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AWS Part 3 (201-250) Flashcards

1
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What happens when EC2 instance is halted or ended?

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  • Shutdown is performed typical way
  • EBS volumes can stay joined and begin again
  • Occurence hours are NOT charged when ceased state
    deleteontermination is set to false
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What are the mainstream DevOps devices?

6 devices mentioned - J. G. N. S. D. PCA.

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  • Jenkins ~ Continuous Integration tool
  • Git ~ Version Control System tool
  • Nagios ~ Continuous Monitoring tool
  • Selenium ~ Continuous Testing tool
  • Docker ~ Containerization tool
  • Puppet, Chef, Ansible ~ Deployment & Configuration Admin tools
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What are IAM Roles and Policies? What is difference between IAM Roles, and Policies?

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Roles: for AWS Services, assign permissions of some AWS service to another service
- Example - Give S3 permission to EC2 to access buckets

Policies: for users and groups, assign perimmissions to users and groups
- Example - Give permission to user to access S3 buckets

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What are the default services we get when we create AWS VPC?

3 main services offered… R. N. S.

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  • Route Table
  • Network ACL (NACL)
  • Security Group
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What is difference between Public Subnet and Private Subnet?

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Public: will have IGW attached to route table, private will NOT have IGW attached

Causing no internet for private subnet…

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6
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How do you access EC2 with Private IP in a Private Subnet?

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Using VPN, if configured to that VPC
Can access using other EC2 with public access

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7
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We have custom VPC configured and MySQL DB server which is on Private Subnet. Need to update MySQL DB server, what are the options to do so?

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Using NAT Gateway in the VPC
. or Launch NAT instance EC2 config
. or Attach NAT Gateway in Public Subnet and attach it to the Route Table

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8
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What is the difference between Security Groups and NACLs?

4 main things - Attached to ? Stateful or Stateless? Block IP? Rules?

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Security Groups:
- Attached to EC2 instance
- Stateful for incoming/outgoing rules
- Blocking IP address can’t be done
- Allow rules only, by default rules are denied

NACL:
- Attached to Subnet
- Stateless - Incoming rules only
- IP address can be blocked
- Allow and Deny can be used

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9
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What are differences between Route53 and ELB?

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Route53 handles DNS servers with web interface

Elastic Load Balancing auto scales depending on the demand

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10
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Which engines can be used in AWS RDS?

5 main engines mentioned here

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  • MariaDB
  • MySQL DB
  • MS SQL DB
  • Postgre DB
  • Oracle DB
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11
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What are Status Checks in EC2?

Can you list 9 types of check?

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Look for issues with instances for the following:
1. Network
2. Power
3. Software
4. Hardware
5. Instance
6. Memory
7. Files
8. Kernels
9. Failed checks

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12
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To establish peering between 2 VPC’s, what conditions must be met?

Discuss about CIDR and locations

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  • CIDR block should NOT overlap between VPC settings for peering.
  • Peering connection is allowed within a region, across region, across different accounts
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13
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Troubleshoot with EC2 instances

2 examples and 2 potential solutions

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  • If instance state is (0/2) then there may be hardware issue
  • If instance state is (1/2) then there may be issue with OS

Workaround - Restart, or if no resolutio then check logs

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14
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How can EC2 instances be resized?

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Can scale UP or DOWN based on requirement

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15
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What is EBS?

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Block-level storage volume which can be used after mounting EC2 instances

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Difference between EBS, EFS, and S3?

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EBS: Can be accessed ONLY after is mounted with instance

EFS: Can be shared with multiple instances

S3: Can be access without mounting with instances

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17
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Max number of buckets that can be created in AWS?

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You can creat up to 100 buckets per AWS account

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18
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Max number of EC2 instances that can be created in VPC?

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You can create up to 20 reserved instances and request Spot as per demand

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19
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How can EBS be accessed?

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After mounting to EC2 instance, it can be accessed

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20
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What is process to mount EBS to EC2 instance?

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Coding ahead:
- Df-k
- mkfs.ext4/dev/xvdf
- Fdisk -|
- Mkdir /my5gbdata
- Mount /dev/xvdf /my5gbdata

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21
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How to add volume permanently with instance?

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Each restart unmounts volume from image, so to keep:

Cd /etc/fstab
/dev/xvdf /data ext4 defaults 0
0 < edit the file system name accordingly

22
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What is difference between Service Role and SAML Federated Role?

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Service Role: Meant for usage of AWS services based on policies attached to it
- Ex. In case of automation we can create a service role and attach to it

Federated Role: Meant for User access and getting access to AWS as per designed role
- Ex. We can have fed role created for office emp and then that group will be created in the AD and user added to it

23
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How many policies can be attached to a role?

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10 is soft limit, 20 is max limit

24
Q

What are different ways to access AWS?

3 different ways:

A
  • Console
  • CLI
  • AWS SDK
25
Q

How is a root user different than an IAM user?

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Root user is master of all in the AWS accounts, IAM users can be limited or act as Admin via policies

26
Q

What do you mean by principal of least privilege in terms of IAM?

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To provide the same or equivalent permission to user/role

27
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What is the meaning of non-explicit deny for IAM user?

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When IAM user is created and it is not having any policy attached to it

28
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What is the precedence level between explicit allow and explicit deny?

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Explicit Deny will always override Explicit Allow

29
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What is the benefit of creating group in IAM?

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  • Makes user management process much simpler
  • Adding policy to group(s) instead of each user
30
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What is the difference between the Admin Access and Power User access in terms of pre-build policy?

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Admin access has full permissions to all things, while Power Users have Admin access but no user/group management.

31
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What is the purpose of Identity Provider?

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Helps in building trust between AWS and corporate AD environment, while creating Federated roles.

32
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What are the benefits of STS?

What is STS?

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Helps in securing AWS environment
- Do not need to embed or distribute creds
- Do not need to rotate or revoke tokens

33
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What is the benefit of creating the AWS Organization?

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Helps in
- managing IAM policies
- creating AWS accounts programmatically
- managing the paymeny and billing methods

34
Q

What is max file length in S3?

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UTF-8 1024 bytes

35
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Which activity cannot be done using autoscaling?

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Maintain fixed running of EC2

36
Q

How will you secure data at rest in EBS?

A

EBS data is ALWAYS secure

37
Q

What is max size of S3 bucket?

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5TB

38
Q

Can objects in S3 be delivered through Amazon CloudFront?

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Yes

39
Q

Which service is used to distribute content to end users using global network EDGE LOCATION?

A

VPC

Virtual Private Cloud

40
Q

What is “Ephemaral”?

A

Temporary

41
Q

What are SHARDS in kinesis services?

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Shards are used to store data in Kenesis

42
Q

Where can you find Ephemeral storage?

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In the Instance Store service

43
Q

I have some private servers on my premises and distributed some of my workload to public cloud.

What is this architecture called?

A

VPC

Virtual Private Cloud

44
Q

Route 53 can be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS.

True or False?

A

False!

45
Q

Is Simple Workflow Service one of the valid SNS Subscribers?

A

No

46
Q

Which cloud model do devs and orgs all around the workd leverage extensively?

A

IAAS

Infrastructure as a Service

47
Q

Can CloudFront serve content from a non AWS origin server?

A

No

48
Q

Is EFS a centralised storage service in AWS?

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Yes

49
Q

Which AWS service will you use to collect and process ecommerce data for real-time analysis?

A

Both Dynamo DB & Redshift

50
Q

High demand of IOPS performance is expected around 15000.

Whic EBS volume type would you recommend?

A

Provisioned IOPS

AWS SAA03 (3 decks)

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