WGU D282 CLOUD FOUNDATIONS (OBJECTIVE 1)
ASSESSMENT STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTION!!
1.Six advantages of cloud computing: 1. Trade capital expense for
variable expense
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 MapReduce (EMR): Serverless big data platform used to
process vast amounts of data with open source tools like Apache.
4.Redshift: SQL data warehouse
5.QuickSight: BI service used to create dashboards to deliver insights
into analyt- ics.
6.Glue: Extract, transform, load service used to prepare and load data fo
analytics.
7.Simple Queue Service (SQS): Fully managed message queuing
service that facilitates decoupling; stores messages until processed
by consumers.
8.Simple Notification Service (SNS): Pub/sub messaging service; can send
mes- sages to multiple subscribers at once; 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 offering lower
prices com- pared to on-demand pricing in exchange for a usage
commitment ($/hour) for 1- or 3-year terms.
12.Lightsail: Easy way to launch and manage a virtual private server;
includes everything you need to start a project; low, predictable
pricing.
13.Elastic Beanstalk: Service for deploying and scaling web
applications and services; upload your code and EB automatically
deploys, etc.
14.Fargate: Serverless compute engine for ECS (Elastic Container
Service).
15.Lamda: Serverless computing to run code; no charge when code is no
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ASSESSMENT STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTION!!
1.Six advantages of cloud computing: 1. Trade capital expense for
variable expense
2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
3. Stop guessing capacity
4. Increase speed and agility
5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
6. Go global in minutes
2.Athena: Serverless SQL service used to analyze data in S3.
3.Elastic MapReduce (EMR): Serverless big data platform used to
process vast amounts of data with open source tools like Apache.
4.Redshift: SQL data warehouse
5.QuickSight: BI service used to create dashboards to deliver insights
into analyt- ics.
6.Glue: Extract, transform, load service used to prepare and load data fo
analytics.
7.Simple Queue Service (SQS): Fully managed message queuing
service that facilitates decoupling; stores messages until processed
by consumers.
8.Simple Notification Service (SNS): Pub/sub messaging service; can send
mes- sages to multiple subscribers at once; facilitates decoupling.
9.Cost Explorer: Interface that lets you visualize and manage your costs
and usage over time; create reports.
10.Budgets: Set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or
usage exceed (or forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.
11.Savings Plans: Flexible pricing for EC2 and Fargate offering lower
prices com- pared to on-demand pricing in exchange for a usage
commitment ($/hour) for 1- or 3-year terms.
12.Lightsail: 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 no
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