Cloud Practitioner - Intro to AWS

Question 1

What are the three Cloud Computing models?

Answer 1

IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Question 2

In an IaaS model:
* What is the customer responsible for?
* What is the provider responsible for?

Answer 2

• Customer: OS & up
• Provider: virtualization & hardware

Question 3

In an PaaS model:
* What is the customer responsible for?
* What is the provider responsible for?

Answer 3

• Customer: Application & Data
• Provider: Runtime & down

Question 4

In an SaaS model:
* What is the customer responsible for?
* What is the provider responsible for?

Answer 4

• Customer: Nothing but proper use
• Provider: Everything

Question 5

The 6 Cloud Computing Benefits

Answer 5

• Variable Expenses - Vs. committing to buy resources up front.
• Cost Optimization - Spend less on managing infrastructure / platform
• Capacity - No need to forecast. Scale on demand.
• Economies of Scale - Small businesses don’t pay more per resource.
• Speed & agility- No resource deployment lead time.
• Global in minutes - Quick global expansion

Question 6

The 3 cloud deployment types

Answer 6

• 100% cloud
• Hybrid cloud
• On-Prem (Private cloud)