Storage

Question 1

Using cloud services to put your data in the cloud

Answer 1

Cloud Storage

Question 2

Traditional storage type most people are familiar with
files are given a name and the files are organized in folders, directories and sub-directories. This is easy to use and can get difficult over time.

Answer 2

File based storage.

Question 3

Files are split into chunks of data, of equal size, and stored in raw storage volumes.

Answer 3

Block storage

Question 4

Type of storage typically used by server-based operating systems that manage large volumes

Answer 4

Block Storage

Question 5

Storage where files are given unique identifiers and are stored in a flat memory model

Answer 5

Object Storage

Question 6

Simple Storage Service - S3 is what type of storage

Answer 6

Object

Question 7

S3 has this many nines of durability

Answer 7

11 9s or 99.999999999

Question 8

Storage service that switches between usage tiers, to save you money, based upon usage patterns

Answer 8

Intelligent Tiering

Question 9

Glacier low cost retrieval method to get data within a few hours and is ideal for restoring backup data.

Answer 9

Standard Retrieval

Question 10

Glacier for cost-effective retrieval of large amounts of data for non-urgent use cases

Answer 10

Bulk Retrieval

Question 11

Glacier retrieval that needs to be done quickly

Answer 11

Expedited Retrieval

Question 12

Fully managed service that provides NFS shared file system storage for linux virtual machines in EC2

Answer 12

Amazon Elastic File System -

EFS

Question 13

EFS storage classes

Answer 13

Standard and Infrequent Access

Question 14

EFS function that allows creation of an aging off policy

Answer 14

EFS Lifecycle Management

Question 15

A service that gives you access to virtually unlimited cloud storage, but on-premises.

Answer 15

AWS Storage Gateway

Question 16

Gives you SMB and NFS interfaces to Amazon S3 (Linux and Windows file Systems)

Answer 16

File Gateway

Question 17

This provides a way of getting local applications you use to store its data in the cloud.

Answer 17

File Gateway

Question 18

Virtual Tape library on your local network - its contents are stored on S3 and even implement Glacier or Deep Archive for archiving

Answer 18

Tape Gateway

Question 19

A service that presents and iSCSI block storage volume to your on-premises applications.

Answer 19

Volume Gateway

Question 20

Volume Gateway mode where primary data is stored in S3 and the most frequently accessed data is stored locally for low latency access.

Answer 20

Cached Mode

Question 21

Volume Gateway mode where all data is stored locally while also being backed up to S3 asynchronously

Answer 21

Stored Mode