CSOA-A Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning and Automation (18%)

Question 1

What is EC2 Image Builder Used for?

Answer 1

Automation of EC2 instances

Question 2

What is an EC2 Image Builder REcipe

Answer 2

Base operating system + Installed software

Question 3

What two IAM Policies need to be in the Role you create for using EC3 Image Builder

Answer 3

1. EC2InstanceProfileForImageBuilder (ECRContainerBuilds)
2. Amazon SSMManagedInstanceCore

Question 4

What are the 5 sections of a Cloud Formation configuration? Which ones are mandatory?

Answer 4

1. Parameters
2. Conditions
3. Resources (only mandatory one)
4. Mappings
5. Transform

Question 5

What are the 3 approaches to Deployment?

Answer 5

1. Glue/Green
2. Rolling
3. Canary

Question 6

What are Cloudformation StackSets used for

Answer 6

Managing Cloud formation stacks across accounts and regions

Question 7

What IAM Roles are needed to use CloudFormation Stack Sets Across Acounts?

Answer 7

All are AWSCloudFormationStackSet
- AdministrationRole
- ExecutionRole

Question 8

What should you use when you have a CloudFormation stack that has critical resources

Answer 8

Use a cloud stack policy

Question 9

What is AWS Service Manager for?

Answer 9

Managing fleets of EC2 instances (patching, etc)

Question 10

What is OpsWorks used for

Answer 10

AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.
- Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers.
- OpsWorks lets you use Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments.

Question 11

What are the available flavors of Opsworks

Answer 11

• Chef
• Puppet
• OpsWorks Stacks