EC2 Instance Storage

Question 1

EBS acronym

Answer 1

Elastic block store

Question 2

EBS Volume

Answer 2

Network drive

Question 3

EBS Volume free tier

Answer 3

30GB SSD or magnetic

Question 4

AZ for EBS volumes

Answer 4

Has to be a specific one

Question 5

How do you move an EBS volume to another AZ?

Answer 5

Snapshot

Question 6

EBS Delete on Termination

Question 7

Which EBS Volume is deleted on termination by default?

Answer 7

Root

Question 8

EBS Snapshot

Answer 8

EBS volume backup

Question 9

EBS Snapshot Archive

Answer 9

Move snapshot to cheaper archive tier (75% cheaper)

Question 10

EBS Snapshot Archive restore time

Answer 10

24-72 hours

Question 11

EBS Snapshot recycle bin

Answer 11

Retain deleted snapshots for a configurable period of time. 1 day to 1 year

Question 12

AMI acronym

Answer 12

Amazon Machine Image

Question 13

AMI

Answer 13

Custom image EC2 instance

Question 14

Benefit of AMI

Answer 14

Preconfigured with software installed
Faster boot

Question 15

AMI Sources (3)

Answer 15

Create your own
Public AMI
AWS Marketplace

Question 16

EC2 Image Builder

Answer 16

Automate creation of VM’s or container images

Question 17

EC2 Image purpose

Answer 17

Automate creation, maintenance, validation, and test of EC2 AMI’s

Question 18

Who creates EC2 Builder image tests?

Answer 18

System operator

Question 19

EC2 Instance Store purpose

Answer 19

Better I/O
High performance

Question 20

EC2 Instance Store durability

Answer 20

Lost when they are stopped (ephemeral)

Question 21

EC2 Instance Store use cases

Answer 21

Buffer, Cache, Scratch. Temp content

Question 22

EFS acronym

Answer 22

Elastic File System

Question 23

EFS purpose

Answer 23

Managed NFS that can be mounted to 100’s of EC2

Question 24

EFS relies on what OS?

Answer 24

Linux only

Question 25

EFS is a glorified...

Answer 25

Shared drive

Question 26

EBS vs. EFS

Answer 26

EBS is temporary. EFS is a shared drive

Question 27

EFS-IA

Answer 27

EFS Infrequent Access

Question 28

EFS-IA Discount

Answer 28

Up to 92%

Question 29

EFS-IA purpose

Answer 29

Works like an archive for non-accessed data by policy

Question 30

What does a lifecycle policy control?

Answer 30

EFS-IA

Question 31

Who is responsible for replicating EC2 Storage data?

Answer 31

AWS

Question 32

Who is responsible for backing up EC2 Storage data?

Answer 32

Customer

Question 33

Amazon FSx

Answer 33

3rd party Managed service file system

Question 34

Amazon FSx for Windows

Answer 34

Windows native File System Supports SMB and NTFS Accessible on-prem

Question 35

Amazon FSx for Lustre

Answer 35

High performance storage for Linux cluster

Question 36

HPC Acronym

Answer 36

High performance computing