AWS MCQ Questions & Answers
This section focuses on Amazon Web Services (AWS). These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) should be practiced to improve the Cloud Computing skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placements, entrance exams and other competitive examinations.
1. In which year, Amazon Web Services founded?
A. 2005
B. 2006
C. 2007
D. 2008
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Ans : B
Explanation: Amazon Web Services Founded in 2006
2. EC2 stands for ?
A. Elastic Compute Cloud
B. Elastic Configuration Cloud
C. Elastic Cloud Configuration
D. Elastic Cloud Compute
View Answer
Ans : A
Explanation: EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud.
3. Which of the following simply means to hardware or software load over web servers, that improver's the efficiency of the server as well as the application?
A. Amazon Cloud-front
B. Elastic Load Balancer
C. Load Balancing
D. Security Management
View Answer
Ans : C
Explanation: Load balancing simply means to hardware or software load over web servers, that improver's the efficiency of the server as well as the application.
4. Which of the following dynamically grow and shrink the load-balancing capacity to adjust to traffic demands?
A. Amazon Cloud-front
B. Elastic Caches
C. Amazon RDS
D. Elastic Load Balancing
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Ans : D
Explanation: Elastic Load Balancing can dynamically grow and shrink the load-balancing capacity to adjust to traffic demands and also support sticky sessions to address more advanced routing needs.
5. Simple Storage Service use for?
A. It allows the users to store and retrieve various types of data using API calls.
B. It does contain computing element.
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
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Ans : A
Explanation: S3 stands for Simple Storage Service. It allows the users to store and retrieve various types of data using API calls. It doesn’t contain any computing element.
6. Amazon S3 stores data as objects within resources called ?
A. Auto Scaling
B. EC2 Instances
C. Buckets
D. Amazon RDS
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Ans : C
Explanation: Amazon S3 stores data as objects within resources called buckets
7. Amazon EBS currently supports up to ________ IOPS per volume
A. 10
B. 100
C. 1000
D. 10000
View Answer
Ans : C
Explanation: Amazon EBS currently supports up to 1,000 IOPS per volume. We can stripe multiple volumes together to deliver thousands of IOPS per instance to an application.
8. Amazon EBS volumes can be maximized up to ?
A. 1 TB
B. 2 TB
C. 3 TB
D. 4 TB
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Ans : A
Explanation: Amazon EBS volumes can be maximized up to 1 TB, and these volumes can be striped for larger volumes and increased performance.
9. Which of the following is not used for load balancing?
A. Zeus
B. HAProxy
C. Nginx
D. OpenSwan
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Ans : D
Explanation: For load balancing choose Zeus, HAProxy, Nginx, Pound, etc. For establishing a VPN connection choose OpenVPN, OpenSwan, Vyatta, etc.
10. Which of the following is a web service that manages the memory cache in the cloud?
A. Amazon Elastic Cache
B. Amazon RDS
C. RDMS on EC2
D. Auto Scaling
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Ans : A
Explanation: Amazon Elastic Cache is a web service that manages the memory cache in the cloud. In memory management, cache has a very important role and helps to reduce the load on the services, improves the performance and scalability on the database tier by caching frequently used information.
11. Point out the wrong statement.
A. Amazon Machine Instances are sized at various levels and rented on a computing/hour basis
B. The metrics obtained by CloudWatch may be used to enable a feature called Auto Scaling
C. A number of tools are used to support EC2 services
D. None of the above
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Ans : D
Explanation: Through hardware virtualization on Xen hypervisors, Amazon.com has made it possible to create private virtual servers that you can run worldwide.
12. Which of the following is an edge-storage or content-delivery system that caches data in different physical locations?
A. Amazon Relational Database Service
B. Amazon SimpleDB
C. Amazon Cloudfront
D. Amazon Associates Web Services
View Answer
Ans : C
Explanation: Explanation: Cloudfront is similar to systems such as Akamai.com, but is proprietary to Amazon.com and is set up to work with Amazon Simple Storage
13. Which of the following allows you to create instances of the MySQL database to support your Web sites?
A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
B. Amazon Simple Queue Service
C. Amazon Relational Database Service
D. Amazon Simple Storage System
View Answer
Ans : C
Explanation: RDS provides features such as automated software patching, database backups, and automated database scaling via an API call.
14. Point out the correct statement.
A. Amazon Elastic Cloud is a system for creating virtual disks(volume)
B. SimpleDB interoperates with both Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3
C. EC3 is an Analytics as a Service provider
D. None of the above
View Answer
Ans : B
Explanation: Amazon SimpleDB stores data in “buckets” and without requiring the creation of a database schema.
15. Which of the following is a structured data store that supports indexing and data queries to both EC2 and S3?
A. CloudWatch
B. Amazon SimpleDB
C. Amazon Cloudfront
D. All of the above
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Ans : B
Explanation: SimpleDB isn’t a full database implementation.
16. Which of the following is built on top of a Hadoop framework using the Elastic Compute Cloud?
A. Amazon Elastic MapReduce
B. Amazon Mechanical Turk
C. Amazon DevPay
D. Multi-Factor Authentication
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Ans : A
Explanation: Amazon Elastic MapReduce is an interactive data analysis tool for performing indexing
17. _________________ is a billing and account management service.
A. Amazon Mechanical Turk
B. Amazon Elastic MapReduce
C. Amazon DevPay
D. Multi-Factor Authentication
View Answer
Ans : C
Explanation: Amazon DevPay is a billing and account management service..
18. Which of the following is a system for creating block-level storage devices that can be used for Amazon Machine Instances in EC2?
A. CloudWatch
B. Amazon Elastic Block Store
C. AWS Import/Export
D. None of the above
View Answer
Ans : B
Explanation: Amazon Elastic Block Store is correct answer
19. Which of the following is Amazon’s technical support and consulting business?
A. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
B. AWS Premium Support
C. Amazon Fulfillment Web Services
D. All of the above
View Answer
Ans : B
Explanation: AWS Premium Support is Amazon’s technical support and consulting business.
20. What is a virtual server platform that allows users to create and run virtual machines on Amazon’s server farm?
A. Azure
B. EC2
C. EC3
D. EC5
View Answer
Ans : B
Explanation: EC2 is a virtual server platform that allows users to create and run virtual machines on Amazon’s server farm.
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