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Core & Integrated Services Flashcards

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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

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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

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What service has no additional charge associated with its use?

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Amazon IAM

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What AWS service manages agreements with AWS?

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AWS Artifact

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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)

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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

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Which of the following components provides value proposition of the AWS Cloud?

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Massive economies of scale

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Which parts of the AWS infrastructure supports increased resilience?

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Multiple Availability Zones within a Region

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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What storage service would you use to archive long-term data?

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Amazon Glacier

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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

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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

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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

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What does the AWS Cost & Usage Reports help with?

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Shows customers EC2 billing activity

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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

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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

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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

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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

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25
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What DB is available through AWS RDS ?

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Amazon Aurora = MySQL and PostgreSQL- compatible relational database build for cloud - provides automated backups to an application

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What service can provide an additional level of security above the default authentication mechanism of user names and passwords?

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AWS MFA

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What service/team would you contact to report malicious beahvior like: spam, port scanning, DOS ?

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AWS Abuse Team

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What is ECS?

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Elastic Container Services - supports Docker containers and run and scale containerized applications

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What service uses Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed edge locations to transfer files to S3 with higher upload speeds ?

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AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration

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What is ElasticBeanstalk?

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AWS ElasticBeanstalk is a PaaS that automates deployment and helps manage a deployment container

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What is AWS Direct Connect?

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It is a dedicated private network between AWS and datacenter

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32
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What two services would you use to create a hybrid cloud architecture?

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AWS VPN & AWS Direct Connection (no internet)

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What two services are compute resources?

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AWS EC2 & AWS Lambda

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What two services are completely free to use?

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CloudFormation & Auto Scaling

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What AWS storage services can store files?

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EFS & EBS

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What services/ features do RDS have to improve availibility?

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Availability Zone deployments & Read replicas

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What does the AWS Total Cost of Ownership service look at to determine a price of migrating to the cloud?

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Num of servers to migrate

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What type of Load Balancer should you use to monitor HTTP & HTTPS traffic?

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Application Load Balancer

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What primary storage does RDS use?

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EBS (S3 cannot be used to store running operating systems or live databases)

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Which storage service would you use to store images and videos?

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S3

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How can customers secure the volumes of EBS?

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Encrypt at rest and in transit, Create EBS snapshots

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What are the inherited controls which the customer fully inherits from AWS?

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Physical and Environmental controls

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43
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What are the share controls according to the Shared Responsibility Model?

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Patch Management, Configuration management, Awareness & Training

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What are the benefits of DynamoDB ?

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  1. Offers extremely low latency 2. Automatically scales to meet throughput capacity
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What does AWS service simplifies organizing and governing commonly deployed IT services ?

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AWS Service Catalog

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46
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Name 2 good use cases for S3 storage.

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Hosting static web site & media storage for CloudFront service (STATIC CONTENT)

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What type of instance would you use to be cost-effective and only to be available for 2 months?

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On-Demand Instance

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Name 2 criteria to consider when choosing a database type.

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  1. Num of read/write 2. Nature of queries
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49
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Is the customer responsible for protecting credentials?

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Yaz bitch

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50
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What can be used to protect data at rest on AWS S3 storage?

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Versioning, Permissions, Replication, Backup

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What 2 services scale automatically?

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Lambda & S3

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What are the benefits of RDS?

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  1. Lower administrative burden 2. Resizeable compute capacity
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What is AWS Snowmobile?

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Exabyte-scale data transfer

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54
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What service simply coordinate tasks across distributed application components?

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Simple Workflow Service - SWF

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55
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What is the framework created by AWS Professional Services that helps organizations design a road map to successful cloud adoption?

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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework - CAF

56
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What type of instance can handle things that will recover quickly?

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Spot-Instance

57
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Which service provides the most granular data about AWS costs?

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AWS Cost & Usage Report

58
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What service provides cost benefit analysis for migrating to the cloud

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AWS TCO Calculator

59
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Which of the following AWS Services helps with planning application migrations to the AWS Cloud?

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AWS Application Discovery Service

60
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Which service just monitors already migrated/ currently migrating applications?

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AWS Migration Hub

61
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What services can help you create new RDS instances?

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CloudFormation & AWS Management console

62
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What are shared controls?

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Controls that apply both to the infrastructure layer and customer layers

63
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Where do you store Docker Images?

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ECR = Elastic Container Registry, while ECS runs the images

64
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What AWS services can be used to deploy SSL server certificates?

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AWS ACM (Amazon Certificate Manager) & IAM (stores and deploys that server certificate)

65
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Which of the following can help you perform security analysis and compliance auditing?

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AWS Config & Amazon Inspector

66
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What is AWS responsible for in DynamoDB?

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Patching of database software && operating system maintenance

67
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Which two AWS-Managed Services is AWS responsible for the operational and maintenance burdens of running?

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Amazon Elastic MapReduce & Amazon DynamoDB

68
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What are the security aspect that the AWS customer is responsible for?

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Configuring network access rules & setting password complexity rules & Security Groups, NACLs, Routing Tables

69
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A company has created a solution that helps AWS customers improve their architectures on AWS. Which PROGRAM may support this company?

A

AWS Consulting Partners

70
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Where can you store files in AWS?

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EFS & EBS

71
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What feature/service allows organization of hierarchies of data across multiple dimensions?

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Amazon Cloud Directory

72
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What services does AWS offer for free?

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IAM & ElasticBeanstalk

73
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What is the name of the DynamoDB replication capability that provides fast read/write performance for globally deployed applications?

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Global Tables

74
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How does AWS notify its customers about security and private events pertaining to a AWS service?

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Security Bulletins page

75
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What service will help a customer that needs facial recognition software?

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AWS Rekognition

76
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What service can be used to monitor HTTP & HTTPS requests that are forwarded to Amazon CloudFront?

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AWS WAF

77
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Which AWS Service helps enterprises extend their on-premise storage to AWS in cost-effective manner?

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AWS Storage Gateway

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What service can help a customer who is PLANNING on using certain services estimate their costs?

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AWS Simple Monthly Calculator (use Cost Explorer if project already exists)

79
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List 2 AWS offerings that are serverless services

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AWS Lambda & AWS DynamoDB (also SQS & SNS)

80
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List at least 2 advantages of using AWS as a cloud computing provider.

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  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
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What AWS Group assists customers in achieving their DESIRED BUSINESS OUTCOMES?

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AWS Professional Services

82
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What should be taken into account when performing a TCO Cost-benefit analysis from AWS vs on-prem?

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  1. Labor & IT costs
  2. Cooling & power consumption
  3. Data center space, real estate
83
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What service can you use to decouple a monolith application?

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Amazon SQS - decouples and scales microservices

84
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What factors should you consider when determining which Amazon Region to deploy your resources too?

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  1. Cost
  2. Proximity to USERS (not company)
  3. Data sovereignty
85
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What are 2 features included in the AWS Business Support Plan?

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  1. Access to the Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) for extra fee
  2. 24/7 access to customer service
86
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List at least 3 AWS-managed databases:

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RDS (all RDS)
Redshift
DynamoDB
DocumentDB

87
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What is Amazon Chime?

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Communications service for online meetings

88
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List the types of MFA devices a customer can use to protect their AWS resources.

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  • UF2 Security Keys

- Virtual and Hardware MFA devices

89
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What does Amazon Cognito do?

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Sign in with Google, Facebook, etc..

add user signup & in, access control to web & mobile quickly

90
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What can be used to enable Virtual MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) ?

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AWS CLI & IAM

91
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What is the most cost-effective storage option that provides immediate retrieval of your backups?

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S3

92
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List 4 services that are server-based

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RDS, EMR, Redshift, EC2

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List 5 serverless services:

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Lambda, Fargate, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS

94
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What AWS server does NOT have a Reserved Capacity option?

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S3 - you pay for what you use

95
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What can you use to assign permissions to an IAM user?

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IAM Policy

96
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What are 2 factors to consider for EBS pricing?

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  1. The amount of GB you provision per month

2. The amount of data transferred out of your application

97
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An organization needs to build a financial application that requires support for ACID transactions? Which DB should you use?

A

RDS - supports ACID (support validity of data) transactions

98
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What is the minimum support plan that gives you chat functionality?

A

Business support plan

99
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What is Amazon Neptune?

A

Graph database service

100
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Is the customer responsible for Network traffic protection in AWS RDS ?

A

YURP

101
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What service can you use to route traffic to the endpoint that provides the best application performance for your users worldwide?

A

AWS Global Accelerator

102
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Amazon EBS volumes can be attached to which compute resource ?

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EC2 instances

103
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What are two use cases for AWS EMR - Elastic MapReduce ?

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  1. Analyze large amounts of datasets in a timely manner

2. Run and scale Apache Spark, Hadoop, other Big Data

104
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Can using tags to group resources help analyze costs in AWS?

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YES MAM

105
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What tool can a non-AWS customer use to compare cost of current on-prem shit to AWS?

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AWS TCO Calculator

106
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What is penetration testing?

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Testing your network or web application to find security vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit

107
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What 2 services can you use to manage encryption keys in the cloud?

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  1. KMS - key management service

2. CloudHSM - Hardware security module - generate and use encryption keys

108
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What is AWS Codecommit used for?

A

Software version control

109
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What should you regularly patch in terms of security of an EC2?

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Regularly patch the OS & applications

110
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What are 2 key advantages of AWS security?

A
  1. Helps organizations meet compliancy

2. Save MONAY

111
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What is Amazon Athena for?

A

Analytics of an S3

112
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IS AWS Cloud9 an IDE ?

A

yeep

113
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What are 2 benefits to using AWS CloudFormation?

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  1. Model entire infrastructure in a text file

2. Automates provisioning and updating of your infrastructure in safe, controlled way

114
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Name two things that have the greatest impact on cost

A
  1. Data Transfer Out 2. Compute
115
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What does AWS Professional Services do?

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Help organizations achieve DESIRED business outcomes , successful path to cloud adoption

116
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AWS Organization benefits include:

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  1. Manage access policies across accounts
  2. Automate account creation and management
  3. Consolidate billing across accounts
  4. Configure services across accounts
117
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What the fuck does AWS Codecommit help with?

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Repository management system for storing, versioning, and maintaining application code

118
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How does AWS support customer compliance?

A

They have common certifications, like HIPAA and ISO shit and shit

119
Q

What benefits does AWS Marketplace have?

A
  1. flexible pricing options

2. periodic security checks of listed products

120
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What storage system can be attached to multiple nodes (instances) at once?

A

EFS - Elastic File System

121
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3 MAIN FACTORS that affect CloudFront costs!

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Traffic Distribution, Number of requests, Data Transfer Out

122
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Will EC2 allow you to run custom relational database software on it?

A

DUH

123
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3 ways to reduce EBS costs

A
  1. Delete unused snapshots
  2. Change or resize volume or type
  3. Delete unattached volumes
124
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What storage option is recommended when hosting an often-changing database on an EC2 instance?

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EBS - always recommended to run on EC2

125
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Benefits of AWS Lambda

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  • Runs code without provisioning
  • Can be called directly by any mobile app
  • no charge when its not running
126
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How are you charged for AWS Lambda?

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Compute time, # of requests to your functions

127
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What two “keys” (hint) are required for an IAM User or an AWS account root user to programmatically / CLI API access resources?

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Access Keys (key id & secret)
Security Key
128
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What factors affect EBS cost?

A

Snapshots, Volume types, Data transfer out, input/output per second

129
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What service can be used to route end users to the nearest datacenter?

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Route 53 (also DNS, also health checks on instances)

130
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AWS Business support plan includes:

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Trusted Advisor, Support API, Personal Health Dashboard, 3rd party support, architecture support

131
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What can you use to easily launch and manage a virtual private server to AWS?

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AWS Lightsail

132
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Basic & Developer Support only give you access to what…??

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7 core Trusted Advisor checks

133
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What services protect against network and application layer DDoS attacks?

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AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), Amazon Cloud Front, AWS Shield, Route 53

134
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Which feature enables users to sign in to their AWS accounts with their existing corporate credentials?

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FEDERATION - SSO - uses SAML and IdP

135
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Where can AWS customers find their historical billing information in the AWS Console?

A

Billing and Cost Management console

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