AWS Cloud Foundation

Question 1

automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances in the cloud. It enables organizations to achieve greater levels of fault
tolerance in their applications, seamlessly providing the required amount of load balancing capacity needed to distribute application traffic.

Answer 1

Elastic Load Balancing

Question 2

is the fastest and simplest way to get a web application up and running on AWS. Developers can simply upload their application code, and the service
automatically handles all the details, such as resource provisioning, load balancing, Auto
Scaling, and monitoring. It provides support for a variety of platforms, including PHP, Java,
Python, Ruby, Node.js, .NET, and Go. With AWS ____ _______, organizations retain full
control over the AWS resources powering the application and can access the underlying
resources at any time.

Answer 2

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Question 3

lets organizations provision a logically isolated
section of the AWS Cloud where they can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that
they define. Organizations have complete control over the virtual environment, including
selection of the IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and
network gateways. In addition, organizations can extend their corporate data center networks
to AWS by using hardware or software virtual private network (VPN) connections or
dedicated circuits by using AWS Direct Connect.

Answer 3

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Question 4

allows organizations to establish a dedicated network connection from their data center to AWS. Using AWS ______ ______, organizations can establish private
connectivity between AWS and their data center, office, or colocation environment, which in
many cases can reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more
consistent network experience than Internet-based VPN connections.

Answer 4

AWS Direct Connect

Question 5

a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names, such as www.example.com, into the numeric IP addresses, such as 192.0.2.1, that computers
use toconnect to each other. Amazon ______ also serves as domain registrar, allowing you topurchase and manage domains directly from AWS.

Answer 5

Amazon Route 53

Question 6

provides developers and IT teams with highly
durable and scalable object storage that handles virtually unlimited amounts of data and large numbers of concurrent users. Organizations can store any number of objects of any type, such as HTML pages, source code files, image files, and encrypted data, and access them using HTTP-based protocols.It provides cost-effective object storage for a wide variety of use cases, including backup and recovery, nearline archive, big data analytics, disaster recovery, cloud applications, and content distribution.

Answer 6

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Question 7

is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Organizations can reliably store large or small amounts of data for a very low cost per gigabyte per month. To keep costs low for customers, Amazon ____ is optimized for infrequently accessed data where a retrieval time of several hours is suitable. Amazon S3 integrates closely with Amazon ____ to allow organizations to choose the right storage tier for their workloads.

Answer 7

Amazon Glacier

Question 8

provides persistent block-level storage volumes
for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Each _____volume is automatically replicated within its Availability Zone to protect organizations from component failure, offering high availability and durability. By delivering consistent and low-latency performance, _____ provides the disk storage needed to run a wide variety of workloads

Answer 8

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Question 9

is a service connecting an on-premises software appliance with cloudbased storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization’s onpremises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure. The service supports industry standard storage protocols that work with existing applications. It provides low-latency performance by maintaining a cache of frequently accessed data on-premises while securely storing all of your data encrypted in Amazon S3 or Amazon Glacier.

Answer 9

AWS Storage Gateway

Question 10

is a content delivery web service. It integrates with other AWS Cloud services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to users across the world with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no minimum usage commitments.
Amazon ______ can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content, using a global network of edge locations. Requests for content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance to end users around the globe.

Answer 10

Amazon CloudFront

Question 11

provides a fully managed relational
database with support for many popular open source and commercial database engines. It’s a
cost-efficient service that allows organizations to launch secure, highly available, faulttolerant, production-ready databases in minutes. Because Amazon ____ manages timeconsuming administration tasks, including backups, software patching, monitoring, scaling, and replication, organizational resources can focus on revenue-generating applications and
business instead of mundane operational tasks.

Answer 11

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

Question 12

is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. It is a fully managed database and supports both document and key/value data models. Its flexible data model and reliable
performance make it a great fit for mobile, web, gaming, ad-tech, Internet of Things, and
many other applications.

Answer 12

Amazon DynamoDB

Question 13

is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes
it simple and cost effective to analyze structured data. ______ provides a standard
SQL interface that lets organizations use existing business intelligence tools. By leveraging
columnar storage technology that improves I/O efficiency and parallelizing queries across
multiple nodes, ____________ is able to deliver fast query performance. The _______ architecture allows organizations to automate most of the common administrative tasks associated with provisioning, configuring, and monitoring a cloud data warehouse.

Answer 13

Amazon Redshift

Question 14

is a web service that simplifies deployment, operation, and scaling of an in-memory cache in the cloud. The service improves the performance of web applications by allowing organizations to retrieve information from fast, managed, in-memory caches,
instead of relying entirely on slower, disk-based databases. As of this writing, Amazon
______ supports Memcached and Redis cache engines.

Answer 14

Amazon ElastiCache

Question 15

is a monitoring service for AWS Cloud resources and the applications running on AWS. It allows organizations to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms. By leveraging Amazon________, organizations can gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. By using
these insights, organizations can react, as necessary, to keep applications running smoothly.

Answer 15

Amazon CloudWatch

Question 16

gives developers and systems administrators an effective way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. AWS _____ defines a JSON-based templating
language that can be used to describe all the AWS resources that are necessary for a workload. Templates can be submitted to AWS ______ and the service will take care of provisioning and configuring those resources in appropriate order.

Answer 16

AWS CloudFormation

Question 17

is a web service that records AWS API calls for an account and delivers log files for audit and review. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and
the response elements returned by the service.

Answer 17

AWS CloudTrail

Question 18

is a fully managed service that provides organizations with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. With AWS ____, organizations can discover existing AWS resources, export an inventory of their AWS resources with all configuration details, and determine how a resource was configured at any point in time. These capabilities enable compliance auditing, security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting.

Answer 18

AWS Config

Question 19

enables organizations to securely control
access to AWS Cloud services and resources for their users. Using ____, organizations can
create and manage AWS users and groups and use permissions to allow and deny their access
to AWS resources.

Answer 19

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM

Question 20

allows organizations to set up and run Microsoft Active Directory on the AWS Cloud or connect their AWS resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft
Active Directory. Organizations can use it to manage users and groups, provide single sign-on
to applications and services, create and apply Group Policies, domain join Amazon EC2
instances, and simplify the deployment and management of cloud-based Linux and Microsoft
Windows workloads.

Answer 20

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

Question 21

is a service that lets organizations easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with
AWS Cloud services. It removes the time-consuming manual process of purchasing, uploading, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates. With AWS Certificate Manager, organizations can quickly request a certificate, deploy it on AWS resources such as Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon CloudFront distributions, and let AWS Certificate Manager handle certificate
renewals.

Answer 21

AWS Certificate Manager

Question 22

helps protect web applications from common attacks
and exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume
excessive resources. AWS ___ gives organizations control over which traffic to allow or
block to their web applications by defining customizable web security rules.

Answer 22

AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Question 23

is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Organizations can create an API that acts as a “front door” for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon EC2, code running on AWS Lambda, or any web application. Amazon __________ handles all the tasks involved in
accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and ___version management.

Answer 23

Amazon API Gateway

Question 24

is media transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable and cost-effective way for developers and businesses to convert (or transcode) media
files from their source formats into versions that will play back on devices like smartphones,
tablets, and PCs.

Answer 24

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Question 25

is a web service that coordinates and
manages the delivery or sending of messages to recipients. In Amazon ___, there are two
types of clients—publishers and subscribers—also referred to as producers and consumers.
Publishers communicate asynchronously with subscribers by producing and sending a message to a topic, which is a logical access point and communication channel. Subscribers
consume or receive the message or notification over one of the supported protocols when
they are subscribed to the topic.

Answer 25

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Question 26

is a cost-effective email service that
organizations can use to send transactional email, marketing messages, or any other type of
content to their customers. Amazon ___ can also be used to receive messages and deliver
them to an Amazon S3 bucket, call custom code via an AWS Lambda function, or publish
notifications to Amazon SNS.

Answer 26

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)

Question 27

helps developers build, run, and scale
background jobs that have parallel or sequential steps. Amazon ___ can be thought of as a
fully managed state tracker and task coordinator on the cloud. In common architectural
patterns, if your application’s steps take more than 500 milliseconds to complete, it is vitally
important to track the state of processing and to provide the ability to recover or retry if a
task fails.It helps organizations achieve this reliability.

Answer 27

Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF)

Question 28

is a fast, reliable, scalable, fully managed
message queuing service. Amazon ____ makes it simple and cost effective to decouple the
components of a cloud application. With Amazon ____, organizations can transmit any
volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other
services to be always available

Answer 28

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)