The INF-104 Cloud Computing practice test trains you in the key concepts of cloud computing. This comprehensive preparation framework is masterfully engineered to challenge your architectural capabilities, sharpen your deployment skills, and deepen your functional understanding of scalable cloud infrastructure. By working through these expertly structured practice questions, you will master service delivery methodologies, discover personal knowledge gaps, maximize your technical competency in cloud governance and operations, and build the definitive professional confidence needed to successfully pass your official certification exam on your very first attempt.
Note: This is merely a practice test to prepare for the professional certification exam, and no certificate is issued by the center for passing it.
| Questions | 100 |
|---|---|
| Release Date | 02/2023 (Last Update: 02/2023) |
| Job Role | Student |
| Language | English |
Why should I use the INF-104 Cloud Computing Practice Test to prepare for the official exam?
The INF-104 Cloud Computing certification presents you with the perfect opportunity to validate and show off your skills in the field of cloud computing to current and potential employers. The INF-104 exam tests your ability to identify and describe end solutions that make use of cloud technologies. As part of this, you will be tested on cloud governance, implementing the cloud development life cycle, determining whether a cloud solution is appropriate, developing cloud architecture, and managing cloud operations. The INF-104 Cloud Computing practice test includes two different modes: certification and practice mode. Certification mode allows you to assess your knowledge and discover your weak areas, with practice mode allowing you to focus on the areas that need development.
The INF-104 practice test contains 100 questions and covers the following objectives:
Determine if cloud solution is appropriate – 21 questions
Explain advantages provided by cloud to stakeholders
- Describe cloud infrastructure
- Distinguish between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Show how cloud allows building applications cheaper than with traditional models
- Show how cloud allows building applications faster than with traditional models
Explain cost to stakeholders
- Identify the use case (new development or transition of existing product or service)
- Identify the resources that will be required to construct the service or product using cloud-hosted components (include compute, data, and network costs)
- Identify support plan that will be required to meet performance, availability, scalability, and reliability (PASR) criteria
- Consider factors that go into return on investment
Explain performance to stakeholders
- Identify performance criteria
- Consider what solutions meet the criteria
- Assess cost and availability of technical expertise
Explain reliability to stakeholders
- Identify reliability criteria, including network speeds
- Consider what solutions meet the criteria
- Understand service-level agreement (SLA) with cloud provider
- Consider disaster-recovery and backup plans (including backup redundancy or replication factor)
Explain availability to stakeholders
- Identify the use case (new development or transition of existing product or service)
- Identify any upstream or downstream SLAs that will govern availability requirements
- Establish availability metrics
- Assess the SLA offered by the cloud-hosted solution
Explain scalability to stakeholders
- Identify the use case (new development or transition of existing product or service)
- Understand that rules can be set to adjust resources based on need
Recommend off-the-shelf (OTS) or custom solutions as needed
- Identify the use case (new development or transition of existing product or service)
- Evaluate if existing OTS offering meets performance, availability, scalability, and reliability needs
- Evaluate technical effort needed for custom solution
- Evaluate if custom solution can exceed OTS on PASR criteria
Developing cloud architecture – 22 questions
Choose between public, private, and hybrid cloud implementations
- Identify the security and privacy requirements for the solution (focusing on networking options that each provides)
- Consider limits imposed by tenancy in various cloud implementations
Draw an architectural diagram (show data flows)
- Break down the proposed solution into compute, data, and networking components
- Produce logical groupings for the components
- Mark data flows between components (including the protocol)
- Identify system and component boundaries (including responsibility model)
Define requirements
- Decide whether to virtualize server, network, storage, and desktop
- Be aware of design patterns like microservices and serverless
- Consider networking infrastructure, storage devices, memory, and end-user devices required
Identify how services communicate through application programming interfaces (APIs)
- Identifying services with which the application needs to integrate
- Interact using an API
Create virtual machines
- Determine the operating system for the virtual machines
- Choose the appropriate size for the virtual machines
- Decide on geographic setting for the virtual machines (latency, legal requirements)
- Configure options (e.g., time limitations, scaling, backups) for the virtual machines
Identify data storage requirements
- Distinguish between structured and unstructured data
- Determine amount of storage needed
- Consider location of storage
- Consider storage security
Implementing the cloud development life cycle – 15 questions
Create content in virtual environments
- Understand that a source-code management system needs to be set up
- Install and configure the prerequisite packages in the virtual environment
- Save changes and keep track of the codes in a source code management system (such as Github)
Perform testing
- Provide different test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts
- Run the tests and report the bugs iteratively
Structure the overall cloud-based solution
- Integrate systems and applications within the selected environment
- Integrate systems and applications with legacy systems
- Integrate systems and applications with third-party applications
- Distinguish between containers and virtual machines
- Know when to choose containers over virtual machines
Deploy application on server
- Decide on the strategy to deploy a new application, replacing a previous one
- Understand version control
- Identify cloud-hosted solutions to create code and data pipelines (e.g., cloud-native CI/CD offerings and workflow automation like GitHub Actions)
- Identify existing CI/CD practices
Managing cloud operations – 21 questions
Manage operational costs
- Understand usage-based pricing
- Scale up and scale down to meet demand cost-effectively
Develop business continuity and disaster recovery policy
- Identify potential risks and disaster scenarios
- Establish on-premise vs offsite backup strategy
Provide support to users
- Identify protection and security policies for external and internal users
- Provide application and hardware support for internal users
- Provide training tools for internal and external users
Monitoring cloud systems
- Log events
- Monitor hardware and software (e.g., interpret graphs and dashboards)
- Understand notifications or alerts for provisioning backup
Understanding cloud governance – 21 questions
Comply with privacy and regulatory requirements
- Identify relevant privacy requirements based on geographical and domain constraints (e.g. BIPA, HIPAA, PDP, FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, CCPA, etc.) as well as organization-specific policies
- Identify cloud-provider compliance for these privacy regulations
- Assess types of data managed within the environment
- Assess location and storage of data
- Be aware of NIST and ISO frameworks and standards
Comply with ethical guidelines
- Consider the impact of bias, lack of transparency, and lack of accountability
- Explain potential bias and transparency challenges with prebuilt services
Managing cloud security
- Understand options and concepts for identity verification and authentication, including digital identity and multifactor authentication
- Understand access policies and authorizations (e.g., options for access, vendor-provided roles vs. custom roles and permissions, and access hygiene, including least privilege access, removal of access when not needed, disabling accounts)
- Understand the importance of data security and encryption
- Understand options to protect against unauthorized access in cloud environments (including intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls)
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