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1 Introduction to Cloud Computing
2 Introduction to AWS
3 Account Creation and Login
4 Simple Notification Service (SNS)
5 Cloud Trail
6 Cloud Watch
7 Identity and access management (IAM)
8 Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
9 Simple Storage Service(S3)
10 Virtual Private Network (VPC)
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Topic Introduction to Cloud Computing

1. What is Cloud Computing?

2. Tel me about your environment in AWS?
3. what are the services are you using in your environment?
4. What are the layers of the cloud computing?
5. On which layer are you working?
6. What is private, public and Hybrid model?
7. Do you know any private clouds?
8. What the advantages and disadvantages of Private cloud?
9. What are implementations you did?
10. What is PASS Model?
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Topic Introduction to AWS

1. Why AWS?
2. Regions?
3. Available zones?
4. Edge locations?
3. AWS Support and support types?
4. AWS Services?
5. What is marketplace?
6. AWS Pricing model?
7. How can you estimate AWS pricing?
8. How can you check the health check of the AWS Services?
9. What are the reserved regions?
10. How to access reserved regions?

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Topic Account Creation and Login
1. Can we create AWS Account?
2. What is free tire?
3. How can you secure root account?
4. What is access keys and secrete keys?
5. How many keys we can create?
6. What do we need access keys and secrete keys
7. How can we rotate the keys?
8. How to access using CLI and PowerShell etc.
9. What is organization?
10. How to consolidate the Billing?

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Topic Simple Notification Service (SNS)

1. What is SNS?
2. why do we need SNS?
3. What is topic?
4. What is Subscription?
5. What are some common use cases for SNS?
6. How do you create a topic in SNS?
7. How do you subscribe to an SNS topic?
8. What are the different subscriptions?
9. What is the maximum size of an SNS notification payload? 256 KB.
10. Is there any limit on the number of messages sent per second by SNS? If yes, then what are
they?
11. How much does it cost to send 1 million messages through SNS?
12. What is the difference between direct and fanout messaging models? Which one is preferred
in which situations?
13. Does SNS support content filtering? If yes, how?
14. Can you give me some examples of real-world applications that use SNS?
15. What is the best way to configure SNS for high availability?
16. Are SNS topics durable? If yes, why?
17. Are messages delivered in the order that they were published? If not, then how do you
ensure that messages are delivered in the correct sequence?

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Topic Cloud Trail

1. What is cloud trail?

2. Why do we need cloud trail?
3. How many days the data will store in cloud trail?
4. what to if you want to maintain the data more than 90 days?
5. What is cloud trail?
6. How can we enable logging for S3 buckets using CloudTrail?
7. How to create the cloud trail?
8.Do all API calls made by an IAM user show up on CloudTrail logs? If not, which ones don’t?
9.When would you use multiple Trails in CloudTrail?
10.Is it possible to turn off logging for certain events with CloudTrail? If yes, then how?
11.Can you give me some examples of real-world usage of CloudTrail?
12.Is it possible to configure CloudWatch metrics for CloudTrail logs? If so, where can you find
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13.What steps should be taken to ensure that unauthorized users cannot modify or delete
14. CloudTrail log files from Amazon S3?
15. What is the difference between management events and data events in CloudTrail?
16. What is the maximum size allowed for each CloudTrail log file? 50MB
17. What happens to existing log files when you update a trail?
18. What is diff in management events, data events & Insights

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Topic Cloud Watch
1. What is Cloud watch?
2. Why do we need cloud watch ?
3. what is Metrix ?
4. what is dashboard in cloud watch
5. what is alert ?
5. what are the different alerts ?
6. States of alerts ?
7. What is logs in CloudWatch ?
8. What is events
9. what is rules ?
10. How to take snap using rule

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Topic Identity and access management (IAM)
1. What is IAM?
2. what are the users available?
3. Who is managing root user?
4. What are the different ways to create user?
5. What are the user access keys and secrete keys?
6. What do we need access and secrete keys?
7. What is role and how to create and manage roles?
8. What is policy and how to create, manage policies?
9. What language the policy written?
10 What are the different category of policies?
11 Can we edit the policies?
12. What is MFA and how to apply MFA?
13. What is Permissions boundary?
14. Why do we need tags?
15. How do you know the account expire date? aws iam get-credential-report --query
16. How to rotate access keys and secrete keys?
17. If we delete the user the keys will work?
18. If we disable the keys, the user can login?

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19. What is SAML and open ID?
20. How to integrate with AD?
21. How to integrate with CyberArk?
22. What are the best practices you will follow while creating IAM users?
23. Please explain the IAM Policy Structure.
24. Is it possible to monitor the activity of IAM users?
25. Which are the key features of AWS IAM?
26. Explain best practices to manage access to AWS resources?
27. What are the 5 top security credentials in AWS IAM?
Key pair
The E-mail address and Password
User-id and Password
Access Keys
Multi-factor authentication
28. What are Temporary Security Credentials?
29. Is IAM is global or region specific service ?
30. What is AWS STS service?
31. What is ‘Principal’ in IAM?
32. What is organization?
33. How to integrate with SSO login
34. Why do we need access keys instead of user
35. How to simulate the policy?

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Topic Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
1. Explain EC2 in Amazon?
2 Mention some pros and cons of using Amazon EC2?
3. List types of EC2 instances available in AWS?
4. What is the easiest and safest way to backup in Amazon EC2?
5. For what purpose EC2 instance tags are used?
6. Why do we create instances in AWS?
7. List some tools to monitor AWS?
8. How do you route a domain name to an EC2 Instance?
9. What is the difference between a public IP and an elastic IP in AWS?
10. How to regenerate a .pem file for my AWS EC2 server?
11. What is the difference between a spot instance and an on-demand instance?
12. How to set AWS EC2 CPU utilization to max or use all cores?
13. How do we permanently terminate or delete AWS EC2 instance?
14. What is the purpose of 'Reservations' in Amazon EC2?
15. What is the difference between Amazon ECS and Amazon EC2?
16. I am not able to ping my AWS EC2 instance. What is the problem?
17. How to find EC2 instances running a certain AMI?
18. What is '2' signifies in EC2 of AWS?

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19. What is ec2 snapshot?
20. Where the snapshots will store?
21. Where is AMI's will store?
22. What is the diff EBS and Instance store
23. Can we get the charge for EIP?
24. What is AMI?
25. How to take backup of AMI?
26. What is the diff between AMI & Snap?
27. Can we migrate AMI between accounts?
28. What is volume?
29. How to create volume?
30. Can we increase volume online?
33. How much time do we need to increase volume after increasing
34. IS server region specific?
35. Is volume region specific?
36. SNAP is datacenter specific or not?
37. How to migrate Volume between two servers within the same data center?
38. Can we increase root volume?
39. What are the different volumes?
30. what security group?
31. what is default inbound rules and outbound rules for SG?
32. What is the diff ACL and SG?
33. How may sg's can we attach to the server?
34. How many EIP's can we create?
35. How to create ELB?
36. What are the different ELB's
39. How is auto scaling?
40. What is round robin in ELB?
41. How to be reserved instance in autoscaling?
42. what is persistence in autoscaling?
43. What is stand by in Autoscaling?
44. How to integrate ELB with autoscaling
45. How do you upgrade or downgrade a system with near-zero downtime?
46. What kind of virtualization they are using for VMs
47. What is EBS?
48. What is the difference between terminating and stopping an EC2 instance?
49. How to recover if keys are deleted
50. How to enable direct root login to Linux server
51. What is the diff in private and public key
52. How to use .pem & .ppk file
53. How To Persist Root Device Volume In Amazon Ec2 Instance?
54. How To Migrate An Instance To Another Availability Zone?
55. Root device size limit for –
Amazon EBS – Backed is 16 TiB

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Amazon Instance Store-Backed is 10 GiB
How To Update Ami Tools At Boot Time?
echo ” + Updating EC2 AMI tools”
yum update -y aws-amitools-ec2
echo ” + Updated EC2 AMI tools”

56. Is It Possible To Change The Private Ip Addresses Of An Ec2 While It Is Running/stopped In

A Vpc?
Can S3 Be Used with Ec2 Instances, If Yes, How?
67. Is EIP is chargeable?
68. What Is The Underlying Hypervisor For Ec2 ?
69. What Are the Main Features Of Classic Load Balancer In EC2?
70. What Is A Placement Group In EC2 ?
71. What Types of Issues Do You Face While Connecting To An Ec2 Instance?
Connection time out
Permission denied due to host key not found
Unprotected private key file
Permission denied due to user key not recognized by server
No supported authentication method available
Server refused the key AWS Video Training
72. What is horizontal & Vertical scaling
73. What are Internet Gateways in VPC?
74. Do we use existing AWS EBS snapshots?
75. Do we use existing AWS EBS snapshots?
76. Can we add more than two network interfaces in one EC2 instance?

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Topics Simple Storage Service(S3)

1. What is s3?
2. When this service started?
3. How much is the SLA for S3?
4. Types of S3 storages?
5. How to access S3 with Power shell, Unix shell
6. How to access/mount s3 through EC2?
7. What is bucket?
8. How many buckets can we create?
9. What is the size of bucket?
10. What is s3fs?
11. What is the max size of bucket?
12. How is the redundancy in S3?
13. what is object?
14. what is the max size of object we can upload?

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15. what is bucket policy?
16. How can we give permission to user on specific bucket?
17. How to host a website in bucket?
18. S3 is file level or block level?
19. Can we encrypt file level?
20. can we encrypt bucket level?
21. What are the different encryption methods?
22. How to restore files from Glaser?
23. What is versioning?
24. How many versions you can keep in your environment?
25. How to remove old versions?
26. What is server-side logging
27. What is client-side logging?
28. What transfer acceleration?
29. What Block public access
30. What is ACL?
31. How to setup the expiry date for objects?
32. What is lifecycle rule?
33. How to implement Replication rules?
34. What Access Points?
35. Is S3 region specific?
36. What is archive and deep archive?
37. What is Snowball?
38. What is the default storage class in AWS S3?
39. How can we add cache control in AWS S3?
40. What is CloudFront in Amazon S3
41. Where the access keys will store in CLI?
42. Max size of S3
43. How to mount s3 with EC2
44. Log shipping to S3
45. How to sync the data from Server to AWS S3
46. Can we user s3 as block level access?
47. What is the difference in Symantec and asymmetric?
48. Tasks in s3
49, Issues in s3
50. Projects in S3

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Topic Virtual Private Network (VPC)
VPC (Virtual Private Network)
1. What is VPC?
2. Why do we need VPC?
3. How many vpc's can we create with free tire ?

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4. How many ways to create VPC?
5. Can we delete default VPC ?
6. What to do if e deleted the VPC accidentally?
7. is default is IPV4 or IPV6 ?
8. what is ACL?
9. what is SG?
10. What is the diff in SG and ACL?
11. ACL or SG which on is on TOP?
12. What are default inbound rules in SG ?
13. What are default inbound rules in ACL?
14. What is NAT?
15. What can we use NAT?
16. What is peer connection?
17. what is VPN?
18. How to create VPN?
19. How to create subnet?
20. How to trace out the issue if server is not connecting
21. How to trace out the issue if RDS is not connecting
22. What are the components of Amazon VPC?
23. What are Internet Gateways in VPC?
24. What are the differences between Private, Public & Elastic IP Addresses?
25. Can you illustrate what is CIDR Routing in VPC?
26. Where can we define in routing?
27. What is stateful and stateless filtering?
28. Security groups carry out stateful filtering whereas network ACLs perform stateless filtering
29. What is Classic Link in VPC?
30. What is diff internet gw and nat gw ?
31. Tell me the basic difference between VPC and VPN?
32. Tell me the differences between security groups in VPC and ACLS in VPC?
34. Explain default VPC?
35. Do you think there are any bandwidth limitations for peering connections?
36. Explain the classic link?
37. How does one hardware VPN connection work with AWS VPC?
38. How can we connect my VPC to the corporate data center?
39. What are the default IP address ranges for a default VPC?
40. Tell me, how many subnets can we get per VPC?
41. Can we assign one private IP address to one AWS EC2 instance within the same VPC?
42. If the server is not managed by the VPC DNS, what will be the solution?
43. Explain the data pipeline in AWS VPC?

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