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Shield Flashcards

This deck aims to help retain concepts related to the AWS Shield service. (17 cards)

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Which managed service offers protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks for applications on AWS?

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AWS Shield

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Which AWS Shield option is free of charge for AWS customers?

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AWS Shield Standard

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What types of attacks does AWS Shield protect against?

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  • Network volumetric attacks (Layer 3): capacity saturation
  • Network protocol attacks (Layer 4): TCP SYN flood
  • Application layer attacks (Layer 7): web request floods
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What are the two options of AWS Shield?

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  • Shield Standard – free for all AWS customers
  • Shield Advanced – paid option with additional features
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Which AWS Shield option provides protection at the network perimeter (region for VPC) and at the edge (CloudFront or Global Accelerator)?

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AWS Shield Standard

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Which AWS Shield option defends against network (L3) and transport (L4) layer attacks?

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AWS Shield Standard

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Which AWS Shield option is a commercial product with extra features and additional cost?

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AWS Shield Advanced

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Is AWS Shield Advanced enabled automatically?

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No, must be explicitly enabled in Shield Advanced or AWS Firewall Manager Shield Advanced Policy

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Which AWS Shield option protects Route 53, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, and resources associated with Elastic IPs, ALBs, NLBs, and CLBs?

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AWS Shield Advanced

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Which AWS Shield option provides cost protection for EC2 scaling events caused by unmitigated attacks?

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AWS Shield Advanced

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Which AWS Shield option provides proactive engagement and access to the Shield Response Team (SRT) when availability or performance is affected by an attack?

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AWS Shield Advanced

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Which AWS Shield option provides health-based detection (application-specific health checks) to enable proactive engagement by the Shield Response Team?

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AWS Shield Advanced

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Which AWS Shield option provides health-based detection (requires application-specific health checks) to enable proactive engagement by the Shield Response Team?

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AWS Shield Advanced

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Which AWS Shield option integrates with AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide application-layer (L7) protection?

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AWS Shield Advanced

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Which AWS Shield option provides real-time metrics and reports of DDoS events and attacks?

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AWS Shield Advanced

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13
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What AWS Shield Advanced feature allows creating logical collections of protected resources and managing them together?

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Protection groups

14
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What is the pricing model for AWS Shield Advanced?

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  • $3,000 per month per organization (minimum 12-month commitment)
  • Data-transfer-out/month usage fees
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