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1. What defines an On-Premises IT setup?
Question 1A. Servers rented from a provider and accessed over the internetB. An organisation buys servers and infrastructure, places them in its own building and manages them with internal teamsC. Software subscribed to on a monthly basisD. Virtual machines provided by a third partyE. Data stored on employees' personal laptops
2. What defines Cloud in contrast to On-Premises?
Question 2A. Servers owned by the customer but placed in a rented data centreB. Software that runs only on mobile devicesC. Someone else places and manages servers in their own location, and the customer accesses them via the internetD. A private network with no internet accessE. A backup copy kept on external disks
3. Which event is credited with making Cloud arguably the biggest buzzword in the recent era?
Question 3A. The launch of the first smartphoneB. The Covid-19 pandemic in 2019/20C. The introduction of HadoopD. The GDPR regulationE. The release of Windows 95
4. Which of the following is NOT listed as something the service provider manages in a Cloud setup?
Question 4A. Software upgradesB. Disaster Recovery managementC. High Availability managementD. Auto-scaling and securityE. Writing the customer's business strategy
5. In the laptop example from I Am Datapedia!, which situation represents the On-Premises approach?
Question 5A. Paying someone else to buy laptops, maintain the software and give you access via the internetB. Renting a laptop by the hourC. Buying your own laptop, installing and upgrading all software, security, encryption and backups yourselfD. Borrowing a colleague's laptopE. Using a laptop only for email
6. How is a Private Cloud accessed, compared with a Public Cloud?
Question 6A. Private Cloud resides in your premises and is accessible via Intranet; Public Cloud resides somewhere around the globe and is accessible via the InternetB. Private Cloud is accessed via the Internet; Public Cloud via IntranetC. Both are accessed only via VPND. Private Cloud is accessed by phone lineE. Public Cloud is only accessible on-site
7. Which of the following is NOT one of the considerations listed before moving data to the Cloud?
Question 7A. Whether regulatory bodies in your country allow it, based on the nature of your dataB. The egress cost of moving data out of the Cloud if you later leaveC. Whether the provider has all the tools you need or offers third-party toolsD. Whether you have the internal skill set to support the Cloud servicesE. Whether the provider's data centre has a car park
8. Why is a major reason given for using Cloud tied to semi and unstructured data?
Question 8A. Because 90% of semi and unstructured datasets come from online applications, so it is worth keeping them in the CloudB. Because on-premises storage cannot hold structured dataC. Because unstructured data is illegal to store on-premisesD. Because Cloud data is automatically structuredE. Because unstructured data needs no processing
9. How much data is Twitter alone said to generate daily?
Question 9A. 52 GBB. 5 TBC. 52 TBD. 520 TBE. 52 PB
10. Which Cloud service type is described as 'kind of SaaS'?
Question 10A. IaaSB. CaaSC. PaaSD. DaaSE. FaaS