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AWS Cloud Practitioner
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1[blank_start]Amazon EC2[blank_end] is a service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers on AWS.
- AAmazon EC2
2[blank_start]AWS Elastic Beanstalk[blank_end] is a PaaS service for scaling and deploying web apps and services across a specific list of technologies.
- AAWS Elastic Beanstalk
3[blank_start]AWS Lambda[blank_end] is a service that enables you to use compute resources without having to launch or manage the underlying infrastructure. This is leveraged in serverless architectures.
- AAWS Lambda
4[blank_start]Amazon Route 53[blank_end] is a highly-available DNS service that can be leveraged in creating highly available and fault-tolerant applications.
- AAmazon Route 53
5Amazon Route 53 is a local service and cannot be used in hybrid cloud architecture.
- ATrue
- BFalse
6[blank_start]Amazon VPC[blank_end] is a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.
- AAmazon VPC
7[blank_start]AWS Direct Connect[blank_end] is a cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your data center to AWS. This connection does not go over the public internet.
- AAWS Direct Connect
8[blank_start]Amazon API Gateway[blank_end] is a fully-managed API management service that handles concepts like authentication, logging, and throttling for your API layer.
- AAmazon API Gateway
9[blank_start]Amazon CloudFront[blank_end] is Amazon's global Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that enables your users to get content from a server that is closest to them.
- AAmazon CloudFront
10[blank_start]AWS Global Accelerator[blank_end] is an AWS networking service that routes your traffic through the AWS global network, increasing the overall speed through optimizations by AWS.
- AAWS Global Accelerator
11[blank_start]Elastic Load Balancing[blank_end] is a service that enables you to distribute traffic across multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, and Lambda).
- AElastic Load Balancing
12[blank_start]Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)[blank_end] is a service that provides object storage for objects up to 5 TB in size, with no limit on the total storage.
- AAmazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
13[blank_start]S3 Glacier[blank_end] and [blank_start]Glacier Deep Archive[blank_end] are archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are designed for objects that you need to keep but don't plan to access.
- AS3 Glacier
- BGlacier Deep Archive
14[blank_start]Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)[blank_end] provides persistent block storage designed for use with a single EC2 server. It can scale up to support petabytes of data and supports different volume types.
- AAmazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
15[blank_start]Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)[blank_end] is a fully-managed NFS designed for Linux workloads with support for petabytes of data.
- AAmazon Elastic File System (EFS)
16[blank_start]AWS Snowball[blank_end] provides petabyte-scale data transfer from your data center to AWS. A physical device is delivered to your organization and returned by a local carrier and then loaded into Amazon S3.
- AAWS Snowball
17[blank_start]AWS Snowmobile[blank_end] is an exabyte scale data transfer service where a ruggedized shipping container is sent to your office and AWS personnel setup a connection from your network to the device. You copy the data to the device and it is returned to AWS and loaded into S3.
- AAWS Snowmobile
18[blank_start]Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)[blank_end] is a managed pub/sub messaging service. This can enable fan-out architecture with one message triggering multiple actions.
- AAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
19Amazon SNS is commonly used in a server-based architecture.
- ATrue
- BFalse
20[blank_start]Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)[blank_end] is a managed message queue service. This can enable fault tolerance and serverless applications.
- AAmazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
21Amazon [blank_start]SQS[blank_end] supports standard and [blank_start]FIFO[blank_end] queues.
- ASQS
- BFIFO
22[blank_start]AWS Step Functions[blank_end] manages the orchestration of complex workflows which are defined using Amazon States Language.
- AAWS Step Functions
23AWS Step Functions can be leveraged in a serverless architecture.
- ATrue
- BFalse
24[blank_start]AWS CloudTrail[blank_end] is a service that provides audit trail for all services used in an AWS account.
- AAWS CloudTrail
25AWS CloudTrail provides an audit trail across all interaction methods (AWS Console, AWS CLI, and AWS SDK).
- ATrue
- BFalse
26[blank_start]AWS CloudFormation[blank_end] is a managed service for launching infrastructure based on templates. This approach is known as infrastructure as code.
- AAWS CloudFormation
27AWS CloudFormation provides [blank_start]drift detection[blank_end] to know when infrastructure has veered from what is defined in the template.
- Adrift detection
28[blank_start]AWS OpsWorks[blank_end] is an infrastructure configuration management service that provides a managed service for Chef or Puppet.
- AAWS OpsWorks
29[blank_start]Amazon CloudWatch[blank_end] is a monitoring and management service that integrates with most AWS services. It provides both metrics and alarms based on those metrics. Logging is also provided.
- AAmazon CloudWatch
30[blank_start]AWS Config[blank_end] provides continual analysis of AWS resources to ensure they are meeting the rules defined in the service.
- AAWS Config
31[blank_start]AWS Systems Manager[blank_end] is a service that provides a collection of tools and insight into operational data for central management of cloud or on-premises instances.
- AAWS Systems Manager
32[blank_start]AWS Control Tower[blank_end] is a system that launches a multi-account configuration based on AWS best practices.
- AAWS Control Tower
33[blank_start]Amazon RDS[blank_end] is a managed service for relational databases including support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora.
- AAmazon RDS
34[blank_start]Amazon Aurora[blank_end] is a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database engine for RDS that was built for the cloud.
- AAmazon Aurora
35[blank_start]Amazon Aurora Serverless for RDS[blank_end] is an on-demand, auto-scaling version of Amazon Aurora that does not require managing the underlying infrastructure.
- AAmazon Aurora Serverless for RDS
36[blank_start]Amazon DynamoDB[blank_end] is a fully-managed NoSQL database service that has extremely low latency and scaling, based on configuration.
- AAmazon DynamoDB
37Amazon DynamoDB is commonly used in serverless architectures.
- ATrue
- BFalse
38[blank_start]Amazon Redshift[blank_end] is a managed, petabyte-scale data warehousing solution on AWS
- AAmazon Redshift
39[blank_start]Amazon Redshift Spectrum[blank_end] is a service for querying exabytes of data stored in Amazon S3.
- AAmazon Redshift Spectrum
40[blank_start]Amazon Elasticache[blank_end] is a fully-managed, in-memory data store that supports memcached and Redis engines.
- AAmazon Elasticache
41[blank_start]AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)[blank_end] is a service that enables you to move your data from popular commercial and open source databases easily onto the cloud.
- AAWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
42[blank_start]Auto Scaling Group[blank_end] is an EC2 capability that manages a group of EC2 instances that have rules for automated scaling and management. The service includes health checks for each member of the group.
- AAuto Scaling Group
43[blank_start]Elastic Load Balancing[blank_end] is a service that supports routing traffic across multiple targets, including EC2 instances, Lambda functions, and others.
- AElastic Load Balancing
44[blank_start]Security Groups[blank_end] provide firewall-like controls for EC2 instances within a VPC. They control access for inbound and outbound traffic.
- ASecurity Groups
45EC2 instances can have multiple security groups.
- ATrue
- BFalse
46[blank_start]Network Access Control Lists (ACL)[blank_end] provide control for inbound and outbound traffic within a specific subnet in a VPC. Traffic can be allowed or denied based on custom rules.
- ANetwork Access Control Lists (ACL)
47[blank_start]AWS VPN[blank_end] is a service that supports and encrypted tunnel into a VPC. It can support either site-to-site or client connections.
- AAWS VPN
48[blank_start]AWS Secrets Manager[blank_end] is a service that manages secrets (passwords, keys, tokens, etc.) used in custom applications on AWS. It also supports auto-rotation of credentials on supported AWS services.
- AAWS Secrets Manager
49[blank_start]AWS Service Catalog[blank_end] is a service for offering your organization's pre-defined IT offerings to other members of the organization. It operates in a self-service portal on AWS.
- AAWS Service Catalog
50[blank_start]AWS Marketplace[blank_end] provides a catalog of third-party software offerings that makes it easy to launch pre-defined solutions onto your AWS account.
- AAWS Marketplace
51[blank_start]AWS CodeCommit[blank_end] is a fully-managed source control service that uses Git.
- AAWS CodeCommit
52[blank_start]AWS CodeBuild[blank_end] is a fully-managed build and continuous integration service on AWS.
- AAWS CodeBuild
53[blank_start]AWS CodeDeploy[blank_end] is a fully-managed deployment service for applications running on Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and on-premises servers.
- AAWS CodeDeploy
54[blank_start]AWS CodePipeline[blank_end] is a fully-managed continuous delivery service on AWS for automating building, deploying and testing. It integrates with other developer services.
- AAWS CodePipeline
55[blank_start]AWS CodeStar[blank_end] is a workflow tool for automatic creation of a continuous delivery pipeline for a custom application using the other developer services.
- AAWS CodeStar
56[blank_start]AWS Config[blank_end] is a service that enables you to continually monitor your resources for adherence to best practices.
- AAWS Config
57[blank_start]AWS Artifact[blank_end] is a portal that provides self-service access to AWS compliance reports and agreements you may have with AWS.
- AAWS Artifact
58[blank_start]Amazon GuardDuty[blank_end] is a fully-managed service that continually monitors your AWS account and resources for potential malicious behavior and anomalies.
- AAmazon GuardDuty
59[blank_start]AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)[blank_end] is a service that controls access to AWS resources.
- AAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
60[blank_start]Amazon Cognito[blank_end] is a user directory service for custom applications that can also enable access to AWS resources.
- AAmazon Cognito
61[blank_start]AWS Storage Gateway[blank_end] is a hybrid-cloud storage service that enables companies to take advantage of cloud storage on their local networks.
- AAWS Storage Gateway
62[blank_start]AWS DataSync[blank_end] is an automated data transfer service that efficiently transfers data from your local network to AWS.
- AAWS DataSync
63[blank_start]AWS Glue[blank_end] is a fully-managed, serverless ETL service.
- AAWS Glue
64[blank_start]Amazon EMR[blank_end] is a big-data, cloud-based tool suite using popular open source tools including Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Presto, etc.
- AAmazon EMR
65[blank_start]AWS Data Pipeline[blank_end] is a data workflow orchestration service that supports multiple AWS services providing ETL capabilities.
- AAWS Data Pipeline
66[blank_start]Amazon Athena[blank_end] is a service that enables serverless querying of data stored within Amazon S3 using standard SQL queries.
- AAmazon Athena
67[blank_start]Amazon Quicksight[blank_end] is a fully-managed BI service enabling self-service dashboards for data stored in the cloud.
- AAmazon Quicksight
68[blank_start]Amazon CloudSearch[blank_end] is a managed search service for custom applications.
- AAmazon CloudSearch
69[blank_start]Amazon Rekognition[blank_end] is a computer vision service powered by machine learning that can detect objects in images and video.
- AAmazon Rekognition
70[blank_start]Amazon Translate[blank_end] is a text translation service powered by machine learning that can translate text into many different languages. Text can be translated in streaming or in batch. It also provides language detection.
- AAmazon Translate
71[blank_start]Amazon Transcribe[blank_end] is an audio transcription service powered by machine learning that can transcribe audio (either streaming or batch) in many different languages.
- AAmazon Transcribe
72[blank_start]AWS Shield[blank_end] provides managed DDoS protection service for apps running in AWS.
- AAWS Shield
73[blank_start]AWS Macie[blank_end] is a data classification, protection, and monitoring service powered by machine learning for Amazon S3 data.
- AAWS Macie
74[blank_start]Amazon Inspector[blank_end] is an automated security assessment service for EC2 instances.
- AAmazon Inspector
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- Information Technology Quiz on AWS Cloud Practitioner, created by Jason Shanks on 21/03/2021.
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