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Quiz Questions and answers are as below:
1. AWS WAF……….
a) To manage IAM roles
b) To monitor application logs
c) Ensures common threats cannot hamper an application
d) To store static website content
Answer: c) Ensures common threats cannot hamper an application
2. Which of the following is a lesser known attack that AWS WAF protects against?
a) SQL Injection
b) Data Backup Failure
c) Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
d) DDoS
Answer: b) Data Backup Failure
3. AWS WAF directly integrates with ……………………..
a) Amazon S3
b) Amazon CloudFront
c) Amazon EC2
d) Amazon RDS
Answer:b) Amazon CloudFront
4. What are managed rule groups?
a) Billing dashboards
b) Performance testing rules
c) Pre-configured rules provided by AWS for security
d) Custom rules written by the user
Answer: c) Pre-configured rules provided by AWS for security
5. What does a WebACL do?
a) Creates a security group
b) Defines IAM access
c) Acts as a firewall policy containing rules
d) Manages Lambda executions
Answer: c) Acts as a firewall policy containing rules
6. Rate-based rules in AWS WAF ensure that:
a) the number of requests from an IP are limited
b) Increase server speed
c) Schedule Lambda functions
d) Improve billing visibility
Answer: a) the number of requests from an IP are limited
7. AWS WAF can block requests based on:
a) User password
b) IP address and geographic location
c) Network bandwidth
d) Storage size
Answer: b) IP address and geographic location
8. One key benefit of integrating AWS WAF with CloudFront is:
a) Faster database queries
b) Edge-level security filtering
c) File compression
d) CloudFormation automation
Answer: b) Edge-level security filtering
9. What feature helps in reducing bot traffic in AWS WAF?
a) EC2 Auto Scaling
b) Bot Control
c) Amazon Macie
d) Amazon Inspector
Answer: b) Bot Control
10. Which AWS service is best used to monitor WAF activity logs?
a) Amazon S3
b) AWS CodePipeline
c) Amazon CloudWatch
d) Amazon QuickSight
Answer: c) Amazon CloudWatch
11. AWS WAF is best suited for:
a) On-premise firewalls
b) Web apps hosted on AWS
c) IoT device monitoring
d) Internal corporate networks
Answer: b) Web apps hosted on AWS
12. What type of pricing does AWS WAF follow?
a) Subscription-only model
b) Pay-as-you-go model
c) Annual contract only
d) Free tier only
Answer: b) Pay-as-you-go model
13. Which of the following is a challenge with AWS WAF?
a) High performance
b) Complexity in rule tuning
c) Easy to set up
d) Unlimited free rules
Answer: b) Complexity in rule tuning
14. Which rule types can you define in AWS WAF?
a) Static only
b) IP-based, Rate-based, Geo-based
c) CloudFormation-based
d) Shell-scripted rules
Answer: b) IP-based, Rate-based, Geo-based
15. AWS WAF can protect which of the following?
a) Amazon S3 buckets
b) VPC subnets
c) REST APIs and web applications
d) EC2 key pairs
Answer: c) REST APIs and web applications