Section 1
What is an ACL (Access Control List)?
A firewall/security layer on the subnet level
what are Buckets
Root-level “folders”
What is CloudFront
It is a CDN, which allows you to store your content all around the world.
what is an Elastic Block Store
It Provides persistent block storage volumes for use of EC2 instances
What is High Availability
Refers to how durable and resilient your services will be.
what is Lamba?
It is serverless computing that will replace EC2 instances.
Which AWS services can be used to store files?
Amazon S3, Amazon EBS
Which service should an administrator use to register a new domain name?
Amazon Route 53
Which of the following is the responsibility of the AWS customer according to the shared security model
IAM
When is it ok to perform penetration testing on EC2 instances?
After receiving authorization from AWS, and on your own instance
What are the requirements for creating security groups as the customer?
Giving a name and description, and defining the rules of the group
Where do you create snapshots of EC2 instances in another geographical location?
In another region
Where do elastic load balancers distribute traffic to
EC2 inscances
What is Auto scaling
the process of scaling resources based on demand
what AWS tool is used to determine the cost of moving to AWS
AWS TCO calculator
What tool is used to call AWS services from programming languages
AWS SDK
What is a secure way to call AWS services from EC2 instances
using IAM Roles
what 2 ways does AWS allow linked accounts
Consolidating Billing, AWS organizations
what 2 AWS products can aid in DDos protection
Cloudfront, AWS Shield
How can you add an extra layer of protection on top of using user names and passwords?
MFA
Which disaster recovery deploymend mechanism has the lowest downtime?
Warm Standby
Which AWS service provides object level storage
Amazon S3
What networking component can be used to host EC2
AWS VPC
Which component of cloudfront distributes content across the globe
Edge Locations
Which AWS service is used to collect important metrics from AWS RDS and EC2 instances
Amazon CloudWatch