Cloud Computing 4.1

Question 1

What is Cloud Computing?

Answer 1

▪ The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet

Question 2

What is High Availability?

Answer 2

Services experience very little downtime when using the cloud

Question 3

How is Availability measured?

Answer 3

Measured by the percent of uptime there is verses the downtime there is

Question 4

What is Scalability?

Answer 4

▪ Ability to increase the number of items(scale) in a system at a linear rate or less than linear Rate

Question 5

What is it called when you scale up?

Answer 5

Vertical Scaling

Question 6

What is Vertical Scaling up?

Answer 6

▪ Increasing the power of the existing resources in the working environment. Think of a power or level up, like adding more memory or processing power

Question 7

What is it called when your Scaling Out?

Answer 7

Horizontal scaling

Question 8

What is Horizontal scaling?

Answer 8

Adding additional resources to help handle the extra load being experienced. Like adding another server next the original

Question 9

What is Rapid Elasticity?

Answer 9

Ability to quickly scale up or down

Question 10

What is Metered Utilization?

Answer 10

Being charged for a service on a pay per use basis. Like a pay electric bill

Question 11

What is Measured Services?

Answer 11

▪ Charging is based upon the actual usage of the service being consumed. Like how pay mobile data or internet, you pay for a set amount of data to use

Question 12

What are Shared Recourses?

Answer 12

▪ The ability to minimize the costs by putting VMs on other servers

Question 13

What is File Synchronization?

Answer 13

File synchronization is the process of automatically keeping the same files consistent across multiple devices or locations

Question 14

What are Cloud resources?

Answer 14

compute, storage, and networking delivered as services.