AWS Backup Primer

What is the best backup option to choose if you have 20 AWS service in your account

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Service-native backup and snapshots

Centralized policy-based backup and snapshots

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Service level agreements (SLAs) for backup and recovery revolve around three key objectives

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EC2 instance-level recovery

Recovery Point Objectives

Migration planning

Recovery Time Objectives

Audit and Compliance Objectives

Time-to-live (TTL)

Cost Optimization

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Match back recovery objectives by their definitions

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(1) - is how far back in time you can go to recover the data. How much data loss can you tolerate?
(2) - defines the maximum amount of time that your business can be down or offline without affecting the business.

Please drag and drop the selected option in the right place or type it instead

A recovery time objective (RTO)

A recovery point objective (RPO)

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If your RTO is 6 hours and you can bring the services back online after 2 hours, then you've met your RTO by

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6 hours

2 hours

4 hours

10 hours

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Match the AWS service on the left with the correct explanation on the right

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To complete the line match

Click on an item in the first group
Click on an item in the second group
To delete a match, double click on a line

AWS Service

Service-native backups and snapshots

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

AWS Backup

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Tightly integrated with the service they support

Centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services

Uses AWS Cloud as a recovery environment

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It is enough to only backup the EBS volumes of an EC2 instance to provide the right recovery option if needed

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The backup data for compute is stored as an Amazon EBS volume-backed AMI, which is then stored by AWS Backup within

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a special storage service

an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket

a dedicated EC2 instance

external hard drives

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Choose what is backed up when AWS Backup takes a snapshot of an EC2 instance

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The root Amazon EBS storage volume

Launch configurations

All associated EBS volumes

Amazon Machine Image (AMI), including all launch configurations

Configuration of the Elastic Inference accelerator, if it is attached to the instance

User data used when the instance was launched

Certain configuration parameters of the EC2 instance, including (Instance type, Security groups, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Monitoring configuration, Tags)

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You must activate S3 Versioning on your bucket before AWS Backup can back it up

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With integration with AWS Backup, you can back up on-premises applications that use Storage Gateway volumes for cloud-backed storage

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Which EC2 configuration parameters does AWS Backup back up?

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User data and scripts

Instance type

Firewall configurations

Elastic Inference accelerator configuration

Security groups and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Monitoring configuration and tags

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How is AWS Backup pricing determined?

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How many snapshots you make per week

The amount of storage you use

How many backup plans you have

The number of services using backups

The service being used

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Cloud-enabled architectures are built and run completely within the cloud and full use services and technologies offered within the cloud

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AWS Backup can seamlessly integrate with AWS Organizations so the administrative team can manage and monitor all of their backups from a single management account

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AWS Backup does not provide unified IAM policy control over which accounts and roles can access backup resources

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What is the service that can be used in order to stay compliant?

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Healthcare companies must build applications that store, process, and transmit sensitive health-related information, consistent with the privacy and security obligations set under security frameworks. Because AnyCompany-Health is based in the United States of America, they are required to comply with both the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).

What is the service that can be used in order to stay compliant?

AWS Backup

AWS CloudWatch

AWS Backup Audit Manager

AWS CloudTrail

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AWS Backup is configured by defining a central data protection policy called a

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backup plan

backup procedure

backup option

backup book

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AWS Backup templates offer AWS best practices and common backup policies including

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35-day

1-year

5-year

7-year

10-year

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In AWS Backup, you can specify the vault to store your backups when you define the backup rules

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You can have multiple backup rules in a single backup plan to meet your compliance requirements

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An AWS account can create up to _______ backup vaults per AWS Region.

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10

50

100

200

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AWS Backup Vault Lock enforces a write-many, ready-many (WMRM) setting for all the backups you store and create in a backup vault

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Continuous backup for PITRs are available for

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RDS resources

S3 resources

EC2 resources

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What is the purpose of transitioning data to cold storage in AWS Backup?

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To increase data availability

To reduce storage costs for infrequently accessed data

To improve data recovery speed

To enhance data security

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Which options are available when creating a new backup plan?

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Define a plan using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Use a service opt-in

Build a new plan

Start with a template

Back up jobs

Copy to destination

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What is a backup vault?

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A backup vault is an encryption key to encrypt your backups

A backup vault is a container that stores and organizes your backups

A backup vault is a type of EC2 instances used to backup data

a backup vault is a network service

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With multiple vaults, you can

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Secure the vault using vault access policies

Limit the ability to delete backups from within a vault

Separate permissions; for example, development, test, and production

Ensure that backups can be safely deleted from the native services being protected

Ensure that backups cannot be deleted from the native services being protected

Have a unique SNS notification configuration per vault

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A default backup vault is automatically created if you use AWS Backup through AWS CLI, AWS SDK, and AWS CloudFormation

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AWS Backup vault names are not case sensitive

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An AWS Backup for a service like DynamoDB will automatically work without creating credentials

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With AWS Backup Vault Lock, you can prevent anyone, including data owners, from changing data retention period, except root and administrators

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What type of security does the AWS Backup Vault Lock feature use?

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Envelope encryption

Biba model

Write-once, read-many (WORM)

Hash functions

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What are the benefits of having multiple backup vaults?

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Separates backups by retention date

Limits who can access recovery points

Allows cross-account access

Limits the ability to delete backups

Provides faster recovery times

Separates permissions

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You can configure AWS CloudWatch to collect and track metrics from AWS Backup

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You can use CloudWatch to monitor AWS Backup metrics by using the _________

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AWS/backup

AWS/monitor

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Is this a valid use case in AWS CloudWatch?

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Monitor the number of failed backup jobs within one or more specific backup vaults. When there are more than 5 failed jobs within 1 hour, send an email or SMS using Amazon SNS or open a ticket to the engineering team to investigate.

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EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that you can use to connect your applications with data from a variety of sources

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When you use AWS Backup with EventBridge, AWS Backup sends events to EventBridge in a best-effort manner every 5 minutes

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In Amazon CloudWatch metrics, what is the function of a namespace?

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A tag used to query events

The category used for backup plans

The name of the set of metrics you are using

A container to hold CloudWatch metrics

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Which event notifications does AWS Backup support?

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Recovery point jobs

Backup point jobs

Delete jobs

Duplicate jobs

Copy jobs

Backup and restore jobs

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It requires a manual effort to detect violations of data protection policies and take corrective actions when using AWS Backup Audit Manager

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How does AWS Backup Audit Manager use controls?

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To audit the adherence of a backup requirement

To audit the mechanisms used in the report template

To audit modifications to backup jobs through the API

To audit which AWS services are being used

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What does a report plan require before you run reports?

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An S3 bucket for storage

EC2 access to the resource

Full control to the backed-up service

An EBS volume for storage

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