SP15-Quiz8

What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)?

• A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

• Provides Elastic Storage capacity.

• Provides compute capacity for customers with Support plan enabled.

Which operating system environments are not supported?

• Amazon Linux

• Ubuntu

• Windows Server

• MintOS

How does AWS bill for EC2?

• Per second billing

• Per hour billing

• Per minute billing

Can you pass a script to EC2 at startup?

• With userdata service

• You can SSH into the box and run

• Yes, via startup service

Can I login to EC2 with password?

• Yes, console provides you with temporary password

• No, you cannot

• No, but you can generate one after EC2 is running

EC2 instance having issues. Can I find out if there is any issue with underlying host?

• Yes, you need to reach out to AWS support.

• No, you need to reboot the EC2.

• Yes, there is a metric called System Health.

What is the firewall that gets attached to EC2 called?

• EC2 firewall

• Security Group

• IPtables

• Security Manager

How do I get rid of an EC2 instance that I have launched?

• Select the instance -> Actions -> Stop Instance

• Select the instance -> Actions -> Delete Instance

• Select the instance -> Actions -> Terminate Instance

Can I run one EC2 instance in multiple Availability zones?

• No

• Yes

• Only if you have multiple volumes

What is AMI?

• Amazon Machine Learning

• Amazon Machine Image

• Amazon Machine Instance