EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following is common in both cloud and outsourcing?

Question2: 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?

Question3: 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?

Question4: Which of the following virtualization characteristics allows the use of different types of physical servers?

Question5: Which of the following confidentiality risks is introduced by cloud computing?

Question6: Following an IT Service Management lifecycle approach, a Chief Information Officer would take which of
the following paths to implement a cloud solution?

Question7: Which of the following is an example of a cloud-related security risk?

Question8: Which of the following critical success factors would likely persuade a company to use a SaaS service?

Question9: Which of the following processes should be implemented to validate the application security of the cloud
provider's SaaS application?

Question10: Which of the following risks are associated with using a customized proprietary cloud application?

Question11: Which of the following should be measured with a direct cost chargeback method?

Question12: When there is a higher demand for a company's product, which of the following is a cloud characteristic
that allows the company to manually provision additional servers, through a shopping cart?

Question13: 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?

Question14: Which of the following describes the commonality between cloud computing and outsourcing?

Question15: All of the following are availability risks that are introduced by cloud computing EXCEPT:

Question16: In which of the following ways do IT outsourcing and cloud computing differ?

Question17: 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?

Question18: How can an organization successfully implement an IaaS strategy?

Question19: 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?

Question20: Why is standardization of data formats important?

Question21: 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?

Question22: Which of the following is true when mitigating risks in a cloud environment while avoiding impact to
performance?

Question23: Which of the following is the function of orchestration services?

Question24: 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?

Question25: Why is it important to consider the cloud ecosystem when developing applications?

Question26: Why does hardware and operating system maintenance take less effort with SaaS?

Question27: Which of the following technologies are related to Web services?

Question28: Which of the following cloud computing services requires the MOST involvement from a company's in-
house staff?

Question29: An organization subscribes to a public cloud. For which of the following does the subscriber NOT depend
on the vendor?

Question30: Which of the following is a relevant component of the cloud ecosystem?

Question31: A private cloud is defined as:

Question32: Which of the following statements represents the correct definition of the terms 'cost allocation' and
'chargeback'?

Question33: Which of the following is a definition of virtualization?

Question34: Cloud computing _____________capital cost to variable cost.

Question35: 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?

Question36: An XaaS cloud platform offers which of the following that can be beneficial to a business organization in
terms of cost?

Question37: Which of the following enables an organization to maintain its strategic flexibility when implementing a
SaaS solution?

Question38: Which of the following characteristics of cloud service makes it an attractive choice for business? (Select
three.)

Question39: Which of the following enables hardware independence?

Question40: Which of the following applies only to public cloud computing as opposed to outsourcing?

Question41: Which of the following is the FIRST item of consideration when a company wants to implement a cloud
network by following the ITIL standard?

Question42: Which of the following is included in a compliance audit?

Question43: A cloud usage metering scheme allows for which of the following customer chargeback alternatives?

Question44: Cloud computing is priced according to ___________ or has ___________, rather than having upfront
costs.

Question45: The IT department is planning the migration of their customer billing database to an external cloud
provider. They have resolved most technical concerns but are worried about data interception between the
cloud and branch offices. Which of the following is the BEST way to address this concern?

Question46: 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?

Question47: Which of the following is the cloud characteristics that speeds up development, deployment, and overall
time to market?

Question48: 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?

Question49: Which of the following is a difference between cloud computing and visualization when implementing
IaaS?

Question50: Why do management tools introduce a risk?

Question51: Elastic computing is important to businesses as it relates to which of the following cloud characteristics?

Question52: Company A uses an outside vendor for support of its internal network. Company B's networking equipment
is housed in a datacenter in another country. Company C has an internal network infrastructure, but its
software runs from an on-demand self-service third-party datacenter. Company D uses its own IT staff to
support an internal network. Which of the following companies MUST be using cloud computing?

Question53: How does cloud computing improve business flexibility?

Question54: Which of the following is the MOST significant risk to business continuity when using an external cloud
service provider?

Question55: Which of the following is NOT among the common technical challenges for cloud computing mitigation
methods?

Question56: In the Service Strategy model when considering a cloud solution, which of the following BEST
demonstrates the Analyze phase?

Question57: A small book company is growing at a rapid rate and cannot afford to purchase and manage additional in-
house computing resources. The company decides to subscribe to cloud services for additional computing
resources and management of those computing resources. Which of the following is LEAST likely to
enhance the overall value of the additional cloud services?

Question58: 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?

Question59: Which of the following indicates the BEST method for maintaining Strategic Flexibility?

Question60: Web hosting is a service that enables customers to deploy a website quickly. This is an example of:

Question61: Which of the following is an important skill for an organization wanting to adopt an IaaS strategy?

Question62: Which of the following IT processes is likely to become more important due to the adoption of cloud
computing?

Question63: 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?

Question64: Which of the following would be considered in a private cloud?

Question65: 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?

Question66: Which of the following is a differentiating characteristic of private cloud solutions compared to public cloud
solutions?

Question67: Which of the following is the MOST significant difference between SaaS and IaaS?

Question68: 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?

Question69: How does cloud computing influence service operations?

Question70: An entrepreneur has decided to open an e-commerce site to complement their retail store. After
researching their options, they decide that a PaaS solution will be sufficient. To reduce upfront cost, the
entrepreneur intends to build the site themselves. Which of the following skill-sets will be needed?

Question71: Why does request fulfillment become more complicated in a cloud environment?

Question72: How can application be centrally monitored in cloud environments?

Question73: How can cloud-related financial risks be managed?

Question74: An entrepreneur has developed a business plan for a new company and is now looking at utility-based
cloud computing for a quick way to get the business jump started. Which of the following is the
entrepreneur taking advantage of? (Select two.)

Question75: Which of the following ITL process would manage the datacenter in a public cloud environment?

Question76: Which of the following factors of service must be managed effectively by a SaaS provider in a cloud
computing environment?

Question77: An insurance company is placing a business process into a SaaS cloud environment. The company does
not want to replicate all user identifies. Which of the following methods should be implemented?

Question78: Which of the following is the MOST important service management consequence of elastic capacity?

Question79: Which of the following is the logical progression in internal private cloud adoption?

Question80: Why do business users prefer to deal with cloud providers directly, instead of via the IT department?

Question81: Which of the following are strategic exit options?

Question82: 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?

Question83: In cloud computing, the ability to scale resources on demand, benefits the business in which of the
following ways?

Question84: Which of the following does the server virtualization layer do?

Question85: Which of the following is improved by choosing cloud computing versus traditional IT infrastructure
outsourcing?

Question86: Locating datacenters close to target markets is the result of which of the following strategic initiatives?

Question87: Which of the following is indicated by a high number of variations of different virtual servers?

Question88: 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?

Question89: Which of the following companies would BEST benefit from moving to a cloud service?

Question90: 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?

Question91: Cloud computing relies heavily on which of the following virtualization characteristics? (Select two.)

Question92: Which of the following risks occurs when a cloud provider stops serving the company?

Question93: 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?

Question94: Digital identities for logging onto SaaS solutions should be issued by all the following EXCEPT:

Question95: Consumption statistics for individual cloud service offering is used by which of the following ITIL
processes?

Question96: 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?

Question97: Which of the following is an example of an early cloud adoption?

Question98: Which of the following aspects of public cloud computing would a company MOST likely need to consider
to ensure information security?

Question99: Which of the following only provides configurable physical hardware and network resources used to make
up the cloud?

Question100: Cloud computing brings new challenges to ___________ management, because traditional licensing
models do not fit well with scalable resources.

Question101: Which of the following BEST describes the properly of cloud computing that allows changes in transaction
volume without major changes to the system?

Question102: When using SaaS, the cloud computing vendor is responsible to maintain which of the following?

Question103: Companies that are looking to move from capital expenses to operating expenses benefit from cloud
services.

Question104: 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?

Question105: Why can cloud computing be a challenge in relation to compliance risks (e.g. compliance with the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act)?

Question106: 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?

Question107: Which of the following are the common elements of platform as a service and software as a service?
(Select two.)

Question108: Which of the following is an important factor for maintaining strategic flexibility?

Question109: Google Apps is a set of online applications allowing users to create and share documents and
spreadsheets. This is an example of:

Question110: Which of the following is the BEST environment in which to deploy into cloud?

Question111: 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?

Question112: 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?

Question113: Which of the following key elements should be applied in order to build effective private clouds that allow
for interoperability with IaaS services?

Question114: Which of the following cloud services would be used to rent hardware, computing and network space, and
storage over the Internet?

Question115: 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?

Question116: Which change in the security processes is introduced by cloud computing?

Question117: A Chief Information Officer (CIO) decides to implement a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan that requires using
tapes of full image backups store recover the company's datacenter onto a virtualized environment
provided by a DR site provider. In the event that such a plan is invoked, which following migration methods
should be employed?

Question118: Which of the following are the appropriate steps to migrating a backwards compatible application into the
cloud?

Question119: Which of the following is a unique characteristic of virtualization?

Question120: Which of the following is the difference between cloud computing and IT outsourcing?

Question121: Which of the following can cause user response times to deteriorate?

Question122: Which of the following is a business reason for IT outsourcing and cloud computing?

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

Question124: A military facility is NOT able to fully embrace cloud computing because of which of the following?

Question125: Which of the following capabilities MUST a vendor be able to fulfill in order to provide a successful IaaS
solution? (Select TWO).

Question126: 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?

Question127: A retail company has decided to move its inventory software to the cloud. The company is concerned
about maintaining PCI compliance for credit card data and does not want to have this data compromised.
Which of the following can the company do to BEST help mitigate security concerns? (Select two.)

Question128: A company has decided to implement a third-party hosted service so that they have access to as many
virtual instances as needed, for exclusive use. Which of the following types of services would this
represent?

Question129: In which of the following scenarios would a hybrid cloud be the BEST choice for an organization to use?

Question130: Which of the following is a benefit of public cloud computing?

Question131: Which of the following may be configured to allow mission critical application to have priority when the
storage infrastructure is under heavy load?

Question132: Synchronization of updates is ___________ than replicating data across locations because it gives better
assurance that data is always ___________ everywhere.

Question133: Which of the following application types is suitable for a cloud computing pilot?

Question134: Which of the following is the primary difference between private and public cloud?

Question135: Which of the following applications is MOST suitable for a cloud computing pilot?

Question136: Which of the following is an example of SaaS?

Question137: Which of the following actions should a company take if a cloud computing provider ceases to uphold their
contract?

Question138: Which of the following is one way to mitigate the issue of non-secure communication methods used by
cloud providers?

Question139: Which of the following is a reason why an IT manager understanding business cost allocations would
recommend implementing a cloud infrastructure? (Select TWO).

Question140: Which of the following steps BEST leads to successful adoption of a cloud service?

Question141: Which of the following is an effect of cloud computing on application development?

Question142: Which of the following is the MOST complex security provisioning problem in a cloud environment?

Question143: A marketing company recently migrated their internal IT infrastructure to a private cloud with automated
self-service server deployments. The migration successfully reduced IT expense and provided for more
streamlined development. However, the company is having issues moving non-standard systems to
production and a large volume of undefined tickets are going to the IT operations team. Which of the
following could BEST help the company move to a more stable environment?

Question144: Which of the following is a private SaaS?

Question145: Which of the following is an important new skill for an IT organization to develop in the context of cloud
computing?

Question146: Which of the following are the keys needed to successfully adopt cloud computing? (Select two.)