Essentials

Question 1

What are SCPs?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What is the difference between Budgets and Cloudwatch Billing Alarms?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is Cost Explorer?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is Compute Optimizer?

Answer 4

Uses machine learning to recommend cost optimizations.

Question 5

What can you use to create temporary or limited credentials?

Answer 5

STS (Security Token Service)

Question 6

What service can you use for INCREMENTAL backups?

Answer 6

Data Sync

Question 7

What is RedShift?

Answer 7

Data warehousing

Question 8

What database solutions autoscale?

Answer 8

Aurora and DynamoDB

Question 9

Does EBS or S3 cost more?

Answer 9

EBS

Question 10

What is schema conversion tool?

Answer 10

Helps migrate from on-prem to cloud

Question 11

What is config?

Answer 11

Monitors configurations for changes.

Question 12

What are 2 features of cloudwatch logs?

Answer 12

realtime, adjustable retention

Question 13

What is neptune?

Answer 13

Managed graph database.

Question 14

What is lightsail?

Answer 14

VPS

Question 15

What is sagemaker?

Answer 15

Machine learning platform.

Question 16

Does EFS support windows?

Answer 16

No

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Direct Connect

Question 18

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

Answer 18

API Gateway

Question 19

What do you use to find security holes?

Answer 19

Inspector

Question 20

What is elastic beanstalk?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What is X-ray?

Answer 21

Debug apps in prod

Question 22

What is opsworks?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

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

Answer 23

OpsWorks and CodeDeploy

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Artifact ==

Answer 25

compliance

Question 26

most detailed billing report

Answer 26

cost and usage report

Question 27

What 2 services give you account activity?

Answer 27

CloudWatch and CloudTrail

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Enterprise

Question 29

What are quick starts?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What is Step Functions?

Answer 30

Drag and drop tool to build distributed apps.

Question 31

What provides SSO?

Answer 31

Directory Service.

Question 32

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

Answer 32

route 53 and global accelerator

Question 33

What is marketplace?

Answer 33

buy/sell software that runs on AWS

Question 34

What is RDS multi AZ deployment

Answer 34

Failove across AZs

Question 35

what anticipates future expenses automatically?

Answer 35

cost explorer

Question 36

what is systems manager?

Answer 36

centralized application/resource management in hybrid environments

Question 37

What can only root user do in IAM?

Answer 37

Give full admin access and change support plan

Question 38

What is Outposts?

Answer 38

AWS compute and storage capacity deployed at a customer site

Question 39

What monitors the health of you app automatically?

Answer 39

Beanstalk

Question 40

What are Professional Services and Partner Network?

Answer 40

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

Question 41

An elastic load balancer can balance loads across what?

Answer 41

AZs

Question 42

What can be used to forecast future aws expenses?

Answer 42

Cost and usage report

Question 43

What is athena?

Answer 43

sql queries against s3

Question 44

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

Answer 44

direct connect and vpn through virtual private gateway

Question 45

what is transit gateway?

Answer 45

connects many vpcs and on prem networks