AWS

 

AWS INTERVIEW QUESTION

 Q1) What is AWS? 

Answer: AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. AWS is a platform that provides on-demand resources for hosting web services, storage, networking, databases and other resources over the internet with a pay-as-you-go pricing.

Q2) What is an EIP? 

 Answer: EIP stands for Elastic IP address. It is designed for dynamic cloud computing. When you want to have a static IP address for your instances when you stop and restart your instances, you will be using EIP address. 

Q3) What are key-pairs?

 Answer: Key-pairs are secure login information for your instances/virtual machines. To connect to the instances we use key-pairs that contain a public-key and private-key

Q4) What is S3?

Answer:S3 stands for Simple Storage Service. It is a storage service that provides an interface that you can use to store any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere in the world. With S3 you pay only for what you use and the payment model is pay-as-you-go. 

Q5) What are the pricing models for EC2instances?

Answer: The different pricing model for EC2 instances are as below, 

• On-demand • Reserved • Spot • Scheduled • Dedicated 

Q6) What are the types of volumes for EC2 instances?

 Answer: There are two types of volumes, 

 Instance store volumes 

 EBS – Elastic Block Stores 

Q7) What are EBS volumes?

 Answer: EBS stands for Elastic Block Stores. They are persistent volumes that you can attach to the instances. With EBS volumes, your data will be preserved even when you stop your instances, unlike your instance store volumes where the data is deleted when you stop the instances. 

Q8) What are the types of volumes in EBS? 

 Answer: Following are the types of volumes in EBS,

 • General purpose 

 • Provisioned IOPS 

 • Magnetic 

 • Cold HDD 

 • Throughput optimized

Q9) What are the different types of instances?

 Answer: Following are the types of instances, 

 • General purpose 

 • Computer Optimized 

 • Storage Optimized 

 • Memory Optimized 

 • Accelerated Computing 

Q10) What is an auto-scaling and what are the components? 

 Answer: Auto scaling allows you to automatically scale-up and scale-down the number of instances depending on the CPU utilization or memory utilization. There are 2 components in Auto scaling, they are Auto-scaling groups and Launch Configuration.

Q11)What is an AMI?

 Answer: AMI stands for Amazon Machine Image. AMI is a template that contains the software configurations, launch permission and a block device mapping that specifies the volume to attach to the instance when it is launched.

Q12) What is Cloudwatch? 

 Answer: Cloudwatch is a monitoring tool that you can use to monitor your various AWS resources. Like health check, network, Application.

Q13) What are the types in cloudwatch? 

 Answer: There are 2 types in cloudwatch. Basic monitoring and detailed monitoring. Basic monitoring is free and detailed monitoring is chargeable. 

Q14) What are the cloudwatch metrics that are available for EC2 instances? 

 Answer: Diskreads, Diskwrites, CPU utilization, networkpacketsIn, networkpacketsOut, networkIn, networkOut, CPUCreditUsage, CPUCreditBalance. 

Q15) What is the minimum and maximum size of individual objects that you can store in S3 

 Answer: The minimum size of individual objects that you can store in S3 is 0 bytes and the maximum bytes that you can store for individual objects is 5TB.

Q16) What is the default storage class in S3? 

 Answer: The default storage class in S3 in Standard frequently accessed.

Q17) What is glacier?

 Answer: Glacier is the back up or archival tool that you use to back up your data in S3.

Q18) How can you secure the access to your S3 bucket?

 Answer: There are two ways that you can control the access to your S3 buckets, 

     • ACL – Access Control List 

     • Bucket police

Q19) How can you encrypt data in S3?

 Answer: You can encrypt the data by using the below methods,

     • Server Side Encryption – S3 (AES 256 encryption) 

     • Server Side Encryption – KMS (Key management Service)

     • Server Side Encryption – C (Client Side) 

Q20) What are the parameters for S3 pricing? 

 Answer: The pricing model for S3 is as below,

     • Storage used 

     • Number of requests you make 

     • Storage management 

     • Data transfer 

     • Transfer acceleration

Q21) What is the pre-requisite to work with Cross region replication in S3? 

 Answer: You need to enable versioning on both source bucket and destination to work with cross region replication. Also both the source and destination bucket should be in different region.

Q22) What are roles?

Answer: Roles are used to provide permissions to entities that you trust within your AWS account. Roles are users in another account. Roles are similar to users but with roles you do not need to create any username and password to work with the resources

Q23) What are policies and what are the types of policies? 

Answer: Policies are permissions that you can attach to the users that you create. These policies will contain that access that you have provided to the users that you have created. 

There are 2 types of policies. 

     • Managed policies 

     • Inline policies 

Q24) What is cloudfront? 

 Answer: Cloudfront is an AWS web service that provided businesses and application developers an easy and efficient way to distribute their content with low latency and high data transfer speeds. Cloudfront is content delivery network of AWS.

Q25) What are edge locations? 

 Answer: Edge location is the place where the contents will be cached. When a user tries to access some content, the content will be searched in the edge location. If it is not available then the content will be made available from the origin location and a copy will be stored in the edge location. 

Q26) What is VPC? 

 Answer: VPC stands for Virtual Private Cloud. VPC allows you to easily customize your networking configuration. VPC is a network that is logically isolated from other network in the cloud. It allows you to have your own IP address range, subnets, internet gateways, NAT gateways and security groups.

Q27) What is VPC peering connection? 

 Answer: VPC peering connection allows you to connect 1 VPC with another VPC. Instances in these VPC behave as if they are in the same network.

Q28) What are NAT gateways? 

 Answer: NAT stands for Network Address Translation. NAT gateways enables instances in a private subnet to connect to the internet but prevent the internet from initiating a connection with those instances.

Q29) What are the database types in RDS?

 Answer: Following are the types of databases in RDS, 

         • Aurora • Oracle • MYSQL server • Postgresql • MariaDB • SQL server 

Q30) What is SNS? 

 Answer: SNS stands for Simple Notification Service. SNS is a web service that makes it easy to notifications from the cloud. You can set up SNS to receive email notification or message notification.

Q31) What are the types of routing polices in route53? 

 Answer: Following are the types of routing policies in route53, 

     • Simple routing 

     • Latency routing 

     • Failover routing 

     • Geolocation routing 

     • Weighted routing 

     • Multivalue answer