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