Core & Integrated Services Flashcards
1
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Which service sends notifications or automatically makes changes to resources being monitored according to rules you established?
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Amazon CloudWatch
2
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What service would you use for live on-demand video streaming, static asset caching or security and encryption?
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Amazon CloudFront
3
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What service has no additional charge associated with its use?
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Amazon IAM
4
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What AWS service manages agreements with AWS?
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AWS Artifact
5
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What is AWS Snowball?
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AWS Snowball helps you securely transfer large amounts of data in and out of the cloud (genomics, video libraries)
6
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What AWS Service helps with compliance?
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AWS CloudTrail helps with audit logs and logging for compliance reasons. It can log API requests and user requests
7
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Which of the following components provides value proposition of the AWS Cloud?
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Massive economies of scale
8
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Which parts of the AWS infrastructure supports increased resilience?
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Multiple Availability Zones within a Region
9
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Application composed of individual services and need to route a request to a service based on content of the request. What type of load balancer should you use?
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Application Load Balancer
10
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What can help customers migrate non-AWS database to AWS without negatively impacting the functionality fo the source database?
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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
11
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What does AWS OpWorks have to do with?
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OpWorks sets up Chef and Puppet for Machine Learning capabilities
12
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What AWS service would you use to migrate an on-prem workload to AWS?
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AWS SMS - Server Migration Service
13
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What services would you use to deal with avoiding “Single Point of Failure” automation?
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ELB & Auto Scaling
14
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What AWS service is “infrastructure as code” and can repeatedly and predictably create groups of related resources?
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AWS CloudFormation
15
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What service would you use to store data that has changing or inconsistent access patterns?
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AWS S3 Inteligent Tiering
16
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What storage service would you use to archive long-term data?
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Amazon Glacier
17
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What is Amazon Inspector?
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Automatically access applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices - includes knowledge base of hundreds of rules mapped to common security best practices
18
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What EC2 type of Instance would you use if you don’t need consistent uptime or continuous processing?
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Spot Instance - large loads - doesn’t matter if its interrupted
19
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What EC2 type of instance would you use if you can commit to 1 year or 3 years?
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Reserved Instance
20
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What does the AWS Cost & Usage Reports help with?
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Shows customers EC2 billing activity
21
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What is the benefit of having Availability Zones within a Region connected via low-latency links?
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Make synchronous replication of data possible
22
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What service will provide a company with architectural and scaling guidance, if they are expecting a surge in web traffic?
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IEM - Infrastructure Event Management
23
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What service would you use to process vast amounts of data easily and securely, such as ECT transformations, bioinformatics, web indexing?
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EMR - Elastic MapReduce
24
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What is Amazon Redshift?
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Data warehouse used to analyze data using standard SQL and business i tools
25
What DB is available through AWS RDS ?
Amazon Aurora = MySQL and PostgreSQL- compatible relational database build for cloud - provides automated backups to an application
26
What service can provide an additional level of security above the default authentication mechanism of user names and passwords?
AWS MFA
27
What service/team would you contact to report malicious beahvior like: spam, port scanning, DOS ?
AWS Abuse Team
28
What is ECS?
Elastic Container Services - supports Docker containers and run and scale containerized applications
29
What service uses Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed edge locations to transfer files to S3 with higher upload speeds ?
AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration
30
What is ElasticBeanstalk?
AWS ElasticBeanstalk is a PaaS that automates deployment and helps manage a deployment container
31
What is AWS Direct Connect?
It is a dedicated private network between AWS and datacenter
32
What two services would you use to create a hybrid cloud architecture?
AWS VPN & AWS Direct Connection (no internet)
33
What two services are compute resources?
AWS EC2 & AWS Lambda
34
What two services are completely free to use?
CloudFormation & Auto Scaling
35
What AWS storage services can store files?
EFS & EBS
36
What services/ features do RDS have to improve availibility?
Availability Zone deployments & Read replicas
37
What does the AWS Total Cost of Ownership service look at to determine a price of migrating to the cloud?
Num of servers to migrate
38
What type of Load Balancer should you use to monitor HTTP & HTTPS traffic?
Application Load Balancer
39
What primary storage does RDS use?
EBS (S3 cannot be used to store running operating systems or live databases)
40
Which storage service would you use to store images and videos?
S3
41
How can customers secure the volumes of EBS?
Encrypt at rest and in transit, Create EBS snapshots
42
What are the inherited controls which the customer fully inherits from AWS?
Physical and Environmental controls
43
What are the share controls according to the Shared Responsibility Model?
Patch Management, Configuration management, Awareness & Training
44
What are the benefits of DynamoDB ?
1. Offers extremely low latency 2. Automatically scales to meet throughput capacity
45
What does AWS service simplifies organizing and governing commonly deployed IT services ?
AWS Service Catalog
46
Name 2 good use cases for S3 storage.
Hosting static web site & media storage for CloudFront service (STATIC CONTENT)
47
What type of instance would you use to be cost-effective and only to be available for 2 months?
On-Demand Instance
48
Name 2 criteria to consider when choosing a database type.
1. Num of read/write 2. Nature of queries
49
Is the customer responsible for protecting credentials?
Yaz bitch
50
What can be used to protect data at rest on AWS S3 storage?
Versioning, Permissions, Replication, Backup
51
What 2 services scale automatically?
Lambda & S3
52
What are the benefits of RDS?
1. Lower administrative burden 2. Resizeable compute capacity
53
What is AWS Snowmobile?
Exabyte-scale data transfer
54
What service simply coordinate tasks across distributed application components?
Simple Workflow Service - SWF
55
What is the framework created by AWS Professional Services that helps organizations design a road map to successful cloud adoption?
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework - CAF
56
What type of instance can handle things that will recover quickly?
Spot-Instance
57
Which service provides the most granular data about AWS costs?
AWS Cost & Usage Report
58
What service provides cost benefit analysis for migrating to the cloud
AWS TCO Calculator
59
Which of the following AWS Services helps with planning application migrations to the AWS Cloud?
AWS Application Discovery Service
60
Which service just monitors already migrated/ currently migrating applications?
AWS Migration Hub
61
What services can help you create new RDS instances?
CloudFormation & AWS Management console
62
What are shared controls?
Controls that apply both to the infrastructure layer and customer layers
63
Where do you store Docker Images?
ECR = Elastic Container Registry, while ECS runs the images
64
What AWS services can be used to deploy SSL server certificates?
AWS ACM (Amazon Certificate Manager) & IAM (stores and deploys that server certificate)
65
Which of the following can help you perform security analysis and compliance auditing?
AWS Config & Amazon Inspector
66
What is AWS responsible for in DynamoDB?
Patching of database software && operating system maintenance
67
Which two AWS-Managed Services is AWS responsible for the operational and maintenance burdens of running?
Amazon Elastic MapReduce & Amazon DynamoDB
68
What are the security aspect that the AWS customer is responsible for?
Configuring network access rules & setting password complexity rules & Security Groups, NACLs, Routing Tables
69
A company has created a solution that helps AWS customers improve their architectures on AWS. Which PROGRAM may support this company?
AWS Consulting Partners
70
Where can you store files in AWS?
EFS & EBS
71
What feature/service allows organization of hierarchies of data across multiple dimensions?
Amazon Cloud Directory
72
What services does AWS offer for free?
IAM & ElasticBeanstalk
73
What is the name of the DynamoDB replication capability that provides fast read/write performance for globally deployed applications?
Global Tables
74
How does AWS notify its customers about security and private events pertaining to a AWS service?
Security Bulletins page
75
What service will help a customer that needs facial recognition software?
AWS Rekognition
76
What service can be used to monitor HTTP & HTTPS requests that are forwarded to Amazon CloudFront?
AWS WAF
77
Which AWS Service helps enterprises extend their on-premise storage to AWS in cost-effective manner?
AWS Storage Gateway
78
What service can help a customer who is PLANNING on using certain services estimate their costs?
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator (use Cost Explorer if project already exists)
79
List 2 AWS offerings that are serverless services
AWS Lambda & AWS DynamoDB (also SQS & SNS)
80
List at least 2 advantages of using AWS as a cloud computing provider.
1. Trade capital for variable expense (operation)
2. Massive scales of economy
3. No guessing capacity
4. Speed and agility
5. Global in minutes
81
What AWS Group assists customers in achieving their DESIRED BUSINESS OUTCOMES?
AWS Professional Services
82
What should be taken into account when performing a TCO Cost-benefit analysis from AWS vs on-prem?
1. Labor & IT costs
2. Cooling & power consumption
3. Data center space, real estate
83
What service can you use to decouple a monolith application?
Amazon SQS - decouples and scales microservices
84
What factors should you consider when determining which Amazon Region to deploy your resources too?
1. Cost
2. Proximity to USERS (not company)
3. Data sovereignty
85
What are 2 features included in the AWS Business Support Plan?
1. Access to the Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) for extra fee
2. 24/7 access to customer service
86
List at least 3 AWS-managed databases:
RDS (all RDS)
Redshift
DynamoDB
DocumentDB
87
What is Amazon Chime?
Communications service for online meetings
88
List the types of MFA devices a customer can use to protect their AWS resources.
- UF2 Security Keys
| - Virtual and Hardware MFA devices
89
What does Amazon Cognito do?
Sign in with Google, Facebook, etc..
add user signup & in, access control to web & mobile quickly
90
What can be used to enable Virtual MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) ?
AWS CLI & IAM
91
What is the most cost-effective storage option that provides immediate retrieval of your backups?
S3
92
List 4 services that are server-based
RDS, EMR, Redshift, EC2
93
List 5 serverless services:
Lambda, Fargate, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS
94
What AWS server does NOT have a Reserved Capacity option?
S3 - you pay for what you use
95
What can you use to assign permissions to an IAM user?
IAM Policy
96
What are 2 factors to consider for EBS pricing?
1. The amount of GB you provision per month
| 2. The amount of data transferred out of your application
97
An organization needs to build a financial application that requires support for ACID transactions? Which DB should you use?
RDS - supports ACID (support validity of data) transactions
98
What is the minimum support plan that gives you chat functionality?
Business support plan
99
What is Amazon Neptune?
Graph database service
100
Is the customer responsible for Network traffic protection in AWS RDS ?
YURP
101
What service can you use to route traffic to the endpoint that provides the best application performance for your users worldwide?
AWS Global Accelerator
102
Amazon EBS volumes can be attached to which compute resource ?
EC2 instances
103
What are two use cases for AWS EMR - Elastic MapReduce ?
1. Analyze large amounts of datasets in a timely manner
| 2. Run and scale Apache Spark, Hadoop, other Big Data
104
Can using tags to group resources help analyze costs in AWS?
YES MAM
105
What tool can a non-AWS customer use to compare cost of current on-prem shit to AWS?
AWS TCO Calculator
106
What is penetration testing?
Testing your network or web application to find security vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit
107
What 2 services can you use to manage encryption keys in the cloud?
1. KMS - key management service
| 2. CloudHSM - Hardware security module - generate and use encryption keys
108
What is AWS Codecommit used for?
Software version control
109
What should you regularly patch in terms of security of an EC2?
Regularly patch the OS & applications
110
What are 2 key advantages of AWS security?
1. Helps organizations meet compliancy
| 2. Save MONAY
111
What is Amazon Athena for?
Analytics of an S3
112
IS AWS Cloud9 an IDE ?
yeep
113
What are 2 benefits to using AWS CloudFormation?
1. Model entire infrastructure in a text file
| 2. Automates provisioning and updating of your infrastructure in safe, controlled way
114
Name two things that have the greatest impact on cost
1. Data Transfer Out 2. Compute
115
What does AWS Professional Services do?
Help organizations achieve DESIRED business outcomes , successful path to cloud adoption
116
AWS Organization benefits include:
1. Manage access policies across accounts
2. Automate account creation and management
3. Consolidate billing across accounts
4. Configure services across accounts
117
What the fuck does AWS Codecommit help with?
Repository management system for storing, versioning, and maintaining application code
118
How does AWS support customer compliance?
They have common certifications, like HIPAA and ISO shit and shit
119
What benefits does AWS Marketplace have?
1. flexible pricing options
| 2. periodic security checks of listed products
120
What storage system can be attached to multiple nodes (instances) at once?
EFS - Elastic File System
121
3 MAIN FACTORS that affect CloudFront costs!
Traffic Distribution, Number of requests, Data Transfer Out
122
Will EC2 allow you to run custom relational database software on it?
DUH
123
3 ways to reduce EBS costs
1. Delete unused snapshots
2. Change or resize volume or type
3. Delete unattached volumes
124
What storage option is recommended when hosting an often-changing database on an EC2 instance?
EBS - always recommended to run on EC2
125
Benefits of AWS Lambda
- Runs code without provisioning
- Can be called directly by any mobile app
- no charge when its not running
126
How are you charged for AWS Lambda?
Compute time, # of requests to your functions
127
What two "keys" (hint) are required for an IAM User or an AWS account root user to programmatically / CLI API access resources?
```
Access Keys (key id & secret)
Security Key
```
128
What factors affect EBS cost?
Snapshots, Volume types, Data transfer out, input/output per second
129
What service can be used to route end users to the nearest datacenter?
Route 53 (also DNS, also health checks on instances)
130
AWS Business support plan includes:
Trusted Advisor, Support API, Personal Health Dashboard, 3rd party support, architecture support
131
What can you use to easily launch and manage a virtual private server to AWS?
AWS Lightsail
132
Basic & Developer Support only give you access to what...??
7 core Trusted Advisor checks
133
What services protect against network and application layer DDoS attacks?
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), Amazon Cloud Front, AWS Shield, Route 53
134
Which feature enables users to sign in to their AWS accounts with their existing corporate credentials?
FEDERATION - SSO - uses SAML and IdP
135
Where can AWS customers find their historical billing information in the AWS Console?
Billing and Cost Management console
