Amazon Web Services AWS MCQ Questions and Answers for Practice

1. Amazon Glacier is a storage service allowing customers to store data for as little as:

1. 20 cents per GB per month
2. 50 cents per GB per month
3. 1 cent per gigabyte (GB) per month
4. 10 cents per GB per month

2. Object storage systems store files in a flat organization of containers called what?

1. Clusters
2. Buckets
3. Baskets
4. Brackets

3. Object storage systems require less _____ than file systems to store and access files.

1. Master data
2. Exit data
3. Big data
4. Metadata

4. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk automates the details of which of the following functions?

1. Application deployment
2. All of the above
3. Capacity provisioning
4. Auto-scaling

5. Which AWS storage service assists S3 with transferring data?

1. DynamoDB
2. ElastiCache
3. CloudFront
4. AWS Import/Export

6. Amazon S3 offers encryption services for which types of data?

1. data at rest and motion
2. data in motion and relax
3. data in flight and rest
4. data at relax and rest

7. Amazon S3 offers developers which combination?

1. High scalability and low latency data storage infrastructure at high costs.
2. Low scalability and high latency data storage infrastructure at low costs.
3. High scalability and low latency data storage infrastructure at low costs.
4. Low scalability and high latency data storage infrastructure at high costs.

8. EBS can always tolerate an Availability Zone failure?

1. Depends on how it is setup
2. Depends on the Region where EBS volume is initiated
3. No, all EBS volume is stored in a single Availability Zone
4. Yes, EBS volume has multiple copies so it should be fine

9. Does S3 provide read-after-write consistency?

1. Yes, but only for certain regions and for new objects
2. Yes, for all regions
3. No, not for any region
4. Yes, but only for certain regions

10. Amazon S3 is which type of storage service?

1. Simple
2. Secure
3. Object
4. Block

11. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) does which of the following?

1. Provide a simple web services interface that customers can use to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the Web.
2. Provides a web service allowing customers to easily set up, operate and scale relational databases in the cloud.
3. Provides customers with an isolated section of the AWS cloud where they can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define.
4. Provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud.

12. What does RRS stand for when referring to the storage option in Amazon S3 that offers a lower level of durability at a lower storage cost?

1. Regulatory Resources Storage
2. Reduced Redundancy Storage
3. Reduced Reaction Storage
4. Redundant Research Storage

13. Amazon Web Services falls into which cloud-computing category?

1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
2. Back-end as a Service (BaaS)
3. Software as a Service (SaaS)
4. Platform as a Service (PaaS)

14. What is the maximum size of a single S3 object?

1. 5 GB
2. 100 GB
3. There is no such limit
4. 5 TB

15. Is data stored in S3 is always encrypted?

1. Yes, but only when right APIs are called
2. Yes, but only in Gov Cloud datacenters
3. Yes, S3 always encrypts data for security
4. No, there is no such feature