# AWS Cloud Practitioner - Flash Cards - **AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam Flashcards rendered from my notes using ChatGPT.** - [[AWS Cloud Practitioner]] --- Here's the updated set of flashcards with numbered entries: # AWS Cloud Practitioner Flashcards ## Cloud Computing 1. **What are the three ways to interact with AWS?** - Web Console/Management Console - AWS CLI - AWS SDK 2. **What are the benefits of cloud computing?** - Trade upfront expenses for variable expenses - Focus on customers instead of data centers - Scalability – stop guessing capacity - Benefit from economies of scale - Faster provisioning and business agility - Global deployment options 3. **What are the AWS pricing models?** - Free Tier - On-Demand - Reservations (1-3 years) - Volume Discounts - Price Drops 4. **What are the key cloud design principles?** - Design for failure (resiliency & auto recovery) - Decouple components - Implement elasticity (scale up/down automatically) - Think parallel (execute concurrently for efficiency) ## Security & Compliance 1. **What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?** - AWS secures the cloud (hardware, infrastructure, HV, DC) - Customers secure what's in the cloud (OS, apps, data) 2. **What are the three types of AWS identity access management (IAM) identities?** - Users - Groups - Roles 3. **What are IAM policies?** - JSON documents defining access permissions for users, groups, or roles 4. **What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?** - An additional security layer requiring a second form of authentication 5. **What are Service Control Policies (SCPs)?** - Policies applied at the AWS account level to restrict actions 6. **What AWS services help with compliance and security?** - AWS Artifact (audit reports) - AWS Config (tracks configuration changes) - AWS Audit Manager (ensures compliance) - AWS Security Hub (aggregates security alerts) ## Networking 7. **What is a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?** - A secure, isolated cloud network 8. **What are the types of AWS firewalls?** - Stateless Firewalls (Network ACLs) - Stateful Firewalls (Security Groups) 9. **What is an Internet Gateway?** - A gateway enabling public access to a VPC 10. **What is a NAT Gateway?** - Allows internal resources to access the internet securely 11. **What is AWS Direct Connect?** - A dedicated private network connection to AWS ## Storage Services 12. **What are the main types of AWS storage?** - **Block Storage** (EBS) - **File Storage** (EFS) - **Object Storage** (S3) 13. **What are S3 storage classes?** - S3 Standard - S3 Standard-IA - S3 One Zone-IA - S3 Glacier - S3 Glacier Deep Archive - S3 Intelligent-Tiering 14. **What is Elastic Block Store (EBS)?** - A block storage system for EC2 instances 15. **What is Elastic File System (EFS)?** - A managed file storage service that supports NFS 16. **What is Amazon S3?** - A scalable object storage service ## Compute Services 17. **What are EC2 instance pricing models?** - On-Demand - Spot - Reserved - Dedicated - Savings Plan 18. **What is AWS Lambda?** - A serverless compute service that runs code in response to events 19. **What is Amazon ECS?** - AWS-managed container service for running Docker containers 20. **What is Amazon EKS?** - AWS-managed Kubernetes service 21. **What is AWS Fargate?** - Serverless compute for containers ## Database Services 22. **What are the two main types of AWS databases?** - **SQL Databases** (RDS, Aurora, Redshift) - **NoSQL Databases** (DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Neptune) 23. **What is Amazon RDS?** - A managed relational database service 24. **What is Amazon DynamoDB?** - A fully managed NoSQL database 25. **What is Amazon Redshift?** - A data warehouse service for analytics 26. **What is Amazon Aurora?** - A high-performance managed database service (MySQL/PostgreSQL-compatible) ## Application Integration 27. **What is Amazon SQS?** - A message queue service for decoupling applications 28. **What is Amazon SNS?** - A pub/sub messaging service for notifications 29. **What is AWS API Gateway?** - A service for managing and securing APIs 30. **What is Amazon EventBridge?** - A serverless event bus for connecting applications ## Management & Governance 31. **What is AWS CloudFormation?** - A service for automating AWS resource provisioning with code 32. **What is AWS Systems Manager?** - A service for managing and automating AWS resources 33. **What is AWS Organizations?** - A service for managing multiple AWS accounts centrally 34. **What is AWS Trusted Advisor?** - A service that provides best practice recommendations 35. **What is AWS Cost Explorer?** - A tool for analyzing AWS usage and optimizing costs ## Security Tools 36. **What is AWS Shield?** - A managed DDoS protection service 37. **What is AWS GuardDuty?** - A threat detection service using machine learning 38. **What is AWS Inspector?** - A vulnerability scanning service for AWS workloads 39. **What is AWS Macie?** - A service for discovering and protecting sensitive data in S3 40. **What is AWS Security Hub?** - A central place for security monitoring and compliance checks ## AI/ML Services 41. **What is Amazon SageMaker?** - A fully managed machine learning service 42. **What is Amazon Rekognition?** - A service for image and video analysis 43. **What is Amazon Polly?** - A text-to-speech service 44. **What is Amazon Transcribe?** - A speech-to-text service 45. **What is Amazon Translate?** - A neural machine translation service ## Billing & Pricing 46. **What are the four main AWS pricing models?** - On-Demand - Reserved Instances - Spot Instances - Savings Plans 47. **What AWS tools help with billing analysis?** - AWS Billing Dashboard - AWS Cost Explorer - AWS Budgets - AWS Cost & Usage Report (CUR) 48. **What is the AWS Free Tier?** - A limited amount of AWS resources available for free (12 months or always free) ---