Amazon Storage (S3) Interview Question-Answer

Q.1 Local Storage is advantageous over cloud. Select the option that relates to the statement.

       A. Safety

       B. Cost

       C. Scalability

       D. Speed

Ans : Speed


Q.2 Objects must be ________ days old in current storage class before you can transition them to others.

       A. 30

       B. 45

       C. 15

       D. 60

Ans : 30


Q.3 The maximum size of an object that can be uploaded to S3 bucket is ________.

       A. 1 TB

       B. 5 TB

       C. 5 GB

       D. 10 TB

Ans : 5 TB


Q.4 S3 does not allow transitions of objects that are less than __________.

       A. 256 kB

       B. 1 Mb

       C. 1 kB

       D. 128 kB

Ans : 128 kB


Q.5 The minimum size of an object that can be uploaded to S3 is ________.

       A. 1 byte

       B. 0 byte

       C. 1 kB

       D. 1 MB

Ans : 0 byte


Q.6 In AWS CLI, the default output is _________.

       A. text

       B. JSON

       C. table

       D. xml

Ans : JSON


Q.7 Objects cannot be moved from Glacier to any other class.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.8 ACL enables you to manage access to buckets and objects.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.9 In AWS CLI, the output type can be ____________.

       A. Table

       B. JSON

       C. Text

       D. All the options

Ans : All the options


Q.10 What is the feature that helps to monitor the activities of security and audit in a bucket?

       A. Logging

       B. Encryption

       C. Versioning

       D. Tags

Ans : Logging


Q.11 What is the command to copy files recursively in a folder to an S3 bucket?

       A. aws s3 cp . S3://bucketname –recursive

       B. aws s3 cp filename S3://bucketname –-recursive

Ans : aws s3 cp . S3://bucketname –recursive


Q.12 To what resources access will be given to user created by default ?

       A. S3 and Dynamo DB

       B. All resources

       C. None

       D. S3 and EC2

Ans : None


Q.13 Which among the following is a content delivery network (CDN) to deliver data to users around the globe?

       A. Cloud9

       B. CloudFront

       C. CloudFormation

       D. Lambda

Ans : CloudFront


Q.14 Which service helps to host a website in your domain but not S3 provided endpoint?

       A. CloudFront

       B. Route 53

       C. Lambda

       D. CloudFormation

Ans : Route 53


Q.15 Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.16 The objects in a bucket hosting a static website must have public access.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.17 Amazon SNS service can be used to trigger Lambda functions.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.18 What is the feature that helps to monitor the activities of security and audit in a bucket?

       A. Encryption

       B. Logging

       C. Tags

       D. Versioning

Ans : Logging


Q.19 The number of accounts that can be given access to a bucket is _________.

       A. 50

       B. 100

       C. 25

       D. 10

Ans : 100


Q.20 Which among the following can transfer 100PB of data in one go?

       A. Snowball

       B. Snowball Edge

       C. Snowmobile

       D. All the options

Ans : Snowmobile


Q.21 Gateway type endpoints are available for _________ AWS services.

       A. S3 and Dynamo DB

       B. S3 and EC2

       C. S3

       D. All the options

Ans : S3 and Dynamo DB


Q.22 Geo-targeting is acquired with AWS __________.

       A. S3

       B. CloudFront

       C. CloudFormation

       D. None of the options

Ans : CloudFront


Q.23 When did Amazon launch S3?

       A. 2007

       B. 2004

       C. 2006

       D. 2002

Ans : 2006


Q.24 One of the IAM best practices is to lock down the root user for day to day usage.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.25 Which delivery method is suited to stream videos on CloudFront?

       A. Web

       B. RTMP

Ans : RTMP


Q.26 Lambda applications are also called as serverless applications.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.27 Snowball Edge has the capability of Local Compute with AWS Lambda.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.28 Read-after-write consistency in S3 is only for new objects, and eventual consistency is for overwrites and deletes.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


Q.29 What feature of the bucket must be enabled for CRR?

       A. Encryption

       B. Versioning

       C. Tags

       D. Logging

Ans : Versioning


Q.30 Which of the following language is the most preferred for AWS Lambda service?

       A. Python

       B. Node.js

       C. Go

       D. Java

Ans : Node.js


Q.31 What does RRS stand for when referring to the storage option in Amazon S3 that offers a lower level of durability at a lower storage cost?

       A. Reduced Reaction Storage

       B. Redundant Research Storage

       C. Regulatory Resources Storage

       D. Reduced Redundancy Storage

Ans : Reduced Redundancy Storage


Q.32 Which of the following is used for server-side encryption standard?

       A. AES-256

       B. AES-128

       C. AWS-KMS

       D. None of the options

Ans : AES-256


Q.33 The name space for an S3 bucket is global.

       A. True

       B. False

Ans : True


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