EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following risks are associated with using a customized proprietary cloud application?

Question2: Which of the following would represent a successful implementation of a cloud service strategy?

Question3: A company is using an Internet-based cloud service provided by a third party. Which of the following can
the third party NOT guarantee when providing cloud resources?

Question4: Which of the following is a characteristic of cloud computing?

Question5: How does using cloud computing help to enhance business value?

Question6: Which of the following is a business reason for IT outsourcing and cloud computing?

Question7: A software development platform is in the process of being migrated from an in-house framework to a
cloud-based PaaS. Which of the following development aspects is likely to be applicable in the PaaS
environment?

Question8: All of the following are important design decisions when deploying SaaS EXCEPT:

Question9: Which of the following is BEST used when setting up security for services being used within a public
cloud?

Question10: Which of the following must be implemented by a cloud provider to ensure that different entities can
authenticate and share basic user accounting information?

Question11: In cloud computing, the ability to scale resources on demand, benefits the business in which of the
following ways?

Question12: An existing capability is being migrated into the cloud. Capacity management issues have been noticed in
the past and an exercise is being performed to calculate current and future volumes. In which of the
following lifecycle phases is this likely to be performed?

Question13: Cloud computing has the greatest benefit for which of the following user populations?

Question14: Which of the following organizations are MOST liking to consider confidentiality requirements before
implementing a backup and disaster recovery cloud solution?

Question15: Locating datacenters close to target markets is the result of which of the following strategic initiatives?

Question16: A company Chief Information Officer (CIO) who wants to ensure rapid elasticity for the company's cloud
solution would MOST likely choose which of the following types of cloud?

Question17: A provider supplies storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth to multiple tenants, using
physical and virtual resources. This is an example of which of the following cloud characteristics?

Question18: Why does cloud computing shift capital cost to variable cost?

Question19: Cloud computing is priced according to ___________ or has ___________, rather than having upfront
costs.

Question20: Which of the following actions should a company take if a cloud computing provider ceases to uphold their
contract?

Question21: An application development company is considering implementing a cloud solution to help improve time to
market with new software upgrades. The existing application has been in use by customers for several
years and contains a large amount of code. Which of the following types of clouds would be BEST for this
company to implement?

Question22: Which of the following is the MOST significant difference between SaaS and IaaS?

Question23: Which of the following BEST describes the properly of cloud computing that allows changes in transaction
volume without major changes to the system?

Question24: Which of the following is a relevant component of the cloud ecosystem?

Question25: Which of the following is an example of SaaS?

Question26: An organization is in the process of selecting a SaaS provider to replace its current internal customer
relationship management system. The business expects better functionality than what is provided with the
internal system. Which of the following is the BEST reason for moving to a SaaS cloud service?

Question27: Which of the following will allow an organization to integrate internal identity management services with a
cloud provider in order to provide single sign-on across the internal and cloud-hosted environments?

Question28: Why does hardware and operating system maintenance take less effort with SaaS?

Question29: A scalability regularly doubles the number of employees over the summer by hiring on temporary staff. The
company currently pays the same price every month for its email software, equal to the maximum number
of employees on staff who have email addresses. The company would like to only pay for the number of
active email addresses and is considering migrating to a cloud solution. Which of the following
characteristics of cloud computing is the MOST beneficial reason the company should implement a cloud
solution?

Question30: Which of the following describes the commonality between cloud computing and outsourcing?

Question31: A university has migrated several services from their internal infrastructure to a third-party cloud provider.
Which of the following is MOST important to the university in order to ensure an appropriate security
posture?

Question32: Which of the following assets have risks related to a cloud provider going out of business?

Question33: Which of the following is a negative business impact of cloud computing?

Question34: When an organization moves to a cloud service for IaaS the cost model changes. Which of the following
illustrates that cost model?

Question35: Which of the following is a benefit of public cloud computing?

Question36: Which of the following is an important new skill for an IT organization to develop in the context of cloud
computing?

Question37: Which of the following is the FIRST item of consideration when a company wants to implement a cloud
network by following the ITIL standard?

Question38: A company wants to implement an internal virtualized infrastructure to provide its employees with on
demand storage which will be accessible through a web interface over the public Internet. This is an
example of which of the following?

Question39: Which of the following questions should be considered BEFORE selecting a cloud computing vendor?

Question40: Cloud computing relies heavily on which of the following virtualization characteristics? (Select two.)

Question41: How can cloud-related financial risks be managed?

Question42: Why are traditional chargeback systems not compatible with cloud computing?

Question43: Which of the following refers to providing a combination of servers, networking components, hosting,
provisioning, and basic services needed to run a cloud?

Question44: Which of the following is included in a compliance audit?

Question45: Which of the following is an important factor for maintaining strategic flexibility?

Question46: Which of the following would help an organization's IT department set their objectives and expectations for
a cloud computing solution?

Question47: Which of the following is a limitation of owning servers?

Question48: One of the strategic reasons to source component technology purchases from multiple providers is to:

Question49: A technology manager is explaining the company's latest move toward cloud computing. Which of the
following statements would NOT be an example of cloud computing?

Question50: Which of the following is one way to mitigate the issue of non-secure communication methods used by
cloud providers?

Question51: Which of the following is a differentiating characteristic of private cloud solutions compared to public cloud
solutions?

Question52: Which of the following factors of service must be managed effectively by a SaaS provider in a cloud
computing environment?

Question53: Which of the following are strategic exit options?

Question54: Which of the following confidentiality risks is introduced by cloud computing?

Question55: The IT department has migrated company email to a web-based cloud provider. Which of the following
dependencies placed on the cloud computing vendor will have the MOST affect on all company staff?

Question56: Which of the following virtualization characteristics allows the use of different types of physical servers?

Question57: Which of the following can influence the monthly service fee Company A pays for Company B to host their
cloud, such that Company A might pay more per month as their company grows?

Question58: An organization is replacing its core insurance platform. The solution is made up of internally hosted
insurance systems and applications hosted in the cloud. Which of the following activities is part of service
transition?

Question59: Which of the following is the MOST important impact of cloud computing on managing service levels?

Question60: Which of the following can cause user response times to deteriorate?

Question61: Cloud computing _____________capital cost to variable cost.

Question62: Why do business users prefer to deal with cloud providers directly, instead of via the IT department?

Question63: Using https instead of http for accessing a cloud service is considered more secure.

Question64: Which of the following IT processes is likely to become more important due to the adoption of cloud
computing?

Question65: Cloud computing can BEST reduce costs for a business by:

Question66: Digital identities for logging onto SaaS solutions should be issued by all the following EXCEPT:

Question67: How can an organization successfully implement an IaaS strategy?

Question68: Which of the following roles can the IT department play in the selection process of cloud computing
providers?

Question69: All of the following are availability risks that are introduced by cloud computing EXCEPT:

Question70: In which of the following ways do IT outsourcing and cloud computing differ?

Question71: How does cloud computing influence service operations?

Question72: Which of the following would be a method to ensure ongoing benefits of a cloud agreement?

Question73: Which of the following is the MOST significant risk to business continuity when using an external cloud
service provider?

Question74: A graphic design company regularly runs out of storage space on its file servers due to the large size of its
customer artwork files. The company is considering migrating to cloud computing to solve this problem.
Which of the following characteristics of cloud computing is the MOST beneficial reason the company
should implement a cloud solution?

Question75: A business has recently implemented a hybrid cloud federated solution, which will allow if to rapidly and
dynamically allocate resources during high demand, and quickly implement its Disaster Recovery Plan
(DRP) and Continuity of Operations (COOP). Given this implementation, the IT director is MOST likely
concerned about:

Question76: Which of the following describes what is meant by the ITIL Service Strategy component?

Question77: A company decides to reduce its IT labor force by hiring an external company to manage various aspects
of IT administration, such as software patch management, desktop virtualization, and remote network
maintenance. The company will still retain technicians for maintenance and storage administration. Which
of the following services has this company implemented?

Question78: Which of the following critical success factors would likely persuade a company to use a SaaS service?

Question79: Privacy is the right of________ to selectively disclose information about _________ and restrict the further
use of that information by any party.

Question80: Which of the following should be measured with a direct cost chargeback method?

Question81: Which of the following skills is MOST needed by the cloud vendor to communicate with the subscriber?

Question82: Which of the following is the MOST complex security provisioning problem in a cloud environment?

Question83: Which of the following is improved by choosing cloud computing versus traditional IT infrastructure
outsourcing?

Question84: Which of the following is indicated by a high number of variations of different virtual servers?

Question85: Which IT process is likely to take more effort with cloud computing?

Question86: A company is designing a new web-based software application that must be highly available and resilient.
Which of the following is the BEST environment for the application?

Question87: In order for an organization to have a successful cloud implementation, which of the following must be
true?

Question88: How can cloud computing help reduce integrity risks?

Question89: Why is standardization of data formats important?

Question90: A financial services company plans to move its existing CRM system into the cloud. The current system
hosts 50 million customers. Which of the following steps should be done FIRST for moving this application
into the cloud?

Question91: Synchronization of updates is ___________ than replicating data across locations because it gives better
assurance that data is always ___________ everywhere.

Question92: Which of the following BEST describes the properly of cloud computing that enables services to be readily
on hand?

Question93: The business benefits of mobile computing are enhanced MOST by which of the following cloud service
characteristics?

Question94: How can an organization successfully implement a SaaS strategy?

Question95: When using SaaS, the cloud computing vendor is responsible to maintain which of the following?

Question96: An organization wants to host a critical application on two redundant leased servers located at the ISP's
datacenter. Which of the following is this an example of?

Question97: A legal hold has been requested on an employee's mailbox by the company's legal office. The company IT
group is unable to implement the legal hold since the email system has recently been outsourced to the
cloud. Which of the following has the company failed to consider when migrating the email service to the
cloud?

Question98: How can an organization successfully implement a PaaS strategy?

Question99: Which of the following characteristics of cloud computing describes the ability to grow easily in response to
an increase in demand?

Question100: Which of the following application types is suitable for a cloud computing pilot?

Question101: Which of the following is an essential step in the start-up process of a virtual server?

Question102: After migrating the company's entire datacenter infrastructure to a private IaaS solution, while at the same
time maintaining the current network and server logical configuration, the IT director eliminated 50% of the
IT engineering staff. The remaining staff has now shifted focus from a daily server maintenance and
upkeep role, to more of a service provisioning, performance, and reporting role. Which of the following was
MOST impacted by this migration?

Question103: A new Chief Information Officer (CIO) has been hired to develop competitive advantage strategies for the
company, which is falling behind the competition. The CIO is looking at cloud computing to give the
company a competitive edge. Which of the following is the CIO MOST interested in?

Question104: Which of the following is an example of a cloud-related security risk?

Question105: Which change in the security processes is introduced by cloud computing?

Question106: Private clouds are operated solely for _______________ organization(s)

Question107: Which of the following steps BEST leads to successful adoption of a cloud service?

Question108: Why does request fulfillment become more complicated in a cloud environment?

Question109: Which represents the MOST important business continuity risk?

Question110: A company would like to move an application to the cloud which resides on a single physical server in their
datacenter. The server has two drives, one of which hosts the operating system, and the other hosts the
application data. The operating system has been showing errors recently and the application data was
corrupted last Friday at 4:00PM. Data is backed up every day at 1:00AM. Which of the following would be
the BEST option for migrating this application to the cloud?

Question111: Which of the following cloud services would be used to rent hardware, computing and network space, and
storage over the Internet?

Question112: Which of the following is MOST typically accessed through Web services?

Question113: An organization requires that it federates its internal systems and their externally hosted SaaS finance
system so a user does not have to re-authenticate. This is an example of which of the following?

Question114: An organization is planning to host a number of its critical applications in the cloud. Which of the following
is the BEST way to gain a broad assurance of the cloud provider's security posture?

Question115: Elastic computing is important to businesses as it relates to which of the following cloud characteristics?

Question116: A company has hired a third party vendor to provide email and spam/anti-malware filtering services. The
type of cloud service provided by the vendor is BEST described as which of the following?

Question117: Which of the following is the BEST example of maintaining 'strategic flexibility'?

Question118: A software development company would like to deploy all of their application development using their own
software to the cloud. The type of cloud they will MOST likely choose to implement is which of the
following?

Question119: Why do management tools introduce a risk?

Question120: Which of the following is an effect of cloud computing on application development?

Question121: Which of the following describes the amount of data that can be sent across a link in a given time?

Question122: Google Apps is a set of online applications allowing users to create and share documents and
spreadsheets. This is an example of:

Question123: How do demand management processes change with the introduction of SaaS?

Question124: A company decides to subscribe to a new CRM product that will help improve their business processes.
Which of the following types of cloud computing would MOST likely be implemented?

Question125: Which of the following consequences does IT outsourcing and cloud computing have in common?

Question126: A company is trying to understand the IT service management impacts of adopting cloud computing as the
delivery vehicle for a new service. Which of the following lifecycle phases would be likely to see these
impacts evaluated?

Question127: Cloud computing brings new challenges to ___________ management, because traditional licensing
models do not fit well with scalable resources.

Question128: Which of the following technologies are related to Web services?

Question129: Which of the following is the risk when an IT department restricts itself to solely being an infrastructure
provider?

Question130: Which of the following is an important skill for an organization wanting to adopt an IaaS strategy?

Question131: Which of the following does the server virtualization layer do?

Question132: Which of the following is a unique characteristic of virtualization?

Question133: Which of the following is the cloud characteristics that speeds up development, deployment, and overall
time to market?

Question134: Since the implementation of a cloud infrastructure, a senior level network administrator's job description
has changed from being responsible for maintaining the hardware of the network infrastructure to more of
a management position, ensuring the cloud vendor is providing the services specified in the contract with
the company. Which of the following has been impacted the MOST by the change in job responsibility?

Question135: Which of the following correctly identifies a key difference between cloud computing and IT outsourcing?

Question136: A private cloud is defined as:

Question137: Which of the following cloud computing risks is compliance related?

Question138: Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) is a facility for quickly providing virtual servers. This is an example
of:

Question139: Which of the following enables hardware independence?

Question140: Why can cloud computing be a challenge in relation to compliance risks (e.g. compliance with the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act)?

Question141: Which of the following services represents an environment where the computing architecture is providing a
hosted service to a limited group inside a corporate firewall?

Question142: Web hosting is a service that enables customers to deploy a website quickly. This is an example of:

Question143: Which of the following applications would be a good candidate to move to a cloud-based platform?

Question144: Twitter is a service that allows users to exchange short text messages. This is an example of:

Question145: Which of the following can be deployed by a cloud provider to reduce storage costs?

Question146: Which of the following are the common elements of platform as a service and software as a service?
(Select two.)

Question147: Which of the following is the difference between cloud computing and IT outsourcing?

Question148: Which of the following is a typical concern for business and IT leaders when adopting cloud computing?

Question149: Which of the following is the function of orchestration services?

Question150: Which of the following is the BEST example of a cloud vendor's monthly hosting fee changing based on
cost allocations?

Question151: Which of the following applications is MOST suitable for a cloud computing pilot?

Question152: Which of the following statements represents the correct definition of the terms 'cost allocation' and
'chargeback'?

Question153: A company is implementing a system replacement which has application components that are internally
hosted and multiple application components that are hosted as software as a service by different cloud
providers. Which of the following represents the challenge of this architecture?

Question154: Which of the following processes should be implemented to validate the application security of the cloud
provider's SaaS application?

Question155: An external cloud service provider has been chosen by a financial company to deliver some capabilities
that used to be performed in-house. Which of the following would provide the BEST amount of coverage to
the financial company byway of continually asserting that there is an acceptable security posture being
achieved by the service provider?

Question156: Which of the following is a drawback of direct cost when implementing cloud computing?

Question157: Which of the following risks occurs when a cloud provider stops serving the company?

Question158: Who is responsible for granting access to a user in federated identity management?

Question159: Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) will present challenges for the network administrator as they move their
users to the cloud. Which of the following would be considered a major challenge?

Question160: Which of the following applies only to public cloud computing as opposed to outsourcing?

Question161: In order to maintain strategic flexibility and the ability to bring a cloud system back internally, which of the
following is the MOST important requirement in the contract?

Question162: Which of the following companies would BEST benefit from moving to a cloud service?

Question163: Which of the following is a service level management tool aimed at quantifying a cloud offerings'
performance?

Question164: Which of the following is true when mitigating risks in a cloud environment while avoiding impact to
performance?

Question165: Which of the following cloud computing services requires the MOST involvement from a company's in-
house staff?

Question166: A military facility is NOT able to fully embrace cloud computing because of which of the following?

Question167: Which of the following is a potential advantage of using Storage as a Service?

Question168: How can the internal IT department successfully react to cloud computing?

Question169: Which of the following is a benefit of cloud computing?

Question170: A cloud computing vendor is focusing on delivering applications to customers. The goal is to simplify the
deployment of database functionality while removing the need for customers to manage the operating
system and application patching. Which of the following types of solution is the vendor offering?

Question171: Consumption statistics for individual cloud service offering is used by which of the following ITIL
processes?

Question172: As part of a critical SaaS application, one of the contractual statements by the cloud provider is a
requirement to perform scheduled maintenance. This has a direct impact on which of the following?

Question173: Following an IT Service Management lifecycle approach, a Chief Information Officer would take which of
the following paths to implement a cloud solution?

Question174: Company A has a SaaS cloud that hosts their office suite software. Company B has an IaaS cloud that
provides all their server hardware, including the server hosting their office suite software. Which of the
following is a similarity between both company's clouds?

Question175: Which of the following is a reason why an IT manager understanding business cost allocations would
recommend implementing a cloud infrastructure? (Select TWO).

Question176: Which of the following is a benefit of implementing cloud computing via the ITIL guideline?

Question177: Which of the following is a reason for business users lo be interested in cloud computing?

Question178: A small company with an in-house IT staff is considering implementing a new technology that their current
IT staff is unfamiliar with. The company would like to implement the new technology as soon as possible
but does not have the budget to hire new IT staff. Which of the following should this company consider?

Question179: Which of the following is the primary difference between private and public cloud?

Question180: Which of the following are the appropriate steps to migrating a backwards compatible application into the
cloud?

Question181: Companies that are looking to move from capital expenses to operating expenses benefit from cloud
services.

Question182: Which of the following is an example of an early cloud adoption?

Question183: Which of the following aspects of public cloud computing would a company MOST likely need to consider
to ensure information security?

Question184: Which of the following early examples of cloud computing was used for software engineering purposes in
the form of web-based applications and required interoperability between different systems?

Question185: Which of the following is a definition of virtualization?

Question186: Which of the following characteristics would allow a company to market its product to the public by using
cloud computing services?

Question187: Which of the following is an advantage of cloud computing for an organization?

Question188: From a risk assessment perspective, which of the following is MOST important to acquire and review
before a business integrates cloud computing into its existing environment?

Question189: As part of a cloud provider's services, customers can provision a new virtual machine as needed without
human interaction with the provider. This scenario is BEST described by which of the following cloud
characteristics?

Question190: Which of the following would be considered in a private cloud?

Question191: Which of the following should be implemented to BEST roll out desktop images from a cloud network?

Question192: Which of the following capabilities MUST a vendor be able to fulfill in order to provide a successful IaaS
solution? (Select TWO).

Question193: Which of the following is the logical progression in internal private cloud adoption?

Question194: Which of the following is important to standardize?

Question195: Why is it important to consider the cloud ecosystem when developing applications?

Question196: An organization has just gone to a start-up cloud provider for its entire infrastructure. Which of the following
is one of the new organizational roles required at the cloud provider?

Question197: A specific cloud deployment has been established specifically for financial services companies to
consume. Which of the following BEST describes this type of cloud environment?

Question198: Which of the following risk results if cloud computing providers limit their Service Level Agreement (SLA)
liabilities?

Question199: A private cloud generally has which of the following characteristics?

Question200: Which of the following is the BEST way to mitigate the security and privacy issues associated with cloud
computing?

Question201: Why is it important to know the physical location for a governmental cloud based storage solution?

Question202: Which of the following are essential steps to take when creating a virtual server?

Question203: An organization is moving web server clusters to a public IaaS cloud while keeping database servers in the
company owned datacenter. The organization will continue utilizing the internal service desk to manage
the application. Which of the following ITIL processes will plan the move?

Question204: Which of the following cloud service characteristics would impact how a current application will adapt in the
future according to how quickly a business will grow?

Question205: Which of the following is the MOST important service management consequence of elastic capacity?

Question206: A company is adopting a public SaaS cloud based computing system to migrate a mission critical
application. Which of the following capabilities will be MOST likely lost?

Question207: A cloud subscriber may come under certain security constraints when hosting sensitive data in the cloud
due to government regulations. Which of the following is the BEST mitigating control that could be
implemented by the cloud provider?

Question208: How does scalability work with cloud computing?

Question209: One major impact that cloud computing has had on the application development process is the need for
greater:

Question210: Which of the following does IT outsourcing and cloud computing typically have in common?

Question211: An organization subscribes to a public cloud. For which of the following does the subscriber NOT depend
on the vendor?

Question212: Which of the following is a private SaaS?