CloudFormation Fundamentals Quiz

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Quiz covering Infrastructure as Code

What you'll be asked

  1. Which of the following is the primary file format used to define AWS CloudFormation templates?
  2. You want to dynamically pass values into your CloudFormation template at runtime, such as an environment name or instance type. Which section of the template should you define these in?
  3. What is the purpose of the 'Mappings' section in a CloudFormation template?
  4. If you update a CloudFormation stack and the update fails, what is the default behavior of CloudFormation?
  5. You have a complex architecture where you need to reference an output value from one CloudFormation stack in another stack. What is the recommended mechanism to achieve this?

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