AWS Security
AWS Services
AWS Monitoring Tools
AWS Pricing Models
Cloud Architecture Design Principles
100

Identity Access Management, Infrastructure Security, and Key Management are the basis of this AWS concept.

What is the AWS Security Triad?

100

These are the main three types of Cloud Computing.

What are IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS?

100

This monitoring tool gathers insights and metrics for AWS workloads.

What is CloudWatch?

100

The benefits of this concept include more efficient IT staff, lower cost of operations, less time to deploy storage.

What are Cloud Economics?

100

This type of software allows a computer to run multiple operating systems or containers.

What is a hypervisor?

200

This AWS service generates and manages cryptographic keys, guard keys, and monitors key usage.

What is Key Management Service?

200

This storage type supports most modern data storage, manages data using file systems, and is ideal for local storage and high-performance transactional workloads.

What is Block or Volume storage?

200

This is a monitoring tool to assess, audit, and evaluate AWS resource configurations.

What is AWS Config

200

This model includes resources that have no cost to try up to 12 months or always.

What is the Free Tier?

200

This type of hypervisor runs on top of another machine’s OS. It includes platforms such as Virtual Box, VMWare, and Hyper V.

What is a Type 2 Hypervisor?

300

By maintaining strict access to its data centers physically and access to its online network, AWS provides this for its customers.

What is Infrastructure Security?

300

This type of compute as a service uses Amazon Machine Instances, allowing customers to choose between a variety of server images to deploy.

What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

300

To monitor account activity and review audit logs, you would use this monitoring tool.

What is CloudTrail?

300

This model allows customers to easily adapt, scale quickly, and adopt new technology.

What is Pay-As-You-Go?

300

A Type 1 Hypervisor is also known as this?

What is Bare-metal hypervisor?

400

The principle of least privilege, separation of duties, and AWS Single Sign On (SSO) are all part of this security principle.

What is Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

400

Services in this category, include relational, key-value, and ledger, to name a few.

What are Database Services?

400

This monitoring tool provides a single console to aggregate and prioritize security alerts form multiple security services.

What is AWS Security Hub?

400

This model allows extra cost-savings when you arrange for certain resources to be available.

What is Save-When-You-Reserve

400

This is the highest level of user access and should never be used to access resources in AWS.

What is the root account?

500

The division of security between the customer and AWS is described by this concept.

What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?

500

This type of storage is used to store large amounts of unstructured data. It is accessed using URL and API calls.

What is Object-based (Blob) storage?

500

This set of tools are used to manage cloud finances, increase expenditure awareness, and help deploy cost-effective resources.

What are AWS Optimization Tools

500

This model benefits from the economy of scale and offers volume-based discounts.

What is Pay-Less-When-You-Use-More

500

For each account in AWS, you can have this number of Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), including the default VPC.

What is 5?