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Amazon Certified Cloud Practitioner Vocabulary
Region CORRECT ANSWER A physical location in the world where we have multiple availability zones Availability Zones CORRECT ANSWER Consist of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity, housed in separate facilities Fault Tolerance CORRECT ANSWER Remain operational even if some of the components on that system fail Elasticity CORRECT ANSWER Is the power to scale computing resources up and down easily, while only paying for the actual resources used Environmental systems CORRECT ANSWER Designed to minimize the impact of disruptions to operations Amazon CloudFront CORRECT ANSWER Used to deliver content to deliver content to your customers Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) CORRECT ANSWER Allow you to create a private network within the AWS cloud that uses many of the same concepts as an on-premises network Security Groups CORRECT ANSWER Gives you full control on how accessible your instances are AWS Lambda CORRECT ANSWER Lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. AWS LightSail CORRECT ANSWER AWS LightSail allows you to launch a virtual private server in just minutes and easily manage simple web and application servers.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) CORRECT ANSWER Highly scalable, high- performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster over Amazon EC2 instances Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) CORRECT ANSWER A web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. AWS Elastic Beanstalk CORRECT ANSWER Service for deploying and scaling web apps and services with popular program languages. Elastic Load Balancer CORRECT ANSWER a service that distributes incoming traffic or loads amongst your instances Auto Scaling CORRECT ANSWER Auto Scaling helps you ensure that you have the correct number of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application by launching or terminating instances based on specified conditions Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) CORRECT ANSWER Provides persistent block storage volumes for use with EC2 instances in the AWS cloud. Amazon Glacier CORRECT ANSWER low cost secure storage for data archiving and backup for cold data Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) CORRECT ANSWER Makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups Amazon DynamoDB CORRECT ANSWER A fully managed NoSQL database service. Amazon manages all of the underlying data infrastructure for this service and redundantly stores data across multiple facilities within a native US region as part of the fault tolerant architecture
Operational Excellence Pillar CORRECT ANSWER Includes the ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures Security Pillar CORRECT ANSWER Includes the ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies Reliability Pillar CORRECT ANSWER Includes the ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate disruptions such as misconfigurations or transient network issues Performance Efficiency Pillar CORRECT ANSWER Includes the ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements and to maintain that efficiency as demand changed and technologies evolve Cost Optimization Pillar CORRECT ANSWER Includes the ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resources Elastic IP addresses CORRECT ANSWER Static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing, allows you to mask a failure of an instance or software by allowing your users to use the same IP addresses with replacement resources Amazon Route S3 CORRECT ANSWER An authoritative DNS service from AWS used to translate domain names into IP addresses Amazon CloudWatch CORRECT ANSWER provides monitoring for cloud services like EC graphs, set alarms, troubleshoot, spot trends Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) CORRECT ANSWER a fully managed messaging queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale micro services, distributed systems, and serverless applications
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) CORRECT ANSWER A simple web service that you can utilize and only pay for the storage that you use, stores all of your data redundantly on multiple different devices across multiple facilities in a region Amazon SimpleDB CORRECT ANSWER Fault-tolerant and durable structured data storage solution that gives you full advantage to a scalable service that can avoid single points of failure due to its natural design for high availability and fault tolerance Amazon VPC CORRECT ANSWER Lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. AWS CloudFormation CORRECT ANSWER Gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. Auto scaling CORRECT ANSWER Automatically adds or removes Amazon EC2 instances according to conditions you define AWS OpsWorks CORRECT ANSWER An application management service that makes it easy to deploy and operate applications of all shapes and sizes The TCO Calculator CORRECT ANSWER The TCO Calculator is a tool that helps estimate cost savings when using AWS Scaling Vertically CORRECT ANSWER Increase of specifications of an individual resource Scaling Horizontally CORRECT ANSWER Increase in the number of resources
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) CORRECT ANSWER provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud AWS Storage Gateway CORRECT ANSWER seamlessly enables hybrid storage between on- premises storage environments and the AWS Cloud Amazon ElastiCache CORRECT ANSWER service to deploy, operate and scale cache in the cloud AWS Application Discovery Service CORRECT ANSWER helps systems integrators quickly and reliably plan application migration projects by automatically identifying applications running in on-premises data centers, their associated dependencies, and their performance profiles AWS Server Migration Service CORRECT ANSWER an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS AWS Snowball CORRECT ANSWER is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS AWS Snowball Edge CORRECT ANSWER is a 100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute capabilities. AWS Snowmobile CORRECT ANSWER is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45- foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck Amazon Route 53 CORRECT ANSWER highly available and scalable DNS web service Queries for your domain are automatically routed to closest DNS server
AWS Direct Connect CORRECT ANSWER Makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS AWS CodeCommit CORRECT ANSWER a fully managed source control service that makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories. AWS CodeBuild CORRECT ANSWER a fully managed build service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. AWS CodeDeploy CORRECT ANSWER is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including EC instances and instances running on premises. AWS CodePipeline CORRECT ANSWER is a continuous integration and continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. AWS X-Ray CORRECT ANSWER helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications in production or under development, such as those built using a micro services architecture. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager CORRECT ANSWER is a management service that helps you automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, and configure Windows and Linux operating systems AWS CloudTrail CORRECT ANSWER a web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) CORRECT ANSWER a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption used to encrypt your data AWS Organizations CORRECT ANSWER allows you to create groups of AWS accounts that you can use to more easily manage security and automation settings AWS Shield CORRECT ANSWER a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS AWS WAF CORRECT ANSWER a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources Amazon Athena CORRECT ANSWER a serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL, pay only for the queries you run Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) CORRECT ANSWER provides a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process vast amounts of data across dynamically scalable EC2 instances. Amazon CloudSearch CORRECT ANSWER a managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application Amazon Elasticsearch Service CORRECT ANSWER a fully managed service that delivers Elastcisearch's easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with the availability, scalability, and security required by production workloads. Amazon Kinesis CORRECT ANSWER a platform for streaming data on AWS, offering powerful services to make it easy to load and analyze streaming data, and also providing the ability for you to build custom streaming data applications for specialized needs
Amazon Kinesis Firehose CORRECT ANSWER the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS. It can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon Kinesis Analytics, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools and dashboards you're already using today Amazon Kinesis Analytics CORRECT ANSWER the easiest way to process streaming data in real time with standard SQL without having to learn new programming languages or processing frameworks enables you to create and run SQL queries on streaming data so that you can gain actionable insights and respond to your business and customer needs promptly. Amazon Quick Sight CORRECT ANSWER a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data AWS Data Pipeline CORRECT ANSWER a web service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, and also on-premises data sources, at specified intervals. AWS Glue CORRECT ANSWER a fully managed ETL service that makes it easy to move data between your data stores. AWS Glue simplifies and automates the difficult and time-consuming tasks of data discovery, conversion, mapping, and job scheduling. Amazon Lex CORRECT ANSWER a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text Amazon Polly CORRECT ANSWER a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Amazon Rekognition CORRECT ANSWER a service that makes it easy to add image analysis to your applications. With Rekognition, you can detect objects, scenes, and faces in images. You can also search and compare faces.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder CORRECT ANSWER media transcoding in the cloud, it is designed to be a highly scalable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective way for developers and businesses to convert media files from their source format into a version that will play back on devices Amazon SWF CORRECT ANSWER helps developers build, run, and scale background jobs that have parallel or sequential steps. Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) CORRECT ANSWER Provides hosted level queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. Makes it easy to build automated workflow between web services Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) CORRECT ANSWER Fast, flexible, fully managed push messaging service. Allows push messages to mobile or distributed services via API or management console Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) CORRECT ANSWER Highly scalable bulk transactional email- sending service for the cloud. High deliverability, real time access to sending statistics and built- in notifications for bounces and complaints Amazon WorkDocs CORRECT ANSWER fully managed, secure enterprise storage and sharing service with admin controls and feedback capabilities that improve user productivity. Users can comment on files, send them to others, and upload new versions w/out resorting to emailing multiple versions of their files as attachments anywhere Amazon WorkMail CORRECT ANSWER a secure, managed business email and calendar service with support for existing desktop and mobile email client applications. Amazon Chime CORRECT ANSWER a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use application that you can trust.
Amazon WorkSpaces CORRECT ANSWER fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. Allows end users to access documents, apps and resources they need with the device of their choice. AWS IoT Platform CORRECT ANSWER a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices AWS Greengrass CORRECT ANSWER software that lets you run local compute, messaging, and data caching for connected devices in a secure way AWS IoT Button CORRECT ANSWER a programmable button based on the Amazon Dash Button hardware. Easy to configure, designed for developers to get started with AWS IoT and many other Amazon Web Services without writing device-specific code Amazon GameLift CORRECT ANSWER a managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games Amazon Lumberyard CORRECT ANSWER a free, cross platform, 3D game engine for you to create the highest-quality games, connect your games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch AWS Marketplace CORRECT ANSWER online store to find and purchase software and services On demand CORRECT ANSWER You pay for compute or database capacity with no long-term commitments or upfront payments Dedicated instances CORRECT ANSWER Run in a VPC on hardware that's dedicated to a single customer Spot instances CORRECT ANSWER An Amazon EC2 pricing mechanism that lets you purchase spare computing capacity with no upfront commitment at discounted hourly rates
