AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
ASSOCIATE TEST REVIEW Q&A
What does EBS stand for?
a. Energetic Block Storage
b. Elastic Based Storage
c. Equal Block Storage
d. Elastic Block Storage - Answer-d
True or False. You can conduct your own vulnerability scans within your own VPC
without alerting AWS first. - Answer-False
True or False. Reserved instances are available for multi-AZ deployments. - Answer-
True
True or False. Amazon's Glacier service is a Content Distribution Network which
integrates with S3. - Answer-False
MySQL installations default to port number
a. 1433
b. 3306
c. 3389
d. 80 - Answer-b
If an Amazon EBS volume is an additional partition (ie. not the root volume), can I
detach it without stopping the instance?
a. Yes, but it may take some time
b. No, you still need to stop the instance - Answer-a
Every user you create in the IAM system starts with ____
a. Full permissions
b. Partial permissions
c. No permissions - Answer-c
True or False. You can RDP or SSH into an RDS instance to see what is going on
with the operating system. - Answer-False
True or False. When creating a new security group, all inbound traffic is allowed by
default. - Answer-False
True or False. Amazon recommends that you leave all security groups in web facing
subnets open on port 22 to 0.0.0.0/0 CIDR, that way you can connect wherever you
are in the world. - Answer-False
, What are the 4 level of AWS premium support?
a. It's an IAAS platform, there sis no support
b. Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold
c. Basic, Startup, Business, Enterprise
d. Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise - Answer-d
True or False. As the AWS is PCI DSS 1.00 compliant, I can immediately deploy a
website to it that takes credit card details. I do not need any kind of delta
accreditation from a QSA. - Answer-False
To help manage your Amazon EC2 instances, you can assign you own metadata in
the form of
a. Wildcards
b. Certificates
c. Tags
d. Notes - Answer-c
Which statement best describes Availability Zones
a. Content distribution network which is used to distribute content to users
b. A restricted area designed specifically for creating VPCs
c. Two zones containing compute resources that are designed to maintain
synchronized copies of data within each other
d. Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated
from failures - Answer-d
True or False. The service to allow Big Data Processing on the AWS platform is
known as AWS "Elastic Big Data". - Answer-False
Individual instances are provisioned in
a. Regions only, you cannot choose anything below this
b. Availability Zones
c. Global - Answer-b
True or False. When using a custom VPC and placing an EC2 instance into a public
subnet, it will automatically be internet accessible (ie. you don't need to apply an
elastic IP or ELB to the instance). - Answer-False
What is the underlying Hypervisor for EC2?
a. Hyper-V
b. ESX
c. Xen
d. OVM - Answer-c
True or False. The AWS platform is certified PCI DSS 1.0 compliant. - Answer-True
ASSOCIATE TEST REVIEW Q&A
What does EBS stand for?
a. Energetic Block Storage
b. Elastic Based Storage
c. Equal Block Storage
d. Elastic Block Storage - Answer-d
True or False. You can conduct your own vulnerability scans within your own VPC
without alerting AWS first. - Answer-False
True or False. Reserved instances are available for multi-AZ deployments. - Answer-
True
True or False. Amazon's Glacier service is a Content Distribution Network which
integrates with S3. - Answer-False
MySQL installations default to port number
a. 1433
b. 3306
c. 3389
d. 80 - Answer-b
If an Amazon EBS volume is an additional partition (ie. not the root volume), can I
detach it without stopping the instance?
a. Yes, but it may take some time
b. No, you still need to stop the instance - Answer-a
Every user you create in the IAM system starts with ____
a. Full permissions
b. Partial permissions
c. No permissions - Answer-c
True or False. You can RDP or SSH into an RDS instance to see what is going on
with the operating system. - Answer-False
True or False. When creating a new security group, all inbound traffic is allowed by
default. - Answer-False
True or False. Amazon recommends that you leave all security groups in web facing
subnets open on port 22 to 0.0.0.0/0 CIDR, that way you can connect wherever you
are in the world. - Answer-False
, What are the 4 level of AWS premium support?
a. It's an IAAS platform, there sis no support
b. Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold
c. Basic, Startup, Business, Enterprise
d. Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise - Answer-d
True or False. As the AWS is PCI DSS 1.00 compliant, I can immediately deploy a
website to it that takes credit card details. I do not need any kind of delta
accreditation from a QSA. - Answer-False
To help manage your Amazon EC2 instances, you can assign you own metadata in
the form of
a. Wildcards
b. Certificates
c. Tags
d. Notes - Answer-c
Which statement best describes Availability Zones
a. Content distribution network which is used to distribute content to users
b. A restricted area designed specifically for creating VPCs
c. Two zones containing compute resources that are designed to maintain
synchronized copies of data within each other
d. Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated
from failures - Answer-d
True or False. The service to allow Big Data Processing on the AWS platform is
known as AWS "Elastic Big Data". - Answer-False
Individual instances are provisioned in
a. Regions only, you cannot choose anything below this
b. Availability Zones
c. Global - Answer-b
True or False. When using a custom VPC and placing an EC2 instance into a public
subnet, it will automatically be internet accessible (ie. you don't need to apply an
elastic IP or ELB to the instance). - Answer-False
What is the underlying Hypervisor for EC2?
a. Hyper-V
b. ESX
c. Xen
d. OVM - Answer-c
True or False. The AWS platform is certified PCI DSS 1.0 compliant. - Answer-True
