AWS Developer 2021

Question 1

What is AWS CloudFormation?

Answer 1

Used for provisioning AWS resources. It is not used for setting up monitoring.

Question 2

What are the AWS Console sections for IAM Policy Permissions?

Answer 2

Allow, Explicit Deny, Unrecognized Services

Question 3

What yaml file is used by AWS Code Deploy to deploy Lambda?

Answer 3

appsec.yml

Question 4

What algorithms does AWS KMS support?

Answer 4

Symmetric, Public

Question 5

What is AWS Beanstalk?

Answer 5

Used for create and provision resources. It also can setup monitoring. It is intended for scaling web applications.

Question 6

What is AWS Athena?

Answer 6

A serverless AWS service that can interact with S3 using SQL.

Question 7

What API action is for providing authentication outside authenticators such as Facebook, Amazon, and Google.

Answer 7

GetFederationToken

Question 8

How long does AWS CloudWatch keep data?

Answer 8

2 weeks

Question 9

What message tools are supported by SNS?

Answer 9

SQS, Lambda, Email, SMS

Question 10

True or False: S3 event notifications can be sent to CloudWatch.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

What is provisioned IOPS?

Answer 11

The highest performing EBS Volume type.

Question 12

What is dedicated host?

Answer 12

A physical server owned by AWS, but dedicated to a clients use.

Question 13

What is SES?

Answer 13

Simple Email Service

Question 14

What is Kinesis?

Answer 14

A tool to analyze data in real time as it comes in.

Question 15

What is STS?

Answer 15

Security Token Service - It provides temporary credentials for IAM Users.

Question 16

What is AWS X-Ray?

Answer 16

It is a tracing service the collects and can analyze the data.

Question 17

What is TTL for Dynamo DB?

Answer 17

Time to Live - determines when data in a table expires and can be automatically deleted.

Question 18

What are AWS Step Functions?

Answer 18

It is a serverless function orchestrator for sequencing Lambda functions along with other AWS services for applications.

Question 19

What is AWS CodeStart

Answer 19

A tool for managing the entire process of a software development project.

Question 20

What is SCP?

Answer 20

Service Control Policies - They manage permissions at a organizational level or by IAM Users from particular accounts.

Question 21

What is an Organizational Unit?

Answer 21

A grouping of multiple accounts.

Question 22

What is CORS?

Answer 22

Cross Origin Resource Sharing - A tool for accessing S3 from websites.

Question 23

What is a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ)?

Answer 23

Its a debugging tool for Lambda to send events that did not get processed after the Lambda retries.

Question 24

What is AWS SSM?

Answer 24

AWS Systems Manager

Question 25

What is Short Polling?

Answer 25

Provides messages from some servers for SQS. This has the quickest results, but may not have all messages.

Question 26

What is a DAX Cluster?

Answer 26

It is an item cache for Dynamo DB.

Question 27

True or False: IAM Roles should not be used with on-premise applications.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

True or False: Instance profiles can be created for on-premise instances.

Answer 28

False

Question 29

What are SQS Delay Queues?

Answer 29

Provides to delay delivery of messages through the queue for a defined number of seconds.

Question 30

True or False: Elastic Beanstalk can automate deployment for the Code Deploy service.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

What is CloudFront?

Answer 31

It is a content delivery network for delivering data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally.

Question 32

What is AWS OpsWorks?

Answer 32

It is a configuration management service that manage instances using Chef and Puppet.