I am pretty new to bitcoin and have basically been using faucet sites to get started.
Don't collect from faucets, you will waste your time. Better invest 100$ and buy bitcoins for it, it will spare you half year of useless clicking.
Cloud mining is something that i am seeing advertised a lot.
People will say it is a scam
Some people will say it is not a scam I know that
There are ponzi scams - they will tell you that they are mining but actually they are only depending of new depositors.
And there are real companies where you will reach ROI very hard and it is not worth of money.
Find other ways to earn bitcoins.