Cloud Computing Foundations
Week 4
Cloud Service Model Quiz
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Question 1
Which is an example of a Cloud delivery model?
You got it! PaaS or Platform as a Service is a cloud delivery model that abstracts much of the complexity of software infrastructure.
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Question 2
What is an advantage of a static site?
You got it! There are no servers involved in hosting a static site.
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Question 3
What is an appropriate use case for a Virtual Machine?
You got it! Virtual Machines are ideal for exploration of ideas in software engineering projects.
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Question 4
What type of service is Google App Engine (GAE)?
You got it! GAE is a Platform as a Service offering.
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Question 5
What is AWS Lambda?
You got it! AWS Lambda is a type of serverless offering since it requires no servers.
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Question 6
What does Comparative Advantage mean for Cloud computing?
You got it! It is an economic theory that highlights the importance on focusing on your unique advantage and outsourcing other tasks.
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Question 7
What is Elastic Beanstalk?
You got it! AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS offering on the AWS Cloud.
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Question 8
What is a Spot Instance?
You got it! AWS Spot instances are bid like an auction, resulting in substantial savings of up to 80-90% off.
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Question 9
What is a Function as a Service (FaaS)?
You got it! AWS Lambda is both a FaaS and a PaaS since is a function deployed without the use of servers.
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Question 10
What is Amazon S3?
You got it! Amazon S3 is object storage that has near infinite scale and compute.