Amazon VPC and CloudWatch Monitoring Quiz

What controls traffic for a subnet in a VPC?

Network ACLs
Security groups
VPN connections
Route tables (correct)

Which AWS service collects and visualizes real-time logs, metrics, and event data in automated dashboards?

Amazon CloudTrail
Amazon CloudFormation
Amazon CloudWatch (correct)
Amazon CloudFront

What type of network interface is an elastic network interface?

Software-defined network interface
Network adapter
Physical network interface
Virtual network interface (correct)

How many types of topics (messaging orders) does Amazon SNS support?

Two (D) Signup and view all the answers

In Amazon SNS, what does A2P stand for?

Application-to-Person (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main purpose of Amazon CloudWatch?

To monitor AWS resources and applications in real time (C) Signup and view all the answers

How does Amazon CloudWatch help in improving mean time to resolution?

By configuring alarms for metric thresholds (D) Signup and view all the answers

In what way does Amazon CloudWatch utilize events?

To define rules for changes in the AWS environment (B) Signup and view all the answers

What types of metrics can CloudWatch metrics represent?

Variables that can be monitored over time (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is a key use case of Amazon CloudWatch related to infrastructure optimization?

Enabling alarms to watch metric values and trigger Auto Scaling (B) Signup and view all the answers

Why is it important to monitor how much infrastructure is being used?

To optimize resource allocation and utilization (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main benefit of Amazon RDS Read Replicas?

Real-time synchronization (C) Signup and view all the answers

In a Multi-AZ Deployment, what is the purpose of having a standby instance?

Automatic failover (C) Signup and view all the answers

When Amazon RDS detects a failure, what action does it take automatically?

Performs automatic failover (A) Signup and view all the answers

What type of data replication is used in Amazon RDS Read Replicas to reflect changes in almost real time?

Synchronous replication (B) Signup and view all the answers

How does Amazon RDS Read Replica contribute to database performance?

By offloading read operations (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary reason for having Multi-AZ Deployment in AWS?

To increase availability (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is typically built into the service, according to the text?

High availability (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is a DB instance in Amazon RDS?

An isolated database environment (A) Signup and view all the answers

What does AWS manage in Amazon RDS, as per the text?

Database backups (A) Signup and view all the answers

What are On-premises databases responsible for?

Application optimization (D) Signup and view all the answers

Which responsibility falls under the management of users, as outlined in the text?

Server maintenance (C) Signup and view all the answers

In Amazon RDS, what is described as the basic building block?

DB Instance (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary purpose of Docker in relation to running code?

To provide a standard way to run code (C) Signup and view all the answers

Which technology allows for packing more applications into a single physical server: Docker containers or virtual machines (VMs)?

Docker containers (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main focus of Kubernetes in terms of managing containerized applications?

Automating deployment and scaling (B) Signup and view all the answers

Which container orchestration tool is specifically designed for managing containerized applications on a single node?

Docker Swarm (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the key advantage of AWS container services for managing infrastructure?

Easier management of underlying infrastructure (B) Signup and view all the answers

Why do customers like Samsung, Expedia, GoDaddy, and Snap choose to run their containers on AWS according to the text?

For security, reliability, and scalability (D) Signup and view all the answers