Cloud Analytics Quiz Questions

T/F Stopping a cloud server destroys it in an irrevocable way.

False Stopping a cloud server shuts it down. Terminating a cloud server irrevocably destroys it.

When determining the cost of using S3 storage, you need to be concerned about the costs of: A. Stored data and data transfer B. Allocated but unused space and stored data C. Stored data only D. Stored data, allocated but unused space, and data transfer

Stored data and data transfer S3 costs are assessed based upon the amount of data that you have stored and the data that is transferred out of your buckets. In S3, you do not allocate unused space, you simply consume the space that you need on an on-demand basis

The ___________allows multiple virtual machines to operate on a single physical machine.

hypervisor

According to Gartner, ___ is the leading provider of IaaS services. A. Microsoft B. Oracle C. Google D. AWS

AWS Since 2013, the analyst firm Gartner has consistenly rated AWS as the leading providor of IaaS.

___________is he acronym used to describe the AWS service that provides the cloud equivalent of physical hard drives.

EBS - Elastic block storage

Which of the following factors contribute to the pricing model for Athena? Query time, Memory consumption, EBS consumption, CPU's required, S3 consumption

Query time & Memory consumption

T/F Cloud services require physical data centers.

True At the end of the day, all computing services reside on a physical piece of hardware. As an operator or user, you may never know where that hardware is, but it exists.

What type of hypervisor requires a host operating system? A. Type 1 B. Type 2 C. Type 3 D. Type 4

Type 2 Type 1 hypervisors do not require a host operating system, while Type 2 hypervisors do. Type 3 and 4 hypervisors do not exist.

A _______ is the cloud equivalent of a VLAN in a physical Data Center

VPC Virtual Private Cloud

You are building out an analytics environment for your organization. The environment will store and process data about the millions of website visitors that you handle every day. What service would be best suited for running database queries against the data stored in your data lake? S3, EC2, RDS, Sagemaker, Athena, Lambda, ECS, EBS

Athena

According to the shared responsibility model, the customer retains operational responsibility for____________, reguardless of I/P/SaaS layer. A. Applications B. Hardware C. Data D. Operating systems

Data Regardless of level of service abstraction, the customer retains operational responsibility over its data.

Cloud servers use ____ to store their state. A. CPU B. Disk C. Memory D. Network

Disk Server state is stored on disk. Snapshots can be taken of all data stored on a disk image, which is useful when resizing existing or building new servers.

Which one of the following is not a characteristic of cloud computing? A. Convenient B. Fixed C. On-Demand D. Ubiquitos

Fixed Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable (not fixed) computing resources.

AWS provides a service that offers you access to interactive notebooks where you may write and evaluate code in Python or R. What open-source software provides these notebooks? (Note: I am looking for the name of the open-source package that powers the service, not the name of the service itself.)

Jupyter

The name you choose for an S3 bucket must be unique __________. A. Within your account only B. Within both your account and region C. within your region only D. Globally

Globally S3 buckets must be given globally unique names. You cannot use a bucket name that is being used by any other AWS customer in any region.

Which cloud computing layer requires the greatest amount of technical knowledge and skill to use? A. SaaS B. PaaS C. IaaS D. IDKasS

IaaS Infrastructure as a Service allows you to create and arrange networking, storage, and servers. This requires a high degree of technical knowledge.

Which one of these computing services is not an example of cloud computing? A. Accessing your GMail Account B. Building a Web server in AWS C. Storing files in Dropbox D. Installing a database server in your data center

Installing a database server in your data center Any time you use shared computing resources provided by a third party, you are using the cloud. GMail, AWS, and Dropbox are all examples of cloud computing services. Installing a database server in your own data center is not an example of cloud computing.

You are building out an analytics environment for your organization. The environment will store and process data about the millions of website visitors that you handle every day. What service would be best suited for storing your data in a transactional database? S3, EC2, RDS, Sagemaker, Athena, Lambda, ECS, EBS

RDS

Which of the following is not a physical component of a server? A. CPU B. Memory C. Recall D. Network

Recall The four physical server components include CPU (processing power), RAM (memory), storage, and network.

Which one of the following tools provides a secure graphical interface to connect to a Windows server? A. FTP B. Telnet C. Remote Desktop Connection D Secure Shell (SSH)

Remote Desktop Connection Remote Desktop Connection uses the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to provide a graphical interface to a Windows system over a secure connection. Secure shell (SSH) is a command-line utility that provides text-based connections, primarily to Linux servers. Telnet and FTP are insecure tools that do not use encrypted connections and are also not commonly used to access Windows systems.

You are building out an analytics environment for your organization. The environment will store and process data about the millions of website visitors that you handle every day. What service would be best suited for storing your data in a data lake? S3, EC2, RDS, Sagemaker, Athena, Lambda, ECS, EBS

S3

Which one of the following cloud services provides the least expensive storage option? A. S3 Reduced Redundancy B. S3 Infrequent Access C. S3 Glacier D. S3 Standard

S3 Glacier Glacier is very inexpensive, archival storage designed for files that are very seldomly accessed. The other classes of S3 storage mentioned here are more expensive than Glacier.

You are building out an analytics environment for your organization. The environment will store and process data about the millions of website visitors that you handle every day. What service would be best suited for building machine learning models based upon your data using interactive notebooks? S3, EC2, RDS, Sagemaker, Athena, Lambda, ECS, EBS

Sagemaker

Which of the following is not an example of a server role? A. Mail B. Waiter C. Database D. Application

Waiter While waiter is a valid role in a restaurant setting, it does not apply to IT server roles.

Which one of the following units of data is the largest? A. Zettabyte B. Petabyte C. Gigabyte d. Terabyte

Zettabyte One zettabyte is equal to 1,024 exabytes, which is equal to 1,024 petabytes, which is equal to 1,024 terabytes, which is equal to 1,024 gigabytes.

Both ____ and object storage are availabe from cloud IaaS providers. A. blog B. blob C. brick D. block

block Allocating large amounts of storage for access as a disk volume, managed by the operating system, is known as block storage.