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WorksheetsSP15-Quiz10
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
You are building an application on Amazon EC2 that must call AWS APIs. Which method would you use to allow an application access to the APIs securely?
Store API credentials as an object in Amazon S3
Assign IAM roles to the EC2 instances
Use Secure Vault managed service
A company needs to store images that are uploaded by users via a mobile application. There is also a need to ensure that security measures are in place to avoid data loss. What step should be taken for protection against unintended user actions?
Store data in an S3 bucket and enable versioning
Store data in an EBS volume and create snapshots once a week.
Store data on Amazon EFS Storage
Storage data on EC2 instance storage
There is a requirement to host a database on an EC2 instance. It is also required that the EBS volume should support 18,000 IOPS. Which Amazon EBS volume type would meet the performance requirements of this database?
EBS General Purpose SSD
EBS Super Fast SSD
EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD
Amazon's EBS volumes are ________?
Object-based storage
Encrypted by default
Block-based storage
Not suitable for databases
Individual instances are provisioned in ______.
Regions
Availability Zones
Globally
What actions you can not do with EBS Snapshots?
Create AMI out of it
Share snapshot with other accounts
Attach to EC2 instance
You know that you need 24 CPUs for your production server. You also know that your compute capacity is going to remain fixed until next year. What pricing option would be cheapest?
Spot Instance
On-demand Instance
Three-year reserved instance
One-year reserved instance
You are running your application on a bunch of on-demand servers. Weekends you have to kickoff a large batch job and you are planning to add capacity. The batch job you are going to run over the weekend can be restarted if it fails. What is the best way to secure additional compute resources?
On-demand Instance
Spot Instance
Reserved instance
You have a compliance requirement that you should own the entire physical hardware and not other customer should run any other instance on the physical hardware. What options should you chose?
Explain to auditor that EC2 is very secure
Reserve instance for 1 year
Use dedicated instance
What are the advantages of using Spot Instances?
Price
Persistence
Special hardware
