Domain 3: Technology (33%)

Question 1

AWS Provisioning and Operating Interfaces

Answer 1

Programmatic access
APIs
SDKs
Management Console
CLI
Infrastructure as Code

Question 2

Cloud Deployment models

Answer 2

All in with cloud/cloud native
Hybrid
On-Premises

Question 3

Connectivity Options

Answer 3

VPN
AWS Direct Connect
Public Internet

Question 4

Multiple AWS Region Uses

Answer 4

Availability of services
Disaster recovery/business continuity
Low latency for end-users
Data sovereignty

Question 5

Edge Location Services

Answer 5

Amazon CloudFront
AWS Global Accelerator

Question 6

AWS Storage Services

Answer 6

• AWS Backup
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
• Amazon S3
• Amazon S3 Glacier
• AWS Snowball Edge
• AWS Storage Gateway

Question 7

AWS Networking Services

Answer 7

VPC
Security Groups
Amazon Route 53
Direct Connect
CloudFront
API Gateway

Question 8

AWS Database Services

Answer 8

Amazon Aurora
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon RDS
Amazon Redshift
AWS Data-Migration Service (DMS)

Question 9

Tech Support Sources

Answer 9

Best practices
Whitepapers
AWS Knowledge Center
Forums
Blogs

Question 10

AWS Support Levels

Answer 10

AWS Abuse
AWS Support cases
Premium Support
Technical Account Managers

Question 11

Describe AWS CLI

Answer 11

Command Line Interface for AWS console allowing for scripts and automation.
Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Port 443, requires access/secret key

Question 12

AWS Developer Tools

Answer 12

CodeBuild
CodeCommit
CodeDeploy
CodePipeline
CodeStar

Question 13

AWS Software Development Kit Officially Supported Languages

Answer 13

Javascript
Python
PHP
.NET
Ruby
Java
Go
Node.js
C++

Question 14

AWS Software Developer Kit Officially Supported Mobile Options

Answer 14

iOS
Android
React Native
Mobile Web
Unity
Xamarin

Question 15

Availability Zone Characteristics

Answer 15

Multiple per a region
Max 60 miles (100 KM) physical separation
Private fiber for low latency
Separate power grids and flood plains for resiliency

Question 16

Describe CloudWatch

Answer 16

Service for monitoring and measuring services running in the AWS environment.

Question 17

Describe CloudTrail

Answer 17

Pairs with cloud watch but auditing and compliance focused instead of performance.

Question 18

Describe AWS Shield

Answer 18

Provides DOS and DDOS protection for AWS services. Comes in standard and advanced tiers.
Operates at layer 3 and 4 of the OSI model.

Question 19

Describe AWS WAF

Answer 19

AWS Web Application Firewall.
Operates at layer 7 of the OSI model.

Question 20

Security Group Key Components

Answer 20

• Applied at the host level
• Statefull firewall rules
• Implied deny all rule

Question 21

ACL Key Concepts

Answer 21

• Applied at the subnet level
• Stateless firewall rules
• Explicit deny rules

Question 22

What is Amazon Route 53

Answer 22

AWS high availability DNS service

Question 23

Describe AWS CloudFront

Answer 23

Low-latency Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Question 24

Elastic Block Store (EBS) SSD Types

Answer 24

io2
io2 Block Express
io1
gp3
gp2

Question 25

Elastic Block Store (EBS) HDD Types

Answer 25

st1 sc1

Question 26

S3 Bucket Limitations

Answer 26

Globally unique name Only exists in one region

Question 27

S3 Storage Classes

Answer 27

Standard Intelligent-Tiering Standard-IA One Zone-IA Glacier Instant Retrieval Glacier Flexible Retrieval (5-12 hrs Retrieval) Glacier Deep Archive (12-48 hrs Retrieval) Outpost

Question 28

S3 Bucket ACL Layers

Answer 28

Bucket User Object

Question 29

Describe AWS Storage Gateway

Answer 29

Hybrid cloud service for integrating on-premises resources

Question 30

Describe AWS Snow

Answer 30

Offer AWS compute and storage capabilities outside of AWS regions and resource areas

Question 31

AWS Snow Tiers

Answer 31

Snowcone Snowball Snowmobile

Question 32

EC2 Categories

Answer 32

General Purpose Compute Optimized Memory Optimized Accelerated Computing Storage Optimized

Question 33

Service Categories

Answer 33

Compute Storage Network Database

Question 34

Describe Lightsail

Answer 34

AWS managed blueprints for quick OS, application, or stack deployments

Question 35

Describe Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 35

PaaS for quick provisioning for applications and automatic scaling of resources.

Question 36

Describe Lambda

Answer 36

Execute code for virtually any application or back-end service without provisioning or monitoring requirements. Metered by processing time, number of times called, and allocated memory.

Question 37

AWS Container Services

Answer 37

- Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) - Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) - AWS Fargate

Question 38

Describe DynamoDB

Answer 38

AWS non-SQL database offering

Question 39

Describe Amazon Redshift

Answer 39

Cloud-based data warehouse solution metered by storage size and compute power to analyze and retrieve data.

Question 40

Describe CloudFormation

Answer 40

AWS infrastructure as code solution for secure and reliable building of systems from templates.

Question 41

AWS End-user Computing Services

Answer 41

WorkSpaces AppStream Worklink

Question 42

Compute and Serverless Services

Answer 42

- AWS Lambda - Amazon Lightsail - Amazon WorkSpaces - AWS Batch - Amazon EC2 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Question 43

Analytics Services

Answer 43

- Amazon Athena - Amazon Kinesis - Amazon QuickSight

Question 44

Application Integration Services

Answer 44

- Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) - Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

Question 45

Customer Engagement Service

Answer 45

Amazon Connect

Question 46

Types of Load Balancers

Answer 46

Application Network Classic Gateway

Question 47

S3 Bucket Versioning Actions

Answer 47

Transition Expire

Question 48

Describe Systems Manager Parameter Store

Answer 48

Configuration and secrets management in both plaintext or encrypted.