What does Amazon RDS stand for?
D
Amazon RDS stands for Relational Database Service, which offers easy to scale and manage rela-tional databases on the Cloud.
It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database admin-istration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. Amazon RDS provides you six familiar database engines to choose from, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and
Microsoft SQL Server.
Reference:
http://aws.amazon.com/rds/
What does Amazon SES provide?
C
Amazon SES or Simple Email Service offers a transactional and highly scalable email service.
Amazon SES is an email platform that provides an easy, cost-effective way for you to send and re-ceive email using your own email addresses and domains. For example, you can send marketing emails such as special offers, transactional emails such as order confirmations, and other types of correspondence such as newsletters. When you use Amazon SES to receive mail, you can develop software solutions such as email auto responders, email unsubscribe systems, and applications that generate customer support tickets from incoming emails.
Reference:
http://aws.amazon.com/ses/
Pricing is ____ consumed for EC2 instances.
C
In AWS, you pay only for what you use.
EC2 pricing is per instance-second consumed, or per instance-hour consumed depending on the in-stance type and operating system for the AMI. For example, spot instances, reserved instances and on-demand instances are billed per-second, while Dedicated instances are billed per hour.
Linux instances can be billed per second, but Microsoft Windows instances are billed per hour.
Reference:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances-and-ebs-volumes/
What does Amazon SES stand for?
D
Amazon SES stands for Simple Email Service.
Amazon SES is an email platform that provides an easy, cost-effective way for you to send and re-ceive email using your own email addresses and domains. For example, you can send marketing emails such as special offers, transactional emails such as order confirmations, and other types of correspondence such as newsletters. When you use Amazon SES to receive mail, you can develop software solutions such as email autoresponders, email unsubscribe systems, and applications that generate customer support tickets from incoming emails.
Reference:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/Welcome.html
What is a "vault" in Amazon Glacier?
B
An Amazon Glacier vault is a container in which you can organize and manage your archives.
You store data in Amazon Glacier as an archive. Each archive is assigned a unique archive ID that can later be used to retrieve the data. An archive can represent a single file or you may choose to combine several files to be uploaded as a single archive. You upload archives into vaults. Vaults are collections of archives that you use to organize your data.
Reference:
http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_do_vaults_work
A user has launched five instances and have registered them with an ELB. How can the user add the sixth EC2 instance to the ELB?
B
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances.
You create a load balancer and register instances with the load balancer in one or more Availability Zones. The load balancer serves as a single point of contact for clients. This enables you to increase the availability of your application. You can add and remove EC2 instances from your load balancer as your needs change, without disrupting the overall flow of information.
Reference:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/SvcIntro.html
Which of the following programming languages is not supported by Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk?
D
AWS Elastic Beanstalk web server environment tiers support applications developed in Java,
PHP, .NET, Node.js, Python, and Ruby as well as different container types for each language.
Worker environments are supported for all platforms except .NET.
Reference:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/concepts.platforms.html
Amazon CloudFront is a ________.
B
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no minimum usage commitments.
Reference:
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
In EC2, what happens to the data in an instance store if an instance reboots (either intentionally or unintentionally)?
B
The data in an instance store persists only during the lifetime of its associated instance. If an in-stance reboots (intentionally or unintentionally), data in the instance store persists. However, data on instance store volumes is lost under the following circumstances.
Failure of an underlying drive -
The instance is stopped -
Terminating an instance -
Reference:
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.html
What does Amazon EC2 provide?
C
Amazon EC2 provides Virtual Server Hosting.
Reference:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
