Module 3 - Build in Cloud

1. Core Knowledges

  1. Amazon Cloudwatch

  2. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

  3. Elastic Load Balacing

  4. AWS Database Services (Aurora & DynamoDB)

  5. AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

  6. AWS Cloudformation

  7. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

  8. AWS Direct Connect

  9. Amazon Route 53

  10. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

  11. AWS Lambda

  12. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

  13. Amazon Cloudfront

  14. Amazon ElastiCache

2. Quiz

Q1 - What technology enables compute capacity to adjust as loads change?

A. Load balancing

B. Automatic failover

C. Round robin

D. Auto Scaling

Q2 - Which AWS services are defined as global instead of regional? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Route 53

B. Amazon EC2

C. Amazon S3

D. Amazon CloudFront

E. Amazon DynamoDB

Q3 - Which of the following can an AWS customer use to launch a new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) cluster? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Concierge

B. AWS CloudFormation

C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

E. AWS Management Console

Q4 - Which of the following is an important architectural design principle when designing cloud applications?

A. Use multiple Availability Zones.

B. Use tightly coupled components.

C. Use open source software.

D. Provision extra capacity.

Q5 - Which service is best for storing common database query results, which helps to alleviate database access load?

A. Amazon Machine Learning

B. Amazon SQS

C. Amazon ElastiCache

D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store

Q6 - Which of the following features can be configured through the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Dashboard? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon CloudFront distributions

B. Amazon Route 53

C. Security Groups

D. Subnets

E. Elastic Load Balancing

Q7 - Which AWS feature should a customer leverage to achieve high availability of an application?

A. AWS Direct Connect

B. Availability Zones

C. Data centers

D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Q8 - What function do security groups serve related Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance security?

A. Act as a virtual firewall for the Amazon EC2 instance.

B. Secure AWS user accounts with AWS identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.

C. Provide DDoS protection with AWS Shield.

D. Use Amazon CloudFront to protect the Amazon EC2 instance.

Q9 - A company wants to monitor the CPU usage of its Amazon EC2 resources. Which AWS service should the company use?

A. AWS CloudTrail

B. Amazon CloudWatch

C. AWS Cost and Usage report

D. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Q10 - How do Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups help achieve high availability for a web application?

A. They automatically add more instances across multiple AWS Regions based on global demand of the application.

B. They automatically add or replace instances across multiple Availability Zones when the application needs it.

C. They enable the application’s static content to reside closer to end users.

D. They are able to distribute incoming requests across a tier of web server instances.

3. Read More

  1. Amazon CloudWatch* https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/

  2. Amazon CloudTrail* https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/

  3. Auto Scaling https://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/

  4. Elastic Load Blancing* https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/

  5. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)* https://aws.amazon.com/rds/

  6. Amazon Aurora https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/

  7. Amazon DynamoDB https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/

  8. AWS Cloudformation* https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

  9. Cloudfront Dynamic Content https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/dynamic-content/

  10. Elastic Beanstalk* https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

  11. AWS Direct Connect* https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/

  12. Amazon Route 53* https://aws.amazon.com/route53/

  13. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)* https://aws.amazon.com/efs/

  14. AWS Lambda* https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/

  15. Amazon SNS* https://aws.amazon.com/sns/

  16. Amazon Cloudfront* https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

  17. Amazon ElastiCache* https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/

  18. AWS Config https://aws.amazon.com/config/

  19. AWS CodeCommit https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/

  20. AWS OpsWorks https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/

  21. AWS Batch https://aws.amazon.com/batch/

  22. AWS CodeDeploy https://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/

  23. AWS X-Ray https://aws.amazon.com/xray/

  24. AWS System Manager https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/

  25. AWS Network ACLs https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-network-acls.html

  26. VPC Peering https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/peering/what-is-vpc-peering.html

  27. Real time account monitoring https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/real-time-insights-account-activity/

  28. VPC Security https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Security.html

  29. How Amazon Cloudwatch works https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch_architecture.html

  30. AWS Direct Connect Partners https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/partners/

  31. How ELB works? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/how-elastic-load-balancing-works.html#cross-zone-load-balancing

  32. What is NLB? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/introduction.html

  33. AWS PrivateLink https://aws.amazon.com/privatelink/

  34. AWS Serverless Getting Started https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/deep-dive-serverless/