Chapter 3 - AWS Fundamentals

Question 1

What is a Region?

Answer 1

A geographical area that consists of 2 or more Availability Zones.

Question 2

What is an Availability Zone?

Answer 2

1 or more discrete data centers housed in separate facilities.

Question 3

What are Edge Locations?

Answer 3

Endpoints for AWS that are used for caching content.

Typically consists of Cloudfront, Amazon’s content delivery network (CDN).

Question 4

What is the Shared Responsibility Model?

Answer 4

The structure of responsibility of the various aspects of the cloud.

It defines what the customer owns and is responsible for, and what Amazon owns and is responsible for.

Question 5

What are the Fundamental Compute Services?

Answer 5

EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud

Lambda - Serverless Computing

Elastic Beanstalk - Provisioning engine for automating the deployment of applications within AWS

Question 6

What are the Fundamental Storage Services?

Answer 6

S3 - Simple Storage Service

EBS - Elastic Block Store

EFS - Elastic File System

FSx - File Service X

Storage Gateway

Question 7

What are the Fundamental Database Services

Answer 7

RDS - Relational Database Service

DynamoDB - A Non-Relational Database

Redshift - Database Warehousing Technology

Question 8

What are the Fundamental Networking Services

Answer 8

VPC - Virtual Private Cloud aka Virtual Data Centers

Direct Connect - A way to connect on-prem resources to AWS

Route53 - Domain name registration and routing

API Gateway - Way of replacing your web service

AWS Global Accelerator - Way of accelerating your audience towards your applications within AWS

Question 9

What are the 6 Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework?

Answer 9

Operational Excellence

Security

Reliability

Performance Efficiency

Cost Optimization

Sustainability