AWS Certification Questions And Answers

Which statement best describes Availability Zones? - Answer- Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated from failures. An AWS VPC is a component of which AWS service? - Answer- Networking Service. What is a VPC? - Answer- Virtual Private Cloud Which AWS service is specifically designed for developers to upload their code to and then it will automatically handle the provisioning of those resources that are required to host that code? - Answer- Elastic Beanstalk Which AWS service allows you to run code without having to worry about provisioning any underlying resources (such as virtual machines, databases etc) - Answer- Lambda Amazon's highly scaleable DNS service is known as.. - Answer- Route 53 Which AWS compute service is specifically designed to assist you in processing large data sets? - Answer- Elastic Map Reduce What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk & CloudFormation? - Answer- Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring based on the code you upload to it, where as CloudFormation is an automated provisioning engine designed to deploy entire cloud environments via a JSON script. Correct. Which AWS service is used a CDN to distribute content around the world? - Answer- CloudFront Where would be a durable place to store flat files on the AWS platform? - Answer- S3 Which AWS service would be the best choice for long term data archival? - Answer- Glacier What AWS service consists of the following database services; SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aurora, Oracle? - Answer- Relational Database Services (RDS) What AWS service would you use primarily for data warehousing? - Answer- Redshift What AWS service is used for collating large amounts of data streamed from multiple sources? - Answer- Kinesis