AWS Cloud Practitioner General 2

Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

Savings Plans

Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Amazon VPC

Answer

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Configuring security groups and IAM permissions

Answer

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Amazon S3 Glacier

Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

High availability and fault tolerance

Answer

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

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