DevOps Engineering on AWS Certification Trivia 4

Question 1

Which AWS service can be used to centrally manage and distribute SSM parameters across multiple AWS accounts?

Accepted Answer

AWS Secrets Manager with replication

Answer

AWS Secrets Manager supports cross-account sharing and automatic replication to multiple regions and accounts.

Question 2

In a blue/green deployment on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, what action is used to swap the environment URLs?

Accepted Answer

CNAME swap

Answer

Elastic Beanstalk uses CNAME swap to instantly redirect traffic from the old (blue) environment to the new (green) one.

Question 3

What is the maximum number of versions you can store for a single AWS Lambda function?

Accepted Answer

1000

Answer

AWS Lambda allows up to 1000 published versions per function in a given region.

Question 4

Which Amazon CloudWatch metric type requires you to publish your own data points using the PutMetricData API?

Accepted Answer

Custom metrics

Answer

Custom metrics are published by users via the PutMetricData API and are not automatically collected by AWS.

Question 5

Which AWS CodeBuild feature allows you to run build phases inside a Docker container of your choice?

Accepted Answer

Custom build images

Answer

CodeBuild supports custom build images from ECR or Docker Hub to use any runtime or toolchain you need.

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