🎴 Flashcard Set: Domain 3 – Technology (34%)

Question 1

What AWS service is used to run virtual machines?

Answer 1

Amazon EC2

Question 2

What is Amazon S3 used for?

Answer 2

Object storage service for storing files

Question 3

Name 2 AWS database services.

Answer 3

RDS, DynamoDB

Question 4

What does VPC stand for?

Answer 4

Virtual Private Cloud – a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud

Question 5

What is Amazon CloudWatch used for?

Answer 5

Monitoring and logging AWS resources and applications

Question 6

What is AWS Lambda?

Answer 6

A serverless compute service that runs code in response to events.

Question 7

What is the difference between S3 and EBS?

Answer 7

S3 is object storage; EBS is block storage for EC2.

Question 8

What is Route 53?

Answer 8

AWS’s scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service.

Question 9

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 9

A PaaS for deploying and managing applications quickly.

Question 10

What is an availability zone?

Answer 10

A distinct data center within a region used for redundancy and HA.