AWS Architecture Flashcards
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Which AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar focuses on using computing resources efficiently to meet requirements?
Answer: Performance Efficiency
The Performance Efficiency pillar focuses on using computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements and maintaining efficiency as demand changes.
What is the purpose of Amazon Route 53 in a highly available architecture?
Answer: To provide DNS routing with health checks and failover
Amazon Route 53 provides scalable DNS with health checks, allowing automatic failover to healthy endpoints when a resource becomes unavailable.
A company is designing a three-tier web application on AWS. Which combination correctly represents the three tiers?
Answer: Presentation, application logic, and data
A three-tier architecture consists of the presentation tier (web/UI), the application logic tier (business processing), and the data tier (database/storage).
Which AWS deployment strategy allows you to shift traffic gradually from an old version to a new version of an application?
Answer: Blue/green deployment
Blue/green deployment maintains two identical environments and gradually shifts traffic from the old (blue) to the new (green) environment, enabling rollback if issues arise.
What is the role of Amazon S3 in a serverless architecture?
Answer: Storing and serving static assets, backups, and data lakes
Amazon S3 is commonly used in serverless architectures to store static web assets, application data, backups, and as a data lake foundation.
Which AWS service enables you to decouple application components using a publish/subscribe messaging pattern?
Answer: Amazon SNS
Amazon SNS is a pub/sub messaging service that allows publishers to send messages to topics, which fan out to multiple subscribers simultaneously.
What does 'infrastructure as code' mean in the context of AWS architecture best practices?
Answer: Defining and managing cloud infrastructure using configuration files and templates
Infrastructure as code means defining your infrastructure in configuration files (like CloudFormation templates) so it can be version-controlled, tested, and repeatedly deployed.