Architecting on AWS Certification Blueprint Reading & Symbols 4

Question 1

In an AWS architecture diagram, the Elastic Load Balancer is most commonly depicted as which symbol?

Accepted Answer

A horizontal bar or balance scale icon distributing connections

Answer

ELB is shown as a balancer icon—often a horizontal bar—indicating it distributes incoming traffic across multiple backend targets.

Question 2

On an AWS network topology diagram, what does a NAT Gateway symbol positioned between a private subnet and an Internet Gateway indicate?

Accepted Answer

Private instances can initiate outbound internet connections without being directly reachable from the internet

Answer

A NAT Gateway allows outbound internet access for private subnet resources while blocking unsolicited inbound connections from the internet.

Question 3

In AWS architecture diagrams, CloudFront is typically depicted at which location relative to the origin services?

Accepted Answer

At the edge, outside the VPC, between end users and the origin

Answer

CloudFront is drawn at the edge of the architecture between users and the origin, representing its role as a global CDN with edge locations.

Question 4

When an AWS architecture blueprint shows an icon of interlocking gears labeled 'Step Functions', what architectural concept does this represent?

Accepted Answer

An orchestration workflow that sequences and coordinates multiple service calls

Answer

AWS Step Functions orchestrates serverless workflows by coordinating Lambda functions and other services in defined sequences, hence the gear/workflow icon.

Question 5

In an AWS architecture diagram, what does a funnel icon connected to an S3 bucket and a database typically represent?

Accepted Answer

An ETL pipeline such as AWS Glue processing and loading data

Answer

A funnel icon between S3 and a database represents an ETL process, commonly AWS Glue, that extracts, transforms, and loads data.

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