AWS CCP Flashcards

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What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

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AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides real-time guidance to help provision your resources following AWS best practices.

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What is Amazon CloudWatch?

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Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.

CloudWatch provides data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health.

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What is AWS Config?

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AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.

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What is Amazon Inspector?

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Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on your Amazon EC2 instances.

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Is there a one minute minimum charge for EC2 instances?

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Yes

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What is High Availability?

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A system that is available is capable of delivering the designed functionality at a given point in time.

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What is a Read Replica configuration?

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Read Replicas allow you to create read-only copies that are synchronized with your master database in RDS. Read Replicas are used for improved read performance and scalability.

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What is the AWS Personal Health Dashboard?

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AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.

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What is the AWS Martketplace?

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AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.

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What is AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)?

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AWS SSO is an AWS service that enables you to makes it easy to centrally manage access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications and provide users with single sign-on access to all their assigned accounts and applications from one place.

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What is AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)?

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The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services.

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What is AWS Cognito?

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Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily.

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What is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users.

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What is Auto Scaling?

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Auto Scaling helps you ensure that you have the correct number of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application.

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What is a Multi AZ deployment?

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With Availability Zones, you can design and operate applications and databases that automatically failover between zones without interruption.

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What is a Network Load Balancer?

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Network Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required. It distributes traffic, does not scale resources.

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What is a Application Load Balancer?

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An Application Load Balancer serves as the single point of contact for clients. The load balancer distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones. It distributes traffic, does not scale resources.

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What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?

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AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud.

The customer is responsible for security in the cloud.

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What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

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Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. Think platform as a service (PaaS).

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What is AWS CloudFormation?

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It is an Infrastructure as Code which allows you to model and provision resources needed for an application

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What is Service Control Policies (SCP)?

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You can use Service Control Policies (SCPs) to apply permission guardrails on AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles.

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What is CloudTrail?

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A service to monitor activity on all accounts for governance, compliance, risk, and auditing purposes.

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What are AWS Organizations?

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A service to automate account creation, create groups of accounts to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these groups for governance

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What is Amazon Aurora?

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Amazon Aurora is an AWS service for relational databases that is proprietary to Amazon. Aurora requires a well-defined schema.

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What is Amazon RDS?

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Amazon RDS is an AWS service for relational databases such as mySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, etc… RDS requires a well-defined schema.

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What is Amazon DynamoDB?

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Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It’s a fully managed, multi-Region, multi-master, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications.

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What is Amazon RedShift?

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Amazon Redshift is a fully-managed petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse product designed for large scale data set storage and analysis. Amazon Redshift requires a well-defined schema.

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Is Penetration Testing allowed on AWS?

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Yes. AWS customers can carry out security assessments or penetration tests against their AWS infrastructure without prior approval for few common AWS services. Customers are not permitted to conduct any security assessments of AWS infrastructure, or the AWS services themselves.

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What is AWS Secrets Manager?

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AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources.

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What is the Well-Architected Framework?

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The AWS Well-Architected Framework describes key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads in the cloud.

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What are the 5 pillars of the Well-Architected framework?

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operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

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What are AWS Service Quotas?

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Service Quotas enables you to view and manage your quotas for AWS services from a central location. Quotas, also referred to as limits in AWS, are the maximum values for the resources, actions, and items in your AWS account.

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What is AWS Fargate?

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AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

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What is Amazon SageMaker?

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Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly.

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What is Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a highly available, durable, secure, fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables you to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

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What is AWS Config?

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AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.

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Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework recommends maintaining infrastructure as code?

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Operational Excellence

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What is the AWS Systems Manager Session Manager?

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AWS SSM Session Manager is a fully-managed service that provides you with an interactive browser-based shell and CLI experience.

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What is Amazon Route 53?

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Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

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What is AWS Lambda?

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AWS Lambda is a service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume - there is no charge when your code is not running.

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What is S3 Glacier Deep Archive?

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S3 Glacier Deep Archive is Amazon S3’s lowest-cost storage class and supports long-term retention and digital preservation for data that may be accessed once or twice in a year.

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What is Amazon EFS?

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.

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What is AWS Storage Gateway?

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AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage (automatically encrypted).

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What is S3 Glacier?

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Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long-term backup (Automatically encrypted).

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What is AWS OpsWorks?

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AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.

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What are Chef and Puppet?

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Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers.

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What is AWS CodeDeploy?

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AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including EC2 instances and instances running on premises.

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What is AWS Batch?

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AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS.

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What is the AWS Compute Optimizer?

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AWS Compute Optimizer helps you identify the optimal AWS resource configurations, such as Amazon EC2 instance types, Amazon EBS volume configurations, and AWS Lambda function memory sizes, using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics.

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What is AWS Direct Connect?

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AWS Direct Connect creates a dedicated private connection from a remote network to your VPC. This is a private connection and does not use the public internet.

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What is a VPC Endpoint?

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A VPC endpoint enables you to privately connect your VPC to supported AWS services and VPC endpoint services powered by AWS PrivateLink without requiring an internet gateway, NAT device, VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect connection.

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What is VPC Peering?

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A VPC peering connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them privately.

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What is AWS Service Health Dashboard?

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AWS Service Health Dashboard publishes most up-to-the-minute information on the status and availability of all AWS services in tabular form for all Regions that AWS is present in.

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What is S3?

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service.

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What is an Instance Store?

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An instance store provides temporary block-level storage for your instance.

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What is EBS?

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction-intensive workloads at any scale.

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What is an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)?

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An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) provides the information required to launch an EC2 instance.

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What is the AWS Cost Explorer?

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AWS Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

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What is the AWS Pricing Calculator?

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AWS Pricing Calculator lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS.

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What are AWS Budgets?

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AWS Budgets gives the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.

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What are AWS Cost and Usage Reports?

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The AWS Cost and Usage Reports (AWS CUR) contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data available.

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What AWS Support plans are available?

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Basic, Developer, Business and Enterprise.

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What are AWS Local Zones?

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AWS Local Zones allow you to use select AWS services, like compute and storage services, closer to more end-users, providing them very low latency access to the applications running locally.

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What are AWS Edge Locations?

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An AWS Edge location is a site that CloudFront uses to cache copies of the content for faster delivery to users at any location.

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What is AWS Wavelength?

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AWS Wavelength extends the AWS cloud to a global network of 5G edge locations to enable developers to innovate and build a whole new class of applications that require ultra-low latency.

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What is AWS CloudFront?

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Amazon CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .js, and image files, to your users.

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What is the AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?

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AWS Key Management Service (KMS) makes it easy for you to create and manage cryptographic keys and control their use across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications.

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What is CloudHSM?

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AWS CloudHSM is a cloud-based Hardware Security Module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your encryption keys on the AWS Cloud.

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Which benefit of Cloud Computing allows AWS to offer lower pay-as-you-go prices as usage from hundreds of thousands of customers is aggregated in the cloud?

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Massive economies of scale

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What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Multi-AZ configuration?

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Multi-AZ enhances database availability

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What is the AWS Acceptable Use Policy?

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The Acceptable Use Policy describes prohibited uses of the web services offered by Amazon Web Services, Inc.

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What is AWS X-Ray?

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You can use AWS X-Ray to analyze and debug serverless and distributed applications such as those built using a microservices architecture.

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What is Amazon Pinpoint?

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Amazon Pinpoint allows marketers and developers to deliver customer-centric engagement experiences by capturing customer usage data to draw real-time insights.

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Is AWS Auto Scaling and IAM free to use?

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Yes

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Which AWS services offer block-level storage?

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EBS and Instance Store

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What is Elastic Container Service (ECS)?

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.

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What is Amazon Polly?

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You can use Amazon Polly to turn text into lifelike speech thereby allowing you to create applications that talk.

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What is Amazon Transcribe?

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You can use Amazon Transcribe to add speech-to-text capability to your applications.

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What is Amazon Macie?

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Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS.

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What is AWS Glue?

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AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.

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What is the AWS Directory Service?

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AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.

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Which of the following are advantages of using the AWS Cloud?

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Stop guessing about capacity and increase speed and agility.

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What are U2F security keys?

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Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) Security Key is a device that you can plug into a USB port on your computer.

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What is Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)?

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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) can be used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

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Which of the following options are the benefits of using AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?

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High availability and fault tolerance.

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What is the AWS Quick Starts references?

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Quick Starts are built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help you deploy popular technologies on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability.

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Does Amazon DynamoDB offer cross-region support

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Yes

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What is AWS CodePipeline?

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AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service that enables you to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software.

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What is AWS CodeCommit?

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AWS CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories.

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Does AWS Route 53 use weighted routing policies?

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Yes