AWS Interview Questions and Answer Part – 15

How long can an SQS queue hold onto a message before it is automatically removed?

• 14 days (Ans)
• 24 hours
• Unlimite
• 1 hour

An SNS subscription must always be verified by a human recipient.

• True
• False (Ans)

An AWS Availability Zone is made up of distinct geographic Regions.

• False (Ans)
• True

Which of the following are AWS product categories?

• Compute
• Messaging
• Database
• Storage
• All of the above (Ans)

Which of the following does an EC2 user NOT pay for?

• Simple load balancing
• Basic monitoring (Ans)
• Instance hour charges
• OUtbuond data transfer

Developers who provision AWS services may be responsible for:

• Choosing size of storage
• All of the above (Ans)
• Opening ports for access
• Securing the service

In order for S3 objects to be encrypted, AWS users must upload objects in encrypted format.

• True
• False (Ans)

The AWS RDS service supports which of the following underlying database technologies?

• BerkeleyDB
• Oracle DB (Ans)
• IBM DB2
• IBM DB1

All AWS services provide options for SOAP or REST access.

• False (Ans)
• True

How can a “path” property of an IAM user be used?

• Setting the “path” will automatically provision users into IAM groups
• The “path” sets the security permissions for the given user.
• During search, “path” can be used to constrain the results (Ans)

The term commonly used to describe the fact that S3 functions are not atomic is:

• CAP Exception
• Slow moving updates
• Eventual consistency (Ans)
• delay synchronization

SimpleDB supports which of the following capabilities?

• All of the above (Ans)
• Durable storage
• Elastic storage that grows automatically (up to 10GB)
• Schema-less data structure

When SQS queue messages are read, they are automatically deleted from the queue.

• True
• False (Ans)

SNS Topics do NOT support which of the following capabilities?

• Content based routing rules (Ans)
• Bulk message distribution
• Different security options for the publisher and subscriber of messages
• Distribution of messages via text messaging

AWS provides services that are typically classified as:

• Platform as a Service
• None of the above
• Infrastructure as a Service (Ans)
• Data as a Service

EC2 Security Groups provide what function?

• Defining users and roles that can log into an Instance
• Defines which ports are not available on the Instance
• Opening ports for selecting IP addresses (Ans)

AWS users who want to store PDF documents would use which service?

• SNS
• S3 (Ans)
• CloudFormation
• IAM

Which AWS service is best for applications that want to have information pushed to them?

• SPS
• SNS (Ans)
• SQS
• DynamoDB

An EC2 AMI instance can be launched by:

• Leveragin the AWS Ticket Service to make a request for an AWS engineer
• Using the Management Console in a self-service fashion (Ans)

Which of the following data types can be specified in DynamoDB?

• Character
• Long
• String (Ans)
• DateTime

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