Q. In which year did John McCarthy propose the concept of utility computing?

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Q. Who was the chief scientist of the ARPANET project that mentioned the concept of "computer utilities"?

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Q. Which type of services popularized and validated core concepts of modern-day cloud computing?

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Q. Which company launched the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform in 2002, providing remotely provisioned storage, computing resources, and business functionality?

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Q. The term "Cloud" was introduced in the networking industry to describe an abstraction layer in the delivery methods of data across which type of networks?

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Q. In which year did Amazon launch its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services, marking the emergence of the term "cloud computing" in the commercial arena?

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Q. Which company started providing browser-based enterprise applications around the same time as Amazon's EC2 services launch in 2006?

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Q. What is the revised definition of cloud computing provided by Gartner?

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Q. What does the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) consider as the essential characteristics of the cloud computing model?

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Q. Which organization's definition of cloud computing focuses on "remotely provisioning scalable and measured resources"?

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Q. What aspect of cloud computing is emphasized by the Gartner definition's change from "massively scalable" to "scalable and elastic"?

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Q. What is the main influence of the business drivers on the cloud computing market?

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Q. What does capacity planning in IT involve?

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Q. What does the term "capacity" refer to in the context of capacity planning?

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Q. Which strategy involves adding capacity to an IT resource in anticipation of demand?

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Q. What challenge does capacity planning aim to address?

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Q. What is a potential consequence of under-provisioning in capacity planning?

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Q. What impact can the ownership of internal technology infrastructure have on corporate budgets?

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Q. What does organizational agility measure?

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Q. Why might an IT enterprise need to scale its IT resources beyond what was previously planned?

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