Domain 3.0 Technology Flashcards
Is an online tool that provides you real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor five categories
- Cost Optimization
- Security
- Fault Tolerance
- Performance
- Service Limits
You need to host a new Microsoft SQL Server database in AWS for an urgent project. Which AWS services we can use?
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon EC2
A company has web servers running on Amazon EC2 instances that access a RESTful API hosted on their on-premises data center. What kind of architecture is the company using?
Hybrid Architecture
Help organizations integrate their on-premises and cloud operations to support a broad spectrum of use cases using a common set of cloud services, tools, and APIs across on-premises and cloud environments
Hybrid Architecture
Which of the following is an advantage of using managed services like RDS, ElastiCache, and CloudSearch in AWS?
Simplifies all of your OS patching and backup activities to help keep your resources current and secure
Makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It frees you to focus on your applications so you can give them the fast performance, high availability, security and compatibility they need
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Offers fully managed Redis and Memcached. Seamlessly deploy, run, and scale popular open source compatible in-memory data stores. Build data-intensive apps or improve the performance of your existing apps by retrieving data from high throughput and low latency in-memory data stores.
Amazon ElastiCache
A managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application
Amazon CloudSearch
Highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service in AWS?
Amazon Route 53
Makes it easier for you to add powerful visual analysis to your applications
Amazon Rekognition
A core Windows service that provides the foundation for many enterprise-class Microsoft-based solutions, including Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and .NET applications
Active Directory Domain Service
An easy-to-use cloud platform that offers everything you need to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan. A virtual private server (VPS) solution. Not used for Amazon EC2 scaling
Amazon Lightsail
Shares a collection of offerings to help you achieve specific business outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption through paid engagements in several specialty practice areas?
AWS Professional Services
Is the one which provides 24×7 technical support from high-quality engineers, tools and technology to automatically manage the health of your environment, consultative architectural guidance delivered in the context of your applications and use-cases, and a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) to coordinate access to proactive/preventative programs and AWS subject matter experts
AWS Enterprise Support
A team composed of AWS billing and account experts that specialize in working with enterprise accounts. They will quickly and efficiently assist you with your billing and account inquiries, and work with you to implement billing and account best practices so that you can focus on running your business
Concierge Support
Your designated technical point of contact who provides advocacy and guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices, coordinate access to subject matter experts and product teams, and proactively keep your AWS environment operationally healthy
AWS Technical Account Manager
What are the benefits of using Edge locations in AWS?
- Improves application performance by delivering content closer to your users
- Provides caching which reduces the load on your origin servers
Offers an easy-to-use edge computing device that is helpful for data migration
AWS Snowball Edge
Seamlessly extends AWS to edge devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage
AWS IoT Greengrass
Provides highly scalable object storage for your static content. Provies 99.999999999% reliability and durability
provides Block Public Access settings for buckets and accounts to help you manage public access to Amazon S3 resources
Amazon S3
A web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .js, and image files, to your users. CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations
Amazon CloudFront
Describes the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?
- A storage service with virtually unlimited space
2. A highly durable object storage infrastructure
A durable, high throughput file system. It’s a regional service storing data within and across multiple Availability Zones (AZs)
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
A high-performance block storage service
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
A hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage in AWS
AWS Storage Gateway
The most suitable one to use to store the results of I/O-intensive SQL database queries to improve application performance?
Amazon ElastiCache
A software that lets you run local compute, messaging, data caching, sync, and ML inference capabilities on connected devices in a secure way
AWS Greengrass
Although this is a caching feature, it is only applicable to DynamoDB which is a NoSQL database
Amazon DynamoDB Accelarator (DAX)
This implementation has to be robust, fast, and simple to use. It should also prevent any type of data loss from occurring. The company would like to keep track of the status of the migration.
Which tool should the team adopt for the DR solution?
CloudEndure
These services cannot migrate bare metal servers
AWS Server Migration Service and AWS Database Migration Service
This service is for monitoring the state of your migrations. It does not handle disaster recovery
AWS Migration Hub
Are the things that Amazon CloudWatch Logs can accomplish?
- Monitor application logs from Amazon EC2 Instances
2. Adjust the retention policy for each log group
Amazon CloudWatch services:
- Monitor logs from Amazon EC2 Instances
- Monitor AWS CloudTrail Logged Events
- Log Retention
- Archive Log Data
- Log Route 53 DNS Queries
Primarily used for governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. Record AWS Management Console actions and API calls
AWS CloudTrail
Create alarms that automatically stop, terminate, reboot, or recover your EC2 Instances
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
Users from different parts of the globe are complaining about the slow performance of the newly launched photo-sharing website in loading their high-resolution images. Which combination of AWS services should you use to serve the files with lowest possible latency?
Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront
A company is planning to launch a new system in AWS but they do not have an employee who has an AWS-related expertise. Which of the following can help the company to design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on AWS?
AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners
Two types of AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners:
- APN Consulting Partners
2. APN Technology Partners
Provide software solutions that are either hosted on, or integrated with, the AWS platform. Technology Partners include Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), SaaS, PaaS, developer tools, management and security vendors
AWS Partner Network Technology Partners
Provides a new sales channel for independent software vendors (ISVs) and Consulting Partners to sell their solutions to AWS customers. This makes it easy for customers to find, buy, deploy, and manage software solutions, including SaaS, in a matter of minutes
AWS Marketplace
A company has hybrid cloud architecture where their on-premises data center interacts with their cloud resources in AWS. Which of the following services in AWS could you use to deploy a web application to servers running on-premises?
AWS OpsWorks and AWS CodeDeploy
Is a configuration management service that helps customers configure and operate applications, both on-premises and in the AWS Cloud, using Chef and Puppet
AWS OpsWorks
Automates code deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and instances running on-premises. Makes it easier to rapidly release new features, avoids downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of updating applications
AWS CodeDeploy
These services can only deploy applications to your AWS resources and not to the servers located in your on-premises data center
AWS CloudFormation and AWS ElasticBeanstalk
This service simply has a set of batch management capabilities that enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. It doesn’t have the capability to deploy applications to your on-premises servers
AWS Batch
Which AWS services should you use to store rapidly changing data with low read and write latencies?
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon RDS
This is a petabyte-scale data migration solution that uses hardware devices to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud
AWS Snowball
This service is optimal for storing numerous classes of information that are relatively static and not rapidly changing data
Amazon S3
This is a fully managed application streaming service which you can use to centrally manage your desktop applications
Amazon AppStream 2.0
What AWS service allows your EC2 compute capacity to automatically scale based on the incoming traffic?
AWS Auto Scaling
A Security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS
Amazon Macie
What service should you use if there is a need to launch a customized self-hosted database which requires a scheduled shutdown every night to save on cost?
Amazon EC2 instance with an EBS Volume
Provides durable, block-level storage volumes that you can attach to a running instance. It’s a primary storage device for data that requires frequent and granular updates. For example, It’s the recommended storage option when you run a database on an instance
Amazon EBS
Volumes behaves like a raw, unformatted, external block device that you can attach to a single instance
The volume persists independently from the running life of an instance
Amazon EBS
Once attached to an instance, you can use it like any other physical hard drive
Can also detach its volume from one instance and attach it to another instance
Amazon EBS
Can dynamically change the configuration of a volume attached to an instance
Can also be created as encrypted volumes
Amazon EBS
A non-relational database service that is fully-managed by AWS
Amazon DynamoDB
Fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud
Run complex analytic queries against terabytes to petabytes of structured data
Amazon Redshift
If you use this for your self-hosted store volume, all of your data will be lost after you shut down the instance
Amazon EC2 instance with an Instance Store volume
What is the minimum number of Availability Zones that you should set up for your Application Load Balancer in order to create a highly available architecture?
2 Availability Zones (2 AZs is the minimum to make a highly available architecture)
3 is for higher level of availability but consider the cost + use case
A networking connection between two VPCs, and not between your on-premises data center and VPC
VPC Peering
This works like a NAT Gateway but for IPv6 traffic only. It’s horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available VPC component that allows outbound communication over IPv6 from instances in your VPC to the Internet, and prevents the Internet from initiating an IPv6 connection with your instances
Egress-only internet gateway
Enables EC2 instances in a private subnet to connect to the Internet or other AWS services, but prevents the Internet from initiating a connection with those instances
NAT Gateway
A company plans to migrate their on-premises MySQL database to Amazon RDS. Which AWS service should they use for this task?
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
Helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database. Can migrate your data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases
AWS Database Migration Service
Primarily used to convert your existing database schema from one database engine to another
AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
An agentless service that makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. This is not the appropriate service to use in migrating your on-premises database
AWS Server Migration Service
A cloud service solution that makes it easier for you to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS
AWS Direct Connect
Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
This is where you can check the support package you are subscribed to, and where you can file cases if you need assistance from the AWS support team
AWS Support Center
Provides access to current status and historical data about each and every Amazon Web Service. If there’s a problem with a service, you’ll be able to expand the appropriate line in the Details section. You can even subscribe to the RSS feed for any service. You can use the “Report an Issue” link to make sure that we are aware of any system-wide service issues
AWS Service Health Dashboard
A messaging service used to deliver push notifications to recipients
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
A fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Eliminates the complixity and overhead associated with managing and operating message-oriented middleware, and empowers developers to focus on differentiating work
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
You can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
A service that is meant for automation. A fully-managed state tracker and task coordinator in the cloud
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
A cloud-based email sending service
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
This is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern application architectures, including microservices and containers. Operating at the individual request level (Layer 7). Routes traffic to targets within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) based on the content of the request
Application Load Balancer
This is best suited for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required. Operating at the connection level (Layer 4). routes traffic to targets within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and is capable of handling millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latencies. Also optimized to handle sudden and volatile traffic patterns
Network Load Balancer
This provides basic load balancing across multiple Amazon EC2 instances and operates at both the request level and connection level. Intended for applications that were built within the EC2-Classic Network
Classic Load Balancer
Provides both Layer 3 gateway and Layer 4 load balancing capabilities. It is a transparent bump-in-the-wire device that does not change any part of the packet. It is architected to handle millions of requests/second, volatile traffic patterns, and introduces extremely low latency
Gateway Load Balancer
Four types of load balancers
- Application
- Network
- Classic
- Gateway
A service allow you to sell your catalog of custom AMIs in AWS?
AWS Marketplace
A web service that provides an on-demand, scalable, human workforce to complete jobs that humans can do better than computers, such as recognizing objects in photographs. It is not a place where you can buy and sell custom software like AWS Marketplace
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Allows you to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services, and helps you achieve consistent governance and meet your compliance requirements, while enabling users to quickly deploy only the approved IT services they need
AWS Service Catalog
Primarily used as a search solution for your website or application
Amazon CloudSearch
Allows you to create and deploy infrastructure-as-code templates in AWS?
AWS CloudFormation
Provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment
AWS CloudFormation
Allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts
AWS ClouFormation
An easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Simply upload your code and it automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. At the same time, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can access the underlying resources at any time
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
The operations hub for AWS. Provides a unified user interface so you can track and resolve operational issues across your AWS applications and resources from a central place. You can automate operational tasks for Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS instances
AWS Systems Manager
Simply a service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly in AWS
Amazon SageMaker
A web service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources, at specified intervals
AWS Data Pipeline
A service that enables customers to connect their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and their on-premises networks through a central hub
AWS Transit Gateway