Domain 3: Technology (33%) Flashcards

1
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AWS Provisioning and Operating Interfaces

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Programmatic access
APIs
SDKs
Management Console
CLI
Infrastructure as Code

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Cloud Deployment models

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All in with cloud/cloud native
Hybrid
On-Premises

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3
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Connectivity Options

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VPN
AWS Direct Connect
Public Internet

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4
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Multiple AWS Region Uses

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

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5
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Edge Location Services

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Amazon CloudFront
AWS Global Accelerator

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6
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AWS Storage Services

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  • 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
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7
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AWS Networking Services

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VPC
Security Groups
Amazon Route 53
Direct Connect
CloudFront
API Gateway

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AWS Database Services

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

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9
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Tech Support Sources

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Best practices
Whitepapers
AWS Knowledge Center
Forums
Blogs

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10
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AWS Support Levels

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AWS Abuse
AWS Support cases
Premium Support
Technical Account Managers

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11
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Describe AWS CLI

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

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12
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AWS Developer Tools

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CodeBuild
CodeCommit
CodeDeploy
CodePipeline
CodeStar

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AWS Software Development Kit Officially Supported Languages

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

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14
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AWS Software Developer Kit Officially Supported Mobile Options

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iOS
Android
React Native
Mobile Web
Unity
Xamarin

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15
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Availability Zone Characteristics

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

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16
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Describe CloudWatch

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

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17
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Describe CloudTrail

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

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18
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Describe AWS Shield

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

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19
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Describe AWS WAF

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

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20
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Security Group Key Components

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  • Applied at the host level
  • Statefull firewall rules
  • Implied deny all rule
21
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ACL Key Concepts

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  • Applied at the subnet level
  • Stateless firewall rules
  • Explicit deny rules
22
Q

What is Amazon Route 53

A

AWS high availability DNS service

23
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Describe AWS CloudFront

A

Low-latency Content Delivery Network (CDN)

24
Q

Elastic Block Store (EBS) SSD Types

A

io2
io2 Block Express
io1
gp3
gp2

25
Q

Elastic Block Store (EBS) HDD Types

A

st1
sc1

26
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S3 Bucket Limitations

A

Globally unique name
Only exists in one region

27
Q

S3 Storage Classes

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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

28
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S3 Bucket ACL Layers

A

Bucket
User
Object

29
Q

Describe AWS Storage Gateway

A

Hybrid cloud service for integrating on-premises resources

30
Q

Describe AWS Snow

A

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

31
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AWS Snow Tiers

A

Snowcone
Snowball
Snowmobile

32
Q

EC2 Categories

A

General Purpose
Compute Optimized
Memory Optimized
Accelerated Computing
Storage Optimized

33
Q

Service Categories

A

Compute
Storage
Network
Database

34
Q

Describe Lightsail

A

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

35
Q

Describe Elastic Beanstalk

A

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

36
Q

Describe Lambda

A

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.

37
Q

AWS Container Services

A
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
  • AWS Fargate
38
Q

Describe DynamoDB

A

AWS non-SQL database offering

39
Q

Describe Amazon Redshift

A

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

40
Q

Describe CloudFormation

A

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

41
Q

AWS End-user Computing Services

A

WorkSpaces
AppStream
Worklink

42
Q

Compute and Serverless Services

A
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon Lightsail
  • Amazon WorkSpaces
  • AWS Batch
  • Amazon EC2
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
43
Q

Analytics Services

A
  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Amazon QuickSight
44
Q

Application Integration Services

A
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
45
Q

Customer Engagement Service

A

Amazon Connect

46
Q

Types of Load Balancers

A

Application
Network
Classic
Gateway

47
Q

S3 Bucket Versioning Actions

A

Transition
Expire

48
Q

Describe Systems Manager Parameter Store

A

Configuration and secrets management in both plaintext or encrypted.