AWS Cloud Practitioner-Questions that come up often in tests

To prepare for this certification, you should first understand the role of an AWS Cloud process and then comprehend the significance of each terminology, when and how to implement them. Lastly, you need to establish connections between various elements.

AWS Service Terms

• Amazon EC2
  A web service that offers secure and scalable computational capacity in the cloud, along with the ability to train and deploy machine learning applications.
• AWS ELB
  Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones. This increases the fault tolerance of your applications.
• Amazon S3
  An object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
• AWS Lambda
  A serverless, event-driven computing service. Executing code without the need to provision or manage infrastructure.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  Deploy and scale web applications, build mobile API backends using programming languages, and manage patches and updates. Automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.
• Amazon CloudWatch
  Visualize real-time logs, metrics, and event data to simplify your infrastructure and application maintenance. Monitor application performance, proactively optimize resources, and test website impact.
• AWS CloudTrail
  Monitor and log account activity within AWS infrastructure, enabling you to manage storage, analyze, and remediate actions.
• Amazon CloudFront
  Defend against DDoS attacks using AWS Shield Standard, also integrates with AWS WAF that safeguards web applications running on AWS.
• AWS CloudFormation
  Treating infrastructure as code allows you to model, deploy, and manage AWS and third-party resources and managing infrastructure using DevOps.
• AWS RDS
  A collection of managed services that facilitate configuring, operating, and scaling databases in the cloud.
• Amazon Aurora
  A cloud-native relational database management system (RDBMS) designed specifically for cloud deployment, closely aligned with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• AWS Outposts
  Basic Infrastructure and Services(Racks and Servers)
• AWS DMS
  Help to migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database.
• Amazon EMR
  Analyze and process vast amounts of data by distributing the computational work across a cluster of virtual servers running in the AWS Cloud.
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
  Provide the information required to launch an instance, which is a virtual server in the cloud.
• AWS Console
  Web interface for managing your AWS account
• Security group
  A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic.
• Amazon Inspector
  An automated vulnerability management service that continuously scans AWS workloads to identify software vulnerabilities and unexpected network risks.
• AWS Trusted Advisor
  Provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor evaluates your account by using checks. These checks identify ways to optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve security and performance, reduce costs, and monitor service quotas.
• NACL
  A network access control list (ACL) is an optional layer of security for your VPC that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of one or more subnets.