Test your knowledge of Amazon Web Services' content delivery service with this 10-question quiz.
By
- Katherine Martin,
Published: 21 Oct 2014
In this second installment of the AWS Storage Service Quiz Series we'll test your knowledge of Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery service that works in conjunction with other Amazon Web Services to provide developers with a simple way to distribute content to end users.
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Which of the following components of the Cloudfront service can be used to distribute content to users across the globe?
Answer :
- Amazon Edge locations
You’ve been asked to migrate 300 PB of data in one week. Which of the following solutions would you consider?
Answer :
- Use multiple snowball devices
A company is storing an access key [access key ID and secret access key] in a text file on a custom AMI. The company uses the access key to access DynamoDB tables from instances created from the AMI. The security team has mandated a more secure solution. Which solution will meet the security team’s mandate?
Answer :
- Create an IAM role with permissions to access the table, and launch all instances with the new role
An application saves the logs to an S3 bucket. A user wants to keep the logs for one month for troubleshooting purposes, and then purge the logs. What feature will enable this?
Answer :
- Configuring lifecycle configuration rules on the S3 bucket
You’ve been asked to migrate a static website onto AWS. You have been told that the solution should be cost-effective. Which of the following solutions would you consider?
Answer :
- Create a website using S3 static website hosting
A Solutions Architect is developing a document-sharing application and needs a storage layer. The storage should provide automatic support for versioning so that users can easily roll back to a previous version or recover a deleted account. Which AWS service will meet the above requirements?
Your company is planning to move to the AWS Cloud. You need to give a presentation on the cost perspective when moving existing resources to the AWS Cloud. When it comes to Amazon EC2, which of the following is an advantage when it comes to the cost perspective?
Answer :
- The ability to only pay for what you use
Your company is planning on moving to the AWS Cloud. Once the move to the Cloud is complete, they want to ensure that the right security settings are put in place. Which of the below tools can assist with Security compliance. Choose 2 answers from the options given below.
Answer :
- AWS Inspector
- AWS Trusted Advisor
There is a requirement to collect important metrics from AWS RDS and EC2 Instances. Which of the following services can help fulfill this requirement?
Answer :
- Amazon CloudWatch
Currently, your organization has an operational team that takes care of ID management in their on-premise data center. They now also need to manage users and groups created in AWS. Which of the following AWS tools would they need to use for performing this management function?
Answer :
- AWS Identity and Access Management [IAM]
Which of the following components of CloudFront service can be used to distribute content to users across the globe?
CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations.
What type of distribution is available for CloudFront?
AWS CloudFront supports two types of distributions: streaming and download. When a user requests static content with a CloudFront URL, the service finds the nearest edge location based on the request IP and caches the content in that location. All future requests from the same location will have reduced latency.
Which are the main components of CloudFront?
Let's take a look at some of the components of CloudFront..
Distributions. Distributions is the instantiation of CloudFront. ... .
Origins. ... .
Behaviors. ... .
Restrictions, Errors and Tags. ... .
AWS WAF [Web Application Firewall].
What is CloudFront distribution used for?
Amazon CloudFront provides a simple API that lets you: Distribute content with low latency and high data transfer rates by serving requests using a network of edge locations around the world.