Associate General Knowledge and Prerequisites Flashcards

Which AWS service provides a managed relational database that automatically scales storage up to 128 TB?

Answer: Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora automatically scales storage in 10 GB increments up to 128 TB without requiring downtime.

What does the AWS Shared Responsibility Model state is the customer's responsibility?

Answer: Encryption of customer data at rest

Customers are responsible for security 'in' the cloud, including encrypting their own data at rest and in transit.

Which AWS support plan is the minimum tier that provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

Answer: Enterprise

A dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) is only available with the Enterprise support plan.

An application needs to send messages between decoupled microservices without losing any messages if a service is temporarily down. Which AWS service is best suited?

Answer: Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queue that durably stores messages until a consumer retrieves them.

Which AWS pricing model offers up to 90% discount over On-Demand pricing in exchange for using spare EC2 capacity?

Answer: Spot Instances

Spot Instances use unused EC2 capacity at steep discounts but can be interrupted by AWS with a two-minute warning.

What is the primary purpose of AWS CloudTrail?

Answer: Log and audit all API calls made in an AWS account

CloudTrail records API activity across your AWS account, providing an audit trail for governance and compliance.

Which AWS service enables you to run containerized applications without managing servers or clusters?

Answer: AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that removes the need to provision or manage EC2 instances.