CCP AWS Core Compute and Storage Services 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS service provides resizable virtual servers in the cloud?
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon EC2 (Correct answer)
- Amazon ECS
- AWS Fargate
Correct answer: Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) provides scalable, resizable virtual servers (instances) that you can configure with your choice of OS, CPU, memory, and storage.
Question 2: Which AWS compute service allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers, paying only when your code runs?
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon ECS
- AWS Lambda (Correct answer)
- Amazon Lightsail
Correct answer: AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events without requiring server management, billing only for compute time used.
Question 3: What is Amazon S3 primarily used for?
- Hosting relational databases
- Storing and retrieving any amount of object data from anywhere on the web (Correct answer)
- Running virtual machines
- Processing big data analytics
Correct answer: Storing and retrieving any amount of object data from anywhere on the web
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an object storage service that offers scalable, durable storage for any type of file or data object.
Question 4: What is the maximum object size you can store in Amazon S3?
- 1 GB
- 10 GB
- 100 GB
- 5 TB (Correct answer)
Correct answer: 5 TB
Amazon S3 supports individual objects up to 5 terabytes in size, and objects larger than 5 GB must be uploaded using the multipart upload API.
Question 5: Which AWS storage service provides block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances?
- Amazon S3
- Amazon EFS
- Amazon EBS (Correct answer)
- AWS Storage Gateway
Correct answer: Amazon EBS
Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) provides persistent block-level storage volumes that attach to EC2 instances and behave like hard drives.
Question 6: Which AWS service provides a fully managed, scalable, shared file system that can be mounted by multiple EC2 instances simultaneously?
- Amazon EBS
- Amazon S3
- Amazon EFS (Correct answer)
- Amazon FSx
Correct answer: Amazon EFS
Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is a scalable, managed NFS file system that can be mounted concurrently by thousands of EC2 instances.
CCP AWS Core Compute and Storage Services 1
Which AWS service provides resizable virtual servers in the cloud?