Study Notes

Question 1

AWS CodeCommit is primarily used for software version control.

Answer 1

It’s about committing code.

Question 2

VPC spans all availability zones within a region.

Question 3

On AWS, you can use Amazon EC2 to install a third party database.

Question 4

Setting up account password policies and server side encryption are the customer’s responsibilities.

Question 5

The AWS Global Accelerator has the benefits of:

1) Decreased latency
2) Improved availability

Question 6

Amazon CloudFront benefits are:

1) Content is cached at the Edge locations
2) Built in (DDOS) Distributed Denial of Service

Question 7

AWs Cloud Advantages:

1) Trade capital expense for variable expense
2) Benefit from massive economies of scale
3) Stop guessing about capacity
4) Increase speed and agility
5) Stop spending money running and maintaining data centres
6) Go global in minutes

Question 8

AWS S3 Bucket - read/write access:

IAM Policy

Question 9

AWS assists organisations by:

Not needing to guess capacity needs.

Question 10

AWS IAM can be used to manage Multifactor Authentication (MFA)

Question 11

Amazon EC2 Benefits:

1) Elastic Web-Scale Computing - Increase or decrease capacity

2) Completely controlled - into root access to each instance

3) Flexible Cloud Hosting Services - can choose from multiple
instance types, operating systems and software packages.

4) integrated - with AWS services such as S3, RDS and VPC.

5) Reliable - SLAs of 99.99% for each region

6) Secure -Security Groups, Network ACLs, IPSec and VPN features.

7) Inexpensive - Financial benefit of scale by charging very low rates and on a capacity consumed basis.

Question 12

What is the most cost effective EC2 pricing option for non-critical overnight workload?

Answer 12

Spot

Question 13

The Cost of Ownership (TCO) is about saving.

Question 14

Pricing Calculator is about cost.

Question 15

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a push-based delivery.

Publish messages to thousands of subscribers simultaneously using a push mechanism.

Question 16

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is pull-based. not push-based(like Amazon SNS).

Question 17

Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) is a fully managed state tracker and task coordinator.

Question 18

AWS Services used to connect AWS Cloud & On-Premises resources:

1) AWs Direct Connect
2) AWs Managed VPN

Question 19

AWS Shared responsibility model, customer’s responsibilities:

1) Security of data in transit
2) Data integrity authentication.

Question 20

AWS Organizations to maximize company’s POTENTIAL volume and reserved instance discounts across multiple accounts.

Question 21

AWS Trusted Advisor checks and helps optimize your AWS Infrastructure, improve security, performance, reduce your overall costs and monitor service limits.

Question 22

AWS Basic Support and AWS Developer Support customers get access to 6 security checks.

Question 23

AWS Business Support and AWS Enterprise Support customers get access to all 115 Trusted Advisor checks.

Question 24

AWS Trusted Advisor provides:

1) Performance
2) Cost Optimization

Question 25

Amazon Route 53 supports the resolution of public domain names to IP addresses or AWS resources.

Question 26

How do you store sensitive company data in an Amazon S3?

Answer 26

Enable S3 server side encryption.

Question 27

AWS Organisations can be used to restrict the individual API actions that users and roles in each member account can access.

Question 28

Amazon CloudFront can deliver content from Amazon S3 Bucket with low latency.

Question 29

AWS Infrastructure automation tools: AWS CloudFormation Amazon CloudFront

Question 30

S3 Buckets configured for cross-region replication can be owned by a single AWS account or by different accounts.

Question 31

Amazon QuickSight is a dashboard for reporting when using business intelligence.

Question 32

Advantages for a company running workloads in the AWS Cloud vs On-Premises: 1) Less staff time is required to launch new workloads. 2) Increased productivity for the app development team.

Question 33

AWS Shield Advanced protects against Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks.

Question 34

Amazon CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Question 35

AWS DynamoDB is a NOSQL Database.

Question 36

AWS EC2 is a virtual server in the AWs Cloud.

Question 37

AWS Regions are part of the AWS Global Infrastructure.

Question 38

Denial-of-Service (DOS) attacks comes from the same source.

Question 39

AWS Migration Hub provides a single location to track the progress of application migrations across multiple AWS and partner solutions.

Question 40

AWS Database Migration Service helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely.

Question 41

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS.

Question 42

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework focuses on minimizing the business risk by using a Governance Perspective.

Question 43

Amazon Lex helps you build text chatbots.

Question 44

Instance store reboots, does the data in the instance persist?

Answer 44

Yes!

Question 45

AWS Elastic Block Store Snapshot is an Incremental data backup.

Question 46

AWS Snowmobile is designed to transfer petabytes of data in and out of the cloud.

Question 47

AWS Cost Explorer is a tool that lets you visualise and manage your AWS Costs.

Question 48

AWS Quantum Ledger Database Service provides historical data of application changes.

Question 49

AWS Marketplace is a digital catalogue that lets you list and sell software.

Question 50

Instance stores provides TEMPORARY storage for an Amazon EC2 instance.

Question 51

Instance store is a storage volume that acts as a physical hard disk.

Question 52

If an instance starts from a stopped state, it might start on another host where the used instance store does not exist.

Question 53

Recommended to avoid storing valuable data in the store instance.

Question 54

Block level storage is a hard drive.

Question 55

EC2 Instances are virtual machines.

Question 56

Redshift is a data warehouse - good for loading data into it and then performing analytics on that data.

Question 57

AWS Glue is an extract, transform and load service. Used for extracting data from somewhere like a database and transforming it into another format.

Question 58

AWS Data Pipeline is designed to facilitate the processing and transfer of data between different AWS services and on-premises data sources.

Question 59

AWS Data Exchange allows customers of AWS to find, subscribe and use third party data in the cloud.

Question 60

AWS CodeStar enables you to quickly develop, build and deploy applications on AWS but not on a Cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE).

Question 61

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service. Compiling code, running, producing software packages that can be deployed by CodeDeploy.

Question 62

Amazon Workspaces is a managed, secure desktop as a service solution.

Question 63

AWS Cloud9 is a IDE and lets you write, run and debug code with your browser.

Question 64

Lambda is a serverless service for running compute. So it runs code using functions.

Question 65

Amazon APY Gateway is used for building APIs like Rest, APIs and HTTP APIs and Websocket APIs but not specifically for mobile and web apps.

Question 66

AWS AppSync enables the creation of flexible APIs including: Options for real-time updates and offline functionality.

Question 67

AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services that can be used to build scalable full-stack applications powered by AWS, also supporting real-time functionality.

Question 68

AWS IQ, business owners can find, communicate with and hire AWS experts quickly and securely.

Question 69

Relational Databases Service (RDS) uses EBS Volumes.

Question 70

Amazon MemoryDB support an in-memory data structure store, compatible with Redis.

Question 71

Amazon Transcibe is for converting Speech to Text.

Question 72

Amazon Textract is about extracting text.

Question 73

Amazon Comprehend is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) service.

Question 74

Envision - Organizations are focused on defining their vision and objectives for Cloud Adoption.

Question 75

Align - Organizations will work to identify capability gaps and ensure their readiness for adopting cloud services.

Question 76

Launch - initiating and launching new services.

Question 77

Scale - Scaling the implemented strategies and solutions to maximize the benefits of cloud adoption.

Question 78

The Main Purpose of High Availability in the cloud is applicating and thriving even in case of a disaster.

Question 79

AWS Building Conductor is a billing service that allows organisations to define billing groups, set pricing rules, create custom line items and generate a unique cost and usage report.

Question 80

AWS Educate is primarily for the educational sector, providing educators and students resources needed to accelerate cloud-based learning.

Question 81

Amazon Kendra is a machine learning tool to enable natural language capabilities.

Question 82

Amazon Kinesis is a service for collecting streaming data.

Question 83

Amazon Athena is used for running SQL queries on data in Amazon S3.

Question 84

Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses Machine Learning and Pattern Matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS.

Question 85

AWS Storage Gateway is a Service that offers options for connecting on-premises storage to the cloud.

Question 86

AWS DataSync uses the internet to transfer data.

Question 87

The MOST Cost-effective option to purchase an EC2 is an Reserved instance (RI).

Question 88

AWS VPC Service - a network Access Translation gateway (NAT Gateway) is managed by AWS. A Security Group can have allow rules only.

Question 89

AWS Support plans for guidance, configuration and troubleshooting of AWS interoperability with third-party software.

Question 90

EBS Volume can be attached to a single instance in the same Availability Zone (AZ).

Question 91

Elastic File System (EFS) can be mounted on instances across multiple Availability Zones.

Question 92

AWS Business Support plan provides architectural guidance contextual to your specific use-cases.

Question 93

AWS Shield Standard is for ALL customers by default with no additional costs.

Question 94

Each AWS Region consists of a minimum of three Availability Zones.

Question 95

Each Availability Zone (AZ) consists of one or more discrete data centres,