AWS Quiz

AWS Beginner Quiz

AWS Quiz : This Amazon Web Services Beginner Quiz contains set of 60 AWS Quiz which will help to clear any any exam which is designed for Beginner.



1) AWS EC2 Service provides which type of cloud hosting capability?

  1. PAAS
  2. IAAS
  3. SAAS
  4. All of the above

Answer : B

 
 
2) Persistent volume storage in EC2 is also known as

  1. Instance Store volumes
  2. Elastic Bean Stack
  3. Elastic Block Store
  4. None of the above

Answer : C

 
 
3) Availability Zones in AWS correspond to

  1. A geographical location
  2. A physical datacentre in a geographical location
  3. Groups of datacentres in a geographical location
  4. None of the above

Answer : B

 
 
4) Software firewall in AWS is implemented using

  1. Security Group
  2. Route Table
  3. Network Access Control List
  4. All of the above

Answer : A

 
 
5) Copy of an EC2 instance is also known as

  1. Amazon Machine Image
  2. Snapshot
  3. Template
  4. Clone

Answer : A

 
 
6) Components of auto scaling include

  1. Groups
  2. Launch Configurations
  3. Scaling Plans
  4. All of the above

Answer : D

 
 
7) DNS service is provided by AWS through

  1. SES
  2. Redshift
  3. Route R3
  4. All of the above

Answer : C

 
 
8) Which one of the following is not a class of Cloud Computing?

  1. IaaS
  2. PaaS
  3. SaaS
  4. None of the above

Answer : D

 
 
9) In which of the following Cloud Computing Model, the storage and compute units are hosted inside the Enterprise Network?

  1. Private Cloud
  2. Public Cloud
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer : A

 



10) In IaaS, the user is not bothered about which of the following pieces in the complete stack?

  1. Server Hardware
  2. Operating System
  3. Application Server
  4. None of the above

Answer : A

 
 
11) Which one of the following is not a feature of Cloud Computing?

  1. On-Demand
  2. Elasticity
  3. Scalability
  4. Fixed Price

Answer : D

 
 
12) Which of the following is used to restrict network traffic between two networks?

  1. DNS Server
  2. DHCP Server
  3. Firewall
  4. Router

Answer : C

 
 
13) Which of the following is a concern in Cloud Computing?

  1. Automation
  2. Self Service
  3. Elastic
  4. Data Security

Answer : D

 
 
14) Which of the following is not a Cloud Provider?

  1. Amazon Web Services
  2. Microsoft Azure
  3. Google Cloud Platform
  4. None of the above

Answer : D

 
 
15) Which of the following is not a valid IP address?

  1. 10.40.56
  2. 214.21.17
  3. 168.34.45
  4. 201.20.2

Answer : B

 
 
16) Which one of the following is not an AWS Service?

  1. Elastic Compute Cloud
  2. Elastic Load Balancer
  3. Relational Database Service
  4. None of the above

Answer : D

 
 
17) Which of the following is a supported Operating System in AWS?

  1. Windows Server 2012
  2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  3. CentOS 6
  4. All of the above

Answer : D

 
 
18) Which one of the following is not a Storage Medium in Amazon Web Services?

  1. Amazon S3
  2. Amazon EBS
  3. Amazon EFS
  4. Amazon RDS

Answer : D

 
 
19) What is Cloud Computing replacing?

  1. Corporate data centers
  2. Expensive personal computer hardware
  3. Expensive software upgrades
  4. All of the above

Answer : D

 



20) What is the number one concern about cloud computing?

  1. Accessibility
  2. Too expensive
  3. Security concerns
  4. Too many platforms

Answer : C

 
 
21) Which resources are typically provided by an Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing delivery model?

  1. Applications
  2. Virtual machines
  3. Virtual private networks
  4. Middleware software stacks

Answer : B

 
 
22) An enterprise needs highly controlled storage and access to their databases as well as managing the infrastructure for web front ends and other applications. They have a large existing IT infrastructure and they are continually expanding the capabilities.

  1. public cloud
  2. hybrid cloud
  3. private cloud
  4. internal cloud

Answer : B

 
 
23) Which statement best describes the Software as a Service
Cloud delivery model?

  1. A virtual machine provisioned and provided from the cloud which allows the customer to deploy custom applications.
  2. A multitenant storage service provisioned from the cloud which allows the customer to leverage the cloud for storing software data.
  3. A solution stack or set of middleware delivered to the client from the cloud which provides services for the design, development, and testing of industry aligned applications.
  4. An application delivered to the client from the cloud which eliminates the need to install and run the application on the customer’s own computers and simplifying maintenance and support.

Answer : D

 
 
24) Which delivery model is an example of a cloud computing environment that provides users access to virtual machines?

  1. Platform as a Service
  2. Software as a Service
  3. Application as a Service
  4. Infrastructure as a Service

Answer : D

 
 
25) What is one benefit of cloud computing?

  1. Computer resources can be quickly provisioned.
  2. A workload can quickly move to a cloud computing environment.
  3. There is no operational cost for a cloud computing environment.
  4. The resources can quickly move from one cloud environment to another.

Answer : A

 
 
26) What is a common mechanism of communications among virtual machines running in a cloud environment?

  1. A public IP address for each instance that is connected to a virtual private bridge.
  2. A private IP address for each instance that is connected to a virtual private bridge.
  3. A public IP address for each instance that attaches to the OS software ethernet bridge.
  4. A private IP address for each instance that attaches to the OS software ethernet bridge.

Answer : B

 
 
27) Software as a Service is considered to be included in which cloud computing layer?

  1. Data
  2. Client
  3. Application
  4. Infrastructure

Answer : C

 
 
28) _________ is the feature of cloud computing that allows the service to change in size or volume in order to meet a user’s needs.

  1. Scalability
  2. Virtualization
  3. Security
  4. Cost-savings

Answer : A

 
 
29) “Cloud” in cloud computing represents what?

  1. Wireless
  2. Hard Drive
  3. People
  4. Internet

Answer : D

 



30) AWS EC2 Service provides which type of cloud hosting capability?

  1. PAAS
  2. IAAS
  3. SAAS
  4. All of the above

Answer : B

 
 
31) Persistent volume storage in EC2 is also known as

  1. Instance Store volumes
  2. Elastic Bean Stack
  3. Elastic Block Store
  4. None of the above

Answer : C

 
 
32) Availability Zones correspond to

  1. A geographical location
  2. A physical datacentre in a geographical location
  3. Groups of datacentres in a geographical location
  4. None of the above

Answer : B

 
 
33) What does SaaS stand for?

  1. Secret alternative accounting standards
  2. Short alert activation supplement
  3. Software as a service
  4. None of the above

Answer : C

 
 
34) Could Computing resources include

  1. servers
  2. storage
  3. databases
  4. all of the above

Answer : D

 
 
35) Which of the following statement is not true about the benefits of Cloud?

  1. No upfront capital expense
  2. Easy scale up & down
  3. Low Cost
  4. Remove IT Department

Answer : D

 
 
36) Which of these companies is not a leader in cloud computing?

  1. Google
  2. Amazon
  3. Microsoft
  4. d Blackboard

Answer : D

 
 
37) Which of the following statement not correct about “Hybrid” Cloud

  1. It is a composition of two or more clouds (Public or Private)
  2. There must be one Private & One Public Cloud in it
  3. It exposes mission critical applications & data to outside world
  4. It provides better scalability & cost effectiveness

Answer : C

 
 
38) Which of the following characteristics is not exhibited by Cloud Computing?

  1. Agility
  2. Device & location independence
  3. Multitenancy
  4. Higher cost

Answer : D

 
 
39) Which of the following option describe the benefit of virtualized servers?

  1. Shared Hardware
  2. Individual hardware per virtual server
  3. c Physical servers taking less space than virtual servers
  4. d virtual servers taking less disk space than physical servers

Answer : A

 



40) Which term from the past describes the sharing of mainframe computing resources?

  1. a Time sharing
  2. Time division multiplexing
  3. c Mainframe sharing
  4. d XaaS

Answer : A

 
 
41) How is Elastic Block Storage charged

  1. Per stored data and IO operations
  2. Per allocated storage and bandwidth
  3. per allocated data and operations
  4. per stored data and bandwidth

Answer : C

 
 
42) For what are you charged in IAM

  1. Per role created
  2. Per group created
  3. No additional charge
  4. Per user created and credentials generated

Answer : C

 
 
43) S3 stores data as

  1. Files in buckets
  2. Folders in buckets
  3. Objects in buckets
  4. D All of the above

Answer : C

 
 
44) Access to AWS resources is possible using

  1. Access and Secret keys
  2. Username and Passwords
  3. Certificate and Private Key files
  4. All of the above

Answer : D

 
 
45) AWS RDS service includes

  1. MySQL
  2. Oracle
  3. PostgreSQL
  4. All of the above

Answer : D

 
 
46) Which of the following is NOT a method to connect to AWS VPC?

  1. AWS DirectConnect
  2. IPSec VPN
  3. OpenVPN
  4. None of the above

Answer : D

 
 
47) Which of the following is NOT a Storage Class of AWS Elastic Block Store

  1. Magnetic
  2. Tape
  3. General Purpose SSD
  4. Provisioned IOPS SSD

Answer : B

 
 
48) Which of the following AWS Resource can be “tagged”?

  1. Elastic IP
  2. NAT Gateway
  3. Network Interface
  4. Keypair

Answer : C

 
 
49) Which of the following atributes of an RDS Instance cannot be modified after launch?

  1. Backup Retention Period
  2. Encryption Key
  3. Storage Type
  4. DB Instance Class

Answer : B

 



50) A company wants to build a test environment to test software updates and new solutions. The environment should mirror the production environment and be secure and inaccessible from outside the company network. The company does not want to invest in infras

  1. Public Cloud
  2. Private Cloud
  3. External Cloud
  4. Hybrid Cloud e.g. AWS Virtual Private Cloud

Answer : D

 
 
51) Which of the following architectural standards is working with cloud computing industry ?

  1. Service-oriented architecture
  2. Standardized Web services
  3. Web-application frameworks
  4. All of the mentioned

Answer : A

 
 
52) Point out the correct statement :

  1. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is small aspect of cloud computing
  2. Cloud computing does not have impact on software licensing
  3. Cloud computing presents new opportunities to users and developers
  4. All of the mentioned

Answer : C

 
 
53) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) uses virtual network to provision AWS resources

  1. a True
  2. b False

Answer : A

 
 
54) What does “EBS” stand for?

  1. Elastic Build Service
  2. Elastic Blob Service
  3. Elastic Block Service
  4. Elastic Brick Service

Answer : C

 
 
55) What does “RDS” stand for?

  1. Relational Database Service
  2. Receptional Database Service
  3. Request Database Service
  4. Real Time managed Database Service

Answer : A

 
 
56) What is “ EUCALYPTUS” stands for?

  1. Elastic Utility Computing Architecture For Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems
  2. Elastic Uniform Computing Architecture For Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems
  3. Elastic Utility Compute Architecture For Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems
  4. None of the above

Answer : A

 
 
57) Virtual servers are only used in public clouds. True or False?

  1. a True
  2. b False

Answer : B

 
 
58) Cloudwatch alarms use ______ to send email notifications

  1. SNS
  2. SES
  3. SMTP
  4. All of the above

Answer : A

 
 
59) Elastic Load Balancing works with

  1. AWS EC2
  2. Auto Scaling
  3. Amazon CloudWatch
  4. All of the above

Answer : D

 
 
60) Which of the following is TRUE for Auto Scaling?

  1. Increase the size of the root volume when the CPU Utilization is above threshold
  2. Release EC2 instances when CPU utilization is below threshold
  3. Increase the instance size when utilization is above threshold
  4. Add more Relational Database Service (RDS) read replicas when utilization is above threshold

Answer : B