Lecture 19: AWS architecting & Ecosystem Flashcards

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What are the cloud design principles?

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  1. Being scalable
  2. Disposable resources
  3. Automation
  4. Loose coupling
  5. Think in services not servers
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What are the 6 pillars of well architected framework ?

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  1. Operational excellence
  2. Security
  3. Reliability
  4. Performance efficiency
  5. Cost optimization
  6. Sustainability
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______ includes the ability to run & monitor systems to deliver business value & to continually improve supporting process and procedures

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Operational excellence

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What are the design principles related to operational excellence?

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  1. Perform operations as code
  2. Annotate documentation
  3. Make frequent, small, reversible changes
  4. Refine operations procedure frequently
  5. Anticipates failure
  6. Learn from Al operational failure
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What are AWS services you can use to help with the prepare stage in operational excellence?

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  1. Cloudformation
  2. AWS config
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_________ includes the ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessment and mitigation strategies

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Security

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What are the design principles related to security?

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  1. Implement a strong identity foundation
  2. Enable traceability
  3. Apply security to all layers
  4. Automate security best practice
  5. Protect data in transit & at rest
  6. Lee wools away from data
  7. Prepare for security events
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_________ is the ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, & mitigate disruptions such as mid configurations or transient network issues (make sure your system runs no matter what)

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Reliability

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What are the design principles related to reliability?

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  1. Test recovery procedures
  2. Automatically recover from failure
  3. Scale horizontally to increase aggregate system as availability
  4. Stop guessing capacity
  5. Manage change in automation
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________ includes the a Ulithi to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes & technologies evolve (all about adapting and providing the best performance)

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Performance efficiency

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What are the design principles related to performance efficiency?

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  1. Democratize advance technologies
  2. Go global in minutes
  3. Use serverless architectures
  4. Experiment more often
  5. Mechanical sympathy
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________ includes the ability to run system to deliver business value at the lowest price point

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Cost optimization

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What are the design principles related to cost optimization?

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  1. Adopt a consumption mode
  2. Measure overall efficiency
  3. Stop spending money on data center operations
  4. Analyze & attribute expenditure
  5. Use managed & application level services to reduce cost of ownership
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________ focuses on minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads

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Sustainability

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What are the design principles related to sustainability?

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  1. Understand your impact
  2. Establish sustainability goals
  3. Maximize utilization
  4. Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware & software offerings
  5. Use managed services
  6. Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads
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__________ is a free tool to review your architecture against the 6 Pillars well architected framework & adopt architectural best practices

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AWS well-architected tool

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17
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_________ helps you build & then execute a comprehensive plan for your digital transformation through innovative use of AWS

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AWS cloud adoption framework (CAF)

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AWS CAF groups its capabilities into what six perspectives?

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  1. Business
  2. People
  3. Governance
  4. Platform
  5. Security
  6. Operations
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_______ helps ensure that your cloud investments accelerate your digital transformation ambitions & business outcomes

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Business perspective

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_______ serves as a bridge between technology and business

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People perspective

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_______ helps you orchestrate your cloud initiatives while maximin organizational benefits & minimizing transformation related risks

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Governance perspective

22
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__________ helps you build an enterprise -grade, scalable hybrid cloud platform, modernize existing workloads, and implement new cloud native solutions

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Platform perspective

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_________ helps you achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data & cloud workloads

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Security perspective

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_________ helps ensure that your cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the need of your business

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Operations perspective

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What are the four transformation domains related to AWS CAF?

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  1. Technology - using cloud to migrate & modernize legacy infrastructure, applications, data & analytics platforms
  2. Process - digitizing, automating, and optimizing your business operations
  3. Organization- reimagining your operating model
  4. Product - reimagine your business model by creating new value propositions
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What are the 4 transformation phases related to AWS CAF?

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  1. Envision - making sure you have inside business opportunities
  2. Align - align CAF perspectives to find gaps & have an action plan
  3. Launch - build & deliver pilot initiatives in production & demonstrate incremental business value
  4. Scale - expand pilot initiatives to the desired scale realizing the desired business benefits
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EC2 has many instance types, but choosing the most powerful instance type isn’t the best choice bye cause the cloud is _________

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Elastic

28
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________ is the process of matching instance types & sizes to your workload performance & capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost

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Right sizing

29
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It’s important to right size when?

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  1. Before a cloud migration
  2. Continuously after the cloud onboarding process (requirements change over time)
30
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________ is a web portal that contain the most frequent & common questions & requests

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AWS Knowledge Center

31
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______ is used to quickly find a professional help you with your AWS projects

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AWS IQ

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_________ is an AWS-managed Q& A service offering crowd -sourced expert -reviewed answers to your technical questions about AWS that replaces the original AWS forums

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AWS re:Post

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Questions from AWS premium support customer that don’t receive a response from the community in the AWS re:Post are password on to __________

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AWS support engineers

34
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________ a team of people that provides infrastructure and application support on AWS

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AWS Managed services (AMS)

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AMS offers a team of _________ who manage & operate your infrastructure for security, reliability, and availability

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AWS experts

36
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_________ is a digital catalog with thousands of software listing from independent software vendors

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AWS Marketplace

37
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__________ provides hardware, connectivity, and software

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APN Technology (APN= AWS Partner Network)

38
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_________ are professional services firm to help build on AWS

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APN Consulting Partners

39
Q

__________ find who can help you learn AWS

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APN training partners

40
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__________ AWS competencies are granted to APN partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency & proven customer success in specialized solution areas

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AWS competency program

41
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__________ helps partners become better partners

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AWS navigate program

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X

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X