Cloud Flashcards

1
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Key design principles for designing public cloud systems

A

scalability, disposable resources, automation, loose coupling, managed services instead of servers, and flexible data storage options (SADL)

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Advantages of using Cloud Computing over using traditional data centers

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High-availability, Distributed infrastructure, On-demand, Cost savings

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3
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CloudFront charges

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traffic distribution, number/type of requests, data transfer out

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4
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Ensure that the application has the highest level of availability, deploy where?

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across AZs and Edge Locations

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5
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Services that are Multi-AZ fault tolerant by deploying AWS resources in multiple Availability Zones to achieve high availability

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DynamoDB and S3

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6
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Why do AWS Regions contains multiple Availability Zones

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resilience

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7
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What 2 services do you use to launch resources

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Management Console or Command Line Interface

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8
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S3 element specifies the user, account, service, or other entity that is allowed or denied access to a resource.

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Principal

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9
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What determines S3 pricing?

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amount of data (in GB) stored, storage class, amount of data transferred out, number of requests to S3

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10
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S3 has the lowest availability rating

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One Zone-IA

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11
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Determine database type

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reads and writes per second, size of each object, data durability requirements, latency requirements, nature of queries

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12
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benefits of using a managed Amazon RDS service instead of a self-managed database on EC2

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automated backups and automatic software patching

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13
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Keep EBS volumes safe

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backup and encryption

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14
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Benefit of Amazon EBS volumes being automatically replicated

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durability (data remains consistent)

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15
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Neptune

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graph database service used to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets, such as social networking

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16
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manage all the resources in each environment as a group

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Resource Groups

17
Q

analytics service that makes it easy to query data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL commands

A

Athena

18
Q

analytics service to easily collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time

A

Kinesis

19
Q

network transit hub that simplifies how customers interconnect all of their VPCs

A

AWS Transit Gateway

20
Q

provide an additional layer of defense FIREWALL for your VPC by allowing you to create allow and deny rules

A

Network access control list (ACL)

21
Q

deploy AWS infrastructure on-premises and connect AWS services (extend the VPC into the on-premises environment)

A

AWS Outposts

22
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Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) service that automates the time-consuming steps of data preparation for analytics

A

AWS Glue

23
Q

comprised of AWS Site-to-Site VPN enables you to securely connect your on-premises network to AWS

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AWS Virtual Private Network (AWS VPN)

24
Q

VPC peering

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uses Private IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6) to route traffic from one VPC to another.

25
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EventBridge

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serverless event bus (allows components to communicate without knowing about each other) ingests data and then routes it

26
Q

AWS provides three pricing models

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1- Pay-as-you-go
2- Save when you reserve
3- Pay less by using more

27
Q

Services that automate to detect and react to Single Point of Failure

A

ELB
Auto Scaling
Amazon Route53

28
Q

Access keys are long-term credentials for who

A

IAM user and root account user

29
Q

configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet

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AWS OpsWorks

30
Q

Elastic Load Balancers can only serve targets where?

A

in a single Region

31
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on-demand downloads of AWS security and compliance documents, such as AWS ISO certifications, Payment Card Industry (PCI), and Service Organization Control (SOC) reports

A

AWS Artifact