AWS Basics Quiz

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Which AWS service supports user sign-up, sign-in, and access control for web and mobile applications?

AWS Lambda

AWS CloudFormation

Amazon Cognito (correct)

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

What is the primary purpose of AWS Auto Scaling?

To adjust system capacity based on workload (correct)

To analyze user behavior

To manage application deployments

To secure data transmission

Which AWS service is NOT associated with automatically recovering from failure?

AWS CloudTrail

Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Lambda (correct)

AWS CloudFormation

Which service enables users to create and manage users, groups, roles, and permissions for AWS resources?

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Signup and view all the answers

What pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework is focused on protecting information and systems?

Security Signup and view all the answers

Which feature allows a company to group users together and manage permissions collectively?

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Signup and view all the answers

Which method is NOT supported by AWS IAM for user authentication?

Social media logins Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS service monitors system performance and can help automatically recover from operational issues?

Amazon CloudWatch Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS feature acts as a subnet-level firewall to control inbound and outbound access?

Network Access Control List Signup and view all the answers

What does the AWS Trusted Advisor provide to users?

Real-time guidance for AWS best practices Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS service allows users to view and manage their quotas for AWS services?

Service Quotas Console Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS service monitors the usage of services and alerts users nearing their limits?

AWS Trusted Advisor Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following services is NOT involved in quota tracking or management?

AWS Systems Manager Signup and view all the answers

Which tool allows users to visualize and manage their AWS costs and usage?

AWS Cost Explorer Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS feature enables the creation of a secure connection between a VPC and an on-premises network?

Virtual Private Gateway Signup and view all the answers

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework emphasizes continuous improvement in processes and procedures?

Operational excellence Signup and view all the answers

What is a key feature of the AWS Enterprise Support plan that differentiates it from other support plans?

Access to a dedicated technical account manager Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS service protects against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks?

AWS Shield Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS service is primarily used for creating cost estimates for AWS usage?

AWS Pricing Calculator Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT one of the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

Capacity planning Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following statements about AWS pricing is true?

Customers pay only for the resources they consume Signup and view all the answers

What is a typical purpose of the AWS Cost Explorer tool?

Forecasting future AWS service costs Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following pillars specifically relates to ensuring systems are reliable and available?

Reliability Signup and view all the answers

What type of guidance can an AWS technical account manager (TAM) provide under the Enterprise Support plan?

Consultative architectural and operational guidance Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS service allows users to log in using their social media or email accounts?

Amazon Cognito Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary function of AWS Security Hub?

It aggregates and organizes security alerts from multiple services. Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS service would you use to assess and evaluate the configurations of AWS resources?

AWS Config Signup and view all the answers

Which option is NOT an advantage of using the AWS Cloud?

Focus on managing hardware infrastructure Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS service is specifically designed to detect security vulnerabilities in Amazon EC2 instances?

Amazon Inspector Signup and view all the answers

What is a feature of Amazon Cognito?

It supports user sign-in with social media accounts. Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS service can help you analyze security data for potential issues?

Amazon Detective Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following AWS services helps protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3?

Amazon Macie Signup and view all the answers

Which Amazon EC2 instance type allows users to utilize existing per-socket, per-core, or per-virtual machine software licenses for Microsoft Windows servers?

Dedicated Hosts Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary function of Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances?

To provide physical server dedication for a single customer Signup and view all the answers

What is a significant characteristic of AWS Spot Instances?

They are available at significant discounts Signup and view all the answers

Which EC2 instance type provides the ability to run containers without server management?

AWS Fargate Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following statements correctly describes AWS Reserved Instances?

They provide significant discounts for long-term use Signup and view all the answers

What does AWS Ground Station primarily facilitate?

Communication with satellites and downlinking data Signup and view all the answers

Why are Dedicated Hosts crucial for certain customers on AWS?

They allow customers to bring their existing server-bound software licenses Signup and view all the answers

Which instance type is NOT suited for utilizing existing Microsoft software licenses?

Reserved Instances Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following options represents AWS Cloud design principles?

Test systems at production scale. Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary function of AWS Cloud9?

To provide a cloud-based development environment for coding. Signup and view all the answers

Why is paying for compute resources in advance not considered an AWS cloud design principle?

It requires significant investment before use. Signup and view all the answers

Which option is a disadvantage of emphasizing manual processes in cloud operations?

It increases the chances of human error and inefficiency. Signup and view all the answers

What does testing systems at production scale involve?

Simulating real-world scenarios and load conditions. Signup and view all the answers

Which AWS service would NOT be suitable for creating a cloud-based IDE?

AWS OpsWorks Signup and view all the answers

Which statement best reflects a principle of refining operational procedures in AWS Cloud?

Procedures must be frequently adapted to changing needs. Signup and view all the answers

How does making data-driven decisions benefit AWS cloud architecture?

It helps optimize performance, availability, and cost. Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Cloud Practitioner Exam Notes

Amazon RDS: Supports six database engines: Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server. Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j are not compatible.
AWS Lambda: A serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. It automatically integrates with event notifications from Amazon S3.
AWS Organizations: Used for centrally managing security policies and billing for multiple AWS accounts.
Availability Zones: Physically separated locations within an AWS Region, designed for fault tolerance. Availability Zones have independent power, cooling, and physical security. They are connected by low-latency networks.
AWS Well-Architected Framework: A set of best practices and guidelines for designing and operating systems in the cloud. Consists of five pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
AWS Control Tower: AWS Control Tower uses AWS CloudFormation to create resources in your landing zones. CloudFormation is an AWS service that helps model and set up AWS resources using templates.
Amazon EC2 instances: Advantages of using EC2 instances to host applications in AWS include integration with VPC, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS IAM, as well as a flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model.
AWS Pricing Calculator: Used to create cost estimates for AWS use cases by modeling solutions, exploring price points, and reviewing calculation details.
Amazon Personalize: A fully managed machine learning service used to generate personalized recommendations for users based on their historical interactions, preferences, and related item metadata.
Amazon Auto Scaling: Automatically adjusts the number of Amazon EC2 instances based on application performance and availability needs, optimizing costs by selecting instances most effective for workloads.
AWS Compute Optimizer: Provides recommendations to rightsize Amazon EC2 instances, improving performance, reducing costs, and eliminating underutilized resources, based on historical workload usage data.
Amazon RDS: is a relational database service that supports MySQL and other popular database engines; simplifies database administration tasks such as patching, backups, recovery, and scaling; offers high availability and security features.
Amazon EMR: is used for a fully managed service to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of a MySQL database.
Amazon S3: Object storage; is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability of objects over a given year.
AWS Cost Explorer: A cost management tool that provides a central view of all AWS costs and usage. (Useful for analyzing cost patterns and forecasting future costs.)
AWS Budgets: Lets users set custom spending limit budgets within their AWS accounts, and set up alerts and notifications for when costs or usage exceed those limits.
AWS Billing & Cost Management: Provides users with tools to visualize, understand, and manage their AWS spending and usage.
AWS CloudTrail: A service that records API calls; logs the details of every API call made to AWS services, helping in audits, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
AWS Trusted Advisor: An online tool that provides real-time guidance to help implement best practices in security, performance, cost optimization, and fault tolerance.
AWS Security Hub: Aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes security alerts and findings from multiple AWS services and partner solutions; provides a comprehensive view of security posture.
AWS Organizations: Use for central management and governance of multiple AWS accounts. Use for creation of groups of accounts and/or application of policies to them.
IAM Roles and Users: IAM is used to grant access to the AWS resources and services based on the principle of Least Privilege. Roles to delegate permissions to resources to users and systems that need access to them.
AWS Config: Enables users to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of their AWS resources, monitor and record configurations, and provides a detailed view of configurations.
AWS Artifact: Provides access to security and compliance reports and agreements. It is a self-service portal for auditing AWS compliance.
AWS Organizations: A service to combine multiple AWS accounts into a single organization; provides consolidated billing.
VPC Peering: Enables communication between two VPCs using private IP address ranges.
AWS CloudFormation: Used for modelling and provisioning multiple AWS resources.
AWS Outposts: Extends AWS infrastructure to local data centers or co-location spaces.
AWS Lambda: A managed compute service that runs code in response to events and scales automatically.
Amazon SQS: Supports fully managed message queuing for asynchronous communication.
AWS Direct Connect: Provides dedicated network connections between an on-premises data center and an AWS Region, avoiding public internet.
AWS Route 53: A global DNS web service for translating domain names to IP addresses.
AWS Shield: Provides protection against DDoS attacks.
AWS WAF: Protects web applications or APIs.
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances: Suitable for stateless, fault-tolerant applications that can be interrupted by AWS.
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances: Suitable for steady state or predictable workloads; provides a significant discount compared to On-Demand pricing. Requires a term commitment.
AWS Secrets Manager: Used for securely storing and managing sensitive information like API keys, passwords, etc.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling: Automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances based on demand, or schedule.
Amazon CloudFront: A global edge network that caches static content and dynamically delivers it to end users, offering high availability and low latency.
AWS Storage Gateway: A hybrid storage solution for on-premises applications, to connect on-premises applications to cloud storage services such as Amazon S3. Allows for access from on-premises via standard network protocols
AWS Application Migration Service: A service that migrates applications from on premises environments to AWS, with minimal downtime or disruption to the applications' use.
AWS DataSync: Helps transfer data between on-premises storage systems and AWS storage services.
Amazon EFS: A fully managed, scalable, file system for use in a VPC.
Amazon RDS: Relational database service for relational database workloads, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
Amazon DynamoDB: A fully managed, NoSQL database service.
Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive: Provides a low-cost option for long-term data archival; suitable for infrequently accessed data.
Amazon ElastiCache: Provides in-memory data stores for data retrieval, providing better performance.
AWS CodePipeline: Enables the automation of software release and deployments to ensure continuous delivery and deployment.
AWS CodeDeploy: Tool for automating deployments to any type of instance, including those running on premises.

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Test your knowledge of Amazon Web Services with this quiz, covering key concepts such as user management, scaling, and resource monitoring. Understand the essential services and features that AWS offers for building secure and scalable applications.