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Fundamental Cloud Concepts in AWS Flashcards

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What are 5 challenges that traditional data centers present to organizations?

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  1. Investment - Up-front investment is large
  2. Demand - Difficult to forecast
  3. Time - It takes time to deploy new data centers and servers
  4. Maintenance Cost - It is expensive to maintain data centers
  5. Security & Compliance - Organization owns all the security and compliance burden
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What are 6 key advantages of cloud computing?

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E-S-C-A-L-D

  1. Expenses - Trade capital expenses for variable expenses (pay for what you use)
  2. Scale - Benefit from massive economies of scale
  3. Capacity - No need to guess capacity - capacity scales based on need
  4. Agile and Fast - Speed and agility are increased
  5. Lower Cost - No need to spend money on data centers
  6. Deploy Quickly - Deploy applications globally in minutes
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What the definition of cloud computing provided by AWS?

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“Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.”

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What are three cloud computing models?

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  1. IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
    • Maximum control over resources
  2. PaaS - Platform as a Service - A service is provided that is configured for you. You need to deploy customizations to it.
  3. SaaS - Software as a Service
    • Minimum maintenance
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What are three cloud deployment models?

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  1. Public Cloud - Applications are deployed onto a public cloud provider like AWS
  2. On-Premises (Private Cloud) - Cloud-like platform in a private data center. Provided by vendors like VMWare.
  3. Hybrid Cloud - Applications deployed to a public cloud that are connected to a private data center
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What are the three primary elements of AWS Global Infrastructure?

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  1. AWS Regions - There are 22
  2. AWS Availability Zones - Minimum of 2 per region. Each AZ has at least 1 data center.
  3. AWS Edge Locations - Nodes of a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
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What does each part of the availability zone name us-east-2a represent?

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“us” represents the high level area. “east” represents the sub-area. 2 represents the region, and a represents the availability zone. The full region name is us-east-2, and the full availability zone name is us-east-2a.

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What is the primary purpose of edge locations, and how are they used?

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  1. Edge locations serve content where it is closest to the end users.
  2. Edge locations are used as nodes of a Content Delivery Network (CDN).
  3. There are 200 locations that use edge locations.
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An AWS __________ represents a cluster of data centers in a specific geographic location.

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Region

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An AWS __________ consists of one or more data centers.

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Availability Zone

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11
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What services use edge locations?

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  1. Amazon CloudFront (content delivery network)

2. Amazon Route 53 (DNS)

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When building a data center, an organization invests in upfront costs for the building, servers, and supporting equipment. This type of expense to attain a fixed asset is referred to as a ________ or _________.

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Capital Expenditure or CapEx

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The regular day to day expenses of a business are considered _____________________________ or _______________________. After the initial build of a data center, ongoing connectivity, utility, and maintenance costs would be considered ____________________________.

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Operational Expenses or OpEx

OpEx

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Manage your own data center vs Leverage Cloud Infrastructure:

Large up-front costs (CapEx) vs _______________

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No up-front investment

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Manage your own data center vs Leverage Cloud Infrastructure:

________ vs You pay-as-you-go for infrastructure (OpEx)

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Potential for unused capacity or unmet demand

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Manage your own data center vs Leverage Cloud Infrastructure:

________ vs Capacity scales to meet user demand and can be provisioned immediately

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Increasing capacity takes time and additional investment (CapEx)

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Manage your own data center vs. leverage cloud infrastructure

Monthly costs will map to predicted infrastructure needs vs. __________________________

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Monthly costs will map to user demand

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AWS _________________________ is a user interface for reviewing AWS costs, forecasting future costs, and providing recommendations for cost optimization.

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Costs Explorer

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AWS ______________________ is a tool for generating a report for making a case to move to the cloud.

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TCO Calculator

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20
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AWS ______________________ is a tool for estimating the cost of running specific AWS infrastructure.

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AWS Pricing Calculator (formerly known as AWS Simple Monthly Calculator)

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21
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You can segment your AWS costs by adding metadata to your AWS resources. This metadata is called ____________________________.

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A Resource Tag

22
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What is the AWS Pricing Calculator used for?

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Estimating future workloads

23
Q

Which communication methods (email, chat, and phone) are supported by the Basic support plan?

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None

24
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Which communication methods (email, chat, and phone) are supported by the Developer support plan?

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Email only

25
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Which communication methods (email, chat, and phone) are supported by the Business support plan?

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Email, chat, and phone

26
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Which communication methods (email, chat, and phone) are supported by the Enterprise support plan?

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Email, chat, and phone

27
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What is the purpose of the AWS Personal Health Dashboard?

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It provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.

28
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Which AWS tool enables you to check your AWS usage against best practices?

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AWS Trusted Advisor

29
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What are the 5 Trusted Advisor checks?

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  1. Cost optimization
  2. Performance
  3. Security
  4. Fault Tolerance
  5. Service Limits
30
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What is the response time for a general guidance incident under the Developer Support Plan?

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< 24 business hours

31
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What is the response time for a general guidance incident under the Business Support plan?

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< 24 hours (business and non-business)

32
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What is the response time for a general guidance incidence under the Enterprise Support plan?

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< 24 hours (business and non-business)

33
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What is the response time for a system impaired incident under the Developer Support Plan?

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< 12 Hours

34
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What is the response time for a system impaired incident under the Business Support Plan?

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< 12 hours (business and non-business)

35
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What is the response time for a system impaired incident under the Enterprise Support Plan?

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< 12 hours (business and non-business)

36
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What is the response time for a production system impaired incident under the Developer Support Plan?

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Not included

37
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What is the response time for a production system impaired incident under the Business Support Plan?

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< 4 hours (business and non-business)

38
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What is the response time for a production system impaired incident under the Enterprise Support Plan?

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< 4 hours (business and non-business)

39
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What is the response time for a production system down incident under the Developer Support Plan?

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Not included

40
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What is the response time for a production system down incident under the Business Support Plan?

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< 1 hour

41
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What is the response time for a production system down incident under the Enterprise Support Plan?

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< 1 hour

42
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What is the response time for a business critical system down incident under the Developer Support Plan?

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Not included

43
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What is the response time for a business critical system down incident under the Business Support Plan?

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Not included

44
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What is the response time for a business/mission-critical system down incident under the Enterprise Support Plan?

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< 15 minutes

45
Q

Step by step deployment instructions for common technology platforms on AWS are called ___________.

A

AWS Quick Starts

46
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Third party consultants who have met the criteria to be in the AWS partner program are called ___________. They can assist you with your cloud implementation.

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AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners

47
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A service that enables you to utilize AWS employees for assistance as consultants in your cloud implementation is called __________________.

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AWS Professional Services

48
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What are three services that can provide assistance in implementing cloud workloads?

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  1. AWS Quick Starts
  2. AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners
  3. AWS Professional Services
49
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What is the response time for a business-critical system down incident under the Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan?

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< 30 minutes

50
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What is the response time for a system impaired incident under the Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan?

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< 12 hours (business or non-business)

51
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What is the response time for a general guidance incident under the Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan?

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< 24 hours (business or non-business)

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