SOA Certified Cloud Computing Specialist C90-02A Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  Messages being sent from a cloud service consumer to a cloud service are intercepted and maliciously altered by an intermediary service. This is an example of which cloud security threat? Select the correct answer.

  A. denial of service

  B. insufficient authorization

  C. virtualization attack

  D. None of the above.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 22:

  Which of the following types of testing are directly associated with testing the speed, responsiveness, stability and/or reliability of cloud-based IT resources? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

  A. virtual testing

  B. performance testing

  C. stress testing

  D. regression testing

  Correct Answer: BC

• Question 23:

  Cloud service consumers typically use HTTP methods to communicate with cloud-based REST services. Select the correct answer.

  A. True

  B. False

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 24:

  A failover system can increase and by using technology. Select the correct answer.

  A. resources, usage thresholds, legacy

  B. reliability, availability, clustering

  C. flexibility, integrity, real-time

  D. confidentiality, responsiveness, cloud

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 25:

  Which of the following cloud computing mechanisms is not directly associated with the realization of the resiliency cloud characteristic? Select the correct answer.

  A. automated scaling listener

  B. failover system

  C. resource replication

  D. state management database

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 26:

  Cloud services can be built as components because Web-based communication is not an essential requirement for an IT resource to be considered cloud-based. Select the correct answer.

  A. True

  B. False

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 27:

  A malicious cloud service consumer circumvents the authentication enforced by the virtual server and manages to attack the underlying hardware directly. This is an example of which cloud security threat? Select the correct answer.

  A. denial of service

  B. insufficient authorization

  C. information leakage

  D. None of the above.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 28:

  A cloud service consumer can access a cloud-based relational database via a cloud service. Select the correct answer.

  A. True

  B. False

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 29:

  Two redundantly deployed cloud services need to be configured so that they are kept in sync with each other. Which of the following roles would be most suitable for this task? Select the correct answer.

  A. cloud service consumer

  B. cloud service owner

  C. cloud resource administrator

  D. None of the above.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 30:

  In a denial of service attack, the attacker can cause increased loads on a physical server by overloading it with communication requests. Alternatively, the attacker can engage the physical server in tasks that result in excessive memory usage. Select the correct answer.

  A. True

  B. False

  Correct Answer: A