Chapter 3 - AWS Fundamentals

Question 1

A Region

Answer 1

a physical location in the world that consists of 2 or more Availability Zones.

Question 2

Availability Zone

Answer 2

is 1 or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, which is housed in separate facilities.

Question 3

edge locations

Answer 3

edge locations are endpoints for AWS that are used for caching content.

Question 4

CloudFront

Answer 4

which is Amazon’s content delivery network.

Question 5

shared responsibility model

Answer 5

If you get a scenario-based question talking about the shared responsibility model, just need you to ask yourself, can you do this yourself in the AWS Management Console? If yes, then you’re likely responsible.

Question 6

Key Services

Answer 6

Compute

• EC2
• Lambda
• Elastic Beanstalk.

Storage

• S3
• EBS
• EFS
• FSx
• Storage Gateway

Databases

• RDS,
• DynamoDB,
• Redshift.

Networking

• VPCs
• Direct Connect
• Route 53
• API Gateway
• AWS Global Accelerator