Quiz: Cloud Concepts

1. An organization replaces its $500,000 data center expansion with pay-per-use cloud services. Which advantage of cloud computing does this best represent?

2. AWS achieves lower costs by aggregating usage from millions of customers and passing those savings on as lower prices. Which advantage is this?

3. A developer using Amazon RDS does not need to patch the database engine. Which cloud service model is RDS?

4. Which deployment model connects on-premises data centers with AWS cloud resources, often used during phased migration?

5. A company wants to migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. Which two AWS services are designed for this heterogeneous migration?

6. A research institute needs to transfer 60 petabytes of genomic data from their on-premises data center to AWS. Internet upload would take months. Which AWS service is purpose-built for this?

7. A company spends $3 million annually on data center staff, power, cooling, and physical security. Which cloud advantage directly eliminates these costs?

8. The HR department needs to assess organizational skill gaps and prioritize training for cloud adoption. Which AWS CAF perspective should they use?

9. A CTO wants to describe the architecture of the target state environment and plan migration of on-premises workloads to AWS. Which CAF perspective covers this?

10. Which CAF perspective is led by the CISO and focuses on auditability, visibility, control, and agility in the cloud environment?

11. A company plans to move its application to AWS without redesigning the architecture. Which migration strategy — one of the 7 R's — does this describe?

12. A developer wants to call AWS services directly from their Python application code. Which interaction method should they use?

13. A startup has no capital to buy servers and needs to get their web application running immediately in multiple countries. Which combination of cloud advantages best maps to their situation?

14. A company deploys all its resources on AWS with no remaining on-premises infrastructure. Which deployment model is this?

15. Which CAF perspective focuses on day-to-day IT operations, service management, and aligning IT services with business needs on a quarter-to-quarter basis?