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1. What is available to customers in SaaS?
Question 1A. Empty pre-installed softwareB. Bare virtual machinesC. Pre-built or out-of-the-box (OOTB) solutions in the CloudD. Only containersE. Only functions
2. Which phrase summarises SaaS in a nutshell?
Question 2A. Only infrastructure with no software supportB. Pre-built solutions in the CloudC. Software with infrastructure and storageD. Deploying only functionsE. Renting containers
3. What is the key difference between PaaS and SaaS?
Question 3A. PaaS provides infrastructure only; SaaS provides software onlyB. PaaS provides empty software with no implemented solution; SaaS provides a pre-implemented solutionC. PaaS is on-premises; SaaS is in the CloudD. PaaS is for developers; SaaS is for hardware teamsE. There is no difference
4. Who typically creates and maintains the solutions offered as SaaS?
Question 4A. Always the Cloud provider itselfB. Always the customerC. Mostly third parties, using compute and storage from Cloud providersD. Government agenciesE. Hardware manufacturers
5. What does a customer need to do to start using a SaaS solution?
Question 5A. Install the software on their own serversB. Deploy containersC. Configure Disaster Recovery themselvesD. Build their own data model firstE. Subscribe to the service and log in to the solution in the Cloud
6. Which name does the author of I Am Datapedia! argue would be more accurate than 'Software as a Service'?
Question 6A. System as a ServiceB. Storage as a ServiceC. Service as a SoftwareD. Server as a ServiceE. Solution as a Service
7. In the PowerPoint example, what distinguishes SaaS from PaaS?
Question 7A. In PaaS PowerPoint is empty; in SaaS diagrams are pre-created for immediate useB. In PaaS PowerPoint is absent; in SaaS it is installedC. In PaaS PowerPoint runs on-premises; in SaaS it runs on a laptopD. There is no difference for PowerPointE. In SaaS PowerPoint is empty; in PaaS diagrams are pre-created
8. In the Oracle data warehouse example, what is already done in SaaS?
Question 8A. Only the Oracle software is installedB. The server hardware is purchasedC. The operating system is chosenD. The pre-built physical data models, i.e. tables and relationships, are already createdE. Nothing, the customer builds everything
9. Who takes care of installation, upgrades, compute, storage, HA and DR for a SaaS solution?
Question 9A. The customerB. A regulatorC. The end usersD. The Solution Owner, which may be the Cloud provider or a third partyE. The customer's database administrator
10. Which topics are listed as prerequisites for understanding SaaS?
Question 10A. On-Premises vs Cloud, IaaS and PaaSB. Kappa, Lambda and MedallionC. Data Governance, Data Quality and DeduplicationD. Granularity, Cardinality and Cartesian DataE. Zero Trust and NEON-inspired architecture