AWS Academy Cloud Foundations - Modules 1 - 8
Why is AWS more economical that tradi-
tional data centers for applications with
variable compute workloads?
A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) costs are billed on a
monthly basis. Amazon EC2 instances can be launched
B. Customers retain full administrative on-demand when needed.
access to their Amazon EC2 instances.
C. Amazon EC2 instances can be
launched on-demand when needed.
D. Customers can permanently run
enough instances to handle peak work-
loads.
What are the advantages of cloud com-
puting over computing on-premises? - Avoid large capital purchases
(Select the best answer.) - Use on-demand capacity
- Go global in minutes
A. Avoid large capital purchases - Increase speed and agility
B. Use on-demand capacity - On-demand capacity
C. Go global in minutes
D. Increase speed and agility
E. On-demand capacity All of the above
F. All of the above
What is the pricing model that enables
AWS customers to pay for resources on
an as-needed basis? (Select the best
answer.)
or Pay as you go
What is the pricing model that allows
AWS customers to pay for resources on
an as-needed basis? (Select the best
answer)
Which of these is not a cloud deployment
System administration as a service
model? (Select the best answer.)
, AWS Academy Cloud Foundations - Modules 1 - 8
True or False? AWS owns and main-
tains the network-connected hardware
True
required for application services, while
you provision and use what you need.
Which of the following are not benefits of
AWS Cloud computing.
or
Which of these is not a primary benefit of
cloud computing over on-premises com-
puting? (Select the best answer)
Pay for racking, stacking, and powering
A. Benefit from massive economies of servers
scale
B. Pay for racking, stacking, and power-
ing servers
C. Eliminate guessing on your infrastruc-
ture capacity needs
D. Increase speed and agility
E. Trade capital expenses for variable ex-
penses
Which of these is not a benefit of cloud
computing over on-premises comput-
ing? (Select the best answer.)
or
- High latency
Which of the following are not benefits of
AWS Cloud computing? (Choose two)
- Multiple procurement cycles
A. Multiple procurement cycles
B. Temporary and disposable resources
C. Fault-tolerant databases
D. High availability
E. High latency
Which of the following is a compute ser-
Amazon EC2
vice? (Select the best answer)
, AWS Academy Cloud Foundations - Modules 1 - 8
True or False? Cloud computing pro-
vides a simple way to access servers,
storage, databases, and a broad set of
application services over the internet.
False
You own the network-connected hard-
ware required for these services and
Amazon Web Services provisions what
you need.
Economies of scale result from ______. having hundreds of thousands of cus-
(Select the best answer) tomers aggregated in the cloud
Which of these are ways to access AWS
core services? (Choose three)
or
- Software Development Kits (SDKs)
What are the three ways to access AWS
core services? (Choose three) - AWS Command Line Interface (AWS
CLI)
A. Technical support calls
B. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS - AWS Management Console
CLI)
C. AWS Management Console
D. Software Development Kits (SDKs)
E. AWS Marketplace
Which AWS service provides infrastruc-
ture security optimization recommenda-
tions?
AWS Trusted Advisor
A. AWS Price List Application Program-
ming Interface (API) Online tool that helps you configure re-
B. Reserved Instances sources to follow best practices.
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) Spot Fleet
For certain services like Amazon Elas-
tic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and
Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS), you can invest in re-
Why is AWS more economical that tradi-
tional data centers for applications with
variable compute workloads?
A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) costs are billed on a
monthly basis. Amazon EC2 instances can be launched
B. Customers retain full administrative on-demand when needed.
access to their Amazon EC2 instances.
C. Amazon EC2 instances can be
launched on-demand when needed.
D. Customers can permanently run
enough instances to handle peak work-
loads.
What are the advantages of cloud com-
puting over computing on-premises? - Avoid large capital purchases
(Select the best answer.) - Use on-demand capacity
- Go global in minutes
A. Avoid large capital purchases - Increase speed and agility
B. Use on-demand capacity - On-demand capacity
C. Go global in minutes
D. Increase speed and agility
E. On-demand capacity All of the above
F. All of the above
What is the pricing model that enables
AWS customers to pay for resources on
an as-needed basis? (Select the best
answer.)
or Pay as you go
What is the pricing model that allows
AWS customers to pay for resources on
an as-needed basis? (Select the best
answer)
Which of these is not a cloud deployment
System administration as a service
model? (Select the best answer.)
, AWS Academy Cloud Foundations - Modules 1 - 8
True or False? AWS owns and main-
tains the network-connected hardware
True
required for application services, while
you provision and use what you need.
Which of the following are not benefits of
AWS Cloud computing.
or
Which of these is not a primary benefit of
cloud computing over on-premises com-
puting? (Select the best answer)
Pay for racking, stacking, and powering
A. Benefit from massive economies of servers
scale
B. Pay for racking, stacking, and power-
ing servers
C. Eliminate guessing on your infrastruc-
ture capacity needs
D. Increase speed and agility
E. Trade capital expenses for variable ex-
penses
Which of these is not a benefit of cloud
computing over on-premises comput-
ing? (Select the best answer.)
or
- High latency
Which of the following are not benefits of
AWS Cloud computing? (Choose two)
- Multiple procurement cycles
A. Multiple procurement cycles
B. Temporary and disposable resources
C. Fault-tolerant databases
D. High availability
E. High latency
Which of the following is a compute ser-
Amazon EC2
vice? (Select the best answer)
, AWS Academy Cloud Foundations - Modules 1 - 8
True or False? Cloud computing pro-
vides a simple way to access servers,
storage, databases, and a broad set of
application services over the internet.
False
You own the network-connected hard-
ware required for these services and
Amazon Web Services provisions what
you need.
Economies of scale result from ______. having hundreds of thousands of cus-
(Select the best answer) tomers aggregated in the cloud
Which of these are ways to access AWS
core services? (Choose three)
or
- Software Development Kits (SDKs)
What are the three ways to access AWS
core services? (Choose three) - AWS Command Line Interface (AWS
CLI)
A. Technical support calls
B. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS - AWS Management Console
CLI)
C. AWS Management Console
D. Software Development Kits (SDKs)
E. AWS Marketplace
Which AWS service provides infrastruc-
ture security optimization recommenda-
tions?
AWS Trusted Advisor
A. AWS Price List Application Program-
ming Interface (API) Online tool that helps you configure re-
B. Reserved Instances sources to follow best practices.
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) Spot Fleet
For certain services like Amazon Elas-
tic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and
Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS), you can invest in re-
