Introduction to AWS

Introduction to AWS Module I: Quiz

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What is a way of connecting your data center with AWS?

• AWS Direct Connect

• Optical fiber

• Using an Infiniband cable

• Using a popular Internet service from a vendor such as Comcast or AT&T

A customer has reached out to you currently, they want to move into the online space by building a website for online ordering. They are ready to invest in building an application using a 3rd party. The customer currently has only two resources in their IT department, and they do not have any plans for investment in IT administration and management. Which cloud offering would be your recommendation in the above scenario?

• laaS

• PaaS

• SaaS

• On-Premise

What is each unique location in the world where AWS has a cluster of data centers called?

• Region

• Availability zone

• Point of presence

• Content delivery network

Which of the following definitions describes the concept of a highly available application?

• The application remains available even when various issues occur to the infrastructure and to managed services hosting the application.

• The application is available only during business hours.

• The application remains available even under increased load.

• An application is hosted in a single availability zone

How do multiple availability zones help increase application reliability in a region?

• By caching content for CloudFront

• By storing backup copies of EBS volumes

• By providing multiple subnets in multiple data centers for application failover

• By locating application servers closer to the end users' physical locations

What network component spans all the availability zones within a selected region?

• Route table

• Transit gateway

• Virtual private cloud

• Network ACL

Once you have created an AWS account, how does Amazon control the resources you're allowed to use?

• Allowable resources are based on purchased support agreement.

• It applies hard and soft limits.

• It uses a default quota value.

• It uses an AWS region.

What is the main pricing model of AWS?

• ay-as-you-can

• Pay-as-you-go

• Pay-as-you-terminate

• Pay-as-you-design

When working to set up your first AWS deployment, you keep coming across the term availability zone. What exactly is an availability zone?

• An isolated physical data center within an AWS region

• A region containing multiple data centers

• A single network subnet used by resources within a single region

• A single isolated server room within a data center

What term is commonly used for the cloud's capability to scale outward and inward automatically, based on demand?

• Agility

• Reliability

• Elasticity

• Fault tolerance