EC2

Question 1

What is EC2?

Answer 1

A cloud computing service

Question 2

What can you configure in EC2?

Answer 2

OS, Storage, Memory, Network, Throughput.

Question 3

How long does it take to Launch and SSH into your EC2?

Answer 3

Within minutes

Question 4

Name the EC2 types

Answer 4

General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Accelerated optimized, Storage Optimized.

Question 5

What is the role of EC2 type - General Purpose?

Answer 5

A balance of compute, memory and networking resources

Question 6

What is the role of EC2 type - Compute Optimized?

Answer 6

Ideal for compute bound applications that benefit from high performance processor

Question 7

What is the role of EC2 type - Memory Optimized?

Answer 7

For fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory

Question 8

What is the role of EC2 type - Accelerated Optimized?

Answer 8

For hardware accelerators, or co-processors

Question 9

What is the role of EC2 type - Storage Optimized?

Answer 9

For high, sequential read and write access to very large data sets on local storage

Question 10

What is the general rule about EC2 instance sizes?

Answer 10

They generally double in price and key attributes

Question 11

What are placement groups in relation to EC2?

Answer 11

Let you to choose the logical placement of your instances to optimize for communication,
performance or durability

Question 12

What is the cost of EC2 placement groups?

Answer 12

FREE

Question 13

What is automatically run when launching an EC2 instance?

Answer 13

UserData

Question 14

How can you find out about the metadata of the current EC2 instance?

Answer 14

via local endpoint when SSH’d into EC2 instance. curl http://ip/latest/meta-data

Question 15

What is an Instance Profile?

Answer 15

It is a container for an IAM role that you can use to pass role information to an EC2 instance when the instance starts