AWS Cloud Practioner Flashcards by Gaylon Stanfield

Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

A managed AWS Docker registry service.
Amazon ECR is a regional service.
ECR supports Docker Registry HTTP API V2 allowing you to use Docker CLI commands or your preferred Docker tools in maintaining your existing development workflow.
ECR stores both the containers you create and any container software you buy through AWS Marketplace.

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Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service)

*A container management service to run, stop and manage Docker containers on a cluster.

*ECS can be used to create a consistent deployment and build experience, manage, and scale batch and Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) workloads, and build sophisticated application architectures on a microservices model.

*Amazon ECS is a regional service

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This is a “Push” Service
A web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud. SNS follows the “publish-subscribe” (pub-sub) messaging paradigm, with notifications being delivered to clients using a “push” mechanism rather than to periodically check or “poll” for new information and updates.

Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service)

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______ is AWS’s digital user engagement service that enables AWS customers to effectively communicate with their end users and measure user engagement across multiple channels including email, Text Messaging (SMS) and Mobile Push Notifications.

Amazon PinPoint

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Among the following payment options, which of the following can you choose when you purchase a Standard or Convertible Reserved Instance? (Select TWO.)

Parital Payment
Partial Upfront Payment

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What service allows you to create alarms that notify you when EC2 CPU Utilization thresholds are breached?

CloudWatch

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A startup plans to build a data lake using Amazon S3 as the primary storage platform. Which of the following options would incur costs? (Select TWO.)

Egress data to the internet.
Setting up S3 lifecycle policies.

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A company has noticed that whenever they enter the domain name of their Application Load Balancer (ALB) on a browser, they cannot reach one of their EC2 web servers behind the ALB. Which of the following should you first check to gain more insight on the issue?

ELB Health Check

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Which of the following statements is true for AWS CloudTrail?

When you create a trail in the AWS Management Console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions by default

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Which type of Elastic Load Balancer allows you to forward the incoming request to a target group with a Lambda function as a target?

Application Load Balancer

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Which of the following practices demonstrate operational excellence in AWS cloud? (Select TWO.)

Deploy small, incremental changes to your production servers using AWS CodeDeploy
Perform monthly game days on your AWS environment

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Which service in AWS supports various business intelligence tools such as Apache Spark so that you may perform data transformation workloads (ETL) and analytics at a low cost?

Amazon EMR

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Which of the following services allows you to purchase Reserved Instances? (Select TWO.)

RDS & EC2

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Which of the following is a serverless compute service of AWS?

AWS Lambda

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This is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.

Amazon Athena

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This is a scalable NoSQL database service of AWS

Amazon Dynamo DB

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Which type of EC2 instance is the most suitable and cost-effective if the customer will be running mission-critical workloads continuously for a whole year?

Reserved Instance

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This instance Type is for
– Applications with steady state usage
– Applications that may require reserved capacity
– Customers that can commit to using EC2 over a 1 or 3 year term to reduce their total computing costs

Reserved Instance

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Which business intelligence tool is offered by Amazon Web Services and allows users to create and publish interactive dashboards and reports easily?

Amazon Quicksight

Which of the following is true about the enhanced technical support response times of the Enterprise support plan in AWS? (Select TWO.)

Provides a 15-minute response time support if your business-critical system goes down
Provides a 1-hour response time support if your production system goes down

A company intends to utilize Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions as their primary compute resources in the long term. The company wants to use these compute resources for at least 3 years at the cheapest cost.

Compute Savings Plans

Which of the following AWS services are used to secure your VPC network? (Select TWO.)

Security group
Network ACL

What is the primary reason why you should be using an elastic load balancer for a website with high activity?

ELBs can distribute traffic equally to your backend targets to handle the incoming traffic load

A company is planning to deploy its high-frequency trading (HFT) application which will store constantly changing financial data in AWS and require low latency access. Which AWS services below should you use? (Select TWO.)

RDS and EFS

Which of the following capabilities of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) are under the Governance perspective? (Select TWO)

Data Curation, Data Governance

Which of the following provides you access to Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations based on your past usage and indicate potential opportunities for savings as compared to On-Demand usage?

AWS Cost Explorer

Which of the following is the most cost-effective service to use if you want to coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows?

Step Functions

This Gives you the option to reserve a DB instance for a one or three-year term and in turn receive a significant discount compared to the On-Demand Instance pricing for the DB instance.

RDS Reserved Instances

How can your RDS production instances be more cost-effective when they will be used for a long period of time?

You can request reserved instances to get discounts on your instance costs

What service acts as a firewall for your EC2 instances?

Security Group

Availability Zones are physically separated by a meaningful distance from any other AZ, although all are within 100 km or 60 miles of each other. What is the primary reason why Availability Zones are set up the way they are now?

To keep them as far apart from each other in case of a disaster

Which of the following do you need to programmatically interact with your AWS environment? (Select TWO.)

AWS SDK, Access Keys

Which of the following does the Enterprise support plan provide to customers in AWS? (Select TWO.)

Proactive Technical Account Management Access to online self-paced labs

A customer is using Amazon S3 to store sprites of game characters. When players retrieve these sprites, they are temporarily stored on the player’s computer. The sprites are currently stored in the S3 Standard storage class. Which of the following options would you recommend to optimize storage costs?

Have the customer directly upload the sprites to S3 Standard – Infrequent Access.

What does AWS do when a storage device reaches the end of its lifespan?

AWS follows a strict decommissioning process as described in compliance procedures

What is the lowest support plan that allows an unlimited number of technical support cases to be opened?

Developer

A Software Engineer is having trouble migrating and configuring a licensed application on an EC2 instance. Which of the following options would you recommend to quickly get the applications up and running in AWS?

Try to look for an AMI in the AWS Marketplace that provides a similar setup to her application stack.

Which of the following is true regarding the AWS Cost and Usage report? (Select TWO.)

*Provides you with granular data about your AWS costs and usage *Allows you to load your cost and usage information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and AWS QuickSight

A company recently migrated its e-commerce application to AWS in order to handle a surge in customer traffic. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances and uses Amazon RDS to manage the product catalog and inventory.

Amazon EBS Snapshots, EC2 AMI

You have an Amazon Linux EC2 instance running for an hour and thirty minutes. How will AWS bill you in terms of usage?

You will be billed for an hour and thirty minutes according to the per-second billing rule

A startup plans to host a simple WordPress site on AWS. However, due to its developers’ limited knowledge on AWS, they seek the easiest method of deploying the site.

Amazon Lightsail

A company has a complex application running on Amazon EC2 instances, and they want to automate the deployment process to ensure consistent and reliable deployments across different environments. The application requires specific deployment steps to be followed, such as pre-deployment checks, application installs and starts, and post-deployment checks.

AWS CodeDeploy

What type of EBS volume is recommended for most workloads and is also usable as a boot volume?

General Purpose SSD

A company has a large amount of data stored in multiple sources such as S3, Redshift, and RDS, and they need to extract, transform and load this data into a data warehouse.

AWS Glue

Which AWS storage service offers faster disk read and write performance and provides temporary block-level storage for your instance? Hint: This provides temporary block-level storage for your instance. This storage is located on disks that are physically attached to the host computer. Instance store is ideal for temporary storage of information that changes frequently, such as buffers, caches, scratch data, and other temporary content, or for data that is replicated across a fleet of instances, such as a load-balanced pool of web servers.

Instance Store

AWS Macie

A security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS. Macie recognizes sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property.