Final answer:
The statement about the electric field outside a uniformly charged sphere being the same as that from a point charge is true, according to Gauss's Law and the principles of electrostatics.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement that since we assumed the cloud was spherical and we were looking at a point outside the sphere, the electric field was just that of a point charge is indeed true. When discussing the electric field outside a spherically symmetric charged object, such as a uniformly charged sphere or a spherical cloud of charge, it behaves the same as a point charge located at the center of the sphere. This is confirmed by the application of Gauss's Law, which indicates that for regions outside the sphere (where r ≥ R), the electric field due to a charge q on an isolated conducting sphere is identical to the electric field created by a point charge q located at the center of the sphere.