Cloud Storage

Question 1

What are the three popular storage solutions in computing environments?

Answer 1

Block, File, and Object storage

Question 2

Which storage solution operates at the operating system kernel level, stores and organizes data as an array of unrelated blocks?

Answer 2

Block Storage

Question 3

Which storage solution operates at the operating system user level, stores data as data blocks which are managed by a file system?

Answer 3

File storage

Question 4

Which storage solution operates at the application level, stores the data as objects?

Answer 4

Object storage

Question 5

Which Amazon service is an online cloud-based data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data?

Answer 5

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Question 6

Which Amazon service provides a highly scalable, available, and durable file storage which can be used with EC2 instances?

Answer 6

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Question 7

Which Amazon service provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances?

Answer 7

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Question 8

Which Amazon service connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization’s on-premises IT environment and AWS’s storage infrastructure?

Answer 8

AWS Storage Gateway