Vocab 4 Flashcards

1
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_________ is a web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics.

A

Amazon CloudWatch

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2
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____________ records API calls for your account

A

AWS CloudTrail

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3
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____________ is a web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations in accordance with AWS best practices.

A

AWS Trusted Advisor

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4
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AWS Trusted Advisor compares its findings to AWS best practices in five categories:. What are the five categories?

A

cost optimization

performance

security

fault tolerance

service limits

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5
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In _________, you can create budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations.

A

AWS Budgets

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_____________ is a tool that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

A

AWS Cost Explorer

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7
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AWS offers four different Support plans to help you troubleshoot issues, lower costs, and efficiently use AWS services. What are the four Support plans?

A
  • Basic
  • Developer
  • Business
  • Enterprise (On-Ramp)
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8
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If your company subscribes to Enterprise Support or Enterprise On-Ramp, who educates, empowers, and evolves your cloud journey across the full range of AWS services?

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The TAM (technical account manager)

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9
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____________ is a digital catalog that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors.

A

AWS Marketplace

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10
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At the highest level, the ______________ organizes guidance into six areas of focus, called Perspectives.

A

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

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11
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Each Perspective addresses distinct responsibilities. The planning process helps the right people across the organization prepare for the changes ahead.

What are the six perspectives?

A

Business

People

Governance

Platform

Security

Operations

(BPGPSO)

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12
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____________ is a digital catalog that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors. You can use this to find, test, and buy software that runs on AWS.

A

AWS Marketplace

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13
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What are the 6 most common migration strategies when migrating applications to the cloud?

A

1- Rehosting
2- Replatforming
3- Refactoring (also known as re-architecting)
4- Repurchasing
5- Retaining
6- Retiring

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14
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__________ - also known as “lift-and-shift” involves moving applications without changes.

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Rehosting

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____________ - also known as “lift, tinker, and shift,” involves making a few cloud optimizations to realize a tangible benefit. Optimization is achieved without changing the core architecture of the application.

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Replatforming

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16
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_____________ involves reimagining how an application is architected and developed by using cloud-native features. It is driven by a strong business need to add features, scale, or performance that would otherwise be difficult to achieve in the application’s existing environment

A

Refactoring

17
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______________ involves moving from a traditional license to a software-as-a-service model.

A

Repurchasing

18
Q

______________ consists of keeping applications that are critical for the business in the source environment. This might include applications that require major refactoring before they can be migrated, or, work that can be postponed until a later time.

A

Retaining

19
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_________ is the process of removing applications that are no longer needed.

A

Retiring

20
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___________ is a small, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device. It features 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, and up to 14 TB of usable storage.

A

AWS Snowcone

21
Q

AWS Snowball offers two types of devices. What are they?

A
  • Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
  • Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
22
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__________ devices are well suited for large-scale data migrations and recurring transfer workflows, in addition to local computing with higher capacity needs.

A

Snowball Edge Storage Optimized

23
Q

___________ provides powerful computing resources for use cases such as machine learning, full motion video analysis, analytics, and local computing stacks.

A

Snowball Edge Compute Optimized

24
Q

_________ is an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS.

A

AWS Snowmobile

25
Q

AWS offers ____________ to remove the difficult work from the process and empower you to build, train, and deploy ML (machine learning) models quickly.

A

Amazon SageMaker

26
Q

_____________ contains the most comprehensive set cost and usage data available, including additional metadata about AWS services, pricing, and reservations (e.g., Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs)).

A

AWS Cost & Usage Report

27
Q

___________notifies you when you’re close to a service quota value threshold

A

AWS Service Quotas

28
Q

What is support plan is this?

Customer Service & Communities - 24x7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers, and support forums.

AWS Trusted Advisor - Access to the 7 core Trusted Advisor checks and guidance to provision your resources following best practices to increase performance and improve security.

AWS Personal Health Dashboard - A personalized view of the health of AWS services, and alerts when your resources are impacted.

A

AWS Basic Support Plan

29
Q

What is support plan is this?

All Basic Support Plan +

Business hours email access to Cloud Support Associates

Unlimited cases / 1 primary contact

Case severity / response times:
General guidance: < 24 business hours
System impaired: < 12 business hours

A

AWS Developer Support Plan

30
Q

What support plan is this?

Intended to be used if you have production workloads

Trusted Advisor – Full set of checks + API access

24x7 phone, email, and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers

Unlimited cases / unlimited contacts

Access to Infrastructure Event Management for additional fee.

Case severity / response times:
General guidance: < 24 business hours
System impaired: < 12 business hours
Production system impaired: < 4 hours
Production system down: < 1 hour

A

AWS Business Support Plan (24/7)

31
Q

What support plan is this?

Intended to be used if you have production or business critical workloads

All of Business Support Plan +

Access to a pool of Technical Account Managers (TAM)

Concierge Support Team (for billing and account best practices)

Infrastructure Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews

Case severity / response times:
Production system impaired: < 4 hours
Production system down: < 1 hour
Business-critical system down: < 30 minutes

A

AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan (24/7)

32
Q

What support plan is this?

Intended to be used if you have mission critical workloads

All of Business Support Plan +

Access to a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM)

Concierge Support Team (for billing and account best practices)

Infrastructure Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews

Case severity / response times:
Production system impaired: < 4 hours
Production system down: < 1 hour
Business-critical system down: < 15 minutes

A

AWS Enterprise Support Plan (24/7)