Cloud · Well-Architected/Reliability interview questions

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1. What is Availability Zone?

Junior
  1. A.an architecture serving traffic from multiple regions simultaneously for resilience
  2. B.Recovery Time Objective; the maximum acceptable time to restore service after an outage
  3. C.an isolated location within a region, each with independent power and networking
  4. D.a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones
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3. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Availability Zone — the scope of impact when a single component or account fails
  2. B.Availability Zone — a DR strategy keeping a minimal core running, scaled up on failover
  3. C.Availability Zone — a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones
  4. D.Availability Zone — an isolated location within a region, each with independent power and networking
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4. What is Region?

Junior
  1. A.a DR strategy keeping a minimal core running, scaled up on failover
  2. B.a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones
  3. C.Recovery Point Objective; the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time
  4. D.designing systems to remain operational despite component failures
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6. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Region — an architecture serving traffic from multiple regions simultaneously for resilience
  2. B.Region — a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones
  3. C.Region — an isolated location within a region, each with independent power and networking
  4. D.Region — Recovery Point Objective; the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time
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7. What is High Availability?

Junior
  1. A.a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones
  2. B.an architecture serving traffic from multiple regions simultaneously for resilience
  3. C.designing systems to remain operational despite component failures
  4. D.the scope of impact when a single component or account fails
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9. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.High Availability — designing systems to remain operational despite component failures
  2. B.High Availability — Recovery Point Objective; the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time
  3. C.High Availability — Recovery Time Objective; the maximum acceptable time to restore service after an outage
  4. D.High Availability — a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones
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10. What is RTO?

Mid
  1. A.a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones
  2. B.Recovery Time Objective; the maximum acceptable time to restore service after an outage
  3. C.designing systems to remain operational despite component failures
  4. D.an architecture serving traffic from multiple regions simultaneously for resilience
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12. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.RTO — designing systems to remain operational despite component failures
  2. B.RTO — Recovery Time Objective; the maximum acceptable time to restore service after an outage
  3. C.RTO — a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones
  4. D.RTO — the scope of impact when a single component or account fails
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13. What is RPO?

Mid
  1. A.Recovery Point Objective; the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time
  2. B.the scope of impact when a single component or account fails
  3. C.a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones
  4. D.an isolated location within a region, each with independent power and networking
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15. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.RPO — the scope of impact when a single component or account fails
  2. B.RPO — an architecture serving traffic from multiple regions simultaneously for resilience
  3. C.RPO — Recovery Point Objective; the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time
  4. D.RPO — Recovery Time Objective; the maximum acceptable time to restore service after an outage
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16. What is Blast Radius?

Mid
  1. A.a DR strategy keeping a minimal core running, scaled up on failover
  2. B.Recovery Point Objective; the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time
  3. C.Recovery Time Objective; the maximum acceptable time to restore service after an outage
  4. D.the scope of impact when a single component or account fails
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18. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.Blast Radius — an isolated location within a region, each with independent power and networking
  2. B.Blast Radius — a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones
  3. C.Blast Radius — the scope of impact when a single component or account fails
  4. D.Blast Radius — designing systems to remain operational despite component failures
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19. What is Pilot Light?

Senior
  1. A.a DR strategy keeping a minimal core running, scaled up on failover
  2. B.the scope of impact when a single component or account fails
  3. C.Recovery Time Objective; the maximum acceptable time to restore service after an outage
  4. D.an architecture serving traffic from multiple regions simultaneously for resilience
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21. Which statement is correct?

Senior
  1. A.Pilot Light — an isolated location within a region, each with independent power and networking
  2. B.Pilot Light — an architecture serving traffic from multiple regions simultaneously for resilience
  3. C.Pilot Light — the scope of impact when a single component or account fails
  4. D.Pilot Light — a DR strategy keeping a minimal core running, scaled up on failover
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22. What is Multi-Region Active-Active?

Senior
  1. A.a DR strategy keeping a minimal core running, scaled up on failover
  2. B.an isolated location within a region, each with independent power and networking
  3. C.Recovery Time Objective; the maximum acceptable time to restore service after an outage
  4. D.an architecture serving traffic from multiple regions simultaneously for resilience
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24. Which statement is correct?

Senior
  1. A.Multi-Region Active-Active — Recovery Point Objective; the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time
  2. B.Multi-Region Active-Active — the scope of impact when a single component or account fails
  3. C.Multi-Region Active-Active — an architecture serving traffic from multiple regions simultaneously for resilience
  4. D.Multi-Region Active-Active — an isolated location within a region, each with independent power and networking
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25. What does aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm do?

Junior
  1. A.searches CloudWatch Logs events by pattern and time range
  2. B.previews changes a stack update will make before applying them
  3. C.creates an alarm that triggers actions on a CloudWatch metric threshold
  4. D.provisions a set of resources as code from a CloudFormation template
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26. Which command will creates an alarm that triggers actions on a CloudWatch metric threshold?

Junior
  1. A.aws logs filter-log-events
  2. B.aws cloudformation create-stack
  3. C.aws cloudformation create-change-set
  4. D.aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm
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27. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm — lists AWS Health events affecting your account's resources
  2. B.aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm — previews changes a stack update will make before applying them
  3. C.aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm — creates an alarm that triggers actions on a CloudWatch metric threshold
  4. D.aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm — searches CloudWatch Logs events by pattern and time range
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28. What does aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics do?

Mid
  1. A.retrieves statistics for a CloudWatch metric over a time range
  2. B.creates an alarm that triggers actions on a CloudWatch metric threshold
  3. C.searches CloudWatch Logs events by pattern and time range
  4. D.previews changes a stack update will make before applying them
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29. Which command will retrieves statistics for a CloudWatch metric over a time range?

Mid
  1. A.aws health describe-events
  2. B.aws cloudformation create-change-set
  3. C.aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics
  4. D.aws logs filter-log-events
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30. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics — provisions a set of resources as code from a CloudFormation template
  2. B.aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics — retrieves statistics for a CloudWatch metric over a time range
  3. C.aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics — searches CloudWatch Logs events by pattern and time range
  4. D.aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics — lists AWS Health events affecting your account's resources
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