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What is AWS CloudFormation?

Which file format is commonly used for writing CloudFormation templates?

In CloudFormation, what is a stack?

What is the purpose of a CloudFormation Change Set?

• To roll back a stack update

• To preview proposed changes to a stack

• To automate instance scaling

• To manage IAM roles

Which AWS service provides a visual interface for designing CloudFormation templates?

Match the following

• controls permissions for stack updates

• Stack Policy

• CloudFormation StackSets

• drift detection

• difference expected and actual resources

• cross-account and cross-region stack deployments

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk

• deploying and managing applications, abstracting infrastructure details

• consistent and repeatable deployments

• benefit of using CloudFormation

Match the following

• install software and configure instances

• CloudFormation intrinsic function

• pause stack creation until specific cond

• CloudFormation "WaitCondition" resources

• built-in function for template transform

• securely manage and retrieve sensitive data in CloudFormation templates

• AWS Secrets Manager

• "drift"

• expected and actual resource configurat

• "cfn-init" script in CloudFormation