Provisioning and Monitoring

Question 1

A graphical interface to manage compute, storage, and other cloud resources

Answer 1

AWS Management Console

Question 2

A tool for automating the use of AWS services through scripts

Answer 2

AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

Question 3

Software tools and libraries that allow developers to interact with AWS resources programmatically using the developers preferred language

Answer 3

AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Question 4

Which AWS service allows you to provision and manage AWS resources by treating infrastructure as code?

Answer 4

AWS CloudFormation

Question 5

Name a configuration management service that helps you configure and operate applications in a cloud enterprise by using Puppet or Chef?

Answer 5

AWS OpsWorks

Question 6

AWS Management Console is a …

Answer 6

graphical interface to manage compute, storage, and other cloud resources

Question 7

AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a …

Answer 7

tool for managing AWS services from the command line and automate their provisioning and configuration through scripts

Question 8

AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs) are a …

Answer 8

collection of software tools and libraries that allow developers to interact with AWS resources and services programmatically using their favorite language

Question 9

What does AWS CloudFormation do?

Answer 9

CloudFormation allows you to provision and manage AWS resources using JSON and YMAL files as templates (infrastructure as code)

Question 10

What does AWS OpsWorks do?

Answer 10

OpsWorks automates the setup, configuration, and management of your applications across different lifecycle stages using managed instances of Chef, Puppet, or Stack

Question 11

Amazon’s performance monitoring service is called?

Answer 11

Amazon CloudWatch

Question 12

What does Amazon CloudWatch do?

Answer 12

Monitors performance across your AWS infrastructure (how much resources where used). Also performance alarms.

Question 13

Amazon’s service that inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations when opportunities exist to save money, to improve system availability and performance, or to help close security gaps is called?

Answer 13

AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 14

What does AWS Trusted Advisor do?

Answer 14

Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations when opportunities exist to save money, to improve system availability and performance, or to help close security gaps

Question 15

AWS IAM vs AWS Organizations

Answer 15

IAM focuses on users while Organizations focuses on accounts

Question 16

Trusted Advisor scans your AWS infrastructure and compares it to AWS best practices in which five categories?

Answer 16

1. Cost Optimization
2. Performance
3. Security
4. Fault tolerance
5. Service limits

Question 17

What three levels of action does AWS Trusted Advisor recommend?

Answer 17

No action, investigation recommended, action recommended