Elance Amazon Web Services Test Answers 2015
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What type of distribution is available for
CloudFront?
Download and streaming
Download
Torrent
Streaming
The process of shipping inventory to Amazon
and out to your customers can be automated using this service:
CloudHSM
Amazon Glacier
Amazon Fulfillment
CloudShip
What is Amazon EMR responsible for?
Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that makes it
easier to shrink data files.
Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that makes it
easier to process large amounts via a Hadoop framework.
Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that makes it
easier to read large maps.
Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that makes it
easier to build large servers.
What is AWS IAM?
AWS Identity and Access Management.
AWS Independent Access Manager.
AWS's security console.
AWS Identify Alternative Mechanism.
What is an example of a security group used by
Amazon RDS?
MP3 security group.
EC2 security group.
CT3 security group.
PHP security group.
What is an RDS?
Recumbent Database Service
Recreational Database Service
Relational Database Service
Residential Database Service
AWS Free Tier is wide enough to get acquainted
with almost all services.
False
True
What type of Route53 alias could be set?
Elastic Load Balancer
Another Route53 record set
S3 site endpoint
All of these
What method is used to send emails with SES?
Both SMTP and API
Only using SMTP
Only using API
Only using Web Console
What does AWS use for content delivery?
Amazon CloudFront.
Amazon ContentFront.
Amazon DeliveryPoint.
Amazon Service Front
This service can be used to store and retrieve
any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web:
Amazon Fulfillment
Storage Gateway
CloudHSM
Simple Storage Service (S3)
What two interfaces does Amazon S3 use?
REST and SOAP interfaces.
SOAP and RAST interfaces.
SOAP and Ruby interfaces.
SOAP and Java interfaces.
AWS provides consolidated billing, allowing
one account to pay for multiple services:
True, but only for high volume ($500+ per month) accounts
False
True, for any number of services
True, but only for up to three services
What part of AWS handles their DNS?
Amazon Route 44.
Amazon Route 53.
Amazon Cloud Services.
Amazon Route 66.
What data format must an HTTP request to
DynamoDB be made in?
PHP
JavaScript
Java
JSON
It is possible to create custom OS images in
EC2.
True
False
If you wanted to delete a subnet or a gateway,
what would you use?
AWS Network Console.
AWS Cloud Console.
AWS Virtual Console.
AWS Management Console.
AWS provides a scalable, distributed in-memory
cache service called:
ElastiCache
DynamoDB
CloudHSM
Redshift
What does AWS Compute provide?
Traditional servers similar to RAID.
Scalable virtual private servers.
Linux-based web hosting.
Static virtual private servers.
When in a "Stopped" state, an EC2
instance is billed:
At half the rate of a Running instance of the same
type
At the full rate for the instance
For instance storage only
What is the software prerequisites for using
AWS at the command line?
Solaris, Windows 98, MacOS.
Linux, OS X, or Unix
OS X, Windows XP, or Solaris.
Windows XP, or Vista
With help of _______ you can restrict network
access to EC2 instances.
Elastic Load Balancer
Elastic IP
Placement Groups
Security Groups
If instance is under termination protection,
what would happen after a scale down policy action?
Instance will be kicked from ELB and autoscaling
group
Instance will be terminated
Instance will not be terminated, but will be
excluded from autoscaling group
Instance will remain as is
AWS's managed NoSQL database service is
called:
RDS
CloudHSM
Redshift
DynamoDB
What is the name of the Amazon Web Service
that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud?
Virtual Private Server
Virtual Cloud Server
Elastic Compute Cloud
Elastic Cloud Server
What happens if primary RDS instance in
MultiAZ deployment fails?
Software changes settings to use secondary RDS
instance
AWS switches endpoint to a secondary RDS instance,
no additional actions from users are needed
RDS data is lost, adminstrator have to restore it
from a snapshot
AWS automatically recovers RDS instance from
snapshot
What kind of data does Amazon Kinesis process?
Streaming data.
Checksum data.
Static data.
Revolving data.
AWS provides a highly available and scalable
Domain Name Service called:
DNStorm
DynamoDB
Route 53
ElastiCache
What format does CloudFormation use for
templates?
JSON
SQL
XML
CSV
What type of parameter is “email”?
Object.
Variable.
String.
Number.
What is the service, Amazon SES used for?
Establishing your own global cloud network
Sending email
Connecting to a global cloud network
Setting up a home cloud network
What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder?
It is a service that lets you convert video files
stored in your Amazon Simple Storage Service.
It is a specialized file conversion network that
uploads your files to AWS.
It is a file-sharing entity of AWS.
It is a service that lets you stream videos from
AWS.
Amazon MWS stands for:
Amazon Market Web Server
Amazon Marketplace Web Server
Amazon Marketplace Web Service
Amazon Marketing Web Service
RDS Multi-AZ deployment is available for:
All of the above
SQL Server
MySQL
Oracle
The capacity management, load balancing,
scaling, and health monitoring of an AWS application can all be handled
automatically by:
Elastic Beanstalk
CloudHSM
Amazon Fulfillment
BrainStem
What is the name of the Amazon Web Service
that provides easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the
cloud?
Relational Database Service
Relational Database Cloud
DynamoDB
MySQL Cloud
It's possible to bill for applications that
are built in, or run on top of, Amazon Web Services, using:
OpsWork
Amazon DevPay
Amazon Fulfillment
CloudHSM
Which of the following is an AWS Elastic
Beanstalk component?
Extension.
Gesture.
Environment.
Element.
Which of these can you use to deploy and
manage your applications?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Manager
AWS Agent
AWS Management Suite
What are pipelines under Amazon Elastic
Transcoder?
Queues that manage your transcoding jobs.
Queues that manage your data transactions.
Queues that manage your file transfers.
Queues that manage your compression jobs.
This service helps to create and provision
deployments quickly and easily, by using template files to describe a
"stack" of AWS resources:
Amazon Fulfillment
Amazon Glacier
ElastiCache
CloudFormation
AWS provides a facility for data-driven
workflows, allowing application data to be transferred automatically between
services as work is completed:
Amazon Glacier
OpsWorks
CloudHSM
Data Pipeline
What is the name of the Amazon Web Service
that provides scalable storage in the cloud?
Cloud Storage Service
Super Storage Service
Amazon Simple Storage
Simple Storage Service
What is the proper way to denote the syntax
for a customer gateway?
ec2-create-customer-gateway -t type -i ip_address
-b bgp_asn
ec2-create -t type -i ip_address -b
bgp_asn-customer-gateway
-t type -i ip_address -b bgp_asn
ec2-create-customer-gateway
-i ip_address -b bgp_asn
ec2-create-customer-gateway -t type
What alarm states are available in CloudWatch?
OK and ALARM
OK, ALARM and INSUFFICIENT DATA
OK, ALARM and ERROR
GOOD and BAD
When an EC2 instance is in a stopped state,
the user pays:
Only for EBS storage instance uses
Stopped instances requires no additional fees
Only for CPU and Memory resources
Half price for EC2 instance and EBS full storage
price
AWS reserved instances is a:
Low cost EC2 instance that could be shut down
anytime
Upfront fee and lowered hourly rate for 1 or 3
years
Virtual machine with provisioned EBS IOPS rate
High-performance RDS instance
How do you get access to a Windows instance in
EC2?
Use Web console ‘Connect’
Use ec2-get-password command
Reboot instance and login under safe mode
Receive administrator password via email
How can you scale ELB to process requests
faster?
ELB could not be scaled up or down
You can't do it. AWS scales ELB automatically
depending on requests rate.
By increasing number of instances behind ELB
By using API method change_elb_type
True of false: IAM user permissions can be set
to control specific EC2 instances.
True
False
Is it possible to change EC2 instance type?
Yes, while it's in stop state
Yes, anytime
No, you have only what you started
Yes, but you first need to create AMI
Which of the following tool is used to create
CloudFormation templates based on existing AWS deployments?
Opsworks
Placement Groups
EC2
CloudFormer
The AWS petabyte-scale data warehouse service
is called:
ElastiCache
Amazon Glacier
DynamoDB
Redshift
Spot instance is terminated when:
Spot price is higher than bid
Spot price is lower than bid
No more CPU cores are available for your spot
Instance is reached traffic limit
AWS includes an extremely low-cost storage
service, ideal for backups and other rarely retrieved, high-latency
applications, called:
Simple Storage Service (S3)
Amazon Glacier
SloStore
RDS
How can you rewrite URLs with ELB?
Using API
None of these
Using Nginx-like rules
Using Apache-like rules
Would an AWS user be billed for their primary
Elastic IP attached to an EC2 instance?
No
Yes
From where does CloudFront deliver your
content?
Data Servers.
Server Origins.
Server Points.
Origin servers.
AWS provides storage for secure cryptographic
keys via specialized security hardware through this service:
OpsWorks
CloudFormation
CloudHSM
Redshift
This high level application management service
allows layered "stacks" of AWS services to be provisioned, managed,
and configured automatically, using the Chef framework's "recipe"
system for custom configuration:
Elastic Beanstalk
OpsWorks
CloudHSM
Amazon Glacier
How can you decrease network latency for
cluster type instances?
By using placement groups
Starting instances at once
Reserving cluster type instances
By using same security group for all instances
If AWS sends you a message stating that one of
your instances will be terminated because of hardware failure, you need to:
Terminate it manually as soon as possible
Create a full backup
Change shutdown behavior
Stop and start this instance
What should be set up to move files from S3 to
Glacier automatically?
Archiving rules
Glacier rules
Lifecycle rules
Backup rules
What is the default queue limit for SQS for a
new account?
No limits are set
10,000 queues and 50 requests per second
1,000 queues and 5 requests per second
1 queue and 500 requests per second
Autoscaling group supports:
Vertical scaling
Only scaling up
Horizontal and vertical scaling
Horizontal scaling
Which of these entities could be transferred
between AWS regions?
AMI and EBS snapshot
S3 bucket
EC2 and RDS instance
DynamoDB storage
This service provides a solution for
connecting local storage volumes with secure, off-site incremental backups in
Amazon S3:
Amazon Glacier
Storage Gateway
CloudVolume
Data Pipeline
Is it possible to have stored procedures in
RDS MySQL?
No, you don't have access to enable them
Yes, they are enabled by default
No, it's prohibited to store procedures
Yes, they could be turned on via API
What ports to proxy are available with ELB?
21, 22, 80, 443 and 1024 to 65535 inclusive
25, 80, 443 and 1024 to 65535 inclusive
80 and 443
80 and 8080
What could be set up as an origin of
CloudFront distribution?
S3 bucket or external web service
(all of these)
AWS-US-EAST-1 region S3 destination point
4.114 Clause Reader (v 1.1)
Amazon guarantees maximum availability across:
Each Elastic Block Store volume
Each EC2 Server Instance
Each service Region, as a whole
Each Availability Zone
What of these sections is always required in
CloudFormation templates when launching stacks?
Resources, Mappings
Mappings
Resources, Parameters
Parameters
Resources
What command is used to implement CloudWatch
custom metrics?
put-cloud-metric
add-metric-data
put-metric-data
put-custom-metric
Is Cooldown in AWS Auto-scaling a mandatory
parameter?
There is no such parameter as Cooldown
Yes
No
What is the default email limit for SES for a
new account?
10,000 per day and 5 per second
No limit is set
1,000,000 per day and 50 per second
1,000 per day and 1 per second
Which of the following database options are
available with OpsWorks?
Only MySQL
Oracle and MySQL
Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server
Only Oracle
VPC implementation is available:
Only in single availability zone
All of these
In multiple availability zones
In multiple AWS regions
It is possible to set up replication between
RDS instances.
False
True
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