Week 1
Question : What is the percent taken off per day for late assignments.
Answer : There is a 10% per day deduction
Question : What does the acronym stand for : AWSCAF
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework.
Question : What are the three free tier offers?
Answer : Always Free, 12 month free, Limited trial period.
Answer : An optional (but recommended) layer of security for the VPC that acts as a stateless (static) firewall for controlling traffic in/out of one or more Subnets.
What is Network Access Controls Lists (NACLs)
TRUE or FALSE : You will need to be very familiar with JSON for the exam.
You will not have any questions specifically involving the configuration or the usage of JSON, but it is good to know since it is used in AWS.
Answer : This is an EC2 type… The default instance type where the customer pays for compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments.
Question : What is the EC2 On-demand Instance type?
Question : How many projects are there in this block course?
Answer : There are 4 projects.
Question : What does the acronym stand for : EC2
Answer : Elastic Compute Cloud
Question : What are the three aspects of the AWS pricing model?
Answer : pay-as-you-go, save when you reserve, and pay less when you use more
Question : NACLs contain ordered rules to define allow or deny. What is the lowest umber that can be assigned.
Answer : the order numbers start at 100.
Answer : This AWS service offers common languages to templatize the cloud environment.
Question : What is CloudFormation?
Answer : This is an EC2 type… Reserved instances — Offer a significant discount (up to 75%) compared to on-demand instance pricing by allowing the customer to pay all or part upfront AWS EC2 Instance Types
Question : What is the EC2 Spot Instances type?
Question : What does AWS stand for?
Answer : Amazon Web Service
Question : Which of the following models describes a public cloud provider providing just the hardware and networking as a service to its client?
Answer : IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
Answer : This tool is used to estimate the costs of products you are planning on using, but are not currently using.
Question : What is the AWS Pricing Calculator?
TRUE or FALSE : NACLs operate at the subnet level, Security groups operate at the instance level.
TRUE : NACLs rules are created to allow or deny in and out of the subnets, Security Group rules are defines allow rules for traffic in the instances.
Answer : This AWS service securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to global customers with low latency/high transfer speeds using a developer-friendly environment?
Question : What is CloudFront?
Answer : This AWS service is a fast CDN that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds in a developer-friendly environment.
What is the EC2 Spot Instances type?
Question : What is the certificate this course helps you prepare for?
Answer : AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Question : What are the three AWS Deployment Models?
Answer: Cloud, Hybrid, On-premises
Answer : This tool is used to visualize your expences and usage for products you are signed up for.
Question : What is the Cost Explorer?
Answer : This operates at Layer 5 through 7 as an application layer gateway, specifically for web traffic.
Question : What is the WAF (Web Application Firewall)?
Answer : This AWS service offers over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to meet most cloud workload needs?
Question : What is Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud )
Answer : This AWS service is a fast CDN that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds in a developer-friendly environment.
What is CloudFront?
Question: For a 3-credit block course, how much time should you plan on spending a week on the course?
Answer: You should be prepared to spend approximately 18 hours (apx. 6 hours per credit) a week.
Question : What are Serverless services often referred to as?
Answer: FaaS (Functions as a Service)
Question : What Reserved Pricing option will save you the most money?
Answer : Paying for a reservation All Upfront (annual), will save you the most money.
TRUE or FALSE : You must have a Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support plan for AWS Shield Standard?
FALSE : AWS Shield Standard is free. AWS Shield Advanced requires support plans that offer a 24/7 response team.
Answer : This AWS component provides the information required to launch an instance?
Question : What is AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
Question : Which two database platforms are supported by Amazon Aurora?
Answer : MySQL and PostgreSQL are supported by Amazon Aurora.
Question : What is the Maximum number of VPCs per account?
Answer: There is a maximum of 5 VPCs per account.
Answer : This software produces and manages a virtual infrastructure, allowing multiple operating systems to run and share resources on a single physical machine.
Question : What is a Hypervisor?
Answer : This fully managed threat detection service uses findings driven by proprietary machine learning and Al algorithms.
Question : What is Amazon GuardDuty?
Answer : This AWS service otters block level storage volumes for use witn EC2 instances functioning like raw, unformatted block devices?
Question : What is EBS (Elastic Block Storage)
Question: Which service offers long-term object storage with free 10 GB of storage retrievals?
Answer : S3 Glacier is the long-term object storage service.
Question : What are the 4 Cloud Value Propositions?
Answer: Security (the most important proposition) , Flexibility/Elasticity, Cost, Agility.
Question: Which virtual image configuration can be used to create an instance of a virtual machine?
Answer : AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
Answer : This secure and resilient service uses hardware security modules to create, process, validate, and protect your cryptographic keys?
Question : What is AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?
Question : Which component of auto-scaling is used to determine the parameters and settings?
Answer : The Launch templates sets parameters for how the instance will scale when needed.
Answer : This service allows users to easily maintain a truly integrated hybrid cloud experience, by having physical AWS equipment on-prem.
Question : What is AWS Outposts?
Question : What is a passing score on the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam?
Answer: A passing score is at least 70%.
Question: Which component is used to determine the subnet type is public or private?
Answer : In the route tables, you will define if your subnet has access to the internet.
Question: What is the maximum number of managed policies that can be assigned to a user or role in IAM?
Answer : There can be 10 managed policies assigned to a user.
Answer : This AWS offering is an object storage service that delivers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance?
Question : What is Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Answer : This AWS services allows for the use of containerized web apps, API services, backend web services, websites, and more without requiring expertise with containers or management of the underlying infrastructure.
Question : What is AWS App Runner?
Question : Block storage is also commonly known as what?
Answer: Volume storage. Your typical, familiar way for storage on most personal computers and servers.
Question : How many default VPC and non-default VPCs are you able to have?
Answer : There can be only one default VPC, and three additional non-default VPCs, for a total of 4.
Question : Which not-for-profit enterprise has a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and provides education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing?
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
Question : What is the name of the command line interface that can emulate Powershell, BaSH, and Zshell?
Answer : CloudShell
Question : Which of the following AWS services acts like a DHCP for the AWS Cloud Platform?
Answer : Amazon VPC IP Address Manager
Question : What does the acronym stand for : AMI
Answer: AMI is Amazon Machine Image. A basic template of common Hardware and Operating system configurations.
Question : What is the fastest and most reliable way to connect to AWS Services?
Answer : Direct Connect
Question : Which of the following tools is used to show how healthcare information is maintained within the cloud environment?
Answer : AWS Business Associate Addendum
Answer : This aspect of Elastic load balancing (ELB) is the most common frontend for the Auto Scaling target group and it's for load balancing HTTP and HTTPS traffic for delivering modern application architectures.
Question : What is Application Load Balancer?
Answer : This AWS service reduces downtime and data loss by offering fast, dependable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS in the event of IT disruptions.
Question : What is AWS CloudEndure?