Module 1 Knowledge Check

Question 1

What is the pricing model that enables AWS customers to pay for resources on an as-needed basis?

• Pay as you decommission
• Pay as you go
• Pay as you buy
• Pay as you reserve

Answer 1

Pay as you go

Question 2

What are the advantages of cloud computing over computing on-premises?

• Avoid large capital
• Use on-demand capacity
• Go global in minutes
• Increase speed and agility
• All of the above

Answer 2

All of the above

Question 3

Which of these is NOT a cloud computing model?

• Platform as a service
• Infrastructure as a service
• System administration as a service
• Software as service

Answer 3

System administration as a service

Question 4

True or False? AWS owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for application services, while you provision and use what you need.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Which of these NOT a benefit of cloud computing over on-premises computing?

• Increase speed and agility
• Pay for racking, stacking, and powering servers
• Eliminate guessing on your infrastacture, and powering servers
• Trade capital capital expense for variable
• Benefit from massive economies of scale

Answer 5

Pay for racking, stacking, and powering servers

Question 6

Which of the following are NOT benefits of AWS Cloud computing?(choose two.)

• Multiple procurement cycles
• High availability
• High latency
• Temporary and disposable resources
• Fault-tolerant databases

Answer 6

High latency
Multiple procurement cycles

Question 7

Which of the following is a compute service?

• Amazon VPC
• Amazon S3
• Amazon EC2
• Amazon CloudFront
• Amazon Redshift

Answer 7

Amazon EC2

Question 8

True or False? Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases, and a broad set of application services over the internet. You own the network-connected hardware required for these services and AWS provisions what you need.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

Economies of scale result from ______.

• having many different cloud providers
• having hundreds of thousands of customers aggregated in the cloud
• having hundreds of clouds services available over the internet
• having to invest heavily in data centers and servers

Answer 9

having hundreds of thousands of customers aggregated in the cloud

Question 10

Which of these are ways to access AWS core services. (choose three.)

• Technical support calls
• AWS Marketplace
• AWS Management Console
• AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
• Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Answer 10

AWS Management Console
AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
Software Development Kits (SDKs)