Security
What are the four layers of security?
Infrastructure Layer
Perimeter Layer
Environmental Layer
Data Layer
We work safely or __________
Not at all
What are all the controlled areas?
Green Zone, Yellow Zone, Red Zone
When was the first Hard Drive Created?
Hard drives were invented by IBM in 1956 with a max capacity of 4.4 to 5 MB
Fun fact: Amazon still uses Magnetic Tape for Amazon S3 Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive Services.
What year was AWS established?
March 14, 2006, marking its entry into the cloud computing market with its Simple Storage Service (S3).
What is a Blue or Orange Badge?
Badge is issued to AWS employees working in data centers, and it uses Radio Frequency Identification technology
What are the main PPE requirements?
Foot Protection
Hand Protection
Eye Protection
Hearing Protection
What is the name of the internal tool to submit access levels?
Optics
What is the hot aisle?
In AWS data centers, air flows from the "cold aisle" where you work, through the servers, and exits into this type of aisle where it's much warmer.
In what year was the first data center widely considered to have been built?
1945–1946 to house the US military's ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) at the University of Pennsylvania. To house what's considered to be the first general purpose computer, weighing in at 30 tons. Covering 400 - 1300sq ft.
What is "Don't Panic, Wait for Security, and Documentation
three-step alarm procedure tells you to engage security, wait, and contact leadership if you trigger a door alarm
What are the three emergency exit devices?
Panic Bar
Thumb Turn
Break Glass Unit
What are the five steps to complete after getting a door alarm?
Don't Panic, Wait, Engage Security, Documentation, Contact Leadership
When was the first GPU widely considered to have been created?
Announced on August 31, 1999, and released in October 1999. The Nvidia GeForce 256.
What are Availability Zones (or AZs)?
AWS groups multiple data centers in a geographic area into one of these, which are isolated locations using separate power, cooling, and networking for redundancy.
What is Clean In/Clean Out?
CICO is enforced at screening checkpoints when entering or exiting Red Zones
Where do we meet in the time of an evacuation?
Muster Point (designated assembly point)
What is the average speed limit in DC green zone?
10 MPH
(*Don’t be in a hurry. Take
your time and drive
slow.*) --Peccy
When was the first commercially available single-chip CPU released to the public?
November 15, 1971 by Intel Corporation: Intel 4004
AWS Data Centers utilize millions of Xeon Intel CPUs
What Percent of the world's currency is purely digital?
Roughly 90% of the world's currency is purely digital, existing only on computers, while over 5,000 new viruses are released every month. The very first computer bug was a literal moth trapped in the Harvard Mark II in 1947, and the first computer mouse, invented in 1964, was made of wood
What are DFO (Door Forced Open), DHO (Door Held Open), and APB (Anti-Pass Back)?
Three types of door alarms that can result from improper badging procedures
What is Austin?
Reports on safety incidents
What is the proper steps to badging in/ out of secures areas
Stop, Knock, Badge, Pin,
Point, Proceed and Shut
the Door
In square feet, how much land does the largest Data Center Facility ever built cover? Reference: A Football field is 57,600 square feet.
The China Telecom-Inner Mongolia Information Park in Hohhot, China, is widely considered the largest data center in the world by area, covering over 10.7 million square feet.
When was the sea-cable deployed for the internet?
The first transatlantic fiber-optic cable, known as TAT-8, was deployed and went live in 1988. This cable connected the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, marking the beginning of high-speed digital data transmission under the ocean, enabling the modern internet.