services

Question 1

Amazon VPC

Answer 1

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Amazon VPC enables you to provision an isolated section of the AWS Cloud. In this isolated section, you can launch resources in a virtual network that you define. Within a virtual private cloud (VPC), you can organize your resources into subnets. A subnet is a section of a VPC that can contain resources such as Amazon EC2 instances.

Question 2

Amazon DocumentDB

Answer 2

a document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

Question 3

MongoDB

Answer 3

a document database program

Question 4

Amazon Neptune

Answer 4

a graph database service. Used to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets, such as social networking, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs.

Question 5

Amazon QLDB

Answer 5

a ledger database service. Used to review a complete history of all the changes that have been made to your application data.

Question 6

Amazon QLDB

Answer 6

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

Question 7

Amazon Managed Blockchain

Answer 7

a service that you can use to create and manage blockchain networks with open-source frameworks. a distributed ledger system that lets multiple parties run transactions and share data without a central authority.

Question 8

Amazon ElastiCache

Answer 8

a service that adds caching layers on top of your databases to help improve the read times of common requests. supports two types of data stores: Redis and Memcached.

Question 9

supports two types of data stores: Redis and Memcached

Answer 9

Amazon ElastiCache

Question 10

the two types of data stores supported by Amazon ElastiCache

Answer 10

Redis and Memcached

Question 11

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Answer 11

an in-memory cache for DynamoDB. It helps improve response times from single-digit milliseconds to microseconds.

Question 12

Amazon DAX

Answer 12

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator

Question 13

Amazon EBS

Answer 13

Amazon Elastic Block Store

Question 14

Amazon S3

Answer 14

Amazon Simple Storage Service

Question 15

Amazon EFS

Answer 15

Amazon Elastic File System

Question 16

AWS DMS

Answer 16

AWS Database Migration Services

Question 17

Amazon EC2

Answer 17

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Question 18

provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud

Answer 18

Amazon EC2

Question 19

provide a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources. You can use them for a variety of workloads, such as: application servers gaming servers backend servers for enterprise applications small and medium databases

Answer 19

EC2 General purpose instances

Question 20

ideal for compute-bound applications that benefit from high-performance processors. You can use compute optimized instances for workloads such as web, application, and gaming servers. are ideal for high-performance web servers, compute-intensive applications servers, and dedicated gaming servers. You can also use for batch processing workloads that require processing many transactions in a single group.

Answer 20

EC2 Compute optimized instances

Question 21

are designed to deliver fast performance for workloads that process large datasets in memory. a high-performance database or a workload that involves performing real-time processing of a large amount of unstructured data.

Answer 21

EC2 Memory optimized instances

Question 22

use hardware accelerators, or coprocessors, to perform some functions more efficiently than is possible in software running on CPUs. Examples of these functions include floating-point number calculations, graphics processing, and data pattern matching. are ideal for workloads such as graphics applications, game streaming, and application streaming.

Answer 22

EC2 Accelerated computing instances

Question 23

are designed for workloads that require high, sequential read and write access to large datasets on local storage. Examples include distributed file systems, data warehousing applications, and high-frequency online transaction processing (OLTP) systems. are designed to deliver tens of thousands of low-latency, random IOPS to applications.

Answer 23

EC2 Storage optimized instances

Question 24

scaling option that responds to changing demand.

Answer 24

dynamic scaling

Question 25

scaling option that automatically schedules the right number of Amazon EC2 instances based on anticipated demand.

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Predictive scaling

Question 26

3 configuration options for an EC2 auto scaling group

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minimum capacity desired capacity maximum capacity

Question 27

ELB

Answer 27

Elastic Load Balancing

Question 28

service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances. acts as a single point of contact for all incoming web traffic to your Auto Scaling group.

Answer 28

Elastic Load Balancing

Question 29

ELB geographical area

Answer 29

regional

Question 30

SNS

Answer 30

Simple Notification Service

Question 31

SQS

Answer 31

Simple Queue Service

Question 32

a publish/subscribe service. Using topics, a publisher publishes messages to subscribers. This is similar to the coffee shop; the cashier provides coffee orders to the barista who makes the drinks. subscribers can be web servers, email addresses, AWS Lambda functions, or several other options.

Answer 32

SNS

Question 33

send, store, and receive messages between software components, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available. an application sends messages into a queue. A user or service retrieves a message from the queue, processes it, and then deletes it from the queue.

Answer 33

SQS

Question 34

a service that lets you run code without needing to provision or manage servers

Answer 34

Lambda

Question 35

upload code to a function, configure trigger, when triggered, code is run in managed, serverless environment

Answer 35

Lambda

Question 36

limit of processing time for lambda

Answer 36

15 min

Question 37

amazon container services

Answer 37

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Question 38

a highly scalable, high-performance container management system that enables you to run and scale containerized applications on AWS.

Answer 38

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Question 39

ECS

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Amazon Elastic Container Service

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supports docker containers

Answer 40

ECS

Question 41

EKS

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Question 42

a fully managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS

Answer 42

EKS

Question 43

a serverless compute engine for containers. It works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.

Answer 43

AWS Fargate

Question 44

4 key factors to choosing a region

Answer 44

Compliance proximity feature availability pricing.

Question 45

how many regions does a data center cover?

Answer 45

1

Question 46

how many data centers does a region cover?

Answer 46

multiple, redundant

Question 47

Caching copies of data closer to the customers all around the world

Answer 47

content delivery networks (CDNs)

Question 48

Amazon's concept of content delivery networks (CDNs)

Answer 48

Amazon CloudFront

Question 49

service that helps deliver data, video, applications, and APIs to customers around the world with low latency and high transfer speeds

Answer 49

Amazon CloudFront

Question 50

Amazon CloudFront uses _____________ to help accelerate communication with users, no matter where they are

Answer 50

Edge locations

Question 51

what is the relationship between edge locations and regions?

Answer 51

Edge locations are separate from Regions

Question 52

AWS Edge DNS

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Amazon Route 53

Question 53

AWS fully operational mini Region, right inside your own data center

Answer 53

AWS Outposts

Question 54

invoke or call these mechanisms to provision, configure, and manage your AWS resources.

Answer 54

application programming interfaces APIs