15 questions covering Global Infrastructure, EC2, Serverless, Containers, and Auto Scaling
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Compute Quiz
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1. A company must store user data within a specific country to comply with local regulations. Which AWS concept should they evaluate first when planning their deployment?
2. A startup runs a steady-state web application 24/7 and wants to minimize compute costs over the next year. Which EC2 purchasing option is most cost-effective?
3. A team needs to run an in-memory database that requires large amounts of RAM. Which EC2 instance family should they choose?
4. A developer needs a general-purpose boot volume for an EC2 instance with a balance of price and performance. Which Amazon EBS volume type is the best fit?
5. A workload requires a background process to run continuously for 45 minutes. Which AWS compute service is most appropriate?
6. A company currently runs Kubernetes on-premises and wants to migrate to AWS without changing their container orchestration tooling. Which service should they use?
7. A team wants to run Docker containers in production but does not want to provision or manage the underlying EC2 instances. Which option meets this requirement?
8. A developer wants to deploy a Python web application by uploading code and having AWS handle provisioning, load balancing, and automatic scaling. Which service is the best fit?
9. A gaming backend experiences sudden, volatile traffic spikes and must handle millions of TCP connections per second with ultra-low latency. Which load balancer should be used?
10. A company runs a microservices architecture and needs to route HTTP requests to different services based on the URL path. Which load balancer supports this?
11. An Auto Scaling group has a minimum size of 2, a desired capacity of 3, and a maximum size of 5. A scaling policy attempts to add 4 instances. How many instances will the group contain?
12. An e-commerce site experiences unpredictable traffic spikes throughout the day. Which scaling approach automatically responds to real-time demand changes?
13. A company wants to monitor the average CPU utilization of their EC2 fleet and automatically launch new instances when it exceeds 60% for 5 minutes. Which service triggers the scaling action?
14. A media company wants to cache video content close to users around the world to reduce latency. Which AWS infrastructure component enables this?
15. A machine learning team needs GPU acceleration to train deep learning models. Which EC2 instance family is purpose-built for this workload?
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Primary Source: AWS Academy Module 3: Global Infrastructure, Module 6: Compute, Module 10: Automatic Scaling and Monitoring.