Compute and Networking Services

Question 1

EC2

Answer 1

Elastic Compute Cloud - provides virtual servers in AWS, only pay for what you use - varying compute and memory capabilities

Question 2

EC2 Auto Scaling

Answer 2

Allows you to dynamically scale EC2 capacity up or down automatically according to conditions you set

Question 3

Lightsail

Answer 3

Easiest way to launch virtual servers running application in the AWS Cloud - AWS will provision DNS management and storage

Question 4

ECS

Answer 4

Container management service for docko containers

Question 5

Lambda

Answer 5

Lets you run code in AWS cloud without worrying about provisioning the server

Question 6

Elastic Load Balancer

Answer 6

Takes traffic from End Users and distributes it to available EC2 instances to balance load across those EC2 instances. It also registers health checks received from EC2 instances to halt traffic there

Question 7

System Status Check

Answer 7

An EC2 Instance check that requires AWS action to resolve

Question 8

Instance Status Check

Answer 8

An EC2 instance check that usually has to do with the OS and so requires your action to resolve

Question 9

CloudWatch - Basic Monitoring

Answer 9

Default EC2 monitoring setting that refreshes every 5 minutes

Question 10

CloudWatch - Detailed Monitoring

Answer 10

Advanced EC2 monitoring setting that refreshes every 1 minute (incurs costs)

Question 11

Monitoring Service for AWS products

Answer 11

CloudWatch

Question 12

IP Address known only to an EC2 Instance but not to the OS it is running. This address is retained even when the instance is stopped and is used on Private and Public subnets within the VPC.

Answer 12

Private IP Address

Question 13

Dynamic IP address that changes upon stopping of the instance, used in public subnets, associated/mapped to a private IP address on an EC2 instance and cannot be moved between instances (incurs no costs).

Answer 13

Public IP Address

Question 14

Static IP address that is used in public subnets, associated/mapped to a private IP address on an EC2 instance and can be moved between instance and Elastic Network Adapters (incurs costs if it is not used).

Answer 14

Elastic IP Address

Question 15

Bastion/Jump Host

Answer 15

An EC2 Instance that you use to redirect network traffic from an internet gateway into an EC2 instance that is running on a Private Subnet.

Question 16

Clustered Placement Group

Answer 16

EC2 placement group where instances are placed into a low latency group within a single AZ

Question 17

Spread Placement Group

Answer 17

EC2 placement group where instances are spread across distinct underlying hardware to reduce correlated failures

Question 18

Partition Placement Group

Answer 18

EC2 placement group where instances are grouped into logical segments called partitions which use distinct hardware

Question 19

Classic Load Balancer

Answer 19

Operates at layer 4 and layer 7 (transport layers) - used for existing applications running on EC2 classic

Question 20

Ultra high performance load balancerthat offers low latency and is good for TLS off-loading. It operates at the connection level (layer 4(

Answer 20

Network Load Balancer