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1.What is AWS?

Answer: AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a cloud


platform providing on-demand computing
resources and services like storage, databases,
networking, and more on a pay-as-you-go basis.

2. What is DevOps?

• Answer: DevOps is a set of practices aimed


at automating and integrating the processes
between software development and IT teams to
build, test, and release software faster and more
reliably.

3. What are the key services of AWS related to


DevOps?

• Answer: Key AWS DevOps services include


AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS
CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit, AWS
CloudFormation, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

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4. What is Continuous Integration (CI)?

• Answer: CI is a practice in DevOps where


developers regularly merge their code changes
into a shared repository, followed by automated
builds and tests to detect integration errors
quickly.

5. What is Continuous Delivery (CD)?

• Answer: CD is the practice of ensuring that


the codebase is always in a deployable state and
can be released to production at any time with
minimal effort.

6. How does AWS CodePipeline work?

• Answer: AWS CodePipeline automates the


build, test, and deploy phases of your release
process every time there is a code change,
ensuring rapid and reliable application updates.

7. What is AWS CodeBuild?

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• Answer: AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed
build service in AWS that compiles source code,
runs tests, and produces software packages that
are ready for deployment.

8. What is AWS CodeDeploy?

• Answer: AWS CodeDeploy is a service that


automates application deployment to various
compute services such as Amazon EC2, AWS
Fargate, and Lambda.

9. What is AWS CodeCommit?

• Answer: AWS CodeCommit is a source


control service that hosts secure Git-based
repositories, making it easy for teams to
collaborate on code.

10. What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

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• Answer: IaC is the process of managing and
provisioning computing infrastructure using
machine-readable configuration files, rather than
manual processes.

11. What is AWS CloudFormation?

• Answer: AWS CloudFormation is a service


that allows you to model and provision AWS
resources using a simple text file to automate
the setup of infrastructure.

12. What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

• Answer: AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a platform


as a service (PaaS) that makes it easy to deploy
and scale web applications by automatically
handling the infrastructure.

13. What is Amazon EC2?

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• Answer: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in
the cloud, allowing users to run virtual servers
on-demand.

14. How do you scale an application in AWS?

• Answer: Applications can be scaled using


Auto Scaling for EC2 instances or using AWS
services like Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and
Elastic Load Balancing.

15. What is AWS Lambda?

• Answer: AWS Lambda is a serverless


computing service that lets you run code without
provisioning or managing servers.

16. What are containers, and how are they used


in AWS?

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• Answer: Containers are lightweight, portable
units for running software, and in AWS, services
like Amazon ECS, EKS, and Fargate are used for
running containerized applications.

17. What is Amazon RDS?

• Answer: Amazon Relational Database


Service (RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate,
and scale a relational database in the cloud.

18. What is Amazon S3?

• Answer: Amazon Simple Storage Service


(S3) is an object storage service that offers
scalability, data availability, security, and
performance.

19. How is security managed in AWS?

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• Answer: Security in AWS is managed
through services like AWS Identity and Access
Management (IAM), AWS Key Management
Service (KMS), and Amazon VPC for network
isolation.

20. What is AWS IAM?

• Answer: AWS Identity and Access


Management (IAM) enables you to manage
access to AWS services and resources securely
by defining policies and roles.

21. What are the benefits of using a CI/CD


pipeline in AWS?

• Answer: A CI/CD pipeline in AWS enables


faster deployment, increased collaboration, and
improved quality control through automation.

22. What is Blue-Green Deployment in AWS?

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• Answer: Blue-Green Deployment is a
technique for releasing applications by running
two identical production environments, one for
live traffic (blue) and one for testing new
releases (green).

23. What is Amazon CloudWatch?

• Answer: Amazon CloudWatch is a


monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and
applications, providing data and actionable
insights to ensure smooth performance.

24. What is Amazon SNS?

• Answer: Amazon Simple Notification Service


(SNS) is a fully managed messaging service for
sending notifications to various endpoints like
SMS, email, and HTTP.

25. How can you automate security testing in


DevOps?

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• Answer: Security testing can be automated
by integrating tools like AWS Inspector, AWS
Shield, and third-party tools into the CI/CD
pipeline.

26. What is Amazon ECS?

• Answer: Amazon Elastic Container Service


(ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration
service used to run Docker containers in the
cloud.

27. What is Amazon EKS?

• Answer: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service


(EKS) is a fully managed service for running
Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install,
operate, and maintain Kubernetes control plane
infrastructure.

28. What is AWS Fargate?

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• Answer: AWS Fargate is a serverless
compute engine for containers that eliminates
the need to manage servers, allowing you to run
containers directly.

29. How does AWS help in automating DevOps?

• Answer: AWS provides several services like


AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy,
CloudFormation, and Elastic Beanstalk to
automate development, testing, deployment, and
infrastructure management.

30. What is the difference between EC2 Auto


Scaling and AWS Elastic Load Balancing?

• Answer: EC2 Auto Scaling adjusts the


number of EC2 instances to maintain
performance, while Elastic Load Balancing
distributes incoming traffic across multiple
instances to improve fault tolerance.

31. What is AWS CloudTrail?

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• Answer: AWS CloudTrail tracks user activity
and API usage across AWS infrastructure,
providing a history of API calls for auditing
purposes.

32. How do you ensure high availability in AWS?

• Answer: High availability is ensured by using


services like Elastic Load Balancing, Auto
Scaling, deploying across multiple Availability
Zones, and using managed databases like RDS.

33. What is a VPC in AWS?

• Answer: A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) allows


you to define and launch AWS resources in a
virtual network isolated from other customers,
with control over networking configuration.

34. What is Amazon Route 53?

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• Answer: Amazon Route 53 is a scalable DNS
web service used to route end-user requests to
different AWS services and resources.

35. What is AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)?

• Answer: ELB automatically distributes


incoming application traffic across multiple
targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and
IP addresses, to ensure high availability.

36. How do you monitor a microservices


architecture in AWS?

• Answer: Monitoring microservices involves


using AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing,
CloudWatch for metrics and logs, and
integrating third-party monitoring tools.

37. What is Amazon Aurora?

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• Answer: Amazon Aurora is a fully managed
relational database compatible with MySQL and
PostgreSQL, providing higher performance and
scalability than traditional databases.

38. What is Serverless Computing in AWS?

• Answer: Serverless computing allows you to


run applications without managing servers,
using services like AWS Lambda, API Gateway,
and DynamoDB.

39. What is a CloudFormation stack?

• Answer: A CloudFormation stack is a


collection of AWS resources that you can
manage as a single unit, defined using a
CloudFormation template.

40. What is AWS S3 bucket versioning?

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• Answer: Versioning in Amazon S3 allows
you to keep multiple versions of an object in a
bucket to recover from unintended deletions or
changes.

41. What is AWS OpsWorks?

• Answer: AWS OpsWorks is a configuration


management service that provides managed
instances of Chef and Puppet to automate server
configuration and deployment.

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