Amazon Cloud Practitioner Certification
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What is AWS CloudFormation? - CORRECT ANSWERS AWS
CloudFormation provides the sysadmin, network architect, and other IT
personnel the ability to provision and manage stacks of AWS resources based on
templates you create to model your infrastructure architecture.
Elastic Compute Cloud - EC2 - CORRECT ANSWERS A web service
that provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud.
True or False: There are no outbound data transfer charges between Amazon
Web Services in the same Region - CORRECT ANSWERS True
What is the charge for in-bound data transfer across all Amazon Web Services in
all regions? - CORRECT ANSWERS There is no charge for in-bound
data transfer across all AWS services in all regions.
What are the three fundamental characteristics you pay for in AWS? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Compute, storage, and data transfer out.
Which Amazon Services are offered at no-charge? - CORRECT ANSWERS
Amazon VPC
Amazon Beanstalk
Amazon CloudFormation
Amazon IAM
Amazon Auto-Scaling
Amazon OpsWorks
, What is a Spot Instance? - CORRECT ANSWERS Spot instances are
spare EC2 capacity that can save you up 90% off of On-Demand prices that
AWS can interrupt with a 2-minute notification. Spot uses the same underlying
EC2 instances as On-Demand and Reserved Instances, and is best suited for
fault-tolerant, flexible workloads.
True or False: Spot prices adjust gradually based on long term supply and
demand for spare EC2 capacity. - CORRECT ANSWERS True
True or False: Windows Server with SQL Server is currently available as a spot
instance. - CORRECT ANSWERS False
What is Amazon S3? - CORRECT ANSWERS Amazon S3 is storage for
the Internet. It provides a simple web interface that offers a highly-scalable,
reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs.
What is the largest object size that can be uploaded in S3 with a single PUT
command? - CORRECT ANSWERS The largest object that can be
uploaded in a single PUT is 5 gigabytes.
What storage classes does Amazon S3 offer? - CORRECT ANSWERS
Amazon S3 Standard for general-purpose storage of frequently accessed
data
Amazon S3 Standard - Infrequent Access for long-lived, but less frequently
accessed data
Amazon Glacier for long-term archive
What is Reduced Redundancy Storage? - CORRECT ANSWERS
Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) is an Amazon S3 storage option
that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing noncritical, reproducible
data at lower levels of redundancy than Amazon S3's standard storage.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What is AWS CloudFormation? - CORRECT ANSWERS AWS
CloudFormation provides the sysadmin, network architect, and other IT
personnel the ability to provision and manage stacks of AWS resources based on
templates you create to model your infrastructure architecture.
Elastic Compute Cloud - EC2 - CORRECT ANSWERS A web service
that provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud.
True or False: There are no outbound data transfer charges between Amazon
Web Services in the same Region - CORRECT ANSWERS True
What is the charge for in-bound data transfer across all Amazon Web Services in
all regions? - CORRECT ANSWERS There is no charge for in-bound
data transfer across all AWS services in all regions.
What are the three fundamental characteristics you pay for in AWS? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Compute, storage, and data transfer out.
Which Amazon Services are offered at no-charge? - CORRECT ANSWERS
Amazon VPC
Amazon Beanstalk
Amazon CloudFormation
Amazon IAM
Amazon Auto-Scaling
Amazon OpsWorks
, What is a Spot Instance? - CORRECT ANSWERS Spot instances are
spare EC2 capacity that can save you up 90% off of On-Demand prices that
AWS can interrupt with a 2-minute notification. Spot uses the same underlying
EC2 instances as On-Demand and Reserved Instances, and is best suited for
fault-tolerant, flexible workloads.
True or False: Spot prices adjust gradually based on long term supply and
demand for spare EC2 capacity. - CORRECT ANSWERS True
True or False: Windows Server with SQL Server is currently available as a spot
instance. - CORRECT ANSWERS False
What is Amazon S3? - CORRECT ANSWERS Amazon S3 is storage for
the Internet. It provides a simple web interface that offers a highly-scalable,
reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs.
What is the largest object size that can be uploaded in S3 with a single PUT
command? - CORRECT ANSWERS The largest object that can be
uploaded in a single PUT is 5 gigabytes.
What storage classes does Amazon S3 offer? - CORRECT ANSWERS
Amazon S3 Standard for general-purpose storage of frequently accessed
data
Amazon S3 Standard - Infrequent Access for long-lived, but less frequently
accessed data
Amazon Glacier for long-term archive
What is Reduced Redundancy Storage? - CORRECT ANSWERS
Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) is an Amazon S3 storage option
that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing noncritical, reproducible
data at lower levels of redundancy than Amazon S3's standard storage.
