Cloud Practitioner Quiz 10

A company wants a cost-effective option when running its applications in an Amazon EC2 instance for short time periods. The applications can be interrupted. Which EC2 instance type will meet these requirements?

• Spot Instances
• On-Demand Instances
• Reserved Instances
• Dedicated Instances

Which tool can be used to create alerts when the actual or forecasted cost of AWS services exceeds a certain threshold?

• Cost Explorer
• AWS Budgets
• AWS Cost and Usage Report
• AWS CloudTrail

A user has limited knowledge of AWS services, but wants to quickly deploy a scalable Node.js application in the AWS Cloud. Which service should be used to deploy the application?

• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Amazon EC2
• AWS OpsWorks

A security officer wants to enable IPsec communications to securely connect users from on-premises networks to AWS. Which AWS service or feature should the officer use?

• Amazon VPC
• AWS VPN
• AWS Direct Connect
• Amazon Connect

Which AWS Trusted Advisor check is available to all AWS users?

• Core checks
• All checks
• Cost optimization checks
• Fault tolerance checks

A web developer is concerned that a DDoS attack could target an application. Which AWS services or features can help protect against such an attack? (Choose two.)

• AWS Shield
• AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Support Center
• AWS Service Health Dashboard

Which AWS service gives users on-demand, self-service access to AWS compliance control reports?

• AWS Config
• Amazon GuardDuty
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS Artifact

A company wants to provide one of its employees with access to Amazon RDS. The company also wants to limit the interaction to only the AWS CLI and AWS software development kits (SDKs). Which combination of actions should the company take to meet these requirements while following the principles of least privilege? (Choose two.)

• Create an IAM user and provide AWS Management Console access only
• Create an IAM user and provide programmatic access only
• Create an IAM role and provide AWS Management Console access only
• Create an IAM policy with administrator access and attach it to the IAM user
• Create an IAM policy with Amazon RDS access and attach it to the IAM user

A company has a compliance requirement to record and evaluate configuration changes, as well as perform remediation actions on AWS resources. Which AWS service should the company use?

• AWS Config
• AWS Secrets Manager
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS Trusted Advisor

What are the advantages of deploying an application with Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones? (Choose two.)

• Preventing a single point of failure
• Reducing the operational costs of the application
• Allowing the application to serve cross-region users with low latency
• Increasing the availability of the application
• Increasing the load of the application