Database 101

Question 1

What is RDS?

Answer 1

Relational Database

Question 2

What are the 6 types of RDS?

Answer 2

SQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Oracle
MariaDB
Aurora

Question 3

What is Dynamo DB?

Answer 3

Non Relational database

Question 4

What is RedShift?

Answer 4

AWS DataWarehousing Solution used for BI Tools or complex queries

Question 5

What is Elasticache?

Answer 5

In memory caching engine to speed up performance of existing databases

Question 6

What are the two types of Elasticache?

Answer 6

Memcached

Redis

Question 7

What is Neptune?

Answer 7

Graph Database used for high availability and scalability

Question 8

What are Multiple AZ’s used for?

Answer 8

Disaster recovery

Question 9

What are Read Replicas used for?

Answer 9

Performance

Question 10

Allows you to provision multiple EC2 Instances behind a load balance automatically depending on demand

Answer 10

Auto scaling

Question 11

Amazons DNS Service is called what?

Answer 11

Route 53

Question 12

What is DNS?

Answer 12

It works like a phonebook with computers finding IP addresses

Question 13

What is Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 13

a platform as a service that can deploy and manage applications without the worry of running infrastructure that runs apps.

Question 14

Can provision almost any AWS service and is completely programmable that helps model and set up AWS resources. This service does alot of provisioning resources.

Answer 14

Cloudformation

Question 15

Elastic Beanstalk and Cloudformation are free, however what is not free with these services?

Answer 15

EC2 Instances you use

Question 16

Which Services are Fully Global?

Answer 16

IAM
Cloudfront
SNS
SES
Route53

Question 17

What is a major service that is a giant disc that you load and ship back to HQ that is used on premise?

Answer 17

Snowball

Question 18

What is Code Deploy?

Answer 18

Deploying Applications on prem

Question 19

Which AWS Services can deploy on premise

Answer 19

CodeDeploy

OpsWorks

Question 20

Which service is used to monitor performance?

Answer 20

CloudWatch

Question 21

Which service helps create billing alarms in AWS Console?

Answer 21

Cloudwatch

Question 22

What is AWS Systems Manager?

Answer 22

Used to manage fleets of EC2 instances and VMs

Question 23

What is run command used for?

Answer 23

Install, patch, and uninstall software

Question 24

Which service does AWS Systems manager integrate with to give you a dashboard?

Answer 24

Cloudwatch

Question 25

Which Services are completely free?

Answer 25

``` Amazon VPC Elastic Beanstalk Cloudformation IAM Auto Scaling Opworks Consolidated billing ```

Question 26

What is Capex billing?

Answer 26

Buying something up front

Question 27

What is OpEx billing?

Answer 27

Paying for only what you use

Question 28

What is used to predict costs before they are incurred?

Answer 28

AWS Budgets

Question 29

What is used to explore costs after they've been incurred?

Answer 29

Cost explorer

Question 30

What are the 3 types of cost

Answer 30

Compute Storage Data Outbound

Question 31

What is used to organize resources and metadata when it comes to billing?

Answer 31

Tags and key value pairs

Question 32

What is a Tag editor

Answer 32

Global service that allows to discover resources and add tags

Question 33

What are Resource Groups?

Answer 33

Help group your resources by region, name, health check and allow automation against EC2 fleets

Question 34

What is the function of AWS Organizations?

Answer 34

Multiple AWS Accounts into 1

Question 35

What are the two types of AWS Organizations?

Answer 35

Consolidated Billing | Full Access w/Consolidated Billing

Question 36

What are the 3 best practices when using AWS Organizations?

Answer 36

1. MFA on root account 2. use strong complex password on root account 3. Do not deploy resources into paying account use just for billing

Question 37

How many accounts can you link in AWS Organizations?

Answer 37

20

Question 38

T/F When enabled, billing alerts are linked to all accounts included in AWS Organizations

Answer 38

True. You can still create for individual accounts

Question 39

What is Cloudtrail?

Answer 39

API calls, audits and changes enabled per region.

Question 40

What is Consolidated billing?

Answer 40

Allows you to get volume discounts on all your accounts. Can use unused RIs for EC2 across the group

Question 41

What are the 3 steps of Creating an AWS Organization?

Answer 41

1. Create biz units 2. Attach accounts 3. Create policies