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Amazon Cloud P ractitioner Certification
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.
What factors are taken in account to estimate S3 storage charges? - correct answers Storage Class, storage (the number
and size of objects stored in your S3 bucket), requests (the number and type of requests), and data transfer(the amount of
data transferred out of the S3 region) are factors that should be considered to estimate S3 charges.
Which type of AWS storage is analogous to virtual disks in the cloud? - correct answers Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
