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Question 1

What AWS Artifact

Answer 1

a self-service audit artifact retrieval portal that provides our customers with on-demand access to AWS’ compliance documentation and AWS agreements.

Question 2

What does the AWS Storage Gateway Provide

Answer 2

It allows one to integrate on premises IT Environments with Cloud Storage

Question 3

Elastic IP Addresses don’t incur cost under what conditions

Answer 3

1. Elastic IP address is associated with an EC2 instance
2. The instance associated with the elastic ip address is running
3. the instance has only one elastic IP attached to it.

you are charged by the hour for each Elastic IP address otherwise

Question 4

Backups of any Amazon Ec2 volume are called what?

Answer 4

Snapshot

Question 5

What is Amazon Elasticache?

Answer 5

Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy and run Memcached or Redis protocol-compliant server nodes in the cloud.

Question 6

What is AWS Global Accelerator

Answer 6

CAN BE USED TO ROUTE TRAFFIC TO THE ENDPOINT THAT PROVIDES THE BEST APP PERFORMANCE FOR USERS WORLDWIDE

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that helps you improve the availability and performance of the applications that you offer to your global users

Question 7

Which feature of amazon RDS allows for the offloading of database read activity

Answer 7

Read Replicas

Question 8

What is AWS Storage Gateway

Answer 8

A hybrid storage service that enables your onprem apps to seamlessly interact with AWS cloud storage

Question 9

If you are unsure what storage platform to use you should then use what AWS storage service?

Answer 9

Simple Storage Service

Question 10

Non-explicity deny(related to IAM user roles)

Answer 10

when a new IAM user is created that the user has NO access to any AWS service. Access must be explicitly allowed via IAM permission and access policies

Question 11

AWS Certificate Manager

Answer 11

(AWS ACM) a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Socets Layer/Transport Layer Securty(SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal Connecteed Resources. SSL/TLS Certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the internet as well as resources on private network

Question 12

What is AWS Cloud Directory used for?

Answer 12

used to build cloud-native directories for organizing hierarchies of data along multiple dimensions.

Question 13

TCO

Answer 13

Total Cost of Ownership

Question 14

How are you charged with an On-Demand EC2 Instance?

Answer 14

Charged per second, based on an hourly rate and there are no termination fees

Question 15

which service can be used to monitor the health of your web server

Answer 15

Amazon 53 and Elastic Load Balancing health checks

Question 16

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Answer 16

Media transcoding in the cloud. effective way for developers and business to convert(or tanscode) media files from their source format into versions that will playt back on different devices

Question 17

AWS Cloud Watch

Answer 17

service that allows you to monitor the usage of your AWS Resources

Question 18

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Answer 18

enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and an S3 bucket

Question 19

Amazon Machine Image

Answer 19

(AMI) provides the infomration required to launch an EC2 instance, which is a virtual server in the cloud.

Question 20

which of the following AWS Security Features is associated with a subnet in a VPC and functions to filter incoming traffic requests?

Answer 20

(NACL) Network access control list acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of 1 or more subnets.

Question 21

what are factors when estimating costs of Amazon Cloudfront?

Answer 21

Data Transfer out
number and type of requests HTTP or HTTPS made
The edge location through which your content is serve

Question 22

a key benefit of accessing AWS cloud Services through an API

Answer 22

Ability to manage AWS service programmatically

Question 23

Decoupling

Answer 23

refers to breaking the application into loosely coupled components that are performing independently, where a change or a failure in one component do not impact other components

Question 24

What effects Amazon EBS(elastic Block Store) Costs

Answer 24

1. volume type
2. input/output operations per second(IOPS)
3. snapshots
4. data transfers