Latest Amazon Web Services Objective Questions

1. What type of distribution is available for CloudFront?

1. Download and streaming
2. Download
3. Torrent
4. Streaming

Ans: A

2. The process of shipping inventory to Amazon and out to your customers can be automated using this service:

A. CloudHSM
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon Fulfillment
D. CloudShip

Ans: C

3. What is Amazon EMR responsible for?

A. Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that makes it easier to shrink data files.
B. Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that makes it easier to process large amounts via a Hadoop framework.
C. Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that makes it easier to read large maps.
D. Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that makes it easier to build large servers.

Ans: B

4. What is AWS IAM?

A. AWS Identity and Access Management.
B. AWS Independent Access Manager.
C. AWS’s security console.
D. AWS Identify Alternative Mechanism.

Ans: A

5. What is an example of a security group used by Amazon RDS?

A. MP3 security group.
B. EC2 security group.
C. CT3 security group.
D. PHP security group

Ans: B

6. What is an RDS?

A. Recumbent Database Service
B. Recreational Database Service
C. Relational Database Service
D. Residential Database Service

Ans: C

7. AWS Free Tier is wide enough to get acquainted with almost all services.

A. False
B. True

Ans: B

8. What type of Route53 alias could be set?

A. Elastic Load Balancer
B. Another Route53 record set
C. S3 site endpoint
D. All of these

Ans: D

9. What method is used to send emails with SES?

A. Both SMTP and API
B. Only using SMTP
C. Only using API
D. Only using Web Console

Ans: A

10. What does AWS use for content delivery?

A. Amazon CloudFront.
B. Amazon ContentFront.
C. Amazon DeliveryPoint.
D. Amazon Service Front

Ans: A

11. This service can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web:

A. Amazon Fulfillment
B. Storage Gateway
C. CloudHSM
D. Simple Storage Service (S3)

Ans: D

12. What two interfaces does Amazon S3 use?

A. REST and SOAP interfaces.
B. SOAP and RAST interfaces.
C. SOAP and Ruby interfaces.
D. SOAP and Java interfaces.

Ans: A

13. AWS provides consolidated billing, allowing one account to pay for multiple services:

A. True, but only for high volume ($500+ per month) accounts
B. False
C. True, for any number of services
D. True, but only for up to three services

Ans: C

14. What part of AWS handles their DNS?

A. Amazon Route 44.
B. Amazon Route 53.
C. Amazon Cloud Services.
D. Amazon Route 66.

Ans: B

15. What data format must an HTTP request to DynamoDB be made in?

A. PHP
B. JavaScript
C. Java
D. JSON

Ans: D

16. It is possible to create custom OS images in EC2.

A. True
B. False

Ans: A

17. If you wanted to delete a subnet or a gateway, what would you use?

A. AWS Network Console.
B. AWS Cloud Console.
C. AWS Virtual Console.
D. AWS Management Console.

Ans: D

18. AWS provides a scalable, distributed in-memory cache service called:

A. ElastiCache
B. DynamoDB
C. CloudHSM
D. Redshift

Ans: A

19. What does AWS Compute provide?

A. Traditional servers similar to RAID.
B. Scalable virtual private servers.
C. Linux-based web hosting.
D. Static virtual private servers.

Ans: B

20. When in a “Stopped” state, an EC2 instance is billed:

A. At half the rate of a Running instance of the same type
B. At the full rate for the instance
C. For instance storage only

Ans: C

21. What is the software prerequisites for using AWS at the command line?

A. Solaris, Windows 98, MacOS.
B. Linux, OS X, or Unix
C. OS X, Windows XP, or Solaris.
D. Windows XP, or Vista

Ans: B

22. With help of _______ you can restrict network access to EC2 instances.

A. Elastic Load Balancer
B. Elastic IP
C. Placement Groups
D. Security Groups

Ans: D

23. If instance is under termination protection, what would happen after a scale down policy action?

A. Instance will be kicked from ELB and autoscaling group
B. Instance will be terminated
C. Instance will not be terminated, but will be excluded from autoscaling group
D. Instance will remain as is

Ans: C

24. AWS’s managed NoSQL database service is called:

A. RDS
B. CloudHSM
C. Redshift
D. DynamoDB

Ans: D

25. What is the name of the Amazon Web Service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud?

A. Virtual Private Server
B. Virtual Cloud Server
C. Elastic Compute Cloud
D. Elastic Cloud Server

Ans: C

26. What happens if primary RDS instance in MultiAZ deployment fails?

A. Software changes settings to use secondary RDS instance
B. AWS switches endpoint to a secondary RDS instance, no additional actions from users are needed
C. RDS data is lost, adminstrator have to restore it from a snapshot
D. AWS automatically recovers RDS instance from snapshot

Ans: B

27. What kind of data does Amazon Kinesis process?

A. Streaming data.
B. Checksum data.
C. Static data.
D. Revolving data.

Ans: A

28. AWS provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service called:

A. DNStorm
B. DynamoDB
C. Route 53
D. ElastiCache

Ans: C

29. What format does CloudFormation use for templates?

A. JSON
B. SQL
C. XML
D. CSV

Ans: A

30. What type of parameter is “email”?

A. Object.
B. Variable.
C. String.
D. Number.

Ans: C

31. What is the service, Amazon SES used for?

A. Establishing your own global cloud network
B. Sending email
C. Connecting to a global cloud network
D. Setting up a home cloud network

Ans: B

32. What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder?

A. It is a service that lets you convert video files stored in your Amazon Simple Storage Service.
B. It is a specialized file conversion network that uploads your files to AWS.
C. It is a file-sharing entity of AWS.
D. It is a service that lets you stream videos from AWS.

Ans: A

33. Amazon MWS stands for:

A. Amazon Market Web Server
B. Amazon Marketplace Web Server
C. Amazon Marketplace Web Service
D. Amazon Marketing Web Service

Ans: C

34. RDS Multi-AZ deployment is available for:

A. All of the above
B. SQL Server
C. MySQL
D. Oracle

Ans: A

35. The capacity management, load balancing, scaling, and health monitoring of an AWS application can all be handled automatically by:

A. Elastic Beanstalk
B. CloudHSM
C. Amazon Fulfillment
D. BrainStem

Ans: A

36. What is the name of the Amazon Web Service that provides easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud?

A. Relational Database Service
B. Relational Database Cloud
C. DynamoDB
D. MySQL Clou

Ans: A

37. It’s possible to bill for applications that are built in, or run on top of, Amazon Web Services, using:

A. OpsWork
B. Amazon DevPay
C. Amazon Fulfillment
D. CloudHSM

Ans: B

38. Which of the following is an AWS Elastic Beanstalk component?

A. Extension.
B. Gesture.
C. Environment.
D. Element.

Ans: C

39. Which of these can you use to deploy and manage your applications?

A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
B. AWS Manager
C. AWS Agent
D. AWS Management Suite

Ans: A

40. What are pipelines under Amazon Elastic Transcoder?

A. Queues that manage your transcoding jobs.
B. Queues that manage your data transactions.
C. Queues that manage your file transfers.
D. Queues that manage your compression jobs.

Ans: A

41. This service helps to create and provision deployments quickly and easily, by using template files to describe a “stack” of AWS resources:

A. Amazon Fulfillment
B. Amazon Glacier
C. ElastiCache
D. CloudFormation

Ans: D

42. AWS provides a facility for data-driven workflows, allowing application data to be transferred automatically between services as work is completed:

A. Amazon Glacier
B. OpsWorks
C. CloudHSM
D. Data Pipeline

Ans: D

43. What is the name of the Amazon Web Service that provides scalable storage in the cloud?

A. Cloud Storage Service
B. Super Storage Service
C. Amazon Simple Storage
D. Simple Storage Service

Ans: D

44. What is the proper way to denote the syntax for a customer gateway?

A. ec2-create-customer-gateway -t type -i ip_address -b bgp_asn
B. ec2-create -t type -i ip_address -b bgp_asn-customer-gateway
C. -t type -i ip_address -b bgp_asn ec2-create-customer-gateway
D. -i ip_address -b bgp_asn ec2-create-customer-gateway -t type

Ans: A

45. What alarm states are available in CloudWatch?

A. OK and ALARM
B. OK, ALARM and INSUFFICIENT DATA
C. OK, ALARM and ERROR
D. GOOD and BAD

Ans: B

46. When an EC2 instance is in a stopped state, the user pays:

A. Only for EBS storage instance uses
B. Stopped instances requires no additional fees
C. Only for CPU and Memory resources
D. Half price for EC2 instance and EBS full storage price

Ans: A

47. AWS reserved instances is a:

A. Low cost EC2 instance that could be shut down anytime
B. Upfront fee and lowered hourly rate for 1 or 3 years
C. Virtual machine with provisioned EBS IOPS rate
D. High-performance RDS instance

Ans: B

48. How do you get access to a Windows instance in EC2?

A. Use Web console ‘Connect’
B. Use ec2-get-password command
C. Reboot instance and login under safe mode
D. Receive administrator password via email

Ans: A

49. How can you scale ELB to process requests faster?

A. ELB could not be scaled up or down
B. You can’t do it. AWS scales ELB automatically depending on requests rate.
C. By increasing number of instances behind ELB
D. By using API method change_elb_type

Ans: B

50. True of false: IAM user permissions can be set to control specific EC2 instances.

A. True
B. False

Ans: A

51. Is it possible to change EC2 instance type?

A. Yes, while it’s in stop state
B. Yes, anytime
C. No, you have only what you started
D. Yes, but you first need to create AMI

Ans: A

52. Which of the following tool is used to create CloudFormation templates based on existing AWS deployments?

A. Opsworks
B. Placement Groups
C. EC2
D. CloudFormer

Ans: D

53. The AWS petabyte-scale data warehouse service is called:

A. ElastiCache
B. Amazon Glacier
C. DynamoDB
D. Redshift

Ans: D

54. Spot instance is terminated when:

A. Spot price is higher than bid
B. Spot price is lower than bid
C. No more CPU cores are available for your spot
D. Instance is reached traffic limit

Ans: A

55. AWS includes an extremely low-cost storage service, ideal for backups and other rarely retrieved, high-latency applications, called:

A. Simple Storage Service (S3)
B. Amazon Glacier
C. SloStore
D. RDS

Ans: B

56. How can you rewrite URLs with ELB?

A. Using API
B. None of these
C. Using Nginx-like rules
D. Using Apache-like rules

Ans: B

57. Would an AWS user be billed for their primary Elastic IP attached to an EC2 instance?

A. No
B. Yes

Ans: A

58. From where does CloudFront deliver your content?

A. Data Servers.
B. Server Origins.
C. Server Points.
D. Origin servers.

Ans: D

59. AWS provides storage for secure cryptographic keys via specialized security hardware through this service:

A. OpsWorks
B. CloudFormation
C. CloudHSM
D. Redshift

Ans: C

60. This high level application management service allows layered “stacks” of AWS services to be provisioned, managed, and configured automatically, using the Chef framework’s “recipe” system for custom configuration:

A. Elastic Beanstalk
B. OpsWorks
C. CloudHSM
D. Amazon Glacier

Ans: B

61. How can you decrease network latency for cluster type instances?

A. By using placement groups
B. Starting instances at once
C. Reserving cluster type instances
D. By using same security group for all instances

Ans: A

62. If AWS sends you a message stating that one of your instances will be terminated because of hardware failure, you need to:

A. Terminate it manually as soon as possible
B. Create a full backup
C. Change shutdown behavior
D. Stop and start this instance

Ans: D

63. What should be set up to move files from S3 to Glacier automatically?

A. Archiving rules
B. Glacier rules
C. Lifecycle rules
D. Backup rules

Ans: C

64. What is the default queue limit for SQS for a new account?

A. No limits are set
B. 10,000 queues and 50 requests per second
C. 1,000 queues and 5 requests per second
D. 1 queue and 500 requests per second

Ans: A

65. Autoscaling group supports:

A. Vertical scaling
B. Only scaling up
C. Horizontal and vertical scaling
D. Horizontal scaling

Ans: D

66. Which of these entities could be transferred between AWS regions?

A. AMI and EBS snapshot
B. S3 bucket
C. EC2 and RDS instance
D. DynamoDB storage

Ans: A

67. This service provides a solution for connecting local storage volumes with secure, off-site incremental backups in Amazon S3:

A. Amazon Glacier
B. Storage Gateway
C. CloudVolume
D. Data Pipeline

Ans: B

68. Is it possible to have stored procedures in RDS MySQL?

A. No, you don’t have access to enable them
B. Yes, they are enabled by default
C. No, it’s prohibited to store procedures
D. Yes, they could be turned on via API

Ans: D

69. What ports to proxy are available with ELB?

A. 21, 22, 80, 443 and 1024 to 65535 inclusive
B. 25, 80, 443 and 1024 to 65535 inclusive
C. 80 and 443
D. 80 and 8080

Ans: B

70. What could be set up as an origin of CloudFront distribution?

A. S3 bucket or external web service
B. (all of these)
C. AWS-US-EAST-1 region S3 destination point
D. 4.114 Clause Reader (v 1.1)

Ans: A

71. Amazon guarantees maximum availability across:

A. Each Elastic Block Store volume
B. Each EC2 Server Instance
C. Each service Region, as a whole
D. Each Availability Zone

Ans: C

72. What of these sections is always required in CloudFormation templates when launching stacks?

A. Resources, Mappings
B. Mappings
C. Resources, Parameters
D. Parameters
E. Resources

Ans: E

73. What command is used to implement CloudWatch custom metrics?

A. put-cloud-metric
B. add-metric-data
C. put-metric-data
D. put-custom-metric

Ans: C

74. Is Cooldown in AWS Auto-scaling a mandatory parameter?

A. There is no such parameter as Cooldown
B. Yes
C. No

Ans: C

75. What is the default email limit for SES for a new account?

A. 10,000 per day and 5 per second
B. No limit is set
C. 1,000,000 per day and 50 per second
D. 1,000 per day and 1 per second

Ans: A

76. Which of the following database options are available with OpsWorks?

A. Only MySQL
B. Oracle and MySQL
C. Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server
D. Only Oracle

Ans: A

77. VPC implementation is available:

A. Only in single availability zone
B. All of these
C. In multiple availability zones
D. In multiple AWS regions

Ans: C

78. It is possible to set up replication between RDS instances.

A. False
B. True

Ans: A