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 Q41. How have you configured Security Groups ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. AWS console >> security groups >> Create security group >> Configure security group bases on Network requirement of EC2 instance

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 Q42. What is a Volume Snapshot ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Snapshots are point in time copies of Volume.

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 Q43. Which of the Load balancer - Application / Network provides advanced features ? What is the use of other Load Balancer than if one provides advanced feature than other ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Application Load Balancer is high level ( Level 7 Networking Layer ) and provides better features and flexibility than Network Load Balancer ( Level 4 Network Layer )

Network Load Balancer is turn provides better performance as it regulates raw traffic.

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 Q44. What is the purpose of EC2 Health check ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. We can use this check for variety of things -

1. Monitoring the status / Alarms in case it's down
2. Regulating traffic to healthy instances only through Load Balancer

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 Q45. Difference between EFS and EBS ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Both EFS and EBS are block storage but EBS is reserved storage whereas EFS is On Demand.

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 Q46. Which AWS computing service provides IAAS, PAAS , Containerization and Serverless ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. EC2 is IAAS
Elastic Beanstalk is PAAS
EKS is Containerization service
Lambda is Serverless

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 Q47. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Lambda over EC2 ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Advantages -

Much Cheaper
Continuous scaling
Higher level and Serverless

Disadvantages -

Warm up time
Limited flexibility in terms of technologies
Limited control

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 Q48. Can we associate a single EFS volume with multiple EC2 instances ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Yes

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 Q49. What are the different trigger types in AWS Lambda ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Api Gateway
Alexa
CloudFront
CloudWatch
Code Commit
Kinesis
S3
SNS

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 Q50. Why AWS named the DNS service as Route 53 ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Route is for routing which is the purpose of DNS and Default port for DNS is 53

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 Q51. What happens to backups if we delete the RDS instance ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Automated Backups are deleted automatically whereas Snapshots are preserved. Upon terminating RDS instance , AWS gives a warning about that and requests to create a final snapshot before terminating the instance.

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 Q52. Describe best practices with respect to AWS security groups ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Configure it while creating EC2 instance only

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 Q53. How would you secure EC2, Volume and Snapshots in Cloud ? Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Adding more security group, it works like a firewall

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 Q54. What is mounting in AWS ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Attaching Volumes ( EBS / EFS ) on AWS Computing ( EC2, EKS )

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 Q55. Can we have internal or private ELB as origin in cloudfront ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. No, it should be public as cloudfront doesn't have a way to access private ELB.

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 Q56. Difference between NAT Instances and NAT GatewayAmazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. High bandwidth and availability in NAT Gateway
NAT Gateway is completely managed by AWS
NAT Gateway is auto scalable
NAT Instance is just like EC2 instance and hence backed by security group
NAT Instance can be used as bastion host whereas NAT Gateway cannot be.

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 Q57. Why would a cloud customer use resources in multiple regions and zones ?Cloud Computing
Ans. 1. Fault Tolerance
2. Better Access by bringing the application closer to the users.

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 Q58. What are system integrators in Cloud Computing?Cloud Computing
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 Q59. Difference between TCP and UDP ?Networking
Ans. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/key-differences-between-tcp-and-udp-protocols/

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 Q60. What is AWS or Amazon Web Services ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. These are the platforms or set of services provided by Amazon for cloud services , database storage , content delivery and other business applications and solutions.

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 Q61. What is Amazon EC2 ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 provides scalable computing capacity in the AWS cloud. It can be used to create Virtual Environments , storage and configure. EC2 enables to upgrade or downgrade infrastructure according to the rules defined ( with fluctuation in latency, traffic etc )

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 Q62. What is the difference between Elastic Compute Cloud and Elastic Beanstalk ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. EC2 is Amazon computing service whereas Elastic Beanstalk is the AWS service for deploying and managing web applications.

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 Q63. How do you check logs for your application in AWS ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. We can do it by either going to Elastic Beanstalk -> Respective instance -> Logs

or using CloudWatch -> Logs -> Respective Log Group

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 Q64. What is AWS CloudWatch ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources like Beanstalk and DB instances. We can use CloudWatch to monitor the state of resources, collect metrices, set alarms and appropriate response to the alarm state.

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 Q65. What is a shard in Kinesis stream ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. A shard is a uniquely identified group of data records in a stream or we can say that Shard is a partition in Kinesis stream. A shard supports a fixed bandwidth i.e fixed number of messages per second. The total capacity of the stream is the sum of the capacities of its shards. If the data rate changes, we can allocate / deallocate more shards to accommodate that.

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 Q66. What is the relationship between shard and partition key in kinesis stream ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. A partition key is used to group data by shard within a stream. A partition key identifies which shard the message belong to.

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 Q67. How can we know how many instances are currently in service within an Elastic Beanstalk environment ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. We can go to respective environment and check configuration and then scaling. It mentions that as current status like

Current status:

2 instance(s) in service, Min: 1, Max: 4


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 Q68. Which components of AWS are you using in your project ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. We are using EC2 and Lambda for computing, RDS for Database , S3 for Storage , SQS and Kinesis for streaming and queue and CloudWatch for monitoring.

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 Q69. What is the difference between Reserved and On Demand instance ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. On demand instance is normal instance means if you create first time so you can use on demand instance, in this instance you can create simple server like 2 gb RAM, 1 core CPU, GP2 30 GB SSD....etc.

and Reserved instance is you can create server and its reserved for 2-3 years and when you give back to this server on AWS they give you discount but on demand and reserved instance price are same.

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 Q70. What is EC2 and EC2 instance ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. EC2 is elastics compute cloud is one of the amazon service and ec2 instance is one type of virtual server which you create from AMI.

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