11. AWS CCP Knowledge Review - Cloud Benefits

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The 6 advantages of cloud are:

1) Trade capital expense for variable expense 2) Benefit from massive economies of scale 3) Stop guessing about capacity 4) Increase speed and agility 5) Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers 6) Go global in minutes

What advantages does the AWS cloud provide in relation to cost? (Select TWO.) Enterprise licensing discounts Ability to turn off resources and not pay for them One-off payments for on-demand resources Itemized power costs Fine-grained billing

Ability to turn off resources and not pay for them, Fine-grained billing

Examples of Fully managed services are _________ and __________ where the database is managed for you.

Aurora, Elasticache

Which benefits can a company immediately realize using the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.) Variable expenses are replaced with capital expenses Capital expenses are replaced with variable expenses User control of physical infrastructure No responsibility for security Increased agility

Capital expenses are replaced with variable expenses, Increased agility

AWS are able to continually reduce their pricing due to: Economies of scale. Pay-as-you go pricing. Elastic compute services. Compute savings plans.

Economies of scale.

An application has highly dynamic usage patterns. Which characteristics of the AWS Cloud make it cost-effective for this type of workload? (Select TWO.) High availability Strict security Elasticity Pay-as-you-go pricing Reliability

Elasticity, Pay-as-you-go pricing

Which of the following represent economic advantages of moving to the AWS cloud? (Select TWO.) Reduce the need to manage infrastructure Increase efficiencies through automation Increase time to market for new applications Reduce the need to manage applications Reduce the rate of change

Increase efficiencies through automation, Increase time to market for new applications

What are two examples of the advantages of cloud computing? (Select TWO.) Increase speed and agility + Benefit from massive economies of scale + Trade variable expense for capital expense Trade operating costs for capital costs Secure data centers

Increase speed and agility, Benefit from massive economies of scale

What are two ways that moving to an AWS cloud can benefit an organization? (Select TWO.) Increase speed and agility Depreciate assets over a longer timeframe Gain greater control of data center security Switch to a CAPEX model Stop guessing about capacity

Increase speed and agility, Stop guessing about capacity

What is the benefit of using fully managed services compared to deploying 3rd party software on EC2? Reduced operational overhead You have greater control and flexibility You don't need to back-up your data Improved security

Reduced operational overhead

A couple of the benefits that companies will realize immediately when using the AWS Cloud are increased _______ and a change from ___________ to variable operational expenditure.

agility, capital expenditure

With the AWS Cloud you can increase efficiency through the use of ___________ and reduce the need to manage infrastructure, allowing you to concentrate on managing applications instead.

automation

The public cloud is also highly _________ so companies can grow and shrink the applications as demand changes.

elastic

With the AWS cloud you get __________ billing and can turn off resources you are not using easily and not have to pay for them

fine-grained

With the AWS Cloud you can increase efficiency through the use of automation and reduce the need to ____________, allowing you to concentrate on managing applications instead.

manage infrastructure

Cloud computing is an ongoing ___________ expense.

operating

Fully managed services reduce your _____________ as AWS manage not just the infrastructure layer but the service layers above it.

operational overhead

The public cloud is offered under a purely ____________ model and allows companies to completely avoid CAPEX costs.

pay as you go

____________ and __________ clouds are essentially the same, though both could be managed by a third party and even could be delivered under an OPEX model by some vendors. However, they are typically more CAPEX heavy and the elasticity is limited.

private, on-premise

The _________ is offered under a purely pay as you go model (unless you choose to reserve), and allows companies to completely avoid CAPEX costs.

public cloud

AWS is responsible for __________ of the AWS Cloud as well as capacity planning and maintenance of the AWS infrastructure. This includes physical infrastructure such as data centers, servers, storage systems, and networking equipment.

security

The ability to quickly provision resources on AWS is a good example of _____ and _________

speed, agility

By using cloud computing, you can achieve a lower ________ than you can get on your own. Because usage from hundreds of thousands of customers is aggregated in the cloud, providers such as AWS can achieve higher economies of scale, which translates into lower pay as-you-go prices.

variable cost


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