AWS Cloud Practitioner Basics

In what year did Amazon launch AWS?

• 1999
• 2001
• 2006
• 2010

Paying up front to buy hardware is a ____ expense.

• capital
• operating
• variable
• recurring

The ability to quickly scale resources up or down is called ____.

• reliability
• latency
• durability
• elasticity

A Region contains multiple Availability Zones.

• True
• False

What does EC2 stand for?

• Elastic Compute Cloud
• External Cloud Compute
• Elastic Container Cloud
• Efficient Compute Core

Which EC2 pricing option can be interrupted?

• Dedicated
• Spot Instances
• On-Demand
• Reserved

What does S3 stand for?

• Secure Storage System
• Simple Storage Service
• Server Storage Service
• Scalable Storage Suite

In S3, files are stored as objects inside containers called ____.

• instances
• buckets
• folders
• volumes

Each S3 bucket name must be globally unique.

• True
• False

Which S3 storage class is best for rarely accessed archives?

• S3 Frequent
• S3 Rapid
• S3 Standard
• S3 Glacier

AWS ____ controls who can access resources and what actions they can perform.

• IAM
• S3
• VPC
• EC2

Giving users only the permissions they need is the principle of least ____.

• security
• access
• privilege
• control

In the shared responsibility model, customers secure the physical hardware.

• True
• False

Reserved Instances offer discounts for committing to spare unused capacity.

• True
• False

What security feature does AWS recommend for the root account?

• MFA
• No password
• Auto-scaling
• Public access