Knowledge Check

AWS Auto Scaling and Monitoring Quiz

Question 1

Which of the following AWS tools help your application scale up or down based on demand? (Choose two.)

Availability Zones
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ✓
AWS CloudFormation
Elastic Load Balancing ✓
AWS Config

Question 2

Which service would you use to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms? (Select the best answer.)

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ✓
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon Route 53

Question 3

Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling? (Choose three.)

Only supports dynamic scaling
Responds to changing conditions by adding or terminating instances ✓
Delivers push notifications
Launches instances from a specified Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ✓
Enforces a minimum number of running Amazon EC2 instances ✓

Question 4

Which of the following must be configured on an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer to expect incoming traffic? (Select the best answer.)

A port
A network interface
A listener ✓
An instance

Question 5

Which of the following elements are used to create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launch configuration? (Choose three.)

Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ✓
Load balancer
Instance type ✓
Virtual private cloud (VPC) and subnets
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes ✓

Question 6

Which of the following services can help you collect important metrics from Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances? (Select the best answer.)

Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudWatch ✓
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Question 7

Which of the following are elements of an Auto Scaling group? (Choose three.)

Minimum size ✓
Health checks
Desired capacity ✓
Maximum size ✓

Question 8

There is an audit at your company and they need to have a log of all access to AWS resources in the account. Which of the following services can assist in providing these details? (Select the best answer.)

Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail ✓
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Question 9

In Elastic Load Balancing, when the load balancer detects an unhealthy target, which of the following are true? (Choose three.)

Stops routing traffic to that target ✓
Triggers an alarm
Resumes routing traffic when it detects that the target is healthy again ✓
Resumes routing traffic when manually restarted
Routes traffic to a healthy target ✓

Question 10

What are the three types of load balancers that Elastic Load Balancing offers?

Internet Load Balancer
Application Load Balancer ✓
Network Load Balancer ✓
Compute Load Balancer
Classic Load Balancer ✓
Auto Scaling Load Balancer