This set of Cloud Computing Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Provisioning Cloud Storage – 2”.
1. Which of the following service offers unlimited storage space?
a) Adrive
b) 4shared
c) Badongo
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Badongo.com is an online software service that enables storage, management and publication of personal content.
2. Point out the correct statement.
a) In a managed cloud storage system, the user provisions storage on demand
b) Unmanaged Storage is meant to support virtual cloud computing
c) In managed storage, the storage service provider makes storage capacity available to users
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: User pays for the storage using a pay-as-you-go model in managed cloud storage.
3. Which of the following service has WebDAV as developer API?
a) Adrive
b) Drop.io
c) Dropbox
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: ADrive provides online cloud storage and backup solutions for personal, business and enterprise-level data.
4. Which of the following developer API is provided by FilesAnywhere service?
a) FA
b) CA
c) BA
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: FilesAnywhere is the creation of Dallas-based software design and consulting firm, Officeware systems.
5. Point out the wrong statement.
a) The most basic service that online storage can serve is to provide disk space on demand
b) The user may be able to purchase additional space for paid service
c) S3 is an example of unmanaged cloud storage
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: S3 is an example of Managed cloud storage.
6. Which of the following service is provided by Google for online storage?
a) Drive
b) SkyDrive
c) Dropbox
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service created by Google.
7. Which of the following association has coined the term Data Storage as a Service (DaaS) to describe the delivery of storage on demand to clients over a distributed system?
a) SNIA
b) COA
c) OCCI
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Others have called these types of system services Storage as a Service (STaaS).
8. Which of the following are Managed cloud storage providers?
a) EMC Atmos
b) Amazon.com Simple Storage Service
c) IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: IBM has both infrastructure and software offerings that allow businesses to create and manage a private storage cloud.
9. Which of the following is mainly focused on backup and digital archiving, not on storage hosting?
a) Nirvanix
b) Iron Mountain
c) Google Storage for Developers
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Iron Mountain Inc., founded in 1951, is an enterprise information management service.
10. Which of the following offers direct competition to Amazon’s S3 service?
a) Nirvanix
b) Rackspace Cloud
c) Badongo
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Unlike other cloud providers, Rackspace only offers managed solutions.
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