Arcitura Education C90.02 Cloud Technology Concepts Exam Practice Test

Which of the following characteristics of cloud-based IT resources can be measured with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) implementations?

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When a pay-for-use mechanism is in place, a denial of service attack can target IT resources leased to a specific cloud consumer, resulting in the cloud consumer being charged for the extra usage.

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A successful attack on a virtual server within a public cloud will negatively impact multiple cloud consumers, as long as none of the cloud consumers share the same trust boundary that encompasses the underlying physical server.

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Which of the following can be the result of a successful malicious intermediary attack?

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In a denial of service attack, the attacker can cause increased loads on a physical server by overloading it with communication requests. Alternatively, the attacker can engage the physical server in tasks that result in excessive memory usage.

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Messages being sent from a cloud service consumer to a cloud service are intercepted and maliciously altered by an intermediary service. This is an example of which cloud security threat?

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Which of the following security threats is classified as a data-oriented threat?

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