Cloud Foundations Introduction Flashcards
Which statement describes cloud computing?
It delivers information technology (IT) resources on demand.
Which statement describes AWS?
1) AWS provides on-premises infrastructure that supports all types and sizes of businesses.
2) AWS is a secure cloud services provider that offers many services to help businesses scale and grow.
3) AWS is a web retailer that sells millions of products at a competitive cost.
4) AWS delivers web services through third-party cloud providers.
AWS is a secure cloud services provider that offers many services to help businesses scale and grow.
Which categories of services does AWS provide? (Select TWO.)
1) Compute
2) Financial
3) Medical
4) Storage
5) Insurance
Compute, Storage
Which tools can customers use to create and manage resources in the AWS Cloud? (Select THREE.)
1) AWS Direct Connect
2) AWS Management Console
3) AWS CLI
4) Amazon Aurora
5) AWS software development kits (SDKs)
6) AWS Fargate
AWS Management Console, AWS CLI and AWS software development kits (SDKs)
Which resource does the AWS documentation provide?
1) Tutorials and projects
2) Training course materials
3) Support contacts
4) Programming language guides
Tutorials and projects
What are the three factors associated with costs in AWS?
Computing: Refers to the cost associated with using computing resources, such as EC2 instances, virtual servers, and the runtime of serverless computing services like AWS Lambda.
Storage: Includes the cost of storing data in services like Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), and Amazon Glacier, among others.
Outbound data transfer: This factor refers to the costs incurred when data is transferred out of the AWS infrastructure to the internet or to other AWS regions. This can include outbound data traffic from services like EC2, S3, RDS (Relational Database Service), among others.
Which types of data transfer are free for Amazon S3? (Select TWO.)
1) Outbound data transfer from Amazon S3 to Amazon EC2 across different Regions
2) Outbound data transfer from Amazon S3 to Amazon CloudFront in the same Region
3) Inbound data transfer from Amazon EC2 to Amazon S3 across different Regions
4) Inbound data transfer from the internet to Amazon S3
5) Outbound data transfer from Amazon S3 to the internet
Outbound data transfer from Amazon S3 to Amazon CloudFront in the same Region
Inbound data transfer from the internet to Amazon S3
Which statements describe the benefits of using the AWS Pricing Calculator? (Select THREE.)
1) It offers a set of default reports that provides insight into cost drivers and usage trends.
2) It gives customers the ability to set a custom time period and view data usage at monthly or daily levels.
3) It estimates monthly services costs.
4) It gives customers the ability to create estimates for their AWS use cases.
5) It gives customers the ability to create annual, quarterly, monthly, or even daily budgets depending on their business needs.
6) It can help identify opportunities for cost reduction.
3) It estimates monthly services costs.
4) It gives customers the ability to create estimates for their AWS use cases.
6) It can help identify opportunities for cost reduction.
Which categories are fundamental drivers of cost with AWS? (Select THREE.)
1) Compute
2) Networking and content delivery
3) Storage
4) Hardware purchases
5) Data transfer
6) Service termination fees
1) Compute
3) Storage
5) Data transfer
Which AWS service can customers use to create estimates, share an estimate by a unique link, and revisit any estimates directly through a browser?
1) AWS Trusted Advisor
2) AWS Cloud Economics Center
3) AWS Pricing Calculator
4) AWS Cost Explorer
3) AWS Pricing Calculator
Which capability is the AWS Global Infrastructure designed and built to deliver?
1) Internet access
2) Points of presence in all countries of the world
3) The same service cost structure in all Regions
4) Scalability
4) Scalability
What is an Availability Zone?
1) One or more data centers that are built with fault isolation
2) An isolated geographical area
3) Data centers that are without fault isolation because they are grouped together
4) All data centers in a 100-mile radius
1) An Availability Zone is one or more data centers that are built with fault isolation. It is essentially an isolated geographical area housing one or more data centers, designed to provide redundancy and fault tolerance.
What is an AWS Region?
1) A single data center
2) A group of data centers in a 100-mile radius
3) A geographical area in the world
4) A geographical area in the United States
3) A geographical area in the world
How many Availability Zones are in an AWS Region?
1) One to two
2) Two or more
3) Four or more
4) A minimum of three
4) A minimum of three
