DevOps Cloud Platforms & DevOps

Question 1

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Accepted Answer

A PaaS service that automatically handles deployment, capacity provisioning, and scaling for web applications

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A managed Kubernetes service

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A serverless function compute service

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A content delivery network

Question 2

What is an AWS Auto Scaling Group?

Accepted Answer

A service that automatically adds or removes EC2 instances based on demand or schedules

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A VPC subnet grouping

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A managed database cluster

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An IAM permission boundary

Question 3

What does 'infrastructure immutability' enable in cloud deployments?

Accepted Answer

Consistent, repeatable deployments by replacing instances rather than updating them in place

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Preventing all changes to cloud resources

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Read-only access to production databases

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Disabling auto-scaling during deployments

Question 4

What is Azure DevOps?

Accepted Answer

A Microsoft platform offering CI/CD pipelines, repos, boards, and artifact management

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A cloud infrastructure provisioning service

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A Kubernetes managed service

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A security compliance monitoring tool

Question 5

What is a cloud region in AWS/GCP/Azure?

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A geographically distinct data center cluster where cloud services are hosted

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A virtual private network segment

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A cloud pricing tier

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A load balancing zone

Question 6

What is the principle of least privilege in cloud IAM?

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Granting users and services only the minimum permissions required to perform their tasks

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Giving all team members admin access by default

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Using shared credentials for all services

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Rotating access keys on a fixed schedule