Vocab 2

Question 1

What are the 4 Business Factors when Selecting a Region?

Answer 1

1- Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
2- Proximity to your customers
3- Feature Availability of services within a region
4- Pricing

Question 2

What is a single data center or a group of data centers within a Region?

Answer 2

Availability Zone

Question 3

What is a site that Amazon CloudFront uses to store cached copies of your content closer to your customers for faster delivery?

Answer 3

Edge Location

Question 4

What does API stand for?

Answer 4

Application Programming Interface

Question 5

What is it called when AWS will basically install a fully operational mini Region, right inside your own data center?

Answer 5

AWS Outposts

Question 6

What is a web-based interface for accessing and managing AWS services?

You can quickly access recently used services and search for other services by name, keyword, or acronym. It includes wizards and automated workflows that can simplify the process of completing tasks.

Answer 6

AWS Management Console

Question 7

What enables you to control multiple AWS services directly from the command line within one tool? You can use this tool to make actions scriptable and repeatable.

Answer 7

AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

Question 8

What is this?

_________ make it easier for you to use AWS services through an API designed for your programming language or platform. It enables you to use AWS services with your existing applications or create entirely new applications that will run on AWS.

Answer 8

software development kits (SDKs)

Question 9

What is this?

You provide code and configuration settings, and it deploys the resources necessary to perform the following tasks:

• Adjust capacity
• Load balancing
• Automatic scaling
• Application health monitoring

Answer 9

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Question 10

What provisions your resources in a safe, repeatable manner, enabling you to frequently build your infrastructure and applications without having to perform manual actions?

It determines the right operations to perform when managing your stack and rolls back changes automatically if it detects errors.

Answer 10

AWS CloudFormation

Question 11

What is a content delivery service that uses a network of edge locations to cache content and deliver content to customers all over the world?

When content is cached, it is stored locally as a copy. This content might be video files, photos, webpages, and so on.

Pricing is different across different geographic regions

Answer 11

Amazon CloudFront

Question 12

What is a service that lets you to establish a dedicated private connection between your data center and a VPC?

Answer 12

AWS Direct Connect

Question 13

What contains resources that need to be accessible by the public, such as an online store’s website?

Answer 13

Public subnets

Question 14

What contains resources that should be accessible only through your private network, such as a database that contains customers’ personal information and order histories?

Answer 14

Private subnets

Question 15

A ______ is a section of a VPC that can contain resources such as Amazon EC2 instances.

Answer 15

Subnet

Question 16

A ________ is a unit of data sent over the internet or a network.

Answer 16

Packet

Question 17

What lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define?

Answer 17

VPC (Amazon Virtual Private Cloud)

Question 18

What creates a VPN connection between the VPC and the internal corporate network?

Answer 18

Virtual private gateway

Question 19

What performs STATELESS packet filtering. They remember nothing and check packets that cross the subnet border each way: inbound and outbound?

Answer 19

Network ACLs

Question 20

What performs STATEFUL packet filtering. They remember previous decisions made for incoming packets?

Answer 20

Security groups

Question 21

DNS resolution involves a customer DNS resolver communicating with a company DNS server.

What does DNS stand for?

Answer 21

Domain Name System (DNS) resolution.

Question 22

What is defined as a DNS web service and gives developers and businesses a reliable way to route end users to internet applications hosted in AWS?

Answer 22

Amazon Route 53

Question 23

What connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS (such as Amazon EC2 instances and load balancers)? It can route users to infrastructure outside of AWS.

Answer 23

Amazon Route 53

Question 24

_________ has the ability to manage the DNS records for domain names. You can register new domain names directly. You can also transfer DNS records for existing domain names managed by other domain registrars. This enables you to manage all of your domain names within a single location.

Answer 24

Amazon Route 53

Question 25

What does the “Principle of Least Privilege” refer to?

Answer 25

You should grant your users only the permissions they need when they need them and nothing more.

Question 26

_________ is the AWS feature that provides an additional level of security above the default authentication mechanism of usernames and passwords

Answer 26

Amazon MFA

Question 27

This service can help protect your web applications from SQL injection and other vulnerabilities in your application code

Answer 27

AWS WAF (AWS Web Application Firewall)

Question 28

An organization needs to analyze and process a large number of data sets. Which AWS-Managed Service should they use?

Answer 28

Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

Question 29

A company is developing a new application using a microservices framework. The new application is having performance and latency issues. Which AWS Service should be used to troubleshoot these issues?

Answer 29

AWS X-Ray