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WorksheetsAWS Cloud Practitioner Q6
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 37mins
#1 The AWS Cost Management tools give users the ability to do which of the following? (Select TWO.)
Terminate all AWS resources automatically if budget thresholds are exceeded
Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account
Create budgets and receive notifications if current or forecasted usage exceeds the budgets
Switch automatically to Reserved Instances or Spot Instances, whichever is most cost-effective
Move data stored in Amazon S3 to a more cost-effective storage class
#2 Which AWS service or feature helps restrict the AWS service, resources, and individual API actions the users and roles in each member account can access?
Amazon Cognito
AWS Organizations
AWS Shield
AWS Firewall Manager
#3 Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the AWS customer? (Select TWO.)
Ensuring that application data is encrypted at rest
Ensuring that AWS NTP servers are set to the correct time
Ensuring that users have received security training in the use of AWS services
Ensuring that access to data centers is restricted
Ensuring that hardware is disposed of properly
#4 Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following are customer responsibilities? (Select TWO.)
Setting up server-side encryption on an Amazon S3 bucket
Amazon RDS instance patching
Network and firewall configurations
Physical security of data center facilities
Compute capacity availability
#5 A web application running on AWS has been received malicious requests from the same set of IP addresses. Which AWS service can help secure the application and block the malicious traffic?
AWS IAM
Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon SNS
AWS WAF
#6 Which AWS service provides the ability to detect inadvertent data leaks of personally identifiable information (PII) and user credential data?
Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon Inspector
Amazon Macie
AWS Shield
#7 According to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, what change management steps should be taken to achieve reliability in the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)
Use AWS Config to generate an inventory of AWS resources
Use service limits to prevent users from creating or making changes to AWS resources
Use AWS CloudTrail to record AWS API calls into an auditable log file
Use AWS Certificate Manager to create a catalog of approved services
Use Amazon GuardDuty to record API activity to an S3 bucket
#8 Which of the following acts as a virtual firewall at the Amazon EC2 instance level to control traffic for one or more instances?
Route table
Virtual private gateways (VPG)
Security groups
Network Access Control Lists (ACL)
#9 Which AWS Cloud design principles can help increase reliability? (Select TWO.)
Using monolithic architecture
Measuring overall efficiency
Testing recovery procedures
Adopting a consumption mode
Automatically recovering from failure
#10 Which pricing model will interrupt a running Amazon EC2 instance if capacity becomes temporarily unavailable?
On-Demand Instances
Standard Reserved Instances
Spot Instances
Convertible Reserved Instances
#11 Which of the following statements about AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing model is correct?
It results in reduced capital expenditures
It requires payment up front for AWS services
It is relevant only for Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB
It reduces operational expenditures
#12 Which AWS service can serve a static website?
Amazon S3
Amazon Route 53
Amazon QuickSight
AWS X-Ray
#13 A startup eCommerce company needs to quickly deliver new website features in an iterative manner, minimizing the time to market. Which AWS Cloud feature allows this?
Elasticity
High availability
Agility
Reliability
What is the most efficient way to establish network connectivity from on-premises to multiple VPCs in different AWS Regions?
. Use AWS Direct Connect
Use AWS VPN
Use AWS Client VPN
Use an AWS Transit Gateway
#15 A company is using the AWS CLI and programmatic access of AWS resources from its on-premises network. What is a mandatory requirement in this scenario?
Using an AWS Direct Connect connection
Using an AWS access key and a secret key
Using Amazon API Gateway
Using an Amazon EC2 key pair
#16 Which AWS service is suitable for an event-driven workload?
Amazon EC2
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Lambda
Amazon Lumberyard
#17 Based on the shared responsibility model, which of the following security and compliance tasks is AWS responsible for?
Granting access to individuals and services
Encrypting data in transit
Updating Amazon EC2 host firmware
Updating operating systems
#18 Which AWS service can be used to run Docker containers?
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECR
AWS Fargate
Amazon AMI
#19 Which type of Elastic Load Balancer operates at the TCP connection level?
Application Load Balancer (ALB)
Network Load Balancer (NLB)
Classic Load Balancer (CLB)
Amazon Route 53 Load Balancer
#20 Which AWS technology can be referred to as a “virtual hard disk in the cloud”?
Amazon EFS Filesystem
Amazon S3 Bucket
Amazon EBS volume
Amazon ENI
#21 In which ways does AWS’ pricing model benefit organizations?
Eliminates licensing costs
Focus spend on capital expenditure, rather than operational expenditure
Reduce the cost of maintaining idle resources
Reduces the people cost of application development
#22 Which service allows you to monitor and troubleshoot systems using system and application log files generated by those systems?
CloudTrail Logs
CloudWatch Metrics
CloudWatch Logs
CloudTrail Metrics
#23 According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is a shared control?
Operating system patching
Awareness and training
Protection of infrastructure
Client-side data encryption
#24 Where do Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) accounts need to be created for a global organization?
In each region where the users are located
just create them once, as IAM is a global service
Create them globally, and then replicate them regionally
In each geographical area where the users are located
#25 What is the name for the top-level container used to hold objects within Amazon S3?
Folder
Directory
Instance Store
Bucket
#26 Which of the following are examples of horizontal scaling?
Add more CPU/RAM to existing instances as demand increases
Add more instances as demand increases
Requires a restart to scale up or down
Automatic scaling using services such as AWS Auto Scaling
Scalability is limited by maximum instance size
#27 Which resource should you use to access AWS security and compliance reports?
AWS Artifact
AWS Business Associate Addendum (BAA)
AWS IAM
AWS Organizations
#28 What methods are available for scaling an Amazon RDS database? (Select TWO.)
You can scale up by moving to a larger instance size
You can scale out automatically with EC2 Auto Scaling
You can scale up by increasing storage capacity
You can scale out by implementing Elastic Load Balancing
You can scale up automatically using AWS Auto Scaling
#29 Which type of scaling does Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling provide?
Vertical
Linear
Horizontal
Incremental
#30 Which feature of Amazon S3 enables you to create rules to control the transfer of objects between different storage classes?
Object sharing
Versioning
Lifecycle management
Bucket policies
#31 How can a database administrator reduce operational overhead for a MySQL database?
Migrate the database onto an EC2 instance
Migrate the database onto AWS Lambda
Use AWS CloudFormation to manage operations
Migrate the database onto an Amazon RDS instance
#32 Which AWS database service is schema-less and can be scaled dynamically without incurring downtime?
Amazon RDS
Amazon Aurora
Amazon RedShift
Amazon DynamoDB
#33 Which type of AWS database is ideally suited to analytics using SQL queries?
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon RedShift
Amazon RDS
Amazon S3
#34 Which AWS service is designed to be used for operational analytics?
Amazon EMR
Amazon Athena
Amazon QuickSight
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
#35 You need to connect your company’s on-premise network into AWS and would like to establish an AWS managed VPN service. Which of the following configuration items needs to be setup on the Amazon VPC side of the connection?
A Virtual Private Gateway
A Customer Gateway
A Network Address Translation device
A Firewall
#36 Where are Amazon EBS snapshots stored?
On an Amazon EBS instance store
On an Amazon EFS filesystem
Within the EBS block store
On Amazon S3
#37 Which AWS service makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications as a series of steps in a visual workflow?
Amazon SWF
AWS Step Functions
Amazon SNS
Amazon SES
#38 A Cloud Practitioner is creating the business process workflows associated with an order fulfilment system. Which AWS service can assist with coordinating tasks across distributed application components?
AWS STS
Amazon SQS
Amazon SWF
Amazon SNS
#39 Your manager has asked you to explain some of the security features available in the AWS cloud. How can you describe the function of Amazon CloudHSM?
It provides server-side encryption for S3 objects
It is a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
It can be used to generate, use and manage encryption keys in the cloud
It is a firewall for use with web applications
#40 Which AWS Glacier data access option retrieves data from an archive in 1-5 minutes?
Standard
Express
Accelerated
Expedited
#41 How can a systems administrator specify a script to be run on an EC2 instance during launch?
Metadata
User Data
Run Command
AWS Config
#42 What advantages does the AWS cloud provide in relation to cost? (Select TWO.)
Fine-grained billing
One-off payments for on-demand resources
Ability to turn off resources and not pay for them
Enterprise licensing discounts
Itemized power costs
#43 Which of the authentication options below can be used to authenticate using AWS APIs? (Select TWO.)
Key pairs
Access keys
Server passwords
Security groups
Server certificates
Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, who is responsible for what? (Select TWO.)
Customers are responsible for compute infrastructure
AWS are responsible for network and firewall configuration
Customers are responsible for networking traffic protection
AWS are responsible for networking infrastructure
Customers are responsible for edge locations
#45 Which HTTP code indicates a successful upload of an object to Amazon S3?
200
300
400
500
#46 Which AWS support plans provide 24×7 access to customer service?
Basic
Business
Developer
All plans
#47 Which of the following are NOT features of AWS IAM? (Select TWO.)
Shared access to your AWS account
Logon using local user accounts
Identity federation
PCI DSS compliance
Charged for what you use
#48 How can a company facilitate the sharing of data over private connections between two accounts they own within a region?
Create an internal ELB
Create a subnet peering connection
Create a VPC peering connection
Configure matching CIDR address ranges
#49 How can you deploy your EC2 instances so that if a single data center fails you still have instances available?
Across regions
Across subnets
Across Availability Zones
Across VPCs
#50 Your manager has asked you to explain the benefits of using IAM groups. Which of the below statements are valid benefits? (Select TWO.)
You can restrict access to the subnets in your VPC
Groups let you specify permissions for multiple users, which can make it easier to manage the permissions for those users
Provide the ability to create custom permission policies
Enables you to attach IAM permission policies to more than one user at a time
Provide the ability to nest groups to create an organizational hierarchy
#51 Which of the following are pillars from the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select TWO.)
Resilience
Operational excellence
Confidentiality
Economics
Performance efficiency
#52 What do you need to log into the AWS console?
User name and password
Key pair
Access key and secret ID
Certificate
#53 What are the advantages of running a database service such as Amazon RDS in the cloud versus deploying on-premise? (Select TWO.)
You have full control of the operating system and can install your own operational tools
Scalability is improved as it is quicker to implement and there is an abundance of capacity
You can use any database software you like, allowing greater flexibility
High availability is easier to implement due to built-in functionality for deploying read replicas and multi-AZ
There are no costs for replicating data between DBs in different data centers or regions
Which of the statements below does NOT characterize cloud computing?
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power
With cloud computing you get to benefit from massive economies of scale
Cloud computing allows you to swap variable expense for capital expense
With cloud computing you can increase your speed and agility
Which AWS technology enables you to group resources that share one or more tags?
Tag groups
Organization groups
Resource groups
Consolidation groups
What is the easiest way to store a backup of an EBS volume on Amazon S3?
Write a custom script to copy the data into a bucket
Use S3 lifecycle actions to backup the volume
Create a snapshot of the volume
Use Amazon Kinesis to process the data and store the results in S3
#57 Which AWS security tool uses an agent installed in EC2 instances and assesses applications for vulnerabilities and deviations from best practices?
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
AWS TCO Calculator
AWS Inspector
#58 Which of the following is NOT a best practice for protecting the root user of an AWS account?
Don’t share the root user credentials
Enable MFA
Remove administrative permissions
Lock away the AWS root user access keys
You are evaluating AWS services that can assist with creating scalable application environments. Which of the statements below best describes the Elastic Load Balancer service?
Helps you ensure that you have the correct number of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application
A highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service
Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses
A network service that provides an alternative to using the Internet to connect customers’ on-premise sites to AWS
#60 What is an example of scaling vertically?
AWS Auto Scaling adding more EC2 instances
AWS Lambda adding concurrently executing functions
Increasing the instance size with Amazon RDS
Adding read replicas to an Amazon RDS database
#61 To reduce cost, which of the following services support reservations? (Select TWO.)
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon CloudFormation
Amazon RedShift
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon S3
#62 What type of cloud computing service type do AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon RDS correspond to?
IaaS
PaaS
SaaS
Hybrid
#63 How can a company configure automatic, asynchronous copying of objects in Amazon S3 buckets across regions?
This is done by default by AWS
By configuring multi-master replication
Using cross-region replication
Using lifecycle actions
#64 Your company has recently migrated to AWS. How can your CTO monitor the organization’s costs?
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Consolidated Billing
AWS Simple Monthly calculator
#65 Your organization has offices around the world and some employees travel between offices. How should their accounts be setup?
IAM is a global service, just create the users in one place
Create a separate account in IAM within each region in which they will travel
Set the user account as a “global” account when created
Enable MFA for the accounts
