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Amazon EBS Test
Test duration:
20
min
No. of questions:
10
Level of experience:
Entry Level/Mid/Senior

Amazon EBS Test

The Amazon EBS Test helps recruiters and hiring managers evaluate a candidate's expertise in using Amazon Elastic Block Store for persistent storage. It enables organizations to streamline hiring for cloud and DevOps roles by validating skills in volume provisioning, IOPS tuning, snapshot management, and performance monitoring.

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Amazon EBS Online Test

Amazon EBS is known as Amazon Elastic Block Store. It provides raw block storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances and is used by Amazon Relational Database Services. Amazon EBS is easy to use and is highly available and durable. Amazon EBS is a high-performance block storage service that is designed to use with Amazon EC2.

Amazon EBS online test helps recruiters and hiring managers to assess candidates Amazon EBS skills. Amazon EBS skills test is designed by experienced subject matter experts (SMEs) to evaluate and hire AWS developer as per the industry standards.

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Test Summary

Amazon EBS skills test helps to screen the candidates who possess traits as follows:

  • Strong knowledge of EBS volume and EBS volume encryptions
  • Experience in EBS solution design and troubleshooting
  • Experience in disaster recovery, solution designs, and hibernation
  • Understanding of RTO/RPO requirements in EBS

Amazon EBS online test is a secure and reliable way of candidate assessment. You can use our role-based access control feature to restrict system access based on the roles of individual users within the recruiting team. Features like window violation, image, audio & video proctoring help detect cheating during the test.

This test may contain MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions), MAQs (Multiple Answer Questions), Fill in the Blanks, Whiteboard Questions, Audio/Video Questions, LogicBox (AI-based essay evaluation), Job-based Simulations, True or False Questions, etc.

Useful for hiring
  • AWS Architect Cloud Engineer
  • Software Development Manager - AWS EBS
  • AWS Developer - EBS
Test Duration
20
min
No. of Questions
10
Level of Expertise
Entry Level/Mid/Senior
Topics Covered
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EBS Optimized

This test evaluates candidates' knowledge of enabling EBS-optimized instances for dedicated throughput and performance in high I/O workloads.

Solution Design

This test assesses candidates' ability to design scalable, cost-effective storage solutions using Amazon EBS within broader AWS architecture.
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RTO/RPO Requirements

This test measures candidates' understanding of Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective planning as it applies to EBS backup and recovery strategies.
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EBS Encryption

This test evaluates candidates' skills in applying and managing encryption for EBS volumes using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and secure access protocols.
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EBS Snapshots

This test assesses candidates' ability to create, manage, and automate EBS snapshots for backup, recovery, and cloning purposes.
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Disaster Recovery

This test evaluates candidates' proficiency in using EBS as part of disaster recovery plans, including cross-region replication and failover strategies.
Sample Question
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Question type
Multiple Option
Topics covered
EBS Optimized
Difficulty
Hard

Question:

Your company is developing an app on AWS EC2 instance and would need a local volume with low latency to handle database workloads. When you are launching an EC2 instance, you find an option named "EBS-optimized". Determine the purpose of EBS optimized instances.


Options

  • Amazon EBS-optimized instance provides additional, dedicated capacity for Amazon EBS I/O.
  • Amazon EBS-optimized instance comes with instance store ephemeral storage which provides faster throughput.
  • EBS-optimized is a configuration on the EBS volume, not an option on the EC2 instance.
  • Amazon EBS-optimized instances cannot have Provisioned IOPS SSD volume types. They only work with General Purpose SSD, and Throughput Optimized HDD.
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