Cloud architecture models, capacity planning, and design concepts tested on the CompTIA Cloud+ exam.
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- What does IaaS stand for in cloud computing?
- Infrastructure as a Service
- In PaaS, what layer does the cloud provider manage?
- Operating system, middleware, runtime, and development tools
- What is the primary responsibility of a customer using SaaS?
- Data management and user access control
- Which cloud deployment model is owned and operated by a single organization?
- Private cloud
- What is a hybrid cloud environment?
- A combination of public and private cloud infrastructure used together
- What is the primary benefit of a community cloud model?
- Shared infrastructure and costs among multiple organizations with common interests
- Define vertical scaling in cloud architecture.
- Adding more resources, such as CPU or RAM, to an existing instance
- Define horizontal scaling in cloud architecture.
- Adding more instances or nodes to distribute the workload across multiple systems
- What is load balancing in a cloud environment?
- Distributing incoming traffic across multiple servers to optimize resource use and prevent bottlenecks
- What does RTO stand for?
- Recovery Time Objective
- What does RPO stand for?
- Recovery Point Objective
- What is the difference between RTO and RPO?
- RTO is the maximum time allowed to restore a system, RPO is the maximum acceptable data loss
- What is a multi-region deployment strategy used for?
- Geographic redundancy and reduced latency for users in different locations
- Define high availability in cloud systems.
- Ensuring systems remain operational with minimal downtime, typically using redundancy
- What is an auto-scaling policy?
- Rules that automatically add or remove resources based on demand or performance metrics