Cloud Practitioner #3

Which of the following services help reduce the complexity and time needed to plan your application migration to the AWS Cloud?

AWS Application Discovery Service

A company needs to track resource changes using the API call history. Which AWS service can help the company achieve this goal?

AWS CloudTrail

Which of the following AWS services can assist you with cost optimization?

AWS Trusted Advisor

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

AWS allows you to provision resources in minutes

Which statement best describes what AWS is?

AWS is a cloud services provider

Once again your customers are concerned about the security of their sensitive data, and now ask you, "What happens to old storage devices on AWS?"What would be the best answer to this question?

AWS uses the techniques detailed in DoD 5220.22-M to destroy data as part of the decommissioning process

What is a key benefit of accessing AWS Cloud services through an API?

Ability to manage AWS services programmatically

Which of the following is an AWS-managed database service that provides processing power up to five times faster than a traditional MySQL database?

Aurora

Which of the following are benefits of the AWS's Relational Database Service (RDS)? (Choose two)

Automated patches and backups and You can resize capacity accordingly

What are the benefits of using DynamoDB? (Choose two)

Automatic scaling to meet required throughput capacity and Single-digit millisecond latency

If you have a large amount of data that needs to be archived, which of the following would be the most efficient storage service to use?

Glacier

Which of the following are use cases for Amazon S3? (Choose two)

Hosting static websites and A media store for the CloudFront service

How can you modify user permissions in AWS?

IAM

You need to set up a security certificate for a client's eCommerce website in order to use the HTTPS protocol. Which of the following AWS services do you need to access in order to manage your SSL server certificate? (Choose two)

IAM and ACM

What statement best describes the purpose of having multiple Availability Zones in each AWS region?

Multiple availability zones allow for duplicate and redundant compute and storage

You want to host a set of servers in AWS using Amazon EC2 instances for a short period (3 months). Which is the most cost-effective option?

On demand instances

A company has a distributed application that periodically processes large volumes of data across multiple Amazon EC2 Instances. The application is designed to recover gracefully from Amazon EC2 instance failures. There is a requirement to accomplish this task in the most cost-effective way. Which one of the following types of instance would be most appropriate choice to use?

Spot instances

A company wants to add an extra layer of protection to their current authentication mechanism of usernames and passwords. Which of the following can be used to best achieve this goal?

Use MFA

Which of the following should you consider when creating a tagging strategy for your AWS resources? (Choose two)

Use as many tags as possible to help filter your resources easily and always use a case-sensitive format for tags

What are design principles for performance efficiency in the cloud? (Choose two)

Use serverless architectures and Go global in minutes

Which networking service enables one to create a virtual network within AWS?

VPC

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

Versioning and Permissions

What is one benefit AND one drawback of buying a reserved EC2 instance? (Select two)

You are locked in to either a one year or three year pricing commitment and Reserved instances can be purchased for a significant discount over on demand instances

Big Cloud Jumbo Corp is beginning to explore migrating their entire on-premises data center to AWS. They are very concerned about how much it will cost once their entire IT infrastructure is running on AWS. What tool would you recommend they use to perform a cost-benefit analysis of moving to the AWS Cloud?

TCO Calculator

Which of the following are factors in determining the right database technology to use for each workload? (Choose two)

The number of reads and writes per second and the nature of the queries

You want to take a snapshot of an EC2 Instance and create a new instance out of it. This snapshot is equivalent to:

AMI

What does AWS offer to secure your network? (Choose two)

Built-in Firewall and Encrypt data in transit

What is the minimum level of AWS support that provides 24x7 access to technical support engineers via phone?

Business

How can ELBs improve the fault tolerance of your application?

By ensuring that only healthy targets receive traffic

Which of the following support plans include the AWS Support Concierge Service?

Enterprise

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

CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework)

What are the main benefits of using the AWS Service Catalog?

Centrally manage commonly deployed IT services

While working with Amazon S3, you found that six of your S3 buckets were deleted, but no one is taking responsibility. You decide to open an investigation in order to find out who deleted the S3 buckets. Which of the following may help you in your investigation?

CloudTrail logs

Which AWS service must you use if you want to configure an AWS billing alarm?

CloudWatch

Which of the following AWS services can help you perform security analysis and compliance auditing? (Choose two)

Config and Inspector

Which of the following statements best describes the AWS shared controls?

Controls which apply to both the infrastructure layer and customer layers

Amazon SWF is designed to help users ___________.

Coordinate tasks across distributed application components. Simple Workflow Service

Which of the following helps a customer delve deep into the Amazon EC2 billing activity for the past month?

Cost & Usage reports

An organization has been using AWS for a few months. Which of the below AWS tools will help the finance team visualize the organization's AWS spending?

Cost Explorer

Which of the following allows you to create a new RDS instance? (Choose two)

Management Console and CloudFormation

After migrating to AWS, you dont have to pay for: (Select two)

Data center operations and Infrastructure security

Your company wants to migrate their website to AWS. Security is a major concern to them, so they need to host their website on exclusive hardware that is NOT shared with any other AWS customers. Which of the following EC2 instance types is the most appropriate choice?

Dedicated instances

What are AWS' recommendations regarding root access keys?

Delete them

A user is trying to save on the cost of AWS services. Which of the options mentioned below will not help the user save on cost?

Deleting and Autoscaling launch configuration after instances are terminated

Which AWS support plan would help provide general guidance when you request Architecture Support?

Developer

You have been asked to set up a database in AWS that will require frequent updates. You know that you will need a reasonable amount of storage space but are unsure of the best option. Which type of storage should be used by a database instance based on the above criteria?

EBS

Which of the following is equivalent to virtual servers hosted in an on-premise location?

EC2 Instances

Which of the following is the most appropriate means for developers to store Docker container images in the AWS Cloud?

ECR

You want to quickly deploy your .NET application on the AWS Cloud. Which of the following AWS services can best help you?

Elastic Beanstalk

Which of the following is a benefit of running an application in multiple Availability Zones?

Increases the availability of your application

Which of the following are customer responsibilities when using EC2? (Choose two)

Install and configure third party software and Protect sensitive data

For managed services like Amazon DynamoDB, what are the security-related tasks that AWS is responsible for? (Choose two)

Install antivirus software and Disaster recovery

Which statement best describes the concept of an AWS region?

It is a geographical area divided into Availability Zones

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

It is considered a serverless web service

How does AWS Lambda work?

Just upload your code and watch it run

Which of the following services can be used to process images uploaded to S3?

Lambda

What are the benefits of using a managed service on AWS? (Choose two)

Lowers operational complexity and Delivers new solutions faster

Which of the following AWS services would you use to register a new domain name in the AWS Platform?

Route 53

Which of the following is used to control network traffic in AWS? (Choose three)

Route tables and Security Groups and NACL

You decide to use Amazon S3 to store infrequently accessed data. Which storage class should you use?

S3 Standard-IA Storage (Infrequent Access)

Which of the following AWS services scale automatically without your intervention? (Choose three)

S3 and EFS and Lambda

Which of the following can be used to call AWS services from different programming languages?

SDK

Which security procedures should you perform yourself even if you are using a managed service? (Choose 2)

SSL/TLS and Activity Logging

Why would a company decide to use AWS over an on-premises data center? (Choose two)

Save Costs and Elastic resources

Doodle, Inc. has a web application that ultimately stores billions of images and videos. All told, there is almost an exabyte of data stored in Doodle's system. Which of the following AWS services can best transfer the data to AWS?

Snowmobile