AWS Architecting & Ecosystem Flashcards

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What are the general design principles of AWS?

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Stop guessing your capacity needs
Test systems at production scale
Automate to make architectural experimentation easier
Allow for evolutionary architectures
Drive architectures using data
Improve through game days

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What are the 6 Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework in AWS?

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Operational Excellence
Security
Reliability
Performance Efficiency
Cost Optimization
Sustainability

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Which Well-Architected Pillar is about the ability to support development and run workloads effectively, gain insight into their operations, and to continuously improve supporting processes and procedures to deliver business value?

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Operational Excellence

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Which Well-Architected Pillar encompasses the ability to protect data, systems, and assets to take advantage of cloud technologies to improve your security?

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Security

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Which Well-Architected Pillar is about the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to. This includes the ability to operate and test the workload through its total lifecycle?

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Reliability

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Which Well-Architected Pillar is about the ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve?

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Performance Efficiency

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Which Well-Architected Pillar is about the ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point?

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Cost Optimization

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Which Well-Architected Pillar focuses on environmental impacts, especially energy consumption and efficiency, since they are important levers for architects to inform direct action to reduce resource usage?

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Sustainability

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Which AWS tool is designed to help you review the state of your applications and workloads against architectural best practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and track progress over time?

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AWS Well-Architected Tool

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What is Right Sizing?

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The process of matching instance types and sizes to your workload performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost, since scaling up is easy in the cloud.

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Which service is a digital catalog with software listing from independent software vendors such as custom AMIs, CloudFormation Templates, Containers, etc?

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AWS Marketplace

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12
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What are the forms of training provided by AWS?

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AWS Digital (online)
Classroom Training (in-person or virtual)
AWS Private Training
Training and Certification for the U.S. Government
Enterprise
AWS Academy – Universities

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13
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What AWS service provides a global team of experts to help with architecting and deploying cloud technologies?

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AWS Professional Services

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What service is a global community of partners that leverages programs, expertise, and resources to build, market, and sell customer offerings?

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AWS Partner Network

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Which AWS service helps partners becomes better development partners in the field?

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AWS Navigate Program

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16
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What service is a web portal with the most common questions and requests regarding AWS?

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AWS Knowledge Center

17
Q

What service helps you quickly find a professional to help with AWS project architecting and deployment?

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AWS IQ

18
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What service is an AWS managed Q&A service offering crowd-sources, expert reviewed answers to your technical questions about AWS that are not time-sensitive?

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AWS re:Post