1, Amazon's EC2 is a main cog in the AWS machine, but what does it stand for?
- [x] Elastic Compute Cloud
- [ ] Elastic Central Computing
- [ ] Extended Cloud Core
2, Amazon Redshift is what type of data warehouse service?
- [ ] Gigabyte-scale
- [x] Exobyte-scale
- [ ] Petabyte-scale
- [ ] Terabyte-scale
3, What does MPP stand for when referring to the type of architecture Redshift has?
- [x] massively parallel processing
- [ ] massive protection policy
- [ ] massively parallel policy
- [ ] massive protection processing
4, Redshift can provide fast query performance by leveraging **\**_ storage approaches and technology.
- [ ] key-value
- [x] database
- [ ] row
- [ ] columnar
5, Amazon's Redshift data warehouse allows enterprise IT pros to execute **\_** against ___ data sets.
- [ ] simple SQL queries / small
- [x] complex SQL queries / large
- [ ] simple SQL queries / large
- [ ] complex SQL queries / small
6, Redshift was designed to alleviate the frustrating, time-consuming challenges database clusters have imposed on _ administrators?
- [ ] system
- [x] database
- [ ] certified
[ ] privilege
True or False: Amazon Redshift is adept at handling data analysis workflows.
[ ] True
[x] False
8, Adding nodes to a Redshift cluster provides **\**_ performance improvements.
- [x] linear
- [ ] non-linear
- [ ] both
- [ ] neither
9, The preferred way to load data into Redshift is through __ using the COPY command.
- [x] Remote hosts
- [ ] Simple Storage Service
- [ ] Elastic MapReduce
- [ ] All of the above
11, What type of API provides a management interface to manage data warehouse clusters programmatically?
- [ ] Query
- [x] REST
- [ ] Management
- [ ] SOAP
Amazon Web Services falls into which cloud-computing category?
[ ] Software as a Service (SaaS)
[ ] Platform as a Service (PaaS)
[x] Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
[ ] Back-end as a Service (BaaS)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) does which of the following?
- [ ] Provides customers with an isolated section of the AWS cloud where they can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define.
- [x] Provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud.
- [ ] Provide a simple web services interface that customers can use to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the Web.
- [ ] Provides a web service allowing customers to easily set up, operate and scale relational databases in the cloud.
Amazon Glacier is a storage service allowing customers to store data for as little as:
- [x] 1 cent per gigabyte (GB) per month
- [ ] 10 cents per GB per month
- [ ] 20 cents per GB per month
- [ ] 50 cents per GB per month
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk automates the details of which of the following functions?
- [ ] Capacity provisioning
- [ ] Load balancing
- [ ] Auto-scaling
- [ ] Application deployment
- [x] All of the above
All AWS IaaS services are pay-as-you-go.
- [x] True
- [ ] False
When analyst firm IDC interviewed 11 major AWS customers in 2012, researchers found an average five-year return on investment of how much?
- [ ] 26%
- [ ] 186%
- [x] 626%
- [ ] 1,226%
In the same survey, researchers said the customers' average payback period on their AWS IaaS investments was how long?
- [ ] 7 weeks
- [x] 7 months
- [ ] 14 months
- [ ] 2.5 years
AWS reaches customers in how many countries?
- [ ] 86
- [ ] 137
- [ ] 182
- [x] 190
What are the three authentication options offered by AWS?
- [x] Username and password, certificate, access keys
- [ ] Access monitoring, password, locking systems
- [ ] Access keys, system monitoring, password
Which is a recommended way to protect Access Keys?
- [ ] Train developers how to better protect their access keys.
- [ ] Define IAM policies.
- [ ] Enable CloudWatch notifications.
- [x] All of the above.
What is the practice of distributing responsibility among multiple people so that no one person has full control of everything?
- [ ] Responsible distribution
- [x] Separation of duty
- [ ] Separation of responsibility
Which of these Amazon's tools is for monitoring?
- [x] CloudWatch
- [ ] CloudFront
- [ ] CloudSearch
True or False: A root account credential can be used to log into your AWS account or buy a book on Amazon.com.
- [x] True
- [ ] False
What can happen if a hacker gets a hold of your account key?
- [ ] Accounts can be hacked.
- [ ] Servers may be terminated.
- [ ] Data may be deleted.
- [x] All of the above.
What is AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?
- [ ] Taking multiple factors into consideration when creating an AWS account.
- [ ] A process that authenticates accounts by approving the background factors of each user.
- [x] A practice that adds increased security to an account by using multiple forms of authentication.
Which storage service provides encryption services for both data in flight and data at rest?
- [ ] DynamoDB
- [ ] Relational Database Service (RDS)
- [x] Simple Storage Service (S3)