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Cloud Computing Fundamentals Flashcards

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  1. Which AWS service provides a content delivery network (CDN) to distribute content with low latency?

    Answer: Amazon CloudFront

    Amazon CloudFront is AWS's CDN service that caches content at edge locations worldwide to reduce latency for end users.

  2. Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which task is ALWAYS the customer's responsibility?

    Answer: Controlling access to customer data and IAM configurations

    Customers are always responsible for managing their data, configuring access controls, and managing IAM users, regardless of service type.

  3. What is the primary purpose of AWS Availability Zones?

    Answer: To provide fault isolation and enable high-availability architectures

    Availability Zones are physically separate, isolated data centers within a Region that protect applications from single-datacenter failures.

  4. Which cloud service model provides the highest level of abstraction, allowing users to run applications without managing infrastructure or runtime environments?

    Answer: SaaS

    SaaS (Software as a Service) delivers fully managed applications over the internet, requiring no infrastructure or platform management from the user.

  5. What is an AWS Edge Location used for?

    Answer: Caching content for CloudFront and serving Route 53 DNS queries

    Edge Locations are AWS infrastructure points used by CloudFront to cache content and by Route 53 to answer DNS queries with low latency.

  6. Which benefit of cloud computing refers to the ability to access services from anywhere using a standard internet connection?

    Answer: Broad network access

    Broad network access means cloud services are available over the network and accessible through standard mechanisms from any location or device.

  7. A company wants to avoid the capital expense of purchasing servers. Which cloud computing advantage does this represent?

    Answer: Trading capital expense for variable expense

    Cloud computing lets organizations trade large upfront capital expenditures (CapEx) for smaller, ongoing operational expenditures (OpEx) based on actual consumption.