1. A solution that is able to support growth in users, traffic, or data size with no drop in performance aligns with which cloud architecture principle?
A) A. Think parallel B) B. Implement elasticity C) C. Decouple your components D) D. Design for failure
2. A company will be moving from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. What would be one financial difference after the move?
A) A. Moving from variable operational expense (opex) to upfront capital expense (capex). B) B. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable capital expense (capex). C) C. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable operational expense (opex). D) D. Elimination of upfront capital expense (capex) and elimination of variable operational expense (opex).
3. How should a customer forecast the future costs for running a new web application?
A) A. Amazon Aurora Backtrack B) B. Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms C) C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator D) D. AWS Cost and Usage report
4. Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?
A) A. Enterprise B) B. Business C) C. Developer D) D. Basic
5. Which of the following tasks is the responsibility of AWS?
A) A. Encrypting client-side data B) B. Configuring AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles C) C. Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor D) D. Setting user password policies
1. Right Answer: B Explanation: https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/AWS_Cloud_Best_Practices.pdf
2. Right Answer: C Explanation:
3. Right Answer: C Explanation: You can use Cost explorer which is part of Cost and Usage report to forecast future costs of running an application. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ce-forecast.html
4. Right Answer: B Explanation: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/
5. Right Answer: C Explanation: In EC2, the AWS IaaS offering, everything from the hypervisor layer down is AWS's responsibility. A customer's poorly coded applications, misconfigured operating systems, or insecure firewall settings will not affect the hypervisor, it will only affect the customer's virtual machines running on that hypervisor. https://www.mindpointgroup.com/blog/the-aws-shared-responsibility-model-part-1-security-in-thecloud/
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