AWS Developer 2021 Flashcards
What is AWS CloudFormation?
Used for provisioning AWS resources. It is not used for setting up monitoring.
What are the AWS Console sections for IAM Policy Permissions?
Allow, Explicit Deny, Unrecognized Services
What yaml file is used by AWS Code Deploy to deploy Lambda?
appsec.yml
What algorithms does AWS KMS support?
Symmetric, Public
What is AWS Beanstalk?
Used for create and provision resources. It also can setup monitoring. It is intended for scaling web applications.
What is AWS Athena?
A serverless AWS service that can interact with S3 using SQL.
What API action is for providing authentication outside authenticators such as Facebook, Amazon, and Google.
GetFederationToken
How long does AWS CloudWatch keep data?
2 weeks
What message tools are supported by SNS?
SQS, Lambda, Email, SMS
True or False: S3 event notifications can be sent to CloudWatch.
False
What is provisioned IOPS?
The highest performing EBS Volume type.
What is dedicated host?
A physical server owned by AWS, but dedicated to a clients use.
What is SES?
Simple Email Service
What is Kinesis?
A tool to analyze data in real time as it comes in.
What is STS?
Security Token Service - It provides temporary credentials for IAM Users.
What is AWS X-Ray?
It is a tracing service the collects and can analyze the data.
What is TTL for Dynamo DB?
Time to Live - determines when data in a table expires and can be automatically deleted.
What are AWS Step Functions?
It is a serverless function orchestrator for sequencing Lambda functions along with other AWS services for applications.
What is AWS CodeStart
A tool for managing the entire process of a software development project.
What is SCP?
Service Control Policies - They manage permissions at a organizational level or by IAM Users from particular accounts.
What is an Organizational Unit?
A grouping of multiple accounts.
What is CORS?
Cross Origin Resource Sharing - A tool for accessing S3 from websites.
What is a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ)?
Its a debugging tool for Lambda to send events that did not get processed after the Lambda retries.
What is AWS SSM?
AWS Systems Manager
What is Short Polling?
Provides messages from some servers for SQS. This has the quickest results, but may not have all messages.
What is a DAX Cluster?
It is an item cache for Dynamo DB.
True or False: IAM Roles should not be used with on-premise applications.
True
True or False: Instance profiles can be created for on-premise instances.
False
What are SQS Delay Queues?
Provides to delay delivery of messages through the queue for a defined number of seconds.
True or False: Elastic Beanstalk can automate deployment for the Code Deploy service.
False
What is CloudFront?
It is a content delivery network for delivering data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally.
What is AWS OpsWorks?
It is a configuration management service that manage instances using Chef and Puppet.
