AWS Solution Architect Flashcards
Exam Prep
Fully managed solution for deploying a multi-region, multi-master database
Dynamo DB
Easiest way to process and analyze real-time, streaming data
Kinesis Data Streams
Process standard SQL queries to process and ingest data from Kinesis Streams
Kinesis Data Analytics
Load Balancer with Dynamic Port Mapping
Application Load Balancer (ALB)
Authenticate using MFA device
AWS Management Console & AWS API
Inexpensive Active Directory-compatible service with common directory features
AWS Simple AD
Best Practices for Setting up Bastion Hosts
Deploy in 2 AZs, use Auto Scaling Group and Elastic IP address
AWS Service to send alerts via email or SNS topic for cost forecasting
AWS Budgets
Utilizes Hadoop framework and lunches all nodes for a given cluster in same EC2 AZ.
Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) cluster
Options for Storing CloudWatch log files
CloudWatch Logs & Splunk
How long data should be downloaded once you Amazon Glacier is achieved
24 Hours
For EC2 Reserved Instances capacity is reserved for what term?
1 or 2 years standard
Can EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) be placement groups?
Yes
What you call to a read only copy of RDS database?
Read Replicate
What protocols should be implemented on ELBs to start recording of IP addresses of the clients that connect to your web applications?
X-Forwarded-For request header and HTTP & Proxy Protocol and TCP
Implement connectivity between all of the VPCs across several locations around the world.
Use inter-region VPC peering & Implement a fully meshed architecture
AWS Service to convert audio and video file to smartphone and tablet compatible formats
Elastic Transcoder
Regional Edge Caches are ________ by default for CloudFront Distributions
Enabled
Audit trail for operations on the S3 buckets
Enable server access logging for the S3 buckets
DynamoDB is more cost effective for _____ heavy workloads ? / read or write ?
Read
How is DynamoDB priced?
It is priced based on provisioned throughput (read/write)
A web service that makes it easy to deploy and run Memcached or Redis protocol-compliant server nodes in the cloud.
ElastiCache
fully managed directory service in the AWS cloud.
AWS Simple AD
A solution for capturing, transforming and loading streaming data into an Amazon RedShift
1) Kinesis Data Firehose for capturing the data and loading it into RedShift
2) Lambda for transforming the data
a file-level storage solution
Amazon EFS
Service that always keeps three copies of your data and provides continuous/incremental backups
Redshift
Package, Test and Deploy the serverless application stack
AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model)
Default outbound rule of Security Group in VPC
Allows all traffic to all IP addresses.
Can you recover keys if you lose credentials of CloudHSM?
There is no way to recover your keys if you lose your credentials
AWS Service to securely connect the smart devices to cloud platform?
AWS IoT Core
_________ determines where network traffic is directed.
Route Tables
ELB for extremely high throughput and extremely low latencies?
Network Load Balancer (NLB)
Which AWS service can be used to automate the release process of Lambda applications?
1) AWS CodeDeploy
2) AWS CodePipeline
AWS service that can be used to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS offering, which enables you to focus on building applications, while letting AWS handle
Amazon EKS managed Kubernetes
List stream-based services
Kinesis & DynamoDB
Service used for processing and analyze real-time, streaming data.
Kinesis Data Streams
Service used for standard SQL queries to
process Kinesis data streams
Kinesis Data Analytics
Service used for millions of messages
SQL Queue
ELB Service that allows dynamic port mapping
Application Load Balancer (ALB)
highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) service
Amazon Route 53
AWS Service that lets you manage applications and servers on AWS and on-premises
AWS OpsWorks Stacks
point-in-time copy of your data and can be used to enable disaster recovery, migrate data across regions and accounts
EBS Snapshots
a virtual private server (VPS) provider
Amazon Lightsail
A user who does not have AWS credentials or permission to access an S3 object can be granted temporary access by using a pre-signed URL
What will be the effect upon an attached Elastic IP address if the instance is terminated by the user?
It remains attached to the instance.
A collection of physical devices that help migrate large amounts of data into and out of the cloud without depending on networks.
The AWS Snow Family
A hub-and-spoke VPN technology offered by AWS
AWS VPN CloudHub
Identify the means to secure S3 data from both accidental deletion and overwrite.
Enable S3 versioning on the bucket
Which AWS service records Application Program Interface (API) calls made on your account and delivers log files to your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket?
AWS CloudTrail
Which service allows you to process nearly limitless streams of data in flight?
Amazon Kinesis Streams
_________ allows you to ingest massive streams of data and store the data on Amazon S3 (as well as Amazon Redshift
and Amazon Elasticsearch).
Amazon Kinesis Firehose
What PaaS service is used for automatic deployment of application?
AWS ElasticBeanstalk
_________ is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration
change notifications to enable security and governance
AWS Config
_________ is the fastest and simplest way to get an application up and running on AWS.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Cloud services is best suited as an alternative for storing session state information
Amazon DynamoDB
Which type of DNS record should you use to resolve an IP address to a domain name?
A PTR record
Which type of record is commonly used to route traffic to an IPv6 address?
An AAAA record
Which DNS record must all zones have by default?
SOA
What is the longest configurable message retention period for Amazon Simple Queue Service
14 days
Default time for SQS Visibility timeout
30 seconds
What is the default message retention period for Amazon Simple Queue Service
4 days
Longest time available for SQS Visibility timeout
12 hours
What are valid properties of SQS messages?
Body and Message ID
How does Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) deliver messages?
Amazon SQS doesn’t guarantee delivery of your messages in any particular order.
The maximum time for an Amazon SQS long polling timeout is __________ seconds
20 seconds
What is the maximum size IP address range that you can have in an Amazon VPC ?
/16
How long does Amazon CloudWatch keep metric data?
2 weeks
___ is installed on ELB to accept incoming traffic
Listener
____ is event based integrated serverless service
Lambda
How AWS Charges Lambda Function?
It is per execution time
How much max memory can be used in Lambda?
10240 MB i.e. 10 GB Max
Maximum timeout for Lambda Function is _____ ?
15 Minutes
Fully managed Service to manage API, publish, monitor and secure APIs at any ascal
API Gateway