Exam 6: The Cloud

What is an IP address? Describe the advantages of private and public IP addresses.

Salesforce.com provides hardware and programs for customer and sales tracking. This is an example of a cloud vendor who provides software as a service.

For communications equipment, k stands for ________.

"smtp" is the protocol used between browsers and Web servers.

Which of the following is a sophisticated protocol that enables several devices to use the same frequency?

What are remote action systems? Explain with the help of three examples.

Which of the following characteristics is a disadvantage of cloud-based hosting?

What is a digital subscriber line (DSL)?

An organization that provides software as a service provides only operating systems and application programs.

Digital subscriber lines use their own protocols for data transmission.

Small companies usually lack the technical expertise and management to venture into loading operating systems onto servers acquired via the cloud.

To ensure security, VPN client software decrypts the original message so that its contents are protected from snooping.

A switch detects the speed that a given device can handle and communicates with it at that speed.

An intranet is a private internet that is used exclusively within an organization.

When does it not make sense to use cloud-based infrastructure?

________ signals do not interfere with TV signals, even though they use the same lines.

________ contains much metadata that can be used to validate the format and completeness of the document, but includes considerable overhead.

Compared to in-house hosting, cloud-based hosting ________.

The address bar reads "http://www.baron-olufsen.com/" when one visits the Web page of the luxury brand Baron & Olufsen. This information in the address bar is the ________ of the Web page.

A(n) ________ uses the Internet to create the appearance of private, secure connections.