Quiz 33

After selecting an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host reservation, which pricing option would provide the largest discount?

• No upfront payment
• Hourly on-demand payment
• Partial upfront payment
• All upfront payment

What is an advantage of deploying an application across multiple Availability Zones?

• There is a lower risk of service failure if a natural disaster causes a service disruption in a given AWS Region.
• The application will have higher availability because it can withstand a service disruption in one Availability Zone.
• There will be better coverage as Availability Zones are geographically distant and can serve a wider area.
• There will be decreased application latency that will improve the user experience.

A Cloud Practitioner is asked how to estimate the cost of using a new application on AWS. What is the MOST appropriate response?

• Inform the user that AWS pricing allows for on-demand pricing.
• Direct the user to the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator for an estimate.
• Use Amazon QuickSight to analyze current spending on-premises
• Use Amazon AppStream 2.0 for real-time pricing analytics.

A company wants to migrate its applications to a VPC on AWS. These applications will need to access onpremises resources. What combination of actions will enable the company to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)

• Use the AWS Service Catalog to identify a list of on-premises resources that can be migrated.
• Build a VPN connection between an on-premises device and a virtual private gateway in the new VPC.
• Use Amazon Athena to query data from the on-premises database servers.
• Connect the company’s on-premises data center to AWS using AWS Direct Connect.
• Leverage Amazon CloudFront to restrict access to static web content provided through the company’s on-premises web servers.

A web application running on AWS has been spammed with malicious requests from a recurring set of IP addresses. Which AWS service can help secure the application and block the malicious traffic?

• AWS IAM
• Amazon GuardDuty
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
• AWS WAF

Treating infrastructure as code in the AWS Cloud allows users to: ______

• automate migration of on-premises hardware to AWS data centers.
• let a third party automate an audit of the AWS infrastructure.
• turn over application code to AWS so it can run on the AWS infrastructure.
• automate the infrastructure provisioning process.

A company requires a dedicated network connection between its on-premises servers and the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service should be used?

• AWS VPN
• AWS Direct Connect
• Amazon API Gateway
• Amazon Connect