S3 Quiz

Question 1

Which S3 Storage Class is the most cost-effective for archiving data with no retrieval time requirement?
1 - Amazon Glacier
2 - Amazon Glacier Deep Archive
3 - Amazon S3 Standard Infrequent Access
4 - Amazon Intelligent Tiering

Answer 1

Amazon Glacier Deep Archive

Amazon Glacier Deep Archive is the most cost-effective option if you want to archive data and do not have a retrieval time requirement. You can retrieve data in 12 or 48 hours.

Question 2

What hybrid AWS service is used to allow on-premises servers to seamlessly use the AWS Cloud at the storage layer?
1 - Elastic Block Store
2 - Snowball
3 - S3
4 - Storage Gateway

Answer 2

Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.

Question 3

Which of the following services is a petabyte-scale data moving service (as a fleet) in or out of AWS with computing capabilities?

1 - Snowball
2 - Snowball Edge
3 - Snow Mobile

Answer 3

Snowball Edge

Snowball Edge is best-suited to move petabytes of data and offers computing capabilities.

Be careful, it’s recommended to use a fleet of Snowballs to move less than 10PBs of data. Over this quantity, it’s better-suited to use Snowmobile.

Question 4

Which of the following is an exabytes-scale data moving service in or out of AWS?

1 - Snowball
2 - Snowball Edge
3 - Snow Mobile

Answer 4

Snow Mobile

Snowmobile is used to move exabytes of data in or out of AWS (1 EB=1,000 PBs=1,000,000 TBs).

Question 5

What are Objects NOT composed of?

1 - Key
2 - Value
3 - Access Keys
4 - Metadata

Answer 5

Access Keys

Access Keys are used to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI or AWS API.

Question 6

Where are objects stored in Amazon S3?

1 - Folder
2 - Buckets
3 - Files
4 - Bin

Answer 6

Buckets store objects in Amazon S3.

Question 7

What can you use to define actions to move S3 objects between different storage classes?

1 - Scaling Policy
2 - Bucket Policy
3 - Lifecycle Rules
4 - Replication

Answer 7

Lifecycle Rules

Lifecycle Rules can be used to define when S3 objects should be transitioned to another storage class or when objects should be deleted after some time.

Question 8

Which S3 Storage Class is suitable for less frequently accessed data, but with rapid access when needed, while keeping a high durability and allowing an Availability Zone failure?

1 - Amazon S3 Standard General Purpose
2 - Amazon Glacier
3 - Amazon S3 One Zone Infrequent Access
4 - Amazon S3 Standard Infrequent Access

Answer 8

Amazon S3 Standard Infrequent Access

Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access allow you to store infrequently accessed data, with rapid access when needed, has a high durability, and is stored in several Availability Zones to avoid data loss in case of a disaster. It can be used to store data for disaster recovery, backups, etc.