G-AsiaPacific Cloud Knowledge Challenge: AWS Edition

What are the benefits of having infrastructure hosted in AWS? (Choose TWO)

• Increasing speed and agility
• There is no need to worry about security
• Gaining complete control over the physical infrastructure
• Operating applications on behalf of customers
• All of the physical security and most of the data/network security are taken care of for you

Which of the below options are related to the reliability of AWS?

• Applying the principle of least privilege to all AWS resources.
• All AWS services are considered Global Services, and this design helps customers serve their international users.
• Providing compensation to customers if issues occur.
• Ability to recover quickly from failures.

What is the advantage of the AWS-recommended practice of "decoupling" applications

• Allows treating an application as a single, cohesive unit
• Reduces inter-dependencies so that failures do not impact other components of the application
• Allows updates of any monolithic application quickly and easily
• Allows tracking of any API call made to any AWS service

Hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks are recorded every month worldwide. What service does AWS provide to help protect AWS Customers from these attacks?

• AWS Shield
• AWS Config
• Amazon Cognito
• AWS KMS

A company has developed an eCommerce web application in AWS. What should they do to ensure that the application has the highest level of availability?

• Deploy the application across multiple Availability Zones and Edge locations.
• Deploy the application across multiple Availability Zones and subnets.
• Deploy the application across multiple Regions and Availability Zones.
• Deploy the application across multiple VPC’s and subnets.

A company is concerned that they are spending money on underutilized compute resources in AWS. Which AWS feature will help ensure that their applications are automatically adding/removing EC2 compute capacity to closely match the required demand?

• AWS Elastic Load Balancer
• AWS Budgets
• AWS Auto Scaling
• AWS Cost Explorer

A developer is planning to build a two-tier web application that has a MySQL database layer. Which of the following AWS database services would provide automated backups for the application?

• A MySQL database installed on an EC2 instance
• Amazon Aurora
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon Neptune

Jessica is managing an e-commerce web application in AWS. The application is hosted on six EC2 instances. One day, three of the instances crashed; but none of her customers were affected. What has Jessica done correctly in this scenario?

• She has properly built an elastic system
• She has properly built a fault tolerant system
• She has properly built an encrypted system
• She has properly built a scalable system

Your company is developing a critical web application in AWS, and the security of the application is a top priority. Which of the following AWS services will provide infrastructure security optimization recommendations?

• AWS Shield
• AWS Management Console
• AWS Secrets Manager
• AWS Trusted Advisor

You work as an on-premises MySQL DBA. The work of database configuration, backups, patching, and DR can be time-consuming and repetitive. Your company has decided to migrate to the AWS Cloud. Which of the following can help save time on database maintenance so you can focus on data architecture and performance?

• Amazon RDS
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon CloudWatch