# 1 What advantages does a database administrator obtain by using the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

• RDS provides 99.99999999999% reliability and durability

• RDS databases automatically scale based on load.

• RDS enables users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resources.

• RDS simplifies relational database administration tasks.

#2 A Cloud Practitioner requires point-in-time recovery (PITR) for an Amazon DynamoDB table. Who is responsible for configuring and performing backups?

• AWS is responsible for both tasks

• The customer is responsible for configuring and AWS is responsible for performing backups.

• The customer is responsible for both tasks.

• AWS is responsible for configuring and the user is responsible for performing backups

#3 A large company is interested in avoiding long-term contracts and moving from fixed costs to variable costs. What is the value proposition of AWS for this company?

• Economies of scale

• Pay-as-you-go pricing

• Volume pricing discounts

• Automated cost optimization

#4 A customer needs to determine Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a workload that requires physical isolation. Which hosting model should be accounted for?

• Dedicated Hosts

• Reserved Instances

• On-Demand Instances

• Spot Instances

#5 Which tasks can a user complete using the AWS Cost Management tools? (Select TWO.)

• Automatically terminate AWS resources if budget thresholds are exceeded.

• Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account.

• Create budgets and receive notifications if current or forecasted usage exceeds the budgets

• Launch either EC2 Spot instances or On-Demand instances based on the current pricing

• Move data stored in Amazon S3 Standard to an archiving storage class to reduce cost.

#6 Which of the following AWS services are compute services? (Select TWO.)

• AWS Batch

• AWS CloudTrail

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk

• Amazon EFS

• Amazon Inspector

#7 Which design principles are enabled by the AWS Cloud to improve the operation of workloads? (Select TWO)

• Minimize platform design

• Loose coupling

• Customized hardware

• Remove single points of failure

• Minimum viable product

#8 A user is planning to launch three EC2 instances behind a single Elastic Load Balancer. The deployment should be highly available.

• Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region

• Launch the instances as EC2 Spot Instances in the same AWS Region and the same Availability Zone.

• Launch the instances in multiple AWS Regions, and use Elastic IP addresses.

• Launch the instances as EC2 Reserved Instances in the same AWS Region, but in different Availability Zones.

#9 Which resource should a new user on AWS use to get help with deploying popular technologies based on AWS best practices, including architecture and deployment instructions?

• AWS CloudFormation

• AWS Artifact

• AWS Config

• AWS Quick Starts

#10 A company needs to publish messages to a thousands of subscribers simultaneously using a push mechanism. Which AWS service should the company use?

• AWS Step Functions

• Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

• Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)