AWS AWS 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS service provides scalable object storage with 99.999999999% durability?
- Amazon S3 (Correct answer)
- Amazon EBS
- Amazon EFS
- Amazon FSx
Correct answer: Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is object storage designed for 11 nines of durability.
Question 2: What is the maximum size of a single object that can be uploaded to S3 using a single PUT operation?
- 5 GB (Correct answer)
- 5 TB
- 100 MB
- 1 GB
Correct answer: 5 GB
A single PUT is limited to 5 GB; larger objects require multipart upload.
Question 3: Which EC2 pricing model offers the largest discount for committing to a consistent amount of usage over 1 or 3 years?
- Savings Plans (Correct answer)
- On-Demand
- Spot Instances
- Dedicated Hosts
Correct answer: Savings Plans
Savings Plans give significant discounts for committed usage over a term.
Question 4: Which AWS service is a fully managed NoSQL key-value and document database?
- Amazon DynamoDB (Correct answer)
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Aurora
Correct answer: Amazon DynamoDB
DynamoDB is AWS's fully managed NoSQL database.
Question 5: What does the AWS shared responsibility model say AWS is responsible for?
- Security OF the cloud (Correct answer)
- Security IN the cloud
- Customer data encryption keys
- IAM user configuration
Correct answer: Security OF the cloud
AWS secures the underlying infrastructure (security of the cloud); customers secure their content in it.
Question 6: Which service would you use to run code without provisioning or managing servers?
- AWS Lambda (Correct answer)
- Amazon EC2
- AWS Batch
- Amazon Lightsail
Correct answer: AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda runs code in response to events without server management.
Question 7: Which AWS networking service lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud?
- Amazon VPC (Correct answer)
- AWS Direct Connect
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon CloudFront
Correct answer: Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC provides an isolated virtual network within AWS.
AWS AWS 2
Which AWS service provides scalable object storage with 99.999999999% durability?