All Quizzes For Cloud

Amazon FreeRTOS combines video cameras with cloud-enables machine learning capabilities. (T/F)

(T) Amazon DeepLens combines video cameras with cloud-enabled machine learning capabilities. FreeRTOS is an operating system for edge devices.

How many times may you make an AWS serverless request each month without incurring any request-based charges?

1,000,000. AWS lambda allows you to make million requests per month at no charge. Additional requests are $0.20 per million.

The serverless computing functionality of AWS provides native support for all of the following programing languages, expect which one? A. R B. Python C. Node.js D. Go

A. AWS Lambda natively supports Java, Go, PowerShell, Node.js, C#, Python, and Ruby. It does not support R.

When designing a home security system, an alert trigger is best invoked via a(n) A. Event B. Schedule C. Explosion D. Cloud

A. Event

Which one of the following instance types always incurs compute costs even when the instance is not running? A. Reserved Instance B. Spot instance C. On-Demand instance D. T2 Instance

A. Reserved instances. Spot and On-demand only incurr charges when the instance is running.

Which of the following is not a commonly used authentication factor? A. Something you do B. Something you are C. Something you have D. Something you know

A. Something you do

According to Gartner, _______ is the leading provider of IaaS services.

AWS

___________ is the AWS tool that allows you to run SQL against filed in a data lake without a database engine

Athena! not lambda.

In AWS, scaling programmatically can be accomplished by _________ scaling

Auto

Dividing a population into subgroups without using prior labels in an example of ________ A. Classification B. Artificial Intelligence C. Clustering D. Regression

Clustering

Which of the following is not an example of a device used in an Industrial Control Systems? A. SCADA B. RDP C. DCS D. PLC

B. RDP. A distributed control system (DCS), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are all hardware components of industrial control environments.

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

B. Type 2

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

B. Waiter

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

B. globally

Both ________ and object storage are available from Cloud IaaS providers

Block

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

C. S3 Glacier

Which of the following tools provides a secure graphical interface to connect to a windows server? A. FTP (insecure tool, doesn't use encrypted connection) B. Telnet (insecure tool, doesn't use encrypted connections) C. Remote Desktop connection D. SSH (Primarily Linux)

C.

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

C.

Which one of the following is the baseline rule for all firewall implementations? A. Complicit allow B. Implicit allow C. Implicit deny D. Explicit deny

C.

The ________ allows multiple virtual machines to operate on a single physical machine

Hypervisor

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

D.

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

D. Any time you share computing resources provided by a third party, you are using cloud. Installing a database server on your own data center is not an example of cloud computing

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

D. Fixed. Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources.

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

D. IaaS (Infrastructure as a service)

You have a large amount of batch processing that you need to perform using EC2 instances. The processing needs to be completed within the next few weeks, but you do not exactly care when it takes place. What would be the most effective way to complete this work? A. Dedicated Instances B. On Demand Instances C. Reserved Instances D. Spot Instances

D. Spot instances are often available at up to a 90% discount from on-demand pricing, but the price fluctuates. Reserved Instances do offer substantial discounts, but the discounts are not as high as spot instances and require a 1-year to 3-year commitment. Dedicated instances are offered at a price premium to on-demand instances.

What AWS feature allows you to assign names and other values to individual resources? A. Instances B. Accounts C. Labels D. Tags

D. Tags. Tags are used to assign key/value pairs to resources. For example, you can label and EC2 instances with a tag containing a server name, or a tag containing the name of a department, etc.

Which of the following is an example of the Internet of Things? A. Smart Cars B. Smart Homes C. Smart Farms D. All of the above

D. all of the above

According to the shared responsibility model, the customer retains operational responsibility for _______, regardless of I/P/SaaS layer

Data

Transactional data is typically stored in a _________

Database

On the same production line, the logic is designed to allow a bag of chips to leave the factory if the weigh at least the stated weight and no more than 10% of the over stated weight. What IoT primitive is this an example of?

Decision Trigger. Conditional logic.

Cloud servers use ___ to store their state

Disk

Which one of the following does not incur costs in AWS? A. GB of data stored B. Athena queries C. All of the above items incur costs D. GB of data transferred out E. Hours of compute time

E. All of the above. IaaS providers meter almost every measurable aspect of cloud usage and incorporate those into their cost models. All of the items listed here incur usage-based costs in AWS.

________ is the acronym used to describe the AWS service that provides the cloud equivalent of physical hard drives

EBS

Stopping a cloud server destroys it in a irrevocable way (T/F)

F

If you expect AWS server less application to grow, you should enable auto scaling to ensure enough computing resources are available to support it (T/F)

False. AWS automatically configures scaling for all serverless functions. You do not need to enable it yourself, as one of the benefits of serverless functions is shielding you from the complexities of implementation.

CPU bursting is available in all AWS EC2 instance families

False. It is only available in T2, T3a, and T3 instance families

Distributing additional work to 3 new machines is an example of _________ scalability

Horizontal

Adding resources dynamically without impacting end users is best accomplished by ____________ scaling.

Horiztonal. Vertically scaling an instance REQUIRES DOWNTIME. horizontal scaling does not.

What name is given to the AWS implementation of server less computing?

Lambda

What category includes the cloud analytics tools Snowflake and Redshift?

PaaS. Snowflake and Amazon redshift are platform as a service cloud analytics tools

What kind of analytics provides guidance about the actions you should take?

Prescriptive. Prescriptive analytics provide advice about the actions we should, or should not, take.

Which of the following is not a key tenet of cybersecurity? A. Availability B. Privacy C. Confidentiality D. Integrity

Privacy

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

Recall

In AWS, __________ take the place of firewall rules, allowing administrators to control access to EC2 resources

Security groups. Inbound rules are too specific dummy. There are also outbound rules

In a smart factory, a scale might weigh bags of chips coming off a production line. The scale is an example of what IoT primitive?

Sensor

Cloud services require physical data centers (T/F)

True

Cloud computing costs are typically treated as operational expenditures. (T/F)

True. Cloud computing costs are typically treated as operational expenditures, while legacy data center costs were typically treated as capital expenditures.

A __________ is the cloud equivalent of a VLAN in a physical data center

VPC

Adding resources to a single machine is an example of ___________ scalability

Vertical

_________ are user-controlled backup mechanism for EC2 servers

snapshot