AWS Generic

A Region typically consists of two or more.

• Availability zones

• AWS Region

• Subnets

• Geographical Area

Which of the following does Amazon CloudFront use to distribute content to users around the world?

• Amazon VPC

• AWS Local Zones

• Edge locations

• Availability Zones

Which AWS service is a highly available and scalable DNS web service?

• Amazon VPC

• Amazon CloudFront

• Amazon Route 53

• Amazon Connect

Which AWS service can be used to encrypt data at rest?

• Amazon GuardDuty

• AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

• AWS Shield

• AWS Security Hub

A company uses Amazon EC2 instances to run its web application. The company uses On-Demand Instances and Spot Instances. The company needs to visualize its monthly spending on both types of instances.

Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?

• AWS Cost Explorer

• AWS Budgets

• Amazon CloudWatch

• AWS Cost Categories

Answer explanation

This is the most common widget that we see when we login, you might have noticed pie charts showing costs on the homepage of aws console. This can be explored more under cost section of the AWS :)

Which AWS service or tool can a company set up to send notifications that a custom spending threshold has been reached or exceeded?

• AWS Budgets

• AWS Trusted Advisor

• AWS CloudTrail

• AWS Support

Answer explanation

AWS cost explorer is for visualization of the cost over time but AWS Budgets are used to set a threshold on how much we are spending, this is useful in the scenarios where the daily costs are need to be set once the set threshold is reached you will receive a notification.

Which AWS service or feature can be used to create a private connection between an on-premises workload and an AWS Cloud workload?

• Amazon Route 53

• AWS Direct Connect

• Amazon Macie

• AWS PrivateLink

Which service can identify the user that made the API call when an Amazon EC2 instance is terminated?

• AWS Trusted Advisor

• AWS CloudTrail

• AWS X-Ray

• AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)

Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads?

• Users can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads

• Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on demand when needed

• Users retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances

• Amazon EC2 costs are billed on a monthly basis

Which statement is true regarding the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?

• • Responsibilities vary depending on the services used.

• • Security of the IaaS services is the responsibility of AWS.

• • Patching the guest OS is always the responsibility of AWS.

• • Security of the managed services is the responsibility of the customer.