AWS -Technology Flashcards
What Cloud Product allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all Regions and accounts.
Programming Languages –simple text
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation
RDS database – What is the primary benefit of deploying an
RDS database in a Read Replica configuration?
Read Replica improves database scalability
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Read Replicas allow you to create read-only copies that are synchronized with your master database. Read Replicas are used for improved read performance. You can also place your read replica in a different AWS Region closer to your users for better performance. Read Replicas are an example of horizontal scaling of resources.
Docker Containers– startup runs its proprietary application on docker containers. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend so that the startup can run containers and still have access to the underlying servers?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) - Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster. This is not a fully managed service and you can manage the underlying servers yourself.
Log Backup Process: An IT company wants to run a log backup process every Monday at 2 AM. The usual runtime of the process is 5 minutes. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build a serverless solution for this use-case? (Select two)
Monitor
What is s a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.
What lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.
CloudWatch -
Lambda -
An AWS user is trying to launch an EC2 instance in a given region. What is the region-specific constraint that the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) must meet so that it can be used for this EC2 instance?
You must use an AMI from the same region as that of the EC2 instance. The region of the AMI has no bearing on the performance of the EC2 instance
AWS Compute Optimizer delivers recommendations for which of the following AWS resources?
Amazon EBS volumes, AWS Lamada functions
Amazon EC2 Instances, Amazon EC2 auto Scaling Groups
Amazon EBS volumes, AWS Lamada functions
Amazon EC2 Instances, Amazon EC2 auto Scaling Groups
A financial services company wants to migrate from its on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend so that the company can compare the cost of running their IT infrastructure on-premises vs AWS Cloud?
AWS Pricing Calculator
AWS Pricing Calculator
Which of the following AWS services are part of the AWS Foundation services for the Reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework in AWS Cloud? (Select two)
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Service Quotas
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Service Quotas
Which AWS service can help you analyze your infrastructure to identify unattached or underutilized EBS volumes?
Which online tool can provide real-time guidance to help provision your resources following AWS best practices
Trusted Advisor
Which of the following AWS services can be used to forecast your AWS account usage and costs?
What has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
Cost Explorer
Which of the following are correct statements regarding the AWS Shared Responsibility Model? (Select two)
Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. This shared model can help relieve the customer’s operational burden as AWS operates, manages and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the
physical security of the facilities in which the service operates.
AWS is responsible for Security “of” the Cloud
For Abstracted Services like Amazon S3., AWS operates the infrastructure layer, the operating system, and platforms
Which of the following are the serverless computing services offered by AWS (Select two)
You can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration. Just upload your code and ***** takes care of everything
Serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). ** makes it easy for you to focus on building your applications.
AWS Lambda -
With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration. Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability. You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume - there is no charge when your code is not running.
AWS Fargate -
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Fargate makes it easy for you to focus on building your applications. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you
Which of the following AWS services can be used to forecast your AWS account usage and costs?
forecast
What has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. forecast.
AWS Cost Explorer
A financial services company wants to ensure that its AWS account activity meets the governance, compliance and auditing norms. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?
Which Cloud product would be used to log, monitor and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure. Which also provides an event history of your AWS account activity.
CloudTrail
An IT company wants to run a log backup process every Monday at 2 AM. The usual runtime of the process is 5 minutes. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build a serverless solution for this use-case? (Select two)
- what Cloud product can be used for monitoring
- What compute service lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. so it can be used to run this log backup process.
CloudWatch
Lambda
