Amazon EC2

Question 1

What do you call when resources are shared by tenants to promote agility and cost efficiency?

Answer 1

Multitenancy

Question 2

Who is responsible for coordinating this multitenancy?

Answer 2

Hypervisor

Question 3

What do you call the resizing an instance by adding more memory, more CPU, etc?

Answer 3

Vertical Scaling

Question 4

What are the 5 Amazon EC2 instance families?

Answer 4

General purpose
Compute optimized
Memory optimized
Accelerated computing
Storage optimized

Question 5

What type of EC2 instance provide a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources?

Answer 5

General Purpose EC2 Instance

Question 6

What EC2 instance type is ideal for compute-intensive tasks like gaming servers, high performance computing or HPC, scientific modeling?

Answer 6

Compute Optimized EC2 Instance

Question 7

What type of EC2 instance is more ideal for workloads that process large datasets in memory, such as high-performance databases?

Answer 7

Memory Optimized EC2 Instance

Question 8

What type of instance is good for floating point number calculations, graphics processing, or data pattern matching, as they use hardware accelerators?

Answer 8

Accelerated Computing EC2 Instance

Question 9

What instances are designed for workloads that require high, sequential read and write access to large datasets on local storage?

Answer 9

Storage Optimized EC2 Instance

Question 10

You want to use an Amazon EC2 instance for a batch processing workload. What would be the best Amazon EC2 instance type to use?

Answer 10

Compute Optimized

Question 11

What is responsible for isolating the virtual machines from each other as they share resources from the host?

Answer 11

Hypervisor

Question 12

What are the contract length options for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances?

Answer 12

1 and 3 years

Question 13

What type of instance is good for distributed file systems, data warehousing applications, and high-frequency online transaction processing (OLTP) systems?

Answer 13

Storage Optimized EC2 Instance

Question 14

You have a workload that will run for a total of 6 months and can withstand interruptions. What would be the most cost-efficient Amazon EC2 purchasing option?

Answer 14

Spot Instance

Question 15

Which type of instance run in a virtual private cloud (VPC) on hardware that is dedicated to a single customer?

Answer 15

Dedicated Hosts