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AWS Cloud Foundations

Checkpoint: Core Services

Five questions on this section. Answer all of them, then see your score and why each answer is right or wrong.

Question 1 of 5

Lantern adds an in-memory cache server that needs a lot of RAM but little CPU. Which instance family fits best?

Question 2 of 5

Event posters are viewed constantly for the month around an event, then rarely, but old event pages must still load them instantly. Which setup keeps costs down without breaking old pages?

Question 3 of 5

Lantern creates a new DynamoDB table for a check-in feature whose traffic is near zero most days and huge on festival days. Which capacity mode should it start with?

Question 4 of 5

A Lambda function in a private subnet reads posters from S3 and writes to DynamoDB. The VPC has no NAT gateway. What is the cheapest way to let it reach both services?

Question 5 of 5

A Lambda function not attached to any VPC cannot connect to Lantern’s RDS database in a private subnet. What is needed?

5 questions unanswered