AWS Fundamentals

Question 1

What is an aws Region?

Answer 1

A geographical area consisting of 3 or more availability zones.

Question 2

What is an availability zone?

Answer 2

1 or more discrete data centers full of servers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity

Question 3

How close are availabilty zones within a region?

Answer 3

100km

Question 4

What is an edge location?

Answer 4

Endpoints for aws that are used for caching content. Typically, this consists of Cloudfront, amazon’s CDN

Question 5

Are there more regions or edge locations?

Answer 5

edge locations

Question 6

Who is responsible for the security of the cloud?

Answer 6

Amazon

Question 7

Who is responsible for security in the cloud?

Answer 7

The users.

Question 8

Who is responsible for the hardware the data center?

Answer 8

AWS

Question 9

Who is responsible for IAM users? AWS or the user?

Answer 9

the user

Question 10

Who is responsible for clint-side data encryption?

Answer 10

the user

Question 11

who is responsible for enabling server side encryption?

Answer 11

the user

Question 12

If it can be done using the aws management console, who is likely responsible for the security?

Answer 12

the user

Question 13

What type of service are ec2, lambda, elastic beanstalk,

Answer 13

Compute

Question 14

What type of service are s3, ebs, efs, fsx, storage gateway?

Answer 14

storage

Question 15

What type of service are RDS, DynamoDB, and Redshift?

Answer 15

databases

Question 16

What type of service are VPC’s, Direct Connect, Route 53, api gateway, aws global accelerator

Answer 16

networking

Question 17

What are the six pillars of the well-architected framework?

Answer 17

Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiancy, Security, Cost optimization, Reliability, Sustainability

Question 18

According to the Shared Responsibility Model, who is responsible for patching, updating, and maintaining the OS of EC2 instances in AWS?

Answer 18

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