SAM

Question 1

What is SAM?

Answer 1

The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) is an open-source framework built on CloudFormation for building serverless applications

Question 2

How is all configuration written in SAM?

Answer 2

YAML code

Question 3

What can Serverless Application Model (SAM) use to deploy Lambda Functions?

Answer 3

CodeDeploy

Question 4

What are the required sections of SAM?

Answer 4

SAM requires the Transform and Resources sections

Question 5

What supports SAM from CloudFormation?

Answer 5

Supports anything from CloudFormation: Outputs, Mappings, Parameters, Resources…

Question 6

What can help you to run Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB locally?

Answer 6

SAM can help you to run Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB locally

Question 7

What are SAM commands to know?

Answer 7

Commands to know:
o sam build
o sam package
o sam deploy

Question 8

What is used for SAM command sam build?

Answer 8

sam build: fetch dependencies and create local deployment artifacts

Question 9

What is used for SAM command sam package?

Answer 9

sam package / aws cloudformation package: package and upload to Amazon S3, generate CF template

Question 10

What is used for SAM command sam deploy?

Answer 10

sam deploy / aws cloudformation deploy: deploy to CloudFormation

Question 11

How can you define IAM policies in SAM?

Answer 11

SAM Policy templates for easy IAM policy definition

Question 12

What are main SAM Types?

Answer 12

o Type: AWS::Serverless::Function // Lambda
o Type: AWS::Serverless::Api // API Gateway
o Type: AWS::Serverless::SimpleTable // DynamoDB