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WorksheetsAWS Cloud Computing Fundamentals Worksheet
Total questions: 99
Worksheet time: 50mins
What are the advantages of cloud computing over computing on-premises? (Select the best answer.)
Avoid large capital purchases
Use on-demand capacity
Go global in minutes
Increase speed and agility
All of the above
What is the pricing model that enables AWS customers to pay for resources on an as-needed basis? (Select the best answer.)
Pay as you decommission
Pay as you go
Pay as you buy
Pay as you reserve
Which of these is NOT a cloud computing model? (Select the best answer.)
Platform as a service
Infrastructure as a service
System administration as a service
Software as a service
True or False? AWS owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for application services, while you provision and use what you need.
True
False
Which of these is NOT a benefit of cloud computing over on-premises computing? (Select the best answer.)
Increase speed and agility
Pay for racking, stacking, and powering servers
Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs
Trade capital expense for variable expense
Benefit from massive economies of scale
Which of the following are NOT benefits of AWS Cloud computing? (Choose two.)
Multiple procurement cycles
High availability
High latency
Temporary and disposable resources
Fault-tolerant databases
Which of the following is a compute service? (Select the best answer)
Amazon VPC
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Redshift
True or False? Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases, and a broad set of application services over the internet. You own the network-connected hardware required for these services and Amazon Web Services provisions what you need.
True
False
Economies of scale result from _____. (Select the best answer.)
having many different cloud providers
having hundreds of thousands of customers aggregated in the cloud
having hundreds of cloud services available over the internet
having to invest heavily in data centers and servers
Which of these are ways to access AWS core services? (Choose three.)
Technical support calls
AWS Marketplace
AWS Management Console
AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
Software Development Kits (SDKs)
For certain services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you can invest in reserved capacity. What options are available for Reserved Instances? (Choose three.)
AURI
MURI
NURI
PURI
DURI
Where can a customer go to get more details about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) billing activity that took place 3 months ago? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon EC2 dashboard
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard
AWS CloudTrail logs stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
True or false? To receive the discounted rate associated with Reserved Instances, you must make a full, upfront payment for the term of the agreement. (Select the best answer.)
True
False
Which statement is true about the pricing model on AWS? (Select the best answer.)
In most cases, there is a per gigabyte charge for inbound data transfer.
Storage is typically charged per gigabyte.
Compute is typically charged as a monthly fee based on instance type.
Outbound charges are free up to a per account limit.
What are the four support plans offered by AWS Support? (Select the best answer.)
Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise
Basic, Startup, Business, Enterprise
Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold
All support is free
What AWS tool lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS? (Select the best answer.)
AWS Pricing Calculator
AWS Budgets
AWS Cost and Usage Report
AWS Billing Dashboard
As AWS grows, the cost of doing business is reduced and savings are passed back to the customer with lower pricing. What is this optimization called? (Select the best answer.)
Expenditure awareness
Economies of scale
Matching supply and demand
EC2 Right Sizing
True or false? AWS offers some services at no charge, such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, AWS Identity and Access Management, Consolidated Billing, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, automatic scaling, AWS OpsWorks and AWS CloudFormation; however, you might be charged for other AWS services that you use in conjunction with these services. (Select the best answer.)
True
False
What are benefits of using AWS Organizations? (Choose two.)
Replaces existing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies with service control policies (SCPs), which are simpler to manage
Provides the ability to create groups of accounts and then attach policies to a group
Provides the ability to create an unlimited number of nested organizational units (OUs) to support your desired structure
Simplifies automating account creation and management by using APIs
Prevents any restrictions from being put on the root user that is associated with the main organization in an account
True or false? Unlimited services are available with the AWS Free Tier to new AWS customers for 12 months following their AWS sign-up date. (Select the best answer.)
True
False
Which component of the AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? (Select the best answer.)
AWS Regions
AWS edge locations
AWS Availability Zones
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
You can run applications and workloads from a Region closer to the end users to ______ latency.
increase
decrease
True or False? Networking, storage, compute, and databases are examples of service categories that AWS offers.
True
False
Which of the following are geographic areas that host two or more Availability Zones? (Select the best answer.)
AWS Origins
AWS Regions
Compute zones
Edge locations
______ means the infrastructure has built-in component redundancy and ______ means that resources dynamically adjust to increases or decreases in capacity requirements.
No human intervention, fault tolerant
Elastic and scalable, no human intervention
Fault tolerant, elastic and scalable
Fault tolerant, no human intervention
Elastic and scalable, fault tolerant
True or False? Availability Zones within a Region are connected through low-latency links.
True
False
Which of these statements about Availability Zones is not true? (Select the best answer.)
Availability Zones are designed for fault isolation.
Availability Zones are made up of one or more data centers.
A data center can be used for more than one Availability Zone.
Availability Zones are connected to each other using high-speed private links.
What is true about Regions? (Choose two.)
All Regions are located in one specific geographic area.
Each Region is located in a separate geographic area.
They are the physical locations of your customers.
A Region is a physical location that has multiple Availability Zones.
AWS highly recommends provisioning your compute resources across ______ Availability Zones. (Select the best answer.)
multiple
no
single
all
True or False? Edge locations are only located in the same general area as Regions.
True
False
In the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for providing what? (Select the best answer.)
Security of the cloud
Security to the cloud
Security for the cloud
Security in the cloud
In the shared responsibility model, which of the following are examples of "security in the cloud"? (Choose two.)
Compliance with compute security standards and regulations
Physical security of the facilities in which the services operate
Security group configurations
Encryption of data at rest and data in transit
Protecting the global infrastructure
Which of the following is the responsibility of AWS under the AWS shared responsibility model? (Select the best answer.)
Configuring third-party applications
Maintaining physical hardware
Security application access and data
Managing custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
When creating an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy, what are the two types of access that can be granted to a user? (Choose two.)
Institutional access
Authorized access
Programmatic access
AWS Management Console access
Administrative root access
True or False? AWS Organizations enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts so that you centrally manage them.
True
False
Which of the following are best practices to secure your account using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? (Choose two.)
Provide users with default administrative privileges.
Leave unused and unnecessary users and credentials in place.
Manage access to AWS resources.
Avoid using IAM groups to grant the same access permissions to multiple users.
Define fine-grained access rights.
Which of the following should be done by the AWS account root user? (Select the best answer.)
Secure access for applications
Integrate with other AWS services
Change granular permissions
Change the AWS support plan
After initial login, what does AWS recommend as the best practice for the AWS account root user? (Select the best answer.)
Delete the AWS account root user
Revoke all permissions on the AWS account root user
Restrict permission on the AWS account root user
Delete the access keys of the AWS account root user
How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS Management Console? (Select the best answer.)
Use Amazon Cloud Directory
Audit AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles
Enable multi-factor authentication
Enable AWS CloudTrail
True or False? AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
True
False
With Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), what is the smallest size subnet you can have in a VPC? (Select the best answer.)
/28
/24
/26
/30
With Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), what is the maximum size IP address range you can have in a VPC? (Select the best answer.)
/16
/28
/30
/24
You need to allow resources in a private subnet to access the internet. Which of the following must be present to enable this access? (Select the best answer.)
Security groups
Network access control lists
Route tables
NAT gateway
Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon Route 53
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
AWS Config
True or False? Private subnets have direct access to the internet.
True
False
Which component of AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? (Select the best answer.)
AWS edge locations
AWS Regions
AWS Availability Zones
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Which of the following is an optional security control that can be applied at the subnet layer of a VPC? (Select the best answer.)
Firewall
Web application firewall
Security group
Network ACL
What happens when you use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to create a new VPC? (Select the best answer.)
Three subnets are created by default in one Availability Zone.
Three subnets are created by default: one for each Availability Zone.
An internet gateway is created by default.
A main route table is created by default.
Which of the following can be used to protect Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances hosted in AWS? (Select the best answer.)
AMI
All of the above
Security group
Internet Gateway
You are a solutions architect who works at a large retail company that is migrating its existing infrastructure to AWS. You recommend that they use a custom VPC. When you create a VPC, you assign it to an IPv4 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block of 10.0.1.0/24 (which has 256 total IP addresses). How many IP addresses are available? (Select the best answer.)
251
256
246
250
Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads? (Select the best answer)
Amazon EC2 costs are billed on a monthly basis.
Customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances.
Customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads.
Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.
If your project requires monthly reports that iterate through very large amounts of data, which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) purchasing option should you consider? (Select the best answer)
Spot Instances
Scheduled Reserved Instances
Dedicated Hosts
On-Demand Instances
What is included in an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)? (Select the best answer)
A template for the root volume for the instance
Launch permissions that control which AWS accounts can use the AMI to launch instances.
A block device mapping that specifies the volumes to attach to the instance when it's launched
All of the above
Which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) feature ensures your instances will not share a physical host with instances from any other AWS customer? (Select the best answer)
Amazon VPC
Placement groups
Dedicated Instances
Reserved Instances
Which of the following services is a serverless compute service in AWS? (Select the best answer)
AWS Config
AWS Lambda
AWS OpsWorks
Amazon EC2
What is the service provided by AWS that enables developers to easily deploy and manage applications in the cloud? (Select the best answer)
Amazon Elastic Container Service
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Opswork
AWS CloudFormation
Your web application needs four instances to support steady traffic all of the time. On the last day of the month, the traffic triples. What is the most cost-effective way to handle this pattern? (Select the best answer)
Run 12 Reserved Instances all of the time.
Run four On-Demand Instances constantly, then add eight more On-Demand Instances on the last day of each month.
Run four Reserved Instances constantly, then add eight On-Demand Instances on the last day of each month.
Run four On-Demand Instances constantly, then add eight Reserved Instances on the last day of each month.
True or False? Containers contain an entire operating system.
True
False
Which Amazon EC2 option is best for long-term workloads with predictable usage patterns? (Select the best answer)
Spot Instances
On-Demand Instances
Reserved Instances
Which of the following must be specified when launching a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Windows instance? (Choose two)
The Amazon EC2 instance ID
Amazon EC2 instance type
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Password for the administrator account
True or False? Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage suitable for the storage of flat files like Microsoft Word documents, photos, etc.
True
False
Amazon S3 replicates all objects _____. (Select the best answer)
on multiple volumes within an Availability Zone
in multiple Availability Zones within the same Region
across multiple Regions for higher durability
on multiple S3 buckets
Which of the following can be used as a storage class for an S3 object lifecycle policy? (Select all that apply)
S3 - Standard Access
AWS Storage Gateway
S3 - Infrequent Access
Which of the following can be used as a storage class for an S3 object lifecycle policy? (Select all that apply)
Simple Storage Service Glacier
S3 - Reduced Redundancy Storage
Amazon Dynamo DB
The name of an S3 bucket must be unique ________. (Select the best answer)
worldwide across all AWS accounts
within a Region
across all your AWS accounts
within your AWS account
You can use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to: (Select the best answer)
provide simple, scalable, elastic file storage for use only within AWS.
implement storage for Amazon EC2 instances that multiple virtual machines can access at the same time.
host a robust CDN to deliver entire web sites with dynamic, static, and streaming content.
generate user-specific content.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is recommended when data _____ and _____. (Choose two)
requires object-level storage
must be quickly accessible, requiring long-term persistence
requires an encryption solution
needs to be stored in a different Availability Zone than the one the EC2 instance is in
True or False? By default, all data stored in Amazon S3 is viewable by the public.
True
False
Regarding Amazon S3 Glacier, what is a Vault? (Select the best answer)
The rules that determine who may (or may not) access archives
An object (photos, videos, files, or documents)
A container for storing archives
A policy that identifies who can access content stored in Glacier
True or False? When you create a bucket in Amazon S3, it is associated with a specific AWS Region.
True
False
Which of the following are features of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)? (Choose two)
Data stored on Amazon EBS is automatically replicated within an Availability Zone.
Data on an Amazon EBS volume is lost when the attached instance is stopped.
Amazon EBS volumes can be encrypted transparently to workloads on the attached instance.
Amazon EBS data is automatically backed up to tape.
You are designing an ecommerce web application that will scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. Which database technology is best suited to hold the session state in this example? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
You need to find an item in an Amazon DynamoDB table using an attribute other than the item’s primary key. Which of the following operations should you use? (Select the best answer.)
PutItem
Scan
Query
GetItem
In Amazon DynamoDB, what does the query operation enable you to do? (Select the best answer.)
Query a table using the partition key and an optional sort key filter
Query any secondary indexes that exist for a table
Efficiently retrieve items from a table or secondary index
All of the above
Which AWS Cloud service is best suited for analyzing your data by using standard structured query language (SQL) and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Redshift
In Amazon DynamoDB, an attribute is _____. (Select the best answer.)
a fundamental data element
a collection of items
a collection of attributes
If you are developing an application that requires a database with extremely fast performance, fast scalability, and flexibility in the database schema, which service should you consider? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Redshift
Which of the following use cases is appropriate for using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? (Select the best answer.)
Massive read/write rates
Simple GET or PUT requests
Complex transactions
All of the above
A company has an application, which consists of a .NET layer that connects to a MySQL database. They want to move this application on to AWS and use AWS features such as high availability and automated backups. Which of the following would be an ideal database for this use case? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon Aurora
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS
True or false? Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery.
True
False
What should you consider when choosing a database type? (Select the best answer.)
Data size
Data access period
Query frequency
Highly available
All of the above
Which of the following is not one of the four areas of the performance efficiency pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select the best answer.)
Tradeoffs
Selection
Traceability
Monitoring
Which of the following is a principle when designing cloud-based systems? (Select the best answer.)
Build tightly-coupled components
Make infrequent, large batch changes
Assume everything will fail
Use as many services as possible
Which of the following are pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Choose three.)
Security
Persistence
Operational Excellence
Cost Optimization
Which design principles are recommended when considering performance efficiency? (Choose two.)
Democratize advanced technologies
Enable traceability
Match supply with demand
Analyze and attribute expenditure
Use serverless architectures
AWS Trusted Advisor provides insight regarding which five categories of an AWS account? (Select the best answer.)
Security, fault tolerance, high availability, connectivity, service limits
Security, access control, high availability, performance, service limits
Performance, cost optimization, access control, connectivity, security
Performance, cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, service limits
What is the focus of the sustainability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework? (Select the best answer.)
Designing workloads that recover quickly from failures
Minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads
Avoiding unnecessary costs in cloud workloads
Automating updates to cloud workloads
After you move to the AWS Cloud, you want to ensure that the right security settings are put in place. Which online tool can assist in security compliance? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon Kinesis
AWS Support
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon CloudWatch
Which of the following is a measure of your system’s ability to provide functionality when desired by the user? (Select the best answer.)
Availability
Fault Tolerance
Reliability
Performance efficiency
What is defined as the ability for a system to remain operational even if some of the components of that system fail? (Select the best answer.)
High durability
Fault tolerance
High availability
High durability
Which of the following best describes a system that can withstand some measures of degradation, experiences minimal downtime, and requires minimal human intervention? (Select the best answer.)
Scalable
Fault-tolerant
Elastic
Highly available
Which of the following AWS tools help your application scale up or down based on demand? (Choose two.)
Availability Zones
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
AWS CloudFormation
Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Config
Which service would you use to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon Route 53
Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling? (Choose three.)
Only supports dynamic scaling
Responds to changing conditions by adding or terminating instances
Delivers push notifications
Launches instances from a specified Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Enforces a minimum number of running Amazon EC2 instances
Which of the following must be configured on an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer to expect incoming traffic? (Select the best answer.)
A port
A network interface
A listener
An instance
Which of the following elements are used to create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launch configuration? (Choose three.)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Load balancer
Instance type
Virtual private cloud (VPC) and subnets
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes
Which of the following services can help you collect important metrics from Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Which of the following are elements of an Auto Scaling group? (Choose three.)
Minimum size
Health checks
Desired capacity
Maximum size
There is an audit at your company and they need to have a log of all access to AWS resources in the account. Which of the following services can assist in providing these details? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
