Cloud Concepts Flashcards
To launch a large number of instances in your VPC that exceeds the service limits for instances in a VPC. What can you do?
Contact AWS and request a service limit increase
What are the 6 advantages to Cloud Computing?
Go Global In Minutes
Stop spending money Running Data Centers
Increased Speed and Agility
You are working with IAM and need to attach policies to users, groups, and roles. Which will you be attaching these policies to?
Identities - the IAM resource objects that are used to identify and group. You can attach a policy to an IAM identity. These include users, groups, and roles.
Users need to access AWS resources from the command-line interface. Which IAM option can be used for authentication?
Access Keys - You must provide your AWS access keys to make programmatic calls to AWS or to use the AWS Command Line Interface or AWS Tools for PowerShell.
A company has a large number of S3 buckets and needs to manage and automate tasks on these buckets at one time. Which AWS feature can do this?
Resource Groups - You can use resource groups to organize your AWS resources. Resource groups make it easier to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of resources at one time.
In Identity and Access Management, which term applies to a person or application that uses the AWS account root user, an IAM user, or an IAM role to sign in and make requests to AWS?
Principal - A Principal is a person or application that uses the AWS account root user, an IAM user, or an IAM role to sign in and make requests to AWS
A financial company needs to migrate large amounts of data, at a petabyte-scale, to AWS. Which AWS service can perform this type of migration?
AWS Snowball - Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud.
What section of the AWS portal helps you to inspect account alerts and find remediation guidance for your account?
AWS Personal Health Dashboard - Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.
You have been tasked with developing a plan to move applications to AWS and use AWS services to house code, build, and deploy these applications. Which AWS service will allow you to host Git-based repositories?
AWS CodeCommit - Fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories. It makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure.
You need to track your AWS costs on a detailed level. Which tool will allow you to do this?
Cost Allocation Tags - A tag is a label that you or AWS assigns to an AWS resource. Each tag consists of a key and a value. For each resource, each tag key must be unique, and each tag key can have only one value. You can use tags to organize your resources, and cost allocation tags to track your AWS costs on a detailed level.
You need to visualize, understand, identify trends for future charges, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. Which AWS tool would you use?
AWS Cost Explorer - Visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. You can analyze your cost and usage data at a high level (e.g., total costs and usage across all accounts in your organization)
What are the 5 pillars of the AWS Well Architected Framework?
Operational Excellence Security Reliability Performance Efficiency Cost Optimization
