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AWS Cloud Concepts Practice Questions
Section titled “AWS Cloud Concepts Practice Questions”Question 1
Section titled “Question 1”What are the advantages of cloud computing over computing on-premises?
- Avoid large capital purchases
- Use on-demand capacity
- Go global in minutes
- Increase speed and agility
- All of the above ✓
Question 2
Section titled “Question 2”What is the pricing model that enables AWS customers to pay for resources on an as-needed basis?
- Pay as you decommission
- Pay as you go ✓
- Pay as you buy
- Pay as you reserve
Question 3
Section titled “Question 3”Which of these is NOT a cloud computing model?
- Platform as a service
- Infrastructure as a service
- System administration as a service ✓
- Software as a service
Question 4
Section titled “Question 4”True or False? AWS owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for application services, while you provision and use what you need.
- True ✓
- False
Question 5
Section titled “Question 5”Which of these is NOT a benefit of cloud computing over on-premises computing?
- Increase speed and agility
- Pay for racking, stacking, and powering servers ✓
- Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs
- Trade capital expense for variable expense
- Benefit from massive economies of scale
Question 6
Section titled “Question 6”Which of the following are NOT benefits of AWS Cloud computing? (Choose two.)
- Multiple procurement cycles ✓
- High availability
- High latency ✓
- Temporary and disposable resources
- Fault-tolerant databases
Question 7
Section titled “Question 7”Which of the following is a compute service?
- Amazon VPC
- Amazon S3
- Amazon EC2 ✓
- Amazon CloudFront
- Amazon Redshift
Question 8
Section titled “Question 8”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.
- True
- False ✓
Question 9
Section titled “Question 9”Economies of scale result from _____.
- Having many different cloud providers
- 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
Question 10
Section titled “Question 10”Which of these are ways to access AWS core services? (Choose three.)
- Technical support calls
- AWS Marketplace
- AWS Management Console ✓
- AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ✓
- Software Development Kits (SDKs) ✓