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Essentials Flashcards

1
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What are SCPs?

A

Service Control Policies. Spans all IAM users, groups, roles + root user (IAM doesn’t include root)

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What is the difference between Budgets and Cloudwatch Billing Alarms?

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Budgets can alert you when it forecasts you will exceed your budget. Cloudwatch Billing Alarms will only tell you when you’ve actually exceeded.

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What is Cost Explorer?

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Can be used to forecast up to 12 months based no previous usage.

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What is Compute Optimizer?

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Uses machine learning to recommend cost optimizations.

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5
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What can you use to create temporary or limited credentials?

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STS (Security Token Service)

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6
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What service can you use for INCREMENTAL backups?

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Data Sync

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7
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What is RedShift?

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Data warehousing

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8
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What database solutions autoscale?

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Aurora and DynamoDB

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9
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Does EBS or S3 cost more?

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EBS

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10
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What is schema conversion tool?

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Helps migrate from on-prem to cloud

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What is config?

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Monitors configurations for changes.

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12
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What are 2 features of cloudwatch logs?

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realtime, adjustable retention

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13
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What is neptune?

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Managed graph database.

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14
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What is lightsail?

A

VPS

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15
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What is sagemaker?

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Machine learning platform.

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16
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Does EFS support windows?

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No

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What service allows you to connect cloud w/ on-prem to form a hybrid solution?

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Direct Connect

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18
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What service allows you to expose web services (APIs)?

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API Gateway

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19
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What do you use to find security holes?

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Inspector

20
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What is elastic beanstalk?

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High level tool that will create EC2, RDS, etc. behind the scenes to make easier.

21
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What is X-ray?

A

Debug apps in prod

22
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What is opsworks?

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Chef/Puppet, use code to automate config, deployment, etc of EC2 or on-prem servers

23
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What services can be used to deploy apps in the cloud or on prem?

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OpsWorks and CodeDeploy

24
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What’s the diff between enterprise and business support plans?

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Quickest support for business is 1 hour, enterprise == 15min

25
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Artifact ==

A

compliance

26
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most detailed billing report

A

cost and usage report

27
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What 2 services give you account activity?

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CloudWatch and CloudTrail

28
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What support plan includes Infrastructure Event Management w/ no additional cost?

A

Enterprise

29
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What are quick starts?

A

CloudFormation templates that for a particular technology helps you get started.

30
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What is Step Functions?

A

Drag and drop tool to build distributed apps.

31
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What provides SSO?

A

Directory Service.

32
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what enables failover across regions to give low latency and high availability?

A

route 53 and global accelerator

33
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What is marketplace?

A

buy/sell software that runs on AWS

34
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What is RDS multi AZ deployment

A

Failove across AZs

35
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what anticipates future expenses automatically?

A

cost explorer

36
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what is systems manager?

A

centralized application/resource management in hybrid environments

37
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What can only root user do in IAM?

A

Give full admin access and change support plan

38
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What is Outposts?

A

AWS compute and storage capacity deployed at a customer site

39
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What monitors the health of you app automatically?

A

Beanstalk

40
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What are Professional Services and Partner Network?

A

A partner in the network is consultant to help you migrate to the cloud. Prof services is AWS connecting you w/ a consultant.

41
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An elastic load balancer can balance loads across what?

A

AZs

42
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What can be used to forecast future aws expenses?

A

Cost and usage report

43
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What is athena?

A

sql queries against s3

44
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What 2 things can help you move apps to the cloud that still require access to on-prem resources?

A

direct connect and vpn through virtual private gateway

45
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what is transit gateway?

A

connects many vpcs and on prem networks

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