Machine Learning, Advanced Identity and Other Services Flashcards

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What is AWS Rekognition used for?

Hint: Think of it as a visual recognition tool.

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Used to find objects, people, text, and scenes in images and videos using machine learning (face detection, analysis, labeling, celebrity recognition).

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What does AWS Transcribe do?

Hint: It converts spoken words into written text.

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Automatically converts audio speech to text (e.g., subtitles) and can remove personally identifiable information using redaction.

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What is the purpose of AWS Polly?

Hint: It transforms written content into spoken words.

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Converts text to audio using deep learning technology.

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What does AWS Translate provide?

Hint: Think of it as a language translator.

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Offers language translation services using machine learning.

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What is AWS Lex used for?

Hint: It powers conversational interfaces.

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Builds conversational bots and chatbots using the same technology as Alexa.

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What is AWS Connect?

Hint: It’s about customer interactions.

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A cloud contact center service for managing customer communications.

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What does AWS Comprehend do?

Hint: It analyzes text for insights.

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Uses natural language processing (NLP) to find insights and relationships in text.

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What is AWS SageMaker?

Hint: A development platform for machine learning.

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A fully managed service for developers and data scientists to build, train, and deploy machine learning models.

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What is AWS Forecast used for?

Hint: Think of it as predicting future outcomes.

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A fully managed service that uses machine learning to build highly accurate forecasts.

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What does AWS Kendra do?

Hint: It helps with document searches.

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A fully managed document search engine used to extract answers from within documents.

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What is AWS Personalize?

Hint: It customizes user experiences.

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Builds applications with real-time personalized recommendations for users.

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What does AWS Textract accomplish?

Hint: It digitizes printed text.

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Automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents using AI and ML.

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What is the AWS Security Token Service (STS)?

Hint: Think of it as a provider of temporary access.

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Creates temporary, limited-privileges credentials to access AWS resources (short-term credentials like access keys).

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What does AWS Cognito provide?

Hint: It simplifies user access management.

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Adds user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to web and mobile apps quickly and easily.

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What is the purpose of AWS Directory Services?

Hint: It connects to Microsoft systems.

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Integrates Microsoft Active Directory in AWS environments.

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What is IAM Identity Center used for?

Hint: Think centralized user management.

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Manages single sign-on login for multiple AWS accounts and applications.

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What is IAM (Identity and Access Management)?

Hint: It’s about controlling user access in AWS.

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Manages users and permissions within your AWS account for trusted individuals belonging to your organization.

18
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What is AWS Workspaces?

Hint: Think of it as virtual desktops.

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A managed Desktop as a Service solution to provision Windows or Linux desktops.

19
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What does AWS AppStream 2.0 do?

Hint: It streams applications to users.

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A desktop application streaming service that delivers applications from within a web browser.

20
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What is AWS IoT Core?

Hint: It connects devices to the cloud.

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Allows you to easily connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the AWS Cloud.

21
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What is the function of AWS Elastic Transcoder?

Hint: It converts media formats.

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Converts media files stored in S3 into formats required by consumer playback devices.

22
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What is AWS Amplify?

Hint: It aids in app development.

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A set of tools and services that help you develop and deploy scalable full-stack web and mobile applications.

23
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What does AWS Application Composer allow you to do?

Hint: It helps design serverless applications visually.

A

Visually design and build serverless applications on AWS.

24
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What is AWS Device Farm?

Hint: It tests applications on real devices.

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Lets you test web and mobile apps against desktop browsers and real mobile devices and tablets.

25
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What is AWS Backup used for?

Hint: It manages backups across services.

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Centrally manages and automates backups across AWS services.

26
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What is AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)?

Hint: It helps with server recovery.

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Quickly and easily recovers physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS.

27
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What does AWS DataSync do?

Hint: It moves data to AWS.

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Moves large amounts of data from on-premises to AWS, with incremental replication tasks scheduled after the initial full load.

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What is the purpose of AWS Application Discovery Service?

Hint: It aids migration planning.

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Gathers information about on-premises data centers to help plan migration projects.

29
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What does AWS Migration Evaluator help with?

Hint: It builds a business case for migration.

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Helps build a data-driven business case for migrating to AWS.

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What is the AWS Migration Hub?

Hint: It tracks migration progress.

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A central location to collect servers and applications inventory data for assessment, planning, and tracking of migrations to AWS.

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What is AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)?

Hint: It tests system resilience.

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A fully managed service for running fault injection experiments on AWS workloads, based on Chaos Engineering principles to stress applications and improve performance.

32
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What do AWS Step Functions allow you to build?

Hint: It orchestrates serverless workflows.

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Allows you to build serverless visual workflows to orchestrate Lambda functions.

33
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What is AWS Ground Station?

Hint: It controls satellite communications.

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A fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process data, and scale satellite operations.

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What does AWS Pinpoint do?

Hint: It’s about marketing communications.

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A scalable 2-way marketing communications service that supports email, SMS, push, voice, and in-app messaging.