Skills check

Challenge yourself with what you have learned in this chapter (Note down the answers that you believe are correct; go back and review the content of this chapter for any you are unsure of):

1. List three public cloud computing platforms and their providers.
2. List three private cloud computing platforms and their providers.
3. Explain a hybrid cloud approach.
4. Explain the definition of cloud computing and Microsoft Azure.
5. What cost expenditure model is used for public, private, and hybrid cloud models?
6. Does adopting a public cloud platform mean you no longer need an on-premises data center?
7. List these architectures in order of evolution: containers, serverless, bare metal, virtual machines.
8. Explain how containers compare to virtual machines.
9. Explain how PaaS compares to serverless (FaaS).
10. What are the three levels to be considered for the Shared Responsibility Model?
11. List three cloud computing delivery models.
12. List a minimum of three characteristics of public cloud computing resources.
13. List a minimum of three characteristics of private cloud computing resources.
14. List a minimum of three characteristics of the hybrid cloud computing approach.
15. List four cloud computing service models.
16. Explain serverless computing.
17. List a minimum of two characteristics of IaaS.
18. List a minimum of two examples of IaaS resources.
19. List a minimum of three characteristics of PaaS.
20. List a minimum of two examples of PaaS resources.
21. List a minimum of three characteristics of serverless (FaaS).
22. List two examples of serverless/FaaS resources.
23. List a minimum of three characteristics of SaaS.
24. List a minimum of two examples of SaaS resources.
25. List a minimum of two non-Microsoft SaaS solutions.