Practice test 1 Flashcards

1
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Lambda@Edge runs closer …

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… to the user location

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2
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How can you setup an origin fail over in CloudFront ?

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Set up primary and a secondary origins. CloudFront automatically switches when the primary origin returns specific status code failures

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3
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What is HTTP code 504 ?

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504 is Gateway Timeout

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4
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How can you alleviate occasional 504 errors in Cloud Front ?

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Setting up origin fail over to a secondary origin

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5
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How to increase the Cache duration in Cloud Front ?

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Add the Cache-Control max-age directive to your objects

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6
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Do you poll or do you subscribe to an SNS topic?

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You subscribe

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7
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What do you do at the end of the test ?

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Verify that you always selected TWO options when needed

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8
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S3 Hierarchy

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  • S3 Standard
  • S3 Standard-IA
  • S3 Intelligent-Tiering
  • S3 One Zone-IA
  • S3 Glacier
  • S3 Glacier Deep Archive
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9
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What is Amazon DLM is used for ?

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You can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate the creation, retention, and deletion of EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs.

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10
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IAM DB Authentication can be used to…

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… authenticate users in RDS databases MySQL and PostgresSQL

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11
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How to better monitor and RDS database ?

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Enable Enhanced Monitoring in RDS

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12
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How can you protect applications behind API Gateway from traffic spikes ?

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Use throttling limits in API Gateway

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13
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Which custom metrics in CloudWatch need to be set up manually ?

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  • Memory utilization
  • Disk swap utilization
  • Disk space utilization
  • Page file utilization
  • Log collection
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14
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Which EC2 Metric are available by default in CloudWatch ?

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  • CPU Utilization
  • Network Utilization (Bytes in/out)
  • Disk reads and writes
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15
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What is AWS STS used for ?

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AWS Security Token Service is used to generate temporary tokens

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16
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What is AWS WorkDocs ?

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A way to share documents. It is like Google Drive or One Drive. Cannot be integrated with S3.

17
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Which is the first EC2 instance to be terminated in an Auto Scaling Group (ASG)

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The EC2 instance launched from the oldest launch configuration.

Note: I think it first tries to balance the AZ, so it would choose the AZ with most instances and then choose an instance from there.

18
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ASG instance termination order: (by default)

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    • Choose AZ with the most instances
    • Use oldest launch configuration
    • Closest to the next billing hour
    • Random
19
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What is the AWS Nitro System ?

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The underlying platform for our next generation of EC2 instances. It has completely re-imagined our virtualization infrastructure. Hypervisor in hardware.

20
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Nitro componentes ?

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  • Nitro cards
  • Nitro security chip
  • Nitro Hypervisor
  • Nitro Enclaves
  • Nitro TPM
21
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How to invoke a lambda function from RDS ?

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Use a native function or a stored procedure

22
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RDS Events provides events for…

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Operational events such as DB instance events, DB parameter group, DB security,
It doesn’t trigger events for DML (inserts, updates and deletes)

23
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Command line flags supported by CloudTrail ?

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–is-multi-region-trail and –include-global-service-events

24
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EBS Type for a database with high-throughput workloads performing small, random I/O operations

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Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)

25
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(SSD/HDD) Small random IO Operations

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SSD

26
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(SDD/HDD) large sequential I/O operations

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HDD

27
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(SDD/HDD) Throughput oriented storage for large volumes of data that is infrequently accessed

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HDD

28
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SDD Dominant Performance Attribute

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IOPS

29
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HDD dominant performance attribute

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Throughput (MiB/s)

30
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AWS Directory Service AD Connector

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AD Connector is a directory gateway with which you can redirect directory requests to your on-premises Microsoft Active Directory