Cloud Practitioner

What is one of the advantages of the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? A. It simplifies relational database administration tasks. B. It provides 99.99999999999% reliability and durability. C. It automatically scales databases for loads. D. It enabled users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resources.

A

What is the value of having AWS Cloud services accessible through an Application Programming Interface (API)? A. Cloud resources can be managed programmatically B. AWS infrastructure use will always be cost-optimized C. All application testing is managed by AWS D. Customer-owned, on-premises infrastructure becomes programmable

A

Which AWS Cloud service helps in quick deployment of resources which can make use of different programming languages such as .Net and Java? A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk B. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C. AWS VPC D. AWS SQS

A

Which AWS service automates infrastructure provisioning and administrative tasks for an analytical data warehouse? A. Amazon Redshift B. Amazon DynamoDB C. Amazon ElastiCache D. Amazon Aurora

A

Which of the following is the concept of Auto Scaling? A. To scale up resources based on demand B. To distribute traffic to multiple EC2 Instances C. To distribute traffic to AWS resources across multiple regions D. To increase the size of the EC2 Instance based on demand

A

Which of the following needs a user name and password to access AWS resources? A. AWS Management Console B. AWS Application Programming Interface (API) C. AWS Software Development Kit (SDK) D. AWS CLI

A

Which of the following options of AWS RDS allows for AWS to failover to a secondary database in case the primary one fails? A. AWS Multi-AZ B. AWS Failover C. AWS Secondary D. AWS Standby

A

Which of the following service is most useful when a Disaster Recovery method is triggered in AWS? A. Amazon Route 53 B. Amazon SNS C. Amazon SQS D. Amazon Inspector

A

Which of these is a document that provides a formal statement of one or more permissions? A. Policy B. Permission C. Role D. Resource

A

Which one of the following features is normally present in all of AWS Support plans? A. 24*7 access to customer support B. Access to all features in the Trusted Advisor C. A technical Account Manager D. A dedicated support person

A

Which service should an administrator use to register a new domain name with AWS? A. Amazon Route 53 B. Amazon Cloud Fron C. Elastic Load Balancing D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

A

Which service would you use to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms? A) Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) B) AWS CloudTrail C) AWS Trusted Advisor D) Amazon Route 53

A

What is the lowest-cost, durable storage option for retaining database backups for immediate retrieval? A. Amazon S3 B. Amazon Glacier C. Amazon EBS D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store

A (Glacier is too slow)

What is EC2 auto scaling?

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and allows you to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions you define. You can use the fleet management features of EC2 Auto Scaling to maintain the health and availability of your fleet.

Which of the following features of RDS allows for data redundancy across regions? A. Cross region replication B. Creating Read Replicas C. Using snapshots D. Using Multi-AZ feature

B

Which of the following is AWS's responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model? A) Configuring third-party applications B) Maintaining physical hardware C) Securing application access and data D) Managing custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

B

Which of the following is a benefit of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) over physical servers? A. Automated backup B. Paying only for what you use C. The ability to choose hardware vendors D. Root /administrator access

B

Which of the following is not a category recommendation given by the AWS Trusted Advisor? A. Security B. High Availability C. Cost Optimization D. Performance E. Fault tolerance

B

Which of the following is the responsibility of the customer when ensuring that data on EBS volumes is left safe? A. Deleting the data when the device is destroyed B. Creating EBS snapshots C. Attaching volumes to EC2 Instances D. Creating copies of EBS Volumes

B

Which of the following is the secure way of using AWS API to call AWS services from EC2 Instances? A. IAM Users B. IAM Roles C. IAM Groups D. IAM policies

B

Which of the following is true regarding VPC? A. Each VPC is a private, dedicated connection to AWS B. You can create many subnets in a VPC, but it's not recommended C. A VPC acts as a firewall for your infrastructure D. Each account can have only one VPC in it

B

Which of the following networking components can be used to host EC2 resources in the AWS Cloud? A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. AWS VPC C. AWS Elastic Load Balancer D. AWS Autoscaling

B

Which of the following services allows you to analyze EC2 Instances against pre-defined security templates to check for vulnerabilities? A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. AWS Inspector C. AWS WAF D. AWS Shield

B

Which of the following services can be used as a web application firewall in AWS? A. AWS EC2 B. AWS WAF C. AWS Firewall D. AWS Protection

B

Which of the following services helps in governance, compliance, and risk auditing in AWS? A. AWS Config B. AWS CloudTrail C. AWS CloudWatch D. AWS SNS

B

Which of the following services uses AWS edge locations? A. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) B. Amazon CloudFront C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) D. AWS Storage Gateway

B

Which service can identify the user that made the API call when an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance is terminated? A) Amazon CloudWatch B) AWS CloudTrail C) AWS X-Ray D) AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)

B

Which statement best describes Elastic Load Balancing? A. It translates a domain name into an IP address using DNS. B. It distributes incoming application traffic across one or more Amazon EC2 instances. C. It collects metrics on connected Amazon EC2 instances. D. It automatically adjusts the number of Amazon EC2 instances to support incoming traffic.

B

Who has control of the data in an AWS account? A. AWS Support Team B. AWS Account Owner C. AWS Security Team D. AWS Technical Account Manager (TAM)

B

Which of the following services helps provide a connection from on-premise infrastructure to resources hosted in the AWS Cloud? Choose 2 answers from the options given below: A. AWS VPC B. AWS VPN C. AWS Direct Connect D. AWS Subnets

BC

Which of the following is not a disaster recovery deployment technique? A. Pilot light B. Warm standby C. Single Site D. Multi-Site

C

Which of the following services helps provide a dedicated connection from on-premise infrastructure to resources hosted in the AWS Cloud? A. AWS VPC B. AWS VPN C. AWS Direct Connect D. AWS Subnets

C

Which service allows for the collection and tracking of metrics for AWS services? A. Amazon CloudFront B. Amazon CloudSearch C. Amazon CloudWatch D. Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML)

C

hich of the following are features of Amazon CloudWatch Logs? (Choose two.) A. Summaries by Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) B. Free Amazon Elasticsearch Service analytics C. Provided at no charge D. Real-time monitoring E. Adjustable retention

DE

What 6 large things are customers responsible for?

Data; Platform, Applications, IAM; Client side data encryption & integrity, authentication; server side encryption; networking traffic protection

Which AWS service is a high throughput database service?

DynamoDB

What is the difference between an EBS snapshot and AMI?

EBS snapshot is just the data. AMI is the image used to create other instances.

What is the big difference between EBS and EFS?

EFS can have multiple things mounted on it

Which service lets you provision a new EC2 instance if one fails a health check?

Fleet management

What are the 2 payment plans for EC2 reserved instances?

Full or partial upfront

What is a region?

Geographic area with at least two isolated Availability Zones

What tool can you use to help guide a cloud migration effort?

Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

What are the 3 deployment models?

Cloud, Hybrid, and on-prem (private cloud)

What are the 3 ways to interact with the various services?

Console, SDK, CLI

What's the smallest amount of time needed to purchase a reserved EC2 instance?

1 year

Which of the following helps in DDoS protection? Choose 2 answers from the options given below A. CloudFront B. AWS Shield C. AWS EC2 D. AWS Config

AB

Which of the following statements are TRUE when it comes to elasticity. Choose 2 answers from the options given below: A. Diverting traffic to instances based on the demand B. Diverting traffic to instances with the least load C. Diverting traffic across multiple regions D. Diverting traffic to instances with higher capacity

AB

What are the benefits of using Amazon EC2 instances compared to physical services? Select 2. A. Have different storage requirements B. Hot-add more RAM C. Pay only for the capacity you use D. Resizable E. Automatic automated backups

AC

Which of the following are services where you don't need to manage the underlying infrastructure? Choose 2 answers from the options given below: A. DynamoDB B. EC2 C. Simple Storage Service D. AWS Auto Scaling

AC

Which of the following can be used to protect EC2 Instances hosted in AWS? Choose 2 answers from the options given below: A. Usage of Security Groups B. Usage of AMI's C. Usage of Network Access Control Lists D. Usage of the Internet gateway

AC

You have a set of EC2 Instances hosted on the AWS Cloud. The EC2 Instances are hosting a web application. If you get a DDos attack from the internet, which of the following can help in reducing the overall threat to your EC2 Instances? Choose 2 answers from the options given below: A. Usage of Security Groups B. Usage of AWS Config C. Usage of Network Access Control Lists D. Usage of the Internet gateway

AC

Which of the below can be used to get data onto Amazon Glacier? Choose 3 answers from the options given below: A. AWS Glacier API B. AWS Console C. AWS Glacier SDK D. AWS S3 Lifecycle policies

ACD

In AWS, which security aspects are the customer's responsibility? Choose 4 answers from the options given below: A. Security Group and ACL (Access Control List) settings B. Decommissioning storage devices C. Patch management on the EC2 instance's operating system D. Life-cycle management of IAM credentials E. Controlling physical access to compute resources F. Encryption of EBS (Elastic Block Storage) volumes

ACDF

Which service should you use to alert you if your budget is set to exceed a certain amount?

AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. You can also use AWS Budgets to set reservation utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define.

What's the key difference between AWS Config vs AWS CloudTrail?

AWS Config - records point-in-time configuration details for your AWS resources as Configuration Items. CIs can be used to know what a resource looked like at a point in time. AWS CloudTrail - Who made an API call to modify this resource? Focuses on specific events.

What is the shared responsbility model?

AWS responsible for cloud; you responsible for security in the cloud

What are the differences between the 3 EC2 reserved payment options?

All Upfront is most cost effective. Partial is cheaper than no upfront

What is Cross Region Replication (CRR)?

Used in S3. Replicate data into another bucket in another region AFTER you configure the rules.

Where can a customer go to get more detail about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) billing activity that took place 3 month ago? A. Amazon EC2 dashboard B. AWS Cost and Usage reports C. AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard D. AWS Cloud Trail logs stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

B

Which AWS service would simplify migration of a database to AWS? A) AWS Storage Gateway B) AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) C) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) D) Amazon AppStream 2.0

B

Which component of AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? A) AWS Regions B) AWS edge locations C) AWS Availability Zones D) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

B

Which of the following disaster recovery deployment mechanisms that has the lowest downtime? A. Pilot light B. Warm standby C. Backup Restore D. DevOps

B

Which of the following does AWS perform on its customer's behalf for EBS volumes to make it less prone to failure? A. Replication of the volume across Availability Zones B. Replication of the volume in the same Availability Zone C. Replication of the volume across Regions D. Replication of the volume across Edge locations

B

You want to take a snapshot of an EC2 Instance and create a new instance out of it. In AWS what is this snapshot equivalent to? A. EBS Volumes B. AMI C. EC2 Snapshot D. EBS Snapshot

B

Which AWS services can be used to store files? Choose 2 answers from the options given below A. Amazon CloudWatch B. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) D. AWS Config E. Amazon Athena

BC

Which of the following features of Amazon RDS allows for better availability of databases. Choose 2 answers from the options given below: A. VPC Peering B. Multi-AZ C. Read Replicas D. Multi-Region

BC

When working with the AWS Cloud which of the following are headaches you don't need to worry about? Choose 2 answers from the options given below. A. Having complete control over the physical infrastructure, so you don't need to worry about what AWS is doing. B. Having the pay as you go model, so you don't need to worry if you are burning costs for non-running resources. C. No Upfront costs D. Having no need to worry about security

BC (A is not true for EC2)

What are the 4 disaster recovery methods?

Backup and restore (cold method); Pilot light; warm standby; multi-site

What is an EBS snapshot?

Backup of your EBS volume. Only backs-up incremental changes to the volume

A company wants to host a self-managed database in AWS. How would you ideally implement this solution? A. Using the AWS DynamoDB service B. Using the AWS RDS service C. Hosting a database on an EC2 Instance D. Using the Amazon Aurora service

C

How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS Management Console? A) Use AWS Cloud Directory B) Audit AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles C) Enable Multi-Factor Authentication D) Enable AWS CloudTrail

C

What is the ability provided by AWS to enable fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and your Amazon S3 bucket? A. File Transfer B. HTTP Transfer C. Transfer Acceleration D. S3 Acceleration

C

Which AWS service provides infrastructure security optimization recommendations? A. AWS Price List Application Programming Interface (API) B. Reserved Instances C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) SpotFleet

C

Which of the following AWS services should you use to migrate an existing database to AWS? A. AWS Lambda B. AWS Storage gateway C. AWS DMS D. AWS Snowball

C

Which of the following Amazon EC2 pricing models allow customers to use existing server-bound software licenses? A. Spot Instances B. Reserved Instances C. Dedicated Hosts D. On-Demand Instances

C

Which of the following examples supports the cloud design principle "design for failure and nothing will fail''? A. Adding an elastic load balancer in front of a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance B. Creating and deploying the most cost-effective solution C. Deploying an application in multiple Availability Zones D. Using Amazon CloudWatch alerts to monitor performance

C

Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads? A) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) costs are billed on a monthly basis. B) Customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances. C) Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed. D) Customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads.

C

You work for a company that is planning on using the AWS EC2 service. They currently create golden images of their deployed operating system. Which of the following correspond to a golden image in AWS? A. EBS Volumes B. EBS Snapshots C. Amazon Machines Images D. EC2 Copies

C

Your 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? A. EBS Volumes B. EBS Snapshots C. Amazon Machines Images D. Amazon VMware

C

Your company has a set of EC2 Instances hosted in AWS. There is a requirement to create snapshots from the EBS volumes attached to these EC2 Instances in another geographical location. As per this requirement, where would you create the snapshots? A. In another Availability Zone B. In another data center C. In another Region D. In another Edge location

C

Explain the different IAM resources.

Users - unique per person or entity Group - multiple users Role - can be assigned to multiple users Permissions - assigned to roles or users

What is AWS VPC?

Virtual Private Cloud

What is IAM for?

Create and manage users and groups, and use permissions to allow or deny access to resources

A company needs to know which user was responsible for terminating several critical Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Instances. Where can the customer find this information? A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. Amazon EC2 instance usage report C. Amazon CloudWatch D. AWS CloudTrail logs

D

Are EBS volumes automatically replicated?

Yes - in the same region

As per the AWS Acceptable Use Policy, penetration testing of EC2 instances: A. May be performed by AWS and will be performed by AWS upon customer request B. May be performed by AWS and is periodically performed by AWS C. Are expressly prohibited under all circumstances D. May be performed by the customer on their own instances with prior authorization from AWS E. May be performed by the customer on their own instances, only if performed from EC2 instances

D

Compared with costs in traditional and virtualized data centers, AWS has: A. greater variable costs and greater upfront costs. B. fixed usage costs and lower upfront costs. C. lower variable costs and greater upfront costs. D. lower variable costs and lower upfront costs.

D

There is a requirement to host a database server for a minimum period of one year. Which of the following would result in the least cost? A. Spot Instances B. On-Demand C. No Upfront costs Reserved D. Partial Upfront costs Reserved

D

What service helps you to aggregate logs from your EC2 instance? Choose one answer from the options below: A. SQS B. S3 C. CloudTrail D. CloudWatch Logs

D

Where can a customer find information about prohibited actions on AWS infrastructure? A) AWS Trusted Advisor B) AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) C) AWS Billing Console D) AWS Acceptable Use Policy

D

Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS? A) AWS Config B) Amazon Route 53 C) AWS Direct Connect D) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

D

Which AWS offering enables customers to find, buy, and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment? A) AWS Config B) AWS OpsWorks C) AWS SDK D) AWS Marketplace

D

Which Amazon EC2 instance pricing model can provide discounts of up to 90%? A. Reserved Instances B. On-Demand C. Dedicated Hosts D. Spot Instances

D

Which of the following in the AWS Support plans gives access to a Support Concierge? A. Basic B. Developer C. Business D. Enterprise

D

Which of the following is a benefit of running an application across two Availability Zones? A. Performance is improved over running in a single Availability Zone. B. It is more secure than running in a single Availability Zone. C. It significantly reduces the total cost of ownership versus running in a single Availability Zone. D. It increases the availability of an application compared to running in a single Availability Zone.

D

Which of the following is not a supported database in the AWS RDS service? A. Aurora B. MariaDB C. MySQL D. DB2

D

Which tool can display the distribution of AWS spending? A. AWS organizations B. Amazon Dev Pay C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. AWS Cost Explorer

D

Which two DBMs is Aurora compatible with?

MySQL and PostgreSQL

What are the 3 types of load balancers?

Network, application, and classic

What are the 4 options to pay for EC2 boxes?

On-demand, reserved, savings plan, or on-the-spot

What are the 5 pillars of a well-architected framework?

Operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization

What are the 6 database servers supported by RDS?

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, AWS Aurora

List the 4 database options provided by AWS

RDS, Aurora - relational DynamoDB - NoSQL key-value, document Redshift Elasticache

What is a region and AZ?

Region - physical place with multiple AZs. AZ - one or more data centers

True/False: CloudFront has built in DDoS protection.

True