File Storage Services

Question 1

The default storage class and is for frequently accessed data

Answer 1

S3 Standard

Question 2

The storage class that will move your data to the correct storage class based on usage

Answer 2

S3 Intelligent-Tiering

Question 3

The storage class for infrequently accessed data with the standard resilience

Answer 3

S3 Standard - IA

Question 4

The storage class that is for infrequently access data that is only stored in one AZ

Answer 4

S3 One Zone IA

Question 5

______ is a feature that can be enabled per bucket that allows for optimized uploading of data using the AWS Edge Locations as a part of Amazon CloudFront.

Answer 5

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Question 6

Both S3 Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive are designed for ______ of data within S3 as a separate storage class.

Answer 6

archival

Question 7

Which archival type?

• 180 days minimum storage
• can be retrieved in hours
• you pay a fee per GB retrieved
• over 23 times less expensive than S3 standard storage class

Answer 7

S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Question 8

Which archival type?

• 90 days minimal storage
• can be retrieved in either minutes or hours
• you pay a fee per GB retrieved
• over 5 times less expensive than S3 standard storage class

Answer 8

S3 Glacier

Question 9

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is ________ storage designed to be connected to a single __________ instance that can scale to support __________ of data and supports multiple volume types based on need.

Answer 9

block
EC2
petabytes

Question 10

Which EBS volume type is cost effective and designed for general workloads?

Answer 10

General Purpose SSD

Question 11

Which EBS volume type is high performance volume for low latency applications?

Answer 11

Provisioned IOPS SSD

Question 12

Which EBS volume type is designed for frequently accessed data?

Answer 12

Throughput Optimized HDD

Question 13

Which EBS volume type is designed for less frequently accessed workloads?

Answer 13

Cold HDD

Question 14

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a fully managed ________ file system designed to support _____ workloads.

Answer 14

NFS

Linux

Question 15

Amazon FSx for _____________ is a fully managed native Windows file system.

Answer 15

Windows File Server

Question 16

Which data transfer service is described below?

• Designed for large-scale data transfer
• Supports petabyte scale transfer
• Physical device is delivered by AWS
• You connect the device to your network and upload your data
• Device is returned by local carrier
• AWS receives device and loads your data into S3

Answer 16

AWS Snowball

Question 17

Which data transfer service is described below?

• Designed for large-scale data transfer
• Supports exabyte scale transfer
• Ruggedized shipping container is delivered to your location
• AWS sets up a connection to your network
• You load your data on the device
• AWS will load data into S3 when the container is received at an AWS location

Answer 17

AWS Snowmobile

Question 18

Company launched a site that offers daily tutorials for developers. It uses S3 to store the assets needed per tutorial. These assets are very popular within the week the tutorial is launched. After this initial week, these assets are rarely accessed. How could the company reduce its S3 costs while maintaining durability?

Answer 18

S3 lifecycle rules with S3-Standard IA storage class

Question 19

Company is moving to AWS. They have 2 PB of user-generated content that they need to migrate. They are trying to determine if there is a faster than uploading over the internet. Would there be another approach you would recommend for the company?

Answer 19

AWS Snowball

Question 20

Company produces a messaging app. It is looking for a shared file system between 8 different Linux EC2 instances. The file system would need to support roughly 1 PB of data. What approach would you recommend?

Answer 20

Amazon Elastic File System