To understand their compliance alignments and gaps with a cloud provider, what must cloud customers rely on?

1. A. Provider documentation
2. B. Provider run audits and reports
3. C. Third-party attestations
4. D. Provider and consumer contracts
5. E. EDiscovery tools

Correct Answer: C

Which of the following statements best describes an identity federation?

1. A. A library of data definitions
2. B. A group of entities which have decided to exist together in a single cloud
3. C. Identities which share similar attributes
4. D. Several countries which have agreed to define their identities with similar attributes
5. E. The connection of one identity repository to another

Correct Answer: E

Cloud services exhibit five essential characteristics that demonstrate their relation to, and differences from, traditional computing approaches. Which one of the five characteristics is described as: a consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities such as server time and network storage as needed.

1. A. Rapid elasticity
2. B. Resource pooling
3. C. Broad network access
4. D. Measured service
5. E. On-demand self-service

Correct Answer: E

What is true of security as it relates to cloud network infrastructure?

1. A. You should apply cloud firewalls on a per-network basis.
2. B. You should deploy your cloud firewalls identical to the existing firewalls.
3. C. You should always open traffic between workloads in the same virtual subnet for better visibility.
4. D. You should implement a default allow with cloud firewalls and then restrict as necessary.
5. E. You should implement a default deny with cloud firewalls.

Correct Answer: E

ENISA: “VM hopping” is:

1. A. Improper management of VM instances, causing customer VMs to be commingled with other customer systems.
2. B. Looping within virtualized routing systems.
3. C. Lack of vulnerability management standards.
4. D. Using a compromised VM to exploit a hypervisor, used to take control of other VMs.
5. E. Instability in VM patch management causing VM routing errors.

Correct Answer: D