Cloud Computing MCQ Quiz Set 8

cloud computing mcq

Question 1. Which of the following instance class is best used for applications that are processor or compute-intensive?

(A) Standard Instances

(B) High Memory Instances

(C) High CPU Instances

(D) None of the mentioned

View Answer
(C) High CPU Instances 

Question 2. Which of the following is a Web service that can publish messages from an application and deliver them to other applications or to subscribers? 

(A) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

(B) Amazon Simple Queue Service

(C) Amazon Simple Notification Service

(D) Amazon Simple Storage System

View Answer
(C) Amazon Simple Notification Service

Question 3. Which of the following should be used considering factors shown in the figure?

(A) SimpleDB

(B) RDS

(C) Amazon EC2

(D) All of the mentioned

View Answer
(B) RDS 

Question 4. Amazon ______ cloud-based storage system allows you to store data objects ranging in size from 1 byte up to 5 GB.

(A) S1

(B) S2

(C) S3

(D) S4

View Answer
(C) S3 

Question 5. 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

View Answer
(C) FPS 

Question 6. AMIs are operating systems running on the _____ virtualization hypervisor.

(A) Yen

(B) Xen

(C) Ben

(D) Multi-Factor Authentication

View Answer
(B) Xen 

Question 7. Which of the following correctly describes components roughly in their order of importance from top to down?

(A) 1. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud 2. Amazon Simple Storage System 3. Amazon Elastic Block Store

(B) 1. Amazon Elastic Block Store 2. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud 3. Amazon Simple Storage System

(C) 1. Amazon Simple Storage System 2. Amazon Elastic Block Store 3. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

(D) None of the mentioned

View Answer
(A) 1. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud 2. Amazon Simple Storage System 3. Amazon Elastic Block Store 

Question 8. AWS reaches customers in ______________countries. 

(A) 137

(B) 182

(C) 190

(D) 86

View Answer
(C) 190

Question 9. How many EC2 service zones or regions exist?

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

View Answer
(D) 4 

Question 10. Point out the correct statement.

(A) With EC2, you can launch and run server instances called Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) running different operating systems such as Red Hat Linux

(B) A machine image is the software and operating system running on top of the instance

(C) A machine image may be thought of as the contents of a boot drive

(D) All of the mentioned

View Answer
(D) All of the mentioned 

Question 11. _________ 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

View Answer
(A) EC2 

Question 12. Which of the following is built on top of a Hadoop framework using the Elastic Compute Cloud?

(A) Amazon Elastic MapReduce

(B) Amazon Mechanical Turk

(C) Amazon DevPay

(D) Multi-Factor Authentication

View Answer
(A) Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Question 13. 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

View Answer
(C) Infrastructure as a Service 

Question 14. Point out the correct statement.

(A) Security can be set through passwords, Kerberos tickets, or certificates

(B) Secure access to your EC2 AMIs iscontrolled by passwords, Kerberos, and 509 Certificates

(C) Most of the system image templates that Amazon AWS offers are based on Red Hat Linux

(D) All of the mentioned

View Answer
(D) All of the mentioned 

Question 15. Which of the following allows merchants to fill orders through Amazon.com fulfillment service?

(A) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

(B) Amazon Fulfillment Web Services

(C) Amazon Relational Database Service

(D) Amazon Simple Storage System

View Answer
(B) Amazon Fulfillment Web Services

Question 16. Which of the following is an online backup and storage system? 

(A) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

(B) Amazon Simple Queue Service

(C) Amazon Simple Notification Service

(D) Amazon Simple Storage System

View Answer
(D) Amazon Simple Storage System

Question 17. Which of the following is an edge-storage or content-delivery system that caches data in different physical locations?

(A) Amazon Relational Database Service

(B) Amazon SimpleDB

(C) Amazon Cloudfront

(D) Amazon Associates Web Services

View Answer
(C) Amazon Cloudfront 

Question 18. Point out the correct statement.

(A) A volume is mounted on a particular instance and is available to all instances

(B) The advantages of an EBS boot partition are that you can have a volume up to 1TB

(C) You cannot mount multiple volumes on a single instance

(D) All of the mentioned

View Answer
(B) The advantages of an EBS boot partition are that you can have a volume up to 1TB 

Question 19. Which of the following is a batch processing application?

(A) IBM sMash

(B) IBM WebSphere Application Server

(C) Condor

(D) Windows Media Server

View Answer
(C) Condor 

Question 20. Which of the following is a system for creating block level storage devices that can be used for Amazon Machine Instances in EC2?

(A) CloudWatch

(B) Amazon Elastic Block Store

(C) AWS Import/Export

(D) All of the mentioned

View Answer
(B) Amazon Elastic Block Store 

Question 21. Which of the following metrics are used to support Elastic Load Balancing?

(A) CloudWatch

(B) Amazon Elastic Block Store

(C) AWS Import/Export

(D) All of the mentioned

View Answer
(A) CloudWatch 

Question 22. 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

View Answer
(D) None of the mentioned 

Question 23. 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

View Answer
(B) Geocaching 

Question 24. Which of the following uses an authentication device? 

(A) Amazon Elastic MapReduce

(B) Amazon Mechanical Turk

(C) Amazon DevPay

(D) Multi-Factor Authentication

View Answer
(D) Multi-Factor Authentication

Question 25. Point out the correct statement.

(A) SQL Server is having enormous impact on cloud computing

(B) Amazon.com’s services represent the largest pure Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)

(C) EC2 is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) market

(D) None of the mentioned

View Answer
(B) Amazon.com’s services represent the largest pure Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)