What is 'measured service' in cloud computing?

Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service.

Cloud providers manually track resource usage through spreadsheets.

Cloud services are free for the first year.

Cloud services are billed at a flat rate regardless of usage.

A company needs a relational database for its new e-commerce application. The company does not want to manage the underlying database software, including patching, backups, and high availability. They want the cloud provider to handle these operational tasks while they focus on the application. Which cloud building block should the company use?

Virtual machine with self-managed database

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Part of the Cloud Concepts, Architecture and Design domain, which accounts for 17% of the CCSP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~12–20 in this domain), expect 2–3 from this objective — we provide 52 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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17concepts

17%of the exam

17 Concepts in This Objective

Cloud computing definitions
Cloud service customer role
Cloud Service Provider (CSP) role
Cloud service partner role
Cloud service broker role
Regulator role in cloud
On-demand self-service
Broad network access
Multi-tenancy
Rapid elasticity and scalability
Resource pooling
Measured service
Virtualization as a building block
Storage as a building block
Networking as a building block
Databases as a building block
Orchestration as a building block

Questions 11–15

11foundation · easy
What is 'measured service' in cloud computing?
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12application · medium
A company runs an e-commerce application on cloud VMs. During a major sales event, traffic spikes to 10 times the normal level for a few hours. The application is configured to automatically add more VM instances when CPU utilization exceeds 70% and remove them when it drops below 30%. This ability to automatically adjust capacity in response to demand is an example of which cloud characteristic?
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13application · medium
A company needs a relational database for its new e-commerce application. The company does not want to manage the underlying database software, including patching, backups, and high availability. They want the cloud provider to handle these operational tasks while they focus on the application. Which cloud building block should the company use?
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14application · medium
A financial services company is considering moving its customer data to a public cloud. The company's legal team is concerned about meeting industry-specific data protection regulations. Which party has the primary responsibility for defining and enforcing the regulations that the company must comply with?
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15application · medium
A company has a multi-tier application in the cloud. The web servers in the front-end tier need to communicate with the application servers in the back-end tier, and both need to access a database. The cloud provider offers virtual networks, load balancers, and firewalls to enable this communication. Which cloud building block is being described?
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