Misc.

Question 1

AWS Management Console

Answer 1

• Lets manage and access individual AWS resources through a web-based user interface

Question 2

AWS Resource Groups

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• Enables you to create logical groups of resources based on factors such as tags, regions, resource types, or other criteria.
• Users can create custom groups that represent specific applications, environments (e.g., development, testing, production)

Question 3

Group

Answer 3

composed of users where policies can be attached.

Question 4

Policies

Answer 4

permissions granted to users

Question 5

Roles

Answer 5

• Assumed by users
• Temporary

Question 6

AWS Inspector

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• An automated security assessment service
• Helps improve the security and compliance of applications

Question 7

CloudFormation

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• Allows you to use simple text files to model and provision
• Infrastructure as code

Question 8

DMS
(Database Migration Service)

Answer 8

Used to migrate databases from on-premises database system into AWS

Question 9

KMS
(Key Management Service)

Answer 9

Managed service that makes it easy to create and control the encryption keys

Question 10

CloudHSM
(Hardware Security Module)

Answer 10

Enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys on the AWS Cloud

Question 11

AWS Cost & Usage Report

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• Lists AWS usage for each service category used by an account and its IAM users in an hourly or daily line items, any tags that have been activated for cost allocation purposes

Question 12

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)

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• Agentless service
• Makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS

Question 13

AWS Storage Gateway

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• Connects on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage
• Provides seamless integration with data security features between IT environment and AWS storage infrastructure

Question 14

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

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• Fast in-memory data store that provides sub-millisecond latency to power IoT applications

Question 15

Penetration Testing

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The practice of testing a network or web application to find security vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit

Question 16

CloudFront

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• Delivers content to end users with low latency
• Caches common responses

Question 17

DynamoDB DAX

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• In-memory cache for Dynamo
• Fully managed, highly available
• Used to reduce the latency of requests to a database from millisecond to microseconds

Question 18

S3 pricing is based on 4 factors:

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1. The storage class you have chosen
2. The total amount of data (gb) you’ve stored
3. Data transfer out
4. Number of requests

Question 19

Amazon EMR

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• Reliably handles a broad set of big data, log analysis, web indexing, data transformations (ETL), ML, financial analysis, bioinformatics

Question 20

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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Helps to read and write data to Amazon S3 over long geographic distances with low latency

Question 21

CloudEndure

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Enables you to migrate running machine images into Amazon EC2 with their data

Question 22

AWS X-Ray

Answer 22

• Easily detect where high latencies are occurring
• Debugging service

Question 23

Amazon Cognito

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• Lets you add user sign-up, Sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily
• Lets users access applications through mobile devices using trusted identity providers like fb

Question 24

Key design principles of AWS Cloud

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• scalability
• disposable resources
• automation
• loose coupling
• managed services instead of servers
• flexible data storage options

Question 25

ECS Elastic Container Service

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- highly scalable - supports Docker containers

Question 26

Macie

Answer 26

- fully managed Data Security & Data Privacy service - uses machine learning and pattern matching to protect ur sensitive data in AWS - PII

Question 27

Predictive Scaling

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- Uses daily and weekly trends to determine when to scale

Question 28

AMI Amazon Machine Image

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- Provides the information required to launch an instance

Question 29

AppStream 2.0

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- non-persistent desktop and applications service for remotely accessing your work

Question 30

Amazon Workspace

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- fully managed service - for windows and Linux that lets you to access resources from any supported device

Question 31

AWS Computer Optimizar

Answer 31

- Machine Learning - Used to analyze the historical usage patterns - Helps you identify the most optimal AWS resources

Question 32

Launch Wizard

Answer 32

- Sizing, configuration, deploying 3rd party applications -SAP

Question 33

App Runner

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- auto builds/deploys containerized applications

Question 34

AWS Managed Service

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- helps you adopt AWS at scale and operate more efficiently and securely

Question 35

CloudWatch Logs Insights CloudWatch Logs Stream

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- searching and analyzing - sequence of log events/ does not utilize queries

Question 36

Application Discovery Service

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- helps you plan migration to the AWS Cloud by collecting usage and configuration data about your on-premises servers

Question 37

PrivateLink

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- private connectivity - between on-premises and VPC, AWS services w/o exposing it to the public

Question 38

Access Advisor

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Helps identify unnecessary permissions that have been assigned to users

Question 39

S3 File Gateway

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- allows you to store and access objects in S3 from NFS or SMB file data with local caching