AWS Cloud Practitioner Practice Questions (ND2)

A company has a global user base and needs to deploy AWS services that can decrease network latency for their users. Which services may assist? (Select TWO.)

• Amazon CloudFront

• Amazon VPC

• Application Auto Scaling

• AWS Direct Connect

• AWS Global Accelerator

Which on-premises costs must be included in a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculation when comparing against the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)

• Physical compute hardware

• Operating system administration

• Network infrastructure in the data center

• Project management services

• Database schema development

Which of the following tasks can a user perform to optimize Amazon EC2 costs? (Select TWO.)

• Implement Auto Scaling groups to add and remove instances based on demand.

• Create a policy to restrict IAM users from accessing the Amazon EC2 console.

• Set a budget to limit spending on Amazon EC2 instances using AWS Budgets.

• Purchase Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances.

• Create users in a single Region to reduce the spread of EC2 instances globally.

A company plan to move the application development to AWS. Which benefits can they achieve when developing and running applications in the AWS Cloud compared to on-premises? (Select TWO.)

• AWS automatically replicates all data globally.

• AWS will fully manage the entire application.

• AWS makes it easy to implement high availability.

• AWS can accommodate large changes in application demand.

• AWS takes care of application security patching.

A company recently migrated to AWS and wants to implement a solution to protect the traffic that flows in and out of the production VPC. The company had an inspection server in its on-premises data center. The inspection server performed specific operations such as traffic flow inspection and traffic filtering. The company wants to have the same functionalities in the AWS Cloud.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

• Use Amazon GuardDuty for traffic inspection and traffic filtering in the production VPC.

• Use Traffic Mirroring to mirror traffic from the production VPC for traffic inspection and filtering.

• Use AWS Network Firewall to create the required rules for traffic inspection and traffic filtering for the production VPC.

• Use AWS Firewall Manager to create the required rules for traffic inspection and traffic filtering for the production VPC.

A Cloud Practitioner is re-architecting a monolithic application. Which design principles for cloud architecture do AWS recommend? (Select TWO.)

• Implement manual scalability.

• Implement loose coupling.

• Use self-managed servers.

• Rely on individual components.

• Design for scalability.

Which of the following a valid best practices for using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service? (Select TWO.)

• Embed access keys in application code.

• Create individual IAM users.

• Use inline policies instead of customer managed policies.

• Use groups to assign permissions to IAM users.

• Grant maximum privileges to IAM users.

Which of the following is an advantage for a company running workloads in the AWS Cloud vs on-premises? (Select TWO.)

• Less staff time is required to launch new workloads.

• Increased time to market for new application features.

• Higher acquisition costs to support elastic workloads.

• Lower overall utilization of server and storage systems.

• Increased productivity for application development teams.

A Cloud Practitioner wants to configure the AWS CLI for programmatic access to AWS services. Which credential components are required? (Select TWO.)

• An access key ID

• A public key

• A secret access key

• An IAM Role

• A private key

What can a Cloud Practitioner do with the AWS Cost Management tools? (Select TWO.)

• Visualize AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account.

• Terminate EC2 instances automatically if budget thresholds are exceeded.

• Automatically modify EC2 instances to use Spot pricing to reduce costs.

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

• Archive data to Amazon Glacier if it is not acc