Pt 1 Flashcards
Amazon SWF is designed to help users____.
a) Design graphical user interface interactions.
b) Manage user identification and authorization.
c) Store Web content.
d) Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous tasks which are distributed and fault tolerant.
d) Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous tasks which are distributed and fault tolerant.
Can I control if and when MySQL based RDS Instance is upgraded to new supported versions?
a) No
b) only in VPC
c) Yes
d) N/A
c) Yes
What does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provide?
a) A scalable storage appliance on top of Amazon Web Services.
b) An application container on top of Amazon Web Services.
c) A service by this name doesn’t exist.
d) A scalable cluster of EC2 instances.
b) An application container on top of Amazon Web Services.
True or False:
When using IAM to control access to your RDS resources, the key names that can be used are case sensitive. For example, aws:CurrentTime is NOT equivalent to AWS:currenttime.
False
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/using_iam.html
Key names are case-insensitive. For example, aws:CurrentTime is equivalent to AWS:currenttime.
What will be the status of the snapshot until the snapshot is complete.
a) running
b) working
c) progressing
d) pending
d) pending
Explanation: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-snapshot.html
Can we attach an EBS volume to more than one EC2 instance at the same time?
a) No
b) Yes.
c) Only EC2-optimized EBS volumes.
d) Only in read mode.
a) No
True or False:
Automated backups are enabled by default for a new DB Instance.
True
What does the AWS Storage Gateway provide?
a) It allows to integrate on-premises IT environments with Cloud Storage.
b) A direct encrypted connection to Amazon S3.
c) It’s a backup solution that provides an on-premises Cloud storage.
d) It provides an encrypted SSL endpoint for backups in the Cloud.
a) It allows to integrate on-premises IT environments with Cloud Storage.
Amazon RDS automated backups and DB Snapshots are currently supported for only the ____ storage engine.
a) InnoDB
b) MyISAM
c) both
d) neither
a) InnoDB
How many relational database engines does RDS currently support?
a) Three: MySQL, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
b) Just two: MySQL and Oracle.
c) Six: Amazon Aurora, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB.
d) Just one: MySQL.
a) Three: MySQL, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
Amazon RDS provides you six familiar database engines to choose from, including Amazon Aurora, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB.
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/?nc1=h_ls
Fill in the blanks: The base URI for all requests for instance metadata is ____.
a) http://254.169.169.254/latest/
b) http://169.169.254.254/latest/
c) http://127.0.0.1/latest/
d) http://169.254.169.254/latest/
d) http://169.254.169.254/latest/
http://aws.amazon.com/search?searchQuery=metadata&searchPath=all&x=0&y=0
QUESTION 12
While creating the snapshots using the command line tools, which command should I be using?
a) ec2-deploy-snapshot
b) ec2-fresh-snapshot
c) ec2-create-snapshot
d) ec2-new-snapshot
c) ec2-create-snapshot
Explanation: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/create-snapshot.html
Typically, you want your application to check whether a request generated an error before you spend any time processing results. The easiest way to find out if an error occurred is to look for an ____ node in the response from the Amazon RDS API.
a) Incorrect
b) Error
c) FALSE
b) Error
