AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition) - Knowledge Checks

Question 1

Intro to AWS: Which of the refers to the power to scale computing resources up or down easily?

Answer 1

Elasticity

Question 2

AWS Core Services: Which components of the AWS infrastructure can be described as mulitple, isolated locations within one geographic area?

Answer 2

Availability Zones

Question 3

AWS Core Servives: What are the benefits of using Amazon EC2 instances compared to phsyical servers in your infrastructure?

Answer 3

Pay only for the capacity you use The ability to have different sotrage requirements

Question 4

AWS Core Services: Which of the following statements is true of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC)?

Answer 4

You can create many subnets in VPC, though fewer is recommended to limit complexity.

Question 5

AWS Integrated Services: You have an application composed of individual services. You need to route a request to a service based on the content of the request. Which service should you use?

Answer 5

Elastic Load Balancing

Question 6

AWS Integrated Services:What is the first step in getting started with AWS Lambda?

Answer 6

Upload your code

Question 7

AWS Integrated Services: Which of the following statements best describes Amazon CloudFront?

Answer 7

Speeds up the delivery of your content to viewers across the globe

Question 8

AWS Architecture: Which of the following is NOT a pillar of the AWS Well-Architect Framework?

Answer 8

Persistence

Question 9

AWS Security: Your web applicaiton requires temporary authorization to use AWS services. Which IAM entity should be used?

Answer 9

Role

Question 10

AWS Security: Which of the following is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service?

Answer 10

AWS Shield

Question 11

Pricing and Support: Which of the following statements best describes AWS Trusted Advisor?

Answer 11

A tool that provides you real time guidance to hlep you provision your resources following AWS Best Practices

Question 12

Which feature of AWS allows you to deploy a new application for which the requirements may change over time?

Answer 12

Elasticity. Elasticity allows you to deploy your application without worrying about whether it will need more or less resources in the future. With elasticity, the infrastructure can scale on-demand.

Question 13

What are the 6 advantages of the cloud?

Answer 13

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