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AWS CLF-C02
AWS Cloud Practitioner
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a ALB | Application Load Balancer |
| What does ALB protect | HTTPS/HTTP layer 7 |
| What is NLB | Network Load Balancer |
| What does NLB protect | UDP/TCS |
| What does CROPSS (The Pillars) stand for | Cost optimization, Reliability , Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiency, Security, Sustainability |
| What is auto scaling | Horizontally scaling by increasing instances, reboots unhealthy instances |
| Security Groups | Protects the instance, stateful, blocks in bound by default, traffic allowed in is allowed out, explicitly deny, rules can be modified anytime |
| NACL stands for | Network access control list |
| NACLs | Protects subnet, stateless, allows inbound and outbound default, rules can be modified after dissociation |
| What is Direct Connect | Connects network directly to the AWS Cloud (Storage/Transit Gateways) |
| SaaS | Software as a service, requires no instillation, simple easy |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service, Configure everything except hardware , volume and storage |
| PaaS | Platform as a service, focuses on application level coding, DevOps related |
| Scalability | Increase/ decrease by usage with users |
| Elastic | Increase /decrease by compute resources on demand |
| ECR (Elastic container Registery) | Stores Docker Images to be deployed by ECS |
| Amazon Machine Image (AMI) | Is a template for EC2 instance |
| Elastic Beanstalk | Deploys apps without managing, it handles hardware, Like PAAS |
| Elastic Block Store (EBS) | Allows to add blocks to EC2 to share more permanent storage , for frequent updates , has SSD and HD drives |
| Elastic File Store (EFS) | Like File system , allow access parallel across AZ like Google docs mount on ec2 |
| Simple Storage Service (S3) | Unlimited size, object bucket storage, fast read and writes , 100 max |
| S3 sizes | 0-5TB |
| 6 Types of S3 (ITs GF S O SIt GIRl) | Intelligence tiering, Glacier Flexible, standard, standard infrequent, glacier instant removal, outpost |
| Dynamo DB | NoSQL non relational Database, is Key-Value |
| Aurora | SQL relational Database, unlimited compute and storage |
| Amazon RDS | SQL Relational Database, on dedicated hardware in AWS, no pen test and automated backups |
| MemoryDB for Redis | In memory Database for fast read and writes |
| Amazon Redshift | Petabyte warehouse Relational DB |
| Storage Gateway | Hybrid storage , acts as a staging area for data to upload to AWS, reduce cost of transfer |
| Quantum Ledger Database QLDB | Fully Managed, No SQL database |
| Neptune DB | Fully managed, Graph , no SQL |
| AWS Keyspace | Fully managed, serverless for apace Kassandra |
| CIDR sizes | /16(largest) to /28 (smallest) |
| Notions for AZs | Sa-East-1a |
| A region contains | 1 or more Azs |
| DaaS | Desktop as a. Service (WorkSpaces) |
| How are AZs connected | Low latency networks |
| Root user | Is to create admin accounts only when necessary |
| Simple Queue service SQS | Stores messages until it’s read, processes until timeout, |
| Simple Notification Service SNS | Subscribers are lambda and email , publishers are Cloud Front |
| Web Applications Firewall WAF | Prevents common web attacks layer 7 |
| AWS Sheild | Stops DDOS, in layer 3 4, and use with WAF |
| Amazon Inspector | Analyze EC2 instances |
| Amazon guard Duty | Uses AI to look at CloudTrail |
| Amazon Maice | Scans s3 for sensitive info |
| What is EC2 | Virtual Server instance that has ephemeral storage |
| Amazon Cloud Front | Content Delivery network that sends data to edge location for faster loading think Netflix can change content language based on location |
| AWS Global Accelerator | Directs web traffic to make loading faster, |
| Route 53 | Domain Name service can route to S3 or EC2 or other domains |
| Cloud formation | Templates can be made for pay SDKs version control |
| Cloud Trail | Monitor/Audit ,track API usage, track users threats and vulnerabilities stored in S3 |
| Cloud Watch | Watches utilization, health , performance, notify when events occur |
| Virtualization allows you to | Reduce expenses and pool Resources |
| Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) | Build from beginning, migrate to AWS or adopt |
| Principle of least privilege | Only have access to what you need |
| Aws artifact | Comply with security standard and compliance reports , you are still responsible for infrastructure, track status of agreements |
| Infrastructure as code Iaac | Allows users to specify config and deploy when needed Bean stalk, lambda, cloud formation |
| Amazon lightSail | Helps get started with simple projects, you specify infrastructure |
| Snow family | Snow cone(14TB) snowball (80-14TB) snowmobile(100Petabytes) |
| SageMaker | Helps build maintain deploy ML models |
| Amazon Lex | Voice assistant and chat box AI |
| Amazon Kendra | Intelligent search ML NLP |
| Data Lake | Store structured and unstructured data with analytics s3 |
| Amazon Athena | Analyze s3 data lake |
| AWS glue | Uses diverse data sets and cleans them |
| Amazon Kinesis | Collects and processes realtime LARGE data in shards into Dynamo DB |
| Transit Gateway | Connects VPC 1:1 |
| FSx is for | Niche Windows applications , luster for Linux, Ontap, open zfs |
| Classic load balancer | Is like ALB and NLB it’s is not supported |
| AWS certificate manager | Manages ssl and tls certificates |
| AWS Service Catalog | Catalog of AWS resources |
| AWS Step functions | No code state machine that manage workflows |
| Economy of scale means to | Save when you buy more |
| AWS Directory service allows | Connect aws resources to Microsoft Active Directory |
| VPC Peering | connects virtual private clouds |
| VPC flow logs collect | Information about IP traffic coming and going |
| Bastion Hosts | Connect private subnets to the Internet |
| Types of ELBs | ALB AND NLB |
| What ELB is better for high traffic | NLB |
| AWS Management Console contains | Regions and Services |
| Cloud watch uses what to initiate | Alarms |
| Fargate is to | Run containers without managing servers or clusters |
| Elastic Container Service(ECS) | Allows you to run docker enable applications , uses files stored on ecr |
| AWS Billing and Cost Management contains | Billing and payments, cost analysis, cost organization, budget and planning, savings and commitments |
| In Cost Analysis there is AWS Cost Explorer what does it do | Analyze cost using visuals filtering and grouping. And forecast costs 12 months ahead and behind CURRENT SERVICE |
| What is a cost allocation tag | A tag that can organize and view items in Cost Explorer |
| What are Budgets | Govern cost and usage across organization and receive alert when exceeding defined thresholds |
| What is AWS Organization | Consolidated Billing which is good for easy tracking, combined usage and no extra fee |
| AWS Pricing Calculator | Tool to create cost estimates for for complex services like EC2. They can be organized into Groups BEFORE BUILDING |
| What are Quotas | Limits placed on a service |
| What can Developer plan do | Trusted Advisors, Business hours support,$29 |
| What can Business plan do | Trusted Advisors , 24/7 support, if you have prod, $100 |
| What can Enterprise OnRamp do | Trusted Advisors , Technical Account Manager, 24/7 support, if you.have prod and business critical , $5,500 |
| What can Enterprise do | Trusted Advisors , Technical Account Manager , 24/7 support, mission critical workload, $15,000 |
| EFS vs EBS | Efs is more available and managed, ebs is faster and cheaper exists in one region |
| What does CIDR stand for | Classless inter domain routing |
| What is CIDR used for | Assigning IP Adresses in vpc |
| What is accounted for in S3 costs | Lifecycle transitions and data transfer from regions |
| What is the pricing model for EC2 Linux | Per second |
| What activities are covered by AWS Support | Third-party config and api troubleshooting |
| What can be configured through VPC console | Security groups and NACL |
| Amazon url | .aws.amazon.com |
| What’s involved in SAML workflow | Service providers and identity providers |
| What is AppStream | Flexible low latency service that lets you stream resource intensive apps and games from cloud |
| AWS Systems Manager- Application Management -Application Manager | helps DevOps engineers investigate and remediate issues |
| AWS Systems Manager- Application Management -AppConfig | helps you create, manage, and deploy application configurations and feature flags. Lambda, mobile applications, or edge devices. |
| AWS Systems Manager- Application Management -Parameter Store | provides secure, hierarchical storage for configuration data and secrets management |
| AWS Systems Manager- Change Management - Change Manager | framework for requesting, approving, implementing, and reporting on operational changes |
| AWS Systems Manager- Change Management - Automation | automate common maintenance and deployment tasks such as AMI and reset Passwords |
| AWS Systems Manager- Change Management - Change Calendar | set up date and time ranges when actions you specify can or can't be performed, like automation |
| AWS Systems Manager- Change Management - Maintenance window | set up recurring schedules for managed instances to run administrative tasks |
| AWS Systems Manager- Node Management - Compliance | scan your fleet of managed nodes for patch compliance and configuration inconsistencies. aggregate data from multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions |
| AWS Systems Manager- Node Management | A managed node is any machine configured for use with Systems Manager in hybrid and multicloud environments. |
| AWS Systems Manager- Node Management - Fleet Manager | you can view the health and performance status of your entire fleet from one console |
| AWS Systems Manager- Node Management - Inventory | automates the process of collecting software inventory from your managed node |
| AWS Systems Manager- Node Management - Session Manager | manage your all edge devices and EC2 instances |
| AWS Systems Manager- Node Management - Run Command | remotely and securely manage the configuration of your managed nodes at scale |
| AWS Systems Manager- Node Management - State Manager | automate the process of keeping your managed nodes in a defined state |
| AWS Systems Manager- Node Management - Patch Manager | automate the process of patching your managed nodes |
| AWS Systems Manager- Node Management - Distributor | create and deploy packages to managed nodes |
| AWS Systems Manager- Node Management - Hybrid Activation | To set up non-EC2 machines in your hybrid and multicloud environment as managed nodes |
| AWS Systems Manager- Operation Management - Incident Manager | helps users mitigate and recover from incidents, notifying responders of impact, highlighting relevant troubleshooting data |
| AWS Systems Manager- Operation Management - Explorer | customizable operations dashboard that reports information about your AWS resources |
| AWS Systems Manager- Operation Management - OpsCenter | view, investigate, and resolve OpsItems related to AWS resources. designed to reduce time to resolution |
| AWS Systems Manager- Operation Management - CloudWatch Dashboards | monitor your resources in a single view |
| AWS Systems Manager- Quick SetUp | configure frequently used AWS services and features with recommended best practices |
| QuickSight | business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to deliver easy-to-understand insights |
| What can be optimized based on instances | CPU, memory, storage, and networking |
| What are Spot Instances | when AWS has extra space, 90% off from On-Demand, but may be interrupted |
| What are On-Demand Instances | Instances that are available On demand if user most expensive (by sec or hour) |
| What are Reserved Instances | fixed price for a set period of time (1 or 3 years) , 72% off from On-Demand |
| What are savings Plans | 72% off fromOn-Demand, flexibility in usage changes |
| What are the types of Reserved Instances | Convertible and Standard |
| What services uses savings Plans | EC2, Lambda, Fargate, Sage Maker |
| What Services use On-Demand Instances | EC2, Athena, RDS, Fargate, EKS/EKS/ECR |
| What Services use Reserved Instances | all the DBs |
| What Services use Spot Instances | EC2 |
| What’ are global services | Cloud Front, Global Accelerator, Route 53 |
| Aws code star | Build deploy develop and jira manage code |
| Reserved instance utilization report | For billing and utilization report |
| Operational expenditure | How much it cost to operate |
| Capital expenditure | How much it cost to maintain the land |
| Amazon Cognito | Federated authentication |
| Amazon CDK | Cloud development Kit is for IAC rescources |
| Amazon SDK | Software development kit libraries to integrate with aws apis |
| Amazon RDS traits | Automated backup, patching, failure detection, recovery |
| Cost and usage repot | CSV of users usage consumption and expenses |
| Disaster recovery | Backup and restore(hours)pilot light (data live /mins), warm standby (mins running small), multi site (most expensive) |
| After verifying and authenticating identity | Authorization determines what can be accessed |
| AWS XRAY | Debug analyze microservice |
| AWS Control Tower | Set up a well architected framework |
| What’s is a in line policy | A 1:1 policy to group role |
| AWS codeCommit | Source control/version control |
| What are origins in CloudFont | Contains Content to deliver |
| Amazon Detective | Analyze and Identify potential threats |
| How many versions of S3 will Amazon keep | Unlimited |
| Cheapest s3 class | One zone infrequent access |
| Glacier retrieval times | Bulk 5-12 hours, standard 3-5hours, expedited 1-5mins |
| Open what secure port for firewall | 443 |