AWS Backup 101 Flashcards

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What is the purpose of AWS Backup?

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Customers want to manage and monitor backup processes across AWS services from a single place.

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Why is AWS Backup needed?

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Backing up data across AWS services requires time and resources to build and maintain scripts and processes.

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What are AWS policies?

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A policy and tag-based backup solution where customers can create backup policies called backup plans.

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What are AWS Backup schedules?

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Fully customizable backup schedules to meet business and regulatory backup requirements.

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What is AWS Backup Retention?

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Backup retention policies based on business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.

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What is AWS Backup lifecycle?

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Enables customers to minimize backup storage costs by storing backups in a low cost cold storage tier.

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What are AWS incremental backups?

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First backup is a full copy of the data, subsequent copies only have the changed part of the resource saved.

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What is a AWS access policy?

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Enables customers to define resource-based policies to backup vault and define who has access to backups and what actions they can take.

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What is AWS Backup encryption?

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Encrypts customer backup data at rest and in transit.

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What is AWS Backup resource?

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Any AWS resource supported by AWS Backup for creating backups, for example, EFS.

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What is AWS protected resource?

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Resource that has at least one backup managed by AWS Backup.

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What is AWS On-Demand Backup?

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Backup initiated by manually by calling StartBackupJob public API.

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What is AWS backup scheduled backup?

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Backup initiated by a Backup Plan execution.

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What is AWS backup vault?

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Represents a collection of recovery points. Consider it a logical container for
backup snapshots.

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What is backup plan?

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Represents a named collection of rules. Each rule defines a backup schedule via a cron
expression and Backup Vault destination. The recovery points created by that rule will be
placed into the specified backup vault destination.

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What is AWS backup selection?

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A description of resources the Backup Plan will create recovery points for. Selections also
contain role ARNs assumed by AWS Backup while executing Backup Jobs for the
specified resource.

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What is an AWS backup point?

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The representation of a backup in AWS Backup. Recovery points have associated
lifecycles managed by AWS Backup.

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What is an AWS backup and restore ID?

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It’s a «UUID-like-string> used to uniquely identify a backup or restore job. It provides
information about backup creation progress, which can be made visible to the customer.

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Customers want to manage and monitor backup processes across AWS services from a single place.

A

What is the purpose of AWS Backup?

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Reversed

Backing up data across AWS services requires time and resources to build and maintain scripts and processes.

A

Why is AWS Backup needed?

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Reversed

A policy and tag-based backup solution where customers can create backup policies called backup plans.

A

What are AWS policies?

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Reversed

Fully customizable backup schedules to meet business and regulatory backup requirements.

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What are AWS Backup schedules?

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Reversed

Backup retention policies based on business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.

A

What is AWS Backup Retention?

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Reversed

Enables customers to minimize backup storage costs by storing backups in a low cost cold storage tier.

A

What is AWS Backup lifecycle?

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# Reversed First backup is a full copy of the data, subsequent copies only have the changed part of the resource saved.
What are AWS incremental backups?
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# Reversed Enables customers to define resource-based policies to backup vault and define who has access to backups and what actions they can take.
What is a AWS access policy?
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# Reversed Encrypts customer backup data at rest and in transit.
What is AWS Backup encryption?
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# Reversed Any AWS resource supported by AWS Backup for creating backups, for example, EFS.
What is AWS Backup resource?
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# Reversed Resource that has at least one backup managed by AWS Backup.
What is AWS protected resource?
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# Reversed Backup initiated by manually by calling StartBackupJob public API.
What is AWS On-Demand Backup?
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# Reversed Backup initiated by a Backup Plan execution.
What is AWS backup scheduled backup?
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# Reversed Represents a collection of recovery points. Consider it a logical container for backup snapshots.
What is AWS backup vault?
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# Reversed Represents a named collection of rules. Each rule defines a backup schedule via a cron expression and Backup Vault destination. The recovery points created by that rule will be placed into the specified backup vault destination.
What is backup plan?
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# Reversed A description of resources the Backup Plan will create recovery points for. Selections also contain role ARNs assumed by AWS Backup while executing Backup Jobs for the specified resource.
What is AWS backup selection?
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# Reversed The representation of a backup in AWS Backup. Recovery points have associated lifecycles managed by AWS Backup.
What is an AWS backup point?
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# Reversed It's a «UUID-like-string> used to uniquely identify a backup or restore job. It provides information about backup creation progress, which can be made visible to the customer.
What is an AWS backup and restore ID?
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What is AWS backup monitoring:
Customer scan view the status of recent backup restore jobs. AWS Backup integrates with CloudTrail providing customers with a consolidated view of backup activity logs.
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# Reversed Customer scan view the status of recent backup restore jobs. AWS Backup integrates with CloudTrail providing customers with a consolidated view of backup activity logs.
What is AWS backup monitoring: