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Q1. What is mounting in AWS ?

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Ans. Attaching Volumes ( EBS / EFS ) on AWS Computing ( EC2, EKS )

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Q2. What is the limit for Ec2 SSH sessions ?

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Ans. Max sessions limit is defined in sshd_config. Default is set to 10 but can be overridden.

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Q3. Difference between EC2 and S3 ?

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Ans. Ec2 is a computing service whereas S3 is a object based storage.

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Q4. Can you explain what are NAT instances and what are they used for ?

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Ans. If instances in private subnet need to access internet without exposing the IP address to outside world , we use Nat gateway or nat instance. So there is a direct outbound traffic but not direct inbound traffic.

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Q5. How would you secure EC2, Volume and Snapshots in Cloud ?

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Ans. Adding more security group, it works like a firewall

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Q6. What is the use case of AWS Placement Group ?

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Ans. Computing that would require high network throughput and low latency within a single availability zone.

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Q7. Can we attach single volume to multiple Ec2 instances ?

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Ans. Yes EFS volumes but not EBS

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Q8. Can we associate a single EFS volume with multiple EC2 instances ?

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Ans. Yes

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Q9. Can we associate a single EBS volume with multiple EC2 instances ?

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Ans. No

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Q10. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Lambda over EC2 ?

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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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Q11. Are you using Auto Scaling for your EC2 instances ? How have you configured Auto scaling policy ?

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Ans. yes, you can create auto scaling policy to set max and min no of instance.

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Q12. What is the purpose of EC2 Health check ?

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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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Q13. Can we modify volume while attached EC2 is running ?

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Ans. Yes, except Magnetic standard

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Q14. Can we have EC2 and EBS in different availability zones or regions ?

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Ans. No, they need to be local

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Q15. 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 ?

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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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Q16. Which AWS service can be used to monitor EC2 ?

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Ans. CloudWatch

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Q17. What is the difference between EC2 System status check and Instance status check ?

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Ans. System status check is to check if the power or network is working whereas Instance status check goes further and make sure that traffic is going through.

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Q18. Can we protect EC2 instances from terminating accidentally ?

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Ans. Yes

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Q19. Difference between EC2 instance public and private key ?

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Ans. public key is used for locking whereas private key is used for unlocking. public key can be used for locking multiple instances and hence can be shared.

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Q20. Does attached EBS volume get deleted if we terminate EC2 instance ?

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Ans. By default, Root volume gets terminated whereas additional volume doesn't.

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Q21. Can we change the instance Type while it's running ?

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Ans. No

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Q22. Which is the most common EC2 instance Type ?

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Ans. T and M

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Q23. What are the factors on which price classes are based on in case of EC2, S3, CloudFront and EBS ?

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Ans. EC2 - Time and Reservation , Instance Type ( Memory , Computation power )
S3 - Accessibility Frequency , Data Transfer , Storage Space
CloudFront - Geography, No of Locations
EBS - IOPS, Access Frequency

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Q24. What are the drawbacks of using Spot EC2 instances ?

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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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Q25. What are the different EC2 instance types ?

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Ans. F,I,G,H,T,D,R,M,C,P,X

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Q26. Which is the cheapest EC2 instance type ?

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Ans. T

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Q27. Which EC2 instance type should be used if the application is memory intensive ?

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Ans. R4

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Q28. Which AWS services would you use if you have find a cheapest solution for an analytics application ?

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Ans. Computation

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

Storage

S3-IA

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Q29. What EC2 configuration would you use if you have to use it for Bitcoin mining ?

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Ans. Keeping Low cost for processing , i would choose

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

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Q30. What are the different price options available for EC2 ?

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Ans. On Demand
Reserved
Spot
Dedicated Host

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