AWS Quest 1 Test

Question 1

What are some benefits of using cloud computing vs traditional on premises computing?

Answer 1

Reduced responsibility of maintenance

Question 2

What is an availability zone comprised of?

Answer 2

One or more data centers

Question 3

What is the root account?

Answer 3

The email address used to create the AWS account

Question 4

What is the point of creating groups in IAM (choose 2)

Answer 4

1. Groups can be associated with with a policy document and any users in the group will inherit those permissions
2. Groups allow you to organize users into logical groups and apply permissions to them easily

Question 5

How do people receive Simple Notification Service emails?

Answer 5

People will get an email asking them to subscribe to an SNS topic

Question 6

What does the simple monthly calculator allow us to do? (choose 2)

Answer 6

1. Helps customers estimate their monthly AWS bill more efficiently
2. Calculate the potential cost savings between using different AWS services

Question 7

True or false: IAM roles can be used to log in to the AWS console

Answer 7

false

Question 8

What does identity federation with AWS Cognito allow users to do?

Answer 8

Sign into services with their other accounts such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, etc

Question 9

IAM is a _____ service

Answer 9

Globally scoped

Question 10

True or False: You can apply a policy document to user groups AND organizational units

Answer 10

true

Question 11

What’s the largest single file size that can be uploaded into S3?

Answer 11

5 GB

Question 12

True or False: you can create two buckets with the same name

Answer 12

false

Question 13

What are some methods of preventing accidental deletion on S3 objects? (select all that apply)

Answer 13

1. Turning on MFA delete

2. Turning on object versioning

Question 14

True or False: objects and buckets are not accessible to the internet by default

Answer 14

true

Question 15

Which of the following storage gateway types supports iSCSI block storage?

Answer 15

Volume Gateways

Question 16

Which of the following gateways are ideal for when you need low latency access to your entire dataset and asynchronously back up snapshots to S3?

Answer 16

Volume Gateway stored volumes

Question 17

What is a potential drawback of enabling object versioning?

Answer 17

New objects are created each time a new version of a file is uploaded which can lead to the amount of objects in the bucket increasing quickly

Question 18

True or false: S3 is a key-value database

Answer 18

true

Question 19

A response code ____ indicates a successful request for an object in S3

Answer 19

200

Question 20

Which of the following storage tiers is ideal for low cost storage of easily re-creatable files

Answer 20

Infrequent access storage

Question 21

Which of the following are true regarding S3 costs?

Answer 21

Data transferred into S3 from the internet is free

Question 22

True or False: Athena is an S3 querying service and Macie is a security service that uses AI to identify personally identifiable information.

Answer 22

true

Question 23

Which of the following lifecycle transitions are not allowed? (select all that apply)

Answer 23

all

Question 24

How long does it take to retrieve files from glacier using the standard retrieval option?

Answer 24

3 to 5 hours

Question 25

What does enabling CORS do for S3?

Answer 25

It allows other domains other than the host to request and receive objects