AWS Basic Knowledge check

Which service provides persistent block storage volumes or use with Amazon EC2 instances?

• Amazon S3

• Amazon EFS

• Amazon EBS

• Amazon DynamoDB

What is Elastic Load Balancing?

• Automatically slowing down traffic to decrease latency

• Automatically distributing traffic across multiple targets

• Automatically monitoring traffic to ensure that costs are kept beneath specified threshold

• Automatically stopping traffic when targets are overloaded

Which of the following option describes the most common AWS billing model?

• Daily Billing

• Annual Billing

• Pay as you go

• Pay in advance

Which service sends notifications or automatically makes changes to the resources being monitored based on rules you established?

• Amazon EC2

• Amazon Aurora

• Elastic Load Balancing

• Amazon CloudWatch

Availability Zones are

• All together in one data centre

• In geographically isolated data centers

• In different data centres

• None of the above

When a security group is created,what is the default behavior?

• Allow all traffic inbound and allow all traffic outbound

• Allow all traffic inbound and deny all traffic outbound

• Deny all traffic inbound and allow all traffic outbound

• Deny all traffic inbound and Deny all traffic outbound

All of these are IA components except

• Users

• Organisations

• Roles

• Policies

How is storage typically prices on AWS cloud?

• Charged by instance type

• Charged per GB

• Charged per hour or second

• Charged per speed of transfer

Your boss wants to scale your ASG based on the number of requests per minute your application makes to your database

• You politely tell him it's impossible

• You create CloudWatch custom metric and build an alarm on this to scale your ASG

• You enable detailed monitoring and use that to scale your ASG

• None of the above

Which of the following tasks is the customer's responsibility when creating Amazon VPC security?

• Adding rules regarding inbound traffic to the security group

• Ensuring that the security groups are linked to Amazon EC2

• Choosing the level of physical security or the network

• Selecting an appropriate load balancing strategy or the network routers