CLOUD Fundamentals Flashcards

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Which AWS service publishes up-to-the-minute information on the general status and availability of all AWS services in all the Regions of AWS Cloud?

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The engineering team at an IT company wants to monitor the CPU utilization for its fleet of EC2 instances and send an email to the administrator if the utilization exceeds 80%. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build this solution? (Select two)

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Due to regulatory and compliance reasons, an organization is supposed to use a hardware device for any data encryption operations in the cloud. Which AWS service can be used to meet this compliance requirement?

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Which AWS compute service provides the EASIEST way to access resizable compute capacity in the cloud with support for per-second billing and access to the underlying OS?

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A company wants a fully managed, flexible, and scalable file storage system, with low latency access, for its Windows-based applications. Which AWS service is the right choice for the company

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A fleet of Amazon EC2 instances spread across different Availability Zones needs to access, edit and share file-based data stored centrally on a system. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?

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A photo sharing web application wants to store thumbnails of user-uploaded images on Amazon S3. The thumbnails are rarely used but need to be immediately accessible from the web application. The thumbnails can be regenerated easily if they are lost. Which is the most cost-effective way to store these thumbnails on S3?

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A company is using a message broker service on its on-premises application and wants to move this messaging functionality to AWS Cloud. Which of the following AWS services is the right choice to move the existing functionality easily?

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Which AWS service should be used when you want to run container applications, but want to avoid the operational overhead of scaling, patching, securing, and managing servers?

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Which of the following AWS services are global in scope? (Select two)

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CRR - Use Cases

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compliance, lower latency access, replication across accounts

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SRR(Same Region Replication) use cases

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Log aggregation, .live replication between production and test accounts

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S3 Standard - General Purpose

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99.99%Availability
Used for frequently accessed data
low latency and high throughput
Sustain 2 concurrent facility failures
Use cases: Big Data analytics, mobile and gaming applications, content distribution
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S3 - Infrequent Access

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for data that is less frequently accessed, but requires rapid access when needed
lower cost than S3 standard
Use cases: Disaster Recovery, backups

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S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access

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High durability in a single AZ; data lost when AZ is destroyed
99.5% Availability
Use Cases: storing secondary backup copies on-premise data or data you can create

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S3Glacier Instant Retrieval

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Millisecond retrieval, great for data ccessed once a quarter

Minimum storage duration of 90 days

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S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

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Expedited (1 to 5 minutes), Standard (3 to 5 Hours), Bulk (5 to 12 hours) - free
Minimum storage duration of 90 days

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S3Glacier Deep Archive

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Standard(12 hours), Bulk (48 hours)

Minimum storage duration of 180 days

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S3 Intelligent Tiering
Small monthly monitoring and auto-tiering fee
Moves objects automatically between Access Tiers based on usage
There are no retrieval charges in S3 Intelligent-Tiering

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Frequest Access tier(automatic); default tier
Infrequent Access tier (automatic): objects not access for 30 days
Archive Instant Access tier (automatic): objects not accessed for 90 days
Archive Access tier (optional): configurable from 90 days to 700+ days
Deep Archive Access tier (optional): config from 180 days to 700+ days