1 - Q&A

Question 1

Name at least three cloud characteristics as defined by NIST

Answer 1

• On-demand
• Broad Network Access
• Resource pooling
• Rapid elasticity
• Measurable

Question 2

Name the three major “as a Service” models of cloud

Answer 2

SaaS - Software as a Service
PaaS - Platform as a Service
Iaas - Infrastructure as a Service

Question 3

Name the four cloud deployment models

Answer 3

Private
Community
Public
Hybrid

Question 4

What was the first serverless compute service of AWS

Answer 4

Lambda

Question 5

What AWS feature permits you to create persistent storage volumes for use by EC2 instance (including boot)

Answer 5

Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

Question 6

What monitoring tool permits you to carefully observe specific API calls to AWS resources

Answer 6

CloudTrail

Question 7

What is the term commonly used for the cloud’s capability to scale outward and inward automatically based on demand?

a. Agility

b. Reliability

c. Elasticity

d. Fault tolerance

Answer 7

c

Question 8

Which of the following is not a common cloud characteristic as defined by the NIST?

a. On-demand self-service

b. Measured service

c. Broad network access

d. Dedicated hardware

Answer 8

d

Question 9

What is the very popular “as a Service” model that permits a cloud provider to make applications available that are typically accessible from anywhere?

a. IaaS

b. SaaS

c. PaaS

d. GaaS

Answer 9

b

Question 10

What is the main “virtual machine” creation technology available in AWS?

a. S3

b. EC2

c. Route 53

d. ELB

Answer 10

b

Question 11

What is the object-based storage solution in AWS?

a. S3

b. EC2

c. VPC

d. IAM

Answer 11

a

Question 12

Where are your own private subnets located in AWS?

a. IAM

b. EC2

c. Lambda

d. VPC

Answer 12

d