AWS Academy Modules
True or false? To receive the discounted rate associated with Reserved Instances, you must make a full, upfront payment for the term of the agreement. (Select the best answer.) - True - False
False
Which of the following is a compute service? (Select the best answer) - Amazon S3 - Amazon VPC - Amazon CloudFront - Amazon RedShift - Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
True or False? AWS owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for application services, while you provision and use what you need. - True - False
True
What are the advantages of cloud computing over computing on-premises? (Select the best answer.) - Avoid large capital purchases - Use on-demand capacity - Go global in minutes - Increase speed and agility - All of the above
All of the above
Economies of scale result from ______. (Select the best answer) - Having hundreds of thousands of customers aggregated in the cloud - Having hundreds of cloud services available over the internet - Having to invest heavily in data centers and servers - Having many different cloud providers
Having hundreds of thousands of customers aggregated in the cloud
What is the number one reason businesses are switching to cloud computing? - Finite infrastructure - Instant configuration - Increased speed and agility - Over-provisioning - Automation
Increased speed and agility
Which of these is not a primary benefit of cloud computing over on-premises computing? (Select the best answer) - Trade capital expense for variable expense - Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs - Pay for racking, stacking and powering servers - Benefit from massive economies of scale - Increase speed and agility
Pay for racking, stacking and powering servers
Which of these is not a cloud deployment model? (Select the best answer.) - System administration as a service - Infrastructure as a service - Platform as a service - Software as a service
System administration as a service
True or False? Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases, and a broad set of application services over the internet. You own the network-connected hardware required for these services and Amazon Web Services provisions what you need. - True - False
- False - Amazon owns the hardware and YOU provision what you need.
Which of the following are not benefits of AWS Cloud computing?(Choose two) - High-availability - High-latency - Multiple procurement cycles - Temporary and disposable resources - Fault-tolerant databases
- High-latency - Multiple procurement cycles
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? (Choose three.) - MURI - DURI - PURI - AURI - NURI
- PURI - AURI - NURI
What are the three ways to access AWS core services? (choose three) - Software Development Kits - AWS Command Line Interface - AWS Management Console - Calling Technical support - Through AWS Marketplace
- Software Development Kits (SDKs) - AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) - AWS Management Console
Where can a customer go to get more details about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) billing activity that took place 3 months ago? (Select the best answer.) - AWS Cost Explorer - AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard - Amazon EC2 Dashboard - AWS CloudTrail logs stored in Amazon S3
AWS Cost Explorer
What is the pricing model that enables AWS customers to pay for resources on an as-needed basis? (Select the best answer.) - Pay as you buy - Pay as you go - Pay as you decommission - Pay as you reserve
Pay as you go
