A company is evaluating a SaaS application for customer relationship management (CRM). The security team needs to ensure that the company's data is protected. Which control is the CUSTOMER's responsibility in a SaaS model?

Managing user access and authentication policies within the application

Applying security updates to the application code

Securing the physical data center where the application is hosted

Patching the underlying operating system of the SaaS infrastructure

In cloud architecture, what is the primary purpose of orchestration?

To automate the arrangement, coordination, and management of complex cloud resources and workloads

To encrypt data stored in the cloud

To provide a user interface for manual resource management

To monitor network traffic for intrusions

A cloud architect is designing a multi-tier application that must automatically scale based on demand. The architect wants to use infrastructure as code to define the entire environment, including the scaling rules. Which approach BEST achieves this?

Use a configuration management tool to install software on existing VMs

Use a monitoring tool to manually trigger scaling based on alerts

Use an orchestration tool with a declarative template that defines resources and autoscaling policies

Use a cloud provider's CLI to manually create resources and configure autoscaling

Which statement correctly describes a benefit and a drawback of virtualization?

Benefit: improved hardware utilization; Drawback: increased hardware costs

Benefit: unlimited scalability; Drawback: requires proprietary hardware

Benefit: easier disaster recovery; Drawback: increased management complexity

Benefit: guaranteed performance; Drawback: reduced security isolation

Which component of cloud architecture allows external applications to programmatically interact with cloud services?

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

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Virtualization and Cloud Computing CCT Practice Questions (Page 5)

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21application · medium
A company is evaluating a SaaS application for customer relationship management (CRM). The security team needs to ensure that the company's data is protected. Which control is the CUSTOMER's responsibility in a SaaS model?
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In cloud architecture, what is the primary purpose of orchestration?
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A cloud architect is designing a multi-tier application that must automatically scale based on demand. The architect wants to use infrastructure as code to define the entire environment, including the scaling rules. Which approach BEST achieves this?
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Which statement correctly describes a benefit and a drawback of virtualization?
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25foundation · easy
Which component of cloud architecture allows external applications to programmatically interact with cloud services?
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