Cloud Computing - Week 1

What is meant by cloud computing?

• Delivery of computing services over the internet

• Setting up your own datacenter

• Using the internet

What is not a reason to move to the cloud?

• Faster innovation

• A limited pool of services

• Speech recognition and other cognitive services

If you save through Cloud Computing where is it saved?

• Online
• Locally

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

• Avoid large capital purchases

• Use on-demand capacity

• Increase speed and agility

• Go global in minutes

• All of the above

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

Which of these is not a cloud deployment?

• Platform as a service

• Infrastructure as a service

• System administration as a service

• Software as a service

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

• True

• False

Which of these is 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 infrastructure capacity needs

Which of the following are NOT benefits of AWS Cloud computing?

• Multiple procurement cycles

• High availability

• High latency

• Temporary and disposable resources

• Fault-tolerant databases

Which of the following is a compute service?

• Amazon VPC

• Amazon S3

• Amazon EC2

• Amazon CloudFront

• Amazon Redshift