The Well-Architected Pillars Introduction

The Five Pillars

100

This Pillar deals with protecting information, systems, and assets.

Security

200

This Pillar focuses on avoiding or eliminating unneeded costs and suboptimal resources.

Cost Optimization

300

This Pillar deals with using computing resources to efficiently meet system requirements.

Performance Efficiency

400

This Pillar seeks to deliver business value by continually improving supporting processes.

Operational Excellence

500

This Pillar concerns itself in part with dynamically acquiring resources to meet demand.

Reliability

General Design Principles

100

One principle is to drive your architecture using _____ .

Data

200

This design principle tells you to scale up and down automatically.

Stop guessing your capacity needs

300

Why can't you test systems at production scale on-premises?

Cost

400

This design principle leads to businesses being able to take advantage of new innovations as standard practice.

Allow for evolutionary architectures

500

This is the design principle that encourages simulation of events in production to test how your architecture and processes perform.

Improve through game days

Design Principles of OE

100

You should make frequent, ____, reversible changes

small

200

You should perform operations with ____ .

code

300

Although it sounds silly at first, this principle tells you to automate something the programmer usually writes by hand

Annotate documentation

400

Part of anticipating failure is this exercise where you identify sources of failure and test response procedures.

pre-mortem

500

This pillar tells us to set up regular game days to review our architecture.

Refine standard operations procedures frequently

Best Practices of OE

100

Which OE best practice tells you to manage operational events with efficiency and effectiveness.

Operate

200

Which best practice tells you to dedicate work cycles to making continuous incremental improvements.

Evolve

300

This best practice uses CloudWatch the most of the three best practices to monitor application, platform, and infrastructure components.

Prepare

400

When implementing the Evolve best practice, the developer tool names all start with what 4-letter word?  (Except for X-Ray)

Code

500

This service was mentioned in several places as a way to analyze log data.

X-Ray

Potpourri

100

This framework focuses on evaluating architectures using a consistent set of principles.

The Well-Architected Framework

200

Name any ONE of the information that the Well-Architected Framework does NOT provide according to Module 8?

Implementation details, arch patterns, or relevant case studies

300

This question related to continuous improvement, feedback loops, lessons learned (analysis), and reviewing operations metrics.

How do you evolve operations?

400

Which service has not (to my knowledge) appeared anywhere else in this course besides in the Service best practice?

Elasticsearch

500

Completely off-slide, the reader talks about management planes which are the control plane, the data plane, and the _____ plane.

Management