1.2 Identify design principles of the AWS Cloud.
Objective 1.2 sits in Cloud Concepts, which carries 24% of the Cloud Practitioner exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the AWS page it rests on.
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A team skips full scale load testing because a permanent copy of production would cost too much to keep. Which design principle answers that?
The concept
A rented environment can be built for an afternoon and thrown away. That changes which experiments are worth running, not only how they are paid for.
Why this answer
You stand up a full size copy on demand, run the load through it, then delete it, so the bill is a few hours of compute rather than a second data centre.
- ADriving architecture with data means collecting evidence from a running workload. It tells you what to change, not how to afford a test rig.
- BGame days rehearse an event in production. Useful, but the blocker here is paying for a second environment, not a lack of practice.
- Correct. The cloud lets you create a production-scale test environment on demand and decommission it once the testing is finished.
- DEvolutionary architecture is about revisiting decisions over the life of a system. Here the obstacle is the price of an environment.
Now you: objective 1.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
Which of these is one of the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
Sample question 2 of 3
A team wants their workload to react to a breached threshold without paging an engineer first. Which reliability design principle is that?
Sample question 3 of 3
An operations group has never run its failover plan outside a document. Which reliability design principle are they missing?
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