AWS Cloud Services Quiz

Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads?

• AWS offers fixed pricing plans regardless of usage.

• AWS requires long-term contracts for resource usage.

• Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.

• AWS provides unlimited free compute resources.

If your project requires monthly reports that iterate through very large amounts of data, which Amazon Elastic Cloud (Amazon EC2) purchasing option should you consider?

• On-Demand Instances

• Spot Instances

• Scheduled Reserved Instances

• Dedicated Hosts

What is included in an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)?

• A template for the root volume required for a server

• Launch permissions that control which AWS accounts can use the AMI

• A block device mapping that specifies the volumes to attach to the instance when it's launched

• All of the above

Which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) feature ensures your instances will not share a physical host with instances from any other customer?

• Reserved Instances

• Spot Instances

• Dedicated Instances

• On-Demand Instances

Which of the following services is a serverless compute service in AWS?

• Amazon EC2

• AWS Lambda

• Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

• Amazon ECS

What is the service provided by AWS that enables developers to easily deploy and manage applications in the cloud?

• AWS CloudFormation

• AWS CodeDeploy

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk

• AWS OpsWorks

Your web application needs four instances to support steady traffic all of the time. On the last day of the month, the traffic triples. What is the most cost-effective way to handle this pattern?

• Run twelve On-Demand Instances all the time

• Run four Reserved Instances and eight Spot Instances

• Run four Reserved Instances constantly, then add eight On-Demand Instances on the last day of each month

• Run twelve Reserved Instances all the time

Containers contain an entire operating system. True or False?

• True

• False

Which Amazon EC2 option is best for long-term workloads with predictable usage patterns?

• On-Demand Instances

• Spot Instances

• Reserved Instances

• Dedicated Hosts

Which of the following must be specified when launching a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Windows Instance?

• Amazon EC2 Instance type

• Key Pair

• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

• Security Group