AWS DevOps Deployment Strategies Quiz

1. What is the primary benefit of using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store?

Storing and retrieving secure configuration and secrets centrally

Running EC2 instances without SSH access

Automatically scaling Auto Scaling groups

Creating VPC endpoints for private connectivity

2. Which deployment strategy minimizes risk by validating changes on a small user subset before full rollout?

All-at-once deployment

Rolling deployment

Canary deployment

Blue-green deployment

3. What is the primary purpose of AWS X-Ray in DevOps?

Tracing and analyzing requests across distributed applications

Scaling EC2 instances automatically

Storing application secrets

Managing IAM user permissions

4. Which AWS service enables automated remediation of configuration drift?

AWS Config Rules with automated remediation

CloudWatch alarms only

AWS Lambda functions only

CodePipeline stages

5. What does AWS CloudTrail record for compliance and auditing?

Application performance metrics

API calls and account activity

VPC flow logs and network traffic

Container image deployments

6. In rolling deployment, what happens to instances during the rollout?

All instances update simultaneously

Instances update in batches while maintaining service availability

Old environment runs alongside new environment

A small percentage receives traffic initially

7. Which service provides centralized logging for AWS resources and applications?

AWS CloudTrail

CloudWatch Logs

AWS X-Ray

Amazon EventBridge

8. What does AWS OpsWorks provide for configuration management?

Chef and Puppet automation for infrastructure configuration

Container image registry services

Real-time application performance monitoring

Version control for source code

9. AWS CodeBuild is primarily used for which CI/CD stage?

Source code storage

Compiling code and running tests

Production deployment

Infrastructure provisioning

10. Which deployment approach deploys to all instances simultaneously with no rollback capability?

Blue-green deployment

Canary deployment

All-at-once deployment

Rolling deployment

11. What is the primary advantage of blue-green deployment in AWS?

Instant rollback with zero downtime by switching traffic between identical environments

Reduced EC2 instance costs by using only one environment at a time

Automatic scaling of both blue and green environments simultaneously

Elimination of the need for load balancers

12. Which AWS service monitors application and infrastructure metrics in real-time?

AWS Config

CloudWatch

AWS Systems Manager

AWS X-Ray

13. What does the appspec.yaml file define in CodeDeploy?

VPC and subnet configurations

Lifecycle event hooks and file mappings for deployment

IAM user permissions only

CloudFront distribution settings

14. Which service provides container orchestration and deployment on AWS?

AWS Lambda

Amazon ECS or EKS

AWS Glue

AWS Batch

15. In CloudFormation, what is a stack?

A collection of related AWS resources managed as a single unit

A single EC2 instance configuration

A version control repository

A monitoring dashboard in CloudWatch

16. What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC) primarily used for in DevOps?

Defining and provisioning infrastructure through code version control

Writing application business logic

Monitoring real-time application performance

Managing database queries and transactions

17. Which deployment strategy rolls out changes gradually with automatic rollback on CloudWatch alarms?

Blue-green deployment

Linear deployment

Canary deployment

All-at-once deployment

18. What does CodeDeploy use to manage application deployments across on-premises and cloud instances?

IAM roles and policies

The CodeDeploy agent and appspec.yaml configuration

CloudFormation templates only

Direct SSH connections to each instance

19. Which AWS service orchestrates multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with source, build, and deployment stages?

AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodeCommit

AWS CodeStar

20. In a canary deployment, what percentage of traffic typically routes to the new version initially?

50%

5-10%

25%

100%

AWS DevOps Engineer Deployment Strategies Quiz

1. What is the primary benefit of using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store?

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2. Which deployment strategy minimizes risk by validating changes on a small user subset before full rollout?

3. What is the primary purpose of AWS X-Ray in DevOps?

4. Which AWS service enables automated remediation of configuration drift?

5. What does AWS CloudTrail record for compliance and auditing?

6. In rolling deployment, what happens to instances during the rollout?

7. Which service provides centralized logging for AWS resources and applications?

8. What does AWS OpsWorks provide for configuration management?

9. AWS CodeBuild is primarily used for which CI/CD stage?

10. Which deployment approach deploys to all instances simultaneously with no rollback capability?

11. What is the primary advantage of blue-green deployment in AWS?

12. Which AWS service monitors application and infrastructure metrics in real-time?

13. What does the appspec.yaml file define in CodeDeploy?

14. Which service provides container orchestration and deployment on AWS?

15. In CloudFormation, what is a stack?

16. What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC) primarily used for in DevOps?

17. Which deployment strategy rolls out changes gradually with automatic rollback on CloudWatch alarms?

18. What does CodeDeploy use to manage application deployments across on-premises and cloud instances?

19. Which AWS service orchestrates multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with source, build, and deployment stages?

20. In a canary deployment, what percentage of traffic typically routes to the new version initially?