Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM)

Question 1

Which AWS services can have an Amazon Certificate Manager, ACM, directly attached? There are 4 services

Answer 1

• API Gateway
• Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
• CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN)
• EB through ELB

Question 2

AWS Certificate Manager

Which type of certificate is available free from ACM?

Answer 2

Public

Question 3

This AWS service lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with your AWS services

Answer 3

AWS Certificate Manager

Question 4

Which SSL termination strategy is easiest to maintain?

Answer 4

Terminating SSL at the load balancer

Question 5

Which is the more secure method of terminating SSL?

Answer 5

Terminating SSL End-to-End

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Question 6

The 2 methods of terminating SSL when using AWS Certificate Manager

Answer 6

Terminating SSL at the load balancer & Terminating SSL End-To-End

Question 7

What is AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)?

What are its 3 features?

Answer 7

• It’s a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private (SSL/TLS) certificates
• Kind of certificates (Public, Private)
• Attachable in (ELB, CloudFront, API Gateway and EB)
• Methods of terminating SSL (End-to-end and at the LB)