Aws

Question 1

What is cloud computing?

Answer 1

The on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

Question 2

What are the 3 types of cloud deployment models?

Answer 2

Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud.

Question 3

What are the 3 cloud service models?

Answer 3

IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.

Question 4

What is high availability?

Answer 4

The ability of a system to remain operational and accessible when needed.

Question 5

What is scalability?

Answer 5

The ability to grow or shrink resources as needed to meet demand.

Question 6

What is fault tolerance?

Answer 6

The ability of a system to remain operational even if some components fail.

Question 7

What is agility in cloud?

Answer 7

The ability to rapidly develop, test, and launch software applications.

Question 8

What is elasticity in AWS?

Answer 8

Automatic addition or removal of resources to handle changes in demand.

Question 9

What is pay-as-you-go pricing?

Answer 9

You pay only for the services you use, for as long as you use them.

Question 10

What is the main benefit of cloud computing?

Answer 10

Increased speed, agility, and cost savings.

Question 11

What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?

Answer 11

AWS secures the cloud; customers secure what’s in the cloud.

Question 12

What is AWS IAM?

Answer 12

A service that controls access to AWS resources.

Question 13

What is MFA in AWS?

Answer 13

Multi-Factor Authentication adds an extra layer of security.

Question 14

What does AWS KMS do?

Answer 14

Manages encryption keys for your data.

Question 15

What is AWS Shield?

Answer 15

Protects against DDoS attacks.

Question 16

What is AWS WAF?

Answer 16

Web Application Firewall that protects against web exploits.

Question 17

What is AWS Artifact?

Answer 17

Provides compliance-related documents like audit reports.

Question 18

What is a security group in AWS?

Answer 18

A virtual firewall for EC2 instances.

Question 19

What is an ACL in AWS?

Answer 19

Access Control List for controlling inbound/outbound traffic at the subnet level.

Question 20

What is AWS CloudTrail?

Answer 20

Tracks user activity and API usage across AWS accounts.

Question 21

What is Amazon EC2?

Answer 21

A web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity.

Question 22

What is Amazon S3?

Answer 22

An object storage service offering scalability, data availability, and security.

Question 23

What is Amazon RDS?

Answer 23

A managed relational database service.

Question 24

What is Amazon DynamoDB?

Answer 24

A fast, flexible NoSQL database service.

Question 25

What is AWS Lambda?

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A serverless compute service to run code without managing servers.

Question 26

What is Amazon VPC?

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Lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud.

Question 27

What is Elastic Load Balancing?

Answer 27

Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets.

Question 28

What is Auto Scaling?

Answer 28

Ensures you have the right amount of resources running to handle load.

Question 29

What is AWS CloudFormation?

Answer 29

Enables infrastructure as code.

Question 30

What is Amazon CloudFront?

Answer 30

A content delivery network to distribute content globally with low latency.

Question 31

What is the AWS Free Tier?

Answer 31

Allows new users to explore AWS services for free up to certain limits.

Question 32

What is AWS Budgets?

Answer 32

Allows users to set custom cost and usage budgets.

Question 33

What is AWS Cost Explorer?

Answer 33

Visualize and manage your AWS costs and usage.

Question 34

What is Consolidated Billing?

Answer 34

Combines billing for multiple accounts in an organization.

Question 35

What are the AWS pricing models?

Answer 35

On-demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans.

Question 36

What is an AWS Support Plan?

Answer 36

Subscription that provides access to technical support and resources.

Question 37

Name AWS Support Plans

Answer 37

Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise.

Question 38

What is TCO in AWS?

Answer 38

Total Cost of Ownership – helps estimate the long-term cost savings.

Question 39

What is the AWS Marketplace?

Answer 39

Digital catalog of software solutions that run on AWS.

Question 40

How can customers estimate service costs?

Answer 40

Using the AWS Pricing Calculator.

Question 41

What is Amazon SNS?

Answer 41

Simple Notification Service for messaging and alerts.

Question 42

What is Amazon SQS?

Answer 42

Simple Queue Service for decoupling and scaling microservices.

Question 43

What is AWS CloudWatch?

Answer 43

Monitoring and observability service.

Question 44

What is Amazon EBS?

Answer 44

Elastic Block Store provides persistent block storage for EC2.

Question 45

What is Amazon EFS?

Answer 45

Elastic File System for scalable file storage.

Question 46

What is AWS Step Functions?

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Coordinates components of distributed applications and microservices.

Question 47

What is AWS Outposts?

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Brings AWS services on-premises.

Question 48

What is AWS Direct Connect?

Answer 48

Dedicated network connection to AWS.

Question 49

What is AWS Organizations?

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Manages multiple AWS accounts centrally.

Question 50

What is AWS Service Catalog?

Answer 50

Organizes, governs, and provisions cloud resources.

Question 51

What is an AWS Region?

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A physical location in the world with multiple Availability Zones.

Question 52

What is an Availability Zone?

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One or more data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity.

Question 53

What is edge location in AWS?

Answer 53

Used by CloudFront to cache content closer to users.

Question 54

What is infrastructure as code?

Answer 54

Managing infrastructure using configuration files.

Question 55

What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

Answer 55

Provides real-time guidance to help provision your resources following best practices.