Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation Quiz

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

Quiz covering Deployment Strategies

What you'll be asked

  1. Which of the following best describes the primary purpose of AWS CloudFormation?
  2. In a CloudFormation template, which section is used to define the actual AWS resources (such as EC2 instances or S3 buckets) that you want to create?
  3. If you want to pass values into your CloudFormation template at runtime, such as an instance type or a database password, which section should you configure?
  4. You have a CloudFormation stack that is currently in the 'UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED' state. What is the recommended way to resolve this?
  5. You are designing a template where an S3 bucket must only be created if the environment parameter is set to 'production'. Which feature of CloudFormation should you use?

Answers and explanations come after you submit.