My wrong Answers Flashcards
Amazon EC2 is billed in what increment?
Per second
Which AWS program can help an organization to design, build, and manage their workloads on AWS?
APN Consulting Partners
Which type of storage stores Objects comprised of Key Value Pairs?
Amazon S3
What does Amazon DynamoDB Store?
Stores items not objects based on key, value pairs
What is Amazon Route 53?
Amazon Route 53 provides highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS), domain name registration, and health-checking web services. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like example.com into the numeric IP addresses, such as 192.0.2.1
What can you configure within the Virtual Private Cloud of the AWS Management Console
Subnets and Endpoints
What AWS services are used for Analytics?
Amazon EMR(elastic Map Reduce) and Amazon Athena(Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL)
What is AWS Beanstalk?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk can be used to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud. Developers upload applications and Elastic Beanstalk handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring
What is AWS Code Commit?
fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositiories
What is AWS CodeDeploy
a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of compute services such as Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and your on-premises servers
What is Amazon Elastic Container
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
What is AWS Cognito?
Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. Amazon Cognito scales 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
What architectural best practice aims to reduce the interdependencies between services?
Lose Coupling
Which service allows you to automatically expand and shrink your application in response to demand?
AWS Auto Scaling
What does Amazon Elastic Load Balancing do?
Amazon ELB distributes incoming requests to EC2 instances. It can be used in conjunction with Auto Scaling
What does AWS Elasticache provide?
in-memory cache and database services
What is Amazon DynamoDB?
NoSQL Database
Which service allows an organization to view operational data from multiple AWS services through a unified user interface and automate operational tasks?
AWS Systems Manager
What is AWS OpsWorks?
it is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet. Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers. OpsWorks lets you use Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments.
What benefits does consolidted billing have
One bill – You get one bill for multiple accounts.
Easy tracking – You can track the charges across multiple accounts and download the combined cost and usage data.
Combined usage – You can combine the usage across all accounts in the organization to share the volume pricing discounts and Reserved Instance discounts. This can result in a lower charge for your project, department, or company than with individual standalone accounts.
No extra fee – Consolidated billing is offered at no additional cost.
Which AWS offering enables customers to find, buy, and immediately start using software solutions in
their AWS environment?
AWS Marktetplace
What is AWS CloudTrail?
AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records activity made on your account and delivers log files to your Amazon S3 bucket.
what is the difference between aws cloudwatch and cloudtrail
CloudWatch focuses on the activity of AWS services and resources, reporting on their health and performance. On the other hand, CloudTrail is a log of all actions that have taken place inside your AWS environment
S3 Standard storage will provide what percent of availability?
99.99%
what feature of an Application Load Balancer can be used to bind a user’s session to a specific instance?
Sticky Sessions
Amazon S3 Storage Glacier is a long-term storage solution that currently starts at what rate per GB per month?
$.004
Which of the following allows you to bid on spare Amazon EC2 computing capacity?
Spot instances
AWS developed the 5 pillars of well architected framework. What are they?
- Cost Optimization: avoiding unnecessary costs
- Reliability: ability to prevent and quickly recover from operational failures
- Operational Excellence: daily system operations, monitoring, and improvements
- Performance Efficiency: using computing resources efficiently
- Security: protect information and systems
3 types of Cloud Computing
- Saas
- Infrastructure as a Service: building blocks for cloud IT (ie: Physical Server)
- Platform as a service: deploy and manage applications without worrying about hardware infrastructure (ie: Godaddy)
Shared security responsibility
- Patch Management: AWS patches and fixes flaws within the infrastructure; customers patch OS and applications
- Configuration Management: AWS configures infrastructure devices; customers patch OS and applications
- Awareness & Training: AWS trains AWS employees; customer trains its own employees
AWS Support Plans
- Basic: Free, Customer service for account and billing questions only, access to the community page
- developer: $29/MO 12-24 hr SLA
- Business $100/mo 1 hr response. Full access to AWS Trusted Advisor for optimizing infrastructure
AWS Support API access for support case automation - Enterprise $15,000/mo TAM & support concierge
What is the benefit of using AWS managed services, such as Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?
They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.
Which of the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities is associated with an access key ID and secret access key when using AWS Command
IAM user
Which AWS managed service is used to host databases?
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
