AWS Interview Questions and Answer Part – 14

Amazon Web Services are organized physically using which terms?

• Data Regions, Zones, Centers
• States, Regions, Municipalities
• Regions, Areas, Data Centers
• Regions, Availability Zones, Data Centers (Ans)

When reducing latency for static files, what is the best service to use?

• CloudWatch
• S3
• Redshift
• CloudFront (Ans)

What is the best access method to use when configuring user accounts on AWS?

• Pizza cutter
• Web console (Ans)
• Command line interface
• Software development kit

What is the best tool to use for your code to interact with AWS?

• Clothes hanger
• Web console
• Command line interface
• Software development kits (Ans)

What two features of the cloud make it appealing to companies?

• Creativity and flexibility
• Scalability and ethereality
• Pricing and scalability (Ans)
• Pricing and fitness

How do cloud services interact with each other in AWS?

• TCP Connections (Ans)
• Hardwire Connections
• USB Connections
• Service Connections

What is an Amazon Machine Image?

• Software and operating system to be copied into S3 buckets
• Database type used with RDS
• JPG image to be printed on machines
• Operating system and software to be installed on an EC2 instance (Ans)

What structure is used in AWS to secure instances of various services?

• Security groups (Ans)
• Service management rgoups
• Amazon machine images
• Route53 DNS records

Route53 enables access to AWS services from what?

• Command line
• URL (Ans)
• Web browser
• The cloud

What are the three main services that Elastic Beanstalk uses to launch your application?

• Virtual Private Cloud, EC2, RDS
• CloudFront, EC2, CloudWatch
• EC2, Elastic Load Balancer, S3 (Ans)
• EC2, DynamoDB, Redshift

What AWS functionality controls interaction between instances?

• TCP Connections
• Autoscaling
• Security Groups (Ans)
• Availability Zones

What is the best tool to use when automating AWS actions in Shell scripts?

• Software development kits
• Web console
• Command line interface (Ans)
• Snapping turtle

What metric do you configure to correctly set up DynamoDB for an expected load?

• Provisioned Table Capacity
• Table Throughput Capacity
• Table Storage Capacity
• Provisioned Throughput Capacity (Ans)

What does Virtual Private Cloud use to control which IP Addresses are allowed incoming and outgoing access?

• Network Authorization Capability Lists
• Routing Tables
• Virtual Security Groups
• Network Access Control Lists (Ans)

What is the main benefit of using RDS?

• Amazon saves the database to S3.
• Amazon handles database maintenance and configuration. (Ans)
• Amazon picks the database type for you.
• Amazon regularly restarts the database.

DynamoDB differs from SimpleDB in the follow way:

• SimpleDB has a database schema while DynamoDB does not
• DynamoDB is eventually consistent while SimpleDB is not
• DynamoDB databases can grow beyond 10GB (Ans)

Elastic Block Storage would NOT be used for:

• Persistent storage that survives Instance termination
• Creating snapshots of what is stored on EBS volumes
• Shared storage between multiple EC2 Instances (Ans)

AWS provides a set of tools for logging into RDS database instances.

• False (Ans)
• True

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