AWS CCP Flashcards
What is AWS Trusted Advisor?
AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides real-time guidance to help provision your resources following AWS best practices.
What is Amazon CloudWatch?
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.
What is AWS Config?
AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
What is Amazon Inspector?
Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on your Amazon EC2 instances.
Is there a one minute minimum charge for EC2 instances?
Yes
What is High Availability?
A system that is available is capable of delivering the designed functionality at a given point in time.
What is a Read Replica configuration?
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.
What is the AWS Personal Health Dashboard?
AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.
What is the AWS Martketplace?
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.
What is AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)?
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.
What is AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)?
The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services.
What is AWS Cognito?
Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily.
What is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users.
What is Auto Scaling?
Auto Scaling helps you ensure that you have the correct number of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application.
What is a Multi AZ deployment?
With Availability Zones, you can design and operate applications and databases that automatically failover between zones without interruption.
What is a Network Load Balancer?
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.
What is a Application Load Balancer?
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.
What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?
AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud.
The customer is responsible for security in the cloud.
What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. Think platform as a service (PaaS).
What is AWS CloudFormation?
It is an Infrastructure as Code which allows you to model and provision resources needed for an application
What is Service Control Policies (SCP)?
You can use Service Control Policies (SCPs) to apply permission guardrails on AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles.
What is CloudTrail?
A service to monitor activity on all accounts for governance, compliance, risk, and auditing purposes.
What are AWS Organizations?
A service to automate account creation, create groups of accounts to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these groups for governance
What is Amazon Aurora?
Amazon Aurora is an AWS service for relational databases that is proprietary to Amazon. Aurora requires a well-defined schema.
What is Amazon RDS?
Amazon RDS is an AWS service for relational databases such as mySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, etc… RDS requires a well-defined schema.
What is Amazon DynamoDB?
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.
What is Amazon RedShift?
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.
Is Penetration Testing allowed on AWS?
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.
What is AWS Secrets Manager?
AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources.
What is the Well-Architected Framework?
The AWS Well-Architected Framework describes key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads in the cloud.
What are the 5 pillars of the Well-Architected framework?
operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
What are AWS Service Quotas?
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.
What is AWS Fargate?
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
What is Amazon SageMaker?
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.
What is Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)?
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.
What is AWS Config?
AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.