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Which of these is NOT a benefit of cloud computing over on-premises computing? (Select the best answer)

• Increase speed and agility

• Pay for racking, stacking, and powering servers

• Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs

• Trade capital expense for variable expense

• Benefit from massive economies of scale

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 computing model?

• Platform as a service

• Infrastructure as a service

• System administration as a service

• Software as a service

Economies of scale result from _____. (Select the best answer.)

• having many different cloud providers

• having hundreds of thousands of customers aggregated in the cloud

• having hundreds of cloud services available over the internet

• having to invest heavily in data centers and servers

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

• True

• False

Which of the following is a compute service? (Select the best answer)

• Amazon VPC

• Amazon S3

• Amazon EC2

• Amazon CloudFront

• Amazon Redshift

Which of the following are NOT benefits of AWS Cloud computing? (Choose two.)

• A. Multiple procurement cycles

• B. High availability

• C. High latency

• D. Temporary and disposable resources

• E. Fault-tolerant databases

Which of these are ways to access AWS core services?

• Technical support calls

• AWS Marketplace

• AWS Management Console

• AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

• Software Development Kits (SDKs)

True or False? Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases, and a broad set of application services over the internet. You own the network-connected hardware required for these services and Amazon Web Services provisions what you need.

• True

• False

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

• Avoid large capital purchases

• Use on-demand capacity

• Go global in minutes

• Increase speed and agility

• All of the above