Weak Topics

Question 1

Describe EMR

Answer 1

Service Offering

Distributes computational work

Clusters managed using Hadoop

Question 2

What service do all support plans have in common?

Answer 2

24x7 access to documentation and support forums

Access to features in Trusted Advisor

Question 3

Features of Trusted Advisor for all customers (Core Checks)

Answer 3

Best Practices around

Security and Performance

Question 4

Features of Trusted Advisor for Business and Enterprise Support Customers

Answer 4

7 Core Checks (security performance)

Cost monitoring

Service limit monitoring

Notifications

Programmatic Access

Question 5

What are the high level AWS hosting benefits?

Answer 5

Easy To Use

Flexible (languages etc)

Cost Effective

Reliable

Scalable and Performant

Secure

Question 6

DMS

Answer 6

Database Migration Service

Supports Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgre from on prem to cloud

Supports one time and continuous replication

Question 7

AWS storage gateway

Answer 7

On prem apps to cloud storage

Apps connect through VM or Appliance

Standard protocols (NFS, etc)

Connects to S3, Glacier, EBS

Question 8

What are the two levels of Shield and what are they for?

Answer 8

Shield Standard - free

Shield Advanced

Protection against DDoS attacks

Question 9

AWS Config

Answer 9

Captures changes in resource configuration

use lambda to check for compliance

supports resource config change notification through SNS

Continuous auditing

Question 10

What helps in Governance, compliance and risk auditing in AWS?

Answer 10

Cloudtrail event logging

Question 11

What is a NACL?

Answer 11

Network access control list

controls traffic between subnets

security groups external - NACls internal

Question 12

Difference between Elastic Beanstalk and Cloudformation

Answer 12

Cloudformation = Infrastructure as code through templates

Beanstalk auto provisions resources to support your app.

Question 13

Cloudtrail vs Cloudwatch vs Cloudwatch logs

Answer 13

Cloudwatch - monitor operational health and perfomance

CloudTrail - focus on event history

Cloudwatch Logs - Aggregates log files

Question 14

What will give you information on resource costs?

Answer 14

Trusted Advisor Dashboard

Question 15

What is the best disaster recovery model for moving to AWS cloud?

Answer 15

Using Multiple Regions

Question 16

What are the Trusted Advisor categories?

Answer 16

Cost Optimization

Performance

Security

Fault Tolerance

Question 17

What are the available methods to get data onto Glacier?

Answer 17

Glacier API

Glacier SDK

S3 Lifecycle Policies

Question 18

When EBS volumes are created, where are they replicated automatically?

Answer 18

In the same AZ

Question 19

Golden Image

Answer 19

Snapshot of

EC2 instance

RDS DB instance

EBS instance

launched from a particular state

Question 20

What is OpsWorks for?

Answer 20

Provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet

Question 21

What is AWS Artifact?

Answer 21

A portal for reviewing the AWS security and compliance report information.

Question 22

What are the two DB types compatible with Aurora?

Answer 22

MySQL and Postgres

Question 23

What is AWS service catalog?

Answer 23

Provides cloud service governance by setting configurations and constraints on resources available within units (portfolios)

Question 24

What allows request routing based on geography?

Answer 24

Route53 Geolocation Routing

Question 25

What is Cloudwatch able to monitor?

Answer 25

Network, Disk, CPU, Status (not memory)

Question 26

How many Elastic IPs per region by default?

Answer 26

5

Question 27

Security checks for EC2 instances (installed)

Answer 27

Inspector

Question 28

AWS workspaces

Answer 28

Virtual desktop infrastructure in the Cloud