AWS - 10,000 Feet Overview

Question 1

What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk & CloudFormation?

Answer 1

Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring based on the code you upload to it, where as CloudFormation is an automated provisioning engine designed to deploy entire cloud environments via a JSON script.

Question 2

What does an AWS Region consist of?

Answer 2

A distinct location within a geographic area designed to provide high availability to a specific geography.

Question 3

Which AWS service allows you to run code without having to worry about provisioning any underlying resources (such as virtual machines, databases, etc.)

Answer 3

Lambda

Question 4

Which AWS compute service is specifically designed to assist you in processing large data sets?

Answer 4

Elastic Map Reduce

Question 5

Which AWS service is used a CDN to distribute content around the world?

Answer 5

CloudFront

Question 6

Which AWS serviceis used primarily for data warehousing?

Answer 6

Redshift

Question 7

Which AWS service is used for collating large amounts of data streamed from multiple sources?

Answer 7

Kinesis

Question 8

You need a configuration management service that enables your system administrators to configure and operate your web applications using Chef. Which AWS service would best suit your needs?

Answer 8

Opsworks

Question 9

Your digital media agency needs to convert their media files in to different formats to suit different devices. Which AWS service should you consider using to meet these needs?

Answer 9

Elastic Transcoder