AWS Business Professional (Digital)

Module 1

 “Cloud Computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources and applications via the Internet,
with pay-as-you-go-pricing
 Three factors that influence agility:
o Speed
 Go global in minutes
o Experimentation
 Reduce the time to get resources available to minutes
 Lower the cost and time to experiment and develop
 Increase agility for your organization
o Culture of innovation
 Experiment often
 Failure quickly at low cost
 More innovation
 AWS infrastructure is everywhere except for Africa and Antartica
 Regions  availability zones  edge locations
o Region is a collection of two or more availability zones in a specific geographic area
o Availability Zones (AZs) are isolated collections of AWS resources, analgous to clusters of
data centers
o Edge locations – Robust Content Delivery Network that hosts websites; dynamic, static,
and streaming content; requests are automatically routed to the nearest edge location
 To help customers achieve a global presence, AWS lets you place your applications in which of
the following infrastructure pieces around the world?
o Regions

Module 2

 Managed Service Program

o Provides qualified APN partners with technical and business benefits to deliver AWS
Cloud services as business solutions to AWS Customers
 AWS Quickstarts
o Built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help you deploy popular solutiosn on
AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability.
o These reference deployments implement key technologies automatically on the AWS
Cloud, often with a single click and in less than an hour. You can build your test or
production environment in a few simple steps, and start using it immediately
 Which Partner Program provides APN consulting partners with technical and business benefits
such as proactive monitoring and automation for their customer’s environment?
o AWS Managed Services
 AWS Partner Ecosystem
o Includes a growing community of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Systems
Integrators (SIs), and Value Added Resellers (VARs) that are building services and
solutions on cloud computing with Amazon Web Services
o AWS Partner Network (APN)
 Global partner program for AWS
o AWS Marketplace
 Allows customers to discover, evaluate, and purchase IT and business software
optimized for the AWS Cloud
o AWS Core Benefits
 Cost
 Elasticity
 Flexibility
 Security
o Cost Benefit: Cost Savings
 Trade capital expense for variable expense
o Cost Benefit: Economies of Scale
 AWS continuously lowers prices
o Cost Benefit
 Pay only for what you use
o Benefit: Elasticity
 Easily scale up and down.
 Quickly Deploy new applications
 Instantly scale up as the workload grows
 Instantly shut down resources that are no longer required
 When you scale down, you don’t pay for the infrastructure
o Elasticity Benefit: Capacity Planning and Auto Scaling
 Only what is needed is provisioned
o Flexibility Benefit:
 Customers use their existing programming models, operating systems,
databases, and architecture
o Security Benefit
 Share Responsibility Model provides a global secure infrastructure for AWS and
customers
o AWS takes the guesswork out of capacity planning by:
 Letting you scale up or down based on actual resource needs
o Referring to the Shared Responsibility Model, choose 3 controls that are managed by
the AWS customer:
 Operating system
 Network and firewall configuration
 Security group authorization
o Customer Adoption Journey
 Explore
 Adopt
 Expand
  Transform
o Customer Adoption Journey: Explore
 Deploy non-critical applications
 Setup security and user roles
 Configure VPC
 Integrate with AWS environment
 Deploy dev/test workloads
o Customer Adoption Journey: Adopt
 Company website
 Run test/dev applications
 Migrate production applications
 Deploy analytics workloads
o Customer Adoption Journey: Expand
 Expand their use of the AWS platform
 View the platform from a whole of business perspective
 Form teams to explore areas to leverage
o Customer Adoption Journey: Transform
 Companies revisit and align their core IT strategies with the cloud
 Adopt DevOps methodologies
 Focus on automation and code refactoring to leverage AWS application services

Business Professional Assessment 1

o Which of the following regarding the Shared Responsibility Model does the customer
assume responsibility for?
 The configuration of the AWS provided security group firewall
o Which of the following are the core components of cloud computing?
 Compute, storage, database, networking
o Select the key benefits of the AWS Partner Ecosystem
 Enables customers to easily find high quality partners to help get the most out
of the cloud
 Partners can join fundamental programs designed to support their unique AWS-
based business
 Provides members of the AWS partner ecosystem with business, technical, and
marketing support
o Which of the following are advantages of cloud computing?
 Pay for only what you use
 Self-service infrastructure
 No limits on storage capacity
 Rapid access to computing resources
o To help customers achieve a global presence, AWS lets you place your applications in
which of the following infrastructure pieces around the world?
 AWS Regions
o Choose the best three responses that describe how AWS offers IT infrastructure at a
lower cost
  AWS is comfortable running a high-volume, low-margin business
 AWS passes the savings along to customers in the form of lower prices
 Scale allows AWS to continuously reduce cost
o Which of the following statements best describes Auto Scaling
 Increases or decreases compute resources on demand to meet your business
needs and minimize costs
o A stock trading company wants to deliver real-time data to its customers. Which
component of the AWS cloud computing platform will you explain to help convince the
customer about robust content delivery network of AWS?
 Availability Zones
o Primary areas to touch upon when talking to potential customers about moving to AWS
include:
 Replace CapEx with OpEx
 Increase agility, speed, and innovation
 Shift your company’s focus to the things that truly differentiate your business
o Select the key benefits of AWS Marketplace
 Breadth of available products optimized for AWS
 Quickly launch pre-configured server images
 Online store for partners to offer pre-configured software
o Referring the Share Responsibility Model, which of the following controls are managed
by AWS?
 The configuration of the security group firewall
 The physical security of the facilities in which the services operate
 Updates and security patches
o Which of the following are examples of how a consulting/system integrator can benefit
from using AWS Marketplace?
 Simplify and accelerate client proof-of-concept engagements
 Access to customer data and reporting
 Opportunities for upsell of services through add-on solutions
o A developer of online games for social networking and mobile platforms requires a
solution that will enable them to scale based on demand. Which attribute of cloud
computing will you highlight when talking to the customer?
 Elasticity
o AWS takes the guesswork out of capacity planning by:
 Provisioning exactly the resources you need at the start of a project and letting
you scale up or down based on actual resource needs.
o Which of the following statements describe loud computing?
 Computing resources are delivered as a service
 Users can access resources at anytime from anywhere on the web
 No need to purchase and maintain new hardware
o Which statement best describes Availability Zones?
 Distinct locations within an AWS Region that are engineered to be isolated from
failures while providing low latency
o Amazon EC2 is part of which service category?
  Compute

Module 3

 Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Evaluation Methodology

o Acquisition costs
o Operating costs
o Decommissioning and retiring systems cost
 Replace large upfront expenditures with pay-as-you-go and only for what you use (lower TCO
with AWS)
o Capital expense  variable expense
 Pricing model choice to support variable and stable workloads (lower TCO with AWS)
o On-demand
o Reserved
o Spot
 Save more money as you grow bigger (lower TCO with AWS)
o Tiered Pricing
o Volume Discounts
o Custom Pricing
 Co-location Center
o Type of data center where equipment space and bandwidth are available to retail
customers
 More time to focus on your business
o When you move to the cloud, only 30% of your time should be spent architecting for the
cloud and configuring your assets (vs. 7-% on-prem)
 Total Cost of Ownership equation
o TCO = Acquisition Costs + Operations Costs
 The cost areas that are factored when following the AWS TCO methodology
o S: Server Costs
o I: IT Labor Costs
o N: Network Costs
o S: Storage Costs
 Achieving a lower TCO by:
o Convert your capital expense into variable expense
o AWS runs at a massive scale and passes that scale to customers in the form of lower
pricing
o Multiple pricing models support variable and stable workloads
o The more you use AWS, the lower your costs are
 A TCO analysis is typically used for:
o Comparing the costs of running an entire infrastructure environment on premises or in a
co-location facility versus on AWS
o Comparing the cost of the underlying infrastructure requirements for a specific
workload to the cost of running that workload on AWS
o Building the business case for moving to AWS
 Use the TCO Calculator:
o To compare the cost of running your applications in an on-premises or colocation
environment to AWS
 AWS Pricing Principles
o No up-front investment
o Pay per use
o Pay as you go
o Services priced independently
o Volume pricing discounts
o Reserved instance discounts
 Fundamental Cost Characteristics
o Compute
 Majority driven by EC2
o Storage
 Majority driven by S3
o Data Transfer Out
 Majority driven by Amazon EBS
 Amazon EC2 Pricing
o Compute
 Instance type/hour
 Amazon EC2 purchase options
 Network I/O
o Storage
 Volume storage
 Snapshot storage
 Volume I/O
o Other Costs
 Load Balancing
 Detailed Monitoring
 Auto Scaling
 Elastic OP Addresses
 Operating Systems and Software Packages
 IOPS
o Input Output per second
 Amazon EBS Volumes
o Off-instance storage that persists independently form the life of an instance
 ELB
o Elastic Load Balancing. An Elastic Load Balancer can be used to distribute traffic among
Amazon EC2 instances
 Data Transfer Costs
o Data transfer out, not transfer in
o Cross Availability Zone or AZ data transfer
 o Data transferred in different regions is charged as Internet Data Transfer on both sides
of transfer
 The AWS pricing principles are based on the following:
o Pay as you go
o Volume based discounts
o Reserved instance discounts

Assessment 3

 To compare the cost of running your application in an on-premises or colocation environment to

AWS, it’s best to use which tool?
o TCO Calculator
 Which are the basic configuration areas you are comparing when using the TCO calculator?
o Physical servers or virtual machines
o Your IT enconrment
o Idle vs. utilized resources
 The AWS pricing principles are based on the following:
o Reserve Instance discounts
o Pay as you go
o Pay per use
o Volume Pricing discounts
 A TCO analysis is typically use for which of the following:
o Comparing the cost to run a specific workload to the cost of running that workload on
AWS
o Comparing the cost of running an entire infrastructure environment on premises or in a
colocation facility
o Building a business case for moving to AWS
 Which AWS tool should you use to calculate the cost of lUanching a web application?
o AWS TCO Calculator
 Which tool inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations when opportunities
exist to save money by eliminating unused and idle resources or making commitments to
reserved capacity?
o Trusted Advisor
 Which of the following statements are true about AWS Services?
o Customers only pay for what they use
o Long-term contracts are not required
o Customers can start or stop using a service at any time
o Each AWS service is priced independently
 Which AWS tool is designed to enable you to get hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services
at no charge for 12 months after you sign up?
o Free tier
 The definition of TCO is:
o The acquisition and operating costs for running an infrastructure environment along
with the costs of refreshing, decommissioning, and retiring systems
 Compute pricing is based on the following:
o Network I/O
o Amazon EC2 purchasing options
o Instance type per instance running hours
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