Cloud Practitioner Flashcards
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?
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.
What is AWS Lightsail?
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.
What is AWS Batch?
A service that handles compute resources for running batch computing jobs, so you don’t have to manage clusters or scheduling.
What is AWS Wavelength
A way to minimize latency for 5G users, where AWS services are deployed in Telcom companies’ datacenters
What feature of Amazon S3 allows you to manage user access to specific buckets and objects?
Bucket Policies
What is FSx?
A service to deploy different types of file systems, like Windows File Server
Which feature of Amazon Route 53 helps to manage traffic for your application based on various criteria, such as geographic location?
Traffic Flow
What is Neptune
managed graph database
What is MemoryDB
In-memory database
What is SCT?
Schema conversion tool, which lets you move the schema of a database from one type to another, e.g. PostgreSQL to MySQL
What is CloudShell?
A shell you can launch from the web console that has the AWS CLI installed
What is CodePipeline?
AWS CI/CD Pipeline
What is CodeArtifact?
An artifact repository that lets you store/publish/share software deployment artifacts, including libraries, deployable packages, compiled applications, and documentation relating to your application.
Is Long Polling or Short Polling SQS configuration generally recommended for most use cases and why?
Long polling. It reduces unnecessary API requests, decreases cost, and improves efficiency by checking all SQS servers
Does SQS guarantee FIFO processing?
Only on FIFO queues
What is Snowball Edge?
Like Snowball, but can do some computing and transforming on the device too
What is Application Migration Service?
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
What is DataSync?
DataSync is used for the secure transfer of terabytes of data to S3, EFS, and FSx over the network.
What is TransferFamily?
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.
What is AppStream?
A tool for converting desktop applications to SaaS by deploying it via Workspaces thin clients
How long are cloudwatch logs stored by default?
Indefinitely
What tool uses Machine Learning to discover and protect PII?
Macie
What service would I use to get compliance reports?
Artifact
What service could I use to ask natural language questions about a dataset?
Kendra
What service could I use to add a chatbot to my site?
Lex
What is Redshift?
petabyte-scale data warehousing service
What service is designed for OLAP (online analytical processing)?
Redshift
What is Kinesis for?
The kinesis services are for working with streaming data
What Kinesis service should I use if I just want to capture, possibly transform, and then store data?
Kinesis Firehose
Where would I find projections for this month’s AWS spending by service?
Cost Explorer
