Engineering Questions with Answers - Multiple Choice Questions
MCQs on Amazon Elastic Block Store
1 - Question
Which of the following tool is used for measuring I/O of your systems to estimate these transaction costs?
a) EBS
b) IOSTAT
c) ESW
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: EBS is a service priced on the amount of storage space used.
2 - Question
Point out the wrong statement.
a) The cost of creating an EBS volume is lesser than creating a similarly sized S3 bucket
b) An EBS volume can be used as an instance boot partition
c) EBS boot partitions can be stopped and started, and they offer fast AMI boot times
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: The cost of creating an EBS volume is also greater than creating a similarly sized S3 bucket.
3 - Question
Which of the following is also referred to edge computing?
a) CloudWave
b) CloudFront
c) CloudSpot
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: In edge computing, content is pushed out geographically so the data is more readily available to network clients and has a lower latency when requested.
4 - Question
CloudFront supports ______ data by performing static data transfers and streaming content from one CloudFront location to another.
a) table caching
b) geocaching
c) index caching
d) windows Media Server
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Answer: b
Explanation: A user requesting data from a CloudFront site is referred to the nearest geographical location.
5 - Question
Point out the correct statement.
a) A volume is mounted on a particular instance and is available to all instances
b) The advantages of an EBS boot partition are that you can have a volume up to 1TB
c) You cannot mount multiple volumes on a single instance
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: EBS is similar in concept to a Storage Area Network or SAN.
6 - Question
Data stored in __________ domains doesn’t require maintenance of a schema.
a) SimpleDB
b) SQL Server
c) Oracle
d) RDS
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Answer: a
Explanation: To create a high performance “simple” database, the data store created is flat; that is, it is non-relational and joins are not supported.
7 - Question
Which of the following is relational database service provided by Amazon?
a) SimpleDB
b) SQL Server
c) Oracle
d) RDS
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Answer: d
Explanation: Amazon offers two different types of database services.
8 - Question
Which of the following can be considered as a distributed caching system?
a) CND
b) CDN
c) CWD
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: Amazon CloudFront is referred to as a content delivery network (CDN), and sometimes called edge computing.
9 - Question
Amazon Relational Database Service is a variant of the _______ 5.1 database system.
a) Oracle
b) MySQL
c) SQL Server
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: The purpose of RDS is to allow database applications that already exist to be ported to RDS and placed in an environment that is relatively automated and easy to use.
10 - Question
Which of the following database should be used for a solution that has a very high availability?
a) SimpleDB
b) RDS
c) Amazon EC2
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: Use SimpleDB for the lowest administrative overhead.