Getting Started
What is the difference between a User Guide and a Developer Guide on the AWS Docs site?
A Developer Guide tells you how to code against the service, while a User Guide tells you how to operate the service. (Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/?icmpid=docs_homepage_featuredsvcs )
In the Lambda Developer Guide, find the tutorial for “Hello World with Serverless Framework.” Which two AWS services does it use?
Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda function.(Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/serverless-example.html )
In the Amazon RDS documentation, what are the five supported database engines?
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server
Source:(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concepts.DBInstanceClass.Support.html )
In the AWS Organizations documentation, what is a management account?
A management account is the AWS account you use to create your organization. (Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs-manage_accounts_management.html )
In the AWS SDKs and Tools Reference, what is one example of an SDK for a mobile platform?
What kind of pricing does AWS offer and what are its benefits?
Pay-as-you-go pricing; allows you to easily adapt to changing business needs without overcommitting budgets and improving your responsiveness to changes. (Source: https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/ )
What are the fundamental capabilities of Automatic Scaling?
Each Lambda function can scale up to 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds incrementally, until reaching the account's concurrency limit. (Source: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/features/ )
What can Database Solutions on AWS be used for in advanced features?
high availability, disaster recovery, and global distribution (Source: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/databases/ )
What are the two types of log classes CloudWatch offers and what features do they support?
CloudWatch Logs Standard log class supports all CloudWatch Logs features; CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access log class supports a subset of the Standard class capabilities. (Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/WhatIsCloudWatchLogs.html )
What is the AWS CLI environmental variable that specifies an AWS access key associated with an IAM account.
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID (Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-envvars.html )
How can AWS be a great choice?
AWS gives you the greatest choice and flexibility by offering the broadest and deepest set of cloud capabilities to build optimized solutions that balance performance and cost-effectiveness.
(Source: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/?nc1=f_cc )
List the 3 services under Cost Optimization.
AWS Savings Plan, AWS Compute Optimizer, Amazon EC2 Spot (Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/compute-on-aws-how-to-choose/?icmpid=docs_homepage_compute)
How does Amazon DynamoDB manage a database?
It handles setup, configurations, maintenance, high availability, hardware provisioning, security, backups, monitoring, and more. (Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Introduction.html )
Model Monitor provides the following types of monitoring:
Data quality, Model quality, Bias drift for models in production, Feature attribution drift for models in production (Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/model-monitor.html )
What is Application Integration?
Application integration on AWS is a suite of services that enable communication between decoupled components within microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. (Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/application-integration.html )