WGU D282 - Cloud Foundations - AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Questions and Answers 2024
AWS (Amazon Web Services) - Correct Answer-A cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that offers a wide range of cloud services, including computing power, storage, databases, and more.
Cloud Computing - Correct Answer-The delivery of computing services over the internet, allowing users to access and use resources (like servers or storage) without the need for physical hardware.
Region - Correct Answer-A geographical area where AWS data centers (Availability Zones) are located. Each region is independent and isolated from others.
Availability Zone - Correct Answer-A data center within an AWS region, designed for redundancy and fault tolerance. Elasticity - Correct Answer-The ability to scale resources up or down based on demand, ensuring efficient resource utilization.
Scalability - Correct Answer-The ability to handle increased workload by adding resources or adjusting capacity, usually achieved by horizontal scaling (adding more servers).
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) - Correct Answer-AWS's virtual server service, allowing users to create and manage virtual machines.
S3 (Simple Storage Service) - Correct Answer-AWS's object storage service for storing and retrieving data, often used for backup, data archiving, and content distribution.
RDS (Relational Database Service) - Correct Answer-AWS's managed database service, which simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of relational databases.
IAM (Identity and Access Management) - Correct Answer-A service that allows you to control access to AWS resources by creating and managing users, groups, and permissions. VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) - Correct Answer-A logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources, including instances, databases, and more.
Load Balancer - Correct Answer-A service that evenly distributes incoming network traffic across multiple instances,
ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Correct Answer-AWS's block storage
service used to create and attach storage volumes to EC2 instances.
Lambda - Correct Answer-A serverless compute service that allows you to run code in response to events without provisioning or managing servers.
SaaS (Software as a Service) - Correct Answer-A cloud computing model where software applications are hosted and
provided as a service over the internet.
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