Computing Environments
*Creation of cloud computing environments includes: The development of applications and systems that
leverage cloud computing solutions *
A. True
B. False - correct answer True
*Creation of cloud computing environments does not include the creation of frameworks, platforms,
and infrastructures for delivering cloud computing services.*
A. True
B. False - correct answer *False*
Creation of cloud computing environments includes: The creation of frameworks, platforms, and
infrastructures for delivering cloud computing services.
*Cloud computing offers a rich mixture of different technologies, and harnessing them is an easy task.*
A. True
B. False - correct answer *False*
Cloud computing offers a rich mixture of different technologies, and harnessing them is a challenging
engineering task.
*Cloud computing introduces both new opportunities and new techniques and strategies for
architecting software applications and systems.*
A. True
B. False - correct answer True
List 3 key elements that have to be taken into account in cloud computing environments. - correct
answer 1- Virtualization
2- Scalability
,3- Dynamic provisioning
4- Big datasets
5- Cost models.
*Applications that use cloud computing benefit from its capability to dynamically scale on demand.*
A. True
B. False - correct answer True
*______ takes the biggest advantage of dynamically scaling on demand.*
A. Web applications
B. Desktop applications
C. Mobile applications
D. Native applications - correct answer Web applications
*Performance of web applications is not influenced by the workload generated by varying user
demands.*
A. True
B. False - correct answer *False*
Performance of web applications is mostly influenced by the workload generated by varying user
demands.
*Because of the Web 2.0 technologies the Web has become a platform for developing rich and complex
applications, including ______ that now leverage the Internet as the preferred channel for service
delivery and user interaction.*
A. Mining applications
B. Scientific applications
C. Computing applications
D. Enterprise applications - correct answer Enterprise applications
, *Web applications have complex processes that are triggered by the interaction with users and develop
through the interaction between ______ behind the Web front end.*
A. No tiers
B. A single tier
C. Several tiers - correct answer Several tiers
*Web applications are sensitive to inappropriate sizing of infrastructure and service deployment or
variability in workload. *
A. True
B. False - correct answer True
*Resource-intensive applications do not benefit from running on the cloud infrastructure.*
A. True
B. False - correct answer *False*
Resource-intensive applications are another class of applications that can benefit from running on the
cloud infrastructure.
What are the 2 types of Resource-intensive applications? - correct answer 1- Data-intensive
2- Compute-intensive applications
*______ require considerable amounts of resources to complete execution in reasonable time.
However, these resources are not required continuously or for a long time.*
A. Data-intensive
B. Compute-intensive
C. Both data-intensive and compute-intensive - correct answer Both data-intensive and compute-
intensive
*______ can require huge computing capacity to perform large-scale experiments once in a while, so it
is not feasible to buy the infrastructure supporting them. In this case, cloud computing can be the
solution.*
A. Enterprise applications