Cloud Concepts
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Cloud Computing
AWS uses the shared responsibility model. For security, which of the following are the responsibilities of AWS?
(Choose 3)
A) Disk disposal
B) Physically securing compute resources
C) Network patching
D) User password rules
E) Configure Security Groups
A) Disk disposal
B) Physically securing compute resources
C) Network patching
You need a "virtual hard disk" for your EC2 instance. Which of the following should you choose?
EBS
EBS volumes are "virtual hard disks" for your EC2 instance.
RIs (Reserved Instances) are one to three year commitment, app has steady state usage, and app requires capacity reservation. Ture or False?
True
True or False: There are more Regions than there are Availability Zones.
A) True
B) False
A) False
As there are at least two Availability Zones (AZ) per AWS Region, there will always be more AZs than Regions.
Deployment Model which allows you to:
Deploy resources by using virtualization & resource management tools
Increase resource utilization by using application management and virtualization technologies
On-Premises Deployment
(a.k.a. Private Cloud Deployment)
Which of the following services can be used as an application firewall in AWS?
AWS WAF
A business analyst would like to move away from creating complex database queries and static spreadsheets when generating regular reports for high-level management. They would like to publish insightful, graphically appealing reports with interactive dashboards. Which service can they use to accomplish this?
Amazon QuickSight
Which EC2 package gives you more bang for your buck?
On-Demand
Reserved
Dedicated
Spot
Spot
How can EC2 instances access internet resources using a shared address?
a. Route 53
b. AWS Direct Connect
c. Deploy a Network Address
Translation (NAT) gateway
d. Deploy instances in the same AZ
c. Deploy a Network Address
Translation (NAT) gateway
A service that lets you run code without needing to provision or manage servers
Pay only for the compute time consumed
AWS Lambda
Which of the following is the responsibility of the customer to ensure the availability and backup of the EBS volumes?
Create EBS snapshots.
Which of the following allow you to make entire buckets (like the one hosting an S3 website) public?
Bucket Policies
Regarding Savings Plans' Savings Plans are available for all the regions.
True or False?
False
China Regions, savings plans are not available.
Designed for security
Increased availability
Enhanced performance
These are what?
Benefits of Amazon RDS read replicas
Serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS
AWS Fargate
Online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve
security by optimizing your AWS environment is known as what?
AWS Trusted Advisor
Create individual IAM users.
Activate Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) on your root account.
Use groups to delegate access to IAM users.
These are steps to do what?
securing your AWS account
A large Oil & gas company is planning to deploy a high-volume application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Which of the following can help to reduce operational expenses?
A. Deploy Amazon EC2 instance with Auto-scaling
B. Deploy Amazon EC2 instance in multiple AZ’s
A. Deploy Amazon EC2 instance with Auto-scaling
True or False?
AWS Trusted Advisor
1. It gives real-time assistance to help you provision your resources.
2. It offers best practices in the areas of cost optimization, performance, security and fault tolerance.
True
What is Amazon Route 53
A highly available and scalable cloud DNS web
service
Which of the following AWS services can be used to retrieve configuration changes made to AWS resources causing operational issues?
AWS Config
You use containers to host your microservices, and you need to route traffic to those applications using a single load balancer. Which of the following services should you use to accomplish this?
Application Load Balancer
Which AWS service would enable you to view the spending distribution in one of your AWS accounts?
A) AWS Spending Explorer
B) AWS Organizations
C) Billing Advisor
D) AWS Cost Explorer
D) AWS Cost Explorer
Which of the given options illustrates the benefit of using Amazon Rekognition with image files?
It can be used to identify objects in an image
Cloud deployment and provisioning service that automates the process of getting applications set up on the AWS infrastructure
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
What best describes the “Principle of Least Privilege”?
Users should be granted permission to access only resources they need to do their assigned job.
Monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.
Allows you to automatically add or remove EC2 instances based on conditions you specify
Auto Scaling
What instance provides capacity reservation for up to 75% discount?
Pricing: Reserved Instances
Which of the following Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance allows you to match the capacity reservation to predictable recurring dates and times?
Scheduled RI
Allows you to provision a private, isolated section of the Amazon Cloud
Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
A web administrator maintains several public and private web-based resources for an organisation. Which service can they use to keep track of the expiry dates of SSL/TLS certificates as well as updating and renewal?
AWS Certificate Manager
Regarding Amazon Glacier, what is a Vault?
A container for storing Archives
Which tool can you use to forecast your AWS spending?
AWS Cost Explorer
7 Layers of the OSI Model
1 Physical.....Please
2 Data............Do
3 Network....Not
4 Transport...Throw
5 Session.......Sausage
6 Presentation.Pizza
7 Application..Away
A scalable file system used with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources that grows and shrinks automatically; can scale on demand to petabytes w/out disrupting applications; stores data in and across multiple Availability Zones
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
1. Keep data safe
2. Meet compliance requirements
3. Save money
4. Scale quickly
These are classified as what?
AWS security benefits?
The Solutions Architect leading your project tells you the application your team is working on requires a managed NoSQL database. Which of the following AWS services best fits that description?
DynamoDB
A manufacturing firm has recently migrated their application servers to the Amazon EC2 instance. The IT Manager is looking for the details of upcoming scheduled maintenance activities which AWS would be performing on AWS resources, that may impact the services on these EC2 instances.
Which of the following services can alert you about the changes that can affect resources in your account?
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
The use of what AWS feature or service allows companies to track and categorize spending on a detailed level?
A. Cost allocation tags
B. Consolidated billing
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Marketplace
A. Cost allocation tags
An exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS; can transfer up to 100 petabytes of data per Snowmobile (45' long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi trailer truck
AWS Snowmobile
An organization runs several EC2 instances inside a VPC using three subnets, one for Development, one for Test, and one for Production. The Security team has some concerns about the VPC configuration. It requires restricting communication across the EC2 instances using Security Groups.
Which of the following options is true for Security Groups related to the scenario?
You can change a Security Group associated with an instance if the instance is in the running state.
Which of the below are load balancer types that AWS offers?
Classic
Network
Application
You are leading a pilot program to try the AWS Cloud for one of your applications. You have been instructed to provide an estimate of your AWS bill. Which service will allow you to do this by manually entering your planned resources by service?
A) AWS Cost and Usage Report
B) AWS CloudTrail
C) AWS Pricing Calculator
D) AWS Cost Explorer
C) AWS Pricing Calculator
Amazon Lightsail is an example of which of the following?
A) Software as a Service
B) Functions as a Service
C) Platform as a Service
D) Infrastructure as a Service
C) Platform as a Service
Lightsail is AWS' Platform-as-a-Service offering.
Migration strategy that involves reimagining how an application is architected and developed by using cloud-native features; driven by a strong business need to add features, scale, or performance
Refactoring/re-architecting
Which of the following services allows you to analyze EC2 Instances against pre-defined security templates to check for vulnerabilities?
AWS Inspector
Your employer, a major digital media company, needs you to implement an AWS service that delivers its dynamic web content worldwide, relying on edge locations to improve latency. Which one of the following services should you pick to accomplish that?
CloudFront
What are EC2 Pricing Models?
1. On-demand instances
2. Reserved instances
3. Spot instances
4. Dedicated hosts
6 Advantages of Cloud Computing
1. Agility & Speed
2. Economies of Scale
3. Capacity
4. Variable Expense
5. Customer Focus
6. Easy Deployment