2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
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◍ Are autoscaling, Elastic Beanstalk, and Cloud formation chargeable?.
Answer: No, the resources they use are.
◍ DynomaDB writes are measured in 2 KB per write?.
Answer: False, they are measured in 1 KB per write.
◍ you can select a specific availability zone in which to place your dynamo
DB table (t/f).
Answer: false, you can NOT select a specific availability zone in which to
place your dynamo DB table
◍ SWF consists of a domain, worker, and decider?.
Answer: True
◍ What are the two Elasticache engines offered?.
Answer: Memcached and Redis
◍ SNS is PULL based rather than PUSH based?.
Answer: False, SNS is PUSH based.
◍ There is a hard limit on how much data you can store on s3?.
Answer: False, there is no hard limit on how much data you can store on s3.
◍ You are designing an application which needs to locate the public ip address
on the ec2 instance on which it is stored. What do you do?.
Answer: Get the instance metedata by visiting
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/
◍ A subnet can only be associated with MULTIPLE Access Cotnrol List
(ACL).
, Answer: False, a subnet can be associated with only one network ACL at a
time.
◍ You can use SNS in conjunction iwth SQS to fan a single message out to
multiple SQS Queries?.
Answer: True, You can use SNS in conjunction iwth SQS to fan a single
message out to multiple SQS Queries
◍ What does "ap" stand for in AWS regions?.
Answer: Asian Pacific
◍ In Amazon Simple Workflow Services (SWF), what is a decider?.
Answer: The decider is a program that controls the coordination of tasks, i.e.
their ordering, concurrency, and scheduling according to the application
logic.
◍ You are hosting a static website in an s3 bucket which uses javascript to
reference assets in another S3 bucket. For some reason, these assets are not
displaying. What could be the problem?.
Answer: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is not enabled
◍ Steps for calculating read throughput?.
Answer: Calculate items per second.Calculate read capacity units per item (4
KB).Multiply items per second by read capacity units per item.If eventually
consistent, divide by two.
◍ Distinct locations within an AWS region that are isolated from failure are
called?.
Answer: Availability Zones (AZ)
◍ What does OLAP stand for?.
Answer: Online analytics processing (OLAP)
◍ What are the steps for calculating write throughput?.
Answer: Write capacity units are 1 KB per write. Calculate items per
second.Multiply items per second by writes per item.
◍ Is Elastic Load Balancer Service chargeable?.
, Answer: Yes, ELB is chargeable because it is a service
◍ (SQS) You are designing a new app which processes payments and delivers
promotional emails to customers. Your need to ensure that the payment
process takes priority over the creation of emails. What is the best way to
achieve this?.
Answer: Use 2 SQS queues. Poll that payment queue first.
◍ NoSQL Notes:NoSQL : RDScollection: tabledocument: rowkey value pair:
fields_id is requiredcan embed key value pairs (KVP)embedded data =
nested KVP.
Answer: Not a question
◍ A subnet can only be associated with one Access Cotnrol List (ACL).
Answer: True, You can associate a network ACL with multiple subnets;
however, a subnet can be associated with only one network ACL at a time.
When you associate a network ACL with a subnet, the previous association
is removed.
◍ How many internet gateways can I attach to a custom VPC?.
Answer: 1
◍ what is the default region for all SDKs.
Answer: us-east-1
◍ Object Based storage is synonymous with?.
Answer: File based storage
◍ You have a motion sensor which writes 300 items every 30 seconds. Each
item consists of 5 kb. Your app uses eventually consistent reads. What
should read throughput be set to?.
Answer: 10 items per seconds.2 reads per item (8 kb).Eventually consistent,
so divide by 2.Read throughput = 10
◍ A scan is more efficient than query in terms of performance? (T/F).
Answer: False, a query is more efficient that a scan in terms of performance.
◍ Security groups act like a firewall at the instance level?.