SOA Fundamental Cloud Computing Set 1

The Limited Portability Between Cloud Providers challenge of cloud computing can occur when an absence of industry standards (or an absence of compliance to industry standards) requires that cloud consumers
build cloud-based solutions to conform to proprietary requirements imposed by cloud providers. This makes it more difficult to move to new cloud providers in the future.

Measured usage is only limited to tracking statistics for billing purposes. It does not encompass the general monitoring of IT resources and related usage reporting. Therefore, measured usage is only relevant to clouds that charge for usage.

Service agents are provided only by runtime environments and operating systems. As a result, service agents cannot be custom-developed. 

A(n) ____________________ cloud is a cloud environment owned by a third-party cloud provider and accessible to external cloud consumers. The IT resources in the cloud are generally offered to cloud consumers at a cost.

Which of the following are common types of cloud service consumers? SelectALL THAT APPLY

Which of the following types of cost metrics make it more difficult to justify the leasing of cloud- based IT resources as an alternative to purchasing on-premise IT resources?SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

Which of the following combinations of cloud delivery models are possible?

Which of the following scenarios describes the Reduced Investment and Proportional Costs benefit of cloud computing?

Cloud consumers that use cloud-based IT resources can generally lease them with a ___________________ model so that cloud consumers pay a usage fee for only the amount of the IT resources actually used, resulting in directly proportional costs.

Which of the following cloud delivery models provides the least amount of administrative control for cloud consumers?