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AWS

AWS Interview Questions and Answer Part – 11

January 11, 2020 comments off

What kind of rules do Network Access Control Lists (NACLs) provide?

  • Outbound allow and deny rules
  • Inbound allow and deny rules
  • Inbound and outbound allow rules
  • Inbound and outbound allow and deny rules (Ans)

How can you make a VPC Peering connection highly available (HA)?

  • You can pay more to purchase a highly available version of a VPC Peering connection
  • You can configure multiple VPC Peering connections between two VPCs for HA
  • They are automatically highly available (Ans)

Which are the most isolated – Regions or Availability Zones (AZ)?

  • Regions (Ans)
  • Availability Zones

Which of the following is true of Direct Connect?

A – It allows access to VPC resources using private IP addresses via a secure tunnel over the Internet
B – It allows access to VPC resources using private IP addresses but is not preferred over VPN tunnels
C – It allows access to VPC resources using private IP addresses and is preferred over VPN tunnels (Ans)

What was a major factor in the inception of Amazon Web Services?

  • The ability to leverage Amazon’s existing web-scale infrastructure (Ans)
  • The rise to popularity of the Docker container engine
  • A response to Microsoft Azure

True or false, an ELB can be configured to accept incoming HTTPS connections and forward them internally as normal HTTP?

  • True (Ans)
  • False

Which of the following is a valid subnet in a VPC with the following CIDR block – 192.168.0.0/16?

  • 192.0.1.0/24
  • 10.0.0.0/16
  • – 192.168.1.0/24 (Ans)
  • 10.0.0.0/2

How do you create a Router in your VPC?

  • Using the AWS CLI tools
  • A router is automatically created for your VPC (Ans)
  • From the Router-Config page in the VPC console

What AWS component is an Internet Gateway associated with?

  • Availability Zone
  • Subnet
  • Region
  • VPC (Ans)

At what level are Network ACLs applied?

  • EC2 Instances
  • VPCs
  • Availability Zones
  • Subnets (Ans)

Which AWS resource is a VPC bound by?

  • A single Region (Ans)
  • A VPC can span all AWS resources
  • A single Availability Zone
  • A single Subnet

How long does a VPC Peering request remain active?

  • 28 days
  • 7 days (Ans)
  • 1 hour
  • 1 day

Which protocol suite is used to encrypt most VPN tunnels?

  • Secure DNS
  • IPX/SPX
  • IPsec (Ans)
  • NetBIOS

What is the network portion of the following CIDR block – 10.0.0.0/24?

  • 10.0
  • 10
  • 10.0.0.0
  • 10.0.0 (Ans)

What form of address translation does the Amazon NAT AMI perform?

  • Port Address Translation (PAT) (Ans)
  • Route Address Translation (RAT)
  • CIDR Address Translation (CAT)
  • Network Address Translation (NAT)

Which of the following best describes an AWS Elastic Load Balancer?

  • A service that balances incoming traffic across multiple instances and Regions
  • A service that balances incoming traffic across multiple instances in a single Availability Zone
  • A service that balances incoming traffic across multiple instances and Availability Zones (Ans)
  • A service that balances incoming traffic across multiple instances and VPCs

What kind of Elastic Load Balancers can be created?

  • Only internal
  • Internet facing and internal (Ans)
  • Only Internet facing

Which AWS VPC component is required to allow instances in a private subnet to communicate with the Internet?

  • An Internet gateway in the private subnet
  • A NAT instance in the private subnet
  • An Internet gateway in the public subnet
  • A NAT instance in the public subnet (Ans)

Which of the following is true of the behavior of Security Groups?

  • Explicit deny rules are required to deny traffic
  • All traffic not explicitly denied is implicitly allowed
  • Any traffic not explicitly allowed is implicitly denied (Ans)

What is the major advantage of Elastic IPs over Public IPs?

  • Elastic IPs are publicly routable, Public IPs are not
  • Elastic IPs belong to you and do not change when an instance reboots (Ans)
  • Elastic IPs allow you to manually choose a particular address from the pool of Amazon addresses

What is the acronym used in the AWS GUI to represent VPC Peering connection objects?

  • PCX (Ans)
  • VGW
  • PGW
  • IGW

Which AWS technology is used to connect multiple VPCs so they can communicate using private IPs?

  • VPC Peering (Ans)
  • Direct Connect
  • Virtual Private Networks
  • Elastic Load Balancing
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