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CompTIA CLO-001 CompTIA Cloud Essentials Exam Practice Test

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CompTIA Cloud Essentials Questions and Answers

Question 1

Which of the following is a primary compliance and regulatory requirement any international company faces regarding employee and customer data?

Options:

A.

Data access

B.

Data transparency

C.

Data availability

D.

Data localization

Question 2

Which of the following is a reason why an IT manager understanding business cost allocations would recommend implementing a cloud infrastructure? (Select TWO).

Options:

A.

The cloud can be used to increase revenue.

B.

The cloud can be used to help cut unnecessary spending on IT.

C.

The cloud can be used to increase system downtime.

D.

The cloud can be used to reduce payroll costs of IT staff

E.

The cloud can be used to increase customer base.

Question 3

Why is it important to consider the cloud ecosystem when developing applications?

Options:

A.

Cloud providers will do application development.

B.

The development process needs to change.

C.

The role of the IT department will change.

D.

This can speed up the development process.

Question 4

A business has recently implemented a hybrid cloud federated solution, which will allow if to rapidly and dynamically allocate resources during high demand, and quickly implement its Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and Continuity of Operations (COOP). Given this implementation, the IT director is MOST likely concerned about:

Options:

A.

maintaining strategic flexibility.

B.

reducing OPEX allocations.

C.

hiring additional IT staff.

D.

eliminating security risks

Question 5

An organization subscribes to a public cloud. For which of the following does the subscriber NOT depend on the vendor?

Options:

A.

Internet bandwidth and packet latency

B.

Service Level Agreement

C.

Data backups

D.

Infrastructure availability

Question 6

Why does request fulfillment become more complicated in a cloud environment?

Options:

A.

All processes must become automated.

B.

Processes must be redesigned with the user experience in mind.

C.

The IT service team must be expanded.

D.

Users should be aware of the benefits before changes to the process are incorporated

Question 7

How does scalability work with cloud computing?

Options:

A.

Servers and storage can be added quickly.

B.

Servers and storage can be released quickly.

C.

Users can be added and removed quickly.

D.

All of the above is correct.

Question 8

Which of the following consequences does IT outsourcing and cloud computing have in common?

Options:

A.

Involvement of external staff

B.

Improved flexibility

C.

Reduced expense

D.

Shorter time to market

Question 9

Which of the following is a benefit of public cloud computing?

Options:

A.

Enhances fixed expenditures for hardware and software

B.

Contributes to the quality of user input data

C.

Reduces OPEX costs for application and databases

D.

Adds flexibility and agility to enterprise architecture

Question 10

Which of the following is common to both cloud and outsourcing?

Options:

A.

Dependence on third-party IT resources

B.

Increased CAPEX

C.

Decreased OPEX

D.

Avoidance of IT-related risks

Question 11

Which of the following ITIL processes would manage the datacenter in a public cloud environment?

Options:

A.

Technology management

B.

Information security management

C.

Applications management

D.

Facilities management

Question 12

Cloud computing can BEST reduce costs for a business by:

Options:

A.

Utilizing services as needed.

B.

Increasing available data storage.

C.

Utilizing local resources.

D.

Increasing sales potential.

Question 13

Which of the following is an essential step in the start-up process of a virtual server?

Options:

A.

Identify the location of the physical machine

B.

Select identity providers

C.

Select security credentials

D.

Select the application set that will run on it

Question 14

Which of the following critical success factors would likely persuade a company to use a SaaS service?

Options:

A.

The elimination of company driven application maintenance and backups

B.

The lowering of thin client management costs

C.

The decrease of company-owned physical system downtime

D.

The increase of web presence

Question 15

Which of the following statements represents the correct definition of the terms 'cost allocation' and 'chargeback'?

Options:

A.

'Cost allocation' focuses on recovering costs from consumers of cloud-delivered services whereas 'chargeback' relates to identifying costs and assigning them to specific cost categories.

B.

'Cost allocation' and 'chargeback' are synonymous terms that relate to allocating costs of cloud services and ensuring that billing occurs for the services being delivered.

C.

'Cost allocation' relates to identifying costs and assigning them to specific cost categories. 'Chargeback' is focused on recovering costs from consumers of the cloud-delivered services.

D.

'Cost allocation' and 'chargeback' relate to ensuring that cloud computing delivery services are a profit center instead of a cost center. This leads to a positive return on investment for both cloud provider and cloud consumer.

Question 16

Which of the following is an effect of cloud computing on application development?

Options:

A.

SaaS allows for open-source application development.

B.

SaaS delays the time to market for most applications.

C.

SaaS inhibits vendor interoperability on application platforms.

D.

SaaS allows for a shorter time to market for some applications.

Question 17

Which of the following key elements should be applied in order to build effective private clouds that allow for interoperability with IaaS services?

Options:

A.

Structure and consistency

B.

Security and consistency

C.

Strategy and consistency

D.

Structure and security

Question 18

Which of the following is one way to mitigate the issue of non-secure communication methods used by cloud providers?

Options:

A.

Insist that the provider switch to secure protocols, such as SSH instead of Telnet.

B.

Insist that the provider use authentication to connect to the non-secure applications.

C.

Insist that the provider place firewalls and routers at the border of the cloud environment.

D.

Insist that the provider implement username/password on all protocols.

Question 19

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) decides to implement a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan that requires using tapes of full image backups stored remotely to recover the company’s datacenter onto a virtualized environment provided by a DR site provider. In the event that such a plan is invoked, which of the following migration methods should be employed?

Options:

A.

Virtual to Virtual

B.

Physical to Virtual

C.

Physical to Physical

D.

Virtual to Physical

Question 20

The business benefits of mobile computing are enhanced MOST by which of the following cloud service characteristics?

Options:

A.

Hardware independence

B.

Security

C.

Distribution over the Internet

D.

Time to market

Question 21

Company A has a SaaS cloud that hosts their office suite software. Company B has an IaaS cloud that provides all their server hardware, including the server hosting their office suite software. Which of the following is a similarity between both company's clouds?

Options:

A.

Backups synchronize with the hot site

B.

Servers are on-site

C.

Software is hosted

D.

Multiple servers are clustered

Question 22

A specific cloud deployment has been established specifically for financial services companies to consume. Which of the following BEST describes this type of cloud environment?

Options:

A.

Private cloud

B.

Community cloud

C.

Hybrid cloud

D.

Public cloud

Question 23

In order to maintain business continuity, using a single cloud provider is:

Options:

A.

better from a business perspective.

B.

better from a contracting standpoint.

C.

a best practice from a security perspective.

D.

not a good practice from a business perspective.

Question 24

Which of the following virtualization characteristics allows the use of different types of physical servers?

Options:

A.

Security

B.

Hardware independence

C.

Scalability

D.

Variable costs

Question 25

Which of the following is a drawback of direct cost when implementing cloud computing?

Options:

A.

It cannot be applied to IaaS.

B.

It is complex.

C.

It is less accurate.

D.

It only works with SaaS.

Question 26

Which of the following cloud services would be used to rent hardware, computing and network space, and storage over the Internet?

Options:

A.

SaaS

B.

IaaS

C.

PaaS

D.

XaaS

Question 27

Which of the following is a potential advantage of using Storage as a Service?

Options:

A.

Data is accessible when the Internet is not functioning

B.

In-house IT staff controls all data

C.

Increase in encryption technologies

D.

Decrease in IT management of the platform

Question 28

Which of the following services represents an environment where the computing architecture is providing a hosted service to a limited group inside a corporate firewall?

Options:

A.

Public Cloud

B.

VLAN

C.

Private Cloud

D.

VPN

Question 29

Why does hardware and operating system maintenance take less effort with SaaS?

Options:

A.

Maintenance becomes irrelevant

B.

Cloud provider takes care of it

C.

Hardware vendor takes care of it

D.

Operating system vendor takes care of it

Question 30

Following an IT Service Management lifecycle approach, a Chief Information Officer would take which of the following paths to implement a cloud solution?

Options:

A.

Choose the SaaS provider; Design the application; Choose whether to develop the service application in-house or outsource; Operate the service application in the cloud.

B.

Decide whether to implement on the cloud; Choose a XaaS provider; Design the application; Choose where to develop the service application; Operate the service application in the cloud.

C.

Decide whether to implement the application on the cloud; Choose an IaaS provider; Choose whether to develop the service in-house; Operate the service application in the cloud.

D.

Strategize which IaaS provider to use; Design the application; Transition the development process to the cloud; Operate the service application in the cloud.

Question 31

Which of the following applications would be a good candidate to move to a cloud-based platform?

Options:

A.

Mission critical financial data

B.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

C.

High-performance computing

D.

Database that requires a low latency for indexing

Question 32

A company decides to subscribe to a new CRM product that will help improve their business processes. Which of the following types of cloud computing would MOST likely be implemented?

Options:

A.

PaaS

B.

XaaS

C.

IaaS

D.

SaaS

Question 33

How can cloud computing help reduce integrity risks?

Options:

A.

Cloud computing makes it easier to have a backup available.

B.

Cloud computing makes it easier to monitor access and usage of data.

C.

Cloud computing makes it easier to give people access to data in the cloud.

D.

Cloud computing makes it easier to have redundancy capabilities.

Question 34

Allowing a company to provision new virtual servers as they are needed is a characteristic of which of the following?

Options:

A.

Scalability

B.

Security

C.

Hardware independence

D.

Variable costs

Question 35

Which of the following is improved by choosing cloud computing versus traditional IT infrastructure outsourcing?

Options:

A.

Resource spending

B.

Legal requirements

C.

Employee morale

D.

Controllable response time

Question 36

Eucalyptus is open-source software for quickly provisioning virtual servers. This is an example of:

Options:

A.

PaaS

B.

IaaS

C.

SaaS.

D.

On-demand software.

E.

None of the above.

Question 37

Which of the following are the common elements of platform as a service and software as a service? (Select two.)

Options:

A.

Both allow the OS to be patched by the customer.

B.

Both take advantage of the incremental scalability.

C.

Both require the customer to maintain the hardware.

D.

Both provide granular access to the backend storage.

E.

Both implement hardware abstraction.

Question 38

Which of the following is a service level management tool aimed at quantifying a cloud offerings' performance?

Options:

A.

Mean Time to Recovery

B.

Risk Assessment

C.

Business Impact Analysis

D.

Request for Proposal

Question 39

A company uses an IaaS cloud deployment model with a third-party vendor. Which of the following does the company fully control? (Select TWO).

Options:

A.

Operating systems

B.

Physical servers

C.

Service availability

D.

Physical security

E.

Storage

Question 40

An organization is in the process of selecting a SaaS provider to replace its current internal customer relationship management system. The business expects better functionality than what is provided with the internal system. Which of the following is the BEST reason for moving to a SaaS cloud service?

Options:

A.

Understand who the most experienced IaaS cloud providers are so that a recommendation can be made to the business based on what other industry vendors are doing.

B.

Understand the current SLA's of the cloud providers to ensure that they can exceed the current expected business SLA's.

C.

Understand current functional and non-functional requirements of the system in order to ensure the new system can meet and provide value add to current business needs.

D.

Understand the cost model of the hosted infrastructure and whether the current system can be hosted on cloud provided infrastructure.

Question 41

Which of the following is one of the benefits of using the ITIL framework for a cloud migration project?

Options:

A.

Reduced dependence on outsourcing

B.

Reduced complexity

C.

Alignment with business needs

D.

User interface improvements

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