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Characteristics of Clouds and Cloud Services from a Business Perspective

4. What cloud computing characteristic ensures services and data are
always reachable?

A. Confidentiality

B. Integrity
C. Availability

D. Scalability

C. Availability ensures that something is reachable at any time.
A, B, and D are incorrect. Confidentiality protects data from
unauthorized users, while integrity ensures data has not been tampered
with. Scalability refers to growing or shrinking capacity.

5. You must ensure that your business computing resources can quickly
grow as business demands change. Which of the following allows this?

A. Confidentiality
B. Integrity

C. Availability
D. Scalability

D. Scalability allows adding or removing computing resources in a
cloud environment.
A, B, and C are incorrect. Confidentiality and integrity are related
to data security. Availability ensures data and services are always
reachable.

6. __________ protects data contents, while __________ ensures that
data has not been tampered with.

A. Availability, scalability

B. Integrity, confidentiality
C. Scalability, availability

D. Confidentiality, integrity

D. Confidentiality protects data contents, while integrity ensures
that data has not been tampered with.

A, B, and C are incorrect. Availability and scalability do not have
anything to do with protecting data. B is incorrect because the terms

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