AWS General Practitioner Flashcards
What are the EC2 instance types? (5 total)
General Purpose Compute Optimized Memory Optimized Accelerated Computing Storage Optimized
Which EC2 type is best for “[providing] a balance of compute, memory and networking resources, and can be used for a variety of diverse workloads”?
General Purpose
Which EC2 instance is best for batch processing workloads?
Compute Optimized
Which EC2 instance is best for media transcoding?
Compute Optimized
Which EC2 instance is best for high performance web servers?
Compute Optimized
Which EC2 instance is best for High Performance Computing?
Compute Optimized
Which EC2 instance is best for scientific modeling?
Compute Optimized
Which EC2 instance is best for dedicated gaming servers?
Compute Optimized
Which EC2 instance is best for machine learning inference?
Compute Optimized
Which EC2 instance is best for workloads that process large data sets in memory?
Memory Optimized
Which EC2 instance is best for floating point number calculations?
Accelerated Computing
Which EC2 instance is best for graphics processing?
Accelerated Computing
Which EC2 instance is best for data pattern matching?
Accelerated Computing
Which EC2 instance uses hardware accelerators or co-processors?
Accelerated Computing
Which EC2 instance uses GPUs?
Accelerated Computing
Which EC2 instance is best for workloads that require high, sequential read and write access to very large data sets on local storage?
Storage Optimized
Which EC2 instance is best for optimizing tens of thousands of low-latency, random I/o operations per second?
Storage Optimized
What AWS feature would I use to put resources like Compute and Storage in locations closer to end users?
Local Zones
What is “a site that CloudFront uses to cache copies of your content for faster delivery to users at any location.”
Edge Location
What feature is used for visibility in resource performance and availability of AWS services and accounts
AWS Health
What service is used to monitor and block/allow web requests forwarded to edge locations?
Amazon WAF - Web Application Firewall
How many elastic IP addresses are enabled to your AWS account?
Five
If you want different regions to communicate with each other using privateIP addresses without gateways or VPNs, what would you use?
VPC Peering
What Amazon Database instance would be best for content management, catalogs, or user profiles?
DocumentDB
How many security groups can you assign to an instance in a VPC?
5
In the Shared Responsibility model, whose responsibility is it to secure customer data? The customer or AWS?
Customer
In the Shared Responsibility model, whose responsibility is it to manage platform, applications, and IAM?
Customer
In the Shared Responsibility model, whose responsibility is it to maintain the operating system, network, and firewall configuration?
Customer
In the Shared Responsibility model, whose responsibility is it to employ client-side data encryption?
Customer
In the Shared Responsibility model, whose responsibility is it to do server-side encryption?
Customer
In the Shared Responsibility model, whose responsibility is it to protect the network traffic with encryption, integrity, and identity?
Customer
In the Shared Responsibility model, whose responsibility is it to manage the physical hardware?
AWS
What are the three types of elastic load balancers?
Application Load Balancer
Network Load Balancer
Classic Load Balancer
What Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) would make routing decisions at the application layer?
Application Load Balancer
hat Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) would support path-based routing?
Application Load Balancer
hat Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) can route requests to one or more ports on each container instance in your cluster?
Application Load Balancer
What Elastic Load Balancer makes routing decisions at the transport layer?
Network Load Balancer
What Elastic Load Balancer can handle millions of requests per second?
Network Load Balancer
What Elastic Load Balancer makes routing decisions at either the transport layer (TCP/SSL) or the application layer (HTTP/HTTPS)?
Classic Load Balancer
What are the 4 values of the AWS Value Proposition?
Agility
Elasticity
Flexibility
Security
Which value in the AWS value proposition does Speed of Implementation of services go under?
Agility
Which value in the AWS value proposition does “Experimentation” go under?
Agility
Which value in the AWS value proposition does “Innovation” fall under?
Agility
Which value in the AWS value proposition does “Scale on demand” go under?
Elasticity