Fundamentals

Question 1

Provided when creating an account

Answer 1

Account name, Unique Email Address, Credit Card

Question 2

Has full control over the account created and any resources created within it

Answer 2

Root User

Question 3

Can Root User be restricted?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

IAM Users, Groups, Roles can be created and given Limited or Full permissions (True or False)

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Container for Identities (Users) and resources

Answer 5

AWS Account

Question 6

Billed to the AWS account payment method as they are consumed

Answer 6

Resources

Question 7

simple best practice that adds an extra layer of protection on top of your user name and password

Answer 7

AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Question 8

Is IAM a globally resilient service?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

Identities which represent humans or applications that need access to your account

Answer 9

Users

Question 10

Collection of related users

Answer 10

Group

Question 11

Can be used by AWS services or for granting external access to your account

Answer 11

Roles

Question 12

Objects or documents which can be used to allow or deny access to AWS services when they are ATTACHED to groups, users, or roles

Answer 12

Policies

Question 13

Term to prove an identity

Answer 13

Authenticate

Question 14

Term to allow or deny access to resources

Answer 14

Authorize

Question 15

Is there a cost to IAM

Answer 15

No

Question 16

Long term credentials in AWS

Answer 16

Access Keys

Question 17

Service which is accessed via the public endpoints - can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection

Answer 17

Public Service

Question 18

Services which can only access the internet and be accessed by the internet if it is configured to do so

Answer 18

AWS Private Zone

Question 19

Network zone where AWS public services operate from

Answer 19

AWS Public Zone

Question 20

Term for separate geographic area designed to be isolated from the other

Answer 20

Region

Question 21

Zone with one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region

Answer 21

Availability Zones

Question 22

Zone which place compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services closer to end-users

Answer 22

Local Zone

Question 23

Term for when data is replicated globally across regions inside AWS

Answer 23

Globally resilient

Question 24

Term for services that operate in a single region with one set of data per region. The services operate as a separate service in each region that replicate data to multiple AZ within that region

Answer 24

Region resilient

Question 25

Services which run from a single AZ

Answer 25

AZ resilient

Question 26

AWS data centers designed to deliver services with the lowest latency possible by caching data

Answer 26

Edge Location