Leveraging the AWS Global Infrastructure

Question 1

What is a global application?

Answer 1

An application that is deployed in multiple geographies to decrease latency and/or assist in disaster recovery.

Question 2

What AWS service is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, that is global?

Answer 2

Route53

Question 3

Which Route53 routing policy has no health checks and does DNS query and returns a IPv4 address?

Answer 3

Simple Routing Policy

Question 4

Which Route53 policy allows the user to assign loads or weights to each instance and does health checks?

Answer 4

Weighted Routing Policy

Question 5

Which Route53 policy looks at the client location and attempts to minimize latency and does health checks?

Answer 5

Latency Routing Policy

Question 6

Which Route53 policy runs a health check on a primary instance and if it fails redirects to a failover instance?

Answer 6

Failover Routing Policy

Question 7

What AWS service is a content delivery network (CDN) service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience, that caches data versus replicating?

Answer 7

AWS CloudFront

Question 8

Where can content originate to be used with CloudFront?

Answer 8

S3 Bucket or a custom HTTP origin.

Question 9

What service speeds up content transfers to and from Amazon S3 for long-distance transfer of larger objects?

Answer 9

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Question 10

What product is a networking service that helps you improve the availability, performance, and security of your public applications, while utilizing AWS’ internal network to optimize routing to your application?

Answer 10

AWS Global Accelerator

Question 11

What AWS products are a family of fully managed solutions delivering AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience?

Answer 11

AWS Outpost

Question 12

What AWS service embeds AWS compute and storage services within 5G networks, providing mobile edge computing infrastructure?

Answer 12

AWS Wavelength

Question 13

A type of infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to large population and industry centers.

Answer 13

AWS Local Zones

Question 14

What are the four types of Global Architectures?

Answer 14

Single Region, Single AZ
Single Region, Multi-AZ
Multi-Region, Active-Passive
Multi-Region, Active-Active