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AWS Interview Questions and Answer Part – 15

How long can an SQS queue hold onto a message before it is automatically removed?

  • 14 days (Ans)
  • 24 hours
  • Unlimite
  • 1 hour

An SNS subscription must always be verified by a human recipient.

  • True
  • False (Ans)

An AWS Availability Zone is made up of distinct geographic Regions.

  • False (Ans)
  • True

Which of the following are AWS product categories?

  • Compute
  • Messaging
  • Database
  • Storage
  • All of the above (Ans)

Which of the following does an EC2 user NOT pay for?

  • Simple load balancing
  • Basic monitoring (Ans)
  • Instance hour charges
  • OUtbuond data transfer

Developers who provision AWS services may be responsible for:

  • Choosing size of storage
  • All of the above (Ans)
  • Opening ports for access
  • Securing the service

In order for S3 objects to be encrypted, AWS users must upload objects in encrypted format.

  • True
  • False (Ans)

The AWS RDS service supports which of the following underlying database technologies?

  • BerkeleyDB
  • Oracle DB (Ans)
  • IBM DB2
  • IBM DB1

All AWS services provide options for SOAP or REST access.

  • False (Ans)
  • True

How can a “path” property of an IAM user be used?

  • Setting the “path” will automatically provision users into IAM groups
  • The “path” sets the security permissions for the given user.
  • During search, “path” can be used to constrain the results (Ans)

The term commonly used to describe the fact that S3 functions are not atomic is:

  • CAP Exception
  • Slow moving updates
  • Eventual consistency (Ans)
  • delay synchronization

SimpleDB supports which of the following capabilities?

  • All of the above (Ans)
  • Durable storage
  • Elastic storage that grows automatically (up to 10GB)
  • Schema-less data structure

When SQS queue messages are read, they are automatically deleted from the queue.

  • True
  • False (Ans)

SNS Topics do NOT support which of the following capabilities?

  • Content based routing rules (Ans)
  • Bulk message distribution
  • Different security options for the publisher and subscriber of messages
  • Distribution of messages via text messaging

AWS provides services that are typically classified as:

  • Platform as a Service
  • None of the above
  • Infrastructure as a Service (Ans)
  • Data as a Service

EC2 Security Groups provide what function?

  • Defining users and roles that can log into an Instance
  • Defines which ports are not available on the Instance
  • Opening ports for selecting IP addresses (Ans)

AWS users who want to store PDF documents would use which service?

  • SNS
  • S3 (Ans)
  • CloudFormation
  • IAM

Which AWS service is best for applications that want to have information pushed to them?

  • SPS
  • SNS (Ans)
  • SQS
  • DynamoDB

An EC2 AMI instance can be launched by:

  • Leveragin the AWS Ticket Service to make a request for an AWS engineer
  • Using the Management Console in a self-service fashion (Ans)

Which of the following data types can be specified in DynamoDB?

  • Character
  • Long
  • String (Ans)
  • DateTime

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