AWS Cloud Exam 1
What are the advantages of cloud computing over computing on-premises? - answer Avoid large capital expenditures, use on demand capacity, go global in minutes, increase speed and agility
What is the pricing model that enables AWS customers to pay for resources on an as-
needed basis? - answer Pay as you go
Which of these is NOT a cloud computing model? - answer System administration as
a Service
True of False? AWS owns and maintains the network connected hardware required for application services, while you provision and use what you need. - answer True
Which of these is NOT a benefit of cloud computing over on-premises computing? - answer Pay for racking, stacking and powering servers
Which of the following are NOT benefits of AWS Cloud Computing? - answer High latency, multiple procurement cycles
Which of the following is a compute service? - answer Amazon EC2
True or False? Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases, and a broad set of application servers over the internet. You own the network connected hardware required for these services and AWS provisions what you need. - answer False- you do NOT own the network connected hardware
Economies of scale can result from ____ - answer having hundreds of thousands of customers aggregate in the cloud
Which of these are ways to access AWS core services? - answer AWS Management
Console, AWS Command Line Interface, Software Development Kits
For certain services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you can invest in reserved capacity. What options are available for Reserved instances? - answer AURI, NURI, PURI
Where can a customer go to get more details about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) billing activity that took place 3 months ago? - answer Cost Explorer True or False? To receive the discounted rate associated with Reserved Instance, you must make a full, upfront payment for the term of the agreement. - answer False
Which statement is true about the pricing model on AWS? - answer Storage is usually charged based on how many gigabytes you use
What are the four support plans offered by AWS Support? - answer Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise
What AWS tool lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS? - answer AWS Pricing Calculator
As AWS grows, the cost of doing business is reduced and savings are passed back to the customer with lowering pricing. What is the optimization called? - answer Economies of Scale
True or False? AWS offers some services at no charge, such as, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, AWS identity and access management, consolidated billing, AWS elastic beanstalk, automatic scaling, AWS OpsWorks, and AWS CloudFormation. However you
might be charged for other AWS services that you use in conjunction with these services. - answer True
What are the benefits of using AWS organizations? - answer Provides the ability to create groups of accounts and then attach policies to a group, simplifies automating account creation and management by using APIs
True or False? Unlimited services are available with the AWS Free Tier to new AWS customers for 12 months following their AWS sign-up date. - answer False
Which component of the AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? - answer AWS edge locations
You can run applications and workloads from a region closer to the end users to ____ latency - answer Decrease
True/False? Networking, storage, compute and databases are examples of service categories that AWS offers. - answer True
Which of these statements about Availability Zones is NOT true? - answer A data center can be used for more than one availability zone
What is true about Regions? - answer A region is a physical location that has multiple availability zones, each region is located in a separate geographic area
Which of the following are geographic areas that host two or more Availability Zones? - answer AWS Regions
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