Practice Questions 1 Flashcards
What is cloud computing?
On-demand delivery of IT resources and applications through the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing
What is another name for on-premises deployment?
Private cloud deployment
How does the scale of cloud computing help you to save costs?
The aggregated cloud usage from a large number of customers results in lower pay-as-you-go prices.
Which Amazon EC2 instance type is suitable for data warehousing applications?
Storage optimized
Which Amazon EC2 instance type balances compute, memory, and networking resources?
General purpose
Which Amazon EC2 instance type is ideal for high-performance databases?
Memory optimized
Which Amazon EC2 instance type offers high-performance processors?
Compute optimized
Which Amazon EC2 pricing option provides a discount when you specify a number of EC2 instances to run a specific OS, instance family and size, and tenancy in one Region?
Standard reserved instances
Which Amazon EC2 pricing option provides a discount when you make an hourly spend commitment to an instance family and Region for a 1-year or 3-year term?
EC2 Instance Savings Plans
Which AWS service is the best choice for publishing messages to subscribers?
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
You want to use an Amazon EC2 instance for a batch processing workload. What would be the best Amazon EC2 instance type to use?
Compute optimized
What are the contract length options for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances?
1 Year and 3 Years
You have a workload that will run for a total of 6 months and can withstand interruptions. What would be the most cost-efficient Amazon EC2 purchasing option?
Spot Instance
Which process is an example of Elastic Load Balancing?
Ensuring that no single Amazon EC2 instance has to carry the full workload on its own
You want to deploy and manage containerized applications. Which service should you use?
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)