Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM


Top Flashcards (Certified)
All Flashcards

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials > Migration & Innovation > Flashcards

Migration & Innovation Flashcards

1
Q

What is the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)?

A

Leverages AWS experience & best practices to help you digitally transform & speed up business outcomes through AWS.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

What are 6 Core Perspectives in AWS CAF?

A
  • Business (B)
  • People (B)
  • Governance (B)
  • Platform (IT)
  • Security (IT)
  • Operations (IT)
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

What is the CAF Business Perspective?

A

Makes sure IT align w/ business needs & IT investments link to key business results.
Use to make strong business case for cloud adoption.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

What are common roles in CAF Business Perspective?

A
  • Business Managers
  • Finance Managers
  • Budget Owners
  • Strategy Stakeholders.
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

What is the CAF People Perspective?

A

Development of organization-wide change management strategy for good cloud adoption Use to evaluate organizational structures & roles, new skill & process requirements, & identify gaps.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

What are common roles in CAF People Perspective?

A
  • Human resources
  • Staffing
  • People managers
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

What is the CAF Governance Perspective?

A

Skills & processes to align IT strategy w/ business strategy so you maximize business value & minimize risks.
Use to understand how to update staff skills & process to ensure governance in cloud, manage & measure cloud investments, & evaluate business outcomes.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

What are common roles in CAF Governance Perspective?

A
  • Chief Information Officer (CIO)
  • Program managers
  • Enterprise architects
  • Business analysts
  • Portfolio managers
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

What is the CAF Platform Perspective?

A

Includes principles & patterns for implementing new solutions on cloud & migrating on-premises workloads to cloud.
Use architectural models to understand & communicate structure of IT systems & their relationships.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

What are common roles in CAF Platform Perspective?

A
  • Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
  • IT Managers
  • Solutions Architects
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

What is the CAF Security Perspective?

A

Makes sure organization meets security objectives for visibility, auditability, control, & agility.
Use to structure selection & implementation of security controls that meet organization’s needs.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

What are common roles in CAF Security Perspective?

A
  • Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
  • IT Security Managers
  • IT Security Analysts
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

What is the CAF Operations Perspective?

A

Enables you to run, use, operate, & recover IT workloads to level agreed upon w/ business stakeholders.
Use to define how business is conducted, helps stakeholders define current operating procedures & see where training is needed.

Common roles in the Operations Perspective include:

IT operations managers
IT support managers

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

What are common roles in CAF Operations Perspective?

A
  • IT Operations Managers
  • IT Support Managers
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

What are 6 Migration Strategies (R’s)?

A
  • Rehosting
  • Replatforming
  • Refactoring/Re-Architecting
  • Repurchasing
  • Retaining
  • Retiring
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

What is Rehosting Migration Strategy?

A

Moving applications w/out changes.

17
Q

What is Replatforming Migration Strategy?

A

Making few optimizations to get real benefits.

18
Q

What is Refactoring/Re-Architecting Migration Strategy?

A

Changing how an application is architected & developed, typically by using cloud-native features.

19
Q

What is Repurchasing Migration Strategy?

A

Moving from traditional license to SaaS model.

20
Q

What is Retaining Migration Strategy?

A

Keeping critical business applications in source environment such as application that need refactoring before they can be migrated or postponed for later.

21
Q

What is Retiring Strategy?

A

Removing applications that are not needed.

22
Q

What is the AWS Snow Family?

A

Collection of physical devices that help to physically transport up to exabytes of data in & out of AWS.

23
Q

What are AWS Snow Family members?

A
  • AWS Snowcone
  • AWS Snowball
  • AWS Snowmobile
24
Q

What is AWS Snowcone?

A

Small data transfer device that features 2 CPUS, 4 GB of memory, & up to 14 TB of storage.

25
Q

What is AWS Snowball?

A

Device that transfers large amounts of data into and out of AWS.
Offers:
- Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
- Snowball Edge Storage Compute Optimized.

26
Q

What is Snowball Edge Storage Optimized?

A

Device for large-scale data migrations, recurring transfer workflows, & local computing w/ higher capacity needs.
Storage: 80 TB w/ 1 TB of SATA SSD & S3 compatible object storage.
Compute: 40 vCPUs & 80 GiB memory to support EC2 sb1 instances.

27
Q

What is Snowball Edge Compute Optimized?

A

For powerful computing resources for tasks s/a machine learning, video, analytics, & local computing stacks.
Storage: 80 TB HHD capacity for S3 compatible object storage or EBS compatible block volumes & 28 TB of usable NVMe SSD capacity for EBS compatible block volumes.
Compute: 104 vCPUs, 416 GiB memory. Run on EC2 sbe-c & sbe-g instances.

28
Q

What is AWS Snowmobile?

A

Used to transfer large amounts of data (up to 100 petabytes per Snowmobile) to AWS (exabytes).
NOTE: It is a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container pulled by semi trailer truck.

29
Q

What are Serverless Applications?

A

Applications that don’t require you to provision, maintain, & administer servers.
Ex: AWS Lambda

30
Q

What AWS services offer Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

A
  • Amazon Transcribe
  • Amazon Comprehend
  • Amazon Fraud Detector
  • Amazon Lex
31
Q

What is Machine Learning?

A

Analyze data, solve complex problems & predict outcomes before they happen.
Ex: Amazon Sagemaker

32
Q

What is Amazon Q Developer?

A

Machine Learning powered code generator that provides code recommendations in real time by analyzing code & comments as you write code in you IDE, based upon your style & naming conventions.

33
Q

What are benefits of Amazon Q Developer to developers

A
  • Increase velocity.
  • Spend less time writing code.
  • Receive help directly w/in your IDE.
  • Find security vulnerabilities in your code.
34
Q

What are benefits of Amazon Q Developer to organizations?

A
  • Use at all experience levels.
  • Use of Open-Source attribution.
  • Reduce risk of security vulnerabilities.
  • Increase code quality & developer productivity.
35
Q

What are the Snow Migration services?

A
  • Snowcone:
    • Smallest & most portable
    • Designed for edge computing & data transfer in space-constrained enviornments
    • Two Versions:
      • 8TB of HHD Storage
      • 14TB of SSD Storage
    • Ideal for mobile applications that can withstand harsh enviornments.
  • Snowball Edge:
    • Moving TBs or PBs of data in/out of AWS
    • Storage Optimized - gives 80TB of HDD capacity
    • Provides block & Amazon S3-compatible object storage.
    • For large data cloud migrations, data centre decomissions, or disaster recovery.
  • Snowmobile:
    • Truck filled with storage capacity that can transfer up to an exabyte of data in single trip.
    • Option to move more than 10PB of data.
    • Offers higher security, temperate control. GPS tracking, 24/7 video surveillance.

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (16 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions