Cloud Concepts Flashcards

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Which type of cloud computing does Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) represent?

  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Network as a Service (NaaS)
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
A

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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Which option is a common stakeholder role for the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) platform perspective?

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  1. Chief Technology Officer (CTO),
  2. technology leaders,
  3. architects,
  4. engineers
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An e-commerce company has deployed an RDS database in a single Availability Zone (AZ). The engineering team wants to ensure that in case of an AZ outage, the database should continue working on the same endpoint without any manual administrative intervention. Which of the following solutions can address this use-case?

A

Configure the database in RDS Multi-AZ deployment with automatic failover to the standby

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Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement about Scaling, a design principle of Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

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Fault tolerance is achieved by a scale up operation

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Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to only core checks from the AWS Trusted Advisor Best Practice Checks?

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  1. AWS Basic Support,
  2. AWS Developer Support
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What are the advantages that AWS Cloud offers over a traditional on-premises IT infrastructure?

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  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
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Which of the following AWS services can be used to connect a company’s on-premises environment to a VPC without using the public internet?

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AWS Direct Connect

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An IT company is planning to migrate from an on-premises environment to AWS Cloud. Which of the following expense areas would result in cost savings when the company moves to AWS Cloud?

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  1. Data center hardware infrastructure expenditure
  2. Data center physical security expenditure
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According to the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF), what are two tasks that a company should perform when planning to migrate to the AWS Cloud and aiming to become more responsive to customer inquiries and feedback as part of their organizational transformation?

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  1. Organize your teams around products and value streams
  2. Leverage agile methods to rapidly iterate and evolve
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10
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Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS managed services such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

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The performance of AWS managed Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance is better than a customer-managed database instance

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11
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A multi-national corporation wants to get expert professional advice on migrating to AWS and managing their applications on AWS Cloud. Which of the following entities would you recommend for this engagement?

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APN Consulting Partner

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A company wants to move to AWS cloud and release new features with quick iterations by utilizing relevant AWS services whenever required. Which of the following characteristics of AWS Cloud does it want to leverage?

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Agility

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Ability to acquire resources as you need and release when they are no longer needed

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Elasticity

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Ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, by dynamically acquiring computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate disruptions.

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Reliability

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Measurement of a system’s ability to grow to accommodate an increase in demand, or shrink down to a diminishing demand.

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Scalability

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16
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A startup wants to migrate its data and applications from the on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. Which of the following options can be used by the startup to help with this migration?

A

Leverage AWS Professional Services to accelerate the infrastructure migration,
Utilize AWS Partner Network (APN) to build a custom solution for this infrastructure migration

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17
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Which of the following is CORRECT regarding removing an AWS account from AWS Organizations?

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The AWS account must be able to operate as a standalone account. Only then it can be removed from AWS organizations

18
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A financial services company wants to ensure that its AWS account activity meets the governance, compliance and auditing norms. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?

A

AWS CloudTrail

19
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A multi-national company has just moved its infrastructure from its on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. As part of the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for which of the following?

A

Physical and Environmental controls

20
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Which of the following statements are CORRECT regarding the AWS VPC service?

A
  1. A Security Group can have allow rules only
  2. A Network Address Translation gateway (NAT gateway) is managed by AWS
21
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Which AWS technology/service helps you to scale your resources to match supply with demand while still keeping your cloud solution cost-effective?

A

AWS Auto Scaling

22
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The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides guidance on building cloud based applications using AWS best practices. Which of the following options are the pillars mentioned in the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

A
  • operational excellence
  • security
  • reliability
  • performance efficiency
  • cost optimization
  • sustainability
23
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Multi-AZ deployment is an example of which of the following?

A

High Availability

24
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Which of the following AWS services are always free to use (Select two)?

A
  • AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)
  • AWS Auto Scaling
25
Q

An organization deploys its IT infrastructure in a combination of its on-premises data center along with AWS Cloud. How would you categorize this deployment model?

A

Hybrid deployment

26
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Which policy describes prohibited uses of the web services offered by Amazon Web Services?

A

AWS Acceptable Use Policy

27
Q

Which of the following are examples of Horizontal Scalability (aka Elasticity)?

A
  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
  • Read Replicas in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
28
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Which AWS service publishes up-to-the-minute information on the general status and availability of all AWS services in all the Regions of AWS Cloud?

A

AWS Health Dashboard - service health

29
Q

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) recommends four iterative and incremental cloud transformation phases. Which cloud transformation journey phase of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) focuses on demonstrating how the cloud will help accelerate your business outcomes?

A

Envision

30
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The … phase of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) focuses on identifying capability gaps across the six AWS CAF perspectives, identifying cross-organizational dependencies, and surfacing stakeholder concerns and challenges.

A

Align

31
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The … phase of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) focuses on delivering pilot initiatives in production and on demonstrating incremental business value.

A

Launch

32
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The. .. phase of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) focuses on expanding production pilots and business value to desired scale and ensuring that the business benefits associated with your cloud investments are realized and sustained.

A

Scale

33
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Which tool will help you review your workloads against current AWS best practices for cost optimization, security, and performance improvement and then obtain advice to architect them better?

A

AWS Trusted Advisor

34
Q

Which of the following AWS services is essential for implementing security of resources in AWS Cloud?

A

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

35
Q

Which of the following AWS services comes under the Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud Computing Type?

A
  • Amazon Rekognition
  • also Google Apps (Gmail), Dropbox, Zoom.
36
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Which characteristic of Cloud Computing imparts the ability to acquire resources as you need and release when you no longer need them?

A

Elasticity

37
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Ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, by dynamically acquiring computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate disruptions.

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Reliability

38
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Ability of a system to assure data is stored and data remains consistently on the system as long as it is not changed by legitimate access, i.e. data should not get corrupt or disappear from the cloud because of a system malfunction.

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Durability

39
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Ability of a system to recover from a failure induced by the load (data or network), attacks, and failures (hardware, software, or network failures).

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Resiliency

40
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Which service gives a personalized view of the status of the AWS services that are part of your Cloud architecture so that you can quickly assess the impact on your business when AWS service(s) are experiencing issues?

A

AWS Health - Your Account Health Dashboard

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