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WorksheetsAWS_Practice_Exam
Total questions: 75
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1. A global company with a large number of AWS accounts is seeking a way in which they can centrally manage billing and security policies across all accounts. Which AWS Service will assist them in meeting these goals?
A. AWS Organizations
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. IAM User Groups
D. AWS Config
2. Which service provides object-level storage in AWS?
D. Amazon S3
A. Amazon EBS
B. Amazon Instance Store
C. Amazon EFS
3. 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?
C. AWS Auto Scaling
A. AWS Elastic Load Balancer
B. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Cost Explorer
4. Which S3 storage class is best for data with unpredictable access patterns?
A. Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
B. Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
C. Amazon S3 Standard
D. Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access
5. What is the AWS database service that allows you to upload data structured in key-value format?
A. Amazon DynamoDB
B. Amazon Aurora
C. Amazon Redshift
D. Amazon RDS
6. Which of the following is NOT correct regarding Amazon EC2 On-demand instances?
A. You have to pay a start-up fee when launching a new instance for the first time.
B. The on-demand instances follow the AWS pay-as-you-go pricing model.
C. With on-demand instances, no longer-term commitments or upfront payments are needed.
D. When using on-demand Linux instances, you are charged per second based on an hourly rate.
7. A company has moved to AWS recently. Which of the following AWS Services will help ensure that they have the proper security settings?
A. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon SNS
E. Concierge Support Team
D. Amazon CloudWatch
8. What is the AWS feature that provides an additional level of security above the default authentication mechanism of usernames and passwords?
D. AWS MFA
A. Encrypted keys
B. Email verification
C. AWS KMS
9. A company is introducing a new product to their customers, and is expecting a surge in traffic to their web application. As part of their Enterprise Support plan, which of the following provides the company with architectural and scaling guidance?
C. Infrastructure Event Management
A. AWS Knowledge Center
B. AWS Health Dashboard
D. AWS Support Concierge Service
10. 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?
A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon CloudWatch
11. Which of the below is a best-practice when designing solutions on AWS?
C. Automate wherever possible to make architectural experimentation easier.
A. Invest heavily in architecting your environment, as it is not easy to change your design later.
B. Use AWS reservations to reduce costs when testing your production environment.
D. Provision a large compute capacity to handle any spikes in load
12. According to the AWS Acceptable Use Policy, which of the following statements is true regarding penetration testing of EC2 instances?
C. Penetration testing can be performed by the customer on their own instances without prior authorization from AWS.
A. Penetration testing is not allowed in AWS.
B. Penetration testing is performed automatically by AWS to determine vulnerabilities in your AWS infrastructure.
D. The AWS customers are only allowed to perform penetration testing on services managed by AWS.
13. Which service is used to ensure that messages between software components are not lost if one or more components fail?
A. Amazon SQS
B. Amazon SES
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. Amazon Connect
14. The principle “design for failure and nothing will fail” is very important when designing your AWS Cloud architecture. Which of the following would help adhere to this principle?
B. Availability Zones
A. Multi-factor authentication
D. Penetration testing
E. Vertical Scaling
15. What is the AWS service that provides a virtual network dedicated to your AWS account?
D. Amazon VPC
A. AWS VPN
B. AWS Subnets
C. AWS Dedicated Hosts
16. According to the AWS Shared responsibility model, which of the following are the responsibility of the customer? (Choose TWO)
B. Protecting the confidentiality of data in transit in Amazon S3, E. Patching applications installed on Amazon EC2
A. Managing environmental events of AWS data centers
C. Controlling physical access to AWS Regions
D. Ensuring that the underlying EC2 host is
17. Which of the following AWS services can be used as a compute resource?
D. Amazon EC2
A. Amazon VPC
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. Amazon S3
18. Your company is designing a new application that will store and retrieve photos and videos. Which of the following services should you recommend as the underlying storage mechanism?
C. Amazon S3
A. Amazon EBS
B. Amazon SQS
D. Amazon Instance store
19. Which of the following is equivalent to a user name and password and is used to authenticate your programmatic access to AWS services and APIs?
C. Access Keys
A. Instance Password
B. Key pairs
D. MFA
20. What does Amazon ElastiCache provide?
A. In-memory caching for read-heavy applications.
B. An Ehcache compatible in-memory data store.
C. An online software store that allows Customers to launch pre-configured software with just few clicks.
D. A domain name system in the cloud.
21. What is the AWS service that enables you to manage all of your AWS accounts from a single master account?
C. AWS Organizations
A. AWS WAF
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. Amazon Config
22. Which of the following EC2 instance purchasing options supports the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model for almost every BYOL scenario?
B. Dedicated Hosts
A. Dedicated Instances
C. On-demand Instances
D. Reserved Instances
23. Which of the following is one of the benefits of moving infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS?
C. Reduced Capital Expenditure (CapEx).
A. Free support for all enterprise customers.
B. Automatic data protection.
D. AWS holds responsibility for managing customer applications.
24. Which of the following are important design principles you should adopt when designing systems on AWS?
D. Automate wherever possible
A. Always use Global Services in your architecture rather than Regional Services.
B. Always choose to pay as you go.
C. Treat servers as fixed resources.
25. Which AWS Service can be used to establish a dedicated, private network connection between AWS and your datacenter?
A. AWS Direct Connect
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS Snowball
D. Amazon Route 53
26. You are working on two projects that require completely different network configurations. Which AWS service or feature will allow you to isolate resources and network configurations?
B. Virtual Private Cloud
A. Internet gateways
C. Security Groups
D. Amazon CloudFront
27. Which of the following services can help protect your web applications from SQL injection and other vulnerabilities in your application code?
D. AWS WAF
A. Amazon Cognito
B. AWS IAM
C. Amazon Aurora
28. An organization needs to analyze and process a large number of data sets. Which AWS service should they use?
A. Amazon EMR
B. Amazon MQ
C. Amazon SNS
D. Amazon SQS
29. Based on the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are the sole responsibility of AWS?
C. Creating hypervisors
A. Monitoring network performance
B. Installing software on EC2 instances
D. Configuring Access Control Lists (ACLs)
30. What is the AWS service that provides you the highest level of control over the underlying virtual infrastructure?
C. Amazon EC2
A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon RDS
31. What are the default security credentials that are required to access the AWS management console for an IAM user account?
C. A user name and password
A. MFA
B. Security tokens
D. Access keys
32. In your on-premises environment, you can create as many virtual servers as you need from a single template. What can you use to perform the same in AWS?
D. AMI
A. IAM
B. An internet gateway
C. EBS Snapshot
33. What are two advantages of using Cloud Computing over using traditional data centers? (Choose TWO)
B. Eliminating Single Points of Failure (SPOFs), C. Distributed infrastructure
A. Reserved Compute capacity
D. Virtualized compute resources
E. Dedicated hosting
34. Which of the following aspects of security are managed by AWS?
D. Hardware patching
A. Encryption of EBS volumes
B. VPC security
C. Access permissions
35. Which statement best describes the operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
C. The ability to monitor systems and improve supporting processes and procedures.
A. The ability of a system to recover gracefully from failure.
B. The efficient use of computing resources to meet requirements.
D. The ability to manage datacenter operations more efficiently.
36. AWS has created a large number of Edge Locations as part of its Global Infrastructure. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of using Edge Locations?
C. Edge locations are used by CloudFront to distribute traffic across multiple instances to reduce latency.
A. Edge locations are used by CloudFront to cache the most recent responses.
B. Edge locations are used by CloudFront to improve your end users’ experience when uploading files.
D. Edge locations are used by CloudFront to distribute content to global users with low latency.
37. What are the change management tools that helps AWS customers audit and monitor all resource changes in their AWS environment?
A. AWS CloudTrail
B. Amazon Comprehend
C. AWS Transit Gateway
D. AWS X-Ray
38. Which of the following services allows you to run containerized applications on a cluster of EC2 instances?
A. Amazon ECS
B. AWS Data Pipeline
C. AWS Cloud9
D. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
39. Which of the following services will help businesses ensure compliance in AWS?
D. CloudTrail
A. CloudFront
B. CloudEndure Migration
C. CloudWatch
40. Which of the following procedures will help reduce your Amazon S3 costs?
B. Use the right combination of storage classes based on different use cases.
A. Use the Import/Export feature to move old files automatically to Amazon Glacier.
C. Pick the right Availability Zone for your S3 bucket.
D. Move all the data stored in S3 standard to EBS.
41. What are the AWS services/features that can help you maintain a highly available and fault-tolerant architecture in AWS?
B. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
A. AWS Direct Connect
D. CloudFormation
E. Network ACLs
42. Which of the following activities may help reduce your AWS monthly costs?
A. Enabling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for all of your workloads.
B. Using the AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) to load balance the incoming HTTP requests.
C. Removing all of your Cost Allocation Tags.
D. Deploying your AWS resources across multiple Availability Zones.
43. What is the AWS service/feature that takes advantage of Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed edge locations to transfer files to S3 with higher upload speeds?
A. S3 Transfer Acceleration
B. AWS WAF
C. AWS Snowmobile
D. AWS Snowball
44. Which of the following AWS security features is associated with an EC2 instance and functions to filter incoming traffic requests?
C. Security Groups
A. AWS X-Ray
B. Network ACL
D. VPC Flow logs
45. Which AWS services can be used to improve the performance of a global application and reduce latency for its users?
B. AWS Global accelerator
A. AWS KMS
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. AWS Glue
46. Using Amazon RDS falls under the shared responsibility model. Which of the following are customer responsibilities? (Choose TWO)
A. Building the relational database schema, C. Managing the database settings
B. Performing backups
D. Patching the database software
E. Installing the database software
47. A company has a large amount of structured data stored in their on-premises data center. They are planning to migrate all the data to AWS, what is the most appropriate AWS database option?
C. Amazon RDS
A. Amazon DynamoDB
B. Amazon SNS
D. Amazon ElastiCache
48. A company has created a solution that helps AWS customers improve their architectures on AWS. Which AWS program may support this company?
A. APN Consulting Partners
B. AWS TAM
C. APN Technology Partners
D. AWS Professional Services
49. What is the AWS serverless service that allows you to run your applications without any administrative burden?
B. AWS Lambda
A. Amazon LightSail
C. Amazon RDS instances
D. Amazon EC2 instances
50. 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?
B. She has properly built a fault tolerant system.
A. She has properly built an elastic system.
C. She has properly built an encrypted system.
D. She has properly built a scalable system.
What AWS service can be used to automatically distribute incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances?
A. AWS Elastic Load Balancing
B. AWS CloudFormation
C. AWS Lambda
D. AWS CloudTrail
Which AWS service provides a fully managed NoSQL database that supports key-value and document data structures?
A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Redshift
D. Amazon Aurora
Which AWS service is designed to help you build secure, reliable, and scalable applications by providing a set of best practices and guidelines?
A. AWS Well-Architected Tool
B. AWS CloudWatch
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Config
Which of the following is a repository service that helps in maintaining application dependencies via integration with commonly used package managers and build tools like Maven, Gradle, npm, etc?
AWS CodeArtifact
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeStar
A company provides you with a completed product that is run and managed by the company itself. As a customer, you only use the product without worrying about maintaining or managing the product.
Which cloud computing model does this kind of product belong to?
Product as a Service (Paas)
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Which of the following AWS services will help provision a logically isolated network for your AWS resources?
Amazon Route 53
AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
AWS Firewall Manager
A company is looking at real-time processing of streaming big data for their ad-tech platform. Which of the following AWS services is the right choice for this requirement?
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Amazon EMR
A company is moving its on-premises application to AWS Cloud. The application uses in-memory caches for running custom workloads. Which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type is the right choice for the given requirement?
Accelerated computing instance types
Memory Optimized instance types
Storage Optimized instance types
Compute Optimized instance types
AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) can be deployed on which of the following services?
Application Load Balancer, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon API Gateway
Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon API Gateway, Application Load Balancer
AWS AppSync, Amazon CloudFront, Application Load Balancer, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Amazon CloudFront, Application Load Balancer, Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync
Historically, IT departments had to over-provision for peak demand. IT professionals may bring this legacy mindset to the table when they build their cloud infrastructure leading to over-provisioned resources and unnecessary costs. Right-sizing of resources is necessary to reduce infrastructure costs while still using cloud functionality optimally.
Which feature of the AWS Cloud refers to right-sizing the resources?
Elasticity
Horizontal scaling
Reliability
Resiliency
Which of the following is the responsibility of the customer when running applications using AWS Lambda?
Updating the operating system and runtime environment for Lambda functions
Managing the physical servers where the Lambda function runs
Writing and maintaining the function code and its dependencies
Configuring the networking infrastructure for the Lambda service
AWS Support offers five support plans for its customers. Which of the following features are covered as part of the AWS Basic Support Plan? (Select two)
One-on-one responses to account and billing questions
Service health checks
Client-side diagnostic tools
Use-case guidance – What AWS products, features, and services to use for best supporting your specific needs
Infrastructure event management
Which of the following use-cases can be solved using the Amazon Forecast service?
To recommend personalized products for users based on their previous purchases
To develop and test fully functional machine learning models
Document search service that can extract answers from text within documents
Predict the web traffic of a website for the next few weeks
A team manager needs data about the changes that have taken place for AWS resources in his account during the past two weeks. Which AWS service can help get this data?
AWS Config
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Inspector
Amazon CloudWatch
A company has defined a baseline that mentions the number of AWS resources to be used for different stages of application testing. However, the company realized that employees are not adhering to the guidelines and provisioning additional resources via API calls, resulting in higher testing costs.
Which AWS service will help the company raise alarms whenever the baseline resource numbers are crossed?
AWS X-Ray
AWS CloudTrail Insights
AWS Config
Amazon Detective
Which of the below mentioned services is equivalent to hosting virtual servers on an on-premise location?
AWS IAM
AWS Server
AWS EC2
AWS Regions
The hospital needs to modify the Lambda code to identify protected health information (PHI) in the reports. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
Use existing Python libraries to extract the text from the reports and to identify the PHI from the extracted text.
Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports.
Use Amazon SageMaker to identify the PHI from the extracted text.
Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports and use Amazon Comprehend Medical to identify the PHI from the extracted text.
Use Amazon Rekognition to extract the text from the reports and use Amazon Comprehend Medical to identify the PHI from the extracted text.
Write the abbreviation for S3 and SSH?
Service for Simple Storage, Secure Shell Host
Simple Storage Service, Secure Shell
Simple Service Storage, Shell for Secure Hash
Storage Service Source, Secure Shell
Which AWS service is the best option to use if you need high-performance block storage?
Amazon EBS
AWS EC2
Amazon S3
Amazon EFS
Which AWS service is a fast content delivery network?
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon Route 53
Amazon S3
Amazon CloudFront
Which of the following AWS services are compute services? (Select TWO.)
AWS Batch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon EFS
Amazon Inspector
Which AWS service lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources?
Amazon VPC
Internet gateway
Amazon EC2
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
When running applications in the AWS Cloud, which common tasks can AWS manage on behalf of their customers? (Select TWO.)
Patching database software
Application source code auditing
Creating a database schema
Taking a backup of a database
Application security testing
Which of the following is the responsibility of AWS according to the Shared Security Model? Choose 3 answers from the options given below:
Managing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Securing edge locations
Monitoring physical device security
Implementing service organization Control (SOC) standards
