explation: Amazon Web Services falls into Infrastructure as a Service cloud-computing category.

2) Point out the wrong statement.

a) Amazon Machine Instances are sized at various levels and rented on a computing/hour basis

b) The metrics obtained by CloudWatch may be used to enable a feature called Auto Scaling

c) A number of tools are used to support EC2 services

d) None of the mentioned

Ans: d

Explanation: Through hardware virtualization on Xen hypervisors, Amazon.com has made it possible to
create private virtual servers that you can run worldwide.

3) Which of the following is a structured data store that supports indexing and data queries to both EC2
and S3?

a) CloudWatch

b) Amazon SimpleDB

c) Amazon Cloudfront

d) All of the mentioned

Ans: b

Explanation: Amazon SimpleDB stores data in “buckets” and without requiring the creation of a database
schema.
4) Which of the following is a structured data store that supports indexing and data queries to both EC2
and S3?

a) CloudWatch

b) Amazon SimpleDB

c) Amazon Cloudfront

d) All of the mentioned

Ans: b

Explanation: SimpleDB isn’t a full database implementation.

5)Which of the following feature is used for scaling of EC2 sites?

a) Auto Replica

b) Auto Scaling

c) Auto Ruling

d) All of the mentioned

Ans: b

Explanation: Autoscaling is part of Amazon Cloudwatch and available at no additional charge.

6) Which of the following provides access for developers to charge Amazon’s customers for their
purchases?

a) FWS

b) FAS

c) FPS

d) All of the mentioned

Ans: c

Explanation: FPS is a payments-transfer infrastructure.

a) Amazon Elastic MapReduce

b) Amazon Mechanical Turk

c) Amazon DevPay

d) Multi-Factor Authentication

Ans: d

Explanation: Multi-Factor Authentication gives you two layers of protection: your user id and password.

8) _________ is a virtual server platform that allows users to create and run virtual machines on
Amazon’s server farm.

a) EC2

b) Azure

c) EC5

d) None of the mentioned

Ans: a

Explanation: You can add or subtract virtual servers elastically as needed.

9)Which of the following is a method for bidding on unused EC2 capacity based on the current spot
price?

a) On-Demand Instance

b) Reserved Instances

c) Spot Instance

d) All of the mentioned

Ans: c

Explanation: This feature offers a significantly lower price, but it varies over time or may not be available
when there is no excess capacity.

10) How many EC2 service zones or regions exist?

b) 2

c) 3

d) 4

Ans: d

Explanation: There are four different EC2 service zones or regions.

11) Amazon ______ cloud-based storage system allows you to store data objects ranging in size from 1
byte up to 5GB.

a) S1

b) S2

c) S3

d) S4

Ans: c

Explanation: In S3, storage containers are referred to as buckets.

12) Which of the following can be done with S3 buckets through the SOAP and REST APIs?

a) Upload new objects to a bucket and download them

b) Create, edit, or delete existing buckets

c) Specify where a bucket should be stored

d) All of the mentioned

Ans: d

Explanation: The REST API is preferred to the SOAP API because it is easier to work with large binary
objects with REST.

13)Which of the following operation retrieves the newest version of the object?

a) PUT
b) GET

c) POST

d) COPY

Ans:b

Explanation: Versioning also can be used for preserving data and for archiving purposes.

14) Which of the following statement is wrong about Amazon S3?

a) Amazon S3 is highly reliable

b) Amazon S3 provides large quantities of reliable storage that is highly protected

c) Amazon S3 is highly available

d) None of the mentioned

Ans: c

Explanation: S3 excels in applications where storage is archival in nature.

15)Which of the following tool is used for measuring I/O of your systems to estimate these transaction
costs?

a) EBS

b) IOSTAT

c) ESW

d) All of the mentioned

Ans: a

Explanation: EBS is a service priced on the amount of storage space used.

16)Point out the wrong statement.

a) The cost of creating an EBS volume is lesser than creating a similarly sized S3 bucket

b) An EBS volume can be used as an instance boot partition

c) EBS boot partitions can be stopped and started, and they offer fast AMI boot times
d) None of the mentioned

Ans: a

Explanation: The cost of creating an EBS volume is also greater than creating a similarly sized S3 bucket.

17)Which of the following is also referred to edge computing?

a) CloudWave

b) CloudFront

c) CloudSpot

d) All of the mentioned

Ans: b

Explanation: In edge computing, content is pushed out geographically so the data is more readily
available to network clients and has a lower latency when requested.

18)CloudFront supports ______ data by performing static data transfers and streaming content from one
CloudFront location to another.

a) table caching

b) geocaching

c) index caching

d) windows Media Server

Ans: b

Explanation: A user requesting data from a CloudFront site is referred to the nearest geographical
location.

19) Which of the following is an online backup and storage system?

a)Amazon Simple Queue Service

b)Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

c)Amazon Simple Notification Service

d)Amazon Simple Storage System

20) Which of the following statement is wrong about Amazon S3?

a)Amazon S3 provides large quantities of reliable storage that is highly protected

b)Amazon S3 is highly available

c)Amazon S3 is highly reliable

d)All of the above

Ans:c

21)Amazon S3 is which type of storage service?

a)Block

b)Object

c)Simple

d)Secure

Ans: b

22) Amazon S3 offers encryption services for ........................ .

a)Data in Flight

b)Data in Motion

c)Data in Rest

d)Both 1 & 2

Ans: d

23) Which of the following is a method for bidding on unused EC2 capacity based on the current spot
price?

a) On-Demand Instance

b) Reserved Instances
c) Spot Instance

d) All of the mentioned

Ans: c

Explanation: This feature offers a significantly lower price, but it varies over time or may not be available
when there is no excess capacity.

24)Which of the following is a batch processing application?

a) IBM sMash

b) IBM WebSphere Application Server

c) Condor

d) Windows Media Server

Ans: c

Explanation: Condor is a powerful, distributed batch-processing system that lets you use otherwise idle
CPU cycles in a cluster of workstations.

25) Amazon EC2 provides virtual computing environments, known as :

a). chunks

b). instances

c). messages

d). None of the mentioned

Ans: b

Explanation: None of the mentioned

26) Data stored in __________ domains doesn’t require maintenance of a schema.

a). SimpleDB

b). SQL Server

c). Oracle
d). RDS

Ans: a

Explanation: To create a high performance “simple” database, the data store created is flat; that is, it is
non-relational and joins are not supported.

27) Azure data is replicated ________ times for data protection and writes are checked for consistency.

a). one

b). two

c). three

d). All of the mentioned

Ans: c

Explanation: SQL Azure eventually will support the Microsoft Sync Framework providing a facility for
SQL Azure to synchronize their data with local databases.

28) Which of the following is a billing and account management service?

a) Amazon Elastic MapReduce

b) Amazon Mechanical Turk

c) Amazon DevPay

d) Multi-Factor Authentication

Ans: c

Explanation: DevPay provides a developer API that eliminates the need for application developers to
build order pipelines.

29) Which of the following is the central application in the AWS portfolio?

a) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

b) Amazon Simple Queue Service

c) Amazon Simple Notification Service

Ans: a

Explanation: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud enables the creation, use, and management of virtual
private servers running the Linux or Windows operating system over a Xen hypervisor.

30) Which of the following is a message queue or transaction system for distributed Internet-based
applications?

a) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

b) Amazon Simple Queue Service

c) Amazon Simple Notification Service

d) Amazon Simple Storage System

Ans: b

Explanation: In a loosely coupled SOA system, a transaction manager is required to ensure that messages
are not lost when a component isn’t available.