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PASSING THE AWS SA

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allows you to functionally manage live streaming data and process the data into several amazon environments

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amazon kinesis data firehose

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considered default type for EC2 instance •used for in-depth workloads with low-latency apps •backed by solid-state drives

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GENERAL PURPOSE SSD

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A task definition is a text file in ______ format

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JSON FORMAT

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Default value for creating Amazon EC2 instance is limited to all regions with a value of ____

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20 (anything divisible by 20)

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provides high-level commands to simplify creating, updating, and monitoring clusters and tasks from a local development environment using Docker Compose.

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AWS ECS CLI

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sends information about the resource’s current running tasks and resource utilization to Amazon ECS, and starts and stops tasks whenever it receives a request from Amazon ECS

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CONTAINER AGENT

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framework pillar that supports computing resources to maintain and meet business requirements as technologies change over time within the AWS infrastructure

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Performance Efficiency

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What is ElastiCache?

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in memory, caching and data store web service

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petabyte-scaled infrastructure that is considered a data warehouse solution

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Amazon Redshift

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Which service allows you to package your application in containers, specify the CPU and memory requirements, define networking and IAM policies, and launch the application.

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AWS FARGATE

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MAXIMUM NUMBER OF TASKS THAT CAN BE LAUNCHED

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10

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when provisioned, each fargate task recieves which type of storage?

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10 GB of Docker Layer Storage

an aditional 4GB for volume mounts

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interactive query service that gives you the functionality of using standard SQL expression to analyze your data , has the ability to run ad-hoc SQL queries for quick analytics

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amazon athena

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MICROSERVICE

BATCH PROCESSING

APPLCIATION MIGRATION TO THE CLOUD

MACHINE LEARNING

ARE ALL FEATURES OF :

A

ECS

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15
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when VPC is created it automatically comes with a

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ROUTING TABLE

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A _______ defines which task definition to use with your service, how many instantiations of that task to run, and which load balancers to associate with your tasks

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SERVICE DEFINITION

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endpoint that focus on AWS services related to only Dynamodb and Amazon S3

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gateway type endpoint

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ELASTIC NETWORK INTERFACE WITH A PRIVATE IP ADDRESS THAT SERVES AS AN ENTRY POINT FOR TRAFFIC DESTINED TO A SUPPORT SERVICES

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INTERFACE ENDPOINTS (POWERED BY AWS PRIVATE LINK)

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Acts as a bridge to your private instances via the internet

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bastion hosts

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20
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keeps cpu information data for 2 weeks…

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amazon cloudwatch

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•IN MEMORY ACCELERATION COMPONENT •used by DYNAMODB API •creates up to 10x FASTER RESPONSES

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Dynamo DB Accelerator (DAX)

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sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-useR

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ADD THE EC2 USER TO THE DOCKER GROUP SO YOU CAN EXECUTE DOCKER COMMANDS WITHOUT USING SUDO

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23
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Highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS

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AMAZON ECS . ELASTIC CONTAINER SERVICE

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CHEF CAPISTRANO PUPPET ARE ALL

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BOOTSTRAPPING APPLICATIONS

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a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in ECS.

Also, integrated with Amazon ECS

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CloudTrail

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offer the greatest low level of latency available 32,0000 IOPS backed by solid state drives

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PROVISIONED IPOS SSD

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used when you have unpredictable peaks in business cycles

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dynamic scaling

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28
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allows you to provision an object uniquely from its base table index

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dynamodb secondary indexes

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29
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sudo yum update -y

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UPDATE THE INSTALLED PACKAGES AND PACKAGE CACHE ON YOUR INSTANCE

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Amazon ElastiCache’s 2 primary in-memory caching engines

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Redis and Memcached

31
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uses live data form video feeds that can be streamed directly into Amazon cloud infrastructure

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amazon kinesis video streams

32
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GATEWAY ENDPOINT SUPPORTS TWO SERVICES:

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AWS S3

DYNAMODB

33
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BEFORE YOU CAN LAUNCH CONTAINER SERVICES AND REGISTER THEM INTO A CLUSTER YOU MUST CREATE AN ________

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IAM ROLE FOR THOSE CONTAINER INSTANCES

34
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uses SSH or RDP to log in to other instances within private subnets deeper within your VPC

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Bastion hosts

35
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Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization

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5 pillars of the AWS WELL-ARCHITECTED FRAMEWORK

36
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A GATEWAY THAT IS A TARGET FOR SPECIFIC ROUTE IN YOUR ROUTE TABLE , USED FOR TRAFFIC THAT IS DESTINED FOR A SUPPORTED AWS SERVICE

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GATEWAY ENDPPOINT

37
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MariaDB, Oracle PostgresSQL and MySQL

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Amazon RDS database environments

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a name for common applications that apply service packs, security patches, security updates and has the ability to register EC2 instances to execute remote security monitoring

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BOOTSTRAPPING

39
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a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters

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AWS FARGATE

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a service that enhances the data transfer rates exponentially by using physical storage appliances to transfer petabytes of data

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AWS STORAGE SNOWBALL

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a bunch of instances that each run docker

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Passing user data to an instance is an option available when you

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LAUNCH AN AMAZON ECS CONTAINER INSTANCE

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considered a third party open source software and works with amazon resources. unique transparent encryption of data at rest within an EBS volume

45
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•DATA LEVEL CACHE ENGINE •supports up to 3.55 terabytes

46
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MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CONTAINER INSTANCES

47
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•CACHING CONCEPTS for DEVICES connected to your LAN •implements TIGHT ENCRYPTION security control •APPLICATION LEVEL CACHING

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AWS Greengrass

48
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A ______ is required to run Docker containters in Amazon ECS.

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ECS Task definitions

49
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r4.large, t2.nano, c4.large, d2.xlarge

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EC2 Instance types for LINUX

50
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a NOSQL database service that delivers the millisecond returns on data back to the end user or application, you can FULLY MANAGE the production within the cloud infrastructure. Good for games, web and mobile applications

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AWS DYNAMODB

51
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supports memory-intensive applications and is cheaper price option

52
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use a ______ to move traffic from EC2 instance to the internet appropriately without a public IP address

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NAT gateway

53
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COMMON USE CASES FOR USER DATA

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pass configuration inforrmation to the Docker daemon and the ECS container agent

54
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Amazon ECS has two modes:

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Fargate launch type and EC2 launch type.

55
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Two prompts when creating an IAM policy

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Select an Action Choose a service

56
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CLI command that allows you to create a new application system

57
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Amazon resource that gives you the ability to create subnets, modifiy IP address ranges, change network gateways, configure routing tables, modify advanced security settings

58
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Fargate task definitions require that the network mode is set to

59
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houses information such as structure or template that is not point to root volumes, permissions realted to aws accounts and block mapping of devices that will be attached to EC2

60
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Amazon EC2

AWS Batch

Amazon ECR

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Lambda

Amazon Lightsail

AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)

AWS Serverless Application Repository

ARE ALL _______

A

COMPUTE SERVICES

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used to deploy scale and operate Elasticsearch clusters •analyze logs and provide click stream analytics and application monitoring in real time

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AMAZON ELASTICSEARCH SERVICE

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total number of VPCs you can have in a region

63
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Low cost storage solution for data that is accessed infrequently. Used for primarily for functional testing and validation of process for applications. Produces about 100 IPOS

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MAGNETIC VOLUMES

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creates an overall summary of data analytics through a conceptual perspective, uses native SQL to view all the different forms of streaming data

A

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

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  • No Clusters to Manage
  • SEAMLESS SCALING
  • Integrated with Amazon ECS

ARE ALL BENEFITS OF

A

AWS FARGATE

66
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is required when creating a service or manually running tasks

A

network configuration

67
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auto scaling groups aurora db clusters dynamodb objects and tables ec2 spot fleet requests ecs services

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resources that can be auto scaled

68
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When the container agent starts the Amazon ECS-Optimized AMI looks for agent configuration data in the

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/ect/ecs/ecs.config.file

69
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Amazon recommends that data in transit should be encrypted using

70
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PERFORM COMMON AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION TASK and RUNNING SCRIPTS WHEN THE INSTANCE BOOTS are taken from

71
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compute service that is an event driven process, runs code within aws infrastructure

A

AWS LAMBDA

72
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Clusters, Tasks, and Tasks definitions are all features of _____

73
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WHAT KIND OF LAUNCH IS BEING USED?

family”: “webserver”,

“containerDefinitions”: [

{

“name”: “web”,

“image”: “nginx”,

“memory”: “100”,

“cpu”: “99”

},

],

“requiresCompatibilities”: [

“FARGATE”

],

“networkMode”: “awsvpc”,

“memory”: “512”,

“cpu”: “256

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