Cloud Concepts

Question 1

Cloud Computing (2)

Answer 1

on-demand delivery of IT resources via Internet

Pay-as-you-go pricing

Question 2

Benefits of cloud computing (5)

Answer 2

Trade capital expense to variable expense
Economies of scale
No need to guess capacity
Agility
No physical maintenance

Question 3

Elasticity

Answer 3

ability to acquire recourses needed and release them when not needed

Question 4

Reliability

Answer 4

ability to always provide functionality

Question 5

Agility (4)

Answer 5

Lower costs of testing and new ideas
Reducing maintenance time
Reduce security risk
Access to new technologies

Question 6

IaaS (A)

Answer 6

Infrastructure as a Service

full virtual servers ran in the cloud

Question 7

SaaS (A)

Answer 7

Software as a Service

software is licensed and hosted in the cloud

Question 8

PaaS (A)

Answer 8

Platform as a Service

bundle of one or more applications in the cloud without a full VM

Question 9

Public Cloud

Answer 9

deployed on public cloud provider

Question 10

Private Cloud

Answer 10

cloud-like platform in private datacenter

Question 11

Hybrid Cloud

Answer 11

public cloud applications connected to private datacenter

Question 12

Availability

Answer 12

application is built so that single failure won’t reduce functionality

Question 13

Region (2)

Answer 13

Specific geographic location

Location has cluster of datacenters

Question 14

AZ (3)

Answer 14

Availability Zone
Distinct locations in region that are isolated to provide availability
Each Region has multiple Availability Zones

Question 15

Edge Location (2)

Answer 15

Allows AWS to serve content from locations closest to users

Node of CDN (Content Delivery Network)

Question 16

Cost Explorer (3)

Answer 16

Provides cost breakdown by service
Predicted costs over next 3 months
Optimization recommendations

Question 17

Budgets

Answer 17

Utilizes data from Cost Explorer to plan and track costs

Question 18

TCO Calculator (A)

Answer 18

Total Cost of ownership

estimates savings from moving services from onprem to cloud

Question 19

Pricing Calculator (2)

Answer 19

create an estimate of costs

May share or export an estimate

Question 20

Resource Tag (3)

Answer 20

Assigned to specific resource
Name and optional value
Used to organize by department, project, etc. in cost tools

Question 21

AWS Organization (3)

Answer 21

Multiple accounts under single master account
Consolidated and itemized billing
Centralize logging and security policies

Question 22

AWS Support Plan Tiers (4)

Answer 22

Basic
Developer
Business
Enterprise

Question 23

Basic Support (4)

Answer 23

Free for all customers
Access to 7 core trusted advisor checks
24x7 customer service access
Personal health dashboard

Question 24

Developer Support (4)

Answer 24

Basic support
Access to support engineers in business hours
Limited to one contact
Starts at $29/month

Question 25

Business Support (4)

Answer 25

Developer support Full set of Trusted Advisor checks Access to support engineers 24x7 Starts at $100/month

Question 26

Enterprise Support (4)

Answer 26

Business support Includes Technical Account Manager Concierge support Starts at $15k/month

Question 27

Business-Critical System Down (2)

Answer 27

Enterprise Support only | 15 minutes response time

Question 28

Production System Down (2)

Answer 28

Business or Enterprise Support | 1 hour response time

Question 29

Production System Impaired (2)

Answer 29

Business or Enterprise | 4 hours response time

Question 30

System Impaired (2)

Answer 30

``` Any paid tier 12 hours (or business hours) response time ```

Question 31

General Guidance (2)

Answer 31

``` Any paid tier 24 hours (or business hours) ```

Question 32

Personal Health Dashboard

Answer 32

provides alerts and remediation guidance when an AWS event may impact you

Question 33

Trusted Advisor (3)

Answer 33

compare AWS usage to best practices | Different checks available based on support tier

Question 34

Trusted Advisor Checks (5)

Answer 34

``` Cost optimization Performance Security Fault tolerance Service limits ```

Question 35

Quick Starts

Answer 35

step by step deployment instructions for common technology

Question 36

Partner Network Consulting

Answer 36

3rd-party subject matter experts for migrations to AWS

Question 37

Professional Services

Answer 37

AWS employed engineers that can help on a project