AMAZON WEB SERVICES EXAM STUDY MATERIALS
QUESTION AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
1. **What is Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)?**
- A. A managed Hadoop framework for data processing
- B. A web service providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud
- C. A file storage service for EC2 instances
- D. A managed Docker container registry
**- ANSWER: B**
2. **What does Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) provide?**
- A. A platform for streaming data
- B. A managed Hadoop framework for processing large amounts of data
- C. A NoSQL database service
- D. A service for deploying and scaling web applications
**- ANSWER: B**
3. **What is Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?**
- A. A managed service for deploying Docker containers
- B. A data transport solution for large amounts of data
- C. A logically isolated section of the AWS cloud for launching AWS resources
- D. A monitoring service for AWS cloud resources
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**- ANSWER: C**
4. **What does Simple Storage Service (S3) provide?**
- A. A highly scalable, low-latency data storage infrastructure
- B. A fast NoSQL database service
- C. A secure, low-cost cloud storage for archiving data
- D. A file storage service for EC2 instances
**- ANSWER: A**
5. **What is DynamoDB?**
- A. A scalable, high-performance container management service
- B. A fast, flexible NoSQL database service with single-digit millisecond latency
- C. A service for deploying and scaling web applications
- D. A managed service for data archiving
**- ANSWER: B**
6. **What does EC2 Container Service (ECS) provide?**
- A. A managed service for Elasticsearch
- B. A scalable service for Docker containers on EC2 instances
- C. A managed Hadoop framework for data processing
- D. A service for stream processing of data
**- ANSWER: B**
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7. **What is Elastic Block Store (EBS)?**
- A. A highly scalable file storage service
- B. Persistent block-level storage for EC2 instances
- C. A service for data archiving
- D. A compute service that runs code in response to events
**- ANSWER: B**
8. **What does Lambda do?**
- A. Provides persistent block-level storage for EC2
- B. Runs code in response to events and manages compute resources automatically
- C. Scales applications automatically based on demand
- D. Creates and manages collections of related AWS resources
**- ANSWER: B**
9. **What is Elastic Beanstalk used for?**
- A. Data migration to AWS
- B. Deploying and scaling web applications and services
- C. Managing and operating in-memory caches
- D. Building and running background jobs
**- ANSWER: B**
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10. **What does CloudFormation do?**
- A. Automates code deployments to any instance
- B. Creates and manages related AWS resources in a predictable fashion
- C. Monitors AWS cloud resources and applications
- D. Deploys and scales session-based multiplayer games
**- ANSWER: B**
11. **What is CloudFront?**
- A. A global CDN that accelerates the delivery of web content
- B. A service for securely managing encryption keys
- C. A managed service for Elasticsearch
- D. A cost-effective email service
**- ANSWER: A**
12. **What does Elastic File System (EFS) provide?**
- A. A highly scalable file storage service for EC2 instances
- B. A managed data pipeline service
- C. A container registry for Docker images
- D. A media transcoding service
**- ANSWER: A**
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