Neal Davis Practice Tests Flashcards
Which services can be used for asynchronous integration between application components?
SQS and Step Functions
Which service can be used for building and integrating loosely coupled, distributed applications?
SNS
Identify scope (regional/global) of following:
- Lambda
- Route 53
- S3
- EC2
- CloudFront
Global: Route 53 and Cloudfront
Regional: S3, EC2, Lambda
Elasticity definition
The ability to acquire resources as you need them and release resources when you no longer need them. In the cloud, you want to do this automatically.
Scalability definition
A measurement of a system’s ability to grow to accommodate an increase in demand
which feature of AWS allows you to deploy a new application for which the requirements may change over time?
elasticity
What services are free / no charge?
VPC and Cloudformation
Whata benefits does EC2 provide over using non-cloud providers?
inexpensive (b/c of AWS scale) and elasticity
What are 2 examples of shared responsibility?
Patch management and configuration management. AWS and customers have to perform these tasks.
Where are key pairs made? Whats their purpose?
In EC2, used for SSH
Which services provide protection measures against DDOS attacks?
Cloudfront and AWS WAF
Advantages of AZs? Choose 2
low latency network connections and fault isolation
how is data protected by default in s3?
objects redundantly stored on multiple devices across multiple facilities within a region
what service has automated backups as default configuration?
RDS
What authentication methods are available in IAM
console passwords, access keys, server certificates
Name feature of fast secure east transfer of files over long distance
S3 Transfer Acceleration
AWS service based on open source software?
ElasticCache
Costs of Glacier based on
storage and retrieval
you are concerned you are getting close to your default service limits for several AWS services. What aws tool can be used to display current usage and limits?
Trusted advisor
How can an organization track resource inventory and configuration history for the purpose of security and regulatory compliance?
Configure AWS Config with the resource types
A security operations engineer needs to implement threat detection and monitoring for malicious or unauthorized behavior. Which service should be used?
AWS GuardDuty
Which service can be used to create multiple accounts?
AWS Organizations
What is billing increment for EC2 instance?
Hour or Second depending on instance type
What service is used to move exabytes of data?
Snowmobile
