AWS Practice Test 3

Which AWS service provides cost-optimization recommendations?

AWS Trusted

Which of the following statements describe the AWS Cloud's Agility?

AWS allows you to provision resources in minutes

Data security is one of the top priorities of AWS. How does AWS deal with old storage devices that have reached the end of their useful life?

AWS destroys the old devices in accordance with industry standard practices

Which of the following AWS Services can help you perform security analysis and regulatory compliance auditing?

Amazon Inspector + AWS Config

What is AWS's recommendation regarding access keys?

Rotate them regularly

Which of the following AWS Services helps with planning application migration to the AWS Cloud?

· AWS Application Discovery Service

What is the framework created by AWS Professional Services that helps organizations design a road map to successful cloud adoption?

· AWS CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework)

What is the AWS Compute service that executes code only when triggered by events?

· AWS Lambda

. As part of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), what does AWS provide to accelerate Enterprise adoption of AWS?

· AWS Partners & AWS Professional Services

What AWS tools can be used to call AWS Services from different programming languages?

· AWS Software Development Kit

A company has hundreds of VPCs in multiple AWS Regions worldwide. What service does AWS offer to simplify the connection management among the VPCs?

· AWS Transit Gateway

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)?

· Amazon EC2 is considered a serverless web service

Which AWS Service can be used to register a new domain name?

· Amazon Route 53

How do ELBs improve the reliability of your application?

· By ensuring that only healthy targets receive traffic

Which support plan includes AWS Support Concierge Service?

· Enterprise Support

Which of the below are responsibilities of the customer when using Amazon EC2?

· Installing & Configuring third-party software & protecting sensitive data

Why does every AWS Region contain multiple Availability Zones?

· Multiple Availability Zones allow you to build resilient and highly available architectures

What is the most cost-effective purchasing option for running a set of EC2 instances that must always be available for a period of two months?

· On-Demand Instances

Which of the following is used to control network traffic in AWS?

· Security Groups+ Network Access Control Lists (NACLS)

. A customer is planning to move billions of images and videos to be stored on Amazon S3. The customer has approximately one Exabyte of data to move. Which of the following AWS Services is the best choice to transfer the data to AWS?

· Snowmobile

A company has developed a media transcoding application in AWS. The application is designed to recover quickly from hardware failures. Which one of the following types of instance would be the most cost-effective choice to use?

· Spot Instances

What are the benefits of implementing a tagging strategy for AWS resources?

· Track AWS Spending across multiple resources + Quickly identify resources that belong to a specific project

Why do many startup companies prefer AWS over traditional on-premises solutions?

· Using AWS allows companies to replace large capital expenditure with low variable costs + they can reduce time to market by focusing on business activities rather than on building and managing data- centers

Both AWS and traditional IT distributors provide a wide range of virtual servers to meet their customers' requirements. What is the name of these virtual servers in AWS?

Amazon EC2 Instances

A developer needs to set up an SSL security certificate for a client's eCommerce website in order to use the HTTPS protocol. Which of the following AWS services can be used to deploy the required SSL server certificates? (Choose TWO)

AWS ACM & AWS Identity & Access Management

AWS recommends some practices to help organizations avoid unexpected charges on their bill. Which of the following is NOT one of these practices?

Deleting unused AutoScaling launch configuration

What is the AWS service that provides five times the performance of a standard MYSQL database?

Amazon Aurora

Which AWS Service enables customers to set up an AWS billing alarm to inform them when their spending exceeds a certain threshold?

Amazon Cloud Watch

. What is AWS Lambda?

An AWS Service that allows customers to run for code without provisioning or managing servers

A customer spent a lot of time configuring a newly deployed Amazon EC2 instance. After the workload increases, the customer decides to provision another EC2 instance with an identical configuration. How can the customer achieve this?

By creating an AMI from the old instance and launching a new instance from it

A company has discovered that multiple S3 buckets were deleted, but it is unclear who deleted the buckets. Which of the following can the company use to determine the identity that deleted the buckets?

CloudTrail Logs

What does AWS Offer to secure your network

Customer-controlled encryption in transit

What does AWS Service Catalog provide?

It simplifies organizing & governing commonly deployed IT services

What are the benefits of using the Amazon Relational Database Service?

Lower administrative burden + Resizable compute capacity

What is the AWS IAM feature that provides an additional layer of security on top of user-name and password authentication?

MFA ( Multi-Factor Authentication)

What are the benefits of using DynamoDB?

Offers extremely low (single millisecond) latency + Automatically scales to meet required throughput capacity

Which of the following are factors in determining the appropriate database technology to use for a specific workload?

The nature of queries + The number of reads and writes per seconds