2024 AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
ASSOCIATE EXAM (KEY TERMS)
WITH VALID ANSWERS
S3 Acronym - CORRECT-ANSWERSSimple Storage Service
What is S3 - CORRECT-ANSWERSHighly Scalable, low-latency (fast) data
storage at low cost.
Object-based storage solution with unlimited storage
Data stored in "Buckets"
Only pay for what you use
DR MC GIFT PX - CORRECT-ANSWERSAcronym for all the EC2 Instance Types.
Doctor that gives out pictures of his homeland in Scotland.
EBS - Elastic Block Store - CORRECT-ANSWERSAWS Service that 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, run a
database, or use them in any other way you would use a block device. AZ-
specific
EBS Snapshot - CORRECT-ANSWERSPoint in time copy of a Volume. Stored on
S3. Incremental, only the blocks that have changed since last snapshot are
moved to S3 (1st one will take a while)
Volume - CORRECT-ANSWERSVirtual Hard Disk exists on EBS.
Instance Store Volumes - CORRECT-ANSWERSEphemeral Storage Volume.
Cannot be stopped. If underlying host fails, you will lose your data
EBS Backed Instances - CORRECT-ANSWERSStorage type that can be
stopped. You won't lose data on this instance if it's stopped.
RAID Array - CORRECT-ANSWERSRedundant Array of Independent Disks.
Used when you're not getting the disk IO that you require. You can configure
multiple EBS volumes in this format.
RAID 0 - CORRECT-ANSWERSType of RAID Array that's striped, no
redundancy, good performance
, RAID 1 - CORRECT-ANSWERSType of RAID Array that's mirrored with
redundancy
RAID 5 - CORRECT-ANSWERSType of RAID Array that's good for reads, bad
for writes, AWS doesn't reccommend ever putting these on EBS
RAID 10 - CORRECT-ANSWERSType of RAID Array that's striped & mirrored,
good redundancy, good performance
EFS - Elastic File System - CORRECT-ANSWERSA file storage service for
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances.
Easy to use and provides a simple interface that allows you to create and
configure file systems quickly and easily.
Storage capacity is elastic, growing, and shrinking automatically as you add
and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when
they need it.
Can scale up to petabytes, support thousands of concurrent NFS
connections.
Data stored across multiple AZ's w/in a region.
Read after write consistency
Lambda - CORRECT-ANSWERSAWS compute service where you can upload
your code and the system takes care of provisioning and managing the
servers that you use to run the code. You don't have to worry about
operating systems, patching, scaling, etc.
AMI - Amazon Machine Image - CORRECT-ANSWERSProvides the information
required to launch a virtual server in the cloud. Can launch as many
instances from one as you need.
CloudWatch - CORRECT-ANSWERSPerformance monitoring service.
Standard=5min, Detailed=1min
Features include: Dashboards, Alarms, Events, and Logs
CloudTrail - CORRECT-ANSWERSAWS service used for auditing, creates an
audit trail/log
Roles - CORRECT-ANSWERSmore secure than storing your access key and
secret access key on individual EC2 instances. Easier to manage. Universal
Simple Routing Policy - CORRECT-ANSWERSThe default Route53 Routing
policy when you create a new record set;
Used when you have a single resource that performs a given function for
your domain. For example, one web server that serves content for the
http://acloudguru website
ASSOCIATE EXAM (KEY TERMS)
WITH VALID ANSWERS
S3 Acronym - CORRECT-ANSWERSSimple Storage Service
What is S3 - CORRECT-ANSWERSHighly Scalable, low-latency (fast) data
storage at low cost.
Object-based storage solution with unlimited storage
Data stored in "Buckets"
Only pay for what you use
DR MC GIFT PX - CORRECT-ANSWERSAcronym for all the EC2 Instance Types.
Doctor that gives out pictures of his homeland in Scotland.
EBS - Elastic Block Store - CORRECT-ANSWERSAWS Service that 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, run a
database, or use them in any other way you would use a block device. AZ-
specific
EBS Snapshot - CORRECT-ANSWERSPoint in time copy of a Volume. Stored on
S3. Incremental, only the blocks that have changed since last snapshot are
moved to S3 (1st one will take a while)
Volume - CORRECT-ANSWERSVirtual Hard Disk exists on EBS.
Instance Store Volumes - CORRECT-ANSWERSEphemeral Storage Volume.
Cannot be stopped. If underlying host fails, you will lose your data
EBS Backed Instances - CORRECT-ANSWERSStorage type that can be
stopped. You won't lose data on this instance if it's stopped.
RAID Array - CORRECT-ANSWERSRedundant Array of Independent Disks.
Used when you're not getting the disk IO that you require. You can configure
multiple EBS volumes in this format.
RAID 0 - CORRECT-ANSWERSType of RAID Array that's striped, no
redundancy, good performance
, RAID 1 - CORRECT-ANSWERSType of RAID Array that's mirrored with
redundancy
RAID 5 - CORRECT-ANSWERSType of RAID Array that's good for reads, bad
for writes, AWS doesn't reccommend ever putting these on EBS
RAID 10 - CORRECT-ANSWERSType of RAID Array that's striped & mirrored,
good redundancy, good performance
EFS - Elastic File System - CORRECT-ANSWERSA file storage service for
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances.
Easy to use and provides a simple interface that allows you to create and
configure file systems quickly and easily.
Storage capacity is elastic, growing, and shrinking automatically as you add
and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when
they need it.
Can scale up to petabytes, support thousands of concurrent NFS
connections.
Data stored across multiple AZ's w/in a region.
Read after write consistency
Lambda - CORRECT-ANSWERSAWS compute service where you can upload
your code and the system takes care of provisioning and managing the
servers that you use to run the code. You don't have to worry about
operating systems, patching, scaling, etc.
AMI - Amazon Machine Image - CORRECT-ANSWERSProvides the information
required to launch a virtual server in the cloud. Can launch as many
instances from one as you need.
CloudWatch - CORRECT-ANSWERSPerformance monitoring service.
Standard=5min, Detailed=1min
Features include: Dashboards, Alarms, Events, and Logs
CloudTrail - CORRECT-ANSWERSAWS service used for auditing, creates an
audit trail/log
Roles - CORRECT-ANSWERSmore secure than storing your access key and
secret access key on individual EC2 instances. Easier to manage. Universal
Simple Routing Policy - CORRECT-ANSWERSThe default Route53 Routing
policy when you create a new record set;
Used when you have a single resource that performs a given function for
your domain. For example, one web server that serves content for the
http://acloudguru website
