EC2_SUMMARY

Question 1

EC2

Its a “______” that is hosted in AWS instead of your data center.

Answer 1

Virtual Machine

Question 2

EC2

Select capacity

Answer 2

When you need it right now.

Question 3

EC2

Grow and shrink

Answer 3

When needed

Question 4

EC2

What do you pay for

Answer 4

What you use

Question 5

EC2

Instead of waiting months you wait

Answer 5

Minutes

Question 6

EC2 - Pricing

Pay by the hour or the second depending on the type of instance you run and its great for flexibility

Answer 6

On-Demand

Question 7

EC2 - Pricing

Reserve capacity for one or three years. Up to 72% discount on the hourly charge and great if you have known, fixed requirements.

Answer 7

Reserved

Question 8

EC2 - Pricing

Purchase unused capacity at a discount of up to 90%. Prices fluctuate with supply and demand and great for apps with flexible start and end times.

Answer 8

Spot

Question 9

EC2 - Pricing

A physical EC2 server dedicated for your use and it is great if you have server-bound licenses to reuse or compliance requirements.

Answer 9

Dedicated.

Question 10

EC2

Determines the hardware of the host computer and has different types of compute, memory and storage capabilities and they are grouped into families. You should select an instance type based on the requirements of your application.

Answer 10

Instance Type

Question 11

EC2

Highly available and scaleable storage volumes that you can attach to an EC2 instance

Answer 11

EBS Volumes

Question 12

EC2

Suitable for boot disks and general applications.

Answer 12

General Purpose - SSD

GP2

Question 13

EC2

Up to 16,000 IOPS per volume

Answer 13

General Purpose - SSD

GP2

Question 14

EC2

Up to 99.9% durability

Answer 14

General Purpose - SSD

GP2

Question 15

EC2

Suitable for OLTP and latency sensitive applications. High Performance

Answer 15

Provisioned IOPS SSD

IO1

Question 16

EC2

50 IOPS/GIB

Answer 16

Provisioned IOPS SSD

IO1

Question 17

EC2

Up to 64,000 IOPS per volume

Answer 17

Provisioned IOPS SSD

IO1

Question 18

EC2

Up to 99.9% durability

Answer 18

Provisioned IOPS SSD

IO1

Question 19

EC2

More expensive than GP2

Answer 19

Provisioned IOPS SSD

IO1

Question 20

EC2

Latest generation Provisioned IOPS volume

Answer 20

Provisioned IOPS SSD

IO2

Question 21

EC2

Suitable for OLTP and latency apps - high performance

Answer 21

Provisioned IOPS SSD

IO2

Question 22

EC2

500 IOPS / GIB

Answer 22

Provisioned IOPS SSD

IO2

Question 23

EC2

Up to 64,000 IOPS per volume.

Answer 23

Provisioned IOPS SSD

IO2

Question 24

EC2

99.999% durability

Answer 24

Provisioned IOPS SSD

IO2

Question 25

EC2 Suitable for Big Data, data warehouses, ETL

Answer 25

Throughput Optimized HDD | ST1

Question 26

EC2 Max throughput is 500 MB/s per volume

Answer 26

Throughput Optimized HDD | ST1

Question 27

EC2 Cannot be a boot volume

Answer 27

``` Throughput Optimized HDD ST1 --AND-- Cold HDD SC1 ```

Question 28

EC2 Up to 99.9% durability

Answer 28

``` Throughput Optimized HDD ST1 --AND-- Cold HDD SC1 ```

Question 29

EC2 Max throughput of 250 MB/s per volume

Answer 29

Cold HDD SC1

Question 30

EC2 A point-in-time copy of an EBS volume that is great for backing up EBS volumes - they can be used to create new EBS volumes

Answer 30

EBS Snapshot

Question 31

EC2 If you create a new EBS volume from an encrypted snapshot then you will have an

Answer 31

Encrypted volume

Question 32

EC2 If you create a new EBS volume from an unencrypted snapshot then you will have an

Answer 32

Unencrypted volume

Question 33

EC2 Intelligent load balancing for HTTP/HTTPS that routes requests to a specific web server based on the request type.

Answer 33

Application Load Balancer

Question 34

EC2 Provides high-performance load balancing for TCP traffic

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Network Load Balancer

Question 35

EC2 The legacy option that supports both HTTP/HTTPS and TCP traffic.

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Classic Load Balancer

Question 36

EC2 Provides load balancing for third-party virtual appliances.

Answer 36

Gateway Load Balancers

Question 37

EC2 If you need to find the IPv4 address of your end user then look for this header

Answer 37

X-Forwarded-For

Question 38

EC2 Error message whereby application is not responding within the timeout period.

Answer 38

504 Error Gateway Timeout

Question 39

EC2 Amazon's DNS service

Answer 39

Route 53

Question 40

EC2 Route 53 maps domain names to

Answer 40

EC2 Instances Elastic Load Balancers S3 Buckets

Question 41

EC2 A container for DNS records for your domain

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Hosted Zone

Question 42

EC2 Allows you to route traffic address to the zone apex or the top of the DNS name space

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Alias ie ilovecloud.com sent to ELB

Question 43

EC2 Allows you to route traffic to a resource, such as a web server using an IPv4 address

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A Record

Question 44

EC2 Always give your users the minimum amount of access required to do their job

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Least Privilege

Question 45

EC2 Create IAM groups and assign your users to group. Group permissions are assigned using IAM policy documents

Answer 45

Use Groups