AWS

Question 1

Define acronym: EC2

Answer 1

Elastic Cloud Compute

Question 2

What is EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute)?

Answer 2

VMs, Linux or Windows, computational brain behind app, not limited to a single region (availability zones)

Question 3

Define acronym: ELB

Answer 3

Elastic Load Balance

Question 4

What is ELB?

Answer 4

Elastic Load Balance are the rules that allow traffic to be distributed between availability zones

Question 5

Define acronym: EBS

Answer 5

Elastic Block Storage

Question 6

What is EBS (Elastic Block Storage)?

Answer 6

Like a HD, stores persistent files and apps that are accessed often, 1GB to 1TB but must be located in same AZ

Question 7

Define acronym: S3

Answer 7

Simple Storage Service

Question 8

What is S3 (Simple Storage Service)?

Answer 8

public facing data, ex. new twitter profile pic, static content, videos, music

Question 9

IaaS

Answer 9

Infrastructure as a Service

Question 10

PaaS

Answer 10

Platform as a Service

Question 11

SaaS

Answer 11

Software as a Service

Question 12

VPC

Answer 12

Virtual Private Cloud

Question 13

IAM

Answer 13

Identity Access Management

Question 14

ECR

Answer 14

EC2 Container Registry

Question 15

What is EC2 Container Registry?

Answer 15

fully-managed Docker container registry to store, manage, deploy Docker container images

Question 16

What is Amazon Lightsail?

Answer 16

launch and manage virtual private server (VM, SSD storage, data transfer, DNS mgmt)

Question 17

What is AWS Batch?

Answer 17

easily and efficiently run 100s/1000s batch computing jobs

Question 18

What is Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 18

deploying and scaling web apps and services with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, etc on Apache, Nginx, IIS, etc

Question 19

What is AWS Direct Connect?

Answer 19

establish dedicated network connection from premises to AWS using VLANs

Question 20

What is Route 53?

Answer 20

HA and scalable DNS

Question 21

What is CloudFront?

Answer 21

global content delivery network (CDN), accelerates delivery of web, APIs, video, web assets

Question 22

What is AWS Snowmobile?

Answer 22

exbyte-scale data transfer for extremely large data to AWS, up to 100 PB per Snowmobile, 45-foot shipping container by semi-trailer truck

Question 23

What is AWS Snowball Edge?

Answer 23

100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute

Question 24

What is AWS Snowball?

Answer 24

petabyte-scale data transport solution

Question 25

What is AWS Database Migration Service?

Answer 25

source db remains fully operational during migration

Question 26

What is AWS Application Discovery Service?

Answer 26

helps system integrators plan app migration projects by auto identifying apps in on-prem data centers, dependencies, and performance profiles

Question 27

What is Amazon ElastiCache?

Answer 27

web service easy to deploy and sacle in-memory cache for web apps

Question 28

What is Amazon DynamoDB?

Answer 28

NoSQL database, consistent single-digit millisecond latency for gaming, ad-tech, IoT

Question 29

What is Amazon Aurora?

Answer 29

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database

Question 30

What is AWS Storage Gateway?

Answer 30

enables hybrid storage between on-prem and AWS

Question 31

What is Amazon Glacier?

Answer 31

low-cost storage for archiving and long-term backup

Question 32

What is Elastic File System

Answer 32

simple, scalable file storage for EC2

Question 33

EFS

Answer 33

Elastic File System

Question 34

What is Elastic Block Store?

Answer 34

persistent block storage volumes for EC2, auto replication to AZs

Question 35

EBS

Answer 35

Elastic Block Store

Question 36

What is AWS Lambda?

Answer 36

run code without provisioning or managing servers. pay only for time you consume, no charge when code not running