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QUESTION 1

Scalable

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S3 Storage

QUESTION 2

Amazon Glacier

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low cost archive

QUESTION 3

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Beanstalk)

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Persistent block storage for Amazon EC2

QUESTION 4

Amazon EC2 Instance Storage

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Temporary block storage

QUESTION 5

AWS Storage Gateway

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On premises IT environment integration with cloud storage

QUESTION 6

Snowball

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large data volume data transfer

QUESTION 7

Amazon Cloudfront

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Global content delivery can be used to deliver entire website dynamic static streaming and interactive content Using a global network of edge locations.

QUESTION 8

Cloud computing advantage - Money

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- Trade capital expense for variable expense - Pay only when you consume resources - Pay only per how much you consume - min / sec / hr / GB /TB

QUESTION 9

Cloud computing advantage - Godzilla

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- Benefit from massive economies of scale

QUESTION 10

Cloud computing advantage - Guess

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- Stop guessing about capacity - scales to business needs - no long term contracts

QUESTION 11

Cloud computing advantage - The Flash

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- scales infinitely with demand - Acloud guru was built in 3 weeks using serverless architecture

QUESTION 12

Cloud computing advantage - Samson

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- focus on your strengths - let someone else manage infrastructure for you

QUESTION 13

Cloud computing advantage - Earth

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- go global in minutes - deploy app in multiple regions around the world in a few clicks - lower cost - lower latency - better experience

QUESTION 14

Infrastructure As A Service (IAAS) - Amazon - Rackspace

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- I manage the server and OS - Data provider has no access to server

QUESTION 15

Platform As A Service (PAAS) - GoDaddy

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- Someone else manages H/W & S/W - I focus on my app - Someone else manages - security - patching - updates - maintenance

QUESTION 16

Software As A Service (SAAS) - Gmail

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- I manage my inbox - Google takes care of everything else

QUESTION 17

Public Cloud - AWS - Azure - GCP

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Available to all

QUESTION 18

Hybrid Cloud

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Mixture of public and private

QUESTION 19

Private Cloud (On Premise) - Openstact -VMWare

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Managed in your data center

QUESTION 20

Region

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Geographical area - 2 or more Availability Zones

QUESTION 21

Availability Zones

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Many data centers

QUESTION 22

Edge Location

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CDN Endpoints for Cloudfront Location where content will be cached This is separate from an AWS Region/AZ

QUESTION 23

Developer Support Plan

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- $ 29 / Month - 12 / 24 Hour response

QUESTION 24

Business Support Plan

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- $100 / month - 24 x 7 access - 1 hour response

QUESTION 25

Enterprise Support Plan

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- 15K / Month - 15 minute response - Tam

QUESTION 26

Access AWS Platform in 3 ways

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- Console - Command Line - SDK

QUESTION 27

Root Account

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Email account you used to set up account

QUESTION 28

Root Account Features

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- Full Admin Access - Do not give account credentials away - create user for each individual - use MFA to secure root account

QUESTION 29

Group

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- Place to store users that inherit all permissions of the group - developers - sa's - hr

QUESTION 30

Group policy

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Set up with JSON

QUESTION 31

JSON

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Key Value Pairs - { "name" : "MikeMcMac1" } - between the brackets

QUESTION 32

S3 Bucket

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Place to store objects - directory on a computer accessible from anywhere in the world - console - command line

QUESTION 33

S3 Unique Name Space

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Each object has a unique name

QUESTION 34

S3 is object based

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Files only

QUESTION 35

S3 suitability for OS

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S3 is not suitable for installing operating systems

QUESTION 36

HTTP 200

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successful S3 uploads result in this status code

QUESTION 37

SSL

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Encrypt objects in transit to S3

QUESTION 38

REST

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Encrypt object at REST

QUESTION 39

S3 data

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Current

QUESTION 40

Glacier data

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Archive 3 - 5 Hour retrieval time

QUESTION 41

Bucket Policies

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Restrict access to entire bucket you can make entire s3 buckets public

QUESTION 42

ACL (Access Control Lists)

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Restrict access to individual objects (files)

QUESTION 43

Transfer Acceleration

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Upload files to edge locations and Amazon transfers the files, over there internal network, to buckets.

QUESTION 44

Bucket viewing

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Globally you can also have buckets in individual regions

QUESTION 45

Universal Name Space

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Names have to be unique You can not have the same name as someone else

QUESTION 46

Private

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Newly created buckets are private

QUESTION 47

Cross Region Replication

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Replicate the contents on one bucket to another bucket automatically

QUESTION 48

The Fly

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You can change the storage class and encryption level of your objects on the fly

QUESTION 49

Static Website hosting

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html

QUESTION 50

ARN

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Amazon Resource Name

QUESTION 51

Wordpress websites

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requiring database connections can not be hosted on S3

QUESTION 52

S3 Scales to meet demand

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orgs may place static websites on S3 when they anticipate large numbers of requests (for instance the Bond movie)

QUESTION 53

Cloudfront

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Amazon's -CDN - Content Delivery Network

QUESTION 54

CDN

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network (system of distributed servers) that deliver web pages and other web content to a user

QUESTION 55

Cloudfront content delivery factors (users)

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Geographic location Origin of the webpage Content delivery server

QUESTION 56

Origin

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origin of all the files that the CDN will distribute.

QUESTION 57

Origin Types

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S3 Bucket EC2 Instance Elastic Load Balancer Route 53

QUESTION 58

Distribution

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Name given to the CDN which consists of a collection of Edge Locations.

QUESTION 59

Cloudfront Requests

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for content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance

QUESTION 60

Cloudfront with non-AWS origin servers

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Seamless non-AWS servers that store original, definitive versions of your files.

QUESTION 61

Cloudfront Optimization

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works with other AWS services - S3 - EC2 - Elastic Load Balancer - Route 53.

QUESTION 62

Cloudfront distribution types

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Web Distribution - websites RTMP - Used for Media Streaming

QUESTION 63

Amazon EC2

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Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute

QUESTION 64

EC2

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Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud

QUESTION 65

EC2 Advantage

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reduces time required to obtain and boot new server instances in minutes allowing you to quickly scale capacity up or down as required

QUESTION 66

On Demand Instances

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Allow you to pay a fixed rate by the hour (or by the second) with no commitment.

QUESTION 67

Reserved Instances

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Provide you with a capacity reservation, and offers discount on the hourly charge for an instance. 1 Year or 3 Year terms

QUESTION 68

Spot instance

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Apps with flexible start and end times Apps that are only feasible at very low compute prices Users with urgent computing needs for large amounts of additional capacity Pricing moves up and down all the time like the stock market If bid price is exceeded then computing stops Else If bid price is < = spot price THEN computing continues

QUESTION 69

Dedicated Hosts

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Physical EC2 server dedicated for your use. reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses.

QUESTION 70

On Demand scenario

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Users that want the low cost and flexibility of Amazon EC2 without any up-front payment or long-term commitment Applications with short term, spiky or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted Applications being developed or tested on Amazon EC2 for the first time.

QUESTION 71

Reserved Scenario

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Applications with steady state or predictable usage Applications that require reserved capacity Users able to make upfront payments to reduce their total computing costs even further Standard RI's (Up to 75% off on demand) Convertible RI's (Up to 54% off on demand) capability to change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of RI's of => Value Scheduled Ri's available to launch within the time window you reserve. This option allows you to match your capacity reservation to a predictable recurring schedule that only requires a fraction of a day, a week, or a month.

QUESTION 72

Dedicated Hosts Instance

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Useful for regulatory requirements that may not support multi-tenant virtualization. Great for licensing which does not support multi-tenacy or cloud deployments. Can be purchased On-Demand (hourly) Can be purchased as a Reservation for up to 70% off the On-Demand price.

QUESTION 73

Spot Pricing

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If terminated by Amazon EC2 then you are not charged for partial hour usage. If you terminate the instance yourself, you are charged for any hour in which the instance ran.

QUESTION 74

D2

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Dense Storage Fileservers/Data Warehousing/Hadoop

QUESTION 75

R4

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Memory Optimized Memory Intensive Apps/DBs

QUESTION 76

M4

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General Purpose App Servers

QUESTION 77

C4

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Compute Optimized CPU Intensive Apps/DB's

QUESTION 78

G2

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Graphics Intensive Video Encoding/3D Application Streaming

QUESTION 79

I2

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High Speed Storage NoSQL DBs, Data Warehousing

QUESTION 80

F1

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Field Programmable Gate Array Hardware acceleration for your code.

QUESTION 81

T2

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Lowest Cost, General Purpose Web Servers/Small Dbs

QUESTION 82

P2

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Graphics/General Purpose GPU Machine Learning, Bit Coin Mining etc

QUESTION 83

X1

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Memory Optimized SAP HANA/Apache Spark

QUESTION 84

EBS

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Elastic Block Storage allows you to create storage volumes and attach them to Amazon EC2 instances. Once attached you can create a file system on top of these volumes. 4:14

QUESTION 85

EC2 features

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It is a server It is not serverless

QUESTION 86

EC2 connections

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Private key

QUESTION 87

Security Groups

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Virtual Firewalls

QUESTION 88

SSH

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22

QUESTION 89

HTTP

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80

QUESTION 90

HTTPS

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443

QUESTION 91

RDP

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