Extra Practice Flashcards

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What are the design principles of the Operational excellence pillar

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  • perform operations as code
  • make frequent, small, reversible changes
  • anticipate failure
  • learn from all operational events and failures
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What are the design principles of the Security pillar

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  • Implement a strong identity foundation
  • enable traceability
  • apply security at all layers
  • automate security best practices
  • protect data in transit and at rest
  • keep people away from data
  • prepare for security events
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What are the design principles of the Reliability pillar?

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  • automatically recover from failure
  • test recovery procedures
  • scale horizontally to increase aggregate workload availability
  • stop guessing capacity
  • manage change in automation
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What are the design principles of the Performace Efficiency pillar?

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  • democratize advanced technologies
  • go global in minutes
  • use serverless architectures
  • experiment more often
  • consider mechanical sympathy
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What are the design principles of the Cost Optimization pillar?

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  • implement Cloud Financial Management
  • adopt a consumption model
  • measure overall efficiency
  • stop spending money on undufferentiated heavy lifting
  • analyze and attribute expenditure
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What is Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

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Provides persitant block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Persistent storageis any datastoragedevice that retains data after power to that device is shut off.

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What are the features to Amazon EBS?

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  • Snapshots
  • Encryption
  • Elasticity
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What is Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?

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Object level storage

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What are features of S3?

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  • data is stored as objects in buckets
  • virtually unlimited storage
  • designed for 11 9s of durability
  • granular access to bucket and objects
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What is Amazon S3 standard?

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designed for high durability, availability, and performance object storage for frequently accessed data

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What is Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering?

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design to optimize costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective access tier

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What is Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access?

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used for data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed

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What is Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access?

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used for data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed. Stores data in a single Availability Zone and costs less than Amazon S3 Standard-IA.

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What is Amazon S3 Glacier?

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secure, durable, and low-cost storage class for data archiving

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What is Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive?

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lowest-cost storage class. Supports long-term retention and digital preservation for data that might be accessed once or twice in a year.

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What is Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)?

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implements storage for EC2 instances that multiple virtual machines can access at the same time.

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What are the Amazon S3 Glacier use cases?

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  • Media asset archiving
  • healthcare information archiving
  • regulatory and compliance archiving
    -scientific data archiving
  • digital preservation
  • magnetic tape replacement
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What are the key concepts of an Amazon EC2 instance?

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  • infrastructure as a service
  • instance-based
  • virtual machines
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What are the key concepts of AWS Lambda?

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  • serverless computing
  • function-based
  • low cost
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What are the key concepts of AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

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  • platform as a service
  • for web applications