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What is a cloud region?
A. A geographic area containing one or more provider data-center locations
B. A CPU core
C. A file extension
D. A browser tab
Correct Answer: A
Cloud providers organize infrastructure geographically into regions and availability zones.
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What is a common benefit of cloud computing?
A. No security responsibilities ever
B. Guaranteed zero outages
C. Unlimited free resources
D. On-demand scalability
Correct Answer: D
Cloud services can provide flexible capacity without owning all underlying hardware.
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What is virtualization?
A. Printing documents
B. Converting text to audio only
C. Creation of virtual computing environments on shared physical hardware
D. Replacing software with paper
Correct Answer: C
Virtualization allows multiple isolated VMs or environments to share hardware.
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What is elasticity in cloud computing?
A. Ability to scale resources up or down with demand
B. A type of encryption
C. Ability to physically stretch servers
D. A permanent fixed capacity
Correct Answer: A
Elasticity lets workloads adapt resource allocation to changing demand.
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What is a private cloud?
A. Any personal laptop
B. Only a public website
C. A cloud with no virtualization
D. Cloud infrastructure dedicated to a single organization
Correct Answer: D
Private clouds are provisioned for exclusive organizational use.
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What is a public cloud?
A. A computer with no internet
B. A cloud used only by government
C. Cloud infrastructure offered to multiple customers by a provider
D. A server that has no security
Correct Answer: C
Public clouds pool provider infrastructure across many customers with logical isolation.
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What does SaaS stand for?
A. Software as a Service
B. Storage as a Switch
C. Security as a Server
D. System and Software
Correct Answer: A
SaaS delivers complete applications over the internet.
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What does PaaS stand for?
A. Program as a System
B. Processing and Storage
C. Platform as a Service
D. Private Access Security
Correct Answer: C
PaaS supplies managed platforms for building and deploying applications.
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What does IaaS stand for?
A. Internet as a System
B. Integrated Application Storage
C. Information and Security
D. Infrastructure as a Service
Correct Answer: D
IaaS provides virtualized computing infrastructure such as VMs, networking and storage.
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What is cloud computing?
A. A type of CPU fan
B. Only weather forecasting
C. A local keyboard feature
D. Delivery of computing resources over a network on demand
Correct Answer: D
Cloud computing provides servers, storage, databases and software as network services.