Engineering Questions with Answers - Multiple Choice Questions
MCQs on Cloud computing costs – 2
1 - Question
______ sizing is possible when the system load is cyclical or in some cases when there are predictable bursts or spikes in the load.
a) Left
b) Right
c) Top
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: You encounter cyclical loads in many public facing commercial ventures with seasonal demands, when the load is affected by time zones.
2 - Question
Point out the correct statement.
a) A standard machine instance (virtual computer) might cost $0.10 or less an hour
b) A typical storage charge might be $0.10 per GB/month
c) Outsourcing shifts the burden of capital expenditures onto the service provider
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: In reality, the major cloud providers provide machine instances in small slices that can be added within five minutes or less.
3 - Question
_____ is a financial estimate for the costs of the use of a product or service over its lifetime.
a) TCO
b) TOC
c) COT
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: TCO stands for Total Cost of Ownership.
4 - Question
The Microsoft ____ Platform ROI wizard provides a quick and dirty analysis of your TCO for a cloud deployment on Windows Azure in an attractive report format.
a) AWS
b) EC2
c) Azure
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: A better metric for enterprises is captured by a Return on Investment or ROI calculation.
5 - Question
Point out the wrong statement.
a) TCO must account for the real costs of items, but frequently they do not
b) A system consumes resources such as space in a datacenter or portion of your site, power, cooling, and management
c) Microsoft maintains an economics page for its Windows Azure Platform
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: When you account for monitoring and management of systems, you must account for the burdened cost of an IT employee, the cost of the hardware and software that is used for management, and other hidden costs.
6 - Question
A ________ Level Agreement (SLA) is the contract for performance negotiated between you and a service provider.
a) Service
b) Application
c) Deployment
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: In the early days of cloud computing, all SLAs were negotiated between a client and the provider.
7 - Question
Which of the following is specified parameter of SLA?
a) Response times
b) Responsibilities of each party
c) Warranties
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: Some SLAs are enforceable as contracts.
8 - Question
When you purchase shrink-wrapped software, you are using that software based on a licensing agreement called ________
a) EULA
b) EUL
c) ELA
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: EULA stands for End User License Agreement.
9 - Question
Cloud computing shifts capital expenditures into ________ expenditures.
a) operating
b) service
c) local
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: Cloud computing changes the nature of the service provider and its relationship to its client.
10 - Question
Which of the following service is used for backing up a licensed computer?
a) CarbonT
b) Karbonite
c) Carbonite
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: Cloud computing applications rarely use machine licenses when the application is meant to be ubiquitous.