Cloud Computing - Week 1

1) What is meant by cloud computing?

• Using the internet

• Delivery of computing services over the internet

• Setting up your own datacenter

2) What is not a reason to move to the cloud?

• Speech recognition and other cognitive services

• Faster innovation

• A limited pool of services

3) If you save through Cloud Computing where is it saved?

• Online

• Locally

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

• Use on-demand capacity

• Go global in minutes

• All of the above

• Increase speed and agility

• Avoid large capital purchases

5) 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 reserve

• Pay as you go

• Pay as you buy

6) Which of these is not a cloud deployment?

• Software as a service

• System administration as a service

• Infrastructure as a service

• Platform as a service

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

• False

• True

8) Which of these is not a benefit of cloud computing over on-premises computing?

• Pay for racking, stacking, and powering servers

• Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs

• Increase speed and agility

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

• Temporary and disposable resources

• High latency

• Multiple procurement cycles

• High availability

• Fault-tolerant databases

10) Which of the following is a compute service?

• Amazon CloudFront

• Amazon Redshift

• Amazon EC2

• Amazon VPC

• Amazon S3