Title: Information in Networks
Course: Demo 1

Q: To understand what cloud computing is, you can often replace the word "________" with cloud.
- WAN
- database
- Internet
A: Internet

Q: A secure computer network that links only computers that are within one office is likely a:
- wide area network
- cloud system
- local area network
A: local area network

Q: A secure computer network that links computers that operate in offices in different states or regions is a:
- local area network
- database
- wide area network
A: wide area network

Q: Instead of buying customer relationship management (CRM) software, a company decides to pay a monthly fee to Salesforce.com to use software that the company accesses over the Internet. This is an example of:
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- cloud services
- Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas)
A: Software as a Service (SaaS); cloud services

Q: A community college makes a decision to offer Google’s hosted Gmail to its students for email rather than hosting an email server locally. This is an example of:
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- cloud services
- Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas)
A: Software as a Service (SaaS); cloud services

Q: A university archives all of its research data on servers owned and managed by Microsoft through its Microsoft Azure service rather than buying the hardware to archive the data onsite. This is an example of:
- Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas)
- cloud services
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
A: Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas); cloud services

Q: Big City College does not have a large IT budget so it signs a contracts with Learning Systems, Inc. to provide its faculty and staff access to specialized software programs via the Internet. Although Big City College does not know it, Learning Systems actually uses an Amazon Web Service to host the software that Big City College is using. In fact, Learning Systems does not even have its own servers, instead choosing to use the servers provided by the Amazon Web Service. This is an example of:
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- cloud services
A: Software as a Service (SaaS); Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); cloud services

Q: City College is a mid-size university that is well known for the quality and quantity of research produced by its faculty. A decision was made by the administration that instead of spending large sums of money on computer hardware to store the data on the college’s campus, they would pay Microsoft to store the data for them in the cloud. By making this decision, City College is hoping to:
- Reduce the large outlay of cash that would be needed to build and maintain a data center on campus.
- Have the appropriate technology and required storage space available to the university and faculty at any time.
- Increase their level of control over where their data is stored and who has access to their data.
A: Reduce the large outlay of cash that would be needed to build and maintain a data center on campus.; Have the appropriate technology and required storage space available to the university and faculty at any time.