CCP Flashcards
What is Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than on a local server or personal computer.
What type of hosting has multiple physical machines that act as one system and is flexible, scalable, secure, cost-effective, and has high configuration?
Cloud Hosting
What is a Cloud Service Provider?
Cloud Service Provider is a company that provides multiple Cloud Services, and those Cloud Services can be chained together to create cloud architectures.
What is a series of market research reports published by IT consulting firm Garter that rely on proprietary qualitative data analysis methods to demonstrate market trends, such as direction, and maturity, and participants?
Magic Quadrant
What cloud service is a virtual database for storing and reporting data or a database for general-purpose web applications?
Databases
What is the software layer that lets you run the VMs?
Hypervisor
Which type of cloud computing is a product that is run and managed by the service provider?
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Which type of cloud computing is the basic building block for cloud IT. Provides access to networking features, computers, and data storage space?
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
Which type of cloud computing is allows you to focus on the deployment and management of your apps without worry of provisioning, configuring, or understanding the hardware or OS?
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
What cloud computing deployment model uses both on-Premise and a Cloud Service Provider?
Hybrid
Which cloud computing deployment model would be ideal for public sectors, hospitals, and insurance companies?
Private Cloud
What cloud computing deployment model is where everything is built on the Cloud Provider?
Public Cloud
Which of the following are examples of a Hybrid Cloud computing deployment model? (Select 2)
Deloitte and CIBC
Benefits of Cloud Computing
Cost-effective
You pay for what you consume, with no up-front cost. On-demand pricing or Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) with thousands of customers sharing the cost of the resources
Global
Launch workloads anywhere in the world, Just choose a region
Secure
Cloud provider takes care of physical security. Cloud services can be secure by default or you have the ability to configure access down to a granular level.
Reliable
Data backup, disaster recovery, data replication, and fault tolerance
Scalable
Increase or decrease resources and services based on demand
Elastic
Automate scaling during spikes and drop in demand
Current
The underlying hardware and managed software are patched, upgraded, and replaced by the cloud provider without interruption to you.
What has globally distributed hardware and data centers that are physically networked together to act as one large resource for the end customer?
AWS Global Infrastructure
Amazon S3, Cloud Front, Route53, IAM are examples of what type of service?
Global Services
What is a physical location made up of one or more data centers?
Availability Zones
What is a fault domain?
A fault domain is a section of a network that is vulnerable to damage if a critical device or system fails.
What can act as on and off-ramps to the AWS Global Network?
Edge Locations
What ensures your resources stay within the AWS Network and do not traverse over the public Internet?
VPC Endpoints
What are data centers that hold cached (copy) on the most popular files (eg. web pages, images, and videos) so that the delivery of distance to the end-users is reduced?
Edge locations
What are intermediate locations between an AWS Region and the end-user, and this location could be a data center or a collection of hardware?
Points of Presence (PoP)
Tier 1 network
a network that can reach every other network on the Internet without purchasing IP transit or paying for peering.
What allows you to generate a special URL that can be used by end users to upload files to a nearby Edge Location. Once a file is uploaded to an Edge Location, it can move much faster within the AWS Network to reach S3?
Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
What can find the optimal path from the end-user to your web servers?
AWS Global Accelerator
What are the two very-fast network connection options that Direct Connect have? (Select 2)
Higher Bandwidth 1GBps or 10GBps
Lower Bandwidth 50MBps-500MBps
What is a private/dedicated connection between your datacenter, office, co-location, and AWS?
AWS Direct Connect
What are trusted third-party data centers that you can establish a dedicated high-speed, low-latency connection from your on-premise to the AWS network.?
Direct Connect Locations
What are data centers located very close to a densely populated area to provide single-digit millisecond low latency performance (eg. 7ms) for that area?
Local Zones
What is the purpose of Local Zone?
The purpose of Local Zone is to support highly-demanding applications sensitive to latency:
Media & Entertainment
Electronic Design Automation
Ad-Tech
Machine Learning
What allows for edge-computing on 5G Networks?
Wavelength Zones
What is the jurisdictional control or legal authority that can be asserted over data because its physical location is within jurisdictional boundaries?
Data Sovereignty
What is a physical rack of servers that you can put in your data center?
AWS Outposts
What is Data Residency?
The physical or geographic location of where an organization or cloud resources reside.
What is a Policy as Code service on AWS?
AWS Config
AWS has special regions for US regulation called? What are regions allow customers to host sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information and other types of regulated workloads?
GovCloud
What is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process data, and scale your operations without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure?
AWS Ground Station
Use cases for Ground Station:
Use cases for Ground Station:
weather forecasting
surface imaging
communications
video broadcasts
To use Ground Station:
You schedule a Contact (select satellite, start and end time, and the ground location
use the AWS Ground Station EC2 AMI to launch EC2 instances that will uplink and downlink data during the contact or receive downlinked data in an Amazon S3 bucket.
What is a frame design to hold and organize IT equipment?
Server Rack
What is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience?
AWS Outposts
For Cloud Architecture Terminologies, what is your ability to grow rapidly or unimpeded?
Scalability
What are the business factors that a Solutions Architect always needs to consider? (Choose 2)
(Security) How secure is this solution?
(Cost) How much is this going to cost?
What is a load balancer that allows you to evenly distribute traffic to multiple servers in one or more data centers?
Elastic Load Balancer
What is High Availability (HA)?
Your ability for your service to remain available by ensuring there is no single point of failure and/or ensure a certain level of performance
What is your ability to increase your capacity based on the increasing demand for traffic, memory, and computing power?
High Scalability
What is an AWS feature that will automatically add or remove servers based on scaling rules you define?
Auto Scaling Groups (ASG)
What is when you run a duplicate standby database in another Availability Zone in case your primary database fails?
RDS Multi-AZ
What continuously replicates your machines into a low-cost staging area in your target AWS account and preferred Region enabling fast and reliable recovery in case of IT data center failures?
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
What is the maximum acceptable amount of data loss after an unplanned data-loss incident, expressed as an amount of time?
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
What type of Disaster Recovery Option is a Scaled-down copy of your infrastructure running ready to scale up?
Warm Standby
What type of Disaster Recovery Option is where data is replicated to another region with minimal services running?
Pilot Light
Each AWS Service has its own ___________ which you send requests.
Service Endpoint
What is software that allows two applications/services to talk to each other?
An Application Programming Interface (API)
What is an AWS Account ID used for?
when logging in with a non-root user account
Cross-account roles
Support cases
What is a task automation and configuration management framework?
PowerShell
AWS Toolkit is an open-source plugin for VSCode to create, debug, deploy AWS resources
- AWS Explorer
Explore a wide range of AWS resources to your linked AWS Account
- AWS CDK Explorer
Allows you to explore your stacks defined by CDK.
- Amazon Elastic Container Service
Provides IntelliSense for ECS task-definitions files
- Serverless Applications
Create, debug and deploy serverless applications via SAM and CFN
What is the Shared Responsibility Model?
The Shared Responsibility Model is a cloud security framework that defines the security obligations of the customer versa for the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) e.g. AWS.
Customer: Configuration of Managed Services or 3rd Party Software
Platforms, Applications, IAM
Customer: Configuration of Virtual Infrastructure and Systems
Operating System, Network, Firewall
Customer: Security Configuration of Data
Client-Side Data Encryption
Server-Side Encryption
Networking Traffic Protection
Customer Data
AWS: Software
Compute
Storage
Database
Networking
AWS: Hardware / Global Infrastructure
Regions
Availability Zones
Edge Locations
Physical Security
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Bare Metal
EC2 Bare Metal Instance
Customer:
The Host OS Configuration
Hypervisor
AWS:
Physical machine
Virtual Machine
Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
Customer:
The Guest OS Configuration
Container Runtime
AWS:
Hypervisor, Physical machine
Containers
AWS Elastic Container Service(ECS)
Customer:
Configuration of containers
Deployment of Containers
Storage of containers
AWS:
The OS, The Hypervisor, Container Runtime
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Managed Platform
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Customer:
Uploading your code
Some configuration of environment
Deployment strategies
Configuration of associated services
AWS:
Servers, OS, Networking, Storage, Security
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Content Collaboration
Amazon WorkDocs
Customer:
Contents of documents
Management of files
Configuration of sharing access controls
AWS:
Servers, OS, Networking, Storage, Security
Function as a Service (FaaS)
Functions
AWS Lambda
Customer:
Upload your code
AWS:
Deployment, Container Runtime, Networking, Storage, Security, Physical Machine, (basically everything)
What allows you to launch Virtual Machines (VM). When we launch a Virtual Machine we call it an ”instance”?
EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud
What is a container orchestration service that supports Docker containers?
Elastic Container Service (ECS)
What is the managed virtual server service? (It is the “friendly” version of EC2 Virtual Machines)
Amazon Lightsail
What is a Bare Metal Instance?
You can launch EC2 instances that have no hypervisor so you can run workloads directly on the hardware for maximum performance and control. The M5 and R5 EC2 instances run are bare metal.
What is a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor enabling faster innovation and enhanced security?
The Nitro System
What allows you to build and launch your applications in a telecom data center?
AWS Wavelength