AWS ASA EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS
,AWS ASA EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
1) What is Amazon Glacier?
A. A highly secure firewall designed to keep everything out.
B. A tool that allows to "freeze" an EBS volume.
C. An AWS service designed for long term data archival.
D. It is a tool used to resurrect deleted EC2 snapshots. -- Correct Answer ✔✔
C
2) Can you attach an EBS volume to more than one EC2 instance at the same time?
A. Yes
B. No
C. If that EC2 volume is part of an AMI
D. Depends on which region -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
3) To help you manage your Amazon EC2 instances you can assign your own metadata
in the form of
A. Wildcards
B. Certificates
C. Tags
D. Notes -- Correct Answer ✔✔ C
4) EBS Snapshots are backed up to S3 in what manner?
A. Incrementally
B. Exponentially
C. Decreasingly
D. EBS Snapshots are not stored in S3 -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
5) Which AWS CLI command should I use to create a snapshot of an EBS volume?
A. aws ec2 create-snapshot
B. aws ec2 fresh-snapshot
, C. aws ec2 new-snapshot
D. aws ec2 deploy-snapshot -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
6) What is the underlying Hypervisor for EC2?
A. ESX
B. Xen
C. OVM
D. Hyper-V -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
7) To retrieve instance metadata or userdata you will need to use the following IP
Address;
A. http://127.0.0.1
B. http://192.168.0.254
C. http://10.0.0.1
D. http://169.254.169.254 -- Correct Answer ✔✔ D
8) If an Amazon EBS volume is an additional partition (ie not the root volume), can I
detach it without stopping the instance?
A. No, you will need to stop the instance.
B. Yes, although it may take some time. -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
9) Can I move a reserved instance from one region to another?
A. Yes
B. No
C. Only in the US
D. Depends on the region -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
10) You can add multiple volumes to an EC2 instance and then create your own RAID
5/RAID 10/RAID 0 configurations using those volumes.
A. True
B. False -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
11) When creating a new security group, all in bound traffic is allowed by default.
A. False
B. True -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
, 12) You need to know both the private IP address and public IP address of your EC2
instance. You should ________.
A. Run IPCONFIG (Windows) or IFCONFIG (Linux).
B. Retrieve the instance Userdata from http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/.
C. Use the following command: AWS EC2 DisplayIP.
D. Retrieve the instance Metadata from http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/.
-- Correct Answer ✔✔ D
13) In order to enable encryption at rest using EC2 and Elastic Block Store you must
________.
A. Configure encryption when creating the EBS volume
B. Configure encryption using the appropriate Operating Systems file system
C. Configure encryption using X.509 certificates
D. Mount the EBS volume in to S3 and then encrypt the bucket using a bucket
policy. -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
14) Amazon's EBS volumes are ________.
A. Object based storage
B. Block based storage
C. Encrypted by default
D. Not suitable for databases -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
15) Placement Groups can be created across 2 or more Availability Zones.
A. True
B. False -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
16) I can use the AWS Console to add a role to an EC2 instance after that instance has
been created and powered-up.
A. False
B. True -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
17) Which AWS service is effectively a NAS in the cloud, allowing you to connect it to
multiple EC2 instances at once?
A. EBS
B. EFS
C. SQS
ANSWERS
,AWS ASA EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
1) What is Amazon Glacier?
A. A highly secure firewall designed to keep everything out.
B. A tool that allows to "freeze" an EBS volume.
C. An AWS service designed for long term data archival.
D. It is a tool used to resurrect deleted EC2 snapshots. -- Correct Answer ✔✔
C
2) Can you attach an EBS volume to more than one EC2 instance at the same time?
A. Yes
B. No
C. If that EC2 volume is part of an AMI
D. Depends on which region -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
3) To help you manage your Amazon EC2 instances you can assign your own metadata
in the form of
A. Wildcards
B. Certificates
C. Tags
D. Notes -- Correct Answer ✔✔ C
4) EBS Snapshots are backed up to S3 in what manner?
A. Incrementally
B. Exponentially
C. Decreasingly
D. EBS Snapshots are not stored in S3 -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
5) Which AWS CLI command should I use to create a snapshot of an EBS volume?
A. aws ec2 create-snapshot
B. aws ec2 fresh-snapshot
, C. aws ec2 new-snapshot
D. aws ec2 deploy-snapshot -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
6) What is the underlying Hypervisor for EC2?
A. ESX
B. Xen
C. OVM
D. Hyper-V -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
7) To retrieve instance metadata or userdata you will need to use the following IP
Address;
A. http://127.0.0.1
B. http://192.168.0.254
C. http://10.0.0.1
D. http://169.254.169.254 -- Correct Answer ✔✔ D
8) If an Amazon EBS volume is an additional partition (ie not the root volume), can I
detach it without stopping the instance?
A. No, you will need to stop the instance.
B. Yes, although it may take some time. -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
9) Can I move a reserved instance from one region to another?
A. Yes
B. No
C. Only in the US
D. Depends on the region -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
10) You can add multiple volumes to an EC2 instance and then create your own RAID
5/RAID 10/RAID 0 configurations using those volumes.
A. True
B. False -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
11) When creating a new security group, all in bound traffic is allowed by default.
A. False
B. True -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
, 12) You need to know both the private IP address and public IP address of your EC2
instance. You should ________.
A. Run IPCONFIG (Windows) or IFCONFIG (Linux).
B. Retrieve the instance Userdata from http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/.
C. Use the following command: AWS EC2 DisplayIP.
D. Retrieve the instance Metadata from http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/.
-- Correct Answer ✔✔ D
13) In order to enable encryption at rest using EC2 and Elastic Block Store you must
________.
A. Configure encryption when creating the EBS volume
B. Configure encryption using the appropriate Operating Systems file system
C. Configure encryption using X.509 certificates
D. Mount the EBS volume in to S3 and then encrypt the bucket using a bucket
policy. -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
14) Amazon's EBS volumes are ________.
A. Object based storage
B. Block based storage
C. Encrypted by default
D. Not suitable for databases -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
15) Placement Groups can be created across 2 or more Availability Zones.
A. True
B. False -- Correct Answer ✔✔ A
16) I can use the AWS Console to add a role to an EC2 instance after that instance has
been created and powered-up.
A. False
B. True -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B
17) Which AWS service is effectively a NAS in the cloud, allowing you to connect it to
multiple EC2 instances at once?
A. EBS
B. EFS
C. SQS