Cloud Practitioner Part 1 Flashcards
What is cloud computing?
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
What type of hosting has multiple physical machines that act as one system and is flexible, scalable, secure, cost-effective, and has high configuration?
Cloud Hosting
What is AWS
Cloud Service Provider
What is a cloud service provider?
Company that offers a range of cloud services, enabling its users to utilize these services individually or in combination to construct comprehensive cloud architectures
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?
Tier 2 (Mid-Tier)
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?
Magic Quadrant
What cloud service is a virtual database for storing and reporting data or a database for general-purpose web applications?
Database
What category of cloud service offering does the EC2 Virtual machine belong in?
Compute
What is the name of the software component responsible for creating and managing Virtual Machines (VMs)?
Hypervisor
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?
Platform as a service
What is a private cloud?
Cloud computing deployment model is designed exclusively for a single organization, providing enhanced security and control over data.
What organizations commonly use On Premise (Private) Cloud
Public sectors, hospitals, insurance companies
Which benefit of cloud computing allows you to launch workloads worldwide by simply choosing a region?
Global
What is the throughput measured at which a computer can complete a computational task?
- FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second)
- Transactions per second (TPS)
- Instructions per second (IPS)
What is high availability?
The benefit of cloud that allows you to operate continuously without failure for a designated period of time.
Is it possible to utilize cloud computing for deploying your application on a global scale?
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.
What is AWS Global Infrastructure?
Globally distributed hardware and data centers that are physically networked together to act as one large resource for the end customer.
What is a region?
A geographically distinct location which has multiple data centers (AZs)
What are regional services?
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.
What are Availability Zones
Distinct locations comprising one or more data centers within a cloud computing region.
What are direct connect locations?
Third party data centers where you can establish dedicated, high speed, low-latency connections from your own on-premises infrastructure to the AWS network.
What are Points of Presence?
Describes intermediary locations positioned between an AWS Region and the end-user,
that could have a data center or an aggregation of hardware
What is the purpose of Local Zone?
The purpose of local zone is to support high demanding applications sensitive to latency
- Media and Entertainment
- Electronic Design Automation
- Ad-tech
- Machine Learning
What faculties edge computing on 5G networks?
Wavelength zones.
What is the public sector?
Public sectors include public goods and governmental services such as:
- Military
- Law enforcement
- Infrastructure
Which AWS regions enable customers to host sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information and other types of regulated workloads?
GovCloud
What is a role in a technical organization that architects a technical solution using multiple systems via researching, documentation, experimentation?
Solutions Architect
What is High Availability?
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.
What is high scalability?
Describes the ability to dynamically adjust capacity in response to growing demands for traffic, memory, and computing power.
What is high elasticity?
Term that describes the capability to automatically scale up or down capacity in response to fluctuating demands for traffic, memory, and computing power.
What term describes the capability of a service to eliminate single points of failure and minimize the risk of system failures?
Highly Fault Tolerant
What term describes the ability to recover from a catastrophic event and implement solutions to prevent data loss?
Disaster Recovery (DR)
What is a document that outlines how a business will continue operating during an unplanned disruption in services?
Business Community Plan
What type of Disaster Recovery involves replicating data to another region with essential services running at a minimal level?
Pilot Light
What is RPO?
The maximum acceptable amount of data loss after an unplanned data loss incident, expressed as an amount of time
What term describes software that facilitates communication between two applications of services?
API
What is AWS Management Console?
Web based unified console. Build, manage, and monitor everything from simple web apps to complex cloud deployments.
What is the AWS account ID used for?
Identification when logging in with a non root user account
Setting up cross account roles
Managing support cases
Billing
Resource management
What is a task automation and configuration management framework?
PowerShell
What are the unique identifiers used for AWS resources?
Amazon Resource Names
What is a fault domain?
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.
What ensures your resources stay within the aws network and do not traverse over the public Internet?
VPC Endpoints
What service is capable of determining the most efficient route from the end user to your web servers?
AWS Global Accelerator
What service provider provides a dedicated, private connection linking your data center, office, co-location facility, or other network location to AWS?
AWS Direct Connect
What is Data Residency?
The physical or geographic location of where an organization or cloud resources reside.
What service on AWS involves policy as code principles?
AWS Config
What is AWS in China?
AWS in China is the AWS cloud offerings in mainland China.
What is “Cloud Efficiency” as part of the AWS Cloud’s Sustainability goals?
AWS’s infrastructure is 3.6 times more energy efficient than the median of US enterprise data centers surveyed.
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?
AWS Ground station
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?
AWS Outposts