CCP AWS Management and Monitoring Tools 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is AWS Systems Manager used for?
- Managing DNS records
- Providing operational visibility and control over your AWS and on-premises infrastructure (Correct answer)
- Hosting containerized applications
- Distributing content globally
Correct answer: Providing operational visibility and control over your AWS and on-premises infrastructure
AWS Systems Manager provides a unified interface for managing EC2 instances and on-premises servers, including automation, patching, and configuration management.
Question 2: What is the primary purpose of a CloudWatch Alarm?
- To automatically deploy application updates
- To notify you or take automated actions when a metric crosses a defined threshold (Correct answer)
- To enable multi-factor authentication
- To store application logs
Correct answer: To notify you or take automated actions when a metric crosses a defined threshold
A CloudWatch Alarm watches a metric and transitions between states (OK, ALARM, INSUFFICIENT_DATA) to trigger notifications or automatic actions when thresholds are breached.
Question 3: Which AWS service provides Infrastructure as Code using an open-source framework with higher-level abstractions than raw CloudFormation?
- AWS SAM
- AWS CodePipeline
- AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) (Correct answer)
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Correct answer: AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit)
AWS CDK allows you to define cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages like Python, TypeScript, or Java, which synthesizes to CloudFormation templates.
Question 4: What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
- A container orchestration service
- A managed platform service that automatically handles deployment, scaling, and health monitoring of web applications (Correct answer)
- A serverless function execution service
- A configuration management tool
Correct answer: A managed platform service that automatically handles deployment, scaling, and health monitoring of web applications
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that lets you deploy and scale web applications by simply uploading code, without managing underlying infrastructure.
Question 5: Which AWS service is used to send notifications to subscribers via email, SMS, or other endpoints when events occur?
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon SNS (Correct answer)
- Amazon SES
- AWS EventBridge
Correct answer: Amazon SNS
Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) is a managed pub/sub messaging service that delivers messages to subscribers via email, SMS, Lambda, SQS, or HTTP endpoints.
Question 6: What is the difference between Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS?
- SQS is for storage, SNS is for networking
- SQS is a pull-based message queue for decoupling services; SNS is a push-based pub/sub notification service (Correct answer)
- SQS is for emails, SNS is for SMS only
- They are identical services with different names
Correct answer: SQS is a pull-based message queue for decoupling services; SNS is a push-based pub/sub notification service
SQS is a message queue where consumers poll for messages (decoupling producers and consumers), while SNS pushes messages to multiple subscribers simultaneously.
CCP AWS Management and Monitoring Tools 2
What is AWS Systems Manager used for?