AWS Basic Knowledge Check Quiz Quiz

1. Block Storage

   Which service provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances?

   1. Amazon S3
   2. Amazon EFS
   3. Amazon EBS
   4. Amazon DynamoDB
   5. Amazon Glacier

2. Elastic Load Balancing

   What is the primary function of Elastic Load Balancing in AWS?

   1. Automatically slowing down traffic to decrease latency
   2. Automatically distributing traffic across multiple targets
   3. Automatically monitoring traffic to ensure that costs are kept beneath a specified threshold
   4. Automatically stopping traffic when targets are overloaded
   5. Managing DNS records

3. AWS Billing Model

   Which of the following options accurately describes the most common AWS billing model?

   1. Daily Billing
   2. Annual Billing
   3. Pay as you go
   4. Pay in advance
   5. Monthly billing

4. Amazon CloudWatch

   Which AWS service sends notifications or automatically makes changes to the resources being monitored based on rules you establish?

   1. Amazon EC2
   2. Amazon Aurora
   3. Elastic Load Balancing
   4. Amazon CloudWatch
   5. Amazon Inspector

5. Availability Zones

   What best describes Availability Zones in the context of AWS?

   1. All together in one data center
   2. In geographically isolated data centers
   3. In different data centers
   4. None of the above
   5. Located in different countries

6. Security Group Default Behavior

   When a security group is initially created in AWS, what is its default behavior regarding inbound and outbound traffic?

   1. Allow all traffic inbound and allow all traffic outbound
   2. Allow all traffic inbound and deny all traffic outbound
   3. Deny all traffic inbound and allow all traffic outbound
   4. Deny all traffic inbound and Deny all traffic outbound
   5. Allow specific traffic inbound and deny all traffic outbound

7. IAM Components

   Which of the following is NOT a core component of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

   1. Users
   2. Organizations
   3. Roles
   4. Policies
   5. Groups

8. AWS Storage Pricing

   How is storage typically priced on the AWS cloud platform?

   1. Charged by instance type
   2. Charged per GB
   3. Charged per hour or second
   4. Charged per speed of transfer
   5. Charged by number of files

9. ASG Scaling

   Your boss wants to scale your Auto Scaling Group (ASG) based on the number of requests per minute your application makes to your database; what would you do?

   1. You politely tell him it's impossible
   2. You create a CloudWatch custom metric and build an alarm on this to scale your ASG
   3. You enable detailed monitoring and use that to scale your ASG
   4. None of the above
   5. Scale manually

10. VPC Security Responsibility

    Which of the following tasks is primarily the customer's responsibility when configuring Amazon VPC security?

    1. Adding rules regarding inbound traffic to the security group
    2. Ensuring that the security groups are linked to Amazon EC2
    3. Choosing the level of physical security for the network
    4. Selecting an appropriate load balancing strategy for the network routers
    5. Maintaining physical infrastructure

11. Persistent Block Storage

    Which AWS service is designed to offer persistent block storage volumes optimized for use with Amazon EC2 instances?

    1. Amazon S4
    2. Amazon EFS
    3. Amazon EBS
    4. Amazon DynamoDB
    5. Amazon Glacier

12. Load Balancing Definition

    What best describes the function of Elastic Load Balancing within the AWS infrastructure?

    1. Speeding up trafic to decreace latency
    2. Automatically distributing traffic across multiple targets
    3. Automatically monitoring trafic to ensure that costs are kept beneath a specified thershold
    4. Automaticaly stopping traffic when targets are overloaded
    5. Monitoring security threats

13. AWS Most Common Billing

    Which of the following accurately describes the most common billing model used by AWS?

    1. Daily Billing
    2. Anual Billing
    3. Pay as you go
    4. Pay in advance
    5. Flat monthly fee

14. Amazon CloudWatch Explanation

    Which AWS service allows users to send notifications and automate changes to monitored resources based on user-defined rules?

    1. Amazon EC3
    2. Amazon Aurora
    3. Elastic Load Balanceing
    4. Amazon CloudWatch
    5. AWS Config

15. Availability Zones Definition

    How are Availability Zones best defined within the context of the AWS cloud?

    1. All together in one data centre
    2. In geographicaly isolated data centers
    3. In different data centers
    4. None of the above
    5. In different countries