SysOps

Question 1

D2

Answer 1

Dense Storage - File Servers, Data Warehousing, Haddop

Question 2

R4

Answer 2

Memory Optimized - Memory Intensive apps, DB’s

Question 3

M4

Answer 3

General Purpose - Application servers

Question 4

C4

Answer 4

Compute Optimized - CPU intensive App’s/DB’s

Question 5

G2

Answer 5

Graphics Intensive - Video encoding, 3D application streaming

Question 6

I2

Answer 6

High Speed Storage - NoSql DB’s, Data Warehousing

Question 7

F1

Answer 7

Field Programmable Gate Array - Hardware acceleration for your code

Question 8

T2

Answer 8

Lowest cost, general purpose - web-servers, small app servers

Question 9

P2

Answer 9

Graphics General purpose GPU - Machine learning,Bit coin mining

Question 10

X1

Answer 10

Memory Optimized - SAP, HANA, Apache Spark

Question 11

Dr McGiftPx

Answer 11

instance types

Question 12

Services that allow root access

Answer 12

EC2, EMR, Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWork

Question 13

ELB Metrics

Answer 13

SurgeQueueCount = total pending requests , SpillOverCount = total rejected requests

Question 14

2) Pilot Light *

Answer 14

A minimal version of an environment is always
running in the cloud.

Can have ENI’s with pre-configured MAC addresses

1) Establish reverse mirroring/replication from DR back to
Primary, once the primary has caught up with the
changes
2) Freeze data changes to the DR site
3) Re-point users to the Primary
4) unfreeze the changes

Question 15

Warm Standby

Answer 15

A scaled-down version of a fully functional
environment is always running in the cloud
1) Establish reverse mirroring/replication from DR back to
Primary, once the primary has caught up with the
changes
2) Freeze data changes to the DR site
3) Re-point users to the Primary
4) unfreeze the changes

Question 16

Multi-Site

Answer 16

active-active full copy that can be scaled
1) Establish reverse mirroring/replication from DR back to
Primary, once the primary has caught u with the
changes
2) Freeze data changes to the DR site
3) Re-point users to the Primary
4) unfreeze the changes

Question 17

1) Backup and Restore *

Answer 17

1) Freeze data changes to the DR site
2) Take a backup
3) Restore Backup to the Primary site
4) Re-point users to the Primary
5) unfreeze the changes

Question 18

Services with Automatic backups

Answer 18

NOT EC2

1) RDS
2) Elasticache (Redis only)
3) Redshift

Question 19

Identity Broker

Answer 19

1) Develop broker to communicate with LDAP and STS
2) Authenticate with LDAP first them STS
3) this fives temporary access to aws