Wiley CCP Flashcards
Which free, online AWS tool lets you accurately estimate the costs you would pay for the use of any combination of AWS resources?
The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
You can set up alerts that will trigger notifications when your monthly AWS costs approach a preset amount using which service?
AWS Budgets
You can closely analyze the way your account resources are being consumed and how much they’re costing by using which AWS service?
AWS Cost and Usage Reports
Which AWS service identifies insecure, inefficient, or wasteful configurations on your account?
AWS Trusted Advisor
Which AWS support plans include access to the full range of Trusted Advisor checks?
Business and Enterprise
How much would Business support cost for an account that consumed $60,000 dollars in a given month?
$4,200 (7 percent of $60,000)
Which AWS documentation resources should you consult for in-depth architectural and design guidance?
White papers
True/False: An AWS Region consists of two or more Availability Zones that connect to each other over the public internet.
False: AZs within a single Region are connected directly over a low-latency network.
How can you simplify the long-term administration of permissions for an AWS account with many users?
Assign your users to groups so you only need to edit group permissions.
Which AWS Dashboard do you use to create and manage access keys so you can administrate your resources remotely?
The Security Credentials Dashboard
How can you organize multiple related running resources into a single custom dashboard within the Management Console to make it easier to visualize and access important resources?
Using resource groups (through AWS Systems Manager)
What’s the best AWS service to use to closely monitor the health and behavior of your cloud-based applications?
AWS CloudWatch
Which AWS service lets you organize, visualize, and manage your account costs?
AWS Cost Explorer
Which AWS service offers you access to EC2 infrastructure but takes care of the provisioning invisibly, leaving you responsible only for your application code?
Elastic Beanstalk
Some EC2 instance types come with data volumes that are physically connected to the instance’s physical host. What are these volumes called?
EC2 instance store volumes
Which two AWS services provide administration interfaces for managing large Docker clusters?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS—and its Fargate subset) and Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
Which of the S3-related storage classes provides the least-expensive options?
S3 Glacier
How can you optimize your S3 storage costs and performance by automating the transfer of data between storage classes?
By enabling Lifecycle Management
Is it possible to directly connect local data archives that expect a tape backup interface with S3-based buckets?
Yes, using an AWS Storage Gateway appliance
Which S3 service class will provide greater data availability: S3 Standard-IA or S3 One Zone-IA?
S3 Standard-IA, offering 99.9 percent availability against 99.5 percent for S3 One Zone-IA
What’s the best way to increase data durability for your RDS databases?
Enable Multi-AZ to replicate your data.
What is Amazon Redshift?
A fast and scalable data warehouse service
How is the speed by which an RDS database can access its data measured?
Input/output operations per second (IOPS)
Which RDS instance class will be most cost-effective for nonproduction testing requirements where you don’t need consistent high performance?
The Burstable Performance instance class
What must be defined so that instances within a virtual private cloud (VPC) can have access to external networks?
An internet gateway
What firewall-like device can be configured at the subnet level to control network access to your instances?
A network access control list (ACL)
What firewall-like device can be configured at the instance level to control network access?
A security group
A ________ is a virtual network you define as an isolated organizing structure containing EC2 instances and other resources.
A virtual private cloud (VPC)
Is it possible to create a fast, dedicated network connection between your local infrastructure and your AWS-based resources?
Yes, using AWS Direct Connect
Is it possible to create direct links between multiple VPCs in a single or multiple accounts?
Yes, using VPC Peering
What AWS tool can automate the provisioning and launching of new resources to meet growing user demand?
AWS Auto Scaling
Which top-level category of AWS services (as organized in the Management Console) can, as a group, form an important part of your organization’s DevOps process?
Developer Tools
What AWS service can be used to automate the process of building and testing your source code?
AWS CodeBuild
Which AWS service can be used to design and automate the steps required to handle application code releases from start to deployment?
AWS CodePipeline
What, in terms of AWS deployments, is a “multitiered” environment?
Any deployment that includes multiple classes of resources. Combining front-end EC2 web servers, an RDS database instance, and an Elastic Load Balancer would be a common example.
What is Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)?
A managed service allowing you to share file system objects between EC2 instances across your AWS account and, through AWS Direct Connect or AWS VPN connections, with on-premises infrastructure
________ can help you improve application performance through in-memory data caches.
Amazon ElastiCache
What AWS service lets you use SQL queries to analyze data stored in S3 buckets?
Amazon Athena
What is the function of Amazon Kinesis?
Capturing and analyzing very large volumes of data streaming generated by multiple log, transaction, and social media sources
Which AWS service lets you set a desired account-wide configuration profile and regularly audit your account settings to ensure you’re in compliance?
AWS Config
What is AWS Systems Manager?
A single, unified interface through which you can monitor and automate the administration of resources running in multiple AWS services account-wide
_______________ is a scalable service that converts media files to formats that better fit your application’s target usage.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
What is Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML)?
A set of visualization tools and wizards designed to guide users through the creation of machine learning models
How can you efficiently run big data frameworks like Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Hive within your AWS resources?
Using Amazon EMR
What is AWS Cognito?
A tool for directly managing user sign-up and sign-in for your website or mobile apps
Is it possible to host remote Windows or Linux desktops for your organization’s users using AWS?
Yes, using Amazon WorkSpaces
_______ can be used to manage both programmatic and human-readable communications between AWS service resources and humans.
AWS Simple Notification Service
What text format does the credential report use?
csv
What is created when you make an application load balancer?
A publicly resolvable DNS hostname (for the balancer)
CLI needs what to work?
Outbound network access to port 443 and access key ID w/ secret access key
You routinely execute shell scripts on your EC2 instances. What is best service to automate this?
Systems Manager
Which feature of RDS can improve performace?
read replicas
Does RDS have auto scaling?
YES!, it has to be manually enabled
Which feature of S3 can delete objects?
object lifecycle configurations
EC2 Auto Scaling strives to maintain the number of instances defined by which of the following settings?
Desired capacity
Which EC2 Auto Scaling feature can improve cost efficiency?
Dynamic scaling policies
Which AWS service creates a temporary Docker container?
CodeBuild
Which AWS service can store information about network connections to an EC2 instance?
Cloudwatch logs. CloudWatch logs can receive and store VPC flow logs that contain information about network connections to an EC2 instance in a VPC.
Can code deploy create lambda functions?
yes
Which term describes the process of automatically testing and deploying code to production?
continuous delivery
What does a CloudFormation template contain?
Code describing AWS resources. A CloudFormation template contains code describing AWS resources. It doesn’t contain AWS CLI commands. A CloudFormation template can be used to create a stack that contains AWS resources.
You’re storing security logs in CloudTrail logs and need to retain them for at least 15 years. How can you do this? (Select TWO.)
Do nothing, as CloudTrail logs store logs indefinitely.
Export logs to S3
Where does a relational database service (RDS) instance store its databases?
Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume.
An RDS instance stores databases on an EBS volume. It stores snapshots in S3. DynamoDB is a nonrelational database service that stores data in tables that are stored on one or more partitions.
T/F each region is designed to be completely isolated from other AWS regions
True
T/F Each region is collections of VPCs
False, they are composed of 2 or more AZs. VPCs exist within accounts on per region basis