Wednesday 21 August 2019

Cloud - I

I am truly delighted to be writing on another important topic: Cloud Computing. In the first post on this topic, we start with sample questions for AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam. The questions in this article and following posts are oriented more towards AWS Cloud Practitioner credential that is the first of the AWS Certifications series. These questions may be helpful for preparation of other AWS Certification Exams as well

1. What are the different Cloud Computing models? (Choose all that apply)

a) Infrastructure as a Service
b) Network as a Service
c) Platform as a Service
d) Software as a Service
e) Hardware as a Service

2. Advantages of Cloud Computing are: (Choose all that apply)

a) Focus on organization's business rather than IT infrastructure
b) Better control of on premise IT hardware
c) Benefits from economies of scale by cloud deployment
d) Huge investment of capital expenditure on data centers
e) Increased speed and agility of IT operations

3. Different Cloud Computing Deployment Models are: (Choose all that apply)

a) Social 
b) Private
c) Domain
d) Hybrid
e) Public

4. Amazon Web Services product offerings includes areas as: (Choose all that apply)

a) mobile
b) IOT
c) networking
d) availability zone set up
e) security

5. Each Amazon Region has at least __ Availability Zone(s)

a) 4
b) 3
c) 2
d) 1

6. Content delivery with lower latency is achieved by: (Choose all that apply)

a) Dedicated Amazon Servers
b) Superfast Amazon network
c) Edge Locations
d) Regional Edge Caches

7. The AWS S3 pricing is the same across the globe

a) True
b) False 

8. Long-term contracts are one of the significant benefits of Amazon Cloud Services

a) True
b) False

9. Three ways to access AWS are by using:

a) Logging into AWS servers in nearest Availability Zone
b) Logging into AWS servers in nearest Edge Location
c) AWS Management Console
d) AWS Command Line Interface
e) AWS Software Development Kits

10. AWS Shared Responsibility Model is related to

a) Security and Compliance
b) Pay-as-you-go Pricing
c) Lift-and-Shift
d) AWS Replication Strategy
e) AWS High Availability

11. Benefits of Serverless Model include: (Choose all that apply)

a) Automated High Availability
b) Automated Functional Programming
c) Full control of Cluster Provisioning
d) Flexible Scaling

12. Amazon EC2 Instance type families are: (Choose all that apply)

a) Compute optimized
b) Storage optimized
c) Accelerated computing
d) General purpose
e) Memory optimized

13. AWS Regions are connected to AWS Global Network with a 100 Gbps intercontinental network 

a) True
b) False

14. Different components of AWS Global Infrastructure are: (Choose all that apply)

a) AWS Availability Zones
b) AWS Data Centers
c) AWS Regions
d) Points of Presence

15. The advantages that Cloud offers to IT personnel are: (Choose all that apply)

a) Increased speed and agility
b) Try out innovations
c) Manual configuration of hardware devices onto racks
d) Full visibility into AWS Data Centers

Answers in next post ...