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
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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
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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
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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.
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