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TD Exam 3 - Short review Flashcards

1
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Does Fargate have ephemeral storage by default

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Yes, 20 GiB

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2
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Can you use any docker image in Lambda

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No, you have to refactor the code and build app from AWS-provided base image

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3
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Is there downtime when using AWS Database Migration Service

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There is virtually none.

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4
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Are ongoing changes replicated when using Database Migration Service

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Yes

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5
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Does taking a snapshot to migrate a database entail downtime

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Yes

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6
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Can you change an Aurora instance class to serverless

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No

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7
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Are you billed when your on-demand EC2 instance is preparing to hibernate with a “stopping” state

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Yes

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8
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Are you billed when your on-demand EC2 is in “pending” state

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No

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9
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Are you billed when your reserved instance is in “Terminated” state

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Yes

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10
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Are you billed when your Spot instance is preparing to stop with a “stopping” state

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No

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11
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Can you have a retention period of 90 days for RDS automated backups

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No, max is 35 days

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12
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Can you configure RDS to automatically export a backup to S3 customer-managed bucket

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No, this has to be done manually

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13
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What should you use to have an RDS backup with 90 days retention policy

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AWS Backup

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14
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What is S3 Glacier expedited retrieval

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Allows you to access Glacier data rapidly (1-5 mins for below 250 MB)

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15
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What is provisioned retrieval capacity for S3

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It ensures that capacity for expedited retrieval is available when you need it

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16
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What is the capacity of an expedited retrieval unit

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3 expedited retrieval every five minutes and 150 MB/s

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17
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What is the length of bulk retrieval

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5-12 hours

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18
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What is active-passive failover

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When you want the secondary to be on standby

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19
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What is active-active failover

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When you want all of your resources to be available the majority of the time

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20
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Can you have active-active failover with one primary and one secondary

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No

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21
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Can you use healthchecks with R53 weighted routing

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Yes

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22
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What happens when you use Healthcheck with R53 weighted routing

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If a selected record is unhealthy, the process of selection is repeated until a healthy record is selected

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23
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Is it true that EC2 instances in a private subnet can communicate with the internet only if they have an elastic IP

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No, it can also have a public IP via a NAT instance or NAT gateway

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24
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What is every subnet created automatically associated with

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The main route table of the VPC

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25
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What makes a subnet public

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If it’s traffic is routed to an internet gateway

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26
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What is the allowed block sizes for a VPC

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/16 (65536 IPs and /28 (16 IPs)

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27
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Which is more cost-effective, Parameter Store or Secrets Manager?

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Parameter store

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28
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What should you use if you are storing mostly application parameters, Parameter Store or Secrets Manager?

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Parameter Store

29
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Are you still billed for a stopped reserved instance

30
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What should you do to avoid being billed from a no-longer needed Reserved instance

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Terminate it
If it is still running after reservation term, you get charged on-demand
If it is only stopped, it could be started up again
Also, you would be charged if you had Elastic IP adresses

31
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Can you sell EC2 reservations

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Yes, using the AWS Reserved Instance Marketplace

32
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What is AWS Glue job bookmarking

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It is a mechanism that allows AWS Glue to keep track of where a job is left off in case it gets interrupted or fails for any reason

33
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How does Glue Job bookmarking work

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By storing the state of a job in a data store independant from the job itself

34
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What is instance hibernation

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Allows you to pause and resume instances, reduces startup time

35
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What do you pay for when an instance is in hibernation

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EBS volumes and Elastic IP

36
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How do you enable hibernation for an existing ec2 instance

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You have to migrate your app to a new EC2 instance

37
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Can you enable or disable hibernation on an instance after it has been created

38
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Why would requests fail when you use the EC2 API to launch 50 instances in an AZ

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There is a vCPU-based on-demand instance limit per region

39
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How do you increase the limit of EC2 instances you can launch in a region

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Submit a limit increase form to AWS to increase the vCPU-based limit per region

40
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What is Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

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Fully managed, HA, in-memory cache for dynamodb that delivers up to 10x performance improvement

41
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Is Auto-scaling enabled by default in DynamoDB

42
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How do you increase performance of a serverless app based on Dynamodb, API Gateway and lambda

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Turn on caching (API Gateway)
Enable DynamoDB global replication
Enable DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) and ensure Auto Scaling is enabled and increase maximum provisioned reand and write capacity

43
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What is AWS Transit Gateway

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It provides a hub and spoke design for connecting VPCs and onprem networks

44
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Can VPN provide consistent and dedicated access to onprem network

45
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If a company has DX connection and wants its AWS accounts to have consistent and dedicated access to its network services, what should it do?

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Create new DX Gateway and integrate it with existing DX Connection
Set up Transit Gateway between AWS accounts and associate it with Direct Connect gateway

46
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What is Firehose used for

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Load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools

47
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What is AppSync used for

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It makes it easy to build collaborative apps that keep shared data updated in RT

48
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What is CReationPOlicy used for in CloudFormation

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Prevent a resource status from reaching create complete until success signals received (or timeout)

49
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How do you send a success signal with CloudFormation

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cfn-signal helper script

50
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What do you do to ensure read requests are load balanced between read replicas in Aurora

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Use built-in reader endpoint

51
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Which is cheaper, interface endpoint or gateway endpoint

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Gateway endpoint

52
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What do you pay for when using a gateway endpoint

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No additional charge, you still pay standard charges for data transfer and resource usage

53
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What do you pay for when using interface endpoint

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Hourly rate for every provisioned Interface endpoint + standard rates

54
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What should you do to increase disk space without impacting performance in RDS

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Modify db instance settings to enable storage autoscaling

55
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Is there downtime when using RDS autoscaling

56
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What is a potential downside of manually increasing allocated db instance storage for RDS

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Might cause performance degradation during the change

57
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How do you enforce different permissions to IAM users that do not have MFA

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You can use an IAM policy

58
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What happens to EBS root volumes by default when an instance is terminated

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They are deleted

59
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How can you prevent EBS root volume deletion on instance termination

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Set DeleteOnTermination attribute of EBS volumes

60
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What is SNI Custom SSL

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Allows multiple domains to serve SSL over same IP

61
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When can you use an IAM policy to allow access to KMS key

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If key policy explicitly allows it

62
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What is AWS Cost Explorer

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Service that helps ou visualize, understand and analyze AWS costs and usage

63
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What should you use if you want to programmatically query cost and usage data

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Cost Explorer API

64
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How long are data records kept for in Kinesis by default

65
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What is the maximum data retention period for kinesis

66
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What is a limitation when running lambda inside a VPC

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It will need an appropriate number of subnet IPs and ENIs

67
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What kind of exception will you get if your lambda inside a subnet runs out of IP or ENI

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EC2ThrottleException

68
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What is an Elastic Fabric Adapter

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Network device to accelerate HPC and machine learning applications

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