Terms

Question 1

AWS Storage Gateway

Answer 1

a hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage.

Question 2

AWS Application Discovery Service

Answer 2

helps systems integrators quickly and reliably plan application migration projects by automatically identifying applications running in on-premises data centers, their associated dependencies, and their performance profiles.

Question 3

Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR)

Answer 3

a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

Question 4

AWS Snowmobile

Answer 4

an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS

Question 5

AWS Snowball

Answer 5

petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses devices designed to be secure to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud

Question 6

3 Benefits of DynamoDB

Answer 6

1- Performance at scale
2- Serverless
3- Highly available

Question 7

Security features for the protection of data at rest

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1- Permissions
2- Versioning
3- Replication
4- Backup
5- Encryption – server side
6- Encryption – client side

Question 8

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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provides the information required to launch an instance, which is a virtual server in the cloud

Question 9

Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

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is a web service that makes it easy to coordinate work across distributed application components.

Question 10

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

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use ACM or IAM to store and deploy server certificates. Use IAM as a certificate manager only when you must support HTTPS connections in a region that is not supported by ACM.

Question 11

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

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to help organizations design and travel an accelerated path to successful cloud adoption

Question 12

AWS CLI

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Command line interface is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.

Question 13

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and an S3 bucket.

Question 14

5 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework

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1- Operational Excellence
2- Security
3- Reliability
4- Performance Efficiency
5- Cost Optimization

Question 15

AWS Data Pipeline

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enables movement and transformation of data

Question 16

QuickSight

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Visualization tool with various data stores

Question 17

Redshift

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a fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools.

Question 18

Athena

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service that enables a data analyst to perform interactive queries in the Amazon Web Services public cloud on data stored in S3. SQL, serverless

Question 19

Kinesis

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streaming service for data ingestion

Question 20

AWS Config

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Provides a detailed view of the resources in your AWS account

Question 21

API Gateway

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Gateway between the API consumers and the Data/services

Question 22

Eleastic Beanstalk

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Quickly provisions environments in AWS

Handles all aspects such as capacity, provisioning, load balancing, scaling and app health monitoring

Question 23

EC2 Autoscaling

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Will increase or decrease the number of instances based on load, to help control costs
Scaling out - Increasing the number of instances
Scaling in - Decreasing the number of instances

Question 24

Elastic Load balancer

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Move traffic from one EC2 instance to another balancing traffic.

Question 25

Cost Explorer

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view and analyze cost and usage, data from past 13 months

Question 26

Billing and cost monitoring dashboard

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spend in prior month, estimate of month to date, and forecast remainder

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Amazon Aurora

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Fully managed RDS | MySQL and Postgres compatible

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DynamoDB

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``` NoSQL DB Faster data access Schemaless Fully managed Scale on demand ```

Question 29

Relational Database Service (RDS)

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- Managed platform - Specify the DBMS and hardware - Oracle MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres, MariaDB, AWS Aurora (AWS MySQL) - Everything provisioned and managed for you including patching and backups

Question 30

Simple Storage Service (S3)

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Object level storage Files, videos etc Each object bytes to 5 tb Highly scalable - virtually limitless

Question 31

EBS Snapshots

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point in time copy of EBS volume

Question 32

EC2 Instance types

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○ Spot Instance - less cost than on demand and can fluctuate, based on spare capacity to fulfill the request, instance can be stopped with minimal notice. Can hibernate until spot returns. Use case - app that can be interrupted and resumed. ○ Reserved Instances - cheaper than on demand, 1 or 3 year agreement, upfront costs for big discount ○ Standard and convertible - fixed instance type versus changeable ○Dedicated