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Question 1

pagination

Answer 1

The process of responding to an API request by returning a large list of records in small separate parts. Pagination can occur in the following situations:

Question 2

pagination token

Answer 2

A marker that indicates that an API response contains a subset of a larger list of records. The client can return this marker in a subsequent API request to retrieve the next subset of records until the service responds with a subset of records and no pagination token, indicating that all records have been sent.

See Also pagination.

Question 3

paid AMI

Answer 3

An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that you sell to other Amazon EC2 users on AWS Marketplace.

Question 4

paravirtual virtualization

Answer 4

See PV virtualization.

Question 5

part

Answer 5

A contiguous portion of the object’s data in a multipart upload request.

Question 6

partition key

Answer 6

A simple primary key, composed of one attribute (also known as a hash attribute).

See Also partition key.

See Also sort key.

Question 7

PAT

Answer 7

Port address translation.

Question 8

pebibyte

Answer 8

(PiB)

A contraction of peta binary byte, a pebibyte is 2^50 or 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. A petabyte (PB) is 10^15 or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. 1,024 PiB is an exbibyte.

Question 9

period

Answer 9

See sampling period.

Question 10

permission

Answer 10

A statement within a policy that allows or denies access to a particular resource. You can state any permission like this: “A has permission to do B to C.” For example, Jane (A) has permission to read messages (B) from John’s Amazon SQS queue (C). Whenever Jane sends a request to Amazon SQS to use John’s queue, the service checks to see if she has permission and if the request satisfies the conditions John set forth in the permission.

Question 11

persistent storage

Answer 11

A data storage solution where the data remains intact until it is deleted. Options within AWS include: Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and other services.

Question 12

physical name

Answer 12

A unique label that AWS CloudFormation assigns to each resource when creating a stack. Some AWS CloudFormation commands accept the physical name as a value with the –physical-name parameter.

Question 13

pipeline

Answer 13

AWS CodePipeline: A workflow construct that defines the way software changes go through a release process.

Question 14

plaintext

Answer 14

Information that has not been encrypted, as opposed to ciphertext.

Question 15

policy

Answer 15

IAM: A document defining permissions that apply to a user, group, or role; the permissions in turn determine what users can do in AWS. A policy typically allows access to specific actions, and can optionally grant that the actions are allowed for specific resources, like EC2 instances, Amazon S3 buckets, and so on. Policies can also explicitly deny access.

Auto Scaling: An object that stores the information needed to launch or terminate instances for an Auto Scaling group. Executing the policy causes instances to be launched or terminated. You can configure an alarm to invoke an Auto Scaling policy.

Question 16

policy generator

Answer 16

A tool in the IAM AWS Management Console that helps you build a policy by selecting elements from lists of available options.

Question 17

policy simulator

Answer 17

A tool in the IAM AWS Management Console that helps you test and troubleshoot policies so you can see their effects in real-world scenarios.

Question 18

policy validator

Answer 18

A tool in the IAM AWS Management Console that examines your existing IAM access control policies to ensure that they comply with the IAM policy grammar.

Question 19

presigned URL

Answer 19

A web address that uses query string authentication.

Question 20

prefix

Answer 20

See job prefix.

Question 21

Premium Support

Answer 21

A one-on-one, fast-response support channel that AWS customers can subscribe to for support for AWS infrastructure services.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/.

Question 22

primary key

Answer 22

One or two attributes that uniquely identify each item in a Amazon DynamoDB table, so that no two items can have the same key.

See Also partition key.

See Also sort key.

Question 23

primary shard

Answer 23

See shard.

Question 24

principal

Answer 24

The user, service, or account that receives permissions that are defined in a policy. The principal is A in the statement “A has permission to do B to C.”

Question 25

private content

Answer 25

When using Amazon CloudFront to serve content with an Amazon S3 bucket as the origin, a method of controlling access to your content by requiring users to use signed URLs. Signed URLs can restrict user access based on the current date and time and/or the IP addresses that the requests originate from.

Question 26

private IP address

Answer 26

A private numerical address (for example, 192.0.2.44) that networked devices use to communicate with one another using the Internet Protocol (IP). All EC2 instancess are assigned two IP addresses at launch, which are directly mapped to each other through Network Address Translation (NAT): a private address (following RFC 1918) and a public address. Exception: Instances launched in Amazon VPC are assigned only a private IP address.

Question 27

private subnet

Answer 27

A VPC subnet whose instances cannot be reached from the internet.

Question 28

product code

Answer 28

An identifier provided by AWS when you submit a product to AWS Marketplace.

Question 29

properties

Answer 29

See resource property.

Question 30

property rule

Answer 30

A JSON-compliant markup standard for declaring properties, mappings, and output values in an AWS CloudFormation template.

Question 31

Provisioned IOPS

Answer 31

A storage option designed to deliver fast, predictable, and consistent I/O performance. When you specify an IOPS rate while creating a DB instance, Amazon RDS provisions that IOPS rate for the lifetime of the DB instance.

Question 32

pseudo parameter

Answer 32

A predefined setting, such as AWS:StackName that can be used in AWS CloudFormation templates without having to declare them. You can use pseudo parameters anywhere you can use a regular parameter.

Question 33

public AMI

Answer 33

An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that all AWS accounts have permission to launch.

Question 34

public data set

Answer 34

A large collection of public information that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. Amazon stores public data sets at no charge to the community and, like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they use for their own applications. These data sets currently include data from the Human Genome Project, the U.S. Census, Wikipedia, and other sources.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets.

Question 35

public IP address

Answer 35

A pubic numerical address (for example, 192.0.2.44) that networked devices use to communicate with one another using the Internet Protocol (IP). EC2 instances are assigned two IP addresses at launch, which are directly mapped to each other through Network Address Translation (NAT): a private address (following RFC 1918) and a public address. Exception: Instances launched in Amazon VPC are assigned only a private IP address.

Question 36

public subnet

Answer 36

A subnet whose instances can be reached from the internet.

Question 37

PV virtualization

Answer 37

Paravirtual virtualization. Allows guest VMs to run on host systems that do not have special support extensions for full hardware and CPU virtualization. Because PV guests run a modified operating system that does not use hardware emulation, they cannot provide hardware-related features such as enhanced networking or GPU support.

See Also HVM virtualization.