Amazon Web Services Quizzes and Answers

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  1. What are the four main factors that you should take into consideration when choosing a Region in Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

    Latency, price, service availability, and compliance.

  2. Which statement best describes the relationship between Regions, Availability Zones, and Data Centers in AWS?

    Regions are a grouping of Availability Zones. Availability Zones are one or more discrete data centers.

  3. Which of the following is a benefit of cloud computing?

    Pay as you go.

  4. What does an Amazon EC2 instance type indicate?

    Instance family and instance size.

  5. Which is true about serverless?

    You never pay for idle resources.

  6. Which of the following can a route table be attached to?

    Subnets.

  7. Which of the following is true for a security group's default setting?

    It blocks all inbound traffic and allows all outboud traffic.

  8. True or False? A network access control list (network ACL) filters traffic at the Amazon EC2 Instance level.

    False.

  9. Which of the following is a typical use case for Amazon S3?

    Object storage for media hosting.

  10. A company that works with customers around the globe in multiple Regions hosts a static website in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company has decided that they want to reduce latency and increase data transfer speed by storing cache. Which solution should they choose to make their content more accessible?

    Configure Amazon CloudFront to deliver the content in the S3 bucket.

  11. Which of the following storage services is recommended if a customer needs a storage layer for a high-transaction relational database on Amazon E2 instance?

    Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS).

  12. With Amazon RDS, you can scale components of the service. What does this mean?

    You can increase or decrease specific database configurations independently.

  13. An organization needs a fully managed database service to build an application that requires high concurrency and connections for millions of users and millions of requests per second. Which AWS database service should the organization use?

    Amazon DynamoDB.

  14. What are the three components of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

    Launch templates, scaling policies, and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group.

  15. Which features are included with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? Select TWO.

    (i) Integrating with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, and (ii) Directing incoming traffic to instances.

  16. What are the possible states of an Amazon Cloudwatch alarm?

    OK, ALARM, INSUFFICIENT_DATA.

  17. Who is responsible for ensuring the security of AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and data centers?

    AWS.

  18. Which of the following statements about containers and virtual machines is correct?

    Containers share an operating system (OS) kernel.

  19. Which of the following elements are contained in an AWS Identity and Access Managment (IAM) policy? (Select THREE)

    (i) Effect, (ii) Action, and (iii) Resource.

  20. Users in a company are authenticated in the corporate network, and they want to use AWS services without signing in again. Which AWS authentication option should the company use?

    AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role.

  21. Which actions must be completed so resources in a public subnet can communicate with the internet? (Select TWO.)

    (i) Attach an internet gateway to the virtual private cloud (VPC), and (ii) Create a route in a route table to the internet gateway.

  22. Which of the following components are NOT required to launch an Amazon EC2 instance? (Select TWO.)

    (i) User data, and (ii) Tenancy.

  23. What is a typical use case for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)?

    Block storage for an Amazon EC2 instance.

  24. An employee at a healthcare facility is tasked with storing 7 years of patient information that is rarely accessed. Their boss wants them to consider one of the Amazon S3 storage tiers to store the information. Which storage tier should they use?

    S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

  25. Which database task is the customer's responsibility when using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

    Optimizing the database.

  26. A Multi-Availability Zone database (DB) deployment is beneficial when a customer wants to increase the availability of their database. What are other benefits of a Multi-AZ deployment? (Select TWO.)

    (i) Automatic failover, and (ii) Protect DB performance.

  27. What are the main components that make up Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?

    Rule, listener, and target group.

  28. Which Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancer type should be used for an application that uses a rule based on a website's domain to choose target groups?

    Application Load Balancer.