AWS Well Architected Framework

Question 1

AWS 5 Pillars

Answer 1

Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization

Question 2

Operational Excellence

Answer 2

Operation as code
Anticipate failures

Question 3

Security Design Principles

Answer 3

Traceability and secure data

Question 4

Reliability

Answer 4

Recover from failures
-test recovery procedures
-auto scaling to increase capacity as needed

Question 5

Performance

Answer 5

Serverless architecture

Question 6

Cost Optimization

Answer 6

Cloud financial management w/ consumption model

Analyze and attribute expenditure

Question 7

hypervisor

Answer 7

manages virtual infrastructure (Host and guest systems)

Question 8

containers

Answer 8

environment in OS w/ app(s) and their dependencies

Question 9

name of AWS Containers

Answer 9

Amazon Elastic Container Service

Question 10

Root Account

Answer 10

Account with unrestricted access

Question 11

Root Account distinctives (to other accts in AWS)

Answer 11

• no IAM policy
• can change support plan, payment and killing
• close other accounts
• can sign up for GovCloud
• Can tranfer route 53 domain to another acct
• Can create AWS-created X.509 signing certificate

Question 12

AWS VPC acronym

Answer 12

AWS Virtual Private Clouds

Question 13

What are AWS VPCs

Answer 13

virtual network service that emulates traditional isolated network

Question 14

Amazon Machine Images

Answer 14

Includes:
root vol. template or elastic Blocks Storage

permissions to accts that launch AMI instances

specify attached volumes