Automation

Question 1

Cloud Formation

Answer 1

Parameter: question your asking the end user who’s building the template

Mappings: Con control or fill in a value eg AMI usage

Resource: All the resources you’re trying to build out

Immutable architecture is best:
You want to select answers that favor having resources that can be replaced. Stateless is better than stateful on the exam

Question 2

Mappings & Parameter Store w/ Cloud Formation

Answer 2

Can be useful to help make your templates more flexible.

Hard coded IDs (eg AMI or snapshot ID) are a source of breakage.

Use Parameter Store or Mappings instead

Question 3

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 3

One stop shop for all things AWS:

Questions looking for a simple solution to bundle & deploy apps should favor this over CloudFormation

We servers are the best

Complicated go CloudFormation

Question 4

Automation and Run Documents

Answer 4

The primary method used in scenarios asking you to configure the inside of an EC2 instance & parts of AWS Environments

Question 5

Systems Manager

Answer 5

Know Run Docs, Parameter Store, & Session Manager