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Governance/Migration Flashcards

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What is Organizations?

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allows you to create multiple AWS accounts and control them from a single location rather than having to jump from account to account

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What is best practice regarding logging over multiple AWS accounts?

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Have one account aggregate all the logs (Cloudtrail supports this)

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Can Organizations create and destroy AWS accounts?

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Yes

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Can reserved instances be shared across accounts?

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Yes

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If you want consolidated billing, what should you use?

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Organizations

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If you want to set limits to what certain AWS accounts can do, what should you use?

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Service Control Policies (SCP) in Organizations

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Can SCP’s be applied to the root account?

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yes

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What is AWS RAM?

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A free service that allows you to share AWS resources with other accounts and within your organization

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If you don’t want to duplicate copies in different accounts but want to share resources, what should you use?

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AWS RAM

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When should you use AWS RAM vs VPC peering?

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VPC peering is better for across regions, RAM is better for same region

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What is cross-account role access?

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temporary access to other accounts that is easily controlled

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How often should roles be used in order to grant users access to certain resources or accounts?

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All the time

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How should temporary employees get access to resources?

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Through roles

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What is Config?

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An inventory management and control tool

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If you need the ability to be alerted whenever a rule is violated, what should you use?

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Config

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If you need to enforce standards, what you should you use?

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Config

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If you want to track deleted AWS resources, what should you use?

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Config

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What is Directory Service?

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a fully managed version of active directory

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What is AD Connector?

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A tunnel between AWS and your on premises AD

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What is Simple AD?

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Standalone directory running in AWS

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What is Cost Explorer?

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an easy to use tool that allows you to visualize your cloud costs?

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By what categorization is the common way to get reports from Cost Explorer?

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resource tags

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If you need to predict money spent for the upcoming month, what should you use?

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Cost Explorer

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What is AWS Budgets?

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allows organizations to track ongoing spending and create alerts to let users know when they’re spending close to thier limit.

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What are the 4 types of budgets you can create with Budgets?

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Cost, Usage, Reservation, and Saving plans

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What is AWS Cost and Usage Reports?

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CUR is a service that gives a comprehensive cost and usage report

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How often does AWS update the CUR?

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daily

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Can you use CUR’s within Organizations?

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Yes

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29
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Where do CUR’s get stored?

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S3

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If you want a detailed or daily usage report, what should you use?

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Cost Usage Report

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31
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What is AWS Compute Optimizer?

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A service that analyzes the utilizations of AWS resources and provides reports and graphs to help you decide the best way to optimize resource usage

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What must you do to get Compute optimizer?

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Opt in

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What are savings plans?

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Ways to get deals on AWS compute, similar to RI’s

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What is trusted advisor?

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a fully managed best practice auditing tool

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What are the 5 areas trusted advisor looks over?

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Cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, service limits

36
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Via what service does trusted advisor let you know things need changing?

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SNS

37
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How could you automate fixes that trusted advisor tells you you should make?

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Eventbridge to trigger lamda functions

38
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What is AWS Control Tower?

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An easy way to set up and govern an AWS multi-account environment

39
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If you want to automate account deployments, what should you use?

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Control Tower

40
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If you need to set up guardrails against noncompliant actions AWS accounts could do, what should you use?

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Control Tower to leverage service control policies

41
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If you need to manage software licenses with different vendors, what should you use?

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AWS License Manager

42
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What is AWS Health?

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Gain visibility of resource performance and availability of AWS services or accounts

43
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How can automate actions based on AWS Health alerts?

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EventBridge

44
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If you wanted to automate the rebooting of EC2 instances, what services would you utilize to do so?

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AWS Health and EventBridge

45
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What is AWS service catalogs?

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allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of approved IT services

46
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What is AWS Proton?

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Creates and managed infrastructure and deployment tooling for users

47
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If you want to automate infrastructure as code, what should you use?

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AWS Proton

48
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What is AWS Well-Architected Tool?

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provides a consistent process for measuring cloud architectures and guides for making workloads more reliable, secure, efficient, and cost effective

49
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What are the components of a well architected framework?

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operational excellence, reliability, security, performance efficiency, cost optimization, sustainability

50
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What two services are used for preventive and detective guardrails within AWS Control Tower?

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AWS Config, AWS Organizations (for SCPs)

51
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If you wanted a way to track AWS architecture and check for best practice violations, what should you use?

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AWS Config

52
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If you want to consolidate logs across multiple AWS accounts, what service should you use?

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Organizations

53
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What are three mediums of a migrating to AWS?

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Over the internet, direct connect, or physically bundling it and delivering it to AWS

54
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What is AWS Snow?

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A delivery of harddrives meant for migrating your data to AWS

55
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How much can snowcone transfer?

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up to 8TB

56
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How much can snowball transfer?

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up to 81 TB

57
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How much can snowmobile transfer?

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up to 100 PB

58
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Can the snow family bring AWS data to you?

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Yes

59
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What is the typical turnaround for AWS Snow?

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a week

60
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What is Storage Gateway?

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A hybrid cloud storage service that helps you to merge on-prem resources with the cloud

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What are typical use cases for Storage Gateway?

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a one-time migration or long term pairing of your on prem architecture with AWS

62
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if you want to back up on your on prem data to S3, what should you use?

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file gateway

63
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If you want to back up the drives of your on-prem machines to AWS, what should you use?

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Volume Gateway

64
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What is DataSync?

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allows you to easily move data from on prem NFS and SMB shared to AWS storage solutions

65
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What endpoints are there for DataSync?

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S3, EFS, and FSx

66
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What is the AWS Transfer Family?

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allows you to easily move files in and out of S3 or EFS using SFTP, FTPS, or FTP

66
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What is the AWS Transfer Family?

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allows you to easily move files in and out of S3 or EFS using SFTP, FTPS, or FTP

67
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If you need to bring legacy application storage to the cloud, what should you use?

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AWS Transfer Family

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What is AWS Migration Hub

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A single place to track the progress of your application migration to AWS

69
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What is AWS Application Discovery Service?

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AN easy to way to migrate VM’s to the AWS

70
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What does AWS MGN offer?

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Application migration service allows an automated lift and shift of migrating infrastructure to AWS

71
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How is RTO measured?

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seconds

72
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How is RPO measured?

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sub-seconds

73
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What is AWS Database Migrations Service?

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AWS DMS

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What is AWS Database Migrations Service?

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AWS DMS allows for easy migration of relational databases, data warehouses, noSQL databases, and other data stores to AWS

75
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Can AWS DMS migrate data within AWS to another AWS service?

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No, only into and out of AWS

76
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Can you do one time migrations or ongoing migrations with AWS DMS?

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both

77
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What is AWS SCT?

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AWS Schema Conversion Tool can convert database schemas from one engine to another

78
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What is AWS SCT?

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AWS Schema Conversion Tool can convert database schemas from one engine to another

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What is a full load migration?

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all existing data is moved from source to target in parallel

80
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What is a full load and change data capture migration

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full load migration plus it loads any changes occurred during the migration

81
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What is change data capture migration?

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Only migrate the changes made in the database

82
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What type of migration is the only one to guarantee transactional integrity?

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CDC migration

83
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What service would you use to migrate a database from on-premises to RDS?

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Database migration service

84
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What would be the best service to utilize to migrate 80T of data into S3 if you have limited bandwidth at your data center?

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Snowball

85
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What service would you use for a one time migration of data into AWS if costs are a factor?

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AWS DataSync

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