Governance Flashcards
What is Organizations?
A free governance tool that allows you to create and manage multiple AWS accounts. With it, you can control your accounts from a single location rather than jumping from account to account.
What is a Logging Account?
This is a best practice around setting up an account that is specifically dedicated to logging by using cloud trail for logging aggrigation
What is AWS RAM?
Resource Access Manager
Is a free resource that lets multiple accounts in an organization share resources.
What resources can you share using RAM?
1) Transit gateways
2) Li
What is Cross-Account Role Access?
Set up an AWS account to give users across the organization access to multiple accounts.
Where is the account ID placed when setting up cross-account role access?
In the role trust policy.
Which tool allows you to visualize your AWS spend?
Cost Explorer
Which tool allows developers to deploy full application stacks using approved Infrastructure as Code deployments for their container-based and serverless applications?
AWS Proton
What AWS service allows you to consolidate CloudTrail Logs from multiple accounts?
Organizations
Which of the following statements is the most accurate statement about AWS Config’s abilities?
A) Config can be used to terminate old RDS databases and shut down public S3 bucket replication to SQS.
B) Config can be used to track AWS resources and enforce best practices.
C) Config can be used to audit IAM usage and message admins if violations are found.
D) Config can be used to scale EC2 instances and turn up the tunes.
B) Config can be used to track AWS resources and enforce best practices.
You need to generate daily reports with a detailed breakdown of your AWS Organizations costs and then store them as CSV files in Amazon S3. Which service would be the best fit?
AWS Cost and Usage Reports
Which service provides an abstracted means of leveraging AWS services to automate the deployment and governance of new AWS accounts within a multi-account AWS organization?
AWS Control Tower
Where should AWS SSO NOT be used?
A) For internal users signing in to a 3rd party application that supports SAML.
B) For handling AWS Console logins.
C) For external users authenticating to a mobile application.
D) For internal users authenticating to an internal application.
C) For external users authenticating to a mobile application.
Which of the following is NOT a version of Directory Service?
A) Managed Microsoft AD
B) Simple AD
C) AD Connector
D) Microsoft AD Replicator
D) Microsoft AD Replicator
Which tool allows you to easily document your architectural decisions and see how they measure against established AWS best practices?
AWS Well-Architected Tool