DevOps Engineering on AWS Certification Trivia 5

Question 1

Which AWS service enables you to automatically scale EC2 instances based on a schedule or CloudWatch alarms?

Accepted Answer

AWS Auto Scaling

Answer

AWS Auto Scaling adjusts EC2 capacity up or down automatically based on defined policies or schedules.

Question 2

What is the name of the file in an AWS CodeBuild project that defines build commands and settings?

Accepted Answer

buildspec.yml

Answer

buildspec.yml is the build specification file that CodeBuild reads to determine how to run the build.

Question 3

Which Amazon S3 feature prevents objects from being deleted or overwritten for a specified retention period?

Accepted Answer

S3 Object Lock

Answer

S3 Object Lock uses WORM (Write Once Read Many) model to prevent object deletion or modification.

Question 4

In AWS, what is the term for the practice of simulating failures in production to test system resiliency?

Accepted Answer

Chaos Engineering

Answer

Chaos Engineering involves intentionally injecting failures into systems to discover weaknesses before they cause incidents.

Question 5

Which AWS service provides managed Grafana workspaces for visualizing operational metrics?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Managed Grafana

Answer

Amazon Managed Grafana provides fully managed Grafana workspaces integrated with AWS data sources.

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