Wednesday 25 July 2018

AWS interview questions and answers for 1 year experienced

AWS interview questions and answers for 1 year experienced

Question: What is the difference between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 instance?
Amazon S3: It is just storage service where you can upload photo, video, audio, pdf etc any type of files upto 5 terabytes (5Tb).
It store data as a object, you can't install any software like MS office, VLC player, Adobe etc.

You can import/export data from/to S3 and also can access via cloudfront.

EC2 instance: Launching a EC2 instance is similar a create virtual computer (windows, linux) where you can install software unlike S3. You can customize the configuration like volume(storage), RAM, CPU etc.


Question: How to copy files from one bucket to another?
  1. Login to SSH using ip address and ppk file.
  2. Make sure, it have AWS S3 access privilege
  3. Now just execute following command
    aws s3 sync s3://source-bucket s3://destination-bucket --exclude *.tmp
    



Question: Can we change the availability zone of an existing EC2 t1.micro instance?
No, you can not do.
for this, you need to launch new instance from existing instance.



Question: What is Availability Zones?
Amazon EC2 is hosted in world-wide.
These locations are composed of regions and Availability Zones.
Each region has multiple, isolated locations known as Availability Zones.


Question: How to move files directly from one S3 account to another?
Bucket Explorer works on Mac
S3 Browser works on windows.



Question: AWS Difference between a snapshot and AMI?
A snapshot is of an EBS volume where you save at a certain point of time.
An AMI is similar, but its for the EC2 instances themselves. you can create a AMI but can't do snapshot.


Question: What is the maximum length of a filename in S3?
1024 characters.



Question: How to move a domain from Godaddy to AWS Route 53? =>Login on your aws console
=>Click on Route 53
=>Create Hosted Zone
=>Select your new created host title
=>click "Go to Record Sets", take note of the nameservers;

=>Login on your Godaddy account
=>Select your domain
=>Go to Nameservers and click SetNameservers;
=>paste all the four you took from Go to Record Sets;


Question: How to transfer files between from AWS ec2 to S3
aws s3 cp myfolder s3://mybucket/myfolder --recursive



Question: How to transfer files between from S3 to EC2
aws s3 cp s3://mybucket/myfolder myfolder  --recursive



Question: Question: What is private hosted zone?
A private hosted zone is a container that holds information about how you want Amazon Route 53 to respond to DNS queries for a domain



Question: What is the AWS Storage Gateway service?
The AWS Storage Gateway service enables hybrid storage between on-premises environments and the AWS Cloud.


Tuesday 24 July 2018

AWS Interview Questions and Answers

AWS interview questions and answers

Question: What are different http status code?
    [100] => Continue
    [101] => Switching Protocols
    [200] => OK
    [201] => Created
    [202] => Accepted
    [203] => Non-Authoritative Information
    [204] => No Content
    [205] => Reset Content
    [206] => Partial Content
    [300] => Multiple Choices
    [301] => Moved Permanently
    [302] => Found
    [303] => See Other
    [304] => Not Modified
    [305] => Use Proxy
    [307] => Temporary Redirect
    [400] => Bad Request
    [401] => Unauthorized
    [402] => Payment Required
    [403] => Forbidden
    [404] => Not Found
    [405] => Method Not Allowed
    [406] => Not Acceptable
    [407] => Proxy Authentication Required
    [408] => Request Timeout
    [409] => Conflict
    [410] => Gone
    [411] => Length Required
    [412] => Precondition Failed
    [413] => Request Entity Too Large
    [414] => Request-URI Too Long
    [415] => Unsupported Media Type
    [416] => Requested Range Not Satisfiable
    [417] => Expectation Failed
    [500] => Internal Server Error
    [501] => Not Implemented
    [502] => Bad Gateway
    [503] => Service Unavailable
    [504] => Gateway Timeout
    [505] => HTTP Version Not Supported
    [509] => Bandwidth Limit Exceeded



Question: How to safely upgrade an Amazon EC2 instance from t1.micro to large?
Create a snapshot of your current image
Once snopshot done, then new to launch new instance.
Simply launch it as a large instance at that point.



Question: How to get the instance id from within an ec2 instance?
Login to EC2,and execute following command
wget -q -O - http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id



Question: How to setup up FTP on Amazon Cloud Server?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7052875/setting-up-ftp-on-amazon-cloud-server



Question: What data is stored in Ephemeral Storage of Amazon EC2 instance?
When you mount your EBS volume at /myNewWebsite, then anything not in /myNewWebsite will be lost.


Question: Difference between EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk?
EC2
EC2 service that allows you to create a Ec2 instance in the AWS. You pay by the hour. you can create n instance and do the setting for each instance.

Elastic Beanstalk
Elastic Beanstalk is one layer of abstraction away from the EC2 layer.
In Beanstalk will setup an "environment" for you that can contain a number of EC2 instances, an optional database, as well as a few other AWS components such as a Elastic Load Balancer, Auto-Scaling Group, Security Group etc.



Question: What is difference between Lightsail and EC2?
EC2
EC2 service that allows you to create a Ec2 instance in the AWS. You pay by the hour. you can create n instance and do the setting for each instance.

Lightsail
Lightsail is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS.
Lightsail plans include everything you need to start for your project – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP – for a low, predictable price.



Question: How to make clone of EC2?
You make an AMI of an existing instance, and then launch other instances using that AMI.



Question: .htaccess not working apache with my EC2 instance?
  1. Login to SSH
  2. Configure Apache mod_rewrite a2enmod rewrite
  3. add the following code to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
    AllowOverride All
  4. Restart apache
    /etc/init.d/apache2 restart



Question: What happens when I reboot an EC2 instance?
Its similar as we reboot the system. None of data is deleted.
As per cost, no change in cost as they start charging when start instance and stop when terminate the instance.



Question: What is difference between Fixed Performance / Burstable Performance Instances?
AWS EC2 has 2 different type of instances: Fixed Performance Instances(for example M3, C3 etc) and Burstable Performance Instances (For example T2).

Fixed Performance Instances provides a consistent CPU performance whereas Burstable Performance Instances provide a baseline CPU performance under normal workload and when the workload increase on server then increase the CPU performance.



Question: What is CPU Credit?
CPU Credit regulates the amount of "CPU performance" can be increased under workload.
You can spend this CPU Credit to increase the CPU performance during the Burst period.
100% of CPU performance for 5 minutes, you will spend 5(i.e. 5*1.0) CPU Credit.


Question: What is CPU Credit Balance?
is simply the amount of CPU Credit available in your account at any moment.