WGU D282 CLOUD FOUNDATIONS
COMPREHENSIVE COURSE REVIEW
◉ Which two costs are reduced when an organization moves to a
cloud deployment.
Answer: Capital Expenses (CapEx) and Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO)
◉ Which architectural design principle focuses on computing
resources operating efficiently.
Answer: Performance Efficiency
◉ Which type of VPC is created when your original account is
created?.
Answer: A default Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
◉ What is it called when you determine the overall cost of your
current on-premises system and use it as benchmark for going into
the cloud?.
Answer: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
◉ Which feature of Amazon EC2 is designed to closely mimic an
actual data center, but with a scalable infrastructure?.
, Answer: An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
◉ Which migration strategy involved changing certain application
components for purposes of improving a cloud deployment without
changing the main underlying application core?.
Answer: Replatforming
◉ What is the term used to describe increasing the number of
resources available to support your applications, such as adding
more instances to meet demand?.
Answer: Horizontal Scaling
◉ Which term refers to the costs, principles, and overall benefits of
cloud computing?.
Answer: Cloud Economics
◉ What does AWS define as a unique geographic area of the world
that is independent from other locations?.
Answer: A region
◉ What is the term used to describe increasing the specifications of
an individual resource, such as adding more RAM or CPU to an
instance?.
Answer: Vertical Scaling
COMPREHENSIVE COURSE REVIEW
◉ Which two costs are reduced when an organization moves to a
cloud deployment.
Answer: Capital Expenses (CapEx) and Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO)
◉ Which architectural design principle focuses on computing
resources operating efficiently.
Answer: Performance Efficiency
◉ Which type of VPC is created when your original account is
created?.
Answer: A default Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
◉ What is it called when you determine the overall cost of your
current on-premises system and use it as benchmark for going into
the cloud?.
Answer: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
◉ Which feature of Amazon EC2 is designed to closely mimic an
actual data center, but with a scalable infrastructure?.
, Answer: An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
◉ Which migration strategy involved changing certain application
components for purposes of improving a cloud deployment without
changing the main underlying application core?.
Answer: Replatforming
◉ What is the term used to describe increasing the number of
resources available to support your applications, such as adding
more instances to meet demand?.
Answer: Horizontal Scaling
◉ Which term refers to the costs, principles, and overall benefits of
cloud computing?.
Answer: Cloud Economics
◉ What does AWS define as a unique geographic area of the world
that is independent from other locations?.
Answer: A region
◉ What is the term used to describe increasing the specifications of
an individual resource, such as adding more RAM or CPU to an
instance?.
Answer: Vertical Scaling
