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Question 1

facet

Answer 1

Amazon CloudSearch: An index field that represents a category that you want to use to refine and filter search results.

Question 2

facet enabled

Answer 2

Amazon CloudSearch: An index field option that enables facet information to be calculated for the field.

Question 3

FBL

Answer 3

See feedback loop.

Question 4

feature transformation

Answer 4

Amazon Machine Learning: The machine learning process of constructing more predictive input representations or “features” from the raw input variables to optimize a machine learning model’s ability to learn and generalize. Also known as data transformation or feature engineering.

Question 5

federated identity management

Answer 5

(FIM)

Allows individuals to sign in to different networks or services, using the same group or personal credentials to access data across all networks. With identity federation in AWS, external identities (federated users) are granted secure access to resources in an AWS account without having to create IAM users. These external identities can come from a corporate identity store (such as LDAP or Windows Active Directory) or from a third party (such as Login with Amazon, Facebook, or Google). AWS federation also supports SAML 2.0.

Question 6

federated user

Answer 6

See federated identity management.

Question 7

federation

Answer 7

See federated identity management.

Question 8

feedback loop

Answer 8

(FBL)

The mechanism by which a mailbox provider (for example, an internet service provider) forwards a recipient’s complaint back to the sender.

Question 9

field weight

Answer 9

The relative importance of a text field in a search index. Field weights control how much matches in particular text fields affect a document’s relevance score.

Question 10

filter

Answer 10

A criterion that you specify to limit the results when you list or describe your Amazon EC2 resources.

Question 11

filter query

Answer 11

A way to filter search results without affecting how the results are scored and sorted. Specified with the Amazon CloudSearch fq parameter.

Question 12

FIM

Answer 12

See federated identity management.

Question 13

Firehose

Answer 13

See Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.

Question 14

format version

Answer 14

See template format version.

Question 15

forums

Answer 15

See discussion forums.

Question 16

function

Answer 16

See intrinsic function.

Question 17

fuzzy search

Answer 17

A simple search query that uses approximate string matching (fuzzy matching) to correct for typographical errors and misspellings.