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Cloud Practitioner Part 1 Flashcards

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What is cloud computing?

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The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or personal computer

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What type of hosting has multiple physical machines that act as one system and is flexible, scalable, secure, cost-effective, and has high configuration?

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Cloud Hosting

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What is AWS

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Cloud Service Provider

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What is a cloud service provider?

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Company that offers a range of cloud services, enabling its users to utilize these services individually or in combination to construct comprehensive cloud architectures

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For the Landscape of CSPs, which tier of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) is known for leveraging well-established technologies, focusing on specialization to cater to specific industry needs or technological niches, and may not innovate as rapidly as the top-tier providers?

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Tier 2 (Mid-Tier)

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What is a series of market research reports published by IT consulting firm Garter that rely on proprietary qualitative data analysis methods to demonstrate market trends, such as direction, and maturity, and participants?

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Magic Quadrant

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What cloud service is a virtual database for storing and reporting data or a database for general-purpose web applications?

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Database

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What category of cloud service offering does the EC2 Virtual machine belong in?

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Compute

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What is the name of the software component responsible for creating and managing Virtual Machines (VMs)?

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Hypervisor

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Which type of cloud computing is allows you to focus on the deployment and management of your apps without worry of provisioning, configuring, or understanding the hardware or OS?

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Platform as a service

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What is a private cloud?

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Cloud computing deployment model is designed exclusively for a single organization, providing enhanced security and control over data.

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What organizations commonly use On Premise (Private) Cloud

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Public sectors, hospitals, insurance companies

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Which benefit of cloud computing allows you to launch workloads worldwide by simply choosing a region?

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Global

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What is the throughput measured at which a computer can complete a computational task?

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  • FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second)
  • Transactions per second (TPS)
  • Instructions per second (IPS)
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What is high availability?

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The benefit of cloud that allows you to operate continuously without failure for a designated period of time.

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Is it possible to utilize cloud computing for deploying your application on a global scale?

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Yes, you can deploy your app in multiple regions around the world. This also provides a lower latency and a better experience for your customers at a minimal cost.

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What is AWS Global Infrastructure?

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Globally distributed hardware and data centers that are physically networked together to act as one large resource for the end customer.

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What is a region?

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A geographically distinct location which has multiple data centers (AZs)

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What are regional services?

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AWS scopes their AWS management console to a selected region, which determines both where an AWS service will be launched and what will be visible within that service’s console.

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What are Availability Zones

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Distinct locations comprising one or more data centers within a cloud computing region.

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What are direct connect locations?

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Third party data centers where you can establish dedicated, high speed, low-latency connections from your own on-premises infrastructure to the AWS network.

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What are Points of Presence?

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Describes intermediary locations positioned between an AWS Region and the end-user,
that could have a data center or an aggregation of hardware

23
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What is the purpose of Local Zone?

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The purpose of local zone is to support high demanding applications sensitive to latency
- Media and Entertainment
- Electronic Design Automation
- Ad-tech
- Machine Learning

24
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What faculties edge computing on 5G networks?

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Wavelength zones.

25
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What is the public sector?

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Public sectors include public goods and governmental services such as:
- Military
- Law enforcement
- Infrastructure

26
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Which AWS regions enable customers to host sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information and other types of regulated workloads?

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GovCloud

27
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What is a role in a technical organization that architects a technical solution using multiple systems via researching, documentation, experimentation?

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Solutions Architect

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What is High Availability?

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Refers to the capability of a service to remain consistently accessible and operational, achieved by eliminating single points of failure and maintaining a certain level of performance.

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What is high scalability?

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Describes the ability to dynamically adjust capacity in response to growing demands for traffic, memory, and computing power.

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What is high elasticity?

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Term that describes the capability to automatically scale up or down capacity in response to fluctuating demands for traffic, memory, and computing power.

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What term describes the capability of a service to eliminate single points of failure and minimize the risk of system failures?

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Highly Fault Tolerant

32
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What term describes the ability to recover from a catastrophic event and implement solutions to prevent data loss?

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Disaster Recovery (DR)

33
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What is a document that outlines how a business will continue operating during an unplanned disruption in services?

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Business Community Plan

34
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What type of Disaster Recovery involves replicating data to another region with essential services running at a minimal level?

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Pilot Light

35
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What is RPO?

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The maximum acceptable amount of data loss after an unplanned data loss incident, expressed as an amount of time

36
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What term describes software that facilitates communication between two applications of services?

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API

37
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What is AWS Management Console?

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Web based unified console. Build, manage, and monitor everything from simple web apps to complex cloud deployments.

38
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What is the AWS account ID used for?

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Identification when logging in with a non root user account
Setting up cross account roles
Managing support cases
Billing
Resource management

39
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What is a task automation and configuration management framework?

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PowerShell

40
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What are the unique identifiers used for AWS resources?

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Amazon Resource Names

41
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What is a fault domain?

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Is a logical grouping of hardware components within a network or data center infrastructure. It helps increase the fault tolerance and resilience of a system by isolating failures to specific segments, thus reducing the overall risk of service interruption or data loss.

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What ensures your resources stay within the aws network and do not traverse over the public Internet?

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VPC Endpoints

43
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What service is capable of determining the most efficient route from the end user to your web servers?

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AWS Global Accelerator

44
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What service provider provides a dedicated, private connection linking your data center, office, co-location facility, or other network location to AWS?

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AWS Direct Connect

45
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What is Data Residency?

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The physical or geographic location of where an organization or cloud resources reside.

46
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What service on AWS involves policy as code principles?

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AWS Config

47
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What is AWS in China?

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AWS in China is the AWS cloud offerings in mainland China.

48
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What is “Cloud Efficiency” as part of the AWS Cloud’s Sustainability goals?

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AWS’s infrastructure is 3.6 times more energy efficient than the median of US enterprise data centers surveyed.

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What is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process data, and scale your operations without having to worry about building your own ground station infrastructure?

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AWS Ground station

50
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What is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience?

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AWS Outposts

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