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100

What is the URL for the official AWS Documentation homepage?

100

What is Amazon Machine Images?

Preconfigured templates for your instances that package the components you need for your server (including the operating system and additional software).

100

What does an S3 Object Lock do?

Prevent Amazon S3 objects from being deleted or overwritten for a fixed amount of time or indefinitely. 

100

What is a root user in IAM?

A user that has complete access to all AWS services and resources.

100

Name the five pillars of the Well-Architected Framework documentation.

What is Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization?

200

What does AWS stand for?

What is Amazon Web Services?

200

What are Amazon EBS volumes?

Persistent storage volumes for your data using Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

200

Find the “Creating an S3 Bucket” tutorial. What are the two required pieces of information you must provide when creating a bucket?

Name and Region

200

What is IAM?

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources.

200

What is the new Amazon Sagemaker used for?

What is creating AI infrastructure and training machine learning models?

300

What is cloud computing?

What is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database, storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform?

300

What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

It is a service that ensures you have the correct number of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application.

300

What is SSE-S3?

Amazon S3 managed keys is the base level of encryption for every Amazon S3 bucket.

300

What are IAM user groups?

An IAM user group is a collection of IAM users. User groups let you specify permissions for multiple users, which can make it easier to manage the permissions for those users.

300

How would you connect devices at home to an AWS infrastructure?

What is AWS IoT?

400

How is AWS more cost effective?

What is pay-as-you-go pricing?

400

What does Lambda SnapStart do?

It reduces cold start times.

400

What is Amazon RDS?

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the AWS Cloud.

400

What does a security group do?

A security group controls the traffic that is allowed to reach and leave the resources that it is associated with.

400

What programming languages are supported by the AWS SDK for IoT?

C++, Python, JavaScript, Java, Swift

500

What is the most advanced AWS certification?

What is AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional?

500

Does Lambda do real-time stream processing?

Yes

500

What is a DB Instance?

A DB instance is an isolated database environment in the AWS Cloud. The basic building block of Amazon RDS is the DB instance.

500

What is AWS CloudShell?

AWS CloudShell is a browser-based, pre-authenticated shell that you can launch directly from the AWS Management Console.

500

What languages are supported for the backend of AWS SDK?

What is .NET, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Rust.