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In cloud computing, the IT resources sit where relative to the organisation?The body whose widely quoted definition of cloud computing is used is:That standards model is composed of five essential characteristics, four deployment models and how many servicThe technology used to expand the capabilities of the physical equipment in a cloud is:Virtualisation gives the cloud environment its:The base level of the cloud stack, offering raw computing resources, is:The second level, a preconfigured environment supporting the consumer's operations, is:The top level, offering finished products to consumers, is:Which order correctly stacks the three service levels from the bottom up?How many major cloud deployment models are named?An infrastructure shared by several organisations with a common interest is a:An infrastructure dedicated to a single organisation is a:A cloud that combines more than one deployment model is described as:The document setting out the levels of service a provider assures is a:Cloud service rates are described as being charged on what basis?The rate charged for a cloud service is calculated based on the consumer's:Which is named as a server virtualisation software provider?Different virtualisation packages differ in features such as resource allocation and:Cloud providers integrating generative artificial intelligence into their platforms is described as:An environment running across more than one cloud provider is called:In an on-premise facility, the physical equipment is:Cloud and on-premise environments are described as having the same:A team lists the four key principles of cloud-native development: microservices, containerization, DevOps and Because microservices are independent and loosely coupled, a change to one can be shipped:A team writes one microservice in Java and another in Go. That is possible because microservices are:A standardised unit of software that isolates an application so it runs independently of physical resources isA developer builds an artifact once and then starts several copies of it. Those running copies are instances oAn image can run anywhere a certain piece of software is installed. That software is a container:An open-source platform that creates, deploys and manages containers on a shared operating system is:Running hundreds of containers, a team needs a tool to coordinate and schedule them. That kind of tool is an oScaling many microservices needs core services such as routing, service discovery and:An older application is built from highly dependent components and scales poorly. That architecture is:A legacy application is lifted onto a cloud provider without being redesigned. The result is described as:Sales spike during a holiday season, so the payment service alone gets more capacity. That ability is the clouOne half of the pipeline automates compile, build, package and test. That half is continuous:Teams commit code for their microservices through a pipeline named after the culture that joins developers andCloud service models are grouped into three: IaaS, SaaS and:Function as a Service is described as mostly synonymous with:Functions in that model run in containers that are stateless and:A deployment model where resources are remotely accessible by anyone, on subscription or on-demand pricing, isCombining private and public clouds with bare metal or virtual environments gives a:On-demand provisioning means an organisation pays only for what it:Microservices usually talk to one another statelessly using lightweight protocols of one kind. Those are:Because they do not depend on one central bus, applications built from microservices can be more: