AWS test

Which AWS Service provides the current status of all AWS Services in all AWS Regions?

AWS Health Dashboard

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

Amazon CAF

Where can you store files in AWS?

Amazon EFS & EBS

What are the connectivity options that can be used to build hybrid cloud architectures?

Amazon VPN & AWS directconnect

AWS Organizations

An account management service that enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage.

What are AWS shared controls?

Controls that apply to both the infrastructure layer and customer layers

Which of the below are responsibilities of the customer when using Amazon EC2? (Choose TWO)

Installing and configuring third-party software & Protecting sensitive data

What are the benefits of using an AWS-managed service?

Lowers operational complexity & ​ Allows customers to deliver new solutions faster

Amazon ElastiCache

in memory catching for read heavy applications

Which of the following are use cases for Amazon S3?

media store for the cloudfront service& hosting static websites

What is one benefit and one drawback of buying a reserved EC2 instance?

reserved instances provide a significant discount compared to on-demand instances & Reserved instances require at least a one-year pricing commitment

A company has created a solution that helps AWS customers improve their architectures on AWS. Which AWS program may support this company?

APN consulting partners

Which of the following allows you to create new RDS instances?

AWS Cloudformation &AWS Management condole

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?

AWS Identity & Access Management & AWS ACM

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

AWS Lambda

TYMO Cloud Corp is looking forward to migrating their entire on-premises data center to AWS. What tool can they use to build a Business Case for moving to the AWS Cloud?

AWS Migration Evaluator

What is the connectivity option that uses Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) to establish encrypted connectivity between an on-premises network and the AWS Cloud?

AWS Site-to-Site VPN

which AWS service or feature can be used to call AWS Services from different programming languages?

AWS Software development kit

A company is developing a new application using a microservices framework. The new application is having performance and latency issues. Which AWS Service should be used to troubleshoot these issues?

AWS X-RAY

Which of the following statements describes the AWS Cloud's agility?

AWS allows you to provision resources in minutes

A company has deployed a new web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Which of the following should they use to ensure that the incoming HTTP traffic is distributed evenly across the instances?

AWS application load balancer

What are the change management tools that helps AWS customers audit and monitor all resource changes in their AWS environment?

AWS config & AWS cloudtrail

A company is trying to analyze the costs applied to their AWS account recently. Which of the following provides them the most granular data about their AWS costs and usage?

AWS cost and usage report

Which AWS Service can be used to establish a dedicated, private network connection between AWS and your datacenter?

AWS direct connect

AWS services can be used to improve the performance of a global application and reduce latency for its users?

AWS global accelerator & AWS cloudfront

An organization runs many systems and uses many AWS products. Which of the following services enables them to control how each developer interacts with these products?

AWS identity and access management

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

AWS professional services & partners

AWS Lambda

AWS serverless service that allows you to run your applications without any administrative burden

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage all of its AWS accounts. Which of the following allows the company to restrict what services and actions are allowed in each individual account?

AWS service control policies (SCPs)

AWS Command line interface (CLI)

AWS tool that enables you to use scripts to manage all AWS services and resources

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 equivalent to a user name and password and is used to authenticate your programmatic access to AWS services and APIs?

Access keys

What is the AWS service that provides you the highest level of control over the underlying virtual infrastructure?

Amazon EC2

Savings Plans are available for which of the following AWS compute services?

Amazon EC2 & AWS Lambda

Which of the following AWS services can be used as a compute resources?

Amazon EC2 & AWS lambda

What are the AWS services\features that can help you maintain a highly available and fault-tolerant architecture in AWS?

Amazon EC2 auto scaling & elastic load balancer

Which of the following services allows you to run containerized applications on a cluster of EC2 instances?

Amazon ECS & EKS

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?

Amazon RDS

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

Amazon Route 53

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?

Amazon S3

Which of the following AWS services scale automatically without your intervention?

Amazon S3 & AWS Lambda

A company plans to migrate a large amount of archived data to AWS. The archived data must be maintained for a period of 5 years and must be retrievable within 5 hours of a request. What is the most cost-effective AWS storage service to use?

Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

A company wants to keep a secondary backup copy of its databases to meet regulatory requirements. Compliance policies require that the data be retrievable immediately when requested. What is the most cost-effective storage option that will meet these requirements?

Amazon S3 one-zone infrequent access

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

Amazon config and amazon inspector

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?

Amazon machine images (AMI)

Which of the following AWS services is designed with native Multi-AZ fault tolerance in mind?

Amazon simple storage service & Amazon dynamoDB

Which of the following EC2 instance purchasing options supports the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model for almost every BYOL scenario?

Dedicated Hosts

How are AWS customers billed for Linux-based Amazon EC2 usage?

EC2 instances will be billed on one second increments, with a minimum of one minute

Which support plan includes AWS Support Concierge Service?

Enterprise Support

Using Amazon EC2 falls under which of the following cloud computing models?

IaaS (infrastructure as a service)

Which of the following can help protect your EC2 instances from DDoS attacks?

Network Access control lists & security groups

What are the Amazon RDS features that can be used to improve the availability of your database?

Read replicas & Multi AZ deployment

Which of the following is one of the benefits of moving infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS?

Reduced Capitol Expenditure (capex)

A company needs to host a database in Amazon RDS for at least three years. Which of the following options would be the most cost-effective solution?

Reserved instances- partial upfront

What does AWS Service Catalog provide?

Simplifies organizing and governing commonly deployed IT services

A customer is planning to move billions of images and videos to be stored on Amazon S3. The customer has approximately 60 Petabytes of data to move. Which of the following AWS Services is the best choice to transfer the data to AWS?

Snowmobile

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Utilizes the CloudFront Edge Network to accelerate your uploads to S3.

Amazon Aurora

a MySQL-compatible relational database service that can scale capacity automatically based on demand

Amazon Redshift

a data warehousing service that you can use for big data analytics. It offers the ability to collect data from many sources and helps you to understand relationships and trends across your data.

Which statement best describes the operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

ability to monitor systems and improves supporting process and procedures

Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval is an Amazon S3 storage class that is suitable for storing

active achieves & long term analytic data

According to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which of the following are design principles for operational excellence in the AWS cloud?

amazon EC2 instances

Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

analyze and process a large number of data sets.

According to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which of the following are design principles for operational excellence in the AWS cloud?

anticipate failure & make frequent, small, reversible changes

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?

built a fault tolerance system

AWS Web application firewall (WAF)

can help protect your web applications from SQL injection and other vulnerabilities in your application code

A company is planning to migrate an application from Amazon EC2 to AWS Lambda to use a serverless architecture. Which of the following will be the responsibility of AWS after migration?

capacity management & OS system maintenance

Which of the following services will help businesses ensure compliance in AWS?

cloudtrail

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

considered a serverless web service

Sarah has deployed an application in the Northern California (us-west-1) region. After examining the application's traffic, she notices that about 30% of the traffic is coming from Asia. What can she do to reduce latency for the users in Asia?

create a CDN using cloudfront, so that the content is cached at edge locations close to and in Asia

Based on the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are the sole responsibility of AWS?

creating hypervisors & hardware maintenance

Which of the below is a best-practice when building applications on AWS?

decouple components of the application so that they run independently

A company needs to migrate their website from on-premises to AWS. Security is a major concern for them, so they need to host their website on hardware that is NOT shared with other AWS customers. Which of the following EC2 instance options meets this requirement?

dedicated instances

A company has business critical workloads hosted on AWS and they are unwilling to accept any downtime. Which of the following is a recommended best practice to protect their workloads in the event of an unexpected natural disaster?

deploy AWS resources to another AWS region and implement an active-active disaster recovery strategy

What are two advantages of using Cloud Computing over using traditional data centers?

distributed infrastructure & eliminating single points of failure (SPOFs)

Your application has recently experienced significant global growth, and international users are complaining of high latency. What is the AWS characteristic that can help improve your international users' experience?

global reach

Which of the following will impact the price paid for an EC2 instance?

instance type & load balancing

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

is a subset of a public cloud that has highly restricted, secure access ; isolate resources and network configurations

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

number of read and writes per second & nature of the queries

What are the benefits of using DynamoDB?

offers extremely low latency & automatically scales to meet required throughput capacity

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

​ For managed services like Amazon DynamoDB, which of the below is AWS responsible for?

patching database software & OS system maintenance

Amazon Inspector

performs automated security assessments of Amazon EC2 instances to check for vulnerabilities

Which of the following can be used to protect data at rest on Amazon S3?

permissions and versioning

Under the Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following controls do customers fully inherit from AWS?

physical & environmental controls, managing the database settings, building the relational database schema, and protecting the confidentiality if data in transit in Amazon S3

Which of the following should be considered when performing a TCO analysis to compare the costs of running an application on AWS instead of on-premises?

physical hardware

Amazon Elastic block storage (EBS)

primary storage service used by amazon RBS database instances

Software as a Service (SaaS)

provides you w a completed product that is run and managed by the service provider

Which of the following are important design principles you should adopt when designing systems on AWS?

remove single points of failure & automate whenever possible

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

removes the need for an organization to manage the underlying infrastructure and allows them to focus on deployment and management of their applications

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

replaces large expenditure w low variable costs & reduce time to market by focusing on business activities rather than on building and managing data centers

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

resizable compute capacity & lower administrative burden

Which of the following describes the payment model that AWS makes available for customers who consistently use Amazon EC2 over a 3-year term to reduce their total computing costs?

save when you commit

Amazon elastic beanstock

scalable file storage for use w AWS and on premises servers; orchestration service; automates the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto scaling, and application deployment, creating an environment that runs a version of your application

Which of the following aspects of security are managed by AWS?

securing global physical infrastructure & hardware patching

Which of the following AWS security features is associated with an EC2 instance and functions to filter incoming traffic requests?

security groups

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

Amazon SQS

used to store and reliably deliver messages across distributed systems

What are the default security credentials that are required to access the AWS management console for an IAM user account?

username & password

Which statement is correct with regards to AWS service limits?

you can contact AWS support to increase the service limits & you can use the AWS trusted advisor to monitor your service limits