AWS Practitioner

What is the term used to describe giving an AWS user only access to the exact services he/she needs to do the required job and nothing more?

Choose the Correct Answer

• The Least Privilege User Principal

• The Principal of Least Privilege

• The Only Access Principal.

• None of the above

What you create and S3 bucket, what rules must be followed regarding the bucket name? (Select all that apply) Choose the 2 Correct answers:

• Bucket names must be unique across all of AWS.

• Bucket names must be between 3-63 characters in length.

• Bucket names must contain at least one uppercase letter

• Bucket names can be formatted as IP addresses

Answer explanation

Although certain regions do allow for uppercase letters in the bucket name, uppercase letters are NOT required. Also, a bucket name cannot be formatted as an IP

address.

What are some common uses of AWS? (Select all that apply) Choose the 4 Correct answers:

• Networking

• Analytics

• Storage

• Virtualization

Answer explanation

All of the answers are common uses of AWS. AWS has thousands of different uses. In this course we discussed some of the major categories, including: Storage

Compute Power Databases Networking Analytics Developer Tools Virtualization Security

What best describes the purpose of having many Availability Zones in each AWS region?

Choose the Correct Answer

• Multiple Availability Zones allow for fault tolerance but not high availability.

• Multiple Availability Zones allow for cheaper prices due to competition between them.

• Multiple Availability Zones allow for duplicate and redundant compute, and data backups.

• None of the abov

Which S3 storage class has lowest object availability rating?

Choose the Correct Answer

• Standard

• Reduced Redundancy

• Infrequent Access

• All of them have the same availability rating

Answer explanation

Infrequent access has the lowest availability rating (99.90%). Standard and Reduced Redundancy have an availability rating of 99.99%

Your company's upper management is getting very nervous about managing governance, compliance, and risk auditing in AWS. What service should you enable and inform upper management about?

• CloudAudit

• CloudTrail

• CloudCompliance

• CloudWatch

Answer explanation

AWS CloudTrail is designed to log all actions taken in your AWS account. This provides a great resource for governance, compliance, and risk auditing.

Kim is managing a web application running on the AWS cloud. The application is currently utilizing eight EC2 servers for its compute platform. Earlier today, two of those web servers crashed; however, none of her customer were effected. What has Kim done correctly in this scenario?

• Properly built an elastic system.

• Properly built a scalable system

• Properly build a fault tolerant system.

• None of the abov

Answer explanation

A fault tolerant system is one that can sustain a certain amount of failure while still remaining operational.

Why would a company decide to use AWS over an on-premises data center? (Select all that apply) Choose the 4 Correct answers:

• Highly available infrastructure

• Elastic resources based on demand

• No upfront cost

• Cost-effective

Answer explanation

All four answers listed are reasons why a company may decide to use AWS over an on-premises data center.

You are trying to organize and import (to AWS) gigabytes of data that are currently structured in JSON-like, name-value documents. What AWS service would best fit your needs?

• Lambda

• Aurora

• RDS

• DynamoDB

Answer explanation

DynamoDB is AWS's NoSQL database offering. NoSQL databases are for non-structured data that are typically stored in JSON-like, name-value documents

John is working with a large data set, and he needs to import it into a relational database service. What AWS service will meet his needs?

• RDS

• Redshift

• NoSQL

• DynamoDB