Test your AWS knowledge
A broad readiness check, not an exam simulation — 9 scenario questions across the core AWS concepts you'd need for any cloud role.
AWS knowledge check — 9 questions
1. Your team needs to run a stateless API that receives unpredictable, bursty traffic — sometimes zero requests for hours, then a spike. Which AWS compute approach best fits without paying for idle capacity?
2. A company needs to store rarely accessed compliance archives for 7 years, where retrieval taking hours is acceptable, at the lowest possible storage cost. Which S3 storage class fits best?
3. What is the AWS-recommended way to grant an EC2 instance permission to read from an S3 bucket, instead of hardcoding credentials on the instance?
4. In a VPC, what is the typical purpose of a private subnet versus a public subnet?
5. Why do production architectures on AWS typically deploy across multiple Availability Zones within a Region rather than a single AZ?
6. A team needs a database for a shopping-cart service with a flexible, evolving schema that must scale to unpredictable read/write throughput with single-digit-millisecond latency. Which is the better starting fit: RDS or DynamoDB?
7. What is the primary AWS service for collecting metrics and logs and setting alarms to detect operational problems before they impact customers?
8. A company wants a disaster recovery strategy that can fail over to a second Region within minutes, and is willing to pay for a scaled-down but running copy of their environment there at all times. Which DR strategy best matches this?
9. Which AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar specifically addresses right-sizing resources, using managed services, and taking advantage of pricing models like Reserved Instances or Savings Plans to avoid unnecessary spend?