AWS - 3

Question 1

IT - MFA

Answer 1

Multi Factor Authentication

Question 2

IAM - MFA is an additional …

Answer 2

Layer of security on your root account.

Question 3

IAM - MFA takes the form of …

Answer 3

A continually changing, random six digit number.

Question 4

IAM - Policies allow you to …

Answer 4

Grant users or resources access to AWS services and resources.

Question 5

S3 - An object lifecycle is …

Answer 5

A set of rules that automate the migration of an object’s storage class to another storage class, based on specified time intervals.

Question 6

SNS - What are the main components of SNS?

Answer 6

Topics
Subscriptions
Publishers

Question 7

EC2 - IP Addressing is …

Answer 7

Providing an EC2 instance with a public IP address.

Question 8

AWS - IAM

Answer 8

Identity and Access Management

Question 9

AWS - What is IAM?

Answer 9

IAM is where you manage your AWS users and their access to AWS accounts and services.

Question 10

AWS - IOPS

Answer 10

Input/Output Per Second

Question 11

AWS - What is IOPS?

Answer 11

The amount of data that can be written to or received from an EBS volume per second.

Question 12

Cloudwatch - What are the main components of Cloudwatch?

Answer 12

Metrics

Alarms

Question 13

IAM - A policy … a user’s permissions

Answer 13

Defines

Question 14

Cloud - IaaS

Answer 14

Infrastructure as a Service

Question 15

AWS - EC2 Instance

Answer 15

A single iteration of an EC2 server

Question 16

AWS - Regions

Answer 16

Groupings of availability zones and data centres located around the world.

Question 17

AWS - Elasticity

Answer 17

The ability of a cloud system to both quickly increase and quickly decrease in size based on demand.

Question 18

AWS - VPC

Answer 18

Virtual Private Cloud

Question 19

AWS - What is a VPC

Answer 19

A private section of AWS, that you can put resources into, and allow or deny access to them.

Question 20

AWS - Scalability

Answer 20

The ability of a cloud system to quickly increase in size based on demand.

Question 21

Cloud - What are the four primary benefits of cloud computing?

Answer 21

• High Availability
• Fault Tolerance
• Scalability
• Elasticity

Question 22

Cloud - Core services of cloud computing: A…, C…, D…, D…, N…, S…, S…, V…

Answer 22

A - Analytics
C - Computing Power
D - Databases
D - Developer Tools
N - Networking
S - Security
S - Storage
V - Virtualisation

Question 23

AWS - Availability Zone

Answer 23

A group of AWS data centres located within a geographical region.

Question 24

AWS - What is the primary benefit of Availability Zones?

Answer 24

Availability Zones provide redundancy within an AWS region.

Question 25

AWS - S3 Permissions

Answer 25

Allow granular control over who can view, access and use specific buckets and objects.

Question 26

AWS - VPC is a ….. isolated sub-section of AWS

Answer 26

Logically

Question 27

AWS - S3

Answer 27

Simple Storage Service

Question 28

AWS - What is S3?

Answer 28

S3 is an online, bulk storage service

Question 29

S3 - Infrequent Access storage is designed for objects that …..

Answer 29

You do not need to access frequently, but must be immediately available when accessed.

Question 30

S3 - Infrequent Access storage has ….. durability

Answer 30

99.999999999% (11 nines)

Question 31

S3 - Infrequent Access storage has ….. availability

Answer 31

99.90%

Question 32

S3 - Infrequent Access storage is ….. expensive than Standard or RRS storage

Answer 32

Less