Key Terms

Question 1

A document that defines who can access a particular bucket or object. Each bucket and object in Amazon S3 has an ACL. The document defines what each type of user can do, such as write and read permissions.

Answer 1

access control list (ACL)

Question 2

The combination of an access key ID (for example, AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE) and a secret access key (for example, wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY). You use access keys to sign API requests that you make to AWS.

Answer 2

Access Key

Question 3

A language for writing documents (specifically, policies (p. 737)) that specify
who can access a particular AWS resource (p. 741) and under what conditions.

Answer 3

Access Policy Language

Question 4

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (p. 698) might suspend processes for Auto Scaling
group (p. 705) that repeatedly fail to launch instances.

Answer 4

Administrative Suspension

Question 5

An item that watches a single metric over a specified time period and starts an
Amazon SNS (p. 702) topic (p. 750) or an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (p. 698) policy (p. 737) if the value of the metric crosses a threshold value over a predetermined number of time periods.

Answer 5

Alarm

Question 6

A web service that you can use to configure automatic scaling for AWS resources beyond Amazon EC2, such as Amazon ECS services, Amazon EMR clusters, and DynamoDB tables.

Answer 6

Application Auto Scaling

Question 7

The location where your customers manage the Amazon DevPay products they’ve purchased.

Answer 7

Application Billing

Question 8

Encryption (p. 722) that uses both a public key and a private key.

Answer 8

Asymmetric Encryption

Question 9

Encryption (p. 722) that provides confidentiality, data integrity, and authenticity assurances of the encrypted data.

Answer 9

Authenticated Encryption

Question 10

A representation of multiple EC2 instance (p. 721)s that share similar characteristics, and that are treated as a logical grouping for the purposes of instance scaling and management.

Answer 10

Auto Scaling Group

Question 11

distinct location within a Region (p. 740) that’s insulated from failures in other
Availability Zones, and provides inexpensive, low-latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same Region.

Answer 11

Availability Zone