Failed Exam Questions Flashcards
Are you able to access EBS Snapshots using the regular s3 APIs?
No. Snapshots are only available through Amazon EC2 APIs.
EC2 is billed by
The minute, or the hour.
You have a multi region RDS. The primary instance instances goes down. How does traffic get redirected to a healthy instance?
The canonical record is changed from the primary database to the secondary.
Does Dynamo database feature auto scaling?
Yes
S3 provides eventual consistency for PUTS and DELETES. True or false?
True
You have a web application which uploads videos to s3. However in testing you realise uploads are being blocked. What could you do?
Update the CORs configuration of the bucket to allow URLS from the web app url.
You have a version enabled s3 bucket. And you accidentally delete a file from it. How to address this?
Remove the delete marker from the file.
You need to move objects from Glacier Deep Arhive. To an S3 bucket with intelligent storage class. How do you do this?
Restore the objects from Glacier console. Then copy required objects to intelligent storage class.
What is glacier select
Glacier allows you to query items in Glacier via simple SQL. Without actually having to retrieve them.
You want to migrate a bunch of docker containers to AWS. How best to do this?
Create EC2 container registries
Installl docker
Upload the containers
What is EC2 hibernation?
Hibernation gives you the ability to launch EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where they left off instead of rebuilding their memory footprint.
What do cloud front signed cookies do?
Allow you to control access to files, via a cookie.
To test an AWS lambda function locally. What service would you use?
AWS Sam
You want to use an S3 bucket to serve content through a domain name. However requests are failing. Why might this be?
CORS has not been configured.
What does CORS mean?
Cross origin resource sharing
You want to move one AWS account, from an organisation to another organisation. How to do this?
Remove the account from the old organisation.
Send an invited from the new organisation, and accept it via the account.
When launching an EC2 instance. You want to download all the latest patches. How best to do this?
Write scripts to do so, and add them tot he used data section when launching the EC2 instance.
You have an application with EC2s in three availability zones. They sit behind a load balancer.
If one availabilty zone goes down. You still require 100% compute power. How do you achieve this.
Set peak load to 50% in each availability zone.
Your baseline is now 150%. If you lose an AZ. It drops to 100%.
You create a VPC to include an internet facing application, and a intranet internal application.
How many subnets do you need for best practise.
6
3 for the internet app, 3 for the internal intranet.