OSI Layers
AWS Infrastructure
Network Cables
AWS Services
Network Scenario
100

This OSI layer is responsible for physical transmission of bits.

What is the Physical Layer?

100

This AWS infrastructure component is a separate geographic area such as us-east-1.

What is the Region?

100

This cable uses light pulses instead of electrical signals.

What is the Fiber-optic?

100

This AWS service provides virtual servers.

What is the EC2?

100

A PC cannot access the network, and its Ethernet cable is unplugged. This is the first thing you should check.

What is Check the physical connection?

200

This layer uses IP addresses to route packets between networks.

What is the Network Layer?

200

These isolated networks are called Availability Zones.

What is the Availability Zone?

200

This common Ethernet cable type uses twisted copper pairs and an RJ-45 connector.

What is the Cat5e/Cat6 Ethernet?

200

This service provides scalable object storage.

What is the S3?

200

Two computers are communicating over a network, and the connection needs to be established, maintained, and properly ended after the communication is complete. Which OSI layer is responsible for managing this communication session?

What is the Session Layer (Layer 5)?

300

TCP and UDP operate at this OSI layer.

What is the Transport Layer?

300

Within an AWS Region, these provide isolated locations designed to protect applications from failures in another location.

What are Availability Zones?

300

This cable type is commonly used for long-distance, high-speed networking and resists electromagnetic interference.

What is the Fiber-optic?

300

This AWS service distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets.

What is the Elastic Load Balancing?

300

Two devices on different IP networks need to communicate. This device forwards traffic between them.

What is the Router?

400

MAC addresses are primarily associated with this OSI layer.

What is the Data Link Layer?

400

This AWS component controls inbound and outbound traffic for an EC2 instance.

What is the Security Group?

400

This type of copper Ethernet cable is designed with shielding to reduce electromagnetic interference and is useful in environments with significant electrical noise.

What is shielded twisted-pair (STP) cable?

400

This AWS managed service makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server without managing the underlying database servers.


What is Amazon RDS?

400

A company wants customers around the world to receive website content with lower latency. AWS can cache content closer to users at locations around the world. What AWS infrastructure location is used to deliver this content closer to end users?

What is an AWS Edge Location?

500

Encryption, compression, and data formatting are functions commonly associated with this OSI layer.

What is the Presentation Layer?

500

This AWS networking component connects a VPC to the public internet.

What is the Internet Gateway?

500

This fiber type is designed for high bandwidth over relatively long distances and commonly uses a smaller core than multimode fiber.

What is the Single-mode fiber?

500

This AWS service allows you to create and manage Kubernetes clusters.

What is the EKS?

500

A company hosts a web application on EC2. Users report intermittent connection failures. You discover that traffic is being sent directly to individual instances, and one instance is overloaded while others are nearly idle. What AWS service should be introduced to distribute traffic across the instances?

What is Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?

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