Technology Quiz Questions Flashcards

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Which AWS service is a machine learning-based tool that analyzes metrics of historical utilization and makes recommendations of compute service(s) to be used for the workload.

A. AWS Outposts

B. AWS Well-Architected Tool

C. AWS Management Console

D. AWS Computer Optimizer

A

D. AWS Computer Optimizer

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Which of the below could be used to perform best practices aligned deployment of popular technologies on AWS, and eventually reduce the time taken for environment build and eventual usage of the environment?

A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

B. AWS OpsWorks

C. AWS Auto deploy

D. AWS Quick Starts

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D. AWS Quick Starts

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A develper working on enchaning few applications in AWS requires an AWS service that can host git-based repositories securely.

Which AWS service can the developer use?

A. AWS CodeCommit

B. AWS CodeStar

C. Amazon CodeGuru

D. AWS CodePipeline

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A. AWS CodeCommit

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Which of the below statements are true with regards to Amazon S3 security and access management? Choose 2.

A. Self-created S3 resources are only accessible to the user default

B. Access Control Lists (ACLs) could be used to grant time-bound access using temporary URLs.

C. By default S3 buckets are private, however, objects are public. The object owner needs to change the permissions upon the creation of objects to make the objects private.

D. Amazon Macie can protect data in Amazon EC2.

E. Server-side and client-side encryptions are supported by S3 for data uploads

A

A. Self-created S3 resources are only accessible to the user default

E. Server-side and client-side encryptions are supported by S3 for data uploads

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An e-commerce company has launched a new application and determined that it needs to perform load distribution for http and https traffic because of the increased traffic during the monthly discount days.

Which Load Balancer would be suitable?

A. Classic Load Balancer

B. Legacy Load Balancer

C. Application Load Balancer

D. Network Load Balancer

A

C. Application Load Balancer

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Which of the following statements related to the AWS Global Infrastructure are correct? Select best TWO.

A. For achieving High Availability and Performance, customers usually deploy their applications across multiple AWS Regions

B. Edge locations can be used to deploy infrastructure like EC2 instances, EBS storage

C. Availability zones can contain one or more data center

D. An EC2 instance’s AMI in a particular region can be copied to another region for using it in that Region

E. An elastic IP Address is allocated to an Availability Zone

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C. Availability zones can contain one or more data center

D. An EC2 instance’s AMI in a particular region can be copied to another region for using it in that Region

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Which of the following AWS services does NOT provide the capacity of provisioning IT infrastructure?

A. AWS ClodePipeline

B. AWS CloudFormation

C. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

D. All of them

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A. AWS ClodePipeline

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I have an application whose execution time is short but is very critical. For keeping my costs minimum for running the application, what is the best AWS Compute service that I can use?

A. Spot Instance

B. Lambda funtion

C. Reserved Instance

D. On demand EC2 Instance

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B. Lambda funtion

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I have some data that is not frequently accessed. But when requested within six months, the data needs to be available immediately. After six months, the data is not accessed but needs to be maintained for historical purposes. What is the best S3 storage class lifecycle available to me with the lowest possible cost?

A. Store data for the first 6 months in S3 Standard & move data to Glacier after that

B. Store data for the first 6 months in S3 One Zone - IA & Move data to Glacier after that

C. Store data for the first 6 months in S3 Standard IA & move data to Glacier after that

D. Store data in Glacier & use expedited retrieval for accessing data immediately.

A

B. Store data for the first 6 months in S3 One Zone - IA & Move data to Glacier after that

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I have a Virtual Private CLoud infrastructure environment hosting an Application & a Database. What are the best practices that I can use to host them within the infrastructure? Select TWO

A. Host the application in a Public Subnet, Database in a Private Subnet with an ELB frontending the Application in a Public Subnet

B. Host both the Application & Database in a Private subnet with an ELB frontending the Application in a public Subnet

C. Host both the Application & Database in a Public subnet with an ELB frontending the Application in a pubic Subnet

D. Subnet configured for the Application should have a route to the Internet Gateway

E. Subnet configured for the ELB should contain a NAT Gateway

A

B. Host both the Application & Database in a Private subnet with an ELB frontending the Application in a public Subnet

E. Subnet configured for the ELB should contain a NAT Gateway

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Consider the following scenario:

Id | Frist Name | Last Name
1 | John | Abraham

I have stored this data in a DynamoDB table. After running an update, I change the last name from “Abraham” to “Mathew”. When John reads his data immediately after the update, he still sees his Last Name as Abraham rather than Mathew. What is the possible reason?

A. DynamoDB takes 1 second to ensure consistency across all its copies of data

B. By default DynamoDB reads are eventually consistent

C. DynamoDB doe snot support strongly consistent reads

D. All of A, B & C

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B. By default DynamoDB reads are eventually consistent

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I have two applications, “IMage Processing” & “Order Processing” hosted on my website on different EC2 servers in an Auto Scaling Group. What is the best way to provide access to a user for any of these applications on the website?

A. I can provide the public DNS URL of each of mt servers where my application is hosted

B. I can use the application Load Balancer that will route requests to different applications depending on the user’s request

C. I can use the Application Load Balancer that will route requests to different applications depending on the user’s request.

D. I can use the Network Load Balancer that will route requests to different applications depending on the user’s request

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C. I can use the Application Load Balancer that will route requests to different applications depending on the user’s request.

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I need to keep track of all invalid login attempts of a user when he tried to SSH to an EC2 instance. How can I achieve that?

A. Collecting log data from the EC2 instance and delivering them to a CloudWatch Logs log stream

B. Intregtaing CloudTrail with CloudWatch Logs to deliver data events captured by the login activity to a CloudWatch Logs log stream

C. Runnin a log utility on the EC2 instance periodically and check the server logs.

D. Both B & C

A

A. Collecting log data from the EC2 instance and delivering them to a CloudWatch Logs log stream

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I am using the Amazin Simple Notification Service to send notifications to alert admins whenever the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance crosses 70%. Which of the following can be subscribers to an SNS Topic? Select TWO

A. Email

B. Amazon S3

C. AWS Lambda

D. Amazon CloudWatch

E. Amazon DynamoDB streams

A

A. Email

C. AWS Lambda

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I have a website that hosts mission-critical applications and requires 99.999% uptime. What routing policy will I apply while using Route 53?

A. Multi Value Answer Routing

B. Failover Routing

C. Weighted Routing

D. Simple Routing

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B. Failover Routing

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My containerized application requires me to define and manage capacity (CPU, memory, Instance type) explicitly for optimizing costs while using AWS infrastructure. Which of the following technologies will I use while defining my Elastic Container Services compute instances?

A. EC2

B. Fargate

C. Lambda

D. Either of B or C since they are serverless technologies that are cost-effective

A

A. EC2

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My containerized application requires me to define and manage capacity (CPU, memory, Instance type) explicitly for optimizing costs while using AWS infrastructure. Which of the following technologies will I use while defining my Elastic Container Services compute instances?

A. EC2

B. Fargate

C. Lambda

D. Either of B or C since they are serverless technologies that are cost-effective

A

A. EC2

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I require different levels of access for my application that is installed on an EC2 instance. I have configured an ENI for the same purpose. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

A. I can detach the primary ENI of my EC2 instance and connect it to another instance for moving its Elastic IP

B. I can configure a Security Group for my ENI and restrict traffic to the EC2 instance

C. I can detach a secondary ENI containing a Private IP from one EC2 instance and attach it to another

D. I can attach an Elastic IP to an EC2 instance in another subnet by releasing it from the ENI in the current subnet to which it is currently attached to

A

A. I can detach the primary ENI of my EC2 instance and connect it to another instance for moving its Elastic IP

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I need to check whether my EC2 instances are running properly, I have written a script that will help me obtain the instances ID and then send me a notification to an SNS topic. How can I obtain the instance’s ID?

A. By querying the instances Meta Data

B. By querying the instances User Data

C. I need to get authorized with an IAM role prior to accessing the instances ID using Metadata

D. I cannot use a script. I need to login the AWS console & Manually check the instances ID % its status

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A. By querying the instances Meta Data

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I need to check whether my EC2 instances are running properly, I have written a script that will help me obtain the instances ID and then send me a notification to an SNS topic. How can I obtain the instance’s ID?

A. By querying the instances Meta Data

B. By querying the instances User Data

C. I need to get authorized with an IAM role prior to accessing the instances ID using Metadata

D. I cannot use a script. I need to login the AWS console & Manually check the instances ID % its status

A

A. By querying the instances Meta Data

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EC2 User Data provides a feature wherein I can do bootstrapping activities when the instance is created. Which of the following statement regarding User Data is incorrect?

A. USer data for an instance can be modified, if the instance is in the stopped state and the root volume is an EBS volume

B. User data for an instance can be modified if it is in the running state and the root volume is an EBS volume

C. No need to use “sudo” in the User Date script to run as the root user

D. User Data script can be modified using both the AWS console & the AWS CLI

A

B. User data for an instance can be modified if it is in the running state and the root volume is an EBS volume

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EC2 User Data provides a feature wherein I can do bootstrapping activities when the instance is created. Which of the following statement regarding User Data is incorrect?

A. USer data for an instance can be modified, if the instance is in the stopped state and the root volume is an EBS volume

B. User data for an instance can be modified if it is in the running state and the root volume is an EBS volume

C. No need to use “sudo” in the User Date script to run as the root user

D. User Data script can be modified using both the AWS console & the AWS CLI

A

B. User data for an instance can be modified if it is in the running state and the root volume is an EBS volume

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EC2 User Data provides a feature wherein I can do bootstrapping activities when the instance is created. Which of the following statement regarding User Data is incorrect?

A. USer data for an instance can be modified, if the instance is in the stopped state and the root volume is an EBS volume

B. User data for an instance can be modified if it is in the running state and the root volume is an EBS volume

C. No need to use “sudo” in the User Date script to run as the root user

D. User Data script can be modified using both the AWS console & the AWS CLI

A

B. User data for an instance can be modified if it is in the running state and the root volume is an EBS volume