WorksheetsQuiz #3 (Test 3)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Which of the following options describes a responsibility of the decider that is used within Amazon’s Simple Workflow Service (SWF)?
A) Process tasks that have been received.
B) Return the results of tasks to Amazon SWF.
C) Schedule activity tasks and provide input data to the activity workers.
D) Get tasks that collaborate with Amazon SWF.
As an IT specialist with a cloud background, you are concerned with the overall recoverability of your data within the cloud. What does Amazon S3 offer to alleviate this concern?
A) Amazon S3 provides strong read-after-write consistency.
B) Data is replicated to multiple Regions within an Availability Zone
C) Data within Amazon S3 storage is backed up to tape nightly.
D) Data is stored in silos in another country.
When does Amazon DynamoDB encrypt data at rest?
A) When the first rows of data enter the table
B) Only when you create a new table structure
C) Only when you use an ALTER TABLE command
D) Only when you create a new table structure within the US East (Ohio) Region
You need to create a historical CPU report on your AWS EC2 instance. How long does Amazon CloudWatch keep resource data?
A) 1 week
B) 30 days
C) 14 days
D) 2 days
Which of the following is a database instance type offered by Amazon RDS?
A) DB2
B) NoSQL
C) Amazon Glacier
D) Oracle
Which Amazon storage option is a good solution if you need storage that offers block-level encryption, high reliability, and is highly available, while using applications that use fine-grained updates to raw unformatted data?
A) AWS Snowball Edge
B) Amazon Glacier
C) Amazon S3
D) Amazon EBS
What is the main reason for using an Elastic IP address associated with your virtual private cloud account?
A) You have the ability to move network attributes from one instance to another in one single step.
B) You can assign an Elastic IP address to all your EC2 instances for easier management of your EC2 infrastructure.
C) You can never deallocate an Elastic IP address because it stays associated with your AWS account for auditing purposes and is considered a static IP address.
D) Elastic IP addresses can be used with IPv6 or IPv4 network components.
You need to analyze several terabytes worth of unstructured data using columnar storage. Which type of database would you use?
A) Amazon Aurora
B) Amazon DynamoDB
C) Amazon RDS
D) Amazon Redshift
Which perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework would you use to gain knowledge on updating the skills of the company staff and all company processes?
A) Governance
B) Operations
C) People
D) Business
Which of these would you use for running programs that can automatically retrieve key costs related to various AWS services?
A) AWS Pricing API
B) AWS Cost Explorer
C) AWS Services Catalog
D) AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
How would you respond to your boss if he asked you the difference between Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) storage and Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)? (Choose all that apply.)
A) Objects can be over 20 terabytes in size in Amazon S3.
E) Amazon S3 uses buckets to store objects.
B) Buckets that are stored within Amazon S3 can be duplicated.
C) Amazon S3 will only hold binary-related data.
F) The objects that are stored within an Amazon S3 bucket hold both metadata and data.
Which of these will you use to achieve regulatory compliance on AWS by enforcing encryption for data at rest and in transit?
A) Security groups
B) AWS Artifact
C) AWS Compliance Center
D) AWS IAM
If you want to access the Internet from your Amazon EC2 instance and not use a public IP address, which networking component would you use to access the Internet?
A) Network Access Control List (ACL)
B) Gateway type endpoint
C) NAT gateway
D) Amazon Route 53
You are tasked with understanding the different sections of an IAM policy. Your boss wants to know what section of an IAM policy manages the behaviors, such as allow or deny. What should you tell him?
A) Actions
B) Resources
C) Effects
D) IAM permission boundaries
You have been managing your current production workload with several Reserved Instances for about 15 months. However, you have noticed a small and progressive increase in overall workload and want to make sure your EC2 infrastructure can handle the bandwidth to support the increased workload.
What type of instance would meet this requirement?
A) Spot Instance
B) On-Demand Instance
C) Dedicated Host
D) Reserved Instance
What type of Amazon VPC endpoint focuses on AWS services related only to DynamoDB and Amazon S3 components?
A) Interface type endpoint
B) Virtual private cloud (VPC)
C) Gateway type endpoint
D) VPC peering
You need to find ways to ensure accountability across your AWS Cloud deployment. Which of these services will you use to check all user activity and API calls made on the AWS system?
A) Trusted Advisor
B) CloudWatch
C) Config
D) CloudTrail
You have been working for your company for three years as a system administrator. You have been informed that you need to house several batch application servers. This application can be stopped and started at any point in time. Your task is to provision the needed EC2 infrastructures and your goal is to keep the cost to a minimum.
Which type of instance should you consider?
A) Dedicated Instances
B) Reserved Instances
C) Spot Instances
D) On-Demand Instances
You are managing several production EC2 instances that use a public-facing subnet. You have three new employees on the east coast and twelve new employees on the west coast. You need to give all the employees access to your VPC, but each employee will need different forms of access within AWS and user accounts created.
What is your most effective solution?
A) Contact AWS for configuring your initial IAM roles and users.
B) Use AWS Organizations and service control policies.
C) Create one ID for the east coast users and one ID for the west coast users.
D) Create a new IAM role for users on the east coast and user accounts for the west coast users.
Your company wants to minimize its costs while using AWS compute resources. It is willing to commit to a consistent level of compute resource usage for the next three years. Which AWS compute option should you use for maximum cost savings?
A) Savings Plan model
B) Spot Instances
C) On-Demand Instances
D) Reserved Instances
