Cloud Practitioner General Flashcards

Which AWS pricing model lets you pay a reduced rate by committing to a consistent amount of compute usage for a 1- or 3-year term?

Answer: Savings Plans

Savings Plans offer lower prices in exchange for a 1- or 3-year commitment to a specific compute usage amount.

Which AWS service provides a virtual network isolated within the AWS cloud where you can launch resources?

Answer: Amazon VPC

Amazon VPC lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud to launch resources in a defined virtual network.

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

Answer: Configuring security groups and IAM permissions

Customers are responsible for security 'in' the cloud, including IAM, security groups, and their data.

Which AWS storage service is designed for archival data with the lowest cost and retrieval times of minutes to hours?

Answer: Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier is built for low-cost, long-term archival storage with slower retrieval options.

What is the primary benefit of deploying an application across multiple Availability Zones?

Answer: High availability and fault tolerance

Spreading resources across multiple AZs protects an application from the failure of a single data center.

Which AWS service provides on-demand access to compute capacity as virtual servers?

Answer: Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 provides resizable virtual server (instance) compute capacity in the cloud.

Which AWS support plan is the minimum required to get a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

Answer: Enterprise

A dedicated Technical Account Manager is included only with the Enterprise Support plan.