2024 AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification (A+ Graded Already)

Cloud benefits over on-premises correct answers 1. Trade capital expense for variable expense 2. Massive economies of scale 3. Stop guessing capacity 4. Increase speed and agility 5. Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers 6. Go global in minutes Basic benefits of the cloud correct answers 1. Scalability - ability to resize your resources as necessary. 2. Agility - increasing speed (via global reach), ease of experimentation (via access to new resources) 3. Innovation - experiment quickly 4. Efficiencies of Scale - deploy system in multiple regions around the world providing lower latency, and a better experience for your customers at a minimal cost. 5. Reliability - ability to recover from infrastructure service failures AWS Shared Responsibility Model correct answers 1. User Data 2. Applications 3. Guest Operating System ------------------------------ 4. Hypervisor (virtual machine monitor) 5. Network 6. Physical AWS Cloud correct answers Access to servers, database, storage, higher-level application components in seconds. Treat them as temporary and disposable resources, free from the constraints of fixed and finite IT infrastructure. Reduce risks, auto scale, ensure reliable coverage even in the face of a natural disaster, and secure data. Security Compliance - Responsibility of Customer correct answers Customers are responsible for configuring in secure and controlled way 1. Must review info/resources available to meet compliance requirements 2. Designs/Implements controls owned by outside parties 3. Verifies all control objectives are met Security Compliance - Responsibility of AWS correct answers AWS's approach to compliance: works with 3rd party auditors/agents to provide customers compliant security. 1. Risk management = reevaluate 2x/year (at least) to identify the risk and address them 2. Control environment = internal and external assessments