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AWS Well-Architected Framework Flashcards

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What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

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The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a set of strategies and best practices to follow when designing architecture so you can measure your designs against AWS best practices

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Which are the AWS Well-Architected pillars?

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  • Operational Excellence
  • Security
  • Performance efficiency
  • Reliability
  • Cost-optimization
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Describe the operational excellence pillar

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The operational excellence pillar is the ability to run and monitor systems to continuosly deliver business value and improve supporting processes and procedures

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What are the focus areas of the Operational Excellence pillar?

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-Organization
-Prepare
-Operate (Ensuring your team has the skillset to operate your workload)
-Evolve (Improving the execution of your operations over time)

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What are the focus areas of the Security pillar?

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-Data Confidentiality
-Infrastructure Protection (Guarantees system is protected against unauthorized access)
-Identity and Access Management (IAM)
-Detective controls (Detecting security events)
-Incident Response

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Describe the Reliability pillar

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The capacity to recover from infrastructure or system failures, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand and mitigate disruptions due to transient network issues or misconfigurations

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What are the focus areas of the Reliability pillar?

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  • Foundations (Limites de serviços da AWS e da solução)
  • Change (auto-scaling e detecção de mudanças)
  • Failure management (Foco em backups e estratégias de recuperação)
  • Workload Architecture
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What are the focus areas of the Performance Efficiency pillar?

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-Selection (Selecting the right resources for the task)
-Review (Reviewing choices against new technology released)
-Monitoring
-Trade-offs

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What are the focus areas of the Cost-Efficiency pillar?

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-Cost effective resources
-Match demand and supply
-Expenditure Awareness
-Optimizing Overtime (Taking advantage of new technologies or features)

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What are the key AWS services for the Operational Excellence pillar? Also mention which area they pertain to.

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-Cloudformation (Key Service)
-AWS Config (Prepare)
-AWS Cloudwatch (Operate)
-AWS Elasticsearch (Evolve)

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What are some AWS services useful for Secuity Operations in the cloud?

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  • AWS Accounts
  • AWS Organizations
  • AWS Control Tower
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What AWS Service can you use to automate responses to security events?

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AWS Config

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What is the key service for the AWS Reliability pillar?

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AWS Cloudwatch

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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Reliability pillar for the Foundations area?

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  • VPC
  • IAM
  • AWS Shield
  • AWS Trusted Advisor
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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Reliability pillar for the Change area?

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  • Cloudwatch
  • Cloudtrail
  • AWS Config
  • AWS Auto-scaling
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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Reliability pillar for the Failure management area?

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-Cloudformation
-S3
-Glacier
-AWS KMS

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The use of Auto-Scaling is a practice that matches which pillars of the well architected framework?

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The Reliability (Change area) and Cost-effectiveness (match supply and demand area) pillars.

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Having high availability on a solution would be related to what area on the Reliability Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected framework?

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The Foundations area

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What is the key service for the AWS Performance Efficiency pillar?

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AWS Cloudwatch

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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar for the Selection area? (Compute, Storage, Database, Network)

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  • S3
  • EBS
  • EC2
  • Auto-Scaling
  • RDS
  • DynamoDB
  • Route 53
  • VPC
  • AWS Direct Connect
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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar for the Review area?

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There are no AWS services for the review area, one has to pay attention to the news and reas the AWS Blog

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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar for the Monitoring area?

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  • Cloudwatch
  • AWS Kinesis
  • AWS SQS
  • Lambda (To execute based on Cloudwatch)
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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar for the Trade-Off area?

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  • Amazon Cloudfront
  • Amazon Snowball
  • Amazon Elasticache
  • Amazon RDS
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A Lamba execution times out, with an alarm being triggered on cloudwatch that creates a message on an SQS Queue logging this event. What area of the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar does this pertain to?

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Monitoring

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Using Proximity and Caching pertains to which area of the Well-Architected Performance Efficiency pillar?

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Trade-offs

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The use of tags to control costs (AWS shows the aggregated costs for all resources with that tag) pertains to which are of the Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar?

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Expenditure Awareness

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What is the key service for the AWS Cost Optimization pillar?

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Cost Allocation Tags and Cost Explorer

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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar for the Cost Effective Resources area?

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-Reserved Instances
-EC2 spot instances
-Amazon cost explorer

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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar for the Match Supply and Demand area?

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  • Auto-Scaling
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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar for the Expenditure Awareness area?

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-Cloudwatch
-SNS
-Cost Allocation Tags
-Cost Explorer

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What are the key AWS services for the Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar for the Optimizing Over Time area?

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  • AWS Trusted Advisor

Addictionally, you can also check the AWS blog.

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