DevOps Engineering on AWS Certification Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation and CDK

Question 1

Which CloudFormation resource property allows you to specify that a resource must be created before another resource?

Accepted Answer

DependsOn

Answer

Metadata

Answer

DeletionPolicy

Answer

UpdatePolicy

Question 2

What CloudFormation policy prevents a resource from being deleted when the stack is deleted?

Accepted Answer

DeletionPolicy: Retain

Answer

UpdateReplacePolicy

Answer

DependsOn

Answer

CreationPolicy

Question 3

Which AWS CDK construct level represents a single AWS resource with sensible defaults?

Accepted Answer

L2 (Resource)

Answer

L1 (CfnResource)

Answer

L3 (Pattern)

Answer

L4 (Library)

Question 4

What CloudFormation function retrieves the value of a parameter or resource output from the same template?

Accepted Answer

Ref

Answer

Fn::Sub

Answer

Fn::ImportValue

Answer

Fn::GetAtt

Question 5

In AWS CDK, which command synthesizes the CDK app into CloudFormation templates?

Accepted Answer

cdk synth

Answer

cdk deploy

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cdk diff

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cdk bootstrap

Question 6

Which CloudFormation feature allows you to share output values from one stack with another stack in the same account and region?

Accepted Answer

Cross-stack references using Exports and Fn::ImportValue

Answer

Stack policies

Answer

CloudFormation StackSets

Answer

Nested stacks