Management and Governance Flashcards

1
Q

Easy way to set up and secure multi-account AWS environment

A

AWS Control Tower

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2
Q

Centrally govern and manage your environments across multiple AWS accounts

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AWS Organizations.

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3
Q

Improve your planning and cost control

A

AWS Budgets

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4
Q

Model and provision all your resources via code

A

AWS CloudFormation

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5
Q

Create, organize and govern your own curated catalog of AWS products

A

AWS Service Catalog

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6
Q

Automate operations with Chef and Puppet

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AWS OpsWorks

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7
Q

Find, test and deploy software that runs on AWS

A

AWS Marketplace

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8
Q

Observe your services via metrics and logging

A

Amazon CloudWatch

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9
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Record and evaluate configurations of AWS resources

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AWS Config

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10
Q

Tracks all user activity across all accounts

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AWS CloudTrail

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11
Q

Optimize performance and security while managing a large amount of systems

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AWS Systems Manager

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12
Q

Analyze and debug production applications

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Amazon X-ray

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13
Q

AWS service that allows you to create infrastructure such as an EC2 VM, or VPC or even a Cloud Front CDN - using texts in a file

A

CloudFormation

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14
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CloudFormation files are called

A

templates

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15
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The two types of CloudFormation templates syntax are

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YAML

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16
Q

The infrastructure created in a file is called

A

STACK

17
Q

CloudFormation supports this with templates

A

Nesting

18
Q

Monitoring and observability service for AWS

A

Amazon CloudWatch

19
Q

What is the purpose of Amazon CloudWatch

A

To see what’s going on in your AWS account by collecting metrics and data

20
Q

CloudWatch uses these to give a unified view of all of your AWS resources.

A

Graphs

21
Q

You can set these in CloudWatch

A

Alarms based on data in the graphs

22
Q

With CloudWatch alarms you can set triggers based on these.

A

Alarms

23
Q

CloudWatch allows you to send your log files to it so you have this for your organization,

A

Centralized Log Store

24
Q

CloudWatch allows you to quickly and effectively respond to problems when they occur

A

By interactively searching and analyzing your log data

25
Q

Linux SSH Port

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26
Q

With these you can log anything you want to CloudWatch

A

Custom Metric

27
Q

With CloudWatch Custom Metrics you can be alerted by any “_____” that you set.

A

Threshold

28
Q

Allows you to automatically scale your EC2 servers, that run your applications by increasing them during demand spikes and decreasing them when you don’t need them.

A

Auto Scaling

29
Q

Auto Scaling is for high demand and also for

A

Cost Savings

30
Q

Auto Scaling requires a minimum size and is placed in this

A

Auto Scaling Group

31
Q

You can use CloudWatch alarms to modify the Auto Scaling Group minumum

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based on data you are tracking such as CPU or Ram

32
Q

Scaling as needed to add more EC2 instances to the pool of servers being accessed by your customer till max is reached.

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Scale Out

33
Q

Automatically distributes connections to servers as they appear and disappear,

A

Load Balancer

34
Q

Service that benefits from Autoscaling aside from EC2

A

Dynamo DB Tables
—AND—
Amazon Aurora Replicas