Which of these is not an instrinsic function in AWS CloudFormation?

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/intrinsic-function-reference.html

How does Amazon RDS multi Availability Zone model work?

different Availability Zone. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concepts.MultiAZ.html

To monitor API calls against our AWS account by different users and entities, we can use ____ to create a history of calls in bulk for later review, and use ____ for reacting to AWS API calls in real-time.

https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/security-at-scale-governance-in-aws/

Your system automatically provisions EIPs to EC2 instances in a VPC on boot. The system provisions the whole VPC and stack at once. You have two of them per VPC. On your new AWS account, your attempt to create a Development environment failed, after successfully creating Staging and Production environments in the same region. What happened?

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html#limits_vpc

You are designing a service that aggregates clickstream data in batch and delivers reports to subscribers via email only once per week. Data is extremely spikey, geographically distributed, high-scale, and unpredictable. How should you design this system?

if I expect usage peaks higher than 10 Gbps or 15,000 RPS? Yes. Complete our request for higher limits here, and we will add more capacity to your account within two business days. https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/faqs/

You want to pass queue messages that are 1GB each. How should you achieve this?

with a message size of up to 2 GB. To manage Amazon SQS messages with Amazon S3, use the Amazon SQS Extended http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/s3-messages.html

For AWS Auto Scaling, what is the first transition state an existing instance enters after leaving steady state in Standby mode?

service, troubleshoot or make changes to it, and then put it back into service. Instances in a Standby state continue to be managed by the Auto Scaling group. However, they are not an active part of your application until you put them back into service. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide/AutoScalingGroupLifecycle.html

What is the scope of an EC2 EIP?

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/resources.html

Which status represents a failure state in AWS CloudFormation?

to the valid, pre-update state. UPDATE_COMPLETE_CLEANUP_IN_PROGRESS means an update was successful, and CloudFormation is deleting any replaced, no longer used resources. ROLLBACK_FAILED is not a CloudFormation state (but UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED is). DELETE_COMPLETE_WITH_ARTIFACTS does not exist at all. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-updating-stacks.html

You need to perform ad-hoc analysis on log data, including searching quickly for specific error codes and reference numbers. Which should you evaluate first?

cases such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and click stream analytics. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/latest/developerguide/what-is-amazon-elasticsearch-service.html