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Check what you have learned in this AWS tutorial. Choose an answer for each question to see if you are right.

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Topic	Chapter
Cloud basics	Introduction
Account and free tier	Account
Servers	EC2
Storage	S3
Permissions	IAM
Databases	RDS and DynamoDB
Serverless	Lambda

Questions

Exercise

Which statement best describes cloud computing?

Buying servers and keeping them in your officeRenting computing resources over the internet and paying for what you useStoring files only on a USB driveUsing a computer without electricity

Exercise

What is an AWS Availability Zone?

A country where AWS sells servicesA separate data centre (or group of data centres) inside a regionA discount planA type of EC2 instance

Exercise

Which user should you NOT use for daily work?

The root userAn IAM user in the developers groupAn IAM user with read-only accessA user with MFA turned on

Exercise

Which AWS service gives you a virtual server where you can install your own software?

S3LambdaEC2DynamoDB

Exercise

What happens when you terminate an EC2 instance?

It pauses and can be started again laterIt is deleted permanentlyIt moves to another regionIt becomes free tier

Exercise

Which command uploads a file to an S3 bucket?

aws s3 mb report.pdfaws s3 cp report.pdf s3://my-bucket/report.pdfaws ec2 upload report.pdfaws s3 rb s3://my-bucket

Exercise

What does the principle of least privilege mean?

Give every user administrator access to save timeGive each user or service only the permissions it needsUse the cheapest AWS regionUse the smallest instance type

Exercise

What is the safest way for an EC2 instance to read files from S3?

Save the root user's access keys on the serverMake the bucket publicAttach an IAM role with S3 read permission to the instanceEmail the files to the server

Exercise

A school app has students, classes and fees with many relations, and the team knows SQL. Which database fits best?

Amazon RDSAmazon DynamoDBAmazon S3AWS Lambda

Exercise

Which statement about AWS Lambda is true?

You must choose and patch the operating systemYou pay for every hour, even when the function is not runningYour code runs in response to events and you pay only for the time it runsIt can only run Java code

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