Cloud Concepts

Question 1

The 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Answer 1

1. Operational Excellence
2. Security
3. Reliability
4. Performance Efficiency
5. Cost Optimization
6. Sustainability

Question 2

Direct Connect

Answer 2

AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. AWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated network connection between your network and one of the AWS Direct Connect locations.

Question 3

Six advantages of cloud computing

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Cloud computing models

Answer 4

1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
2. Platform as a Service (PaaS)
3. Software as a Service (SaaS)

Question 5

CloudFront

Answer 5

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment.

Question 6

Virtual Private Gateway

Answer 6

A virtual private gateway is a logical, fully redundant distributed edge routing function that sits at the edge of your VPC. As it is capable of terminating VPN connections from your on-prem or customer environments, the VPG is the VPN concentrator on the Amazon side of the Site-to-Site VPN connection.

Question 7

Which is a core design principle for deploying resources in AWS?

Answer 7

Deploying in Multiple Availability zones will protect against downtime should an Availability Zone be lost.