Automation

Question 1

Your brand new CloudFormation stack just encountered an error. By default, what happens to the resources that it had created?

Answer 1

They are terminated.

Question 2

What part of a CloudFormation template allows you to pass values into the template?

Answer 2

Parameters

Question 3

Elastic Beanstalk is an example of ___.

Answer 3

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Question 4

What are common use cases for the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store “SecureString” parameter?

Answer 4

1) For using data/parameters across AWS services without exposing the values as plaintext in commands, functions, agent logs, or CloudTrail logs.

2) For sensitive data that needs to be stored and referenced in a secure manner.

Question 5

Whenever possible, we should focus on __ processes over doing things ____.

Answer 5

Automating, manually

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of deploying an application using Elastic Beanstalk?

A) Elastic Beanstalk will rewrite your applications from any language into Python.

B) It will deploy and update your applications for you.

C) You maintain full control over all of your architecture.

D) It will automatically replace instances that fail.

Answer 6

A) Elastic Beanstalk will rewrite your applications from any language into Python.

Question 7

Systems Manager can be used to patch and update _ and __.

Answer 7

EC2 instances, on-premises instances