Acronyms

Question 1

ARN

Answer 1

Amazon Resource Name

Question 2

EKS

Answer 2

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Question 3

Grafana

Answer 3

Open-source analytics and monitoring application

Question 4

Prometheus

Answer 4

Open-source monitoring

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KMS

Answer 5

Key Management Service
+ create/manage/control keys
- doesn’t store credentials

Question 6

Secrets manager

Answer 6

manage, retrieve, and rotate
database credentials, application credentials, OAuth tokens, API keys, and other secrets

Question 7

Amazon ECR

Answer 7

Elastic Container Registry, stores Docker images
+scan on push (optional)

Question 8

CloudWatch

Answer 8

Monitor Resources and applications realtime

Install EC2 agent to capture RAM
Compatible with SNS (and not SMS)

Question 9

Amazon MQ

Answer 9

managed Message broker for ApacheMQ and RabbitMQ

Question 10

AAWS Amplify

Answer 10

build full stack applications on AWS

Question 11

DynamoDB

Answer 11

managed NoSQL
Can increase write capacity
24,000 read units per second and 3,300 writes
+ Autoscaling
DynamoDB streams can monitor DB and trigger lambda
Good for :
+Web session data
+ High-performance reads and writes for online transaction processing (OLTP)
+ Storing metadata for S3 objects

Question 12

DocumentDB

Answer 12

Managed native JSON document database (MongoDB compatible)

Question 13

Keyspaces

Answer 13

Managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database
+ scalable

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HSM

Answer 14

hardware security modules (generate and store the encryption keys)

Question 15

AWS Security Hub

Answer 15

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) service
+ security best practice checks,
+ aggregates alerts,
+ automated remediation.

Question 16

SQS

Answer 16

Simple Queue Service
+ Managed
+ Scales automatically
SQS dead-letter: Queue receiving messages that can’t be processed, great for debugging

Question 17

TTL

Answer 17

Time To Live (used in DNS)

Question 18

AMI

Answer 18

Amazon Machine Images

Question 19

Kendra

Answer 19

intelligent search service powered by machine learning.

Question 20

EC2

Answer 20

Can have roles attached
Instances:
C7g: High Compute
M6g: balanced
r6g: memory intensive application
T4g: burst CPU

Question 21

MSK

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Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

Question 22

EFS

Answer 22

Amazon Elastic File System
elastic Network File Storage (NFS, SMB)

Question 23

EBS

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Amazon Elastic Block Store
block level storage volumes (no NFS, SMB)
Single AZ
Volumes:
SSD General Purpose
SSD Provisioned IOPS
HDD Throughput Optimized
HDD Cold

Question 24

Compute Optimiser

Answer 24

Automate the collection of metrics for underutilized and underperforming compute instances

Question 25

Snow devices

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Snowball edge: 80TB Snowcone: 8 TB (HDD) or 14(SSD)

Question 26

Neptune

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Graph database

Question 27

Step Functions

Answer 27

low-code, visual workflow service +serverless orchestration service that lets you integrate with AWS Lambda +build distributed applications +automate IT and business processes +build data and machine learning pipelines

Question 28

Application Load Balancer

Answer 28

- No static IP

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Network Load Balancer

Answer 29

+ Static IP

Question 30

Gateways

Answer 30

Storage: + NFS + SMB + integrate with an on-premises Active Directory. Tape: Volume: + Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)

Question 31

Aurora

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mySQL and PostgreSQL Failover by promoting replica or creating new primary

Question 32

Fargate

Answer 32

serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine + Elastic Container Service (ECS) + Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) ECS Fargate: Easiest transition to running containers in AWS. mimic what is currently running

Question 33

Pinpoint

Answer 33

marketing campaigns

Question 34

GuardDuty

Answer 34

Continuous threat detection service + malicious activity + detailed security findings

Question 35

Security Groups

Answer 35

+ Stateful + Instance level + New ones allow all outbound, no inbound + No deny rules + Quotas on their number

Question 36

Audit manager

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+ map your compliance + automated evidence collection

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Amazon Detective

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- No realtime (can't scan for malicious activity)

Question 38

RDS

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Database Multi AZ failover by changing CNAME < 2min Not serverless

Question 39

Route 53

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Scalable DNS +"AAAA", "A" zone apex type to point to Application Load Balancer (ALB)

Question 40

SWF

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Amazon Simple Workflow Service

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DMS

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Database Migration Service + (CDC) Change data capture, replicates ongoing changes

Question 42

MGN

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Application Migration Service (MGN) Automated lift-and-shift service

Question 43

Migration Hub

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- Does not perform migration + View existing migration efforts

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SMS

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Server Migration Service

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RTO and RPO

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Recovery Time Objective, Recovery Point Objective

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AppSync

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Connect applications/services to data/events + GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs

Question 47

Personal Health Dashboard

Answer 47

Single place to learn about the availability and operations of AWS services

Question 48

EMR

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Set of open-source big data applicatios. + DynamoDB load, query, join, import/export

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NACL

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manage access to buckets and objects

Question 50

Amazon Inspector

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Automated vulnerability management continually scans AWS workloads for : +software vulnerabilities +unintended network exposure.

Question 51

AWS Artifact

Answer 51

Compliance reports