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TD Exam 4 - Short review Flashcards

1
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Does SNS prevent duplication, loss and maintain order by default?

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No

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2
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Can SNS handle thousands of messages a day

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Maybe not

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3
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Is Kinesis Data Stream appropriate for thousands of messages a day that need to be sent to EMR

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Yes

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4
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Does Kinesis Data Stream prevent duplication, loss and maintain order by default?

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Yes

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5
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Can you configure RAID for instance store volumes

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Yes

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6
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Can you configure RAID for EBS volumes

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Yes

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7
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What is RAID 0

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Use data stripping to have better performance
Distributes I/O across volumes in a tripe
If you add a volume, you get straight addition of throughput and IOPS

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8
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Can an instance have multiple instance stores

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Yes

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9
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What is RAID 1

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It is used for data mirroring

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10
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What is ACID

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Provides consistency

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11
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What is BASE

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Provides HA

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12
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Which replication type in RDS supports ACID

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REad-replica can support it

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13
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What is Amazon Elastic MapReduce

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Amazon EMR

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14
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What is needed to ensure all objects uploaded to an S3 bucket can read publicly all over the internet

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Configure S3 bucket policy to set all objects to public read
Grant public read access to the object when uploading it using S3 Console

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15
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What does CORS do in an S3 bucket

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Allows objects from one domain to be loaded and accessible ro a different domain

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16
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Can you configure an S3 bucket policy to set all objects to public read

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Yes, or set permission during upload for a specific object

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17
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Where is instance type configured for an auto-scaling group

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In launch template

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18
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Do you need to create a new version of a launch template to change instance type

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Yes, templates can’t be modified unless you create a new version

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19
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Are you restricted to us-east-1 when requesting public certificates with ACM

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No

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20
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What is Redshift spectrum

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It allows you to directly run SQL queries against unstructured data in S3

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21
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When do instances have associated DNS hostnames

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When DNS resolution and DNS hostname are enabled in VPC configuration

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22
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What is Glacier Vault

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A container for storing archives
There is such a thing as Vault Policies and Vault Lock for WORM compliance

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23
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Does AWS SSO require SAML compatibility

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Yes

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24
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What is Requester Pays

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Requester of S3 pays for access

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25
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Does Requester Pays disable anonymous access

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Yes, automatically

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26
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What are the enhanced monitoring metrics in RDS

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Includes RDS processes
OS processes

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27
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What does RDS enhanced monitoring do

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Add an agent on the instance

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28
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What is freeable memory in RDS

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How much ram is available on the instance

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29
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What are some metrics available by default with RDS

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CPU Utilization
Database Connections
Freeable memory

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30
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What is queue length for Provisioned IOPS volumes

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Length of waiting operations

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31
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What is the maximum ratio of IOPS to requested volume size

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50:1

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32
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What is the max IOPS for provisioned IOPS io1

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64k iops

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33
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What is the maximum IO size for io1 volume at 32k IOPS

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256 kiB

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34
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What impact does volume size have on IOPS queue length and value

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More GB = Better IOPS = lower queue length

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35
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What is IOPS volume queue

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number of pending IO requests for a device

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36
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What queue length should you want for a latency-sensitive app

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Low queue length

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37
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What is Amazon Application Discovery

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Used to track the migration status of your applications from the Migration Hub console

38
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What is the best way to do VM lift and shift

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AWS Application Migration Service

39
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What is the order or a resource dclaraiton in CloudFormation

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region:account:service:service id

40
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Can you automate promotion of an RDS read replica (automatic failover)

41
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How can you ensure Redshift has continuity even if there is a region-wide failure

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Enable Cross-Region snapshots in the cluster

42
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What kind of resilience does redshift have by default

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AZ, but can have multi-AZ deployment

43
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What is an advantage of taking a snapshot and terminating an RDS instance vs stopping it

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A stopped RDS instance still incurs cost of its storage

44
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Can Cloudwatch alarms restart EC2 instances by themselves

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Yes, using cloudwatch alarm actions

45
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What are Flow logs

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They are used in VPCs

46
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What is Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler

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It automatically asjusts the number of nodes in a cluster. It utilizes Auto Scaling Groups

47
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What is a Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler alternative

48
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Is there such a thing as Spot storage in EBS

49
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What is ElastiCache

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In-memory database, memcached or redis

50
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Is there a managed config rule to check IAM user access key rotation

51
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If you add a new domain to an ALB and want to redirect http traffic to https for that traffic only, do you need to create a new listener or a new ALB

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No, there can only be one listener on a specific port per ALB

52
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Where can you get information about upcoming AWS events

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AWS Personal Health Dashbord

53
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What is the metadata endpoint for EC2 instances

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http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/

54
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What is user data vs metadata at 169.254.169.254

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Metadata is information about the instance
User data is specified by user at isntance launch

55
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How does AWS License Manager work

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Makes it easier to centrally manage licenases from vendors

56
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How can you force encryption for objects in an S3 bucket

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Yes, by requiring the appropriate header

57
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Can you enforce header rules on S3 bucket policies

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Yes, that is how you enforce encryption

58
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What algorithm is used when using S3 SSE

59
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Does KMS use AES 256 for S3

60
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What are the different types of instances (in terms of optimized)

61
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Is Comprehend Medical a thing

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Yes, t is made specifically for Medical information from unstructured text

62
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Is Textract Medical a thing

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Yes, but it is not enoughto identif PHI in pdfs

63
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Textract vs Comprehend

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Textract : extract text from pdf and such
Comprehend: analyze text

64
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Does Textract have PII redaction

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Yes, but it is not suitable for PHI

65
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What is Well-Architected tool

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Automatically monitor workload status, conduct architectural reviews and check for AWS best practices

66
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What is Elastic Fabric Adapter

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A network device you attach to your EC2 instance to accelerate HPC

67
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What is Elastic Network Adapter

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It does not have os-bypass capacity like EFA

68
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How do you grant access to CF to S3 bucket that is not public

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Origin Access Identity

69
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Does AWS SSO require SAML 2.0

70
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What should you do if your identity store is not compatible with SAML 2.0

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Build a custom identity broker and use STS

71
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Where are 2 places you can upload an HTTPs certificate you got from a 3rd party

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ACM and IAM Certificate Store

72
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Is S3 suitable to upload a certificate

73
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What is IAM certificate store

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Lets you upload a certificate, but ACM is recommended

74
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What is the primary recommended service for Lift and Shift

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AWS Application Migration Service

75
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What is the first step for lift and shift

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Install AWS Replication agent on source servers

76
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What are some characteristics of FIFO SQS queues

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High throughput (not unlimited)
Exactly-once processing
FIFO delivery

77
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Are step functions an alternative to SQS

78
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What are some guarantees provided by Step Functions

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Task is never duplicated and is assigned only once

79
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Is there such a thing as predictive scaling

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Yes, it uses AI to predict load

80
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What does predictive scaling do

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It uses machine learning to predict capacity requirements based on historical data from CloudWatch

81
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What EBS is the cheapest

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Magnetic volumes

82
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What EBS provides storage with consistent and low-latency performance

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Provisioned IOPS

83
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What EBS volumes support multi-attach

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Provisioned IOPS io2 and io1

84
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What OS doesnt support OS-bypasss capavility of EFA

85
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What happens if you attach EFA to windows instance

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It acts like an Elastic Network Interface, no OS bypass feature

86
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What is ENA

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Provides traditional IP networking features

87
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What is AWS Compute Optimizer

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Helps you identify optimal resource configuration, like Lmambda memory size, EC2 instance type, etc

88
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What is the only way to have automatic failover with RDS

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Multi-AZ deployment

89
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Can you enforce license limits in AWS Licnse Manager

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