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1
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Describe EMR

A

Service Offering

Distributes computational work

Clusters managed using Hadoop

2
Q

What service do all support plans have in common?

A

24x7 access to documentation and support forums

Access to features in Trusted Advisor

3
Q

Features of Trusted Advisor for all customers (Core Checks)

A

Best Practices around

Security and Performance

4
Q

Features of Trusted Advisor for Business and Enterprise Support Customers

A

7 Core Checks (security performance)

Cost monitoring

Service limit monitoring

Notifications

Programmatic Access

5
Q

What are the high level AWS hosting benefits?

A

Easy To Use

Flexible (languages etc)

Cost Effective

Reliable

Scalable and Performant

Secure

6
Q

DMS

A

Database Migration Service

Supports Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgre from on prem to cloud

Supports one time and continuous replication

7
Q

AWS storage gateway

A

On prem apps to cloud storage

Apps connect through VM or Appliance

Standard protocols (NFS, etc)

Connects to S3, Glacier, EBS

8
Q

What are the two levels of Shield and what are they for?

A

Shield Standard - free

Shield Advanced

Protection against DDoS attacks

9
Q

AWS Config

A

Captures changes in resource configuration

use lambda to check for compliance

supports resource config change notification through SNS

Continuous auditing

10
Q

What helps in Governance, compliance and risk auditing in AWS?

A

Cloudtrail event logging

11
Q

What is a NACL?

A

Network access control list

controls traffic between subnets

security groups external - NACls internal

12
Q

Difference between Elastic Beanstalk and Cloudformation

A

Cloudformation = Infrastructure as code through templates

Beanstalk auto provisions resources to support your app.

13
Q

Cloudtrail vs Cloudwatch vs Cloudwatch logs

A

Cloudwatch - monitor operational health and perfomance

CloudTrail - focus on event history

Cloudwatch Logs - Aggregates log files

14
Q

What will give you information on resource costs?

A

Trusted Advisor Dashboard

15
Q

What is the best disaster recovery model for moving to AWS cloud?

A

Using Multiple Regions

16
Q

What are the Trusted Advisor categories?

A

Cost Optimization

Performance

Security

Fault Tolerance

17
Q

What are the available methods to get data onto Glacier?

A

Glacier API

Glacier SDK

S3 Lifecycle Policies

18
Q

When EBS volumes are created, where are they replicated automatically?

A

In the same AZ

19
Q

Golden Image

A

Snapshot of

EC2 instance

RDS DB instance

EBS instance

launched from a particular state

20
Q

What is OpsWorks for?

A

Provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet

21
Q

What is AWS Artifact?

A

A portal for reviewing the AWS security and compliance report information.

22
Q

What are the two DB types compatible with Aurora?

A

MySQL and Postgres

23
Q

What is AWS service catalog?

A

Provides cloud service governance by setting configurations and constraints on resources available within units (portfolios)

24
Q

What allows request routing based on geography?

A

Route53 Geolocation Routing

25
Q

What is Cloudwatch able to monitor?

A

Network, Disk, CPU, Status (not memory)

26
Q

How many Elastic IPs per region by default?

A

5

27
Q

Security checks for EC2 instances (installed)

A

Inspector

28
Q

AWS workspaces

A

Virtual desktop infrastructure in the Cloud