Must know 2 Flashcards
What is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account by allowing logging, continuous monitoring, and retention of account activity related to actions across your infrastructure, including those done by AWS accts?
AWS CloudTrail
What is AWS CloudTrail?
It is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account by allowing logging, continuous monitoring, and retention of account activity related to actions across your infrastructure, including those done by AWS accts?
What is a fully managed application streaming service which you can use to centrally manage your desktop applications?
Amazon AppStream 2.0
What service is primarily used to collect monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on-premises servers?
Amazon CloudWatch
What is AWS Trusted Advisor?
An application that draws upon best practices learned from AWS’ aggregated operational history of serving hundreds of thousands of AWS customers. Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money, improving system performance, or closing security gaps.
What accounts support full trusted advisor? What about Developer?
Business & Enterprise; Developer provides 7 core checks
How does AWS Trusted Advisor compare to Amazon CloudWatch?
TA provides best practices while CloudWatch collects monitoring and operation data in a unified view and gives you actionable insights to monitor
What is the main benefit of serverless?
It eliminates infrastructure management tasks such as server or cluster provisioning, patching, operating system maintenance, and capacity provisioning, allowing you to increase your agility and innovation
What is Amazon SQS used for?
To transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available
How does Amazon SQS increase overall fault tolerance?
By decoupling application components so that they fail and run independently, and storing multiple copies of every message are stored redundantly across multiple availability zones so that they are available whenever needed?
How do you automatically get Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, ElastiCache, Amazon ES, and Amazon Redshift Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations that could help you reduce your costs?
By enabling Cost Explorer
What provides a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources; and is built to scale on-demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth?
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
If you cannot reach one of your EC2 web servers behind an ELB whenever you enter the DNS name of your load balancer. Which of the following should you first check to gain more insight on the issue?
ELB Health Check
What continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations?
AWS Config
What services allow you to mask downtime of your application by rerouting your traffic to healthy instances?
Amazon Route 53 & ELB
What services allows you to store Docker images and orchestrate Docker containers in a simple and cost-effective manner?
Elastic Container Service & Registry (ECS & ECR)
What allows you to create workflow tasks that will simplify and automate operations for you. You can configure automatic retry to allow SWF to retry failed activity or workflow tasks along with your given conditions. If your app’s steps take more than 500 milliseconds to complete, you need to track the state of processing, and you need to recover or retry if a task fails, Amazon SWF can help you?
AWS Simple Workflow
What service has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time, including custom reports (including charts and tabular data) that analyze cost and usage data, both at a high level and for highly-specific requests, allowing you to dive deeper into your cost and usage data to identify trends, pinpoint cost drivers, and detect anomalies?
Cost Explorer
What service lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily, allowing scale to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0?
Amazon Cognito
What is Amazon WorkSpaces?
A managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution where you provision either Windows or Linux desktops in just a few minutes and quickly scale to provide thousands of desktops to workers across the globe
What is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser, which includes a code editor, debugger, and terminal?
Cloud9
What is a fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools that allows you to run complex analytic queries against petabytes of structured data, using sophisticated query optimization, columnar storage on high-performance local disks, and massively parallel query execution?
Amazon Redshift
What provides serverless orchestration for modern applications to centrally manage a workflow by breaking it into multiple steps, adding flow logic, and tracking the inputs and outputs between the steps?
AWS Step Functions
What is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data using a hosted Apache Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)?
Amazon EMR
What is a substitutes for an account ID in the web address for your account, which can be created and managed by AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS API?
Account Alias
Which drive is better for small/random vs. large/sequential workloads?
Solid State Drive: Small & Random
Hard Disk Drive: Large & Sequential
What is a fast, scalable NoSQL database service of AWS?
Amazon DynamoDB
What is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL?
Amazon Athena
What do security groups accept as inbound and/or outbound rules?
Security groups accept IP address, IP address range, and security group ID as either source or destination of inbound or outbound rules.
You can manage your instances, images, and other Amazon EC2 resources, you can optionally assign your own _______ to each resource in the form of ___.
Metadata, Instance tags
What is AWS’s Digital User Engagement Service that enables AWS customers to effectively communicate with their end-users and measure user engagement across multiple channels including email, Text Messaging (SMS) and Mobile Push Notifications?
Amazon Pinpoint
Chef or Puppet is needed?
AWS OpsWorks
What is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS by providing always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection?
AWS Shield
Aside from EC2, what others are reservation models available for?
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DynamoDB.
What a self-healing relational database engine (where data blocks and disks are continuously scanned for errors and repaired automatically) that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases, and designed to transparently handle the loss of up to two copies of data without affecting database write availability and up to three copies without affecting read availability?
Amazon Aurora
Which AWS storage service offers faster disk read and write performance and provides temporary block-level storage for your instance?
Instance Store
What is the lowest support plan that allows an unlimited number of technical support cases to be opened?
Developer
As an AWS customer, what offering do you naturally inherit from AWS after you sign up?
AWS customers inherit all of the benefits of their security controls, including best practices for security policies, architecture, and operational processes validated against external assurance frameworks.
What AWS service can monitor the compliance status of your AWS resources against a set of compliance guidelines?
AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
What type of EBS volume is recommended for most workloads and is also usable as a boot volume?
General Purpose SSD
What are the 5 aspects of Trusted Advisor checks?
Cost Optimization – recommendations that can potentially save you money by highlighting unused resources and opportunities to reduce your bill.
Security – identification of security settings that could make your AWS solution less secure.
Fault Tolerance – recommendations that help increase the resiliency of your AWS solution by highlighting redundancy shortfalls, current service limits, and over-utilized resources.
Performance – recommendations that can help to improve the speed and responsiveness of your applications.
Service Limits – recommendations that will tell you when service usage is more than 80% of the service limit.
What is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage?
AWS Storage Gateway
What is used in order for you to establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment?
AWS Direct Connect
What is an edge computing and data transfer device provided by the AWS Snowball service?
AWS Snowball Edge
Which of the following RDS engines allows you to bring your own license (BYOL)?
Oracle
Which control does the customer fully inherit from AWS based on the Shared Responsibility Model?
All the physical and environmental controls on their data centers, network cables, servers, and other equipment
What is a curated digital catalog that makes it easy for customers to find, buy, deploy, and manage third-party software and services that customers need to build solutions and run their businesses?
AWS Marketplace
In implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) in your cloud architecture, which service will make it easy for you to set up your entire development and continuous delivery toolchain for coding, building, testing, and deploying your application code?
CodeStar