Module 3: Global Infrastructure and Reliability

Question 1

Factors in choosing a Region

Answer 1

1. Compliance
2. Proximity
3. Feature Availability
4. Pricing

Question 2

What are Regions?

Answer 2

Regions are geographically isolated Areas

Question 3

What is Data Sovereignty (pertaining to Regions)?

Answer 3

Data sovereignty: Depending on your company and location, you might need to run your data out of specific areas.

-For example, if your company requires all of its data to reside within the boundaries of the UK, you would choose the London Region.

Question 4

What is proximity to customer?

Answer 4

Latency to customer

Question 5

What are Availability Zones?

Answer 5

Single data center or a group of data centers within a Region located tens of miles apart from each other.

Question 6

What is an Edge Location?

Answer 6

Site that Amazon CloudFront uses to store cached copies of your content closer to your customers for faster delivery.

Question 7

What is Amazon CloudFront?

Answer 7

Amazon’s Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Question 8

What services are provided by Amazon CloudFront?

Answer 8

Service that helps deliver data, video, applications, and APIs to customers around the world with low latency and high transfer speeds

Question 9

What is Route 53?

Answer 9

Amazon’s Doman Name Service (DNS)

Question 10

What services does Route 53 provide?

Answer 10

Helping direct customers to the correct web locations with reliably low latency.

Question 11

What are AWS Outposts?

Answer 11

Fully operational mini Region, right inside your own data center owned and operated by AWS

Question 12

What is the base function of all of AWS?

Answer 12

Everything on AWS works on API calls

Question 13

What are APIs?

Answer 13

Application Program Interface

Question 14

Types of Provisioning Tools

Answer 14

1. AWS Management Console
2. AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
3. AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Question 15

What is the AWS Management Console?

Answer 15

Web-based interface for accessing and managing AWS services

Question 16

What is the AWS Management Console used for?

Answer 16

1. Test Environments
2. View AWS Bills
3. View monitoring
4. Working with non-technical resources

Question 17

What is AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)?

Answer 17

Make APIS calls using the terminal on your machine

Question 18

What does CLI provide?

Answer 18

1. Enables you to control multiple AWS services directly from the command line within one tool
2. Automate the actions that your services and applications perform through scripts.

Question 19

What is AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs)?

Answer 19

Interact with AWS resources through various programming languages

Question 20

What do SDKs provide?

Answer 20

Enable you to use AWS services with your existing applications or create entirely new applications that will run on AWS.

Question 21

Types of Managed Provisioning Tools

Answer 21

1. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2. AWS Cloud Formation

Question 22

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 22

Provide code and configuration settings, and Elastic Beanstalk deploys the resources necessary to perform the following tasks:
1. Adjust capacity
2. Load balancing
3. Automatic scaling
4. Application health monitoring

Question 23

What is AWS Cloud Formation?

Answer 23

Build an environment by writing lines of code instead of using the AWS Management Console to individually provision resources