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A device manufacturing company is planning to move its workload to the cloud.
The company is looking for a cloud provider that will provide networking, storage,
servers, and virtualization while the company's developers and IT departments
focus on managing the operating systems, runtime, data, and business
applications.
Which cloud computing model meets this requirement? - CORRECT ANSWER
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
The developers and IT department at the device manufacturing company create a
lot of customized applications and want a cloud model they can build upon to
create, deploy, manage, and maintain their own applications.
Which cloud model fulfills this requirement if the cloud service provider still
manages the underlying infrastructure? - CORRECT ANSWER Platform as a service
(PaaS)
The executives at the device manufacturing company suggest it is better to
interact with the business applications via mobile and web browser and adopt a
model that will greatly reduce the money spent on tedious tasks like software
installation, management, and upgrade.
Which cloud model allows the service provider to run and manage the complete
product while freeing the company's developers and IT departments from
worrying about how the service is maintained or how the underlying
infrastructure is managed? - CORRECT ANSWER Software as a service (SaaS)
,A solutions architect is guiding a startup software development company on how
to access the broad array of services that are offered by AWS.
Which access method provides packages that allow the developers to access AWS
in a variety of popular programming languages and makes it easy to use AWS in
their existing applications? - CORRECT ANSWER AWS Software Development Kits
(SDKs)
A cloud consultant is working for a medium-sized retail company planning to
migrate its workload to the AWS cloud. The company has identified all the cloud
products and services that will be needed for the first phase of its migration to the
AWS cloud, but it is having problems calculating the costs of the AWS
infrastructure.
Which service would help the company estimate the cost of its use case before
the migration? - CORRECT ANSWER AWS Pricing Calculator
Media Production Inc. (MPI) is one of the thousands of companies that has
achieved a lower variable cost in the last two years by ditching its data centers for
cloud computing. Cloud service providers such as AWS were able to lower MPI's
pay-as-you-go prices by aggregating its subscribers' usage.
Which advantages of cloud computing is MPI benefitting from? - CORRECT
ANSWER Massive Economies of sale
An e-commerce company always over-provisions its servers ahead during annual
shopping seasons in anticipation of a spike in web traffic. This always results in
overspending and unutilized resources. The company recently moved its workload
, to the cloud and can now scale its infrastructure capacity up and down as needed
with only a few minutes notice.
Which cloud computing advantage is the e-commerce company enjoying? -
CORRECT ANSWER Stop Guessing Capacity
A web development company currently hosts its back-end logic and codes on on-
premises servers in its data center. The company wants to migrate to the AWS
cloud and needs a compute service that will allow the developers to run their
code without managing or provisioning servers.
Which AWS compute service best meets this requirement? - CORRECT ANSWER
AWS Lambda
A content distribution startup decided to deliver on-demand videos globally using
the AWS cloud. Lately, customers have been complaining that videos load slowly
and there is a delay between the time a video is requested and the actual time it
starts playing.
Which AWS service can the startup leverage to securely deliver the videos globally
with low latency and high transfer speeds? - CORRECT ANSWER Amazon
CloudFront
An online learning platform is evaluating the AWS cloud for hosting, delivering,
and marketing video courses. With tens of thousands of content providers and
hundreds of thousands of students distributed around the world, it wants to make
sure that the videos are closer to the users and are delivered with high
throughput and the lowest latency possible.
Which AWS infrastructure is set up globally to meet this requirement? - CORRECT
ANSWER Edge Locations