Migration

Question 1

Service used to replicate large amounts of data from on-premise to AWS

Answer 1

AWS DataSync

Question 2

Compatible systems with AWS DataSync

Answer 2

NFS and SMB

Question 3

Units of time that AWS DataSync can replicate data

Answer 3

Hourly, Daily, or Weekly

Question 4

How to use AWS DataSync

Answer 4

Install DataSync agent to start replication (typically on premise) or can be used to replicate EFS to EFS by installing on EC2 agent.

Question 5

Sources that AWS DataSync can replicate to?

Answer 5

on-premise

EFS to EFS (install on EC2 agent)

S3, EFS, FSx for Windows ect.

Question 6

AWS Service for big disk transfers of data into and out of AWS up to 80TB.

Answer 6

Snowball edge

Question 7

What range of size Snowball edge come in?

Answer 7

48TB
81TB

Question 8

How does AWS Snowball edge protect your data?

Answer 8

Tamper-resistant enclosure
256 encryption
TPM
Completely wipe data

Question 9

Common uses for AWS Snowball edge?

Answer 9

Import data to S3
Export data from S3

Question 10

AWS Service used to store and perform large computations of up to 100TB on prem?

Answer 10

Snowball Edge

Question 11

AWS Service used to store and perform large computations of up to 8TB on prem?

Answer 11

Snowcone

Question 12

AWS Service used to transfer HUGE amounts of data up to 100PB

Answer 12

Snowmobile

Question 13

What is AWS Storage Gateway used for?

Answer 13

Connect on-premise software appliance with cloud-based storage

Virtual or physical device send stuff to AWS

Can download as VM and install in datacenter

Question 14

What are the 3 types of Storage Gateways?

Answer 14

File Gateway
Volume Gateway
Tape Gateway

Question 15

Describe Storage Gateway’s File Gateway

Answer 15

NFS & SMB
For Flat files

Store stuff in S3 access through NFS mount point connects via Direct Connect, VPC, or internet and then connect to S3.

Can act as a file system mount on S3

Question 16

Describe Storage Gateway’s Volume Gateway (iSCSI)

Answer 16

STORED VOLUMES -
Store locally, durable off site backups
Entire dataset
Snapshot of Volume set to S3

CACHED VOLUMES-
Cache frequently used data stored on site
Entire dataset sent to s3

VITUAL HARD DISK - async backup of volumes stored in cloud as EBS snapshots

Question 17

Describe Storage Gateway’s Tape Gateway

Answer 17

Virtual Tape Library
Way of getting rid of tapes (virtual tape cartridges)

Question 18

AWS Service that is an interactive query service which enables you to analyse and query data located in S3 using standard SQL.

Answer 18

Athena

Question 19

Uses for AWS Athena

Answer 19

Used to query log files in S3 (common topic)

Generate business reports on data stored in S3

Analyse AWS cost and usage reports

Run queries on click-stream data

Question 20

Data types AWS Athena Allows

Answer 20

JSON
Apache ORC
Apache Parquet

Question 21

TRUE or FALSE: AWS Athena is Serverless

Answer 21

TRUE

Question 22

What do you pay for In Athena?

Answer 22

Pay per query / per TB scanned

Question 23

Difference between S3 Select and Athena?

Answer 23

Athena is more powerful than S3 Select and therefore costs $$

Question 24

AWS ML Service for analyzing S3 for PII

Answer 24

Macie

Question 25

AWS Orchestration Service for running multi node parallel jobs that span multiple EC2 instances

Answer 25

AWS Batch

Question 26

AWS Orchestration Service to Easily deploy and manage HPC clusters and automate creation

Answer 26

AWS ParallelCluster

Question 27

What model does AWS Parallel Cluster use to provision the reosources you need

Answer 27

text file model

Question 28

How to use GraphQL in AWS

Answer 28

AWS AppSync

Question 29

What is GraphQL

Answer 29

Used for fetching app data, declarative coding, front-end data app fetching

Question 30

Service to use when you have an older app using lecacy transfer protocols that can't be changed but want to start storing files in S3

Answer 30

AWS Transfer Family

Question 31

GUI service that integrates with SMS and DMS migration services to help schedule and track migrations

Answer 31

AWS Migration Hub

Question 32

2 Discovery types offered by AWS Discovery Service

Answer 32

Agentless - use OVA file via vCenter to help identify hosts and collect IP, memory, and hostname to help simplify migration Agent Based - AWS Application Discover Agent installed on each service (for Windows and Linux) & collects a bit more data than agentless

Question 33

Service that provides automated lift and shift into AWS through replication & move into AWS

Answer 33

AWS MGN (Application Migration Service)

Question 34

What can you use SCT (Schema Conversion Tool) on

Answer 34

RDS Aurora Redshift EC2 S3