Cloudformation

Question 1

____ is a service that allows you to manage, configure, and provision your AWS infrastructure as code.

Answer 1

Cloudformation

Question 2

_____ are defiened using a CloudFront template

Answer 2

Resources

Question 3

CF integrates the template and makes the appropriate ____ calls to create the resources you have defined.

Answer 3

API

Question 4

Cloudformation supports ____ and ____.

Answer 4

Yaml and JSON

Question 5

WHich of the following are CF benefits:

• Infra is provisioned consistently, with fewer mistakes
• Less time and effort than configuring things manually
• You can version control and peer review your templates
• FRee to use (charged for what you create)
• Can be used to manage updates and dependencies
• CAn be used to rollback and delete teh entire stack as well.

Answer 5

All of the above

Question 6

___ or ____ template is used to describe the endstate of the infra you are either provisioning or changing

Answer 6

Yaml or Json

Question 7

After creating the template, you upload it to CloudFormation using ____

Answer 7

S3

Question 8

CF reads the templates and makes ___ calls on your behalf

Answer 8

API

Question 9

The resulting resources are called a _____

Answer 9

stack

Question 10

Put the CF template structure in order-

InstanceID:

Value: !Ref EC2 Instance

Outputs:

Description: The Instance ID

Answer 10

Outputs:

InstanceID:

Description: The Instance ID

Value: !Ref EC2 Instance

Question 11

____ is the only mandatory section of the CF template

Answer 11

Resources

Question 12

Remember the ____ section is used to reference additional code stored in S3, allowing for code re-use

ie: for Lambda code or template snippets/reusable pieces of CF code.

Answer 12

Transform

Question 13

_____ an extension to CF to define serverless apps

Answer 13

(SAM) Serverless Application model

Question 14

T or F

SAM provides simplified syntax for defining serverless resources: APIs, Lambda Functions, DynamoDB Tables, etc.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Use the SAM ____ to package your deployment code; upload it to S3 and deploy your serverless app.

Answer 15

CLI

Question 16

SAM CLI commands

Answer 16

sam pacakge \

–template-file ./mytemplate.yml

–output -template -file sam-template.yml\

–s3-bucket s3-bucket-name

Question 17

SAM Deploy Commands

Answer 17

–template-file sam-template.yml\

–stack-name mystack\

–capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

Question 18

SAM = ___ ____ ____

Answer 18

serverless application model

Question 19

SAM allows you to define and privision serverless apps using ____

Answer 19

CloudFormation

Question 20

SAM uses the SAM ____ commands to package and deploy:

SAM ____: packages your app and uploads to S3

SAM ____: deploys your serverless app using CF

1. deploy
2. CLI
3. package

Answer 20

CLI; package;deploy

Question 21

CF Nested stacks

Allow _____ of code for common use cases

ie: standard config for a LB, web server, app server, etc.

Answer 21

Re-use

Question 22

CloudFormation Nested Stack

instead of copying out the code each time, create a standard ____ for each common use case and reference from within your CF _____.

Answer 22

template

Question 23

____ ____ allow you to resuse CF code so you don’t need to copy/paste every time.

Answer 23

nested stacks

Question 24

nested stacks are really useful for ___ used configs

ie: for LB, web app servers.

Answer 24

frequently

Question 25

Nested Stacks

simple create a CF template, store it in S3, and you can reference it in the ____ section of any CD template using the stack _____ type.

Answer 25

resource

Question 26

AWS cloudformation ___ ____ can be used to detect changes made to aws resources outside the CF templates. AWS CF ___ ____ only checks property values that are explicitly set by stack templates or by specifying template parameters. It does not determine drift for property values that are set by default. To determine drift for these resources, you can explicitly set property values which can be the same as that of the default value. +

Answer 26

drift detection