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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Practice Tests: Associate SAA–C01 Exam

By : BRETT MCLAUGHLIN
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Practice Tests: Associate SAA–C01 Exam

By: BRETT MCLAUGHLIN

Overview of this book

With five unique practice tests, covering the five AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam objective domains, PLUS one additional practice exam,?AWS Certified Solutions Architect Practice Tests provides?a total of 1,000 practice test questions to make sure you are prepared for exam day. Coverage of all exam objective domains includes: Design Resilient Architectures, Define Performant Architectures, Specify Secure Applications and Architectures, Design Cost-Optimized Architectures, Define Operationally Excellent Architectures.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

  1. A, B. When instance cost is the issue, the answers are almost always to consider some form of lowered instance pricing. AWS provides reserved instances and spot instances and the spot market for this purpose. Further, paying for reserved instances all up front is the most cost-effective means of getting reserved instances. Therefore, A and B are correct. C is problematic, as running a smaller instance for longer is not necessarily any cheaper than running a large instance for shorter amounts of time. Option D has some validity, but AWS is almost certainly going to point you back to either reserved instances or the spot market (A and B).
  2. C, D. Reserved instances can be paid for in no up-front, partial up-front, and all up-front models, where all up-front is the least expensive and no up-front is the most expensive.
  3. D. Reserved instances are locked to the region in which they are created, so D is correct. You would need to create a new reserved...