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 Q31. Which AWS services would you use if you have find a cheapest solution for an analytics application ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Computation

Spot Price Plan
F1 or P3 Instance Type
Cold Hdd (SCI ) EBS Volume

Storage

S3-IA

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 Q32. Can a EC2 instance have multiple Security Groups ? Can a single security group be assigned to multiple Ec2 instances ? If either of them is true , doesn't it result in conflict ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. We can assign multiple security groups to single instance and we can use single security group with multiple instances.

It never results in conflict as security groups only have allow rules and no deny rules. Multiple security groups for an instance results in union of all rules.

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 Q33. Can we deny access for particular IP using Security Groups ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. No, We can do that through ACL

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 Q34. Difference between S3 and EFS ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. S3 is object based whereas EFS is block based.

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 Q35. There is a server which is 90% full, I need to increase the space. How can I do it ?Server
Ans. Firstly ,we have removed old backup data from server after that we are checking which user consume high memory through df command.

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 Q36. What is Amazon S3 ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Amazon Simple Storage Service or S3 is object storage with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

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 Q37. In which cases using SOAP is preferred over REST ?Web Service
Ans. SOAP services are better in case we need to establish a formal and detail contract with the client or callers and hence suitable for

1. Services published for much wider unknown audience
2. Require large input payload
3. Requiring different level for authentication

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 Q38. What are the types of applications we can create using Elastic Beanstalk ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Web Server and Worker

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 Q39. Can you explain the integration between API Gateway and Lambda if we wish to develop services using these tools.Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. We can create API gateway and give the name of lambda function in order to be linked with lambda function, deploy the API and whenever request will be made from API it will directly be linked to lambda function to perform further process.

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  Q40. What are the types of authentication used in Web services ?Web Service
Ans. Encrypted User Name / Password
Encrypted Password within Cookie
Encrypted Tokens
IP
Client Certificates
Oauth

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 Q41. What would you do if you see an error thrown by a lambda function as "Access Denied" while doing something with S3 ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Just like people , AWS resources too have execution roles or permissions. Seems like in such a situation Lambda function may not have sufficient privileges to perform operations on S3. For example - The execution role of Lambda may just have read permissions on S3 and we may be trying to perform PutObject operation.

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 Q42. What is the use of Amazon Glacier?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Its a storage option provided by AWS which is even cheaper than S3. As the objects are archieved before saving, retrieval time is pretty bad.

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 Q43. What is AWS Storage Gateway?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. It's an on premise virtual appliance that can be used as cache to store s3 locally at customer site.

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 Q44. What are the drawbacks of using Spot EC2 instances ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. You cannot reserve the time slot and they can be made to use whenever they are available.

AWS can Terminate the EC2 instance on their own even if it's in use.

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 Q45. What is the use case for AWS Gateway cached , stored and VTL ? Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. AWS Cached - Low Availability than AWS Stored, Lower cost than AWS Stored

AWS Stored - High Availability, High Local Storage Cost

AWS VTL - S3 Used as Back up only.


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 Q46. What are the things to consider while provisioning computing in AWS ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Service ( EC2, Lambda etc )
AMI ( Operating System and Softwares )
Instance Type ( T,M, R etc )
EBS ( Volume Type , Size )
Price Class ( OnDemand, Dedicated etc )

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 Q47. 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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 Q48. What is a Volume Snapshot ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Snapshots are point in time copies of Volume.

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 Q49. 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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 Q50. 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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 Q51. 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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 Q52. 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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 Q53. 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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 Q54. Can we associate a single EFS volume with multiple EC2 instances ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Yes

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 Q55. 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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 Q56. 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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 Q57. 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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 Q58. 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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 Q59. 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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 Q60. What is mounting in AWS ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Attaching Volumes ( EBS / EFS ) on AWS Computing ( EC2, EKS )

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