Cloud services bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Renting access to a finished application over a network.

   Item

   SaaS

2. Clue

   A platform to develop, test, deploy and administer apps.

   Item

   PaaS

3. Clue

   Virtual machines, persistent storage, stable networking.

   Item

   IaaS

4. Clue

   The privileged layer that synthesizes virtual machines.

   Item

   Hypervisor

5. Clue

   What an IaaS consumer controls inside each VM.

   Item

   Guest OS

6. Clue

   What SaaS relies on being both reliable and secure.

   Item

   Browser

7. Clue

   SaaS apps must handle ever larger consumer workloads.

   Item

   Scalability

8. Clue

   May not be compatible when moving between SaaS clouds.

   Item

   Data formats

9. Clue

   What a PaaS supplies to get new applications running.

   Item

   Deploy tools

Instructions

Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation