AWS Developer Associate - C02 (Set 1) Flashcards
The ALB does not show the application servers the IP of the client directly. How can the application servers see the IP of the client?
By looking at the X-Forwarded-For Header
Which ELB has Cross-Zone Load Balancing enabled by default?
ALB
ALB uses what protocols?
HTTP & HTTPS
What is the order of hierarchy with an ASG, ELB, and EC2 instances
Users access ELB, which points to the ASG, which points to EC2 instances
NLB uses what protocols?
TCP & UDP
What is an example target if you use ASG Target Tracking Scaling?
To keep the CPU Utilization below 70%
Which is higher performing in latency and requests/second, NLB or ALB?
NLB
What is ASG Simple / Step Scaling?
Adding X units after a CloudWatch Alarm is triggered.
ie: When a CloudWatch Alarm is triggered (CPU > 70%), then add 2 units
What are the target groups for NLB?
EC2 Instances, IP Addresses, ALB, Health Checks
ASG Scheduled Actions
Anticipates scaling based on known usage patterns
What is ASG Predictive Scaling?
Continuously forecasting load and scheduling scaling ahead of expected high usage periods.
Metrics to scale on for ASG:
CPUUtilization, RequestCountPerTarget, Average Network in / out, Any other custom metric
What is scaling cooldown, and what is the default time for it?
After a scaling activity happens, you are in the cooldown period, with a default of 300 seconds
What are the target groups for ALB?
EC2 Instances, ECS tasks, Lambda Functions, IP Addresses
What types of Databases can you have within RDS?
Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Aurora
RDS Read Replicas use what type of reads?
RDS Read Replicas are asynchronous, so they use eventually consistent reads.
Aurora grows in increments of ___ GB up to ___TB
10 GB … 128 TB
Does RDS & Aurora support at-rest or in-flight encryption?
Both, KMS for at rest and TLS-ready by default
What types of ElastiCache are there?
Redis and Memcached
Which Elasticache is highly available?
Redis
Which Elasticache is non persistent?
Memcached
Which Elasticache supports backup and restore features?
Redis
Which Elasticache supports sharding and multi-threaded architecture?
Memcached
Which cache of ElastiCache is simpler in terms of setup and use?
Memcached