LH - Deck1

Question 1

A ________ is one or more is one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities.

Answer 1

Availability Zone (AZ)

Question 2

A _______ is a physical location in the world which consists of two or more Availability Zones (AZ’s).

Answer 2

Region

Question 3

______ are endpoints for AWS which are used for caching content. Typically, this consists of CloudFront, Amazon’s Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Answer 3

Edge Locations

Question 4

What are the 4 different support packages available?

Answer 4

1. Basic
2. Developer
3. Business
4. Enterprise

Question 5

Which support package should you have if you need a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

Answer 5

Enterprise

Question 6

Which support packages scale based on usage?

Answer 6

Developer, Business, Enterprise

Question 7

How can you get automatic notification if your account goes over a certain $$ amount?

Answer 7

Go into “CloudWatch” and create a Billing Alarm.

Question 8

Policies are written in what format?

Answer 8

Java Script Object Notation (JSON)

Question 9

What are referred to as “Key Value Pairs”?

Answer 9

JSON Policies - You have your key, such as name and then the value: {“name” : “A cloud guru”}

Question 10

Name 3 ways to restrict S3 Bucket access.

Answer 10

1. Bucket Policies
2. Object Policies
3. IAM Policies to Users & Groups

Question 11

What are the 6 S3 Storage Classes?

Answer 11

1. S3 Standard
2. S3 IA
3. S3 One Zone - IA
4. S3 Intelligent Tiering
5. S3 Glacier
6. S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Question 12

What are the 5 features of S3?

Answer 12

1. Tiered Storage Available
2. Lifecycle Management
3. Versioning
4. Encryption
5. Secure your data using Access Control Lists and Bucket Policies.

Question 13

How does data consistency work for S3?

Answer 13

• Read after Write consistency for PUTS of new Objects.

* Eventual Consistency for overwrite PUTS and DELETES (can take some time to propagate).

Question 14

How large can S3 files be?

Answer 14

Files can be from 0 Bytes to 5 TB

Question 15

Where are files stored in S3?

Answer 15

Buckets

Question 16

What happens with a successful upload to S3?

Answer 16

Successful uploads will generate an HTTP 200 status code.

Question 17

What enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your end users and an S3 bucket?

Answer 17

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

• Transfer Acceleration takes advantage of Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed edge locations. As the data arrives at an edge location, data is routed to Amazon S3 over an optimized network path.

Question 18

What are the Key Fundamentals of S3?

Answer 18

• Key = (This is simply the name of the object)

* Value = (This is simply the data and is made up of a sequence of bytes).