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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