AWS Academy Cloud Foundations Knowledge Check Questions
and Answers
What are the advantages of cloud computing E. Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure
over computing? capacity needs - ANSWER -C
A. Void large capital purchases
B. Go global in minutes Which of the following are not benefits of AWS
C. Use on-demand capacity Cloud computing?
D. Increase speed and agility
E. all of the above - ANSWER -E A. Temporary and disposable resources
B. Fault-tolerant databases
C. High availability
What is the pricing model that enables AWS D. High Latency
customers to pay on a needed basis? E. Multiple procurement cycles - ANSWER -
DE
A. Pay as you reserve
B. Pay as you decommission
C. Pay as you go Which of the following is a compute service?
D. Pay as you buy - ANSWER -C (Select the best answer)
A. Amazon CloudFront
Which of these is not a cloud computing model ? B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon S3
A. Platform as a service D. Amazon VPC
B. Infrastructure as a service E. Amazon EC2 - ANSWER -E
C. Software as a services
D. system administration as a service -
ANSWER -D True or False? Cloud Computing provides a
simple way to access servers, storage,
databases, and a broad set of application
True or False? AWS owns and maintains the services over the internet. You own the network-
network-connected hardware required for connected hardware required for these services
application services, while you provision and use and Amazon Web Services provisions what you
what you need. need.
A. False A. True
B. True - ANSWER -B B. False - ANSWER -B
Which of these is not a benefit of cloud Economics of Scale result from_______
computing over on-premises computing?
A. having many different cloud providers
A. Trade capital expense for variable expense B. having hundreds of cloud services available
B. Benefit from massive economies of scale over the internet
C. Pay for racking, stacking, and powering C. having to invest heavily in data centers and
servers servers
D. Increase speed and agility D. having hundreds of thousands of customers
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aggregated in the cloud - ANSWER -D A. True
B. False - ANSWER -B
Which of these are ways to access AWS core
services ? Which statement is true about the pricing model
on AWS? (Select the best answer).
A. AWS Management Console
B. Technical support calls A. Outbound charges are free up to a per-
C. AWS Marketplace account limit.
D. AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) B. Storage is typically charged per gigabyte.
E. Software Development Kits (SDKs) - C. In most cases, there is a per gigabyte charge
ANSWER -ADE for inbound data transfer.
D. Compute is typically charged as a monthly fee
based on instances type. - ANSWER -B
For certain services like Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon
Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you What are the four support plans offered by AWS
can invest in reserved capacity. What options are Support? (select the best answer)
available for Reserved Instances?
A. Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise
A. DURI B. Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold
B. MURI C. Basic, Startup, Business, Enterprise
C. AURI D. All support is free - ANSWER -A
D. NURI
E. PURI - ANSWER -CDE
What AWS tool lets your explore AWS services
and create an estimate for the cost of your used
Where can a customer go to get more details cases on AWS? (Select the best answer)
about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2) billing activity that took the place 3 months A. AWS Cost and Usage Report
ago? B. AWS Pricing Calculator
C. AWS Budgets
A. AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard D. AWS Billing Dashboard - ANSWER -B
B. Amazon EC2 dashboard
C. AWS Cost Explorer
D. AWS Cost Explore As AWS grows, the cost of doing business is
E. AWS CloudTrail logs stored in Amazon Simple reduced and savings are passed back to the
Storage Service (S3) - ANSWER -C customer with lower pricing. what is this
optimization called? (select the best answer)
True or false? To receive the discounted rate A. EC2 right Sizing
associated with Reserved Instances, you must B. Matching supply and demand
make a full, upfront payment for the term of the C. Expenditure awareness
agreement D. Economies of scale - ANSWER -D
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What are the advantages of cloud computing E. Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure
over computing? capacity needs - ANSWER -C
A. Void large capital purchases
B. Go global in minutes Which of the following are not benefits of AWS
C. Use on-demand capacity Cloud computing?
D. Increase speed and agility
E. all of the above - ANSWER -E A. Temporary and disposable resources
B. Fault-tolerant databases
C. High availability
What is the pricing model that enables AWS D. High Latency
customers to pay on a needed basis? E. Multiple procurement cycles - ANSWER -
DE
A. Pay as you reserve
B. Pay as you decommission
C. Pay as you go Which of the following is a compute service?
D. Pay as you buy - ANSWER -C (Select the best answer)
A. Amazon CloudFront
Which of these is not a cloud computing model ? B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon S3
A. Platform as a service D. Amazon VPC
B. Infrastructure as a service E. Amazon EC2 - ANSWER -E
C. Software as a services
D. system administration as a service -
ANSWER -D True or False? Cloud Computing provides a
simple way to access servers, storage,
databases, and a broad set of application
True or False? AWS owns and maintains the services over the internet. You own the network-
network-connected hardware required for connected hardware required for these services
application services, while you provision and use and Amazon Web Services provisions what you
what you need. need.
A. False A. True
B. True - ANSWER -B B. False - ANSWER -B
Which of these is not a benefit of cloud Economics of Scale result from_______
computing over on-premises computing?
A. having many different cloud providers
A. Trade capital expense for variable expense B. having hundreds of cloud services available
B. Benefit from massive economies of scale over the internet
C. Pay for racking, stacking, and powering C. having to invest heavily in data centers and
servers servers
D. Increase speed and agility D. having hundreds of thousands of customers
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aggregated in the cloud - ANSWER -D A. True
B. False - ANSWER -B
Which of these are ways to access AWS core
services ? Which statement is true about the pricing model
on AWS? (Select the best answer).
A. AWS Management Console
B. Technical support calls A. Outbound charges are free up to a per-
C. AWS Marketplace account limit.
D. AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) B. Storage is typically charged per gigabyte.
E. Software Development Kits (SDKs) - C. In most cases, there is a per gigabyte charge
ANSWER -ADE for inbound data transfer.
D. Compute is typically charged as a monthly fee
based on instances type. - ANSWER -B
For certain services like Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon
Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you What are the four support plans offered by AWS
can invest in reserved capacity. What options are Support? (select the best answer)
available for Reserved Instances?
A. Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise
A. DURI B. Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold
B. MURI C. Basic, Startup, Business, Enterprise
C. AURI D. All support is free - ANSWER -A
D. NURI
E. PURI - ANSWER -CDE
What AWS tool lets your explore AWS services
and create an estimate for the cost of your used
Where can a customer go to get more details cases on AWS? (Select the best answer)
about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2) billing activity that took the place 3 months A. AWS Cost and Usage Report
ago? B. AWS Pricing Calculator
C. AWS Budgets
A. AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard D. AWS Billing Dashboard - ANSWER -B
B. Amazon EC2 dashboard
C. AWS Cost Explorer
D. AWS Cost Explore As AWS grows, the cost of doing business is
E. AWS CloudTrail logs stored in Amazon Simple reduced and savings are passed back to the
Storage Service (S3) - ANSWER -C customer with lower pricing. what is this
optimization called? (select the best answer)
True or false? To receive the discounted rate A. EC2 right Sizing
associated with Reserved Instances, you must B. Matching supply and demand
make a full, upfront payment for the term of the C. Expenditure awareness
agreement D. Economies of scale - ANSWER -D
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