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AWS basics

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The full form of AWS EC2 is ___

a)

Elastic Compute Capacity

b)

Elastic Cloud Compute

c)

Elastic Compute Cloud

d)

Elastic Compute 2

2.

Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS?

a)

EC2

b)

S3

c)

RDS

d)

VPC

3.

Which of the following is an AWS responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?

a)

Configuring third-party applications

b)

Maintaining physical hardware

c)

Securing application access and data

d)

Managing security patches and upgrades of guest operating systems

4.

How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS Management Console?

a)

Use Amazon Cloud Directory

b)

Audit AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles

c)

Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA)

d)

Enable AWS CloudTrail

5.

Which service can identify the user that made the API call when an Amazon EC2 instance is terminated?

a)

AWS VPC

b)

AWS CloudTrail

c)

AWS IAM

d)

AWS API

6.

What best describes the “Principle of Least Privilege”? Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

a)

All users should have the same baseline permissions granted to them to use basic AWS services.

b)

Users should be granted permission to access only resources they need to do their assigned job.

c)

Users should submit all access requests in written form so that there is a paper trail of who needs access to different AWS resources.

d)

Users should always have a little more permission than they need.

7.

An organization runs a public facing e-commerce website using several EC2 instances inside a VPC using three subnets, one for Development, one for Test, and one for Production. The Security team has some concerns about the VPC configuration. It requires restricting communication across the EC2 instances using Security Groups.

Which among the following is the correct and best way to restrict the communication?

a)

Whitelist all internet traffic for all the 3 instances

b)

Whitelist inbound connection from office ips for Development and Test instances.

Whitelist all internet traffic for Production instance.

c)

Whitelist inbound connection from office ips for Development, Test and Production instances.

Whitelist only HTTP and HTTPS inbound internet traffic for Production instance.

d)

Restrict all inbound traffic from internet to all 3 instances

8.

Which of the following databases is not supported by AWS RDS service?

a)

MongoDB

b)

MySQL

c)

Oracle

d)

Microsoft SQL server

9.

Which of the following is region-based AWS service?

a)

AWS EC2

b)

AWS VPC

c)

AWS Subnet

d)

AWS IAM

10.

Which service allows a customer to whitelist incoming and outgoing traffic to its EC2 instance?

a)

SSH

b)

Security Groups

c)

Subnets

d)

AWS IAM

11.

A company wants to launch a social media website quickly and asks its Devops engineers to make it publicly accessible. The engineer quickly spins up the server in private subnet and configures the website. Even though the service is up and running in EC2 server, users cant seem to reach the website and they get website not reachable errors.

As a Devops Engineer, what would be your next step to make the website available to the internet users?

a)

This is not possible in AWS. So give up all hopes and move to other cloud provider :(

b)

Launch the EC2 server in public subnet, whitelist EC2 server's http/https ports to the internet

c)

Launch the EC2 server in private subnet again, whitelist EC2 server's http/https ports to office ips only

d)

Launch the EC2 server in private subnet in different region

12.

Which one of the following is the way in which we can access and interact with AWS resources

a)

By using AWS SDK

b)

By visiting AWS data centers

c)

Getting physical access to the resources

d)

By using on-premises servers

13.

Where is the credentials file stored when you configure AWS CLI with Secret Key and Access key?

a)

~/.aws/access-key

b)

~/.aws/credentials

c)

~/.credentials

d)

~/.ssh/id_rsa

14.

Which of the following is NOT true in regards to S3 bucket

a)

S3 is a object storage

b)

You can make a S3 bucket public if you plan to host static website

c)

My S3 bucket name must be unique globally

d)

I can create S3 bucket in a Subnet

15.

Choose the correct order which shows the correct steps to get an EC2 server running

a)

Create VPC -> Create Subnet -> Create EC2

b)

Create Subnet -> Create VPC -> Create EC2

c)

Create VPC -> Create EC2 -> Create Subnet

d)

Create Region -> Create AZ -> Create VPC -> Create EC2