AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification

Question 1

Basic Support Package

Answer 1

Free: Customer Service for account and access to AWS Community Forums

Question 2

Developer

Answer 2

Use Case: Experimenting with AWS

Starts at $29 month: One Primary Contact may ask technical questions through support center. Response time 12-24 hrs.

Question 3

Business

Answer 3

Use Case: Production use of AWS
Starts at $100 month: Support by phone and chat, 1 hr response to urgent support cases and help with 3rd party software. Full access to AWS Trusted Advisor, access to the AWS Support API

Question 4

Enterprise

Answer 4

Use Case: Mission-critical use of AWS
Starts at $15,000 month
All the features of Business plans, plus a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM), a support concierge, access to Infrastructure Event Management to support product launches, seasonal promotions/events, migrations, 15-minute response to critical support cases with prioritized case handling

Question 5

How do you get automatic notifications if your account exceeds a certain $ limit?

Answer 5

Go into CloudWatch and create a billing alarm. Uses SNS

Question 6

What are the 3 ways to access AWS?

Answer 6

Programmatic (command line), Console Access, SDK

Question 7

What does IAM stand for?

Answer 7

Identify Access Management; created Global so no need to specify a region

Question 8

What is S3?

Answer 8

Simple Storage Solution
Object based-allows you to upload files
Files can be 0 Bytes to 5TB
Unlimited Storage
Files are stored in Buckets (folder in the cloud)
S3 is univeral namespace, meaning names must be unique globally, ex (https:/s3-eu-west-amazonaws.com/acloudguru

Question 9

What are the key fundamentals of S3?

Answer 9

Key (Name of the object)

Value (data and is made up of a sequence of bytes)

Question 10

What are the specs of S3 Standard?

Answer 10

99.99% Availability, 99.99999999999% durability, stored redundancy across multiple devices in multiple facilities, and is designed to sustain the loss of 2 facilities concurrently.

Question 11

What are the specs of S3-IA (Infrequently Accessed?)

Answer 11

For data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed. Lower fee than S3, but you are charged a retrieval fee.

Question 12

S3 One Zone - IA

Answer 12

For when you want a lower-cost option for infrequently accessed data, but do not require the multiple Availability Zone data resilience.

Question 13

S3 - Intelligent Tiering

Answer 13

Designed to optimize costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective access tier, without performance impact or operational overhead.

Question 14

S3 Glacier Deep Dive

Answer 14

S3’s lowest-cost storage class where a retrieval time of 12 hours is acceptable.

Question 15

What is unique about a Bucket?

Answer 15

Bucket names share a common name space. You cannot have the same bucket name as someone else.

Question 16

How are Buckets viewed?

Answer 16

Bucket names are viewed globally, but you can have buckets in individual regions.

Question 17

Can you replicate Buckets cross region?

Answer 17

Yes

Question 18

When can you change your storage class and encryption of files?

Answer 18

Whenever you want on the fly.

Question 19

What are 3 ways to restrict Bucket access?

Answer 19

Bucket Policies - Applies across whole Bucket
Object Policies - Applies to individual files
IAM Policies to Users & Groups - Applies to Users & Groups

Question 20

S3 Glacier

Answer 20

Secure, durable, and low-cost storage class for data archiving. Retrieval times configurable from minutes to hours.

Question 21

How can you make an entire S3 Bucket public?

Answer 21

You can use a Bucket policy

Question 22

What type of websites can S3 host?

Answer 22

Static

Question 23

What is a key feature of S3 website hosting?

Answer 23

Scales automatically to meet demand