Architecture Flashcards

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Well-architected framework

Architecture

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Best practices for AWS infrastructure

Architecture

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Operational Excellence

Best Practice

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Running and monitoring systems for business value

Best Practice

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Security

Best Practice

A

Protecting information and business assets

Best Practice

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Reliability

Best Practice

A

Enabling recovery from disruptions

Best Practice

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5
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Performance Efficiency

Best Practice

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Using resources efficiently to achieve business value

Best Practice

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6
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Cost Optimization

Best Practice

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Achieving minimal costs for desired value

Best Practice

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7
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Fault Tolerance

Reliability

A

Business continues despite failure of some components

Reliability

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8
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High Availability

Reliability

A

Keeping the entire solution running despite issues that may occur

Reliability

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9
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AWS Service Reliability

Reliability

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Most AWS services provide reliability automatically

Reliability

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10
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EC2 Reliability

Reliability

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Solutions on EC2 must be designed for reliability

Reliability

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AZ Best Practice

Reliability

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Use multiple AZ when possible

Reliability

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12
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Service Catalog

Architecture

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managed catalog of IT services

Architecture

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13
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items included (2)

Service Catalog

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  • server images
  • custom applications

Service Catalog

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14
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quality of services

Service Catalog

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validated to meet compliance and best practices

Service Catalog

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lifecycle

Service Catalog

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allows end users to set time to end use of a service

Service Catalog

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16
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Marketplace

Architecture

A

Curated catalog of 3rd party software

Architecture

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Q

items in the Marketplace (3)

Marketplace

A
  • AMIs
  • CloudFormation stacks
  • SaaS items

Marketplace

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Pricing

Marketplace

A

Purchased items are charged on AWS bill

Marketplace

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19
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Scalability types (2)

Architecture

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  • vertical
  • horizontal

Architecture

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20
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vertical scaling

Scalability

A

increase or decrease instance size

Scalability

21
Q

horizontal scaling

Scalability

A

adding or removing instances for clustered applications

Scalability

22
Q

example services (2)

horizontal scaling

A
  • ELB
  • auto scaling group

horizontal scaling

23
Q

high availability in AWS

Architecture

A

run clustered applications across multiple AZ

Architecture

24
Q

example services (2)

high availability

A
  • multi-AZ ELB
  • multi-AZ auto scaling group

high availability

25
Q

Best practices for AWS infrastructure

Architecture

A

Well-architected framework

Architecture

26
Q

Running and monitoring systems for business value

Best Practice

A

Operational Excellence

Best Practice

27
Q

Protecting information and business assets

Best Practice

A

Security

Best Practice

28
Q

Enabling recovery from disruptions

Best Practice

A

Reliability

Best Practice

29
Q

Using resources efficiently to achieve business value

Best Practice

A

Performance Efficiency

Best Practice

30
Q

Achieving minimal costs for desired value

Best Practice

A

Cost Optimization

Best Practice

31
Q

Business continues despite failure of some components

Reliability

A

Fault Tolerance

Reliability

32
Q

Keeping the entire solution running despite issues that may occur

Reliability

A

High Availability

Reliability

33
Q

Most AWS services provide reliability automatically

Reliability

A

AWS Service Reliability

Reliability

34
Q

Solutions on EC2 must be designed for reliability

Reliability

A

EC2 Reliability

Reliability

35
Q

Use multiple AZ when possible

Reliability

A

AZ Best Practice

Reliability

36
Q

managed catalog of IT services

Architecture

A

Service Catalog

Architecture

37
Q
  • server images
  • custom applications

Service Catalog

A

items included (2)

Service Catalog

38
Q

validated to meet compliance and best practices

Service Catalog

A

quality of services

Service Catalog

39
Q

allows end users to set time to end use of a service

Service Catalog

A

lifecycle

Service Catalog

40
Q

Curated catalog of 3rd party software

Architecture

A

Marketplace

Architecture

41
Q
  • AMIs
  • CloudFormation stacks
  • SaaS items

Marketplace

A

items in the Marketplace (3)

Marketplace

42
Q

Purchased items are charged on AWS bill

Marketplace

A

Pricing

Marketplace

43
Q
  • vertical
  • horizontal

Architecture

A

Scalability types (2)

Architecture

44
Q

increase or decrease instance size

Scalability

A

vertical scaling

Scalability

45
Q

adding or removing instances for clustered applications

Scalability

A

horizontal scaling

Scalability

46
Q
  • ELB
  • auto scaling group

horizontal scaling

A

example services (2)

horizontal scaling

47
Q

run clustered applications across multiple AZ

Architecture

A

high availability in AWS

Architecture

48
Q
  • multi-AZ ELB
  • multi-AZ auto scaling group

high availability

A

example services (2)

high availability