AWS Academy Cloud Architecting [2606] - Module 10 Knowledge Check

A fleet of Amazon EC2 instances require application patches on a regular schedule. Which approach is the most efficient? A. Create a scheduled task on each instance to download patches. B. Use an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to regularly relaunch instances by using a patched AMI. C. Update the AWS CloudFormation stack. D. Create a maintenance window in the AWS Systems Manager

Not C or B

What does AWS OpsWorks do? (Select THREE). A. Provides managed Chef instances B. Automates operational tasks across AWS resources C. Provides managed Kubernetes clusters D. Automates server configuration, deployment and management E. Provides managed Puppet instances F. Automates containerized application deployment at scale

A, D, E

What is AWS CloudFormation? A. A package of all of the information that is needed to launch an Amazon EC2 instance B. A template that describes your infrastructure C. A description of best practices for designing an AWS implementation D. An AWS service that you can use to create, model and manage AWS resources

D

A company wants to deploy their simple website in AWS. It consists of HTML, server-side PHP code, and client-side JavaScript code. The website must be highly available to a global audience. What can you create that will provide the simplest method to bring the sit online quickly? A. A load-balanced environment in AWS Elastic Beanstalk B. An Amazon S3 bucked with static web hosting C. An AWS CloudFormation stack that deploys a highly available architecture in a VPC D. An AWS OpsWorks stack that deploys a highly available architecture in a VPC

A

Which option is a good way to preview changes before implementing them in AWS CloudFormation Designer? A. Create a change set B. Run Update Stack C. Run Detect Drift D. Visually inspect template

A

What are some reasons to use automation to provision resources? (Select TWO). A. Lack of version control with manual process B. Automation requirement for creating some resources C. Alignment with the reliability design principle D. Greater expense with manual processes E. Automation requirement for high availability

A, C

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk? A. An easy-to-use cloud platform that offers you everything that you need to build an application or website, and a cost-effective, monthly plan. B. An easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services that are developed with common web development languages and platforms. C. A serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS D. A set of tools and services that enable mobile and frontend web developers to build secure, scalable, full-stack applications that are powered by AWS

B

Several On-Demand Instances in Amazon EC2 must launch at random times and run for limited durations. They must have application and package configurations that are determined at launch time. Which solution provides the most efficient way to automatically build these instances? A. AMI B. AWS CloudFormation C. AWS OpsWorks D. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

C

What is the AWS CloudFormation Designer? A. A source code repository for AWS CloudFormation templates B. A tool for automating deployments C. A graphical design interface for creating AWS CloudFormation templates D. A collection of reusable templates

C

You want to quickly set up a secure implementation of an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server that follows AWS best practices. Which solution should you use? A. An AMI on AWS Marketplace B. AWS CloudFormation Designer C. An AWS Quick Start D. An AWS CloudFormation template that you downloaded from the internet

C