EC2 Instance Storage

Question 1

Network drives that can be attached to one EC2 instance at a time

Answer 1

Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes

Question 2

Template that allows you to create ready-to-use EC2 instances with our customizations

Answer 2

Amazon Machine Images (AMI)

Question 3

True or False: Are EBS volumes tied to a specific Availablity Zone?

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Service that automates the creation, maintenance, validation, and testing of EC2 AMIs

Answer 4

EC2 Image Builder

Question 5

High performance hardware disk that can be attached to an EC2 instance that offers ephemeral storage; useful for short-term data

Answer 5

EC2 Instance Store

Question 6

Managed network file system (NFS) that can be mounted on 100s of EC2 instances

Answer 6

Elastic File System (EFS)

Question 7

Managed service to launch 3rd party high-performance file systems on AWS

Answer 7

FSx

Question 8

True or False: An AMI must be in the same region as that of the EC2 instance to be launched

Answer 8

True, but you can copy the AMI to the target region

Question 9

A company has an application that only needs to run for 2 hours at any time during a day. Which Amazon EC2 isntance type will be MOST cost-effective for this application
A) Dedicated instances
B) On-Demand Instances
C) Reserved Instances
D) Spot Instances

Answer 9

D) Spot Instances