Cloud Flashcards

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Name the 6 pillars of a well architected framework?

A

Operational excellence
Security
Reliability
Performance efficiency
Cost optimization
Sustainability

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Your system is continually improving and delivering business value. ability to run workloads effectively and gain insights into their operation Which pillar is this?

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Operational excellence

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Give an example of operational excellence?

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Anticipating failure
Frequently making small, continuous changes
Annotating documentation

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You protect the businesses systems by conducting risk assessments and migration strategies. Which pillar is this?

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Security

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Give an example of security?

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Automate security practices
Apply security to all layers
Protect data in transit and at rest

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Your systems ability to recover from disruption, adapt to demand and defend against network issues is which pilllar?

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Reliability

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Give an example of reliability

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Scaling horizontally
Automatically recovering from failure
Testing recovery procedures

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Your systems ability to efficiently use resources to meet system requirements, even when technologies evolve. Which pillar is this?

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Performance efficiency

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Give examples of performance efficiency?

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Design systems to go global in minutes
Serverless architecture
Experimenting more often

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You system is delivering business value at the lowest possible price point. Which pillar is this?

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Cost optimization

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Give examples of cost optimization pillar?

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Adopt a CONSUMPTION MODEL
Analyse and attribute spending
Use managed services to reduce the cost of ownership

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Your systems ability to continually improve sustainability impacts by reducing energy consumption and increasing efficiency across all components of a workload by maximizing the benefits from the provisioned resources and minimizing the total resources required. Which pillar is this

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Sustainability

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Give examples of the sustainability pillar?

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Understand your impact
Set sustainability goals
Maximize utilization
More efficient hardware and software offerings
Use managed services
Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads

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Name 6 advantages of cloud computing?

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Trade upfront expense for variable expense.
Benefit from massive economies of scale.
Stop guessing capacity.
Increase speed and agility.
Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers.
Go global in minutes.

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