CSA Virtualization & Cloud Services 4

Question 1

A customer in the healthcare industry is evaluating cloud solutions. Which compliance framework is most relevant to their data storage requirements?

Accepted Answer

HIPAA

Answer

HIPAA governs the protection of patient health information (PHI) in the US, making it the primary compliance concern for healthcare cloud workloads.

Question 2

What is the key difference between capital expenditure (CapEx) and operational expenditure (OpEx) in the context of cloud adoption?

Accepted Answer

CapEx requires upfront investment in physical assets; OpEx is ongoing consumption-based spending

Answer

Traditional IT involves CapEx (buying servers upfront), while cloud shifts spending to OpEx (pay-as-you-go consumption), improving cash flow flexibility.

Question 3

A snapshot in a virtualized environment is best described as:

Accepted Answer

A point-in-time copy of a virtual machine's state and disk

Answer

A VM snapshot captures the exact state of the virtual machine at a specific moment, enabling quick rollback if needed.

Question 4

Which cloud networking feature allows an organization to logically isolate their cloud resources from other tenants on shared infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Answer

A VPC provides a logically isolated section of the cloud where customers can define their own network topology, subnets, and access controls.

Question 5

A customer asks about the shared responsibility model in cloud computing. Which component is always the customer's responsibility regardless of cloud model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)?

Accepted Answer

Data and identity/access management

Answer

Regardless of the cloud service model, customers always retain responsibility for their own data and managing who has access to it.

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CSA Virtualization & Cloud Services 4