Cloud Computing Basics
Services
Billing & Pricing
Security in the Cloud
Misc
100

What is an availability zone and region? 

Availability Zones: Data centers with 1 or more data centers

Region: A Geographic location with 2 or more availability zones


100

What is EC2? 

EC2 is a virtual service in the cloud

100

What is the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator? 

Calculates running monthly cost on AWS

100

What is the shared responsibility model? 

AWS in charge of what's on the cloud (operation) and customer is in charge of what's in the cloud (customer data)

100

When was AWS founded?

2006

200

What are the 4 AWS Account types? 

  • Basic 
  • Developer 
  • Business 
  • Enterprise
200

What is S3? 

S3 provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, highly scalable object storage. Amazon S3 is easy to use, with a simple web services interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web

200

What is an account management service that enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts

AWS Organization

200

What is WAF? 

Web application firewall designed to stop hackers  

200

What is LEX? 

Service that allows you to build conversational chatbots. Powers voice (Alexa)

300

What are the 3 types of Cloud Computing? 

  • Infrastructure as a service (IAAS)
  • Platform as a service (PAAS)
  • Software as a service (SAAS)
300

What is Amazon CloudWatch? 

CloudWatch is used for monitoring performance and can monitor most of AWS as well as your applications that run on AWS

300

What is Capex and Opex? 

  • Capex you pay up front, it’s a fixed sunk cost
  • Opex you pay for what you use 
300

What is Trusted Advisor?

An online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment, Trusted Advisor provides real time guidance.

300

What is Rekognition?

Service that allows you to build conversational chatbots. Powers voice (Alexa)

400

How do you access the AWS platform? (hint: 3 ways) 

  • Via the Console
  • Programmatically (Using the Command Line)
  • Using the Software Developers Kit (SDK)
400

What is AWS Cloud Formation? 

A service that helps you model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your applications that run in AWS.

400

What are the basic pricing models? 

  • Pay as you go
  • Pay less when your reserve
  • Pay even less per unit by using more
  • Pay even less as AWS grows
  • Custom pricing
400

What is Cloudtrail?

Increases visibility into your user and resource activity by recording AWS Management Console actions and API calls

400

What are the 2 first generation services?

EC2 and S3

500

What are the 6 advantages to cloud computing? 

  • Trade Capital Expense for Variable Expense
  • Benefit from massive economies of scale
  • Stop guessing about capacity
  • Increase speed and agility
  • Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
  • Go global in minutes
500

What is Elastic Beanstalk? 

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.

500

What is under our free services? 

  • Amazon VPC
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • CloudFormation
  • Identity Access Management (IAM)
  • Auto Scaling
  • Opsworks
  • Consolidated Billing
500

What is the AWS Penetration Test and what services can it be used on? 

  • Simulated cyber attack against your AWS infrastructure without prior approval for eight services:
  • EC2 Instances
  • RDS
  • CloudFront
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon API Gateway
  • AWS Lambda and Lambda Edge Functions
  • Amazon Lightsail
  • Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
500

Name 5 different cloud computing services

  • EC2: virtual machines in the cloud
  • Lightsail: Simple cloud servers
  • Lambda: Serverless compute in the cloud
  • Batch: Compute service for batch computing
  • Elastic Beanstalk: Platform as a Service compute service
  • Severless Application Repository: Allows you to deploy pre-provisioned serverless applications (ex. Alexa skills)
  • AWS outposts: A way of extending compute to your own data centers or on-prem
  • EC2 Image Builder: Helps you build your own customer EC2 images for Linux and Windows
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