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WorksheetsAWS 24/09
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Multi AZ (Availability Zone) deployment is an example of which of the following?
High Availability
Performance Efficiency
Horizontal Scaling
Vertical Scaling
You are working on two projects that require a completely different network configuration. Which of the following would allow you to isolate resources and network configurations for each of them?
Security Groups
Edge Locations
Virtual Public Cloud
Virtual Private Cloud
Sarah has created a web application, placing its underlining infrastructure in the N. Virginia (US-East-1) region. After several months, Sarah notices that much of her website’s traffic is coming from Japan. What can she do to reduce latency for her users in Japan?
Migrate the application to a Japanese hosting service.
Create a CDN using CloudFront, so that content is cached at Edge locations close to and in Japan.
Recreate the website content
None of the above
Which AWS network feature can establish a private network connection between AWS and your datacenter?
AWS Snowball
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Route 53
AWS Direct Connect
Which of the following is an AWS Global Service?
VPC
RDS
EC2
CloudFront
Which is a core design principle for deploying resources in AWS?
Use a tight coupling of your resources and applications.
Plan ahead for hardware capacity.
Deploy in Multiple Availability Zones.
Estimate your S3 storage needs up front.
AWS Elastic Beantalk is a service that manages web infrastructure.
True
False
May be
No choice
Which AWS service reduces network latency?
AWS Transit Gateway
Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon Cloud Front
AWS Direct Connect
Dedicated Hosts
Reserved Instances
On-Demand Instances
Spot Instances
Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.
Launch the instances as EC2 Spot Instances in the same AWS Region and the same Availability Zone.
Launch the instances in multiple AWS Regions, and use Elastic IP addresses
Launch the instances as EC2 Reserved Instances in the same AWS Region, but in different Availability Zones.
A web service that your company provides features videos that can be viewed by users. You want to provide this content with minimum latency.
Which AWS service should you use?
Amazon CloudFront
Elastic Load Balancing
Kinesis
Global Accelerator
You have an application that is invoked by an API call from your mobile app. The application has a short runtime. What is the ideal compute solution?
Lambda
Spot EC2 instance
On-demand EC2 instance
Elastic Compute Cloud
Your company has a data lake in S3 that is exceeding your estimated monthly costs. Massive amounts of data are transferred into the bucket every month. How can you reduce the S3 monthly charges?
Reduce transfer in charges by compressing data.
Reduce transfer charges using a VPC Endpoint
Choose the ideal storage classes for objects.
Increase the estimated monthly cost
You have an e-commerce app running on EC2 instances. Around the holiday season you experience a large spike in usage. It is critical to avoid interruptions in service, especially during the peak season. Which EC2 purchasing options are ideal?
Use on-demand for the normal, predictable workload. Supplement for seasonal peaks with spot instances.
Use reserved instances for the normal, predictable workload—supplement seasonal peaks with on-demand instances.
Use reserved instances for the normal, predictable workload. Supplement for seasonal peaks with spot instances.
Use on-demand instances for the normal, predictable workload—supplement for seasonal peaks with more on-demand instances.
Which statement regarding the scope of a VPC is correct?
A VPC exists in a single region, and can have subnets in a single AZ within that region.
A VPC can span regions, and can have subnets in different AZs within those regions.
A VPC exists in a single region, and can have subnets in different AZs within the region.
A VPC can span regions, and can have subnets in a single AZ within those regions.
Which AWS services can be used to connect VPCs in different regions?
VPC Peering, Direct Connect.
VPC Peering, Transit Gateway
Transit Gateway, Direct Connect
You have just deployed a database using RDS. Which of the following is a security responsibility that AWS does not perform?
Keep the database engine patched and updated.
Configure Security Groups to control connections to the database.
Apply updates to the operating system.
Use antivirus to detect threats inside the RDS instance.
Which AWS service provides a stateless firewall that is applied to an entire subnet?
Security Group
AWS WAF
Network ACL
VPC
Which of the following are examples of scaling horizontally?
Changing an EC2 intance from T3.micro to T3.large. Load balancing across EC2 instances in multiple AZs
Load balancing across EC2 instances in multiple AZs. Creating multiple read-replicas of an RDS instance.
Changing an EC2 instance from T3.micro to T3.large. Upgrading an RDS instance to more powerful option.
Creating multiple read-replicas of an RDS instance. Upgrading an instance to a more powerful option.
Which of the following are non-relational, NoSQL database options?
Which statements regarding Network ACLs and Security Groups are correct?
Network ACLs are stateless, Security Groups are stateful, Security Groups support both allow and deny rules
Security Groups support both allow and deny rules, Network ACLs are stateful, Security Groups are stateless
Network ACLs are stateless, Security Groups are stateful, Network ACLs process rules in order from the top down
Network ACLs process rules in order from the top down, Network ACLs are stateful, Security Groups are stateless
Which of the following services can be used to create a managed database or data warehouse that does not require patching or software management tasks?
Your organization wants to improve the overall availability and performance of its applications by spreading them out over multiple regions.
Which AWS service should you use?
Your organization needs to connect Amazon VPCs in different regions, AWS accounts and on-premises networks through a central point. Which solution can accomplish this?
You have a group of EC2 instances that you must monitor for high CPU usage. When high CPU usage is detected an alarm should be triggered, and an email should be sent to the admin team. Which two services should you use to accomplish this?
CloudWatch and SQS
CloudTrail and SQS
CloudWatch and SNS
CloudTrail and SNS
Which AWS Services use Edge Locations?
Which of the following AWS services are compute services? (Select TWO.)
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Batch
Amazon EFS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Inspector
A company is deploying an application on Amazon EC2 that requires low-latency access to application components in an on-premises data center. Which AWS service or resource can the company use to extend their existing VPC to the on-premises data center?
Amazon Workspaces
Amazon Connect
AWS Outposts
AWS Direct Connect
A website has a global customer base and users have reported poor performance when connecting to the site.
Which AWS service will improve the customer experience by reducing latency?
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon ElastiCache
Which entity ensures that your application on Amazon EC2 always has the right amount of capacity to handle the current traffic demand?
Multi AZ deployment
Auto Scaling
Application Load Balancer
Network Load Balancer
Which of the following networking component can be used to host EC2 resources in the AWS Cloud?
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS VPC
AWS Elastic Load Balancer
AWS Autoscaling
Which of the following components of the Cloudfront service can be used to distribute contents to users across the globe.
Amazon VPC
Amazon Regions
Amazon Availability Zones
Amazon Edge locations
Which of the following can be attached to EC2 Instances to store data?
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS Volumes
Amazon EBS Snapshots
Amazon SQS
Which of the following S3 storage classes takes the most time to retrieve data (also known as first byte latency)?
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
S3 Standard
S3 Glacier Deep Archive
S3 Glacier
You are hosting a number of EC2 Instances on AWS. You are looking to monitor CPU Utilization on the Instance. Which service would you use to collect and track performance metrics for AWS services?
CloudFront
CloudSearch
CloudWatch
Managed Services
Your development team is planning to host a development environment on the cloud. This consists of EC2 and RDS instances. This environment will probably only be required for 2 months. Which types of instances would you use for this purpose?
On-Demand
Spot
Reserved
Dedicated Hosts
Which of the following can be used to secure EC2 Instances?
Security Groups
EC2 Lists
AWS Config
AWS CloudWatch
Which of the following services allows you to distribute load across multiple EC2 Instances?
Autoscaling
Elastic Load Balancer
Regions
IAM
Which service would you use to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms?
SNS
SQS
Trusted Advisor
SES
You are working as the site reliability engineer. Your goal is to get notification via text/email for any production server outages on the AWS cloud. Which of the following is the best way to achieve this task?
Create the CloudWatch alert and write it to the S3.
Update the CloudWatch notified flag as true.
Use the AWS CloudTrail and get a customized notification.
Create the SNS topic, published the event through CloudWatch, and subscribe to the SRE's email.
You are working for the defense company. The defense company has strict requirements for data access and other controls. Your company is planning to store the sensitive files on the AWS simple storage service. The support person should get notification related to every access to the files from S3. What is the best way to accomplish this task on the cloud?
AWS SNS
AWS CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS RDS
Your application is deployed on an EC2 instance. You would like to create a new EC2 instance automatically if CPU utilization is above 90% for load balancing purposes. Which of the following options describes the correct steps to fulfill this requirement?
Send out an email notification to a user and wait for the user to create an instance
Monitor CPU usage manually and create an EC2 instance
Create a scaling policy and review CloudWatch alerts to scale your service
Create a security group that allows your service to launch a new EC2 instance
Which AWS services are globally specified rather than regionally defined? (Select two.)
A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon CloudFront
E. Amazon DynamoDB
Which AWS service or functionality is by default highly available?
A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Aurora
C. NAT instances
D. Amazon RDS
Which service offers nearly infinite online storage for very durable objects?
A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
D. Amazon S3
Which Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution enables clients to acquire unused Amazon EC2 capacity at often reduced prices?
A. Reserved Instances
B. On-Demand Instances
C. Dedicated Instances
D. Spot Instances
What enables a business to give a low-latency experience to its worldwide users?
A. Using an AWS Region that is central to all users
B. Using a second Availability Zone in the AWS Region that is using used
C. Enabling caching in the AWS Region that is being used
D. Using edge locations to put content closer to all users
A business has a 500 TB image repository that has to be moved to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for processing. Which AWS service is the most cost-effective way to import this data?
A. AWS Snowball
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS VPN
D. Amazon S3
A business is developing an application that will need the capacity to transmit, save, and receive messages across its component components. Additionally, the corporation requires that communications be processed in first-in, first-out (FIFO) sequence. Which Amazon Web Services (AWS) service should the business use?
A. AWS Step Functions
B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
C. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
D. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
A business operates an ecommerce application that is hosted in Europe. To reduce latency for international customers accessing the website, the firm would want to cache frequently viewed static information closer to the consumers. Which Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering will meet these requirements?
A. Amazon ElastiCache
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Which VPC component adds an additional layer of protection to the subnet?
A. Security groups
B. Network ACLs
C. NAT gateways
D. Route tables
A company wants to deploy a non-containerized Java-based web application on AWS. The company wants to use a managed service to quickly deploy the application. The company wants the service to automatically provision capacity load balance, scale, and monitor application health. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
AWS Lambda
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Which supports Docker containers
ECS
EMR
Lambda
AMI
Which statement best describes Elastic Load Balancing?
A service that provides data that you can use to monitor your applications, optimize resource utilization, and respond to system-wide performance changes
A service that monitors your applications and automatically adds or removes capacity from your resource groups in response to changing demand
A service that distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances
A service that enables you to set up, manage, and scale a distributed in-memory or cache environment in the cloud
A service that monitors your applications and automatically adds or removes capacity from your resource groups in response to changing demand.
AWS Auto Scaling
AWS CloudWatch
AmazonElastiCache
Elastic Load Balancing
A service that enables you to set up, manage, and scale a distributed in-memory or cache environment in the cloud.
AWS Auto Scaling
AWS CloudWatch
AmazonElastiCache
Elastic Load Balancing
It is a section of a VPC in which you can group resources based on security or operational needs.
Security group
Network access control list
Subnet
Internet gateway
It is a virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level.
Security group
Network access control list
Subnet
Internet gateway
It is a connection between a VPC and the internet. It allows public traffic from the internet to access a VPC.
Security group
Network access control list
Subnet
Internet gateway
You want to store data in a key-value database. Which service should you use?
Amazon RDS
Amazon Aurora
Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon DynamoDB
You want to store data in a volume that is attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. Which service should you use?
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
AWS Lambda
You want Amazon S3 to monitor your objects’ access patterns. Which storage class should you use?
S3 Glacier
S3 Standard-IA
S3 One Zone-IA
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
It is storage class is ideal for data that is infrequently accessed but requires high availability when needed.
S3 Glacier
S3 Standard-IA
S3 One Zone-IA
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
It is ideal for infrequently accessed data that does not require high availability.
S3 Glacier
S3 Standard-IA
S3 One Zone-IA
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
It is a data warehousing service that you can use for big data analytics. It offers the ability to collect data from many sources and help you to understand relationships and trends across your data.
Amazon QLDB
WS Snowball
Amazon Redshift
AWS Command Line Interface
It is an enterprise-class relational database.
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Amazon SageMaker
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Aurora
In the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class, Amazon S3 moves objects between a frequent access tier and an infrequent access tier. Which storage classes are used for these tiers?
S3 Standard-IA
S3 Glacier Deep Archive
S3 One Zone-IA
S3 Standard
S3 Glacier
You are running an Amazon EC2 instance and want to store data in an attached resource. Your data is temporary and will not be kept long term. Which resource should you use?
Subnet
Amazon S3 bucket
Instance store
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume
You want to send and receive messages between distributed application components. Which service should you use?
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Amazon Route 53
Amazon ElastiCache
AWS Snowball
It is a DNS web service. It gives developers and businesses a reliable way to route end users to internet applications that are hosted in AWS.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Amazon Route 53
Amazon ElastiCache
AWS Snowball
You keep getting an error when you try to attach an IGW to a VPC. What is the most likely cause of the error?
The IGW needs to be associated with a route table first
The IGW isn't in the same AZ
The IGW is most likely broken and a new one should be created
An IGW is already attached to the VPC
A company is deploying a MySQL database on AWS. The database must easily scale and have automatic backup enabled. Which AWS service should the company?
Amazon Athena
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Aurora
Amazon DocumentDB
A company has a global user base and needs to deploy AWS services that can decrease network latency for their users. Which services may assist? (Select TWO.)
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon VPC
Application Auto Scaling
AWS Direct Connect
AWS Global Accelerator
Amazon S3 is typically used for which of the following use cases? (Select TWO.)
Host a static website
Install an operating system
Media hosting
In-memory data cache
Message queue
Which AWS service is used to send both text and email messages from distributed applications?
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF)
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Amazon Simple Notification Service(SNS)
A Solutions Architect is designing an online shopping application running in a VPC on EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The application tier must read and write data to a customer-managed database cluster. There should be no access to the database from the Internet, but the cluster must be able to obtain software patches from the Internet. Which VPC design meets these requirements?
Public subnets for both the application tier and the database cluster
Public subnets for the application tier, and private subnets for the database cluster
Public subnets for the application tier and NAT Gateway, and private subnets for the database cluster
Public subnets for the application tier, and private subnets for the database cluster and NAT Gateway
A company has an application that delivers objects from S3 to users. Of late, some users spread across the globe, have been complaining of slow response times. Which additional step would help in building a cost-effective solution and ensure that the users get an optimal response to objects from S3?
Use S3 Replication to replicate the objects to regions closest to the users.
Ensure S3 Transfer Acceleration is enabled to ensure that all users get the desired response times.
Place an ELB in front of S3 to distribute the load across S3.
Place the S3 bucket behind a CloudFront distribution.
A company is hosting a web application in the AWS Cloud using a set of EC2 instances. Which of the following can help to protect them from DDoS attacks? (Choose two)
Using Security Groups
Using CloudHSM
Using Network Access Control Lists
Using the Internet gateway
Using AWS Batch
A business operates an ecommerce application that is hosted in Europe. To reduce latency for international customers accessing the website, the firm would want to cache frequently viewed static information closer to the consumers. Which Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering will meet these requirements?
A. Amazon ElastiCache
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Which of the following AWS capabilities allows a user to deploy an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance that has already been configured?
A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
B. Amazon Machine Image
C. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
D. Amazon AppStream 2.0
