Notebook Notes Flashcards

1
Q

An Auto Scaling group can use an EC2 system health check to determine whether an instance is healthy. What other type of health check can it use?

A

ELB

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2
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Which CloudFront distribution type requires you to provide a media player?

A

RTMP

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3
Q

Which of the following Relational Database Service (RDS) features can help you achieve a monthly availability of 99.95 percent?

A

Multi AZ

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4
Q

Can CodeDeploy deploy a website to S3?

A

NO

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5
Q

What type of AWS Systems Manager document can take a snapshot of an EC2 instance?

A

Automation document

Wrong answer is command document. Command document meant to runs commands on an EC2 instance.

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6
Q

Cloudfront flow summary

A

Distribution (config) –> Origin (content) –> Edge Location

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7
Q

How is DynamodDB Architected?

A

SSDs, partitioned across multiple AZs

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8
Q

What does RDS use for storage?

A

EBS

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9
Q

Which of the following Route 53 routing policies can return set of randomly ordered values?

A

Multivalue answer

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10
Q

Can you set security group rule to deny access to unused ports?

A

No, because security groups deny any traffic that is not explicitly allowed.

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11
Q

S3 versioning supports what concept of security?

A

Data integrity

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12
Q

OpsWorks service which uses chef recipes

A

OpsWorks Stacks

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13
Q

Can you have a private S3 bucket as a Cloudfront distribution?

A

NO

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14
Q

Can an Ec2 instance be used as a Cloudfront distribution?

A

YES

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15
Q

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

A

converts media files

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16
Q

security credentials dashboard

A

create and manage access keys

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17
Q

well architected pillars

A

reliability, performance efficiency, security, cost optimization, operational excellence

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18
Q

Which acct types get all checks from Trusted Advisor?

A

developer, business, enterprise

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19
Q

Cost and Usage Reports

A
  • can generatae detailed spreadsheet
  • places reports in S3
  • works with Quicksick to turn reports into graphs
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20
Q

RDS traits

A
  • stored on EBS volume
  • stores snapshots in S3
  • auto backup
  • auto scaling available
  • read replicas for better performance
  • multi-AZ for better availability
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21
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Cloudtrail Logs

A
  • stored indefinitely

- can be exported to S3 bucket

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22
Q

neptune

A

graph database

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23
Q

Security group

A
  • set at instance level

- default deny

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24
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AZ

A

one or more data centers in a region

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25
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Glacier

A
  • 40TB max
  • Vault created in console
  • charge for storage and egress
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26
Q

Redshift Spectrum

A

analyze data in S3

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27
Q

Buckets

A
  • resides in target region but not VPC
  • security via bucket policies, user policies, ACLs
  • no data limit
  • versioning necessary to delete
  • never moves objects b/t regions, only copies
28
Q

Cloudformation hierarchy

A

code –> template –> stack –>AWS Resource

29
Q

Golden Image

A

snapshot of AWS resource like EBS, RDS, EC2…super fast startup times

30
Q

Storage Gateway types

A
  • File: NFS and SMB protocols
  • Volume: iSCSI, stored and cached versions
  • Tape: iSCSI, uses tape backup
31
Q

AWS Inspector

A
  • auditor
  • compliance improvement
  • scheduled assessments (not realtime)
  • rules packages available
32
Q

AWS Shield

A

DDOS protection, can reside inside or out of VPC

  • auto configured for some services like R53 and Cloudfront
  • free and advanced tiers available
33
Q

WAF

A

protects against common exploits, attach to Cloudfront or ALB

34
Q

SWF

A

Simple Workflow Service, coordinate across distributed app components

35
Q

VPN Cloudhub

A

allow remote sites to communicate via VPN

36
Q

Glue

A

load data from S3, transform it, move it to a destination

37
Q

subnet

A

tied to single AZ

38
Q

Quickstart

A

Cloudformation Templates

39
Q

regional edge locations

A

cached content for less popular/used things

40
Q

What is not cacheable in Cloudfront?

A

EBS and RDS

41
Q

GuardDuty

A

Like an actual guard on duty. real time monitoring, detects anomalies

42
Q

Cloud HSM

A

hardware security module, generates keys in the cloud

43
Q

how many AZs in AWS total?

A

69

44
Q

how many regions in AWS total?

A

22

45
Q

how many countries served by AWS?

A

190

46
Q

which region has al the latest services?

A

us east 1

47
Q

what is billing interval for EC2?

A

by hour or minute depending on instance type

48
Q

AWS Connect

A

call center enablement

49
Q

AWS workdocs

A

sharepoint

50
Q

AWS chime

A

Slack

51
Q

AWS Pinpoint

A

Mailchimp

52
Q

Macie

A

detects important data in S3 (SSN, CCN, Etc.) and reports it

53
Q

ALB

A

layer 7 of OSI

  • routing rules
  • attach to WAF
54
Q

NLB

A

layer 4 of OSI

-tcp/tls traffic

55
Q

subnet and endpoints are configured via

A

VPC

56
Q

EBS and ELB are configured via

A

EC2

57
Q

Media Connect

A

latest version of Elastic Transcoder

58
Q

Consolidated billing benefit

A

potential to go into next pricing tier (lower costs per unit of consumption) by consolidating accounts

59
Q

System impaired response time

A

< 4 hours (business and enterprise only)

60
Q

System down response time

A

< 1 hour (business and enterprise only)

61
Q

Critical system down response time

A

< 15 minutes (enterprise only)

62
Q

RI Types

A
  1. standard
  2. convertible
  3. scheduled
63
Q

RI pricing determined by what?

A
  1. term
  2. class type
  3. payment option (all upfront, partial upfront, no upfront)
64
Q

Free tier Cloudfront limit?

A

50GB

65
Q

AWS Budget types

A
  1. cost budget
  2. usage budget
  3. reservation budget