CloudFront Distributions Quiz

5 questions Pass: 70% +25 pts (50 with Pro)

Quiz covering DNS and Content Delivery

What you'll be asked

  1. What is the primary purpose of using Amazon CloudFront in a web architecture?
  2. When configuring a CloudFront distribution, what is an 'Origin'?
  3. If you update a file in your S3 origin but CloudFront continues to serve the old version, what is the most efficient way to ensure the new version is served immediately?
  4. A company wants to restrict access to content in an S3 bucket so that it can only be accessed through CloudFront. Which feature should they implement?
  5. You have a CloudFront distribution configured with a default TTL of 24 hours. You need to serve a specific set of files that change every 10 minutes. How can you handle this without invalidating the cache manually?

Answers and explanations come after you submit.