Module 3 - AWS Global Infrastructure Overview [Knowledge Check], Module 2 - Cloud Economics and Billing [Knowledge Check], AWS Module 1-6

What are the four support plans offered by AWS Support? (Select the best answer) - Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise - Basic, Support, Enterprise, Developer - Free, Business, Developer, Enterprise - All Support

Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise

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.

False

True or False? Edge locations are only located in the same general area as regions.

False

True or false? To receive the discounted rate associated with Reserved Instances, you must make a full, up-front payment for the term of the agreement. (Select the best answer)

False

True or false? Unlimited services are available via the free tier to new AWS customers for 12 months following their AWS sign-up date. (Select the best answer)

False

True or False? AWS owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for application services, while you provision and use what you need.

True

True or False? Availability Zones within a region are connected through low-latency links.

True

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What are the advantages of cloud computing over on-premises? (Select the best answer) - Avoid large capital purchases - On-demand capacity - Go global - Increase speed and agility - All of the above

All of the above

Which of the following are NOT benefits of AWS Cloud computing? (Choose two) 1. Multiple procurement Cycles 2. High latency 3. High-availability 4. Temporary and disposable resources 5. Fault-tolerant databases

1. Multiple procurement Cycles 2. High latency

What are the three ways to access AWS core services? (Choose three) 1. Software Development Kits 2. Through AWS Marketplace 3. AWS Management Console 4. Calling Technical support 5. AWS Command-line Interface

1. Software Development Kits 3. AWS Management Console 5. AWS Command-line Interface

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What is true about Regions (Choose two) 1. They are the physical locations of your customers 2. All regions are located in one specific geographic area 3. A region is a physical location that has multiple availability zones 4. Physical location has multiple availability zones 5. Each region is located in a separate geographic area

3. A region is a physical location that has multiple availability zones 5. Each region is located in a separate geographic area

There is no charge for which of the following (Choose two answers) 1. Compute 2. Storage 3. Inbound data transfer 4. Outbound data transfer 5. Data transfer between services within the same region

3. Inbound data transfer 5. Data transfer between services within the same region

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) 1. MURI 2. DURI 3. PURI 4. AURI 5. NURI

3. PURI 4. AURI 5. NURI

Which of these statements about Availability Zones is not true? (Select the best answer) - Availability Zones are designed for fault isolation - Availability Zones are made up of one or more data centers - Availability zones are connected to each other using high-speed private links - A data center can be used for more than one availability zone

A data center can be used for more than one availability zone

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) - Amazon billing - AWS Cost Explorer - AWS Trusted Advisor - AWS Cost Estimator

AWS Cost Explorer Give you more details about Amazon EC2 billing activity for the past 2 months

Which component of the AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? (Select the best answer) - AWS Regions - AWS Edge locations - AWS Availability Zone - Amazon virtual private cloud (Amazon VPC)

AWS Edge locations

What AWS tool lets you explore AWS services and create and estimate for the cost of your use cases of AWS? (Select the best answer) - AWS Pricing Calculator - AWS Billing Calculator - AWS Cost Estimator - AWS Billing Estimator

AWS Pricing Calculator Allows modeling of solutions before building them, explore price points and calculations behind your estimate, and find the available instance types and contract terms that meet your needs.

Which of the following are geographic areas that host two or more Availability Zones? (Select the best answer) - AWS Origin - AWS Regions - Compute Zones - Edge Locations

AWS Regions

Which of the following is a compute service? - Amazon VPC - Amazon AMI - Amazon EC2 - Amazon CloudTrail - Amazon Config

Amazon EC2

You can run applications and workloads from a region closer to the end users to ______ latency. - Increase - Decrease

Decrease

As AWS grows, the general cost of doing business is reduced and savings are passed back to the customer in the form of lower pricing. What is this optimization called? (Select the best answer) - Economies of Scope - Economies of optimization - Economies of labor - Economies of scale

Economies of scale

_____ means the infrastructure has built-in component redundancy and _____ means that resources dynamically adjust to increases or decreases in capacity requirements. - No human intervention, fault-tolerant - Fault-tolerant, no human intervention - Elastic and scalable, fault-tolerant - Elastic and scalable, no human intervention - Fault-tolerant, elastic and scalable

Fault-tolerant, elastic and scalable

AWS highly recommends provisioning your compute resources across _____ availability zones. - All - No - Multiple - Single

Multiple

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 reserve - Pay as you decommission - Pay as you go

Pay as you go

Which of these is NOT a 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

With the "pay as you go" pricing model, how often do you pay for compute resources from the time you launch a resource until you terminate it? (Select the best answer) - Yearly - Quarterly - Monthly - Daily - Secondly and hourly

Secondly and hourly

Which of these is NOT a cloud deployment model? (Select the best answer) - Platform as a service - Infrastructure as a service - System administration as a service - Software as a service

System administration as a service

True / False? Networking, storage, compute and databases are examples of service categories that AWS offers.

True

What AWS tool compares the cost of running your application in an on-premises data center to AWS?(Select the best answer) - Total cost of operation calculator - Total cost of ownership - Total cost of products - Total cost of application

Total cost of ownership

Economies of scale results 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