AWS Quest 2 Level 3 Flashcards

1
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what does S3 stand for?

A

Simple Storage Service

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2
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what type of storage service does S3 offer?

A

object storage

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3
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how durable is Amazon S3?

A

11 9s (99.999999999%)

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what are the 6 Amazon S3 storage classes?

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  1. S3 Standard
  2. S3 Intelligent-Tiering
  3. S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (IA)
  4. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (IA)
  5. S3 Glacier
  6. S3 Glacier Deep Archive
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5
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what is S3 Standard storage used for?

A

general purpose storage

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what is S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage used for?

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storing objects in different storage tiers depending on the objects’ usage

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what is S3 Standard-Infrequent Access storage used for?

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storage of data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed

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what is S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access storage used for?

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storage for data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed, but it is stored only in one Availability Zone (AZ)

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9
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what is S3 Glacier storage used for?

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secure, durable, low-cost storage for data archiving

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what is S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage used for?

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low-cost storage and long-term retention and digital preservation for data that may be accessed once or twice in a year

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11
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what is S3 on Outposts?

A

it is object storage for your on-premises AWS Outpost environment

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12
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what is defined as a set or rules that define actions that Amazon S3 applies to a group of objects, so that you can either transition to another storage class or delete expired objects?

A

S3 Lifecycle management

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13
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what can you use to monitor access patterns in order to help you decide when to transition the right data to the right storage class?

A

S3 Storage Class Analysis

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14
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what tool will help you to make a cost estimate that fits your unique business needs?

A

the pricing calculator

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15
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what feature allows you to add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application?

A

Amazon S3 Object Lambda

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16
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what is good about S3 Object Lambda?

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S3 Object Lambda allows you to create special filters to modify the data returned by a S3 GET request

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17
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why would you need S3 Object Lambda to filter S3 GET requests?

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S3 Object Lambda can perform any manipulation of data required before the GET request is returned, which can be useful if some information should be resized, hidden, put in a specific order, etc…

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18
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what do you use to easily preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of an object stored in S3, allowing you to recover from unintended user actions and application failures?

A

S3 Versioning

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19
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what else can you use to prevent accidental deletions?

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Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Delete

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20
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What can be used to replicate objects to one or more destination buckets into the same or different AWS Regions?

A

S3 Replication

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21
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What can be used to replicate from a source S3 bucket to one or more destination buckets in different AWS Regions?

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S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR)

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22
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What can replicate objects between buckets in the same AWS Region?

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S3 Same-Region Replication (SRR)

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23
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What can help you meet compliance requirements for data replication by providing an SLA and visibility into replication times?

A

S3 Replication Time Control

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24
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What can you use to ensure data is not deleted for a specified time period?

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S3 Object Lock

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25
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what does WORM stand for?

A

write-once-read-many

26
Q

What can you use to view usage and costs aggregated by your buckets?

A

AWS Cost Allocation Reports

27
Q

What can you use to track the operational health of your AWS resources and configure billing alerts tat are sent you when estimated charges reach a user-defined threshold?

A

Amazon CloudWatch

28
Q

What tracks and reports on buckets-level and object-level activities?

A

AWS CloudTrail

29
Q

What can you configure to trigger workflows, alerts, and invoke AWS Lambda when a specific change is made to your S3 resources?

A

S3 Event Notification

30
Q

What provides a single view of object storage usage and activity across all accounts in an organization, with drill-downs to generate insights at all levels?

A

S3 Storage Lens

31
Q

What can observe and analyze data access patterns to help you determine when to transition less frequently accessed storage to a lower-cost storage class?

A

S3 Storage Class Analysis

32
Q

name 4 ways to control access management

A
  1. Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  2. Access Control Lists (ACL)
  3. bucket policies
  4. Query String Authentication
33
Q

how does IAM control access?

A

it controls user access

34
Q

how does ACL control access?

A

it controls access to individual objects to individual users

35
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how do bucket policies control access?

A

it configures permissions for all objects within a single S3 bucket

36
Q

how does Query String Authentication control access?

A

it grants time-limited access to others with temporary URLs

37
Q

name two types of S3 encrytpion

A

server-side encryption

client-side encryption

38
Q

What can you use to check the encryption status of your S3 objects?

A

S3 Inventory

39
Q

What can you use to protect your buckets from the public?

A

S3 Block Public Access

40
Q

What is a feature that monitors your bucket access policies, ensuring that the policies provide only the intended access to your S3 resources?

A

Access Analyzer for S3

41
Q

What Amazon tool uses machine learning and pattern matching in order to discover and protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3?

A

Amazon Macie

42
Q

What provides private connectivity between Amazon S3 and on-premises?

A

AWS PrivateLink for S3

43
Q

What can you use to query your data in S3 without needing to extract and load it into a separate service or platform?

A

Amazon Athena

44
Q

What can you use to query more data than Amazon Athena?

A

Amazon Redshift Spectrum

45
Q

What data transfer method can be used for hybrid cloud storage?

A

AWS Storage Gateway

46
Q

What do you use to transfer data online to AWS?

A

AWS DataSync

47
Q

What tools provide fully managed, simple and seamless file transfer to Amazon S3 using SFTP, FTPS, and FTP?

A

AWS Transfer Family

48
Q

What can you use to enable fast transfers of files over long distances between your client and your Amazon S3 bucket?

A

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

49
Q

What can you use to transfer 8 TB of data offline to S3?

A

AWS Snowcone

50
Q

What can you use to transfer 80 TB of data offline to S3?

A

AWS Snowball

51
Q

What can you use to transfer 100 PB of data offline to S3?

A

AWS Snowmobile

52
Q

What allows you to upload a single object as a set of parts?

A

Multipart upload

53
Q

what is Multipart upload?

A

a single object is broken into many parts, stored, and then assembled in the correct order to recreate the object

54
Q

what are advantages of Multipart upload?

A
  1. improved throughput
  2. quick recovery from any network issues
  3. pause and resume uploads
  4. begin an upload before you know the final object size
55
Q

What can you use for faster transfers?

A

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

56
Q

what are the parts of an Amazon Resource Name (ARN)?

A

arn:partition:service:region:account-id:resource-id

57
Q

what is the ‘partition’ part of an ARN?

A

it is a group of AWS Regions

58
Q

what is the ‘service’ part of an ARN?

A

it is the AWS product (Amazon S3 is a product, therefore it is a service part of an ARN: s3)

59
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what is the ‘region’ part of an ARN?

A

it is the Region code

60
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what is the ‘account-id’ part of an ARN?

A

it is the ID of the AWS account that owns the resource, without the hyphens

61
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what is the ‘resource-id’ part of an ARN?

A

it is the resource identifier. it can be an IAM user, or an instance, or something else