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Amazon database associated with NoSQL database service
MariaDB
RDS
DynamoDB
SQL
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is associated with what type of database service?
Relational
SQL
NoSQL
Maria
NoSQL
What type of service is Amazon Glacier? What is the general speed of this type of service?
Data archiving. Slow.
Snapshots. Fast.
Data archiving. Fast.
Fridgerator. Cold.
data archiving. slow.
What type of service is associated with low-cost, durable storage for retaining database backups for ~immediate~ retrieval?
DataStore
S3
Glacier
NTFS
Amazon S3
What is the storage limit for EC2 Instance store?
10 GB
5 GB
varies according to instance type
500 GB
Varies according to Instance type
type of service for data backup that is associated with high cost
S3
Glacier
EFS
EBA
Amazon EBA
Name four types of SQL based databases?
Maria
DynamoDB
ElastiCache
Aurora
Redshift
NoSql
RDS
Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, Maria. Aurora
Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS are what type of database?
Nonrelational
NoSQL
Sequential
SQL
SQL
AWS service associated with managing multiple accounts (accounts management)
AWS Upscale
AWS Grow
AWS Organizations
AWS TiddlyWinks
AWS Organizations
Which AWS service is associated with authentication and authorizations (creating groups, rules and users)
IAM
AccountCreation
SecuritySuite
Users
AWS IAM
Which Amazon service is used to migrate databases from on-prem to cloud?
AWS Migration Service
AWS DatabaseMove
AWS DataFling
AWS Schema Conversion Tool (Amazon SCT)
AWS Schema Conversion Tool (Amazon SCT)
“_____” is a service that enables you to access, audit, and evaluate the configuration of your AWS resources
AWS Audit
AWS Config
AWS Eval
AWS EvalConfig
AWS Config
“_______” helps you centrally manage and govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources.
AWS Upscale
AWS Grow
AWS Organizations
AWS TiddlyWinks
AWS Organizations
What approach to transcoding a large number of individual video files adheres to “AWS architecture” principles?
A. Using many instances in parallel
B. Using a single large instance during off-peak hours
C. Using dedicated hardware
D. Using a large GPU instance type
A. Using many instances in parallel
This type of service is a petabyte scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud
AWS PetaScale
AWS Transfer
AWS MoveData
AWS Snowball
AWS Snowball
Name two AWS services that should be used for read/write of ~constantly~ changing data.
S3
AWS RDS
EBS
EFS
AWS RDS & Amazon EFS
A service that simplifies relational database administration tasks
Amazon RDS
Dynamo
Elasticache
Redshift
Amazon RDS
A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales. Which AWS service should they use?
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon Aurora
What does ELB stand for?
elastic load balancer
what type of function does ELB provide?
allows you to distribute the load across multiple machines
what does ASG stand for?
auto scaling group
what dos “EBS” stand for?
Elastic block store
Elastic block stick
Elastic book store
Elastic bring storage
elastic block store
what does EBS do? Choose one
- data archiving
- stores data in buckets
- allows data to be written to file systems
- provides network storage for EC2 instances, outside of the instances, so it’s still available even when an instance is turned off/shut down
provides network storage for EC2 instances, outside of the instances, so it’s still available even when an instance is turned off/shut down
what does EFS stand for?
Elastic File System
What type of storage does this describe?
provides file storage for EC2 instances, containers, serverless, and on-prem storage
S3
EBS
SSD
EFS
EFS
what are three storage options for EC2?
EFS
S3
EBA
Instance store
EBS
EFS, EBS and in-instance storage
The name for a script that you can add to your EC2 instance that runs the first time (and ONLY the first time) that you launch your EC2 instance
EC2 StartupScript
EC2 Script
EC2 FirstRun
EC2 user data (boot strap)
EC2 user data (boot strap)
what are three tasks that an “EC2 user data” script can be used for?
- to automate tasks
- install updates or software
- download common files from the internet
- Call other scripts for assistance (script shouts)
- Mine/search data
- to automate tasks
- install updates or software
- download common files from the internet
the t2.micro is part of what tier of service?
free tier
what is the maximum # of hours per month for a free tier EC2 instance
250
500
750
1,000
750
what is a “key pair” used for?
To SSH into an EC2 Instance
To log into your AWS account
To encrypt data on S3
To verify each key against one another
to SSH into an EC2 instance
what type of “key pair” can be used for Linux, Mac, and Windows 10 or greater?
ssh
.key
.ppk
.pem
.pem
what type of “key pair” can be used for Windows 7 or Windows 8 (ie Windows versions below that of 10)
ssh
.key
.ppk
.pem
.ppk
what is the EC2 in-instance storage limit for free-tier?
1 GB
10 GB
3 GB
30 GB
30GB
When type of group is associated with an EC2 firewall?
security group
when is AWS likely to change the public IP address for your EC2 instance?
Never
when stop/re-start instance
When damn well feels like it
When you owe money
when you stop and then restart and instance.
When you stop and then restart an EC2 instance, what type of change is AWS likely to make?
No changes will occur
Change the instance type
Change your public IP address
Will delete all associated security groups
it is likely to change your public IP address
in the instance naming convention of m5.2xlarge, what does the “m” represent? the “5”? the “xlarge”?
M - generation: 5 - core CPUs; xlarge - memory used
M - instance class
5 - instance generation, lower the number, older the generation
xlarge - size within the instance class (larger size equals more memory, larger CPU, etc)
M - instance class
5 - instance generation, lower the number, older the generation
xlarge - size within the instance class (larger size equals more memory, larger CPU, etc)
What type of instance type is this?
1. great for diversity of workloads (web servers or code repositories)
2. balance between CPU, memory and networking
3. are of the “t2” name
Storage Optimized
General purpose
Memory optimized
Compute
General Purpose
What type of instance type is this?
1 computer-intensive requiring high performance processors
a. batch processing workloads
b. media transcoding
c. high performance web servers
d. high performance computing (HPC)
e. scientific modeling & machine learning
f. dedicated gaming servers
g. are of the “C” name (c5, c6, etc)
Memory Optimized
Storage Optimized
Compute Optimized
Optimized prime
Compute Optimized