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Microsoft Azure Certifications Cloud Computing — practice questions

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Keeping some data on premises while using third-party services for public data describes a cloud that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Meshing several cloud computing environments, without on-premises hardware, describes a solution that is:Read the answer and worked solution →When demand spikes, a hybrid model lets a firm avoid capital spending and instead pay for what it:Read the answer and worked solution →Controlling where its data lives lets an organisation reduce potential data:Read the answer and worked solution →The streaming company that adopted a hybrid cloud model in 2008 was:Read the answer and worked solution →Spreading workloads across several providers lets a company keep running, or maintain:Read the answer and worked solution →In a multicloud system, the infrastructure of each cloud is managed by the:Read the answer and worked solution →Two named providers offering access, keys and secured network management are Azure and:Read the answer and worked solution →A web application combining features from two or more web sources into a new service is a:Read the answer and worked solution →The cloud architecture component that minimises the delay users experience is the storage:Read the answer and worked solution →An application executed as a function and then shut down when the task ends is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The most popular container orchestration system is:Read the answer and worked solution →That system is open source and automates deployment, scaling and management of applications that are:Read the answer and worked solution →Compared with virtual machines, containers offer more:Read the answer and worked solution →Mobile computing at the edge of telecommunication networks is enabled by:Read the answer and worked solution →Guiding software from planning until it is retired is application life cycle:Read the answer and worked solution →Combining people, processes and products for continuous delivery of value is called:Read the answer and worked solution →That practice lets teams build, test and deploy applications to on-premise systems or to the:Read the answer and worked solution →Custom copilot and generative AI applications can be created with the Azure OpenAI service and Azure AI:Read the answer and worked solution →Hybrid multiaccess computing constrains distributed applications to show low:Read the answer and worked solution →A major reason cloud systems grew popular is the low cost of acquiring and:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the cloud wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the cloud benefitsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the cloud gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the cloud wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Hybrid or multicloudRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the cloud wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Cloud bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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Keeping some data on premises while using third-party services for public data describes a cloud that is:

  1. Hybrid
  2. Hollow
  3. Hosted
  4. Hoisted
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Correct answer: A. Hybrid

1. Two kinds of infrastructure are combined. 2. One is local and the other belongs to a provider. 3. That arrangement is a hybrid cloud. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Computer Science, Chapter 13, Hybrid Multicloud Digital Solutions Development._

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Meshing several cloud computing environments, without on-premises hardware, describes a solution that is:

  1. Multiplexer
  2. Multicloud
  3. Multimedia
  4. Multimeter
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Correct answer: B. Multicloud

1. More than one cloud vendor is involved. 2. The mix is exclusively cloud based. 3. That solution is multicloud. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Computer Science, Chapter 13, Hybrid Multicloud Digital Solutions Development._

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When demand spikes, a hybrid model lets a firm avoid capital spending and instead pay for what it:

  1. Uses
  2. Ushers
  3. Utters
  4. Upends
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Correct answer: A. Uses

1. Buying more hardware would be a large fixed cost. 2. Cloud capacity is billed by consumption. 3. So the firm pays only for what it uses. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Computer Science, Chapter 13, Hybrid Multicloud Digital Solutions Development._

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