WGU D282 CLOUD FOUNDATIONS | COMPLETE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
(100% VERIFIED SOLUTIONS) LATEST UPDATE
1. Six advantages of 1. Trade capital expense for variable expense
cloud computing 2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
3. Stop guessing capacity
4. Increase speed and agility
5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
6. Go global in minutes
2. Athena Serverless SQL service used to analyze data in S3.
3. Elastic MapRe- Serverless big data platform used to process vast amounts of data with open source
duce (EMR) tools like Apache.
4. Redshift SQL data warehouse
5. QuickSight BI service used to create dashboards to deliver insights into analytics.
6. Glue Extract, transform, load service used to prepare and load data for analytics.
7. Simple Queue Fully managed message queuing service that facilitates decoupling; stores mes-
Service (SQS) sages until processed by consumers.
8. Simple Notifica- Pub/sub messaging service; can send messages to multiple subscribers at once;
tion Service (SNS) facilitates decoupling.
9. Cost Explorer Interface that lets you visualize and manage your costs and usage over time; create
reports.
10. Budgets Set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or forecasted
to exceed) your budgeted amount.
11. Savings Plans Flexible pricing for EC2 and Fargate ottering lower prices compared to on-demand
pricing in exchange for a usage commitment ($/hour) for 1- or 3-year terms.
12. Lightsail
1/5
, WGU D282 CLOUD FOUNDATIONS | COMPLETE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
(100% VERIFIED SOLUTIONS) LATEST UPDATE
Easy way to launch and manage a virtual private server; includes everything you
need to start a project; low, predictable pricing.
13. Elastic Beanstalk Service for deploying and scaling web applications and services; upload your code
and EB automatically deploys, etc.
14. Fargate Serverless compute engine for ECS (Elastic Container Service).
15. Lamda Serverless computing to run code; no charge when code is not running.
16. Elastic Container Fully-managed Docker container registry used to store, manage, and deploy Dock-
Registry (ECR) er container images.
17. Elastic Container Highly scalable, high-performance container service that supports Docker contain-
Service (ECS) ers and allows you to run and scale containerized apps on AWS.
18. Elastic Kuber- Runs Kubernetes management infrastructure to deploy, manage, and scale con-
netes Service tainerized apps using Kubernetes on AWS.
(EKS)
19. Aurora Fully managed MySQL relational database engine combining speed and availabil-
ity of high-end commercial databases w/ simplicity and cost-ettectiveness of open
source databases; auto-scales up to 128TB per dB instance.
20. DynamoDB NoSQL, key-value and document database; fully managed; fast.
21. ElastiCache Web service to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud;
supports Redis and Memcached caching engines.
22. Neptune Fully-managed graph database service to build and run apps that work with highly
connected datasets.
23. Cost-eflcient and resizable capacity; automated hardware provisioning, database
setup, patching and backups; SQL.
2/5
(100% VERIFIED SOLUTIONS) LATEST UPDATE
1. Six advantages of 1. Trade capital expense for variable expense
cloud computing 2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
3. Stop guessing capacity
4. Increase speed and agility
5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
6. Go global in minutes
2. Athena Serverless SQL service used to analyze data in S3.
3. Elastic MapRe- Serverless big data platform used to process vast amounts of data with open source
duce (EMR) tools like Apache.
4. Redshift SQL data warehouse
5. QuickSight BI service used to create dashboards to deliver insights into analytics.
6. Glue Extract, transform, load service used to prepare and load data for analytics.
7. Simple Queue Fully managed message queuing service that facilitates decoupling; stores mes-
Service (SQS) sages until processed by consumers.
8. Simple Notifica- Pub/sub messaging service; can send messages to multiple subscribers at once;
tion Service (SNS) facilitates decoupling.
9. Cost Explorer Interface that lets you visualize and manage your costs and usage over time; create
reports.
10. Budgets Set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or forecasted
to exceed) your budgeted amount.
11. Savings Plans Flexible pricing for EC2 and Fargate ottering lower prices compared to on-demand
pricing in exchange for a usage commitment ($/hour) for 1- or 3-year terms.
12. Lightsail
1/5
, WGU D282 CLOUD FOUNDATIONS | COMPLETE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
(100% VERIFIED SOLUTIONS) LATEST UPDATE
Easy way to launch and manage a virtual private server; includes everything you
need to start a project; low, predictable pricing.
13. Elastic Beanstalk Service for deploying and scaling web applications and services; upload your code
and EB automatically deploys, etc.
14. Fargate Serverless compute engine for ECS (Elastic Container Service).
15. Lamda Serverless computing to run code; no charge when code is not running.
16. Elastic Container Fully-managed Docker container registry used to store, manage, and deploy Dock-
Registry (ECR) er container images.
17. Elastic Container Highly scalable, high-performance container service that supports Docker contain-
Service (ECS) ers and allows you to run and scale containerized apps on AWS.
18. Elastic Kuber- Runs Kubernetes management infrastructure to deploy, manage, and scale con-
netes Service tainerized apps using Kubernetes on AWS.
(EKS)
19. Aurora Fully managed MySQL relational database engine combining speed and availabil-
ity of high-end commercial databases w/ simplicity and cost-ettectiveness of open
source databases; auto-scales up to 128TB per dB instance.
20. DynamoDB NoSQL, key-value and document database; fully managed; fast.
21. ElastiCache Web service to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud;
supports Redis and Memcached caching engines.
22. Neptune Fully-managed graph database service to build and run apps that work with highly
connected datasets.
23. Cost-eflcient and resizable capacity; automated hardware provisioning, database
setup, patching and backups; SQL.
2/5
