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AWS Fundamentals Flashcards

1
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What is the difference between a private and a public service

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The networking only

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2
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Where does a private service run

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Within a VPC

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3
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Where does a public service run

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Withing the public internet zone

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4
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When can on-prem access VPCs

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With a VPN or Direct Connect, or if it has an internet gateway

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5
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Is EC2 public or private

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Private, but you can attach a public IP`

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6
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What does Route 53 allow you to do

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Register domains and host zones on managed nameservers

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7
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What kind of resilience does route 53 have

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Global resilience, it has a single db

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8
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What is an NS record type

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Name server

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9
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What do A records and AAAA records do

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They map host names to IP addresses

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10
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What is the difference between A and AAAA record

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A: maps to IPv4 address, AAAA maps to IPv6 address

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11
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What do CNAME records do

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They allow you to create the equivalent of DNS shortcuts, or host-to-host. They can only point to names

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12
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What can CNAME records point to

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Name only, it cannot point to IP

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13
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What do MX records do

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They are used for email

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14
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How many default VPCs do you have per region

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Only one

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15
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How many custom VPCs can you have per region

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Many

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16
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What is a difference between the default VPC and custom ones

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The default one is a lot less flexible

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17
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What is a VPC CIDR

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The range of addresses allocated to the VPC

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18
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How many IP ranges can a VPC get

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The default VPC only gets one, custom VPCs can have many

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19
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What type of resilience do VPCs have

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Regional resilience

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20
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What is the default VPC address range

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172.31.0.0/16

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21
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How many subnets per AZ does the default VPC have

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One

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22
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What port is used for RDP

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3389

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23
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What port is used for SSH

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22

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24
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What is the unit of billing for EC2

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Per second

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25
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What arethe three possible states of an EC2 instance

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Running, Stopped, Terminated

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26
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What do you get charged for with a stopped instance

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Disk

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27
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What does AMI stand for

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Amazon Machine Instance

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28
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What kind of resilience does S3 have

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Regional resilience

29
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What is the maximum size of an object in an S3 bucket

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5 TB

30
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What is a restriction for bucket names

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They must be globally unique

31
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When does data leave the region an S3 bucket is in

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It never does unless configured to do so

32
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What is the structure of S3 bucket

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Flat, no folders but prefixes so the UI acts lik eit does

33
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What are all the restrictions for an S3 bucket name

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  • Name must be globally unique
  • 3-63 chars, all lowercase, no underscores
  • Starts with a lowercase letter or a number
  • Cannot be IP formatted
34
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How many S3 buckets can an account have

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100 is a soft limit, but you can have more with support requests. 1000 is a hard limit

35
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How many objects can you have per bucket

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Unlimited

36
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What are the key and value in an S3 bucket

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Key is the name of the object, Value is the data

37
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What kind of storage is S3

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Object, not file or block

38
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Can you mount an S3 bucket

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No, use EBS if you want to mount (EBS is block storage)

39
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What is the only mandatory part of a CloudFormation template

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The Resources section

40
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What is the restriction concerning AWSTemplateFormatVersion

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If you have one and a description, the description must come right after

41
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When is the CloudFormation stack created

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When you take a template and tell CloudFormation to do something with it

42
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What is High Availability

A

Minimize any outages

43
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What is Fault-Tolerance

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Operate through faults, it is more complex and expensive

44
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What is Disaster Recovery

A

What we do when HA and FT don’t work

45
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What Permissions options does and AMI have

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Public Access, Owner only, Specific AWS Accounts

46
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What is not stored in an AMI

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  • Instance settings
  • Network settings
47
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What is stored in an AMI

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  • Boot volume
  • Data volume
  • AMI Permissions
  • Block Device Mapping
48
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EC2 is an example of which service model

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IaaS

49
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Where is an AWS Public Service located

A

AWS Public zone

50
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Who can connect to an AWS Public service

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Anyone, but permissions are required to access the service

51
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Where is an AWS Private Service located

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VPC

52
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Where is an AWS Private Service accessible from

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  • From the VPC it is located in
  • From other VPCs or on-prm networks as long as private networking is configured
53
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What kind of service is S3

A

Public

54
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What kind of storage system is S3

A

Object storage system

55
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What amount of data can S3 buckets store

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Unlimited

56
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What is a CloudFormation Logical Resource

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A resource defined in a CloudFormation Template

57
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What is a CloudFormation Physical resource

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A physical resource created by creating a CloudFormation stack

58
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What is a simple definition of High Availability

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A system which maximises uptime

59
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What is a simple definition of a Fault Tolerant system

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A system which allows failure, and can continue operating without disruption

60
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How many DNS root servers exist

A

13

61
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Who manages the DNS Root servers

A

12 large organizations

62
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Who manages the DNS Root Zone

A

IANA

63
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Which DNS Record Type converts a HOST into an IPv4 Address

A

A

64
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Which DNS Record type is how the root zone delegates control of .org to the .org registry

A

NS

65
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Which type of organisation maintains the zones for a TLD (e.g. .ORG)

A

Registry

66
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Which type of organisation has relationships with the .org TLD zone manager allowing domain registration?

A

Registrar

67
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How many subnets are in a default VPC

A

Equal to the number of AZ in the region the VPC is located in

68
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What is the IP CIDR or a default VPC

A

172.31.0.0/16

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