Core AWS services, architecture patterns, and design principles tested on the Solutions Architect Associate exam.
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- What is an EC2 instance?
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A virtual machine that runs on AWS infrastructure- What does EBS stand for?
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Elastic Block Store- Are security groups stateful or stateless?
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Stateful- Are NACLs stateful or stateless?
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Stateless- What does VPC stand for?
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Virtual Private Cloud- What is a subnet?
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A subdivision of a VPC with its own CIDR block- What is an internet gateway?
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A VPC component that allows communication between VPC and internet- What is a NAT gateway?
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Allows private subnet instances to initiate outbound connections to internet- What does RDS stand for?
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Relational Database Service- What is the default backup retention period for RDS?
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7 days- What is Multi-AZ deployment in RDS?
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Synchronous replication to a standby instance in a different availability zone- What is a read replica in RDS?
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An asynchronous copy of a database that can be used for read operations- What is DynamoDB?
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A fully managed NoSQL database service- What are the two capacity modes for DynamoDB?
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Provisioned and On-demand- What is the default consistency model for DynamoDB read operations?
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Eventual consistency
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