Udemy Practice Exam 1 Flashcards by Mohamed Tleis

Name 3 global services

Amazon CloudFront
AWS IAM
Amazon Route 53

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What are the allowed penetration testing?

Customers can carry on Penetration Testing on 8 services:

EC2 instances, NAT gateways, Elastic Load balancers
Amazon RDS
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Aurora
Amazon API Gateways
Amazon Lambda & Lamda Edge
Amazon Lightsail resources
Amazon Elastic Bean Stalk env.

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AWS-managed VS. Customer managed services example

AWS-managed: Amazon RDS, Dynamo DB, Redshift, WorkSpaces, CloudFront, CloudSearch, MapReduce
Customer-managed: EC2, VPC, IAM

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The 2 VPN services?

AWS Site-to-site VPN

AWS Client VPN

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What is a subnet?

Range of IP addresses within a VPC

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What is EFS short for?

Elastic File System

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What does EFS provide?

Massively parallel shared access to thousands of EC2 instances.

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What instances can use the storage on an EBS?

EC2 & RDS

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What is Amazon instance store?

Temporary storage for EC2.

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What is EMR?

Elastic MapReduce, a big-data platform to run Hadoop, Apache Spark, Hive ,

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What is a monolithic architecture?

Runs tightly-coupled components as a single application.

its opposite to microservices architecture.

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What does an Access Key consist of?

Access Key ID + Secret Access Key

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Two services that helps dealing with ‘a Single point of Failure’?

Auto-Scaling

ELB

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Services that deals with failure?

ELB
Route 53
Replace unhealthy nodes:
  - Auto-scaling
  - EC2 auto-recovery
  - AWS OpsWorks
  - AWS BeanStalk

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What is ECR?

Elastic Container Registry

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Amazon Athena?

Uses SQL to analyze S3 data.

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Deploy IBM MQ (or any popular service) easily?

Using AWS Quick Start reference deployment

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What is OpsWorks?

Configuration management service with managed instances of Puppet & Chef.

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What are Puppet & Chef?

Automation Platforms. Uses code to automate server configurations.

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service with high transfer video streaming?

CloudFront

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What is CloudFront?

Fast Content Delivery Network (CDN)

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What is CloudFormation?

Automated provision of resources via code/text file

What is Kinesis Video Streams

Secure video streaming from IoT devices. For analytics, ML , playback

What is SNS?

Simple Notification Service, pub/sub messaging service.

What is AWS Organisations used for?

To group AWS accounts (not IAM users). | Helps manage Billing, central access, compliance & security & share resources

How to view billing activities for the past month?

AWS Cost & Usage Reports.

What is Pricing Calculator used for?

Estimate monthly costs based on usage data.

Personal Health Dashboard info?

- Personalised view of AWS service health. | - Detailed throubleshooting guidance to address events impacting your resources.

Where to check for application vulnerabilities?

Amazon Inspector

Details about services?

AWS Service Health Dashboard

Do you pay startup fee for on-demand instances?

What does SNOW Ball Provides?

- Built in capabilities that allow customers to process data locally - Secure transfer of data in&out of the cloud.

Services that offer Notification when billing exceeds threshold?

- CloudWatch triggers SNS alarm | - Budgets Service alerts

Amazon Connect Service

Cloud-based contact center service.

Who to contact in case of malicious activities?

AWS Abuse team

Who to contact for assistance with billing and account services?

AWS Concierge team

Shortest reservation period of a reserved instance?

1 year

What instances can be used to isolate at the host hardware level from instances of other AWS accounts?

Dedicated Instances

Trusted Advisor offer five recommendations

- Optimisation - Security - Fault tolerance - Performance - Service limits

What Support plan enable Concierge support team?

Enterprise

Who to contact if you have a major large-scale event (product or application launching, Infrastructure migration, marketing events)

Infrastructure event Management IEM engineer. (Needs Business / Enterprise support plan)

Professional services firms that help customers design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on AWS

AWS Consulting Partners

What you get if you set up consolidation of 5 accounts under 1 master account?

Volume discount

What is the most effective instance type for millions of thumbnails , but continuous processing is not required.

Spot instances.

Hybrid storage service, where on-premise apps can use storage on the cloud

Storage Gateway

Manage Agreements with AWS?

Artifact

AWS Certificate Manager does what?

provides SSL/TLS certificates

Service to manage Infrasturcutre as code?

CloudFormation

What is SES?

Simple Email Service

Consolidated billing for several AWS accounts of which one has purchased reserved instances. What is the benefit?

All accounts receive the hourly cost benefits of the reserved instance.

Whose responsibility is the VPC management?

Customer

SQS?

Simple Queue Service

S3 provides unlimited storage for any type of data

Incorrect

S3 scales manually to store any data?

Correct, any data from anywhere