Phobos, a cloud vendor, leases a cloud service that includes a fully-managed infrastructure, virtualization, operating system, and other software. Customers leasing this service can then install and operate their own applications and store data on E-Corp’s cloud. Which of the following cloud-based offerings is Phobos providing to their customers?

Variables that refer to numerically measurable characteristics are known as ____________ variables. 

Any measure taken by individuals or organizations to prevent a threat from reaching its target is known as a(n) ____________.

A ____________ variable is one that refers to categories, characteristics, or qualities that cannot be measured numerically.

Futurists and technologists have publically voiced concerns about the risks an unrestrained artificial intelligence could pose to humanity. Their primary concern is the rise of an Artificial __________________ which would have capabilities beyond that of humans.

A botnet, made of compromised computers all over the world, floods Stream Systems servers with billions of illegitimate service requests which prevent them from responding to legitimate requests. In this scenario, the threat to Stream Systems is in the form of a ____________ attack.

Carla is looking at her budget and decides the company needs to lower labor costs. Which job is most likely to be replaced by an automated, artificially intelligent system?

Jim is a criminal hacker who makes money by stealing and selling sensitive data. He has targeted a local business and is looking for details such as names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, credit card numbers, or health records. In this case, Jim is looking for ____________.

According to Brooks’ Law, adding more people to a late project ____________.

One of the reasons for the appearance of new non-relational database management systems (such as NoSQL databases) is the need to…