Practice 2 Flashcards
AWS supports which methods to add security to IAM users?
2 answers
- Using MFA
- Enforcing password strength and expiration
Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data?
2 answers
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon EFS
A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales
Which AWS service should they use?
AWS Aurora
Which components of the AWS Global Infrastrucure consists of one or more discrete data centres interconnected through low latency links?
Availability Zones
What is an example of a shared control between customer and AWS?
Awareness and training
How many Availability Zones should compute resources be provisioned across to achieve High-availability?
Minimum of two
One of the advantages to moving infrastructure from an on-premise data centre to the AWS Cloud is…
It allows the business to focus on business activities
What is the lowest-cost, durable storage option for retaining database backups for immediate retrieval?
Amazon S3
Which AWS IAM feature allows developers to access AWS services through AWS CLI?
Access Keys
Name a fast and reliable NoSQL database service
Amazon DynamoDB
What is an example of agility in the AWS Cloud?
Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources
Which service should a customer use to consolidate and centrally manage multiple AWS accounts?
AWS Organisations
What approach to transcoding a large number of individual video files adheres to AWS architecture principles?
Using many instances in parallel
For which auditing process does AWS have sole responsibility?
Physical security
Which feature of the AWS Cloud will support an international company’s requirement for low latency to all of it’s customers?
Gloabl reach
What is a customer’s responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?
Patching Amazon EC2 instances
A customer is using multiple AWS accounts with separate billing.
How can the customer take advantage of volume discounts with minimal impact to the AWS resources?
Use the consolidate billing feature from AWS organisations
Name two features of Amazon CloudWatch Logs?
- Real-time monitoring
- Adjustable retention
Name an AWS manged Domain Name System (DNS) web service?
Amazon Route 53
A customer is deploying a new applicaiton and needs to choose an AWS region.
Which factors should influence the customer’s decision?
- Reduced latency to users
- Data sovereignty and compliance
Which storage service can be used as a low-cost option for hosting static websites?
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Which Amazon EC2 instance pricing model can provide discounts of up to 90%?
Spot instances
Whats is AWS customer responsible for according to the AWS Shared Responsibilty model?
Data encryption
Which AWS Cloud Services can be used to run a customer-managed relational database?
Amazon EC2
NOTE: Dynamo DB is NOSQL type, not RDS
A company is looking for a scalable data warehouse solution.
Which AWS solution would meet the company’s needs?
Amazon Redshift
NOTE: Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehosue service in the cloud
Describe Elastic Load Balancing?
It distributes traffic across one or more Amazon EC2 instances
What are two valid ways for a customer to interact with AWS services?
- CLI
- SDKs
Which two AWS services can be used to serve large amounts of online video content with the lowest possible latency?
- Amazon Glacier
- Amazon CloudFront
Under the Shared Responsibility Model, what is the customer responsible for?
Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest
