Scalability and Cost Benefit in Cloud Computing

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What is one benefit of the elimination or minimization of up-front financial commitments for enterprises?

Allows reallocation of capital to core business investments (correct)

Leads to decreased opportunities for cost reduction

Results in decreased operational savings

Increases the need for up-front capital expenses

Where are large-scale data centers typically located by major cloud providers to decrease costs?

Regions with limited IT professionals

Locations where costs are lower (correct)

Areas with high network bandwidth costs

Destinations with high real estate costs

Why are pooled IT resources shared by multiple cloud consumers?

To maintain inefficiencies in resource management

To limit access to resources

To reduce operational costs and inefficiencies (correct)

To increase individual costs for each consumer

What is a common measurable benefit to cloud consumers according to the text?

On-demand access to pay-as-you-go computing resources Signup and view all the answers

How can enterprises further reduce operational costs and inefficiencies in cloud architectures?

By applying proven practices and patterns for optimizing cloud architectures Signup and view all the answers

What does the perception of having unlimited computing resources available on demand help enterprises reduce?

The need for provisioning Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the key benefits of cloud computing mentioned in the text?

Fine-grained control of IT resources Signup and view all the answers

How does the text describe the pricing flexibility of utilizing IT resources in the cloud?

Paying based on actual resource consumption Signup and view all the answers

What is one challenge mentioned in understanding the economics of cloud computing?

Complexity in calculating and assessing actual costs Signup and view all the answers

How does cloud computing impact the scalability of applications?

Enables applications to easily scale up or down Signup and view all the answers

Why does the text mention that cloud computing does not require steep initial investments for a large-scale infrastructure?

To emphasize the affordability of cloud computing services Signup and view all the answers

What financial considerations must be taken into account when deciding on a cloud computing adoption strategy?

Dynamic scaling benefits and risk transference of over/under-provisioning Signup and view all the answers

Which cloud delivery model offers cloud consumers a high level of administrative control over 'raw' infrastructure-based IT resources?

IaaS Signup and view all the answers

What may influence the motivation for cloud providers to arrange data across different locations?

Economics Signup and view all the answers

In a cloud environment, which model enables a cloud provider to offer a pre-configured environment for building and deploying cloud services?

PaaS Signup and view all the answers

Which cloud model is suitable for shared cloud services positioned as commercial products hosted by clouds?

SaaS Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of combining IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud delivery models in establishing layers of IT resources?

Building on different service capabilities Signup and view all the answers

Why might a cloud consumer require data to be physically stored in a specific region different from where the cloud provider's cloud resides?

Security regulations Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the benefits associated with the inherent feature of clouds to provide flexible scalability to IT resources?

Potential loss of business due to scaling limitations Signup and view all the answers

In terms of capacity planning strategies, which strategies are generally more applicable when associating Increased Scalability with cloud resources?

Lag and Match Strategies Signup and view all the answers

How are outages related to the availability and reliability of IT resources?

They limit revenue generation potential Signup and view all the answers

What is the impact of runtime failures that are not immediately corrected during high-volume usage periods?

Decrease in customer confidence Signup and view all the answers

How does the ability of IT resources to always meet unpredictable usage demands benefit businesses?

By avoiding potential loss of business due to scaling limitations Signup and view all the answers

What is a direct association between the availability and reliability of IT resources and tangible business benefits?

Limiting time an IT resource can be open for business Signup and view all the answers

What role does a separate organizational department typically assume when provisioning the cloud?

Cloud provider Signup and view all the answers

When accessing a cloud service hosted on the organization's private cloud, what type of network may be used?

Virtual Private Network (VPN) Signup and view all the answers

How are IT resources hosted in a private cloud typically referred to if they are remotely accessible to cloud consumers?

Cloud-based Signup and view all the answers

In a hybrid cloud environment, what does a cloud consumer do when deploying cloud services processing sensitive data to a private cloud?

Deploy them in a private cloud Signup and view all the answers

What defines a hybrid cloud environment?

Incorporating two or more different cloud deployment models Signup and view all the answers

How are IT resources outside of the private cloud referred to in relation to the private cloud-based IT resources?

'On-premise' Signup and view all the answers