M01 - M04 Quiz Questions Flashcards
When using On-Demand instances in AWS, which of the following is false in regard to the cost of the instance:
You have to pay the termination fees if you terminate the instance
You are charged per second based on the hourly rate
You pay for what you use
You pay no upfront costs for the instance
You have to pay the termination fees if you terminate the instance
Which of the following are the costing attributes for using S3? Choose all that apply.
The number of total S3 buckets
The total size in GB of all objects stored
Whether encryption is used for the S3 bucket
The storage class for the objects being stored
The total size in GB of all objects stored
The storage class for the objects being stored
Which of the following can assist you with cost optimization?
AWS Inspector
AWS WAF
AWS Shield
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor
Organizations allow you to group multiple accounts into a consolidated bill and thereby achieve greater discounts due to higher aggregate usage.
Correct!
True
False
True
You have a distributed application that periodically processes large volumes of data across multiple EC2 instances. The application is designed to recover gracefully from EC2 instance failures. You are required to accomplish this task in the most efficient manner. Which of the following BEST meets the requirements?
On-demand instances
Reserved instances
Spot instances
Dedicated instances
Spot instances
A company wants to store files that are not frequently accessed. What is the most cost-effective method?
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS
Amazon S3
Amazon Storage Gateway
Amazon Glacier
Where can a customer go to find out more information about EC2 billing activity that happened 3 months ago?
Cost and Usage Reports
EC2 Dashboard
CloudTrail Logs
Trusted Advisor Dashboard
Cost and Usage Reports
When working on the costing for on-demand EC2 instances, which of the following are attributes that determine the cost of the instance? Choose all that apply.
Instance type
Edge location
Region
AMI type
Instance type
Region
AMI type
In AWS billing, what option can be used to ensure that costs can be reduced if you have multiple accounts?
Consolidated billing
Compiled billing
Combined billing
Condensed billing
Consolidated billing
Typically, a TCO analysis looks at the “as is” on-premises infrastructure and compares this with the cost of the “to be” infrastructure state in the cloud and provides a comprehensive view of the total financial impact of moving to the cloud.
True
False
True
There are also many soft benefits, including increased customer satisfaction, increased employee morale, increased developer productivity, and more agility for the business.
Which AWS offering enables customers to find, buy, and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment?
A) AWS Config
B) AWS OpsWorks
C) AWS SDK
D) AWS Marketplace
C) AWS SDK
Which of the following is a benefit an Amazon EC2 over on-premises physical servers?
Only pay for what you use
Root/Admin access
Ability to choose hardware vendors
Automated backup
Only pay for what you use
AWS Organizations allow you to (choose all that apply):
CONSOLIDATE BILLING ACROSS MULTIPLE AWS ACCOUNTS
AUTOMATE AWS ACCOUNT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT
CENTRALLY MANAGE POLICIES ACROSS MULTIPLE AWS ACCOUNTS
CONFIGURE AWS SERVICES ACROSS MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
GOVERN ACCESS TO AWS SERVICES, RESOURCES, AND REGIONS
CONSOLIDATE BILLING ACROSS MULTIPLE AWS ACCOUNTS
AUTOMATE AWS ACCOUNT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT
CENTRALLY MANAGE POLICIES ACROSS MULTIPLE AWS ACCOUNTS
CONFIGURE AWS SERVICES ACROSS MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
GOVERN ACCESS TO AWS SERVICES, RESOURCES, AND REGIONS
There is a requirement for a development environment for the next 3 months. Which instance type would you use?
Reserved No Upfront
Reserved Partial Upfront
Spot instance
On-demand instance
On-demand instance
Which of the following is used to estimate the costs for moving resources from on-premises to the AWS Cloud?
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Consolidated Billing
AWS TCO Calculator
AWS Config
AWS TCO Calculator
You need to host a database server for at least a year. Which of the following would result in the least cost?
Reserved All Upfront
On-demand instance
Spot instance
Reserved No Upfront
Reserved All Upfront
_____________________ can help effectively and efficiently manage AWS accounts that are split among departments, but paid for by a single company.
AWS Organizations
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Cost Explorer
Amazon Dev Pay
AWS Organizations
Which of the following is a factor when calculating the TCO?
Number of users migrated to AWS
Number of encryption keys migrated to AWS
Number of servers migrated to AWS
Number of passwords migrated to AWS
Number of servers migrated to AWS
Which service can help manage the cost for all AWS resources? Choose the BEST answer.
CloudWatch
TCO Calculator
CloudTrail
Cost explorer
Cost explorer
You have two accounts in your AWS account, one for the DEV team and the other for the QA team. All are part of consolidated billing. The master account has purchased three reserved instances. The DEV team currently uses two reserved instances. The QA team is planning to use three instances of the same instance type. What is the pricing tier of the instances that can be used by the QA team?
1 reserved and 2 on demand
2 reserved and 1 on demand
3 reserved and none on demand
No reserved and 3 on demand
1 reserved and 2 on demand
You are currently hosting an infrastructure and most of the EC2 instances are being used 90-100% and you expect this to continue for at least a year. What type of EC2 instance would you use to ensure costs are minimized?
Reserved instances
Spot instances
Dedicated host instances
On-demand instances
Reserved instances
There is a requirement hosting a set of servers in the cloud for a short period of 3 months. Which of the following types of instances should be chosen in order to be cost effective? Choose the BEST answer.
On-demand
No upfront Reserved
Partial upfront Reserved
Spot
On-demand
Which of the following are ways that allow you to link accounts? Choose all that apply.
AWS Config
AWS Organizations
AWS Cloud Formation
Consolidated Billing
AWS Organizations
Consolidated Billing
Which tool helps you forecast your AWS spending? Choose the best answer.
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS TCO Calculator
AWS Organizations
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Cost Explorer
To improve control over your AWS environment, you can use AWS Organizations to create groups of accounts, and then attach policies to a group to ensure the correct policies are applied across the accounts without requiring custom scripts and manual processes.
True
False
True
Which of the following services can a customer use to obtain detail about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) billing activity that took place 3 months ago?
AWS CloudWatch
AWS Cost and Usage reports
AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard
Amazon EC2 Dashboard
AWS Cost and Usage reports
Which of the following concepts is used when you want to manage the bills for multiple accounts under one master account?
Cost explorer
IAM
Combined billing
Consolidated billing
Consolidated billing
The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator can be used to estimate cost savings.
True
False
False
The Simple Monthly Calculator provides monthly cost estimates, while the TCO Calculator estimates cost savings.