IFT 472 Final

An AWS region is:

A geographic location

_____________ is used to review AWS security and compliance documents.

AWS artifact

___________ is used to review and monitor AWS configuration.

AWS config

Which two of the following principles are associated with the cost optimization pillar of the AWS well architected framework?

Adopt a consumption model & measure overall effciency

Which of the following is a reason that enterprises are resorting to outsourcing?

All of the above

You can choose all of the following options when creating an AWS elastic cloud compute (EC2) instance except:

Cloudtrail logs

Which of the following services does AWS shield provide?

DDoS protection

Which of the following is not a category of computer defined by the textbook?

Desktop

_________ is a container-based technology

Docker

Which of the following is not a business driver for cloud adoption?

Ease of use

AWS ______ is persistent storage for an AWS elastic cloud compute (EC2) instance whereas AWS ______ is temporary storage

Elastic block storage (EBS), Elastic cloud computer (EC2) instance store

Which AWS storage service requires mounting the storage with an operating system?

Elastic block storage (is EBS)

Which of the following is a best practice area for the reliability pillar of the AWS well architected framework?

Failure management

The AWS 4 pillars of cost include all of the following EXCEPT:

Faster processing

___________ is calculated by diving total time by the uptime of a resource.

Fault-tolerance

Modern day computers are considered ______________ generation computers.

Fifth

All of the following are benefits of the private cloud over the other cloud models EXCEPT:

Focusing on internal optimization first

Which AWS storage service would be the best choice for long-term archival?

Glacier

__________ allows web browsers and server to send and receive web pages.

HTTP

A ________ is the software that security partitions the resources of a computer system into one or more virtual machines.

Hypervisor

Which of the following are drivers for enterprises adding more mobility to their business processes?

Increase of process efficiency & increase productivity of employees

Which of the following is not a characteristic of virtualization?

Increased costs

_________ is used to provide compute and storage resources as cloud service.

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Context-aware features of an application include using context to perform the following EXCEPT:

Input information into the stream

IAM policies are written in which language or format?

JSON

One of the benefits of the public cloud over other cloud models is:

Lower cost

Which office productivity suite has built in integration with active directory?

Microsoft 365

AWS relational database service (RDS) offers the following database types EXCEPT:

MongoDB

Which of the following is NOT a widely accepted privacy practice?

Obfuscation

The four AWS elastic cloud compute (EC2) cost models are:

On-demand, spot-time, reserved, and dedicated

Which of the following is a best practice area for the cost optimization pillar of the AWS well architected framework?

Optimizing over time

Which of the following is NOT a mode of middleware message communication?

Parallel

Which of the following is not an IT cost component detailed in the textbook?

Payback method

Which of the following is NOT a cloud deployment model?

Personal cloud

Which of the following is NOT a reason AEE had previously avoided going to the cloud in the case study?

Physical security: AEE would not be able to monitor the physical security of any equipment hosted in the cloud

A ________ is an ordering of activities with a beginning and an end

Process

_________ is generally defined in terms of error rate, latency, and/or bandwidth of a resource

QoS

__________ refers to the ability of the Web Service to expected invocations and perform them at the level expected.

Quality of service

One highly recommended step form AWS when setting up a new account is to remove the _______ user's access keys.

Root

_____________ is used to allow users to send and receive electronic mail.

SMTP

________ is the ability for a resource to grow

Scalability

Which reason commonly prevents an enterprise from hosting ALL of their infrastructure within the public cloud?

Security requirements

Which of the following is a best practice area for the performance efficiency pillar of the AWS well architected framework?

Selection

_________ provide central security controls over AWS accounts.

Service control policies

SLA is an acronym that stands for:

Service level agreement

Which of the following describes the minimum expectations of a provided service?

Service level agreement (SLA)

__________ architecture is a flexible architectural style that provides an integration framework through which software architects can build applications using a collection of reusable functional units.

Service-oriented

AWS _________ revolves around the storage of data within buckets

Simple storage service (S3)

__________ is used to provide a complete application as a service.

Software as a service (SaaS)

The advantages to using a REST-oriented architecture (ROA) include the following EXCEPT:

Standardized description language

MTTF is a metric which calculates

The amount of time before a failure occurs

____________ is a hub for interconnecting 3 or more VPCs

Transit gateway

Which of the following is NOT a layer of the OSI model?

User interface

Public IP addressed within AWS are called _______ IP addresses

elastic

Different techniques of sharding include all of the following EXCEPT:

Bubble-sort partitioning

Which two of the following principles are associated with the operation excellence pillar of the AWS well architected framework?

Deliver business value & anticipate failure

The cost-benefit ratio of an IT project is calculated by:

Dividing the total benefits by the total costs

AWS _________ is storage used to share data between AWS elastic cloud compute (EC2) instances.

Elastic file storage (EFS)

Which of the following principle are associate with the security pillar of the AWS well architected framework?

Enable traceability/audit & least privilege

__________ clouds leverage aspects of both public and private clouds

Hybrid

Which of the options in the case study was the least expensive?

Hybrid cloud

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a support contract/service agreement?

Increased risk to the organizaiton

__________ prevents system bottlenecks due to a lack of capacity in a single resource

Load balancing

_________ is an approach to interconnecting the components of a system so that those components depend on each other to the least possible extent

Loose coupling

Which type of database is best for very large data sets?

Non-relational

Which of the following categories is NOT an AWS category of services:

Programming services

The ______ plan consists of the activities that the organization needs to maintain to close any strategic and delivery gaps identifies in its adoption, utilization, and management of cloud and an IT resource

Realization

What is NOT a benefit of using managed databases instead of unmanaged databases?

Reduced cost

Which of the following principles are successful elements of an agile development model?

Reusable & scalable

Which of the following principles are associated with the reliability pillar of the AWS well architected framework?

Stop guessing capacity & scale horizontally

An AWS availability zone is:

1 or more data centers designed for fault isolation

Simple Access Object Protocol (SOAP) can be transported over the following protocols EXCEPT:

DNS

The service oriented architecture (SOA) offers the following benefits EXCEPT:

Lowered technical complexity

Which of the following is not a cloud delivery model?

Networking as a service (NaaS)

Which of the following is a benefit of using cloud infrastructure over physical infrastructure?

The cloud provides increased speed and agility

_______ is an accounting metric that takes all direct and indirect costs of technology acquisition and operation into account over the IT project life cycle

Total cost of ownership (TCO)

A __________ subnet is used for external users to access resources internal to an organization's AWS VPC.

VPC sharing

Which of the following is not a type of grid computing detailed in the textbook?

Virtual grids

_________ are the first distributed technology to be supported by all major software vendors

Web services

A _________ makes itself available over the internet and uses a standardized format for request/response of an API interaction.

Web-service