Cloud Practitioner Flashcards

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You need to suggest the cheapest pricing option for EC2 instances. There are no requirements that need to be met. What pricing option can you suggest?

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Spot Instances. They’re even cheaper than reserved instances, as long as the workload can be interrupted and start and stop times will not affect users in a negative way.

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What is AWS Lightsail?

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Service that lets you easily set up a web site / application. Sets up the network, infra, backups, etc. You can spin up a LAMP stack, a wordpress server, a NodeJS server, and many more things.

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What is AWS Batch?

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A service that handles compute resources for running batch computing jobs, so you don’t have to manage clusters or scheduling.

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What is AWS Wavelength

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A way to minimize latency for 5G users, where AWS services are deployed in Telcom companies’ datacenters

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What feature of Amazon S3 allows you to manage user access to specific buckets and objects?

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Bucket Policies

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What is FSx?

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A service to deploy different types of file systems, like Windows File Server

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Which feature of Amazon Route 53 helps to manage traffic for your application based on various criteria, such as geographic location?

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Traffic Flow

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What is Neptune

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managed graph database

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What is MemoryDB

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In-memory database

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What is SCT?

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Schema conversion tool, which lets you move the schema of a database from one type to another, e.g. PostgreSQL to MySQL

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What is CloudShell?

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A shell you can launch from the web console that has the AWS CLI installed

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What is CodePipeline?

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AWS CI/CD Pipeline

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What is CodeArtifact?

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An artifact repository that lets you store/publish/share software deployment artifacts, including libraries, deployable packages, compiled applications, and documentation relating to your application.

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Is Long Polling or Short Polling SQS configuration generally recommended for most use cases and why?

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Long polling. It reduces unnecessary API requests, decreases cost, and improves efficiency by checking all SQS servers

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Does SQS guarantee FIFO processing?

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Only on FIFO queues

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What is Snowball Edge?

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Like Snowball, but can do some computing and transforming on the device too

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What is Application Migration Service?

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AWS Application Migration Service simplifies and expedites your migration to AWS by automatically converting your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS

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What is DataSync?

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DataSync is used for the secure transfer of terabytes of data to S3, EFS, and FSx over the network.

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What is TransferFamily?

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Transfer Family is a service that provides file sharing and transfer enabling external parties to transfer files to and from your AWS storage. Multiple protocols are supported, including SFTP, AS2, FTPS and FTP.

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What is AppStream?

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A tool for converting desktop applications to SaaS by deploying it via Workspaces thin clients

21
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How long are cloudwatch logs stored by default?

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Indefinitely

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What tool uses Machine Learning to discover and protect PII?

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What service would I use to get compliance reports?

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What service could I use to ask natural language questions about a dataset?

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What service could I use to add a chatbot to my site?
Lex
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What is Redshift?
petabyte-scale data warehousing service
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What service is designed for OLAP (online analytical processing)?
Redshift
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What is Kinesis for?
The kinesis services are for working with streaming data
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What Kinesis service should I use if I just want to capture, possibly transform, and then store data?
Kinesis Firehose
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Where would I find projections for this month's AWS spending by service?
Cost Explorer