Disaster Recovery

Question 1

What is RTO?

Answer 1

Recovery Time Objective - RTO is the time it takes after a disruption to restore a business process to its service level.

Question 2

What is RPO?

Answer 2

Recovery Point Objective - RPO is the acceptable amount of data loss measured in time before the disaster occurs.

Question 3

What is Backup and Restore?

Answer 3

Backup and Restore – storing backup data on S3 and recover data quickly and reliably.

Question 4

What is Pilot Light?

Answer 4

Pilot Light for Quick Recovery into AWS – quicker recovery time than backup and restore because core pieces of the system are already running and are continually kept up to date.

Question 5

What is Warm Standby Solution?

Answer 5

Warm Standby Solution – a scaled-down version of a fully functional environment is always running in the cloud

Question 6

What is Multi-Site Solution?

Answer 6

Multi-Site Solution – run your infrastructure on another site, in an active-active configuration.

AWS Production to an AWS DR Solution Using Multiple AWS Regions – take advantage of AWS’ multiple availability zones

Question 7

True/False. S3 as a destination for backup data that might be needed quickly to perform a restore.

Answer 7

True.

Question 8

True/False. S3 is not a destination for backup data that might be needed quickly to perform a restore.

Answer 8

False. S3 can be a destination for backup data that might be needed quickly to perform a restore.

Question 9

What is Glacier?

Answer 9

Glacier - longer-term data storage where retrieval times of several hours are adequate.

Question 10

What is Server Migration Service?

Answer 10

Server Migration Service for performing agentless server migrations from on-premises to AWS.

Question 11

What is Database Migration Service and Schema Conversion Tool?

Answer 11

Database Migration Service and Schema Conversion Tool is for moving databases from on-premises to AWS and automatically converting SQL schema from one engine to another.

Question 12

What is Storage Gateway?

Answer 12

Storage Gateway copies snapshots of your on-premises data volumes to S3 for backup. You can create local volumes or EBS volumes from these snapshots.

Question 13

True/False. Preconfigured servers bundled as Automated Machine Images (AMIs).

Answer 13

False. Preconfigured servers bundled as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

Question 14

What is an ELB?

Answer 14

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for distributing traffic to multiple instances.

Question 15

What is Route53?

Answer 15

Route 53 for routing production traffic to different sites that deliver the same application or service.

Question 16

What is an Elastic IP address?

Answer 16

Elastic IP address for static IP addresses.

Question 17

What is a VPC?

Answer 17

Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) for provisioning a private, isolated section of the AWS cloud.

Question 18

What is Direct Connect?

Answer 18

Direct Connect for a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.

Question 19

What is RDS?

Answer 19

Relational Database Service (RDS) for scale of a relational database in the cloud.

Question 20

What is DynamoDB?

Answer 20

DynamoDB for a fully managed NoSQL database service to store and retrieve any amount of data and serve any level of request traffic.

Question 21

What is Redshift?

Answer 21

Redshift for a petabyte-scale data warehouse service that analyzes all your data using existing business intelligence tools.

Question 22

What is CloudFormation?

Answer 22

CloudFormation for creating a collection of related AWS resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

Question 23

What is Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 23

Elastic Beanstalk is a service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed.