EC2 Basics

Question 1

Is EC2 is an IaaS service?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

Provides access to virtual machines called instances

Answer 2

EC2

Question 3

By default is EC2 a private service?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Who manages the data centers, physical facilities, and the hardware components of EC2?

Answer 4

AWS

Question 5

If an AZ fails does your EC2 instance fail along with it? (AZ Resilient)

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Who is responsible for your guest operating system, applying OS patches, setting up security access controls, and managing your data?

Answer 6

Customer

Question 7

Does EC2 offer on-demand per second billing?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

2 Popular storage choices for EC2

Answer 8

Local-on host storage or Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Question 9

Provides information on condition of EC2 instance whether it is stopped, terminated or running

Answer 9

State

Question 10

Can you reverse the termination of an EC2 instance

Answer 10

No

Question 11

Do stopped instances still generate storage charges?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

Contains the OS, settings, and other applications that you will use in your server

Answer 12

AMI

Question 13

An EC2 instance is configured to launch into a single VPC subnet

Answer 13

True

Question 14

AMI Permissions where everyone is allowed to launch instances

Answer 14

Public

Question 15

AMI Permissions where the owner is implicitly allowed to create instance from an AMI

Answer 15

Owner

Question 16

AMI Permissions where the owner explicitly grants access to other accounts to that AMI

Answer 16

Explicit