{"id":8819,"date":"2020-01-16T05:41:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T05:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=8819"},"modified":"2021-11-13T11:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T11:02:36","slug":"aws-interview-questions-and-answer-part-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/aws-interview-questions-and-answer-part-23\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Interview Questions and Answer Part \u2013 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In what order should you utilize the different rule sources when looking to implement an AWS Config Rule?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Built-in, custom, third-party<\/li><li>Custom, built-in, third-party<\/li><li><strong>Built-in, third-party, custom (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Third-party, built-in, custom<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s an example of a rule that would be appropriate for Continuous Compliance?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Are EC2 instances tagged with an environment?<\/li><li>Are EC2 instances launched in the correct subnet?<\/li><li><strong>Are EC2 instances in a specific VPC tagged with the same cost center as the VPC? (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Are EC2 instances launched with appropriate tenancy?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When might a rule with high-impact corrections be a good choice for Continuous Compliance?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>If the corrections are extremely difficult to perform manually (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>In all cases<\/li><li>If the corrections only cause high impact in some isolated cases<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Enabling SNS notifications for AWS Config is optional. 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(Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>So little has changed between executions of your lambda that there is very little in the JSON.<\/li><li>The information that AWS Config sends in this JSON can be used to look up the information your lambda needs.<\/li><li>Periodic AWS Config Rules are not fully implemented in AWS Config yet.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Name three common sources of compliance rules that you could implement in AWS Config.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>External standards, organizational standards, personal standards (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Organizational standards, AWS standards, national standards<\/li><li>Personal standards, AWS standards, external standards<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Name the main advantage of Continuous Compliance over Manual Compliance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Automatic notifications of compliance problems.<\/li><li><strong>No effort is required from an engineer to resolve the issue. (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Additional information about why the resource is non-compliant.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What might be a good use case for which to implement a periodic rule?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Ensure MFA is enabled on the root account. (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Ensure that all IAM users have a username in the format ..<\/li><li>Ensure all EC2 instances are part of a specific VPC.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When might you choose to have compliance notifications routed into SQS?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If you want to store your messages for long periods of time<\/li><li><strong>If you want additional reliability or scalability of messages (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>If you&#8217;re looking for the simplest solution for Continuous Compliance<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which of the following is the largest enabler of the Big Data phenomenon?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Relational databases<\/li><li><strong>Significant reduction in storage costs (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Commercial software<\/li><li>Specialized hardware appliances<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The CAP Theorem speaks to which attributes of database systems?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Conjunction, ACIDity and Parallelism<\/li><li>Construction, Availability and Pan-thread-safety<\/li><li>Consistency, Angularity and Push-pull<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Amazon Web Services platform supports all of the following database platforms: relational, NoSQL, data warehouse and Microsoft Access.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>True<\/li><li><strong>False (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which of the following products is <em>not<\/em> relevant to working with the AWS Big Data stack?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>SQL Workbench\/J<\/li><li><strong>Anti-Virus client (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>PuTTY (SSH client)<\/li><li>S3 Browser<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pipelines can be built based on templates, or from scratch.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>True (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>False<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Apache Hive provides an abstraction layer over DynamoDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>True<\/li><li>False (Ans)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amazon S3 integrates with Elastic MapReduce, DynamoDB and Redshift.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>True (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>False<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which of the following terms does Jaspersoft use to refer to its semantic data model?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Model<\/li><li>Universe<\/li><li>Data Source View<\/li><li><strong>Domain (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which of the following technologies is <em>not<\/em> supported by Redshift?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Column-oriented data storage<\/li><li><strong>NoSQL storage and query operation (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) query processing<\/li><li>SQL query compatibility<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amazon Kinesis is streaming data platform based on Apache Kafka and Storm.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>False (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Big Data tools can be used on-premises or in the cloud.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>False<\/li><li><strong>True (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_62678\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_78271\"  width=\"760\" height=\"427\"  data-origwidth=\"760\" data-origheight=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_62678\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what order should you utilize the different rule sources when looking to implement an AWS Config Rule? 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