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Cloud Concepts & AWS Core Services Flashcards

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  1. A company is evaluating cloud providers and wants to benefit from the massive purchasing power AWS has built through millions of customers. Which cloud advantage does this describe?

    Answer: Benefit from massive economies of scale

    AWS aggregates usage from hundreds of thousands of customers, achieving economies of scale that result in lower pay-as-you-go prices.

  2. Which AWS storage class is designed for data that is accessed less than once a month and offers the lowest storage cost in S3?

    Answer: S3 Glacier Deep Archive

    S3 Glacier Deep Archive is the lowest-cost S3 storage class, designed for long-term retention of data accessed rarely (once or twice a year).

  3. Which AWS networking component acts as a virtual firewall controlling inbound and outbound traffic at the instance level?

    Answer: Security Group

    Security Groups are stateful virtual firewalls applied to EC2 instances that control inbound and outbound traffic at the instance level.

  4. A company wants to decouple application components so that a failure in one component does not affect others. Which AWS service best supports this pattern?

    Answer: Amazon SQS

    Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) decouples components by storing messages in a queue, so producers and consumers operate independently.

  5. What is an AWS Region?

    Answer: A collection of Availability Zones in a geographic area

    An AWS Region is a separate geographic area containing multiple, isolated Availability Zones that are physically separated data centers.

  6. Which service provides a fully managed NoSQL key-value and document database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale?

    Answer: Amazon DynamoDB

    Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database that delivers consistent single-digit millisecond performance regardless of scale.

  7. Which AWS pricing model offers the largest discount (up to 90%) compared to On-Demand pricing in exchange for a one- or three-year commitment?

    Answer: Spot Instances

    Spot Instances use spare AWS capacity and can be up to 90% cheaper than On-Demand, though AWS can reclaim them with a 2-minute warning.