Section 9.5 - 13.5 Flashcards
What is the difference between QLDB and Amazon Managed Blockchain?
There is NO decentralization component in QLDB, in accordance to financial regulation rules
I want a service to utilize Hyperledger Fabric or Ethereum, which service do I use?
Amazon Managed Blockchain
T/F - Amazon Managed Blockchain is a decentralized blockchain
True
What is AWS Glue?
A managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service
What is the name of a central repository to store structural and operational metadata for data assets in AWS Glue?
Glue Data Catalog
Which AWS serverless service can use machine learning-powered business intelligence to create interactive dashboards such as business analytics?
QuickSight
This in-memory cache for DynamoDB provides up to a 10x performance improvement
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
I want to run Docker containers on AWS, what 3 features can I use to accomplish this?
ECS (Elastic Container Service), Fargate, or the Lambda Container Image
For the Lambda Container Image to run Docker containers it must run the:
Lambda Runtime API
Name it: This is an event-driven service that may be chosen over an EC2 instance for certain company needs
AWS Lambda
You want to build a serverless HTTP API to use with DynamoDB, how do you go about this?
Use Amazon API Gateway to proxy requests from the client, send them to Lambda functions to perform CRUD actions on DynamoDB
Who should use Lightsail? In the exam Lightsail will almost always be the wrong answer except on this specific instance:
A client with no cloud experience that needs to get started quickly with low/predictable pricing
Lambda billing is based on ___ ________ and _________ _____
per request and compute time
When will CloudFormation be used?
When we have infrastructure as code or when we need to repeat architecture between different environments, regions, or AWS accounts
What is the advantage of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) when used in conjunction with CloudFormation?
You can define the cloud infrastructure using a familiar language
Beanstalk has a health agent on each EC2 instance which will push metrics to __________
CloudWatch
This AWS service can upgrade your EC2 instances, applications, and On-Premises Servers from version 1 to version 2 from a single interface
AWS CodeDeploy
This AWS service is part of the orchestration layer, for CICD
AWS CodePipeline
This AWS service is used as a place to store code dependencies
AWS CodeArtifact
it’s also used as an Artifact management system
What is AWS’ Cloud IDE?
AWS Cloud9
You want to patch and entire fleet of instances or on-premises servers OR you want to run a command consistently across all your servers. Which service can do this?
AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
Anytime you see CDN on the exam, what should you think?
CloudFront
_________ is great for static content that must be available everywhere, whereas __ ______ ______ __________ is for dynamic content that needs to be available at low-latency across regions
CloudFront; S3 Cross Region Replication
These are server racks installed on-premises that mirror AWS architecture
AWS Outposts
