Easy Cloud Engineer questions

34 questions · 5 points each for a correct first answer.

1. 1.Who patches the VM operating system?shared-responsibility, cloud-securityeasy
2. 2.Regions and availability zonescloud-fundamentals, high-availabilityeasy
3. 3.Principle of least privilegeiam, cloud-securityeasy
4. 4.What makes a subnet public?vpc-networkingeasy
5. 5.Choosing an S3 storage classcloud-storage, cost-optimizationeasy
6. 6.Horizontal vs vertical scalingcompute, scalabilityeasy
7. 7.How serverless functions are billedserverless, cost-optimizationeasy
8. 8.What terraform plan doesterraform, infrastructure-as-codeeasy
9. 9.Usable IPs in a /24 subnetvpc-networking, cloud-fundamentalseasy
10. 10.Shared file system for many serverscloud-storageeasy
11. 11.Pointing the zone apex at a load balancerdns, cloud-fundamentalseasy
12. 12.Load balancer for path-based routingload-balancingeasy
13. 13.Docker image vs containerdocker, containerseasy
14. 14.Smallest deployable unit in Kuberneteskuberneteseasy
15. 15.Which identity is the AWS CLI using?aws-cli, iameasy
16. 16.Alerting on high CPUcloudwatch, monitoringeasy
17. 17.How Prometheus collects metricsprometheus, monitoringeasy
18. 18.What Grafana is forgrafana, monitoringeasy
19. 19.Storing a token for a CI workflowgithub-actions, secrets-managementeasy
20. 20.What a Terraform output doesterraform, infrastructure-as-codeeasy
21. 21.What OpenTofu isopentofu, infrastructure-as-codeeasy
22. 22.What an Azure resource group isazure, cloud-fundamentalseasy
23. 23.Google Cloud resource hierarchygcp, cloud-governanceeasy
24. 24.Why use a managed databasecloud-databaseseasy
25. 25.Keeping CPU near a targetautoscaling, computeeasy
26. 26.How EBS snapshots store datacloud-storage, backupeasy
27. 27.Showing cloud cost per teamcost-optimization, taggingeasy
28. 28.Protecting the root useriam, cloud-securityeasy
29. 29.What HTTPS protectsencryption, cloud-securityeasy
30. 30.Why put a CDN in front of a sitecdn, performanceeasy
31. 31.Users logged out when scaling inscalability, high-availabilityeasy
32. 32.Shell access without opening port 22cloud-security, awseasy
33. 33.Well-Architected Framework pillarscloud-architectureeasy
34. 34.Compute Savings Plans flexibilitycost-optimization, computeeasy