Deployments & Managing Infrastructure at Scale in AWS Quiz

Question 1

CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk are free of use.

TRUE or FALSE

Answer 1

TRUE

CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk are free of use, but you do pay for the resources created.

Question 2

Which AWS managed service allows to automate software deployments to a hybrid mix of EC2 Instances and On-Premises servers?

1 - Cloud Formation
2 - Code Deploy
3 - Elastic Beanstalk
4 - Code Star

Answer 2

Code Deploy

AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and instances running on-premises.

Question 3

You need a unified user interface that gives you visibility, control, and patching capabilities for your EC2 Instances on AWS, as well as for servers running in your on-premises data centers. Which service should you use?

1 - Storage Gateway
2 - Opsworks
3 - Elastic Container Service
4 - Systems Manager

Answer 3

Systems Manager

AWS Systems Manager gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS. It is used for patching systems at scale.

Question 4

You need to use Chef or Puppet. Which AWS service should you use?

1 - Cloud Formation
2 - Opsworks
3 - Code Deploy
4 - Code Commit

Answer 4

OpsWorks = Chef and Puppet

AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.

Question 5

Which of the following allows you to deploy any AWS Infrastructure as a Code?

1 - Opsworks
2 - Elastic Beanstalk
3 - Cloud Formation
4 - Systems Manager

Answer 5

Cloud Formation

AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to model and provision AWS and third party application resources in your cloud environment. It allows you to deploy Infrastructure as a Code.

Question 6

Which service is referred to as a Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

1 - Elastic Beanstalk
2 - Opsworks
3 - Cloud Formation
4 - EC2

Answer 6

Elastic Beanstalk = PaaS

Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS). You only manage data and applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes it even easier for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud

Question 7

What is called the declaration of the AWS resources that make up a stack?

1 - Cloud Formation Schemas
2 - Cloud Formation Diagrams
3 - Cloud Formation Templates
4 - Cloud Formation Models

Answer 7

Cloud Formation Templates

AWS CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML-formatted text files. They are declarations of the AWS resources that make up a stack.