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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 networking component can be used to host EC2 resources in the AWS Cloud?
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS VPC
AWS Elastic Load Balancer
AWS Autoscaling
Your company is planning to host resources in the AWS Cloud. They want to use services which can be used to decouple resources hosted on the cloud. Which of the following services can help fulfil this requirement
AWS EBS Volumes
AWS EBS Snapshots
AWS Glacier
AWS SQS
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
What is provided by AWS?
Servers
Databases
Storage
Higher-level applications
All of the answers
What are the Agility factors of the AWS infrastructure?
Instant elasticity
Scalability
Flexibility
Reliability
All of the above
Which one is not the characteristic of AWS ?
Elasticity
Scalability
High Performance
Security
Complexity
Which are the services of Amazon VPC? (Choose 4 answers)
EC2
RTS
DynamoDB
Elastic Load Balancing
S3
If you have a set of frequently assessed files that are used on a daily basis, what S3 storage class should you store them in?
Infrequent Access
Fast Access
Reduced Redundancy
Standard
What are the benefits of DynamoDB? (Choose 3 correct answers)
Single-digit millisecond latency
Supports multiple known NoSQL database engines like MariaDB and Oracle NoSQL
Supports both document and key-value store data models
Automatic scaling of throughput capacity
Which of the following are the benefits of AWS Organizations? (Choose 2 correct answers)
Analyze cost before migrating to AWS
Centrally manage access policies across multiple AWS accounts
Automate AWS account creation and management
Provide technical help (by AWS) for issues in your AWS account
Your company is planning to move to the AWS Cloud. You need to give a presentation on the cost perspective when moving existing resources to the AWS Cloud. When it comes to Amazon EC2, which of the following is an advantage when it comes to the cost perspective.
Having the ability of automated backups of the EC2 instance, so that you don’t need to worry about the maintenance costs.
The ability to choose low cost AMI’s to prepare the EC2 Instances
The ability to only pay for what you use
Ability to tag instances to reduce the overall cost
Which of the following is one of the benefits of AWS Security?
Free for AWS premium members.
Starts automatically once you upload your data.
Scales quickly
None of the above
What services/features are required to maintain a highly available and fault-tolerant architecture in AWS? (Choose two)
Elastic Load Balancer
CloudFormation
AWS NACL
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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
Your company is trying to deploy a two-tier, highly available web application to AWS. The application needs a storage layer to store artifacts such as photos and videos. Which of the following services can best be used as the underlying storage mechanism?
Amazon EBS volume
Amazon EC2 instance store
Amazon S3
Amazon RDS instance
You have developed a microservices-based application. Which of the following should you use to make sure that each EC2 instance in the system gets the same amount of traffic?
Network Load Balancer
Auto Scaling
Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery
Application Load Balancer
Which of the following services is a fully managed AWS database service?
RDS
MySQL
DynamoDB
Glue
Which of the following services allows you to distribute load across multiple EC2 Instances?
Autoscaling
Elastic Load Balancer
Regions
IAM
Which of the following can be used to secure EC2 Instances?
Security Groups
EC2 Lists
AWS Config
AWS CloudWatch
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 in AWS maps to a separate geographic location?
AWS Region
AWS Data Center
AWS Availability Zone
AWS Local Region
What is the primary storage service used by Amazon RDS DB instances?
Amazon S3
Amazon EFS
Amazon EBS
Amazon Glacier
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
Which of the following AWS services can be used as a compute resource? (Choose two)
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
AWS Lambda
Which of the following will impact the price paid for an EC2 instance? (Choose two)
The Availability Zone where the instance is provisioned
Instance Type
Compute time consumed
Storage capacity
The IAM identity that uses the instance
What AWS feature enables a user to manage services through a web-based user interface?
AWS Management Console
AWS Application Programming Interface (API)
AWS Software Development Kit (SDK)
Amazon CloudWatch
There is a need to automate the creation of sandbox accounts for developers and granting entities in those accounts access only to the necessary AWS services. Which of the following services would help?
AWS Organizations
Amazon Dev Pay
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Cost Explorer
Which of the following services allow you to run your application when needed, without having to provision servers all the time?
AWS EC2 instances
AWS Lambda
AWS LightSail
AWS RDS instances
An organization runs many systems and uses many AWS products. Which of the following services allow them to control how each developer interacts with these products?
Amazon RDS
Network Access Control Lists
AWS Identity and Access Management
Amazon EMR
Miller is working with a large data set, and he needs to import it into a relational database service. What AWS service will meet his needs?
RDS
DynamoDB
ElastiCache
Neptune
What does S3 stand for?
Simple Storage Service
Simplified Storage Service
Simple Store Service
Service for Simple Storage
Which of the following is a fully managed NoSQL database service available with AWS?
AWS RDS
AWS DynamoDB
AWS Redshift
AWS MongoDB
Which of the following is required to connect to Amazon EC2 instances?
MFA
Instance Password
Key pairs
Route Tables
Where can you store files in AWS? (Choose two)
Amazon SNS
Amazon EFS
Amazon EBS
Amazon ECS
Amazon EMR
Which of the following needs a username and password to access AWS resources?
AWS Management Console
AWS Application Programming Interface (API)
AWS Software Development Kit (SDK)
AWS CLI
How much data can you store in S3?
Storage capacity is virtually unlimited.
You can store up to 1 PetaByte of data.
Each account is given 50 gigabytes of storage capacity and no more can be used.
You can store up to 1 PetaByte of data, then you are required to pay an additional fee.
Which of the following services is most useful when a Disaster Recovery method is triggered in AWS?
Amazon Route 53
Amazon SNS
Amazon SQS
Amazon Inspector
Your company is planning to host resources in AWS Cloud. They want to use services which can be used to decouple resources hosted on the cloud. Which of the following services can help fulfill this requirement?
AWS EBS Volumes
AWS EBS Snapshots
AWS Glacier
AWS SQS
If you have a set of frequently assessed files that are used on a daily basis, what S3 storage class should you store them in?
Infrequent Access
Fast Access
Reduced Redundancy
Standard
Which of the following storage mechanism can be used to store messages effectively which can be used across distributed systems?
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS Volumes
Amazon EBS Snapshots
Amazon SQS
When will you incur costs with an Elastic IP Address (EIP)?
When an EIP is allocated
When it is allocated and associated with a running instance
When it is allocated and associated with a stopped instance
Costs are incurred regardless of whether the EIP is associated with a running instance
Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying computer workloads?
Amazon EC2 costs are billed on a monthly basis
Customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances
Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed
Customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads
Where can a customer find information about prohibited actions on AWS infrastructure?
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Identity and Access Management
AWS Billing Console
AWS Acceptable Use Policy
Which service can identify the user that made the API call when an Amazon EC2 instance is terminated?
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS X-Ray
AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)
Which component of AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery?
AWS Regions
AWS Edge Locations
AWS Availability Zones
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Which AWS offering enables customers to find, buy and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment?
AWS Config
AWS OpsWorks
AWS SDK
AWS Marketplace
Under what circumstances would you choose to use the AWS service CloudTrail?
When you want to log what actions various IAM users are taking in your AWS account
When you want a serverless compute platform
When you want to collect and view resource metrics
When you want to send SMS notifications based on events that occur in your account
What is the name of AWS’s RDS SQL database engine?
Lightsail
Aurora
MySQL
SNS
Which AWS service uses a combination of publishers and subscribers?
Lambda
RDS
EC2
SNS
What is the major difference between AWS’s RDS and DynamoDB database services?
RDS offers NoSQL database options, and DynamoDB offers SQL database options
RDS offers one SQL database option, and DynamoDB offers many NoSQL database options
RDS offers SQL database options, and DynamoDB offers a NoSQL database option
None of the above
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
If you wanted to monitor all events in your AWS account, which of the below services would you use?
AWS CloudWatch
AWS CloudWatch logs
AWS Config
AWS CloudTrail
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?
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Managed Services
What is the relationship between AWS Global Infrastructure and the concept of High Availability?
AWS is centrally located in one location and is subject to widespread outages if something happens at that one location
AWS Regions and Availability Zones allow for redundant architecture to be placed in isolated parts of the world
Each AWS region handles a different AWS service, and you must use all regions to fully use AWS
None of the above
Your company has started using AWS. Your IT Security team is concerned with the security of hosting resources in the cloud. Which AWS service provides security optimization recommendations that could help the IT Security team secure resources using AWS?
AWS API Gateway
Reserved Instances
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Spot Instances
What best describes the concept of Elasticity?
The ability of a system to grow in size, capacity, and/or scope
The ability of a system to grow and shrink based on demand
The ability of a system to withstand a certain amount of failure and still remain functional
The ability of a system to be accessible when you attempt to access it
The firm you work for is considering migrating to AWS. They are concerned about cost and the initial investment needed. Which of the following features of AWS pricing helps lower the initial investment amount needed? (Choose 2 correct answers)
The ability to choose the lowest cost vendor
The ability to pay as you go
No upfront costs
Discounts for upfront payments
Which of the following is a factor when calculating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the AWS Cloud?
The number of servers migrated to AWS
The number of users migrated to AWS
The number of passwords migrated to AWS
The number of keys migrated to AWS
What best describes the concept of fault tolerance?
The ability for a system to withstand a certain amount of failure and still remain functional
The ability for a system to grow in size, capacity and/or scope
The ability for a system to be accessible when you attempt to access it
The ability for a system to grow and shrink based on demand
What best describes an AWS region?
The physical networking connections between Availability Zones
A specific location where an AWS data center is located
A collection of DNS servers
An isolated collection of AWS Availability Zones, of which there are many placed all around the world
What is the AWS feature that enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and your Amazon S3 bucket?
File Transfer
HTTP Transfer
Transfer Acceleration
S3 Acceleration
Which tool can you use to forecast your AWS spending?
AWS Organizations
Amazon DevPay
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Cost Explorer
Which of the following can be used to host virtual servers on AWS?
AWS IAM
AWS Server
AWS EC2
AWS Regions
Which of the following can be used to call AWS services from programming languages?
AWS SDK
AWS Console
AWS CLI
AWS IAM
Which of the following are 2 ways that AWS allows to link accounts? (Choose 2 correct answers)
Consolidating Billing
AWS Organizations
Cost Explorer
IAM
Which of the following does AWS perform on its behalf for EBS volumes to make it less prone to failure?
Replication of the volume across Availability Zones
Replication of the volume in the same Availability Zone
Replication of the volume across Regions
Replication of the volume across Edge Locations
Which of the following features of AWS RDS allows for offloading reads of the database?
Cross region replication
Creating Read Replica’s
Using snapshots
Using Multi-AZ feature
Which of the following from AWS can be used to transfer petabytes of data from on-premise locations to AWS Cloud?
AWS Import/Export
AWS EC2
AWS Snowball
AWS Transfer
Which of the following is not a category recommendation given by the AWS Trusted Advisor?
Security
High Availability
Performance
Fault Tolerance
Your company is planning to offload some of the batch processing workloads onto AWS. These jobs can be interrupted and resumed at any time. Which of the following Instance types would be the most cost effective to use for this purpose?
On-Demand
Spot
Full Upfront Reserved
Partial Upfront Reserved
Which of the following services allows you to analyze EC2 instances against pre-defined security templates to check for vulnerabilities?
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Inspector
AWS WAF
AWS Shield
Which one of the following features is normally present in all of AWS Support plans?
24/7 access to Customer Service
Access to all features in the Trusted Advisor
A Technical Account Manager
A dedicated support person
Which of the following storage mechanism can be used to store messages effectively which can be used across distributed systems?
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS Volumes
Amazon EBS Snapshots
Amazon SQS
What are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Choose 2 correct answers)
S3 allows you to store objects of virtually unlimited size
S3 allows you to store unlimited amounts of data
S3 should be used to host relational database
Objects are directly accessible via a URL
When working on the costing for on-demand EC2 instances, which are the following attributes which determine the costing of the EC2 instance? (Choose 3 correct answers)
Instance Type
AMI Type
Region
Edge Location
Which of the following are attributes to the costing for using the Simple Storage Service? (Choose 2 correct answers)
The storage class used for the objects stored
Number of S3 buckets
The total size in gigabytes of all objects stored
Using encryption in S3
There is a requirement hosting a set of servers in the Cloud for a short period of 3 months. Which of the following types of instances should be chosen to be cost effective?
Spot Instances
On-Demand
No Upfront cost Reserved
Partial Upfront cost Reserved
Which of the following are the benefits of AWS Organizations? (Choose 2 correct answers)
Analyze cost before migrating to AWS
Centrally manage access policies across multiple AWS accounts
Automate AWS account creation and management
Provide technical help (by AWS) for issues in your AWS account
What are the benefits of DynamoDB? (Choose 3 correct answers)
Single-digit millisecond latency
Supports multiple known NoSQL database engines like MariaDB and Oracle NoSQL
Supports both document and key-value store data models
Automatic scaling of throughput capacity
Your company is planning to host resources in AWS Cloud. They want to use services which can be used to decouple resources hosted on the cloud. Which of the following services can help fulfill this requirement?
AWS EBS Volumes
AWS EBS Snapshots
AWS Glacier
AWS SQS
Which of the following services is most useful when a Disaster Recovery method is triggered in AWS?
Amazon Route 53
Amazon SNS
Amazon SQS
Amazon Inspector
Which Cloud Computing model removes the need for your organization to manage operating systems?
laas
Paas
Saas
Gaas
Which AWS service is used as a global content delivery network (CDN)?
Amazon SES
Amazon Cloudtrail
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon S3
Which of the following is a fully managed NoSQL database service available with AWS?
AWS RDS
AWS DynamoDB
AWS Redshift
AWS MongoDB
A company wants to store data that is not frequently accessed. What is the best and cost efficient solution that should be considered?
Amazon Storage Gateway
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS
Amazon S3
Which of the following in the AWS support plans gives access to a Support Concierge?
Basic
Developer
Business
Enterprise
There is a requirement for a development and test environment for 3 months. Which instance type would you use?
Spot Instances
On-Demand
No upfront costs Reserved
Partial Upfront costs Reserved
Which of the following services can help protect your web applications from SQL injection and other vulnerabilities in your application code?
Amazon Aurora
IAM
AWS WAF
Amazon Cognito
Under the Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are controls which a customer fully inherits from AWS? (Choose two)
Environmental controls
Patch management controls
Database controls
Physical controls
Awareness & Training
Which of the following aspects of security are managed by AWS? (Choose two)
Securing global physical infrastructure
Hardware patching
VPC security
Encryption of EBS volumes
Access permissions
Miller is working with a large data set, and he needs to import it into a relational database service. What AWS service will meet his needs?
RDS
DynamoDB
ElastiCache
Neptune
Which of the following is NOT a feature of an edge location?
Distributes content to users
Caches common responses
Distributes load across multiple resources
Used in conjunction with the Cloudfront service
An organization runs many systems and uses many AWS products. Which of the following services allow them to control how each developer interacts with these products?
Amazon RDS
Network Access Control Lists
AWS Identity and Access Management
Amazon EMR
Which service allows the customer to retain full administrative privileges of the underlying virtual infrastructure?
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon RDS
Amazon Redshift
Amazon EC2
Which of the following features of RDS allows for data redundancy across regions and improves disaster recovery?
Multi-region replication
Multi-AZ
Creating Write Replicas
Creating Read Replicas
Which of the following is a fully-managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the AWS Cloud?
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS
Amazon DynamoDB
Your company's upper management is getting very nervous about managing governance, compliance, and risk auditing in AWS. What service should you enable and inform upper management about?
CloudAudit
CloudTrail
Cloud Compliance
CloudWatch
You are planning to offload some of your batch processing workloads to AWS. These jobs can be interrupted and resumed at any time. Which of the following instance types would be the most cost effective to use?
On-Demand
Spot
Full Upfront Reserved
Partial Upfront Reserved
Which of the following storage mechanisms can be used to store and reliably deliver messages effectively across distributed systems?
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS Volumes
Amazon EBS Snapshots
Amazon SQS
Which of the following reserved instance payment options result in you paying a discounted hourly rate throughout the duration of the term? (Choose two)
All Upfront option
Partial Upfront option
Percentage Upfront option
No Upfront option
Which statement is correct with regards to service limits? (Choose two)
You can use the AWS Trusted Advisor to monitor your service limits.
There are no service limits on AWS.
You can contact support to increase the service limits.
The AWS Simple Email Service is responsible for sending email notifications when usage approaches a service limit.
Each IAM user has the same service limits.
What does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provide?
A scalable storage appliance on top of Amazon Web Services.
An application container on top of Amazon Web Services.
A service by this name doesn't exist.
A scalable cluster of EC2 instances.
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 of the following are important design principles when architecting cloud-based systems? (Choose two)
Build Tightly-coupled components
Use as many services as possible
Assume everything will fail
Build loosely-coupled components
There are performance issues with your under-development application, being built using microservices architecture. Which of the following AWS services would help you analyze these issues?
X-Ray
AWS CodePipeline
AWS Inspector
AWS Config
Which of the following AWS offerings is a MySQL-compatible database that has the ability to grow in storage size on its own?
DynamoDB
Aurora
RDS Microsoft SQL Server
RDS PostgreSQL
What is the primary storage service used by Amazon RDS DB instances?
Amazon S3
Amazon EFS
Amazon EBS
Amazon Glacier
What are your options for protecting the confidentiality of data in transit in Amazon S3? (Choose two)
Use Server-side Encryption
Use Client-side Encryption
Use SSL
RDS Encryption
Which of the following features of Amazon RDS can you use to improve the availability of your database? (Choose two)
Multi-AZ Deployment
VPC Peering
Read Replicas
Automatic patching
Based on the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is the responsibility of AWS? (Choose two)
Monitoring network performance
Configuring ACLs
Installing software on EC2
Creating hypervisors
Hardware maintenance
Which AWS service uses Edge Locations to cache content?
AWS Glacier
AWS KMS
AWS CloudFront
AWS Inspector
Which of the following AWS services are free to use? (Choose two)
CloudFormation
CloudWatch
Auto-scaling
Route53
What service helps you to aggregate log files from your EC2 instances?
SQS
S3
CloudTrail
CloudWatch Logs
A company needs to host a database for at least 1 year. Which of the following options would be the most cost-effective solution?
Spot Instances
Partial Upfront - Reserved
No Upfront - Reserved
On-Demand
An organization has an on-premises application that serves users from all around the world. If instead the application was deployed in AWS, what is the AWS characteristic that could help reduce latency to their users?
High Availability
Elasticity
Global reach
Fault tolerance
Select the services that can be used to build hybrid cloud architectures. (Choose two)
AWS Cloud9
AWS Artifact
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Identity and Access Management
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Which statement best describes the operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
The ability of a system to recover gracefully from failure
The ability to monitor and improve system processes and procedures
The ability to provision resources on-demand
The ability to manage datacenter operations more efficiently
Which of the following procedures may reduce your Amazon S3 costs?
Move all the data stored in S3 standard to EBS.
Pick the right Availability Zone for your S3 bucket.
Use the right combination of storage classes based on the different use cases.
Use the Import/Export feature to move old files automatically to Amazon Glacier.
Which of the following services allows you to run containerized applications on a cluster of EC2 instances?
Amazon Elastic Container Service
Amazon Elastic Docker Service
Amazon Elastic Compute Service
AWS Docker Manager
What information is required to calculate the Total Cost of Ownership for the AWS Cloud?
The number of end users you are currently serving
The number of on-premise applications
The number of active databases
The number of on-premise virtual machines
There is a need to analyze and process a large number of data sets. Which of the following services can help fulfill this requirement?
S3
EMR
Glacier
Storage gateway
Kim is managing a web application running on the AWS Cloud. The application is currently utilizing eight EC2 servers for its computing platform. Earlier today, two of those web servers crashed; however, none of her customers were affected. What has Kim done correctly in this scenario?
She has properly built an elastic system.
She has properly built a scalable system.
She has properly built a fault tolerant system.
None of the above.
A company created a solution that will help AWS customers improve their architectures on AWS. Which AWS program may support this company?
APN Consulting Partners
APN Technology Partners
AWS Professional Services
AWS TAM
AWS provides a storage option known as Amazon Glacier, which is designed for____________ & ______________. (Choose two)
Cached session data
Long-term analytics
Active archive storage
Active database storage
Which of the following can be used to automate the management of multiple AWS services through scripts?
AWS Service Catalog
AWS OpsWorks
AWS CLI
AWS Console
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 service analyzes EC2 Instances against pre-defined security templates to check for vulnerabilities?
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Inspector
AWS WAF
AWS Shield
Your company is planning to host its applications in the AWS Cloud. Which of the following services can be used to help decouple distributed software systems and components? (Choose two)
AWS SNS
AWS EBS
Amazon Athena
AWS SQS
AWS SES
What does Amazon ElastiCache provide?
A service with this name doesn't exist.
A virtual server with huge amount of memory.
A managed ln-memory cache service.
An Amazon EC2 instance with the Memcached software already pre-installed.
You have decided to pay a low upfront fee in order to get a significantly discounted hourly rate. What payment model are you planning to use?
Pay as you go
Save when you reserve.
Pay less as AWS grows
Pay less by using more.
What are two advantages of using Cloud Computing over using traditional data centers? (Choose two)
Eliminating SPOFs.
Virtualized compute resources
Dedicated hosting
Distributed infrastructure
Reserved Compute Capacity
What is the feature provided by AWS that enables fast and secure transfer of files over long distances between your client and your Amazon S3 bucket?
Snowball
HTTP Snowball Transfer
S3 Transfer Acceleration
File transfer Accelerator
A company currently uses VM Templates to spin up virtual machines on their on-premise infrastructure. Which of the following can be used in a similar way to spin up EC2 instances on the AWS Cloud?
EBS Volumes
Amazon Machine Images
EBS Snapshots
Amazon VMware
Which of the following AWS security features is associated with a subnet in a VPC and functions to filter incoming traffic requests?
AWS Inspector
Subnet Groups
NACL
Security Groups
Which of the following AWS Cloud services is designed with native Multi-AZ fault tolerance in mind? (Choose two)
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Which services are considered “serverless”? (Choose three)
AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
AWS Lambda
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Amazon Aurora
Which service allows for the collection and tracking of metrics for AWS Services?
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML)
Where can a customer go to get more detail about Amazon EC2 billing activity that took places 3 months ago?
Amazon EC2 dashboard
AWS Cost and Usage reports
AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard
AWS Cloud Trail logs stored in S3
A service that allows you to integrate different parts of your cloud platform, while keeping them decoupled (or separated) so impacts to one do not impact the other.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Edge Locations
Using Amazon RDS falls under the shared responsibility model. Which of the following are customer responsibilities? (Choose two)
Managing the database settings.
Installing the database software.
Building the relational database schema.
Performing backups.
Patching the database software
What is the availability and durability rating of S3 Standard Storage Class?
99.999999999% Durability and 99.99% Availability
99.999999999% Availability and 99.99% Durability
99.999999999% Durability and 99.90% Availability
99.999999999% Availability and 99.99% Durability
What AWS database is primarily used to analyze data using standard SQL formatting with compatibility for your existing business intelligence tools?
Redshift
RDS
DynamoDB
ElastiCache
Which of the following are right principles when designing cloud based systems? (Choose 2 correct answers)
Build tightly-coupled components
Build loosely-coupled components
Assume everything will fail
Use as many services as possible
Which of the following cannot be used to get data onto Amazon Glacier?
AWS Glacier API
AWS Console
AWS Glacier SDK
AWS S3 Lifecycle policies
A company wants to host a self-managed database in AWS. How would you ideally implement this solution?
Using the AWS DynamoDB service
Using the AWS RDS service
Hosting the database on an EC2 Instance
Using the Amazon Aurora service
When creating security groups, which of the following are the responsibility of the customer? (Choose 2 correct answers)
Giving a name and description for the security group
Defining the rules as per the customer requirements
Ensure the rules are applied immediately
Ensure the security groups are linked to the Elastic Network Interface
You plan to deploy an application on AWS. This application needs to be PCI Compliant. Which of the below steps are needed to ensure the compliance? (Choose 2 correct answers)
Choose AWS services which are PCI compliant
Ensure the right steps are taken during application development for PCI compliance
Ensure the AWS services are made PCI compliant
Do an audit after the deployment of the application for PCI compliance
What best describes the concept of Scalability?
The ability for a system to grow and shrink based on demand
The ability for a system to grow in size, capacity and/or scope
The ability for a system to be accessible when you attempt to access it
The ability for a system to withstand a certain amount of failure and still remain functional
Which service in AWS guarantees 100% SLA?
S3
RDS
Route 53
Cloudfront
