AWS Solution Architect Certification: AWS Glossary Quiz

I've started making an AWS Glossary Quiz based on the AWS Glossary.

Here's the 1st set of questions, enjoy!

Note, the 1st test may not require a user account, but the 2nd one may require to create a user on the  onlinexambuilder.com website, sorry!

Here's the 2nd set (a bit harder?)

And another QUIZ - this time I'll just put it inline here. Answers at the end...

All of them are the form "What is the correct name for this concept:"?

Q1 What is the name given to this concept?

A configuration for Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) that distributes nodes in a cluster across two Availability Zones in the same region. Helps to prevent data loss and minimizes downtime in the event of node and data center failure. If enabled, you must have an even number of data instances in the instance count, and you also must use the Amazon Elasticsearch Service Configuration API to replicate your data for your Elasticsearch cluster.

zone awareness
Amazon VPC
AWS Config

deployment configuration

Q2 What is the name given to this concept?

2^80 or 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes. 10^24 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.

zebibyte (ZiB)

yobibyte (YiB)

BGP ASN

exbibyte (EiB)

Q3 What is the name given to this concept?

An digital document that uses the  public key infrastructure (PKI) standard to verify that a public key belongs to the entity described in the certificate.

ACM
X.509 certificate
Donation button
asymmetric encryption

Q4 What is the name given to this concept?

A set of rules that defines the conditions that AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) searches for in web requests to AWS resources such as Amazon CloudFront distributions. Specifies whether to allow, block, or count the requests.


access identifiers
access control list (ACL)
access key ID
web access control list (web ACL)

Q5 What is the name given to this concept?

The period of time that a message is invisible to the rest of your application after an application component gets it from the queue. During this time, the component that received the message usually processes it, and then deletes it from the queue. This prevents multiple components from processing the same message.

visibility timeout
receipt timeout
read timeout
dead-letter timeout


Q6 What is the name given to this concept?

Standard measurement for the values submitted to Amazon CloudWatch as metric data. Includes seconds, percent, bytes, bits, count, bytes/second, bits/second, count/second, and none.


unit
alarm
action
basic monitoring

Q7 What is the name given to this concept?

Authentication information that is provided by AWS STS when you call an STS API action. Includes an access key ID, a secret access key, a session token, and an expiration time.

user
temporary security credentials
access identifiers
certificate key


Q8 What is the name given to this concept?

A description of how Auto Scaling should automatically scale an Auto Scaling group in response to changing demand.

scaling policy
auto scale configuration
alarm
events


Q9 What is the name given to this concept?

An active copy of another DB instance. Any updates to the data on the source DB instance are replicated to the read replica DB instance using the built-in replication feature of MySQL 5.1.

SIGNATURE file
read replica
artifact
instance group


Q10 What is the name given to this concept?

An AWS feature that lets you place the authentication information in the HTTP request query string instead of in the Authorization header, which enables URL-based access to objects in a bucket.


query string authentication
HTTP-Query
SQL injection match condition
structured query

Q11 What is the name given to these 3 concepts?

IAM: A document defining permissions that apply to a user, group, or role; the permissions in turn determine what users can do in AWS. Typically allows access to specific actions, and can optionally grant that the actions are allowed for specific resources, like EC2 instances.

Amazon S3 buckets, and so on.  Can also explicitly deny access.

Auto Scaling: An object that stores the information needed to launch or terminate instances for an Auto Scaling group. Executing it causes instances to be launched or terminated. You can configure an alarm to invoke an Auto Scaling policy.

access control list (ACL)

policy

account

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Q12 What is the name given to this concept?

When using Amazon CloudFront to serve content with an Amazon S3 bucket as the origin, a virtual identity that you use to require users to access your content through CloudFront URLs instead of Amazon S3 URLs. Usually used with CloudFront private content.

AWS WAF

conditional parameter

blue/green deployment

origin access identity (OAI)

Q13 What is the name given to this concept?

A device, managed by AWS, that performs address translation in a private subnet, to secure inbound Internet traffic.

private IP address

NAT gateway

public subnet

PV virtualization

Q14 What is the name given to this concept?

The default route table that any new VPC subnet uses for routing. You can associate a subnet with a different route table of your choice. You can also change which route table is the main one.

main route table

route table

data table

customer gateway

Q15 What is the name given to these concepts?

A set of descriptive parameters used to create new EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling activity.

A template that an Auto Scaling group uses to launch new EC2 instances. It contains information such as the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID, the instance type, key pairs, security groups, and block device mappings, among other settings.

launch configuration

analysis scheme

authenticated encryption

AWS CodeDeploy agent

Q16 What is the name given to this concept?

A logical grouping of the objects in a bucket. The value is similar to a directory name that enables you to store similar data under the same directory in a bucket.

key prefix

logical name

metric name

meta data

Q17 What is the name given to this concept?

An optional string that you can add to the beginning of an AWS Import/Export log file name to prevent collisions with objects of the same name. NB AWS Import/Export is a physical storage appliance for transferring data into and out of AWS without using the internet.

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

job prefix

ARN

attribute

Q18 What is the name given to this concept?

An IAM policy that is embedded in a single IAM user, group, or role.

inline policy

key policy

managed policy

permission

Q19 What is the name given to this concept?

A system call to check on the status of each instance in an Auto Scaling group.

source/destination checking

additional authenticated data

Auto Scaling

health check

Q20 What is the name given to this concept?

A collection of IAM users. You can use them to simplify specifying and managing permissions for multiple users.

group
role
collection
set


Q21 What is the name given to this concept?

Allows individuals to sign in to different networks or services, using the same group or personal credentials to access data across all networks. External identities are granted secure access to resources in an AWS account without having to create IAM users. These external identities can come from a corporate identity store (such as LDAP or Windows Active Directory) or from a third party (such as Login with Amazon, Facebook, or Google). also supports SAML 2.0.

credential identity management (CIM)

federated identity management (FIM)

cross-account access

AWS Application Discovery Service

Q22 What is the name given to this concept?

A fixed (static) IP address that you have allocated in Amazon EC2 or Amazon VPC and then attached to an instance. They are associated with your account, not a specific instance. You can easily allocate, attach, detach, and free them as your needs change. Unlike traditional IP addresses, they allow you to mask instance or Availability Zone failures by rapidly remapping your public IP addresses to another instance.

VPN IP Address

Private IP Address

Elastic IP address

Public IP Address

Q23 What is the name given to this concept?

Within a single AWS account: Giving AWS users access to resources in your AWS account.

Between two AWS accounts: Setting up a trust between the account that owns the resource (the trusting account), and the account that contains the users that need to access the resource (the trusted account).

allow

active trusted signers

delegation

access key rotation

Q24 What is the name given to this concept?

A fixed-size chunk of secure, network-attached RAM. Each one runs an instance of the Memcached service, and has its own DNS name and port. Multiple types are supported, each with varying amounts of associated memory.

NB: What on earth is "Network-attached RAM"????  Here's a paper that uses the term, apart from that it appears to be an AWS invention? 


engine version
cache node

Memcached instance

Memcached image

Q25 What is the name given to this concept?

Monitoring of AWS provided metrics derived at a 5-minute frequency.

detailed monitoring

free monitoring

basic monitoring

premium monitoring

Q26 What is the name given to this concept?

A managed service that simplifies the creation and control of encryption keys that are used to encrypt data.

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

Customer Master Key Service (AWS CMKS)

Security credential service (AWS SCS)

Encryption Key Service (AWS EKS)

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How did you you? Would you like the answers? After a short intermission...

And the answers are...

Reverse alphabetical order (i.e. starting at Z and going back to A). i.e. Qn 1 answer is zone awareness, last question answer is AWS Key Management Service.  How did you go?