Certified Cloud Practitioner Flashcards

Which AWS service provides a fully managed message queuing service to decouple microservices?

Answer: Amazon SQS

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables decoupling and scaling of microservices.

What AWS feature allows you to set spending limits and receive alerts when costs exceed a threshold?

Answer: AWS Budgets

AWS Budgets allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets and sends alerts when your spending exceeds or is forecasted to exceed your thresholds.

Which security service protects AWS applications from common web exploits like SQL injection?

Answer: AWS WAF

AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects web applications from common exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

Which AWS service automatically detects security threats using machine learning and threat intelligence?

Answer: Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior using ML.

A company wants to use AWS services in China. What should they be aware of?

Answer: China Regions are operated by local partners and require separate accounts

AWS China Regions are operated by local Chinese partners (Sinnet and NWCD) and require separate accounts from global AWS accounts.

Which AWS service enables you to create infrastructure as code using templates to provision resources consistently?

Answer: AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation allows you to model, provision, and manage AWS resources using infrastructure-as-code templates in JSON or YAML.

What is an AWS Region?

Answer: A geographic area with multiple, isolated Availability Zones

An AWS Region is a physical location around the world where AWS clusters data centers, consisting of multiple isolated Availability Zones.