AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam

Which service would provide network connectivity in a hybrid architecture that includes the AWS Cloud? A. Amazon VPC B. AWS Direct Connect C. AWS Directory Service D. Amazon API Gateway

B. AWS Direct Connect

Which AWS services provide a way to extend an on-premises architecture to the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.) A. Amazon EBS B. AWS Direct Connect C. Amazon CloudFront D. AWS Storage Gateway E. Amazon Connect

B. AWS Direct Connect D. AWS Storage Gateway

Which of the following services could be used to deploy an application to servers running on-premises? (Select TWO.) A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk B. AWS OpsWorks C. AWS CodeDeploy D. AWS Batch E. AWS X-Ray

B. AWS OpsWorks C. AWS CodeDeploy

A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to simplify and consolidate its billing process.Which AWS service will achieve this? A. AWS Cost and Usage Reports B. AWS Organizations C. AWS Cost Explorer D. AWS Budgets

B. AWS Organizations

Which AWS service enables users to consolidate billing across multiple accounts? A. Amazon QuickSight B. AWS Organizations C. AWS Budgets D. Amazon Forecast

B. AWS Organizations

Which AWS service or feature helps restrict the AWS services, resources, and individual API actions the users and roles in each member account can access? A. Amazon Cognito B. AWS Organizations C. AWS Shield D. AWS Firewall Manager

B. AWS Organizations

How can an AWS user with an AWS Basic Support plan obtain technical assistance from AWS? A. AWS Senior Support Engineers B. AWS Technical Account Managers C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. AWS Discussion Forums

D. AWS Discussion Forums

Which disaster recovery scenario offers the lowest probability of down time? A. Backup and restore B. Pilot light C. Warm standby D. Multi-site active-active

D. Multi-site active-active

If a customer needs to audit the change management of AWS resources, which of the following AWS services should the customer use? A. AWS Config B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. Amazon CloudWatch D. Amazon Inspector

A. AWS Config

Which AWS services can be used as infrastructure automation tools? (Choose two.) A. AWS CloudFormation B. Amazon CloudFront C. AWS Batch D. AWS OpsWorks E. Amazon QuickSight

A. AWS CloudFormation D. AWS OpsWorks

Which AWS service needs to be enabled to track all user account changes within the AWS Management Console? A. AWS CloudTrail B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) C. VPC Flow Logs D. AWS CloudHSM

A. AWS CloudTrail

Which of the following AWS Cloud services can be used to run a customer-managed relational database? A. Amazon EC2 B. Amazon Route 53 C. Amazon ElastiCache D. Amazon DynamoDB

A. Amazon EC2

Which tool is used to forecast AWS spending? A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. AWS Organizations C. Cost Explorer D. Amazon Inspector

C. Cost Explorer

If each department within a company has its own AWS account, what is one way to enable consolidated billing? A. Use AWS Budgets on each account to pay only to budget. B. Contact AWS Support for a monthly bill. C. Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join. D. Put all invoices into one Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, load data into Amazon Redshift, and then run a billing report.

C. Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join.

Which functions can users perform using AWS KMS? A. Create and manage AWS access keys for the AWS account root user B. Create and manage AWS access keys for an AWS account IAM user C. Create and manage keys for encryption and decryption of data D. Create and manage keys for multi-factor authentication

C. Create and manage keys for encryption and decryption of data

What costs are included when comparing AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with on-premises TCO? A. Project management B. Antivirus software licensing C. Data center security D. Software development

C. Data center security

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. Dedicated Hosts

How can a user protect against AWS service disruptions if a natural disaster affects an entire geographic area? A. Deploy applications across multiple Availability Zones within an AWS Region. B. Use a hybrid cloud computing deployment model within the geographic area. C. Deploy applications across multiple AWS Regions. D. Store application artifacts using AWS Artifact and replicate them across multiple AWS Regions.

C. Deploy applications across multiple AWS Regions.

What should users do if they want to install an application in geographically isolated locations? A. Install the application using multiple internet gateways. B. Deploy the application to an Amazon VPC. C. Deploy the application to multiple AWS Regions. D. Configure the application using multiple NAT gateways.

C. Deploy the application to multiple AWS Regions.

Distributing workloads across multiple Availability Zones supports which cloud architecture design principle? A. Implement automation. B. Design for agility. C. Design for failure. D. Implement elasticity.

C. Design for failure.

Which AWS support plan includes a dedicated Technical Account Manager? A. Developer B. Enterprise C. Business D. Basic

B. Enterprise

Which AWS service is used to pay AWS bills, and monitor usage and budget costs? A. AWS Billing and Cost Management B. Consolidated billing C. Amazon CloudWatch D. Amazon QuickSight

A. AWS Billing and Cost Management

Which AWS Cloud service can send alerts to customers if custom spending thresholds are exceeded? A. AWS Budgets B. AWS Cost Explorer C. AWS Cost Allocation Tags D. AWS Organizations

A. AWS Budgets

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. 24*7 access to customer support

Where should users report that AWS resources are being used for malicious purposes? A. AWS Abuse team B. AWS Shield C. AWS Support D. AWS Developer Forums

A. AWS Abuse team

What is the best resource for a user to find compliance-related information and reports about AWS? A. AWS Artifact B. AWS Marketplace C. Amazon Inspector D. AWS Support

A. AWS Artifact

Where can AWS compliance and certification reports be downloaded? A. AWS Artifact B. AWS Concierge C. AWS Certificate Manager D. AWS Trusted Advisor

A. AWS Artifact

Which AWS service would you use to obtain compliance reports and certificates? A. AWS Artifact B. AWS Lambda C. Amazon Inspector D. AWS Certificate Manager

A. AWS Artifact

When designing a typical three-tier web application, which AWS services and/or features improve availability and reduce the impact failures? (Choose two.) A. AWS Auto Scaling for Amazon EC2 instances B. Amazon VPC subnet ACLs to check the health of a service C. Distributed resources across multiple Availability Zones D. AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) to move Amazon EC2 instances into a different Region E. Distributed resources across multiple AWS points of presence

A. AWS Auto Scaling for Amazon EC2 instances C. Distributed resources across multiple Availability Zones

Which features or services can be used to monitor costs and expenses for an AWS account? (Choose two.) A. AWS Cost and Usage report B. AWS product pages C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator D. Billing alerts and Amazon CloudWatch alarms E. AWS Price List API

A. AWS Cost and Usage report D. Billing alerts and Amazon CloudWatch alarms

A Cloud Practitioner needs a consistent and dedicated connection between AWS resources and an on-premises system.Which AWS service can fulfill this requirement? A. AWS Direct Connect B. AWS VPN C. Amazon Connect D. AWS Data Pipeline

A. AWS Direct Connect

Which of the following is a fully managed NoSQL database service available in AWS? A. AWS DynamoDB B. AWS RDS C. AWS Redshift D. AWS MongoDB

A. AWS DynamoDB

Which services manage and automate application deployments on AWS? (Choose two.) A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk B. AWS CodeCommit C. AWS Data Pipeline D. AWS CloudFormation E. AWS Config

A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk AND B. AWS CodeCommit OR D. AWS CloudFormation

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

A. AWS Glacier API C. AWS Glacier SDK D. AWS S3 Lifecycle policies

Your company is planning on moving to the AWS Cloud. Once the movement to the Cloud is complete, they want to ensure that the right security settings are put in place. Which of the below tools can assist with security compliance. Choose 2 answers from the options given below: A. AWS Inspector B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. AWS Support D. AWS Kinesis

A. AWS Inspector B. AWS Trusted Advisor

Which AWS service or resource is serverless? A. AWS Lambda B. Amazon EC2 instances C. Amazon Lightsail D. Amazon ElastiCache

A. AWS Lambda

Which of the following AWS services provide compute resources? (Choose two.) A. AWS Lambda B. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) C. AWS CodeDeploy D. Amazon Glacier E. AWS Organizations

A. AWS Lambda B. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

A company wants to try a third-party ecommerce solution before deciding to use it long term.Which AWS service or tool will support this effort? A. AWS Marketplace B. AWS Partner Network (APN) C. AWS Managed Services D. AWS Service Catalog

A. AWS Marketplace

Where should a company go to search software listings from independent software vendors to find, test, buy and deploy software that runs on AWS? A. AWS Marketplace B. Amazon Lumberyard C. AWS Artifact D. Amazon CloudSearch

A. AWS Marketplace

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. AWS Multi-AZ

Which AWS service allows for effective cost management of multiple AWS accounts? A. AWS Organizations B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. AWS Direct Connect D. Amazon Connect

A. AWS Organizations

Which AWS service provides alerts when an AWS event may impact a company's AWS resources? A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard B. AWS Service Health Dashboard C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. AWS Infrastructure Event Management

A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

A company needs protection from expanded distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on its website and assistance from AWS experts during such events.Which AWS managed service will meet these requirements? A. AWS Shield Advanced B. AWS Firewall Manager C. AWS WAF D. Amazon GuardDuty

A. AWS Shield Advanced

A company has a 500 TB image repository that needs to be transported to AWS for processing.Which AWS service can import this data MOST cost-effectively? A. AWS Snowball B. AWS Direct Connect C. AWS VPN D. Amazon S3

A. AWS Snowball

Which AWS services can be used to move data from on-premises data centers to AWS? (Choose two.) A. AWS Snowball B. AWS Lambda C. AWS ElastiCache D. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) E. Amazon API Gateway

A. AWS Snowball D. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

Which mechanism allows developers to access AWS services from application code? A. AWS Software Development Kit B. AWS Management Console C. AWS CodePipeline D. AWS Config

A. AWS Software Development Kit

A company with a Developer-level AWS Support plan provisioned an Amazon RDS database and cannot connect to it.Who should the developer contact for this level of support? A. AWS Support using a support case B. AWS Professional Services C. AWS technical account manager D. AWS consulting partners

A. AWS Support using a support case

Which of the following is used to derive the costs for moving artefacts from on-premise to AWS? A. AWS TCO calculator B. AWS Config C. AWS Cost Explorer D. AWS Consolidating billing

A. AWS TCO calculator

A company is planning to migrate from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. Which AWS tool or service provides detailed reports on estimated cost savings after migration? A. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator B. Cost Explorer C. AWS Budgets D. AWS Migration Hub

A. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Which AWS managed services can be used to extend an on-premises data center to the AWS network? (Choose two.) A. AWS VPN B. NAT gateway C. AWS Direct Connect D. Amazon Connect E. Amazon Route 53

A. AWS VPN C. AWS Direct Connect

Which AWS services provide a user with connectivity between the AWS Cloud and on-premises resources? (Choose two.) A. AWS VPN B. Amazon Connect C. Amazon Cognito D. AWS Direct Connect E. AWS Managed Services

A. AWS VPN D. AWS Direct Connect

Which of the following services have Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation features? (Choose two.) A. AWS WAF B. Amazon DynamoDB C. Amazon EC2 D. Amazon CloudFront E. Amazon Inspector

A. AWS WAF D. Amazon CloudFront

Which AWS service or feature can enhance network security by blocking requests from a particular network for a web application on AWS? (Choose two.) A. AWS WAF B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. AWS Direct Connect D. AWS Organizations E. Network ACLs

A. AWS WAF E. Network ACLs

Which of the following are advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.) A. AWS manages the maintenance of the cloud infrastructure B. AWS manages the security of applications built on AWS C. AWS manages capacity planning for physical servers D. AWS manages the development of applications on AWS E. AWS manages cost planning for virtual servers

A. AWS manages the maintenance of the cloud infrastructure C. AWS manages capacity planning for physical servers

What can users access from AWS Artifact? A. AWS security and compliance documents B. A download of configuration management details for all AWS resources C. Training materials for AWS services D. A security assessment of the applications deployed in the AWS Cloud

A. AWS security and compliance documents

What function do security groups serve related Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance security? A. Act as a virtual firewall for the Amazon EC2 instance. B. Secure AWS user accounts with AWS identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. C. Provide DDoS protection with AWS Shield. D. Use Amazon CloudFront to protect the Amazon EC2 instance.

A. Act as a virtual firewall for the Amazon EC2 instance.

How can a company separate costs for network traffic, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and other AWS services by department? A. Add department-specific tags to each resource B. Create a separate VPC for each department C. Create a separate AWS account for each department D. Use AWS Organizations

A. Add department-specific tags to each resource

A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales.Which AWS service should they use? A. Amazon Aurora B. Amazon Redshift C. Amazon DynamoDB D. Amazon ElastiCache

A. Amazon Aurora

Which AWS service can be used to automatically scale an application up and down without making capacity planning decisions? A. Amazon AutoScaling B. Amazon Redshift C. AWS CloudTrail D. AWS Lambda

A. Amazon AutoScaling

A company is designing an application hosted in a single AWS Region serving end-users spread across the world. The company wants to provide the end-users low latency access to the application data.Which of the following services will help fulfill this requirement? A. Amazon CloudFront B. AWS Direct Connect C. Amazon Route 53 global DNS D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) transfer acceleration

A. Amazon CloudFront

Users are reporting latency when connecting to a website with a global customer base.Which AWS service will improve the customer experience by reducing latency? A. Amazon CloudFront B. AWS Direct Connect C. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling D. AWS Transit Gateway

A. Amazon CloudFront

Which services use AWS edge locations? (Choose two.) A. Amazon CloudFront B. AWS Shield C. Amazon EC2 D. Amazon RDS E. Amazon ElastiCache

A. Amazon CloudFront AND B. AWS Shield OR C. Amazon EC2

Which AWS service will help users determine if an application running on an Amazon EC2 instance has sufficient CPU capacity? A. Amazon CloudWatch B. AWS Config C. AWS CloudTrail D. Amazon Inspector

A. Amazon CloudWatch

Which service can be used to monitor and receive alerts for AWS account root user AWS Management Console sign-in events? A. Amazon CloudWatch B. AWS Config C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. AWS IAM

A. Amazon CloudWatch

Which AWS services may be scaled using AWS Auto Scaling? (Choose two.) A. Amazon EC2 B. Amazon DynamoDB C. Amazon S3 D. Amazon Route 53 E. Amazon Redshift

A. Amazon EC2 B. Amazon DynamoDB

Which AWS services can host a Microsoft SQL Server database? (Choose two.) A. Amazon EC2 B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) C. Amazon Aurora D. Amazon Redshift E. Amazon S3

A. Amazon EC2 B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

Which of the following are AWS compute services? (Select two.) A. Amazon Lightsail B. AWS Systems Manager C. AWS CloudFormation D. AWS Batch E. Amazon Inspector

A. Amazon Lightsail D. AWS Batch

Which AWS service can be used to turn text into life-like speech? A. Amazon Polly B. Amazon Transcribe C. Amazon Rekognition D. Amazon Lex

A. Amazon Polly

A company wants to migrate a MySQL database to AWS but does not have the budget for Database Administrators to handle routine tasks including provisioning, patching, and performing backups.Which AWS service will support this use case? A. Amazon RDS B. Amazon DynamoDB C. Amazon DocumentDB D. Amazon ElastiCache

A. Amazon RDS

Which of the following is an AWS managed Domain Name System (DNS) web service? A. Amazon Route 53 B. Amazon Neptune C. Amazon SageMaker D. Amazon Lightsail

A. Amazon Route 53

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. Amazon Route 53

Which services can be used across hybrid AWS Cloud architectures? (Choose two.) A. Amazon Route 53 B. Virtual Private Gateway C. Classic Load Balancer D. Auto Scaling E. Amazon CloudWatch default metrics

A. Amazon Route 53 B. Virtual Private Gateway

Which AWS services are defined as global instead of regional? (Choose two.) A. Amazon Route 53 B. Amazon EC2 C. Amazon S3 D. Amazon CloudFront E. Amazon DynamoDB

A. Amazon Route 53 D. Amazon CloudFront

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. Amazon S3

Which AWS service can serve a static website? A. Amazon S3 B. Amazon Route 53 C. Amazon QuickSight D. AWS X-Ray

A. Amazon S3

Which of the following storage options provides the option of Lifecycle policies that can be used to move objects to archive storage? A. Amazon S3 B. Amazon Glacier C. Amazon Storage Gateway D. Amazon EBS

A. Amazon S3

What credential components are required to gain programmatic access to an AWS account? (Choose two.) A. An access key ID B. A primary key C. A secret access key D. A user ID E. A secondary key

A. An access key ID C. A secret access key

How would an AWS customer easily apply common access controls to a large set of users? A. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group. B. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM role. C. Apply the same IAM policy to all IAM users with access to the same workload. D. Apply an IAM policy to an Amazon Cognito user pool.

A. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group.

A company currently has an application which consist of a .Net layer which connects to a MySQL database. They now want to move this application onto AWS. They want to make use of all AWS features such as high availability and automated backups. Which of the following would be an ideal database in AWS to migrate to for this requirement? A. Aurora B. DynamoDB C. An EC2 instance with MySQL installed. D. An EC2 instance with Aurora installed.

A. Aurora

Which of the following is a compatible MySQL database which also can grow in storage size on its own? A. Aurora B. DynamoDB C. RDS Microsoft SQL Server D. RDS MySQL

A. Aurora

Which are benefits of using Amazon RDS over Amazon EC2 when running relational databases on AWS? (Choose two.) A. Automated backups B. Schema management C. Indexing of tables D. Software patching E. Extract, transform, and load (ETL) management

A. Automated backups D. Software patching

Which of the following components of the AWS Global Infrastructure consists of one or more discrete data centers interconnected through low latency links? A. Availability Zone B. Edge location C. Region D. Private networking

A. Availability Zone

How can a company reduce its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) using AWS? A. By minimizing large capital expenditures B. By having no responsibility for third-party license costs C. By having no operational expenditures D. By having AWS manage applications

A. By minimizing large capital expenditures

How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda usage once the free tier has been exceeded? (Choose two.) A. By the time it takes for the Lambda function to execute. B. By the number of versions of a specific Lambda function. C. By the number of requests made for a given Lambda function. D. By the programming language that is used for the Lambda function. E. By the total number of Lambda functions in an AWS account.

A. By the time it takes for the Lambda function to execute. C. By the number of requests made for a given Lambda function.

You are developing and planning on deploying an application onto the AWS Cloud. This application needs to be PCI Compliant. Which of the below steps would you carry out to ensure the compliance is met for the application. Choose 2 answers from the following: A. Choose AWS services which are PCI Compliant B. Ensure the right steps are taken during application development for PCI Compliance C. Ensure the AWS Services are made PCI Compliant D. Do an audit after the deployment of the application for PCI Compliance

A. Choose AWS services which are PCI Compliant B. Ensure the right steps are taken during application development for PCI Compliance

Which of the following tasks can only be performed after signing in with AWS account root user credentials? (Choose two.) A. Closing an AWS account B. Creating a new IAM policy C. Changing AWS Support plans D. Attaching a role to an Amazon EC2 instance E. Generating access keys for IAM users

A. Closing an AWS account C. Changing AWS Support plans

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

A. CloudFront B. AWS Shield

Which of the following are valid ways for a customer to interact with AWS services? (Choose two.) A. Command line interface B. On-premises C. Software Development Kits D. Software-as-a-service E. Hybrid

A. Command line interface C. Software Development Kits

What are the benefits of using the AWS Cloud for companies with customers in many countries around the world? (Choose two.) A. Companies can deploy applications in multiple AWS Regions to reduce latency. B. Amazon Translate automatically translates third-party website interfaces into multiple languages. C. Amazon CloudFront has multiple edge locations around the world to reduce latency. D. Amazon Comprehend allows users to build applications that can respond to user requests in many languages. E. Elastic Load Balancing can distribute application web traffic to multiple AWS Regions around the world, which reduces latency.

A. Companies can deploy applications in multiple AWS Regions to reduce latency. C. Amazon CloudFront has multiple edge locations around the world to reduce latency.

When building a cloud Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model, which cost elements should be considered for workloads running on AWS? (Choose three.) A. Compute costs B. Facilities costs C. Storage costs D. Data transfer costs E. Network infrastructure costs F. Hardware lifecycle costs

A. Compute costs C. Storage costs E. Network infrastructure costs

Which actions represent best practices for using AWS IAM? (Choose two.) A. Configure a strong password policy B. Share the security credentials among users of AWS accounts who are in the same Region C. Use access keys to log in to the AWS Management Console D. Rotate access keys on a regular basis E. Avoid using IAM roles to delegate permissions

A. Configure a strong password policy D. Rotate access keys on a regular basis

What service from AWS can help manage the costs for all resources in AWS? A. Cost Explorer B. Cost Allocation Tags C. AWS Consolidated billing D. Payment History

A. Cost Explorer

AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations on which of the following? (Choose two.) A. Cost optimization B. Auditing C. Serverless architecture D. Performance E. Scalability

A. Cost optimization D. Performance

When comparing AWS with on-premises Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), what costs are included? A. Data center security B. Business analysis C. Project management D. Operating system administration

A. Data center security

Which of the following are features of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)?(Choose 2 answers) A. Data stored on Amazon EBS is automatically replicated within an Availability Zone. B. Amazon EBS data is automatically backed up to tape. C. Amazon EBS volumes can be encrypted transparently to workloads on the attached instance. D. Data on an Amazon EBS volume is lost when the attached instance is stopped.

A. Data stored on Amazon EBS is automatically replicated within an Availability Zone. C. Amazon EBS volumes can be encrypted transparently to workloads on the attached instance.

A user must meet compliance and software licensing requirements that state a workload must be hosted on a physical server.Which Amazon EC2 instance pricing option will meet these requirements? A. Dedicated Hosts B. Dedicated Instances C. Spot Instances D. Reserved Instances

A. Dedicated Hosts

When performing a cost analysis that supports physical isolation of a customer workload, which compute hosting model should be accounted for in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)? A. Dedicated Hosts B. Reserved Instances C. On-Demand Instances D. No Upfront Reserved Instances

A. Dedicated Hosts

Which Amazon EC2 pricing model should be used to comply with per-core software license requirements? A. Dedicated Hosts B. On-Demand Instances C. Spot Instances D. Reserved Instances

A. Dedicated Hosts

Which principles are used to architect applications for reliability on the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.) A. Design for automated failure recovery B. Use multiple Availability Zones C. Manage changes via documented processes D. Test for moderate demand to ensure reliability E. Backup recovery to an on-premises environment

A. Design for automated failure recovery C. Manage changes via documented processes

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

A. Diverting traffic to instances based on the demand B. Diverting traffic to instances with the least load

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

A. DynamoDB C. Simple Storage Service

You are exploring what services AWS has off-hand. You have a large number of data sets that need to be processed. Which of the following services can help fulfil this requirement? A. EMR B. S3 C. Glacier D. Storage gateway

A. EMR

A company needs an Amazon S3 bucket that cannot have any public objects due to compliance requirements.How can this be accomplished? A. Enable S3 Block Public Access from the AWS Management Console. B. Hold a team meeting to discuss the importance if only uploading private S3 objects. C. Require all S3 objects to be manually approved before uploading. D. Create a service to monitor all S3 uploads and remove any public uploads.

A. Enable S3 Block Public Access from the AWS Management Console.

Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the AWS customer? (Choose two.) A. Ensuring that application data is encrypted at rest B. Ensuring that AWS NTP servers are set to the correct time C. Ensuring that users have received security training in the use of AWS services D. Ensuring that access to data centers is restricted E. Ensuring that hardware is disposed of properly

A. Ensuring that application data is encrypted at rest C. Ensuring that users have received security training in the use of AWS services

Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides designated Technical Account Managers? A. Enterprise B. Business C. Developer D. Basic

A. Enterprise

Which is the minimum AWS Support plan that includes Infrastructure Event Management without additional costs? A. Enterprise B. Business C. Developer D. Basic

A. Enterprise

Which of the following are categories of AWS Trusted Advisor? (Choose two.) A. Fault Tolerance B. Instance Usage C. Infrastructure D. Performance E. Storage Capacity

A. Fault Tolerance D. Performance

A developer has been hired by a large company and needs AWS credentials.Which are security best practices that should be followed? (Choose two.) A. Grant the developer access to only the AWS resources needed to perform the job. B. Share the AWS account root user credentials with the developer. C. Add the developer to the administrator's group in AWS IAM. D. Configure a password policy that ensures the developer's password cannot be changed. E. Ensure the account password policy requires a minimum length.

A. Grant the developer access to only the AWS resources needed to perform the job. E. Ensure the account password policy requires a minimum length.

What type of AWS data transfer is free for Amazon S3? (Choose two) A. Inbound data transfer from internet to S3 B. Outbound data transfer from S3 to CloudFront C. Outbound data transfer from S3 to all regions D. Outbound data transfer from S3 to internet

A. Inbound data transfer from internet to S3 B. Outbound data transfer from S3 to CloudFront

When working on the costing for on-demand EC2 instances, which of the following are attributes which determine the costing of the EC2 Instance? Choose 3 answers from the options given below: A. Instance Type B. AMI Type C. Region D. Edge location

A. Instance Type B. AMI Type C. Region

How does AWS MOST effectively reduce computing costs for a growing start-up company? A. It provides on-demand resources for peak usage. B. It automates the provisioning of individual developer environments. C. It automates customer relationship management. D. It implements a fixed monthly computing budget.

A. It provides on-demand resources for peak usage.

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. It simplifies relational database administration tasks.

Which of the following benefits does the AWS Compliance program provide to AWS customers? (Choose two.) A. It verifies that hosted workloads are automatically compliant with the controls of supported compliance frameworks. B. AWS is responsible for the maintenance of common compliance framework documentation. C. It assures customers that AWS is maintaining physical security and data protection. D. It ensures the use of compliance frameworks that are being used by other cloud providers. E. It will adopt new compliance frameworks as they become relevant to customer workloads.

A. It verifies that hosted workloads are automatically compliant with the controls of supported compliance frameworks. B. AWS is responsible for the maintenance of common compliance framework documentation.

A user is planning to launch two additional Amazon EC2 instances to increase availability.Which action should the user take? A. Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region. B. Launch the instances as EC2 Reserved Instances in the same AWS Region and the same Availability Zone. C. Launch the instances in multiple AWS Regions, but in the same Availability Zone. D. Launch the instances as EC2 Spot Instances in the same AWS Region, but in different Availability Zones.

A. Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.

Which Amazon RDS feature can be used to achieve high availability? A. Multiple Availability Zones B. Amazon Reserved Instances C. Provisioned IOPS storage D. Enhanced monitoring

A. Multiple Availability Zones

Which of the following is an optional security control that can be applied at the subnet layer of a VPC? A. Network ACL B. Security Group C. Firewall D. Web application firewall

A. Network ACLs are associated to a VPC subnet to control traffic flow.

A cloud practitioner needs an Amazon EC2 instance to launch and run for 7 hours without interruptions.What is the most suitable and cost-effective option for this task? A. On-Demand Instance B. Reserved Instance C. Dedicated Host D. Spot Instance

A. On-Demand Instance

Which Amazon EC2 pricing model is the MOST cost efficient for an uninterruptible workload that runs once a year for 24 hours? A. On-Demand Instances B. Reserved Instances C. Spot Instances D. Dedicated Instances

A. On-Demand Instances

What is an Availability Zone in AWS? A. One or more physical data centers B. A completely isolated geographic location C. One or more edge locations based around the world D. A data center location with a single source of power and networking

A. One or more physical data centers

A Cloud Practitioner identifies a billing issue after examining the AWS Cost and Usage report in the AWS Management Console.Which action can be taken to resolve this? A. Open a detailed case related to billing and submit it to AWS Support for help. B. Upload data describing the issue to a new object in a private Amazon S3 bucket. C. Create a pricing application and deploy it to a right-sized Amazon EC2 instance for more information. D. Proceed with creating a new dashboard in Amazon QuickSight.

A. Open a detailed case related to billing and submit it to AWS Support for help.

Which of the following common IT tasks can AWS cover to free up company IT resources? (Choose two.) A. Patching databases software B. Testing application releases C. Backing up databases D. Creating database schema E. Running penetration tests

A. Patching databases software C. Backing up databases

Which method helps to optimize costs of users moving to the AWS Cloud? A. Paying only for what is used B. Purchasing hardware before it is needed C. Manually provisioning cloud resources D. Purchasing for the maximum possible load

A. Paying only for what is used

How do customers benefit from Amazon's massive economies of scale? A. Periodic price reductions as the result of Amazon's operational efficiencies B. New Amazon EC2 instance types providing the latest hardware C. The ability to scale up and down when needed D. Increased reliability in the underlying hardware of Amazon EC2 instances

A. Periodic price reductions as the result of Amazon's operational efficiencies

A company wants to allow full access to an Amazon S3 bucket for a particular user.Which element in the S3 bucket policy holds the user details that describe who needs access to the S3 bucket? A. Principal B. Action C. Resource D. Statement

A. Principal

A company has multiple AWS accounts within AWS Organizations and wants to apply the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances benefit to a single account only.Which action should be taken? A. Purchase the Reserved Instances from master payer account and turn off Reserved Instance sharing. B. Enable billing alerts in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. C. Purchase the Reserved Instances in individual linked accounts and turn off Reserved Instance sharing from the payer level. D. Enable Reserved Instance sharing in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.

A. Purchase the Reserved Instances from master payer account and turn off Reserved Instance sharing.

A customer is deploying a new application and needs to choose an AWS Region.Which of the following factors could influence the customer's decision? (Choose two.) A. Reduced latency to users B. The application's presentation in the local language C. Data sovereignty compliance D. Cooling costs in hotter climates E. Proximity to the customer's office for on-site visits

A. Reduced latency to users C. Data sovereignty compliance

Which of the following are recommended practices for managing IAM users? (Choose two.) A. Require IAM users to change their passwords after a specified period of time B. Prevent IAM users from reusing previous passwords C. Recommend that the same password be used on AWS and other sites D. Require IAM users to store their passwords in raw text E. Disable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for IAM users

A. Require IAM users to change their passwords after a specified period of time B. Prevent IAM users from reusing previous passwords

If there is a requirement to host EC2 Instances in the AWS Cloud wherein the utilization is guaranteed to be consistent for a long period of time, which of the following would you utilize to ensure costs are minimized? A. Reserved instances B. On-demand instances C. Spot instances D. Regular instances

A. Reserved instances

What tasks should a customer perform when that customer suspects an AWS account has been compromised? (Choose two.) A. Rotate passwords and access keys. B. Remove MFA tokens. C. Move resources to a different AWS Region. D. Delete AWS CloudTrail Resources. E. Contact AWS Support.

A. Rotate passwords and access keys. E. Contact AWS Support.

Which scenarios represent the concept of elasticity on AWS? (Choose two.) A. Scaling the number of Amazon EC2 instances based on traffic. B. Resizing Amazon RDS instances as business needs change. C. Automatically directing traffic to less-utilized Amazon EC2 instances. D. Using AWS compliance documents to accelerate the compliance process. E. Having the ability to create and govern environments using code.

A. Scaling the number of Amazon EC2 instances based on traffic. B. Resizing Amazon RDS instances as business needs change.

Using AWS Config to record, audit, and evaluate changes to AWS resources to enable traceability is an example of which AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar? A. Security B. Operational excellence C. Performance efficiency D. Cost optimization

A. Security

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

A. Security Group and ACL (Access Control List) settings C. Patch management on the EC2 instance's operating system D. Life-cycle management of IAM credentials F. Encryption of EBS (Elastic Block Storage) volumes

What acts as a firewall that controls the traffic allowed to reach one or more instances? A. Security group B. ACL C. IAM D. Private IP Addresses

A. Security group

As part of the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following operational controls do users fully inherit from AWS? A. Security management of data center B. Patch management C. Configuration management D. User and access management

A. Security management of data center

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following are customer responsibilities? (Choose two.) A. Setting up server-side encryption on an Amazon S3 bucket B. Amazon RDS instance patching C. Network and firewall configurations D. Physical security of data center facilities E. Compute capacity availability

A. Setting up server-side encryption on an Amazon S3 bucket C. Network and firewall configurations

What feature of Amazon RDS helps to create globally redundant databases? A. Snapshots B. Automatic patching and updating C. Cross-Region read replicas D. Provisioned IOPS

A. Snapshots

What can be used to reduce the cost of running Amazon EC2 instances? (Choose two.) A. Spot Instances for stateless and flexible workloads B. Memory optimized instances for high-compute workloads C. On-Demand Instances for high-cost and sustained workloads D. Reserved Instances for sustained workloads E. Spend limits set using AWS Budgets

A. Spot Instances for stateless and flexible workloads D. Reserved Instances for sustained workloads

Which of the following allows AWS users to manage cost allocations for billing? A. Tagging resources B. Limiting who can create resources C. Adding a secondary payment method D. Running all operations on a single AWS account

A. Tagging resources

Which of the following are advantages of AWS consolidated billing? (Choose two.) A. The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts B. Service limits increasing by default in all accounts C. A fixed discount on the monthly bill D. Potential volume discounts, as usage in all accounts is combined E. The automatic extension of the master account's AWS support plan to all accounts

A. The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts D. Potential volume discounts, as usage in all accounts is combined

Which of the following are attributes of the costs for using the Simple Storage Service? Choose 2 answers from the options given below: A. The storage class used for the objects stored. B. Number of S3 buckets C. The total size in gigabytes of all objects stored. D. Using encryption in S3

A. The storage class used for the objects stored. C. The total size in gigabytes of all objects stored.

Which of the following are benefits of hosting infrastructure in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.) A. There are no upfront commitments. B. AWS manages all security in the cloud. C. Users have the ability to provision resources on demand. D. Users have access to free and unlimited storage. E. Users have control over the physical infrastructure.

A. There are no upfront commitments. C. Users have the ability to provision resources on demand.

What are the advantages of Reserved Instances? (Choose two.) A. They provide a discount over on-demand pricing. B. They provide access to additional instance types. C. They provide additional networking capability. D. Customers can upgrade instances as new types become available. E. Customers can reserve capacity in an Availability Zone.

A. They provide a discount over on-demand pricing. E. Customers can reserve capacity in an Availability Zone.

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

A. Usage of Security Groups C. Usage of Network Access Control Lists

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

A. Usage of Security Groups C. Usage of Network Access Control Lists

According to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, what change management steps should be taken to achieve reliability in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.) A. Use AWS Config to generate an inventory of AWS resources B. Use service limits to prevent users from creating or making changes to AWS resources C. Use AWS CloudTrail to record AWS API calls into an auditable log file D. Use AWS Certificate Manager to whitelist approved AWS resources and services E. Use Amazon GuardDuty to validate configuration changes made to AWS resources

A. Use AWS Config to generate an inventory of AWS resources C. Use AWS CloudTrail to record AWS API calls into an auditable log file

Which of the following is an important architectural design principle when designing cloud applications? A. Use multiple Availability Zones. B. Use tightly coupled components. C. Use open source software. D. Provision extra capacity.

A. Use multiple Availability Zones.

What is a characteristic of Convertible Reserved Instances (RIs)? A. Users can exchange Convertible RIs for other Convertible RIs from a different instance family. B. Users can exchange Convertible RIs for other Convertible RIs in different AWS Regions. C. Users can sell and buy Convertible RIs on the AWS Marketplace. D. Users can shorten the term of their Convertible RIs by merging them with other Convertible RIs.

A. Users can exchange Convertible RIs for other Convertible RIs from a different instance family.

What is an advantage of using the AWS Cloud over a traditional on-premises solution? A. Users do not have to guess about future capacity needs. B. Users can utilize existing hardware contracts for purchases. C. Users can fix costs no matter what their traffic is. D. Users can avoid audits by using reports from AWS.

A. Users do not have to guess about future capacity needs.

How can the AWS Cloud increase user workforce productivity after migration from an on-premises data center? A. Users do not have to wait for infrastructure provisioning. B. The AWS Cloud infrastructure is much faster than an on-premises data center infrastructure. C. AWS takes over application configuration management on behalf of users. D. Users do not need to address security and compliance issues.

A. Users do not have to wait for infrastructure provisioning.

What is the value of using third-party software from AWS Marketplace instead of installing third-party software on Amazon EC2? (Choose two.) A. Users pay for software by the hour or month depending on licensing. B. AWS Marketplace enables the user to launch applications with 1-Click. C. AWS Marketplace data encryption is managed by a third-party vendor. D. AWS Marketplace eliminates the need to upgrade to newer software versions. E. Users can deploy third-party software without testing.

A. Users pay for software by the hour or month depending on licensing. B. AWS Marketplace enables the user to launch applications with 1-Click.

You have a DevOps team in your current organization structure. They are keen to know if there is any service available in AWS which can be used to manage infrastructure as code. Which of the following can be met with such a requirement? A. Using AWS CloudFormation B. Using AWS Config C. Using AWS Inspector D. Using AWS Trusted Advisor

A. Using AWS CloudFormation

What approach to transcoding a large number of individual video files adheres to AWS architecture principles? A. Using many instances in parallel B. Using a single large instance during off-peak hours C. Using dedicated hardware D. Using a large GPU instance type

A. Using many instances in parallel

Which of the following is an advantage of consolidated billing on AWS? A. Volume pricing qualification B. Shared access permissions C. Multiple bills per account D. Eliminates the need for tagging

A. Volume pricing qualification

When is it beneficial for a company to use a Spot Instance? A. When there is flexibility in when an application needs to run. B. When there are mission-critical workloads. C. When dedicated capacity is needed. D. When an instance should not be stopped.

A. When there is flexibility in when an application needs to run.

An application designed to span multiple Availability Zones is described as: A. being highly available B. having global reach C. using an economy of scale D. having elasticity

A. being highly available

AWS CloudFormation is designed to help the user: A. model and provision resources. B. update application code. C. set up data lakes. D. create reports for billing.

A. model and provision resources.

The financial benefits of using AWS are: (Choose two.) A. reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). B. increased capital expenditure (capex). C. reduced operational expenditure (opex). D. deferred payment plans for startups. E. business credit lines for stratups.

A. reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). C. reduced operational expenditure (opex).

The pay-as-you-go pricing model for AWS services: A. reduces capital expenditures. B. requires payment up front for AWS services. C. is relevant only for Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon RDS. D. reduces operational expenditures.

A. reduces capital expenditures.

How many Availability Zones should compute resources be provisioned across to achieve high availability? A. A minimum of one B. A minimum of two C. A minimum of three D. A minimum of four or more

B. A minimum of two

A customer runs an On-Demand Amazon Linux EC2 instance for 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds.For how much time will the customer be billed? A. 3 hours, 5 minutes B. 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds C. 3 hours, 6 minutes D. 4 hours

B. 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds

What is Amazon CloudWatch? A. A code repository with customizable build and team commit features. B. A metrics repository with customizable notification thresholds and channels. C. A security configuration repository with threat analytics. D. A rule repository of a web application firewall with automated vulnerability prevention features.

B. A metrics repository with customizable notification thresholds and channels.

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. AMI

Which AWS service offers on-demand access to AWS security and compliance reports? A. AWS CloudTrail B. AWS Artifact C. AWS Health D. Amazon CloudWatch

B. AWS Artifact

Which AWS service provides on-demand of AWS security and compliance documentation? A. AWS Directory Service B. AWS Artifact C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. Amazon Inspector

B. AWS Artifact

Which of the following services provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports? A. AWS IAM B. AWS Artifact C. Amazon GuardDuty D. AWS KMS

B. AWS Artifact

Which AWS service can a customer use to set up an alert notification when the account is approaching a particular dollar amount? A. AWS Cost and Usage reports B. AWS Budgets C. AWS Cost Explorer D. AWS Trusted Advisor

B. AWS Budgets

Which AWS service will allow a user to set custom cost and usage limits, and will alert when the thresholds are exceeded? A. AWS Organizations B. AWS Budgets C. Cost Explorer D. AWS Trusted Advisor

B. AWS Budgets

Which AWS service enables users to create copies of resources across AWS Regions? A. Amazon ElastiCache B. AWS CloudFormation C. AWS CloudTrail D. AWS Systems Manager

B. AWS CloudFormation

Which AWS service enables users to deploy infrastructure as code by automating the process of provisioning resources? A. Amazon GameLift B. AWS CloudFormation C. AWS Data Pipeline D. AWS Glue

B. AWS CloudFormation

Which of the following can an AWS customer use to launch a new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) cluster? (Choose two.) A. AWS Concierge B. AWS CloudFormation C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling E. AWS Management Console

B. AWS CloudFormation E. AWS Management Console

Which AWS service helps users meet contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated hardware appliances within theAWS Cloud? A. AWS Secrets Manager B. AWS CloudHSM C. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) D. AWS Directory Service

B. AWS CloudHSM

There is an external audit being carried out on your company. The IT auditor needs to have a log of all access to the AWS resources in the company's account. Which of the below services can assist in providing these details? A. AWS CloudWatch B. AWS CloudTrail C. AWS EC2 D. AWS SNS

B. AWS CloudTrail

Which AWS service can be used to track unauthorized API calls? A. AWS Config B. AWS CloudTrail C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. Amazon Inspector

B. AWS CloudTrail

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. AWS CloudTrail

Which service enables risk auditing by continuously monitoring and logging account activity, including user actions in the AWS Management Console and AWSSDKs? A. Amazon CloudWatch B. AWS CloudTrail C. AWS Config D. AWS Health

B. AWS CloudTrail

A user needs to regularly audit and evaluate the setup of all AWS resources, identify non-compliant accounts, and be notified when a resource changes.Which AWS service can be used to meet these requirements? A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. AWS Config C. AWS Resource Access Manager D. AWS Systems Manager

B. AWS Config

Which AWS service allows users to identify the changes made to a resource over time? A. Amazon Inspector B. AWS Config C. AWS Service Catalog D. AWS IAM

B. AWS Config

Which AWS service can be used to track resource changes and establish compliance? A. Amazon CloudWatch B. AWS Config C. AWS CloudTrail D. AWS Trusted Advisor

B. AWS Config

Which of the below cannot be used to get data onto Amazon Glacier? A. AWS Glacier API B. AWS Console C. AWS Glacier SDK D. AWS S3 Lifecycle policies

B. AWS Console

What can be used to automate and manage secure, well-architected, multi-account AWS environments? A. AWS shared responsibility model B. AWS Control Tower C. AWS Security Hub D. AWS Well-Architected Tool

B. AWS Control Tower

Which AWS service or feature allows a company to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time? A. AWS Budgets B. AWS Cost Explorer C. AWS Organizations D. Consolidated billing

B. AWS Cost Explorer

A company requires a dedicated network connection between its on-premises servers and the AWS Cloud.Which AWS service should be used? A. AWS VPN B. AWS Direct Connect C. Amazon API Gateway D. Amazon Connect

B. AWS Direct Connect

A director has been tasked with investigating hybrid cloud architecture. The company currently accesses AWS over the public internet.Which service will facilitate private hybrid connectivity? A. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) NAT Gateway B. AWS Direct Connect C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Transfer Acceleration D. AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)

B. AWS Direct Connect

Which of the following allows users to provision a dedicated network connection from their internal network to AWS? A. AWS CloudHSM B. AWS Direct Connect C. AWS VPN D. Amazon Connect

B. AWS Direct Connect

Which AWS services can be used to provide network connectivity between an on-premises network and a VPC? (Choose two.) A. Amazon Route 53 B. AWS Direct Connect C. AWS Data Pipeline D. AWS VPN E. Amazon Connect

B. AWS Direct Connect D. AWS VPN

Which of the following can a customer use to enable single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Console? A. Amazon Connect B. AWS Directory Service C. Amazon Pinpoint D. Amazon Rekognition

B. AWS Directory Service

Which AWS service handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, Auto Scaling, and application health monitoring? A. AWS Config B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk C. Amazon Route 53 D. Amazon CloudFront

B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

A company is planning to launch an ecommerce site in a single AWS Region to a worldwide user base.Which AWS services will allow the company to reach users and provide low latency and high transfer speeds? (Choose two.) A. Application Load Balancer B. AWS Global Accelerator C. AWS Direct Connect D. Amazon CloudFront E. AWS Lambda

B. AWS Global Accelerator D. Amazon CloudFront

Which of the following items allow an application deployed on an EC2 instance to write data to S3 in a secure manner? A. AWS IAM Users B. AWS IAM Roles C. AWS IAM Groups D. AWS IAM Permissions

B. AWS IAM Roles

A company wants to reduce the physical compute footprint that developers use to run code.Which service would meet that need by enabling serverless architectures? A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) B. AWS Lambda C. Amazon DynamoDB D. AWS CodeCommit

B. AWS Lambda

Where can users find a catalog of AWS-recognized providers of third-party security solutions? A. AWS Service Catalog B. AWS Marketplace C. AWS Quick Start D. AWS CodeDeploy

B. AWS Marketplace

Which options does AWS make available for customers who want to learn about security in the cloud in an instructor-led setting? (Choose two.) A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. AWS Online Tech Talks C. AWS Blog D. AWS Forums E. AWS Classroom Training

B. AWS Online Tech Talks E. AWS Classroom Training

Which AWS service is used to automate configuration management using Chef and Puppet? A. AWS Config B. AWS OpsWorks C. AWS CloudFormation D. AWS Systems Manager

B. AWS OpsWorks

Which service allows a company with multiple AWS accounts to combine its usage to obtain volume discounts? A. AWS Server Migration Service B. AWS Organizations C. AWS Budgets D. AWS Trusted Advisor

B. AWS Organizations

Which service should a customer use to consolidate and centrally manage multiple AWS accounts? A. AWS IAM B. AWS Organizations C. AWS Schema Conversion Tool D. AWS Config

B. AWS Organizations

Which AWS dashboard displays relevant and timely information to help users manage events in progress, and provides proactive notifications to help plan for scheduled activities? A. AWS Service Health Dashboard B. AWS Personal Health Dashboard C. AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard D. Amazon CloudWatch dashboard

B. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

What can assist in evaluating an application for migration to the cloud? (Choose two.) A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. AWS Professional Services C. AWS Systems Manager D. AWS Partner Network (APN) E. AWS Secrets Manager

B. AWS Professional Services D. AWS Partner Network (APN)

A Cloud Practitioner is developing a disaster recovery plan and intends to replicate data between multiple geographic areas.Which of the following meets these requirements? A. AWS Accounts B. AWS Regions C. Availability Zones D. Edge locations

B. AWS Regions

Which of the following is a component of the AWS Global Infrastructure? A. Amazon Alexa B. AWS Regions C. Amazon Lightsail D. AWS Organizations

B. AWS Regions

Which service should be used to estimate the costs of running a new project on AWS? A. AWS TCO Calculator B. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator C. AWS Cost Explorer API D. AWS Budgets

B. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator (AWS Pricing Calculator)

A company is considering migrating its applications to AWS. The company wants to compare the cost of running the workload on-premises to running the equivalent workload on the AWS platform.Which tool can be used to perform this comparison? A. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator C. AWS Billing and Cost Management console D. Cost Explorer

B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

What will help a company perform a cost benefit analysis of migrating to the AWS Cloud? A. Cost Explorer B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator D. AWS Trusted Advisor

B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Which AWS service or feature allows a user to easily scale connectivity among thousands of VPCs? A. VPC peering B. AWS Transit Gateway C. AWS Direct Connect D. AWS Global Accelerator

B. AWS Transit Gateway

Which AWS service identifies security groups that allow unrestricted access to a user's AWS resources? A. AWS CloudTrail B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. Amazon CloudWatch D. Amazon Inspector

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

Which AWS tool will identify security groups that grant unrestricted Internet access to a limited list of ports? A. AWS Organizations B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. AWS Usage Report D. Amazon EC2 dashboard

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

Which managed AWS service provides real-time guidance on AWS security best practices? A. AWS X-Ray B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. Amazon CloudWatch D. AWS Systems Manager

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

Which of the following inspects AWS environments to find opportunities that can save money for users and also improve system performance? A. AWS Cost Explorer B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. Consolidated billing D. Detailed billing

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

Which tool can be used to monitor AWS service limits? A. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard D. AWS Cost and Usage report

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

Which AWS IAM feature is used to associate a set of permissions with multiple users? A. Multi-factor authentication B. Groups C. Password policies D. Access keys

B. Groups

Which of the following security-related services does AWS offer? (Choose two.) A. Multi-factor authentication physical tokens B. AWS Trusted Advisor security checks C. Data encryption D. Automated penetration testing E. Amazon S3 copyrighted content detection

B. AWS Trusted Advisor security checks C. Data encryption

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

B. AWS VPN C. AWS Direct Connect

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. AWS WAF

Why should a company choose AWS instead of a traditional data center? A. AWS provides users with full control over the underlying resources. B. AWS does not require long-term contracts and provides a pay-as-you-go model. C. AWS offers edge locations in every country, supporting global reach. D. AWS has no limits on the number of resources that can be created.

B. AWS does not require long-term contracts and provides a pay-as-you-go model.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers which of the following benefits over traditional database management? A. AWS manages the data stored in Amazon RDS tables. B. AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system. C. AWS automatically scales up instance types on demand. D. AWS manages the database type.

B. AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system. OR C. AWS automatically scales up instance types on demand.

How is asset management on AWS easier than asset management in a physical data center? A. AWS provides a Configuration Management Database that users can maintain. B. AWS performs infrastructure discovery scans on the customer's behalf. C. Amazon EC2 automatically generates an asset report and places it in the customer's specified Amazon S3 bucket. D. Users can gather asset metadata reliably with a few API calls.

B. AWS performs infrastructure discovery scans on the customer's behalf.

Which of the following is a benefit of using the AWS Cloud? A. Permissive security removes the administrative burden. B. Ability to focus on revenue-generating activities. C. Control over cloud network hardware. D. Choice of specific cloud hardware vendors.

B. Ability to focus on revenue-generating activities.

Which of the following is an AWS Well-Architected Framework design principle related to reliability? A. Deployment to a single Availability Zone B. Ability to recover from failure C. Design for cost optimization D. Perform operations as code

B. Ability to recover from failure

Which AWS IAM feature allows developers to access AWS services through the AWS CLI? A. API keys B. Access keys C. User names/Passwords D. SSH keys

B. Access keys (+) OR D. SSH keys

What exclusive benefit is provided to users with Enterprise Support? A. Access to a Technical Project Manager B. Access to a Technical Account Manager C. Access to a Cloud Support Engineer D. Access to a Solutions Architect

B. Access to a Technical Account Manager OR C. Access to a Cloud Support Engineer

A company is running an ecommerce application hosted in Europe. To decrease latency for users who access the website from other parts of the world, the company would like to cache frequently accessed static content closer to the users.Which AWS service will support these requirements? A. Amazon ElastiCache B. Amazon CloudFront C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) D. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

B. Amazon CloudFront

Which AWS service offers persistent storage for a file system? A. Amazon S3 B. Amazon EC2 instance store C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) D. Amazon ElastiCache

C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Which solution provides the FASTEST application response times to frequently accessed data to users in multiple AWS Regions? A. AWS CloudTrail across multiple Availability Zones B. Amazon CloudFront to edge locations C. AWS CloudFormation in multiple regions D. A virtual private gateway over AWS Direct Connect

B. Amazon CloudFront to edge locations

A company wants to monitor the CPU usage of its Amazon EC2 resources.Which AWS service should the company use? A. AWS CloudTrail B. Amazon CloudWatch C. AWS Cost and Usage report D. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

B. Amazon CloudWatch

Which AWS service can be used to generate alerts based on an estimated monthly bill? A. AWS Config B. Amazon CloudWatch C. AWS X-Ray D. AWS CloudTrail

B. Amazon CloudWatch

A user needs to quickly deploy a non-relational database on AWS. The user does not want to manage the underlying hardware or the database software.Which AWS service can be used to accomplish this? A. Amazon RDS B. Amazon DynamoDB C. Amazon Aurora D. Amazon Redshift

B. Amazon DynamoDB

Which AWS service is a managed NoSQL database? A. Amazon Redshift B. Amazon DynamoDB C. Amazon Aurora D. Amazon RDS for MariaDB

B. Amazon DynamoDB

Which of the following services falls under the responsibility of the customer to maintain operating system configuration, security patching, and networking? A. Amazon RDS B. Amazon EC2 C. Amazon ElastiCache D. AWS Fargate

B. Amazon EC2

An ecommerce company anticipates a huge increase in web traffic for two very popular upcoming shopping holidays.Which AWS service or feature can be configured to dynamically adjust resources to meet this change in demand? A. AWS CloudTrail B. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling C. Amazon Forecast D. AWS Config

B. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Which type of AWS storage is ephemeral and is deleted when an instance is stopped or terminated? A. Amazon EBS B. Amazon EC2 instance store C. Amazon EFS D. Amazon S3

B. Amazon EC2 instance store

An application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that access a shared file system simultaneously.Which AWS storage service should be used? A. Amazon EBS B. Amazon EFS C. Amazon S3 D. AWS Artifact

B. Amazon EFS

Which AWS service should be used for long-term, low-cost storage of data backups? A. Amazon RDS B. Amazon Glacier C. AWS Snowball D. AWS EBS

B. Amazon Glacier

Which of the following AWS features enables a user to launch a pre-configured Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance? A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) B. Amazon Machine Image C. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager D. Amazon AppStream 2.0

B. Amazon Machine Image

A user needs to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3.Which AWS service can meet these requirements? A. Amazon Inspector B. Amazon Macie C. Amazon GuardDuty D. AWS Secrets Manager

B. Amazon Macie

Which security service automatically recognizes and classifies sensitive data or intellectual property on AWS? A. Amazon GuardDuty B. Amazon Macie C. Amazon Inspector D. AWS Shield

B. Amazon Macie

Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data? (Choose two.) A. Amazon Glacier B. Amazon RDS C. AWS Snowball D. Amazon Redshift E. Amazon EFS

B. Amazon RDS E. Amazon EFS

A company has multiple data sources across the organization and wants to consolidate data into one data warehouse.Which AWS service can be used to meet this requirement? A. Amazon DynamoDB B. Amazon Redshift C. Amazon Athena D. Amazon QuickSight

B. Amazon Redshift

Which service provides a user the ability to warehouse data in the AWS Cloud? A. Amazon EFS B. Amazon Redshift C. Amazon RDS D. Amazon VPC

B. Amazon Redshift

What time-savings advantage is offered with the use of Amazon Rekognition? A. Amazon Rekognition provides automatic watermarking of images. B. Amazon Rekognition provides automatic detection of objects appearing in pictures. C. Amazon Rekognition provides the ability to resize millions of images automatically. D. Amazon Rekognition uses Amazon Mechanical Turk to allow humans to bid on object detection jobs.

B. Amazon Rekognition provides automatic detection of objects appearing in pictures.

A company is deploying a two-tier, highly available web application to AWS. Which service provides durable storage for static content while utilizing lower Overall CPU resources for the web tier? A. Amazon EBS volume B. Amazon S3 C. Amazon EC2 instance store D. Amazon RDS instance

B. Amazon S3

Which of the following AWS services can be used to serve large amounts of online video content with the lowest possible latency? (Choose two.) A. AWS Storage Gateway B. Amazon S3 C. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) D. Amazon Glacier E. Amazom CloudFront

B. Amazon S3 E. Amazom CloudFront

Which situation should be reported to the AWS Abuse team? A. In Availability Zone has a service disruption B. An intrusion attempt is made from an AWS IP address C. A user has trouble accessing an Amazon S3 bucket from an AWS IP address D. A user needs to change payment methods due to a compromise Hide Solution

B. An intrusion attempt is made from an AWS IP address

Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Choose two.) A. A global file system B. An object store C. A local file store D. A network file system E. A durable storage system

B. An object store E. A durable storage system

What is one of the core principles to follow when designing a highly available application in the AWS Cloud? A. Design using a serverless architecture B. Assume that all components within an application can fail C. Design AWS Auto Scaling into every application D. Design all components using open-source code

B. Assume that all components within an application can fail

When a company provisions web servers in multiple AWS Regions, what is being increased? A. Coupling B. Availability C. Security D. Durability

B. Availability

A new service using AWS must be highly available. Yet, due to regulatory requirements, all of its Amazon EC2 instances must be located in a single geographic area.According to best practices, to meet these requirements, the EC2 instances must be placed in at least two: A. AWS Regions B. Availability Zones C. subnets D. placement groups

B. Availability Zones

Which AWS feature should a customer leverage to achieve high availability of an application? A. AWS Direct Connect B. Availability Zones C. Data centers D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

B. Availability Zones

Which element of the AWS global infrastructure consists of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, which are housed in separate facilities? A. AWS Regions B. Availability Zones C. Edge locations D. Amazon CloudFront

B. Availability Zones

The AWS Cost Management tools give users the ability to do which of the following? (Choose two.) A. Terminate all AWS resources automatically if budget thresholds are exceeded. B. Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account. C. Create budgets and receive notifications if current of forecasted usage exceeds the budgets. D. Switch automatically to Reserved Instances or Spot Instances, whichever is most cost-effective. E. Move data stored in Amazon S3 to a more cost-effective storage class.

B. Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account. C. Create budgets and receive notifications if current of forecasted usage exceeds the budgets.

A company wants to migrate its applications to a VPC on AWS. These applications will need to access on-premises resources.What combination of actions will enable the company to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.) A. Use the AWS Service Catalog to identify a list of on-premises resources that can be migrated. B. Build a VPN connection between an on-premises device and a virtual private gateway in the new VPC. C. Use Amazon Athena to query data from the on-premises database servers. D. Connect the company's on-premises data center to AWS using AWS Direct Connect. E. Leverage Amazon CloudFront to restrict access to static web content provided through the company's on-premises web servers.

B. Build a VPN connection between an on-premises device and a virtual private gateway in the new VPC. D. Connect the company's on-premises data center to AWS using AWS Direct Connect.

Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that allows for one-hour target response time for support cases? A. Enterprise B. Business C. Developer D. Basic

B. Business

Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls? A. Enterprise B. Business C. Developer D. Basic

B. Business

Which of the following is an example of how moving to the AWS Cloud reduces upfront cost? A. By replacing large variable costs with lower capital investments B. By replacing large capital investments with lower variable costs C. By allowing the provisioning of compute and storage at a fixed level to meet peak demand D. By replacing the repeated scaling of virtual servers with a simpler fixed-scale model

B. By replacing large capital investments with lower variable costs

How can one AWS account use Reserved Instances from another AWS account? A. By using Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances B. By using AWS Organizations consolidated billing C. By using the AWS Cost Explorer tool D. By using AWS Budgets

B. By using AWS Organizations consolidated billing

Your company has just started using the resources on the AWS Cloud. They want to get an idea on the costs being incurred so far for the resources being used. How can this be achieved? A. By going to the Amazon EC2 dashboard. Here you can see the costs of the running EC2 resources. B. By using the AWS Cost and Usage reports Explorer. Here you can see the running and forecast costs. C. By using the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard. This dashboard will give you all the costs. D. By seeing the AWS Cloud Trail logs.

B. By using the AWS Cost and Usage reports Explorer. Here you can see the running and forecast costs.

What are the immediate benefits of using the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.) A. Increased IT staff. B. Capital expenses are replaced with variable expenses. C. User control of infrastructure. D. Increased agility. E. AWS holds responsibility for security in the cloud.

B. Capital expenses are replaced with variable expenses. D. Increased agility.

What is a benefit of consolidated billing for AWS accounts? A. Access to AWS Personal Health Dashboard B. Combined usage volume discounts C. Improved account security D. Centralized AWS IAM

B. Combined usage volume discounts

A company must ensure that its endpoint for a database instance remains the same after a single Availability Zone service interruption. The application needs to resume database operations without the need for manual administrative intervention.How can these requirements be met? A. Use multiple Amazon Route 53 routes to the standby database instance endpoint hosted on AWS Storage Gateway. B. Configure Amazon RDS Multi-Availability Zone deployments with automatic failover to the standby. C. Add multiple Application Load Balancers and deploy the database instance with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. D. Deploy a single Network Load Balancer to distribute incoming traffic across multiple Amazon CloudFront origins.

B. Configure Amazon RDS Multi-Availability Zone deployments with automatic failover to the standby.

Which of the following is a cloud architectural design principle? A. Scale up, not out. B. Loosely couple components. C. Build monolithic systems. D. Use commercial database software.

B. Loosely couple components.

In AWS billing what option can be used to ensure costs can be reduced if you have multiple accounts? A. Combined billing B. Consolidated billing C. Costs are automatically reduced for multiple accounts by AWS. D. It is not possible to reduce costs with multiple accounts

B. Consolidated billing

Which AWS feature allows a company to take advantage of usage tiers for services across multiple member accounts? A. Service control policies (SCPs) B. Consolidated billing C. All Upfront Reserved Instances D. AWS Cost Explorer

B. Consolidated billing

Which tool is best suited for combining the billing of AWS accounts that were previously independent from one another? A. Detailed billing report B. Consolidated billing C. AWS Cost and Usage report D. Cost allocation report

B. Consolidated billing

Which AWS tools assist with estimating costs? (Choose three.) A. Detailed billing report B. Cost allocation tags C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator E. Cost Estimator

B. Cost allocation tags C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Which methods can be used to identify AWS costs by departments? (Choose two.) A. Enable multi-factor authentication for the AWS account root user. B. Create separate accounts for each department. C. Use Reserved Instances whenever possible. D. Use tags to associate each instance with a particular department. E. Pay bills using purchase orders.

B. Create separate accounts for each department. D. Use tags to associate each instance with a particular department.

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. Creating EBS snapshots

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

B. Creating Read Replica's

Which of the following features of AWS RDS allows for offloading reads of the database? A. Cross region replication B. Creating Read Replicas C. Using snapshots D. Using Multi-AZ feature

B. Creating Read Replicas

What does AWS Shield Standard provide? A. WAF rules B. DDoS protection C. Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions and access to resources D. Data encryption

B. DDoS protection

What is the AWS customer responsible for according to the AWS shared responsibility model? A. Physical access controls B. Data encryption C. Secure disposal of storage devices D. Environmental risk management

B. Data encryption

What can AWS edge locations be used for? (Choose two.) A. Hosting applications B. Delivering content closer to users C. Running NoSQL database caching services D. Reducing traffic on the server by caching responses E. Sending notification messages to end users

B. Delivering content closer to users D. Reducing traffic on the server by caching responses

Which architectural principle is used when deploying an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance in Multiple Availability Zone mode? A. Implement loose coupling. B. Design for failure. C. Automate everything that can be automated. D. Use services, not servers.

B. Design for failure.

A Cloud Practitioner is asked how to estimate the cost of using a new application on AWS.What is the MOST appropriate response? A. Inform the user that AWS pricing allows for on-demand pricing. B. Direct the user to the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator for an estimate. C. Use Amazon QuickSight to analyze current spending on-premises. D. Use Amazon AppStream 2.0 for real-time pricing analytics.

B. Direct the user to the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator for an estimate.

Which AWS Cloud best practice uses the elasticity and agility of cloud computing? A. Provision capacity based on past usage and theoretical peaks B. Dynamically and predictively scale to meet usage demands C. Build the application and infrastructure in a data center that grants physical access D. Break apart the application into loosely coupled components

B. Dynamically and predictively scale to meet usage demands

According to the AWS shared responsibility model, what is the sole responsibility of AWS? A. Application security B. Edge location management C. Patch management D. Client-side data

B. Edge location management

Which AWS managed service can be used to distribute traffic between one or more Amazon EC2 instances? A. NAT gateway B. Elastic Load Balancing C. Amazon Athena D. AWS PrivateLink

B. Elastic Load Balancing

Which of the following services will automatically scale with an expected increase in web traffic? A. AWS CodePipeline B. Elastic Load Balancing C. Amazon EBS D. AWS Direct Connect

B. Elastic Load Balancing

A user has underutilized on-premises resources.Which AWS Cloud concept can BEST address this issue? A. High availability B. Elasticity C. Security D. Loose coupling

B. Elasticity

The ability to horizontally scale Amazon EC2 instances based on demand is an example of which concept in the AWS Cloud value proposition? A. Economy of scale B. Elasticity C. High availability D. Agility

B. Elasticity

Which of the following are benefits of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.) A. Unlimited uptime B. Elasticity C. Agility D. Colocation E. Capital expenses

B. Elasticity C. Agility

How can a customer increase security to AWS account logons? (Choose two.) A. Configure AWS Certificate Manager B. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) C. Use Amazon Cognito to manage access D. Configure a strong password policy E. Enable AWS Organizations

B. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) AND C. Use Amazon Cognito to manage access OR D. Configure a strong password policy

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following activities are the customer's responsibility? (Choose two.) A. Patching operating system components for Amazon Relational Database Server (Amazon RDS) B. Encrypting data on the client-side C. Training the data center staff D. Configuring Network Access Control Lists (ACL) E. Maintaining environmental controls within a data center

B. Encrypting data on the client-side D. Configuring Network Access Control Lists (ACL)

What is an example of high availability in the AWS Cloud? A. Consulting AWS technical support at any time day or night B. Ensuring an application remains accessible, even if a resource fails C. Making any AWS service available for use by paying on demand D. Deploying in any part of the world using AWS Regions

B. Ensuring an application remains accessible, even if a resource fails

What does the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator do? A. Compares on-premises costs to colocation environments B. Estimates monthly billing based on projected usage C. Estimates power consumption at existing data centers D. Estimates CPU utilization

B. Estimates monthly billing based on projected usage

What is the recommended method to request penetration testing on AWS resources? A. Open a support case B. Fill out the Penetration Testing Request Form C. Request a penetration test from your technical account manager D. Contact your AWS sales representative

B. Fill out the Penetration Testing Request Form

Which feature of the AWS Cloud will support an international company's requirement for low latency to all of its customers? A. Fault tolerance B. Global reach C. Pay-as-you-go pricing D. High availability

B. Global reach

Which of the following security measures protect access to an AWS account? (Choose two.) A. Enable AWS CloudTrail. B. Grant least privilege access to IAM users. C. Create one IAM user and share with many developers and users. D. Enable Amazon CloudFront. E. Activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users.

B. Grant least privilege access to IAM users. E. Activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users.

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

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

A system in the AWS Cloud is designed to withstand the failure of one or more components.What is this an example of? A. Elasticity B. High Availability C. Scalability D. Agility

B. High Availability

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. High Availability

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. IAM Roles

You have an EC2 Instance in development that interacts with the Simple Storage Service. The EC2 Instance is going to be promoted to the production environment. Which of the following features should be used for secure communication between the EC2 Instance and the Simple Storage Service? A. IAM Users B. IAM Roles C. IAM Groups D. IAM policies

B. IAM Roles

Which of the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities is associated with an access key ID and secret access key when using AWS CommandLine Interface (AWS CLI)? A. IAM group B. IAM user C. IAM role D. IAM policy

B. IAM user

A solution that is able to support growth in users, traffic, or data size with no drop in performance aligns with which cloud architecture principle? A. Think parallel B. Implement elasticity C. Decouple your components D. Design for failure

B. Implement elasticity

Which of the following is an AWS Cloud architecture design principle? A. Implement single points of failure. B. Implement loose coupling. C. Implement monolithic design. D. Implement vertical scaling.

B. Implement loose coupling.

The user is fully responsible for which action when running workloads on AWS? A. Patching the infrastructure components B. Implementing controls to route application traffic C. Maintaining physical and environmental controls D. Maintaining the underlying infrastructure components

B. Implementing controls to route application traffic

Which of the following are benefits of AWS Global Accelerator? (Choose two.) A. Reduced cost to run services on AWS B. Improved availability of applications deployed on AWS C. Higher durability of data stored on AWS D. Decreased latency to reach applications deployed on AWS E. Higher security of data stored on AWS

B. Improved availability of applications deployed on AWS D. Decreased latency to reach applications deployed on AWS

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. It distributes incoming application traffic across one or more Amazon EC2 instances.

How does AWS Trusted Advisor provide guidance to users of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.) A. It identifies software vulnerabilities in applications running on AWS B. It provides a list of cost optimization recommendations based on current AWS usage C. It detects potential security vulnerabilities caused by permissions settings on account resources D. It automatically corrects potential security issues caused by permissions settings on account resources E. It provides proactive alerting whenever an Amazon EC2 instance has been compromised

B. It provides a list of cost optimization recommendations based on current AWS usage C. It detects potential security vulnerabilities caused by permissions settings on account resources

Which of the following provides the ability to share the cost benefits of Reserved Instances across AWS accounts? A. AWS Cost Explorer between AWS accounts B. Linked accounts and consolidated billing C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instance Utilization Report D. Amazon EC2 Instance Usage Report between AWS accounts

B. Linked accounts and consolidated billing

IT systems should be designed to reduce interdependencies, so that a change or failure in one component does not cascade to other components.This is an example of which principle of cloud architecture design? A. Scalability B. Loose coupling C. Automation D. Automatic scaling

B. Loose coupling

A user is planning to migrate an application workload to the AWS Cloud.Which control becomes the responsibility of AWS once the migration is complete? A. Patching the guest operating system B. Maintaining physical and environmental controls C. Protecting communications and maintaining zone security D. Patching specific applications

B. Maintaining physical and environmental controls

Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the customer? (Choose two.) A. Maintaining the underlying Amazon EC2 hardware. B. Managing the VPC network access control lists. C. Encrypting data in transit and at rest. D. Replacing failed hard disk drives. E. Deploying hardware in different Availability Zones.

B. Managing the VPC network access control lists. C. Encrypting data in transit and at rest.

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

B. Multi-AZ C. Read Replicas

What is a value proposition of the AWS Cloud? A. AWS is responsible for security in the AWS Cloud B. No long-term contract is required C. Provision new servers in days D. AWS manages user applications in the AWS Cloud

B. No long-term contract is required

What are the advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.) A. Fixed rate monthly cost B. No need to guess capacity requirements C. Increased speed to market D. Increased upfront capital expenditure E. Physical access to cloud data centers

B. No need to guess capacity requirements C. Increased speed to market

There is a requirement for a development and test environment for 3 months. Which would you use? A. Spot Instances B. On-Demand C. No Upfront costs Reserved D. Partial Upfront costs Reserved

B. On-Demand

You have 2 accounts in your AWS account, one for Dev and the other for QA. All are part of Consolidated Billing. The master account has purchase 3 reserved instances. The Dev department is currently using 2 reserved instances. The QA team is planning on using 3 instances. What is the pricing tier of the instances that can be used by the QA Team? A. No Reserved and 3 on-demand B. One Reserved and 2 on-demand C. Two Reserved and 1 on-demand D. Three Reserved and no on-demand

B. One Reserved and 2 on-demand

Performing operations as code is a design principle that supports which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? A. Performance efficiency B. Operational excellence C. Reliability D. Security

B. Operational excellence

Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is a shared control between a customer and AWS? A. Physical controls B. Patch management C. Zone security D. Data center auditing

B. Patch management

Under the shared responsibility model; which of the following areas are the customer's responsibility? (Choose two.) A. Firmware upgrades of network infrastructure B. Patching of operating systems C. Patching of the underlying hypervisor D. Physical security of data centers E. Configuration of the security group

B. Patching of operating systems E. Configuration of the security group

Which of the following BEST describe the AWS pricing model? (Choose two.) A. Fixed-term B. Pay-as-you-go C. Colocation D. Planned E. Variable cost

B. Pay-as-you-go E. Variable cost

Which of the following are pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Choose two.) A. Multiple Availability Zones B. Performance efficiency C. Security D. Encryption usage E. High availability

B. Performance efficiency C. Security

For which auditing process does AWS have sole responsibility? A. AWS IAM policies B. Physical security C. Amazon S3 bucket policies D. AWS CloudTrail Logs

B. Physical security

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is an example of security in the AWS Cloud? A. Managing edge locations B. Physical security C. Firewall configuration D. Global infrastructure

B. Physical security OR C. Firewall configuration

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for which security-related task? A. Lifecycle management of IAM credentials B. Physical security of global infrastructure C. Encryption of Amazon EBS volumes D. Firewall configuration

B. Physical security of global infrastructure

Which of the following is the responsibility of AWS? A. Setting up AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and groups B. Physically destroying storage media at end of life C. Patching guest operating systems D. Configuring security settings on Amazon EC2 instances

B. Physically destroying storage media at end of life

A company is considering moving its on-premises data center to AWS.What factors should be included in doing a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis? (Choose two.) A. Amazon EC2 instance availability B. Power consumption of the data center C. Labor costs to replace old servers D. Application developer time E. Database engine capacity

B. Power consumption of the data center C. Labor costs to replace old servers

When architecting cloud applications, which of the following are a key design principle? A. Use the largest instance possible B. Provision capacity for peak load C. Use the Scrum development process D. Implement elasticity

B. Provision capacity for peak load

Which of the following is a correct relationship between regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations? A. Data centers contain regions. B. Regions contain Availability Zones. C. Availability Zones contain edge locations. D. Edge locations contain regions.

B. Regions contain Availability Zones.

A user deploys an Amazon RDS DB instance in multiple Availability Zones.This strategy involves which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? A. Performance efficiency B. Reliability C. Cost optimization D. Security

B. Reliability

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. Replication of the volume in the same Availability Zone

Which of the following steps should be taken by a customer when conducting penetration testing on AWS? A. Conduct penetration testing using Amazon Inspector, and then notify AWS support. B. Request and wait for approval from the customer's internal security team, and then conduct testing. C. Notify AWS support, and then conduct testing immediately. D. Request and wait for approval from AWS support, and then conduct testing.

B. Request and wait for approval from the customer's internal security team, and then conduct testing.

A user has a stateful workload that will run on Amazon EC2 for the next 3 years.What is the MOST cost-effective pricing model for this workload? A. On-Demand Instances B. Reserved Instances C. Dedicated Instances D. Spot Instances

B. Reserved Instances

A Cloud Practitioner must determine if any security groups in an AWS account have been provisioned to allow unrestricted access for specific ports.What is the SIMPLEST way to do this? A. Review the inbound rules for each security group in the Amazon EC2 management console to check for port 0.0.0.0/0. B. Run AWS Trusted Advisor and review the findings. C. Open the AWS IAM console and check the inbound rule filters for open access. D. In AWS Config, create a custom rule that invokes an AWS Lambda function to review rules for inbound access.

B. Run AWS Trusted Advisor and review the findings.

A company wants to set up a highly available workload in AWS with a disaster recovery plan that will allow the company to recover in case of a regional service interruption.Which configuration will meet these requirements? A. Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using the additional Availability Zones in the AWS Region for the disaster recovery site. B. Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using another AWS Region for the disaster recovery site. C. Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using a local AWS Region for the disaster recovery site. D. Run across two AWS Regions, using a third AWS Region for the disaster recovery site.

B. Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using another AWS Region for the disaster recovery site.

What are characteristics of Amazon S3? Choose 2 answers from the options given below: A. S3 allows you to store objects of virtually unlimited size. B. S3 allows you to store unlimited amounts of data. C. S3 should be used to host a relational database. D. Objects are directly accessible via a URL.

B. S3 allows you to store unlimited amounts of data. D. Objects are directly accessible via a URL.

Which AWS service allows users to download security and compliance reports about the AWS infrastructure on demand? A. Amazon GuardDuty B. AWS Security Hub C. AWS Artifact D. AWS Shield

C. AWS Artifact

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, the customer manages which of the following? (Choose two.) A. Decommissioning of physical storage devices B. Security group and ACL configuration C. Patch management of an Amazon RDS instance operating system D. Controlling physical access to data centers E. Patch management of an Amazon EC2 instance operating system

B. Security group and ACL configuration E. Patch management of an Amazon EC2 instance operating system

What does AWS Marketplace allow users to do? (Choose two.) A. Sell unused Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. B. Sell solutions to other AWS users. C. Buy third-party software that runs on AWS. D. Purchase AWS security and compliance documents. E. Order AWS Snowball.

B. Sell solutions to other AWS users. C. Buy third-party software that runs on AWS.

A company must store critical business data in Amazon S3 with a backup to another AWS Region.How can this be achieved? A. Use an Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) to cache data globally B. Set up Amazon S3 cross-region replication to another AWS Region C. Configure the AWS Backup service to back up to the data to another AWS Region D. Take Amazon S3 bucket snapshots and copy that data to another AWS Region

B. Set up Amazon S3 cross-region replication to another AWS Region

A company's application has flexible start and end times.Which Amazon EC2 pricing model will be the MOST cost-effective? A. On-Demand Instances B. Spot Instances C. Reserved Instances D. Dedicated Hosts

B. Spot Instances

Which of the following are components of Amazon VPC? (Choose two.) A. Objects B. Subnets C. Buckets D. Internet gateways E. Access key

B. Subnets D. Internet gateways

What is an advantage of deploying an application across multiple Availability Zones? A. There is a lower risk of service failure if a natural disaster causes a service disruption in a given AWS Region. B. The application will have higher availability because it can withstand a service disruption in one Availability Zone. C. There will be better coverage as Availability Zones are geographically distant and can serve a wider area. D. There will be decreased application latency that will improve the user experience.

B. The application will have higher availability because it can withstand a service disruption in one Availability Zone.

When comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an on-premises infrastructure to a cloud architecture, what costs should be considered? (Choose two.) A. The credit card processing fees for application transactions in the cloud. B. The cost of purchasing and installing server hardware in the on-premises data. C. The cost of administering the infrastructure, including operating system and software installations, patches, backups, and recovering from failures. D. The costs of third-party penetration testing. E. The advertising costs associated with an ongoing enterprise-wide campaign.

B. The cost of purchasing and installing server hardware in the on-premises data. C. The cost of administering the infrastructure, including operating system and software installations, patches, backups, and recovering from failures.

Who is responsible for patching the guest operating system for Amazon RDS? A. The AWS Product team B. The customer Database Administrator C. Managed partners D. AWS Support

B. The customer Database Administrator

The use of what AWS feature or service allows companies to track and categorize spending on a detailed level? A. Cost allocation tags B. Consolidated billing C. AWS Budgets D. AWS Marketplace

C. AWS Budgets

Which of the following describes the relationships among AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations? (Choose two.) A. There are more AWS Regions than Availability Zones. B. There are more edge locations than AWS Regions. C. An edge location is an Availability Zone. D. There are more AWS Regions than edge locations. E. There are more Availability Zones than AWS Regions.

B. There are more edge locations than AWS Regions. E. There are more Availability Zones than AWS Regions.

Why is it beneficial to use Elastic Load Balancers with applications? A. They allow for the conversion from Application Load Balancers to Classic Load Balancers. B. They are capable of handling constant changes in network traffic patterns. C. They automatically adjust capacity. D. They are provided at no charge to users.

B. They are capable of handling constant changes in network traffic patterns.

How do Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups help achieve high availability for a web application? A. They automatically add more instances across multiple AWS Regions based on global demand of the application. B. They automatically add or replace instances across multiple Availability Zones when the application needs it. C. They enable the application's static content to reside closer to end users. D. They are able to distribute incoming requests across a tier of web server instances.

B. They automatically add or replace instances across multiple Availability Zones when the application needs it.

What is the benefit of using AWS managed services, such as Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? A. They require the customer to monitor and replace failing instances. B. They have better performance than customer-managed services. C. They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs. D. They do not require the customer to optimize instance type or size selections.

B. They have better performance than customer-managed services.

What is the purpose of having an internet gateway within a VPC? A. To create a VPN connection to the VPC B. To allow communication between the VPC and the Internet C. To impose bandwidth constraints on internet traffic D. To load balance traffic from the Internet across Amazon EC2 instances

B. To allow communication between the VPC and the Internet

How can a company isolate the costs of production and non-production workloads on AWS? A. Create Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for production and non-production workloads. B. Use different accounts for production and non-production expenses. C. Use Amazon EC2 for non-production workloads and other services for production workloads. D. Use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the use of services.

B. Use different accounts for production and non-production expenses.

According to best practices, how should an application be designed to run in the AWS Cloud? A. Use tighly coupled components. B. Use loosely coupled components. C. Use infrequently coupled components. D. Use frequently coupled components.

B. Use loosely coupled components.

A company operating in the AWS Cloud requires separate invoices for specific environments, such as development, testing, and production.How can this be achieved? A. Use multiple AWS accounts B. Use resource tagging C. Use multiple VPCs D. Use Cost Explorer

B. Use resource tagging

Which of the following assist in identifying costs by department? (Choose two.) A. Using tags on resources B. Using multiple AWS accounts C. Using an account manager D. Using AWS Trusted Advisor E. Using Consolidated Billing

B. Using multiple AWS accounts E. Using Consolidated Billing

Which AWS feature or service can be used to capture information about incoming and outgoing traffic in an AWS VPC infrastructure? A. AWS Config B. VPC Flow Logs C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. AWS CloudTrail

B. VPC Flow Logs

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. Warm standby

To use the AWS CLI, users are required to generate: A. a password policy. B. an access/secret key. C. a managed policy. D. an API key.

B. an access/secret key.

The AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator is used to: A. receive reports that break down AWS Cloud compute costs by duration, resource, or tags B. estimate savings when comparing the AWS Cloud to an on-premises environment C. estimate a monthly bill for the AWS Cloud resources that will be used D. enable billing alerts to monitor actual AWS costs compared to estimated costs

B. estimate savings when comparing the AWS Cloud to an on-premises environment

The AWS Cloud's multiple Regions are an example of: A. agility. B. global infrastructure. C. elasticity. D. pay-as-you-go pricing.

B. global infrastructure.

A characteristic of edge locations is that they: A. host Amazon EC2 instances closer to users. B. help lower latency and improve performance for users. C. cache frequently changing data without reaching the origin server. D. refresh data changes daily.

B. help lower latency and improve performance for users. OR C. cache frequently changing data without reaching the origin server.

Fault tolerance refers to: A. the ability of an application to accommodate growth without changing design B. how well and how quickly an application's environment can have lost data restored C. how secure your application is D. the built-in redundancy of an application's components

B. how well and how quickly an application's environment can have lost data restored

Access keys in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) are used to: A. log in to the AWS Management Console. B. make programmatic calls to AWS from AWS APIs. C. log in to Amazon EC2 instances. D. authenticate to AWS CodeCommit repositories.

B. make programmatic calls to AWS from AWS APIs.

Amazon Route 53 enables users to: A. encrypt data in transit B. register DNS domain names C. generate and manage SSL certificates D. establish a dedicated network connection to AWS

B. register DNS domain names

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, the security and patching of the guest operating system is the responsibility of: A. AWS Support B. the customer C. AWS Systems Manager D. AWS Config

B. the customer

Which of the following is an AWS-managed compute service? A. Amazon SWF B. Amazon EC2 C. AWS Lambda D. Amazon Aurora

C. AWS Lambda

Which of the following services is in the category of AWS serverless platform? A. Amazon EMR B. Elastic Load Balancing C. AWS Lambda D. AWS Mobile Hub

C. AWS Lambda

What is one of the customer's responsibilities according to the AWS shared responsibility model? A. Virtualization infrastructure B. Network infrastructure C. Application security D. Physical security of hardware

C. Application security

Which of these statements about Availability Zones is not true?(Select the best answer) A. Availability Zones are made up of one or more data centers B. Availability zones are connected to each other using high-speed private links C. A data center can be used for more than one availability zone D. Availability zones are designed for fault isolation

C. A data center can be used for more than one availability zone

What is true about regions? (choose two) A. They are the physical locations of your customers B. All regions are located in one specific geographic area C. A region is a physical location that has multiple availability zones D. Physical location has multiple availability zones E. Each region is located in a separate geographic area

C. A region is a physical location that has multiple availability zones E. Each region is located in a separate geographic area

A company is launching an e-commerce site that will store and process credit card data. The company requires information about AWS compliance reports andAWS agreements.Which AWS service provides on-demand access to these items? A. AWS Certificate Manager B. AWS Config C. AWS Artifact D. AWS CloudTrail

C. AWS Artifact

During a compliance review, one of the auditors requires a copy of the AWS SOC 2 report.Which service should be used to submit this request? A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. AWS Artifact D. Amazon S3

C. AWS Artifact

Where are AWS compliance documents, such as an SOC 1 report, located? A. Amazon Inspector B. AWS CloudTrail C. AWS Artifact D. AWS Certificate Manager

C. AWS Artifact

Which AWS services can be used to gather information about AWS account activity? (Choose two.) A. Amazon CloudFront B. AWS Cloud9 C. AWS CloudTrail D. AWS CloudHSM E. Amazon CloudWatch

C. AWS CloudTrail E. Amazon CloudWatch

Which AWS service can be used in the application deployment process? A. AWS AppSync B. AWS Batch C. AWS CodePipeline D. AWS DataSync

C. AWS CodePipeline

Which AWS Cost Management tool allows you to view the most granular data about your AWS bill? A. AWS Cost Explorer B. AWS Budgets C. AWS Cost and Usage report D. AWS Billing dashboard

C. AWS Cost and Usage report

Which AWS service allows for distribution of incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances? A. AWS EC2 B. AWS Autoscaling C. AWS ELB D. AWS Inspector

C. AWS ELB

A company wants to use an AWS service to monitor the health of application endpoints, with the ability to route traffic to healthy regional endpoints to improve application availability.Which service will support these requirements? A. Amazon Inspector B. Amazon CloudWatch C. AWS Global Accelerator D. Amazon CloudFront

C. AWS Global Accelerator

Which of the following allows an application running on an Amazon EC2 instance to securely write data to an Amazon S3 bucket without using long term credentials? A. Amazon Cognito B. AWS Shield C. AWS IAM role D. AWS IAM user access key

C. AWS IAM role

Which AWS service makes it easy to create and manage AWS users and groups, and provide them with secure access to AWS resources at no charge? A. AWS Direct Connect B. Amazon Connect C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) D. AWS Firewall Manager

C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Which of the following can limit Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to specific users? A. A public and private key-pair B. Amazon Inspector C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies D. Security Groups

C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies

Which of the following can limit Amazon Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to specific users? A. A public and private key-pair B. Amazon Inspector C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies D. Security Groups

C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies

Which AWS service is used to provide encryption for Amazon EBS? A. AWS Certificate Manager B. AWS Systems Manager C. AWS KMS D. AWS Config

C. AWS KMS

A user would like to encrypt data that is received, stored, and managed by AWS CloudTrail.Which AWS service will provide this capability? A. AWS Secrets Manager B. AWS Systems Manager C. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) D. AWS Certificate Manager

C. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

Which AWS service will provide a way to generate encryption keys that can be used to encrypt data? (Choose two.) A. Amazon Macie B. AWS Certificate Manager C. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) D. AWS Secrets Manager E. AWS CloudHSM

C. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) E. AWS CloudHSM

Which AWS service is suitable for an event-driven workload? A. Amazon EC2 B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk C. AWS Lambda D. Amazon Lumberyard

C. AWS Lambda

Which of the following will enhance the security of access to the AWS Management Console? (Choose two.) A. AWS Secrets Manager B. AWS Certificate Manager C. AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) D. Security groups E. Password policies

C. AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) E. Password policies

Which AWS service provides a quick and automated way to create and manage AWS accounts? A. AWS QuickSight B. Amazon Lightsail C. AWS Organizations D. Amazon Connect

C. AWS Organizations

A customer would like to design and build a new workload on AWS Cloud but does not have the AWS-related software technical expertise in-house.Which of the following AWS programs can a customer take advantage of to achieve that outcome? A. AWS Partner Network Technology Partners B. AWS Marketplace C. AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners D. AWS Service Catalog

C. AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners

Which AWS service provides a customized view of the health of specific AWS services that power a customer's workloads running on AWS? A. AWS Service Health Dashboard B. AWS X-Ray C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard D. Amazon CloudWatch

C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

What AWS team assists customers with accelerating cloud adoption through paid engagements in any of several specialty practice areas? A. AWS Enterprise Support B. AWS Solutions Architects C. AWS Professional Services D. AWS Account Managers

C. AWS Professional Services

What is the MOST effective resource for staying up to date on AWS security announcements? A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard B. AWS Secrets Manager C. AWS Security Bulletins D. Amazon Inspector

C. AWS Security Bulletins

How should a customer forecast the future costs for running a new web application? A. Amazon Aurora Backtrack B. Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator D. AWS Cost and Usage report

C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator (AWS Pricing Calculator)

Which services are parts of the AWS serverless platform? A. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena B. Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Amazon EMR C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS D. Amazon Athena, Amazon Cognito, Amazon EC2

C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS

Which AWS hybrid storage service enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage through standard file-storage protocols? A. AWS Direct Connect B. AWS Snowball C. AWS Storage Gateway D. AWS Snowball Edge

C. AWS Storage Gateway

Which service provides a hybrid storage service that enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use cloud storage? A. Amazon Glacier B. AWS Snowball C. AWS Storage Gateway D. Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)

C. AWS Storage Gateway

A user wants guidance on possible savings when migrating from on-premises to AWS.Which tool is suitable for this scenario? A. AWS Budgets B. Cost Explorer C. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator D. AWS Well-Architected Tool

C. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Which AWS tool is used to compare the cost of running an application on-premises to running the application in the AWS Cloud? A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator C. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator D. Cost Explorer

C. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

A user needs to generate a report that outlines the status of key security checks in an AWS account. The report must include:✑ The status of Amazon S3 bucket permissions.✑ Whether multi-factor authentication is enabled for the AWS account root user.✑ If any security groups are configured to allow unrestricted access.Where can all this information be found in one location? A. Amazon QuickSight dashboard B. AWS CloudTrail trails C. AWS Trusted Advisor report D. IAM credential report

C. AWS Trusted Advisor report

Which AWS service enables users to securely connect to AWS resources over the public internet? A. Amazon VPC peering B. AWS Direct Connect C. AWS VPN D. Amazon Pinpoint

C. AWS VPN

Within the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for security and compliance? A. The customer is responsible. B. AWS is responsible. C. AWS and the customer share responsibility. D. AWS shares responsibility with the relevant governing body.

C. AWS and the customer share responsibility.

What are the benefits of developing and running a new application in the AWS Cloud compared to on-premises? (Choose two.) A. AWS automatically distributes the data globally for higher durability. B. AWS will take care of operating the application. C. AWS makes it easy to architect for high availability. D. AWS can easily accommodate application demand changes. E. AWS takes care application security patching.

C. AWS makes it easy to architect for high availability. D. AWS can easily accommodate application demand changes.

Which of the following security-related actions are available at no cost? A. Calling AWS Support B. Contacting AWS Professional Services to request a workshop C. Accessing forums, blogs, and whitepapers D. Attending AWS classes at a local university

C. Accessing forums, blogs, and whitepapers

A company that does business online needs to quickly deliver new functionality in an iterative manner, minimizing the time to market.Which AWS Cloud feature can provide this? A. Elasticity B. High availability C. Agility D. Reliability

C. Agility

Which Amazon EC2 pricing model offers the MOST significant discount when compared to On-Demand Instances? A. Partial Upfront Reserved Instances for a 1-year term B. All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 1-year term C. All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3-year term D. No Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3-year term

C. All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3-year term

Which AWS service is a content delivery network that securely delivers data, video, and applications to users globally with low latency and high speeds? A. AWS CloudFormation B. AWS Direct Connect C. Amazon CloudFront D. Amazon Pinpoint

C. Amazon CloudFront

Which AWS service should be used to create a billing alarm? A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. AWS CloudTrail C. Amazon CloudWatch D. Amazon QuickSight

C. Amazon CloudWatch

Which of the following is a fast and reliable NoSQL database service? A. Amazon Redshift B. Amazon RDS C. Amazon DynamoDB D. Amazon S3

C. Amazon DynamoDB

Which AWS service can be used to manually launch instances based on resource requirements? A. Amazon EBS B. Amazon S3 C. Amazon EC2 D. Amazon ECS

C. Amazon EC2

Which service is best for storing common database query results, which helps to alleviate database access load? A. Amazon Machine Learning B. Amazon SQS C. Amazon ElastiCache D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store

C. Amazon ElastiCache

Which AWS container service will help a user install, operate, and scale the cluster management infrastructure? A. Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) D. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Which AWS service helps identify malicious or unauthorized activities in AWS accounts and workloads? A. Amazon Rekognition B. AWS Trusted Advisor C. Amazon GuardDuty D. Amazon CloudWatch

C. Amazon GuardDuty

Which AWS service provides the ability to detect inadvertent data leaks of personally identifiable information (PII) and user credential data? A. Amazon GuardDuty B. Amazon Inspector C. Amazon Macie D. AWS Shield

C. Amazon Macie

Which AWS service can run a managed PostgreSQL database that provides online transaction processing (OLTP)? A. Amazon DynamoDB B. Amazon Athena C. Amazon RDS D. Amazon EMR

C. Amazon RDS

Which service stores objects, provides real-time access to those objects, and offers versioning and lifecycle capabilities? A. Amazon Glacier B. AWS Storage Gateway C. Amazon S3 D. Amazon EBS

C. Amazon S3

Which Amazon S3 storage class is optimized to provide access to data with lower resiliency requirements, but rapid access when needed such as duplicate backups? A. Amazon S3 Standard B. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive C. Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access D. Amazon S3 Glacier

C. Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access

Which AWS service provides inbound and outbound network ACLs to harden external connectivity to Amazon EC2? A. AWS IAM B. Amazon Connect C. Amazon VPC D. Amazon API Gateway

C. Amazon VPC

Which Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) feature enables users to connect two VPCs together? A. Amazon VPC endpoints B. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) ClassicLink C. Amazon VPC peering D. AWS Direct Connect

C. Amazon VPC peering

What is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role? A. A user associated with an AWS resource B. A group associated with an AWS resource C. An entity that defines a set of permissions for use with an AWS resource D. An authentication credential associated with a multi-factor authentication (MFA) token

C. An entity that defines a set of permissions for use with an AWS resource

How does the AWS Enterprise Support Concierge team help users? A. Supporting application development B. Providing architecture guidance C. Answering billing and account inquires D. Answering questions regarding technical support cases

C. Answering billing and account inquire

What does the Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class offer? A. Payment flexibility by reserving storage capacity B. Long-term retention of data by copying the data to an encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume C. Automatic cost savings by moving objects between tiers based on access pattern changes D. Secure, durable, and lowest cost storage for data archival

C. Automatic cost savings by moving objects between tiers based on access pattern changes

A company wants to expand from one AWS Region into a second AWS Region. What does the company need to do to start supporting the new Region? A. Contact an AWS Account Manager to sign a new contract B. Move an Availability Zone to the new Region C. Begin deploying resources in the second Region D. Download the AWS Management Console for the new Region

C. Begin deploying resources in the second Region

What is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan level that will provide users with access to the AWS Support API? A. Developer B. Enterprise C. Business D. Basic

C. Business

Which load balancer types are available with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? (Choose two.) A. Public load balancers with AWS Application Auto Scaling capabilities B. F5 Big-IP and Citrix NetScaler load balancers C. Classic Load Balancers D. Cross-zone load balancers with public and private IPs E. Application Load Balancers

C. Classic Load Balancers E. Application Load Balancers

Which of the following deployment models enables customers to fully trade their capital IT expenses for operational expenses? A. On-premises B. Hybrid C. Cloud D. Platform as a service

C. Cloud

AWS Enterprise Support users have access to which service or feature that is not available to users with other AWS Support plans? A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. AWS Support case C. Concierge team D. Amazon Connect

C. Concierge team

Which tasks are the customer's responsibility in the AWS shared responsibility model? (Choose two.) A. Infrastructure facilities access management B. Cloud infrastructure hardware lifecycle management C. Configuration management of user's applications D. Networking infrastructure protection E. Security groups configuration

C. Configuration management of user's applications E. Security groups configuration

Each department within a company has its own independent AWS account and its own payment method. New company leadership wants to centralize departmental governance and consolidate payments.How can this be achieved using AWS services or features? A. Forward monthly invoices for each account. Then create IAM roles to allow cross-account access. B. Create a new AWS account. Then configure AWS Organizations and invite all existing accounts to join. C. Configure AWS Organizations in each of the existing accounts. Then link all accounts together. D. Use Cost Explorer to combine costs from all accounts. Then replicate IAM policies across accounts.

C. Configure AWS Organizations in each of the existing accounts. Then link all accounts together.

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customer responsibilities include which one of the following? A. Securing the hardware, software, facilities, and networks that run all products and services. B. Providing certificates, reports, and other documentation directly to AWS customers under NDA. C. Configuring the operating system, network, and firewall. D. Obtaining industry certifications and independent third-party attestations.

C. Configuring the operating system, network, and firewall.

Which of the Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models can change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of RIs of equal or greater value? A. Dedicated RIs B. Scheduled RIs C. Convertible RIs D. Standard RIs

C. Convertible RIs

Which design principle should be considered when architecting in the AWS Cloud? A. Think of servers as non-disposable resources B. Use synchronous integration of services C. Design loosely coupled components D. Implement the least permissive rules for security groups

C. Design loosely coupled components

Which of the following are benefits of using AWS Trusted Advisor? (Choose two.) A. Providing high-performance container orchestration B. Creating and rotating encryption keys C. Detecting underutilized resources to save costs D. Improving security by proactively monitoring the AWS environment E. Implementing enforced tagging across AWS resources

C. Detecting underutilized resources to save costs D. Improving security by proactively monitoring the AWS environment

A batch workload takes 5 hours to finish on an Amazon EC2 instance. The amount of data to be processed doubles monthly and the processing time is proportional.What is the best cloud architecture to address this consistently growing demand? A. Run the application on a bigger EC2 instance size. B. Switch to an EC2 instance family that better matches batch requirements. C. Distribute the application across multiple EC2 instances and run the workload in parallel. D. Run the application on a bare metal EC2 instance.

C. Distribute the application across multiple EC2 instances and run the workload in parallel.

Which of the AWS global infrastructure is used to cache copies of content for faster delivery to users across the globe? A. AWS Regions B. Availability Zones C. Edge locations D. Data centers

C. Edge locations

Which AWS feature will reduce the customer's total cost of ownership (TCO)? A. Shared responsibility security model B. Single tenancy C. Elastic computing D. Encryption

C. Elastic computing

Which benefit of the AWS Cloud supports matching the supply of resources with changing workload demands? A. Security B. Reliability C. Elasticity D. High availability

C. Elasticity

Which AWS characteristics make AWS cost effective for a workload with dynamic user demand? (Choose two.) A. High availability B. Shared security model C. Elasticity D. Pay-as-you-go pricing E. Reliability

C. Elasticity D. Pay-as-you-go pricing

Which AWS Cloud benefit eliminates the need for users to try estimating future infrastructure usage? A. Easy and fast deployment of applications in multiple Regions around the world B. Security of the AWS Cloud C. Elasticity of the AWS Cloud D. Lower variable costs due to massive economies of scale

C. Elasticity of the AWS Cloud

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customers are responsible for which aspects of security in the cloud? (Choose two.) A. Visualization management B. Hardware management C. Encryption management D. Facilities management E. Firewall management

C. Encryption management E. Firewall management

Which is a recommended pattern for designing a highly available architecture on AWS? A. Ensure that components have low-latency network connectivity. B. Run enough Amazon EC2 instances to operate at peak load. C. Ensure that the application is designed to accommodate failure of any single component. D. Use a monolithic application that handles all operations.

C. Ensure that the application is designed to accommodate failure of any single component.

Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer responsible for? A. Ensuring that disk drives are wiped after use. B. Ensuring that firmware is updated on hardware devices. C. Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest. D. Ensuring that network cables are category six or higher.

C. Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest.

A company's web application currently has tight dependencies on underlying components, so when one component fails the entire web application fails.Applying which AWS Cloud design principle will address the current design issue? A. Implementing elasticity, enabling the application to scale up or scale down as demand changes. B. Enabling several EC2 instances to run in parallel to achieve better performance. C. Focusing on decoupling components by isolating them and ensuring individual components can function when other components fail. D. Doubling EC2 computing resources to increase system fault tolerance.

C. Focusing on decoupling components by isolating them and ensuring individual components can function when other components fail.

Which of the following describes a security best practice that can be implemented using AWS IAM? A. Disable AWS Management Console access for all users B. Generate secret keys for every IAM user C. Grant permissions to users who are required to perform a given task only D. Store AWS credentials within Amazon EC2 instances

C. Grant permissions to users who are required to perform a given task only

What is an AWS Cloud design best practice? A. Tight coupling of components B. Single point of failure C. High availability D. Overprovisioning of resources

C. High availability

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. Hosting a database on an EC2 Instance

Web servers running on Amazon EC2 access a legacy application running in a corporate data center.What term would describe this model? A. Cloud-native B. Partner network C. Hybrid architecture D. Infrastructure as a service

C. Hybrid architecture

A company has distributed its workload on both the AWS Cloud and some on-premises servers.What type of architecture is this? A. Virtual private network B. Virtual private cloud C. Hybrid cloud D. Private cloud

C. Hybrid cloud

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a customer responsibility? A. Installing security patches for the Xen and KVM hypervisors B. Installing operating system patches for Amazon DynamoDB C. Installing operating system security patches for Amazon EC2 database instances D. Installing operating system security patches for Amazon RDS database instances

C. Installing operating system security patches for Amazon EC2 database instances

A web application is hosted on AWS using an Elastic Load Balancer, multiple Amazon EC2 instances, and Amazon RDS.Which security measures fall under the responsibility of AWS? (Choose two.) A. Running a virus scan on EC2 instances B. Protecting against IP spoofing and packet sniffing C. Installing the latest security patches on the RDS instance D. Encrypting communication between the EC2 instances and the Elastic Load Balancer E. Configuring a security group and a network access control list (NACL) for EC2

C. Installing the latest security patches on the RDS instance D. Encrypting communication between the EC2 instances and the Elastic Load Balancer

What is AWS Trusted Advisor? A. It is an AWS staff member who provides recommendations and best practices on how to use AWS. B. It is a network of AWS partners who provide recommendations and best practices on how to use AWS. C. It is an online tool with a set of automated checks that provides recommendations on cost optimization, performance, and security. D. It is another name for AWS Technical Account Managers who provide recommendations on cost optimization, performance, and security.

C. It is an online tool with a set of automated checks that provides recommendations on cost optimization, performance, and security.

According to the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for configuration management? A. It is solely the responsibility of the customer. B. It is solely the responsibility of AWS. C. It is shared between AWS and the customer. D. It is not part of the AWS shared responsibility model.

C. It is shared between AWS and the customer.

What is a benefit of loose coupling as a principle of cloud architecture design? A. It facilitates low-latency request handling. B. It allows applications to have dependent workflows. C. It prevents cascading failures between different components. D. It allows companies to focus on their physical data center operations.

C. It prevents cascading failures between different components.

How does AWS shorten the time to provision IT resources? A. It supplies an online IT ticketing platform for resource requests. B. It supports automatic code validation services. C. It provides the ability to programmatically provision existing resources. D. It automates the resource request process from a company's IT vendor list.

C. It provides the ability to programmatically provision existing resources.

A company will be moving from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud.What would be one financial difference after the move? A. Moving from variable operational expense (opex) to upfront capital expense (capex). B. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable capital expense (capex). C. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable operational expense (opex). D. Elimination of upfront capital expense (capex) and elimination of variable operational expense (opex)

C. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable operational expense (opex).

A company is piloting a new customer-facing application on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for one month.What pricing model is appropriate? A. Reserved Instances B. Spot Instances C. On-Demand Instances D. Dedicated Hosts

C. On-Demand Instances

An Amazon EC2 instance runs only when needed yet must remain active for the duration of the process. What is the most appropriate purchasing option? A. Dedicated Instances B. Spot Instances C. On-Demand Instances D. Reserved Instances

C. On-Demand Instances

Which Amazon EC2 pricing option is best suited for applications with short-term, spiky, or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted? A. Spot Instances B. Dedicated Hosts C. On-Demand Instances D. Reserved Instances

C. On-Demand Instances

For certain services like Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS, you can invest in reserved capacity. Reserved Instances are available in what 3 options? (Choose three) A. MURI B. DURI C. PURI D. AURI E. NURI

C. PURI (partial up-front) D. AURI (all up-front) E. NURI (no upfront)

Which of the following is the customer's responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model? A. Patching underlying infrastructure B. Physical security C. Patching Amazon EC2 instances D. Patching network infrastructure

C. Patching Amazon EC2 instances

The Trusted Advisor service provides insight regarding which four categories of an AWS account? A. Security, fault tolerance, high availability, and connectivity B. Security, access control, high availability, and performance C. Performance, cost optimization, security, and fault tolerance D. Performance, cost optimization, access control, and connectivity

C. Performance, cost optimization, security, and fault tolerance

A company is hosting a web application in a Docker container on Amazon EC2.AWS is responsible for which of the following tasks? A. Scaling the web application and services developed with Docker B. Provisioning or scheduling containers to run on clusters and maintain their availability C. Performing hardware maintenance in the AWS facilities that run the AWS Cloud D. Managing the guest operating system, including updates and security patches

C. Performing hardware maintenance in the AWS facilities that run the AWS Cloud

What is a characteristic of Amazon S3 cross-region replication? A. Both source and destination S3 buckets must have versioning disabled B. The source and destination S3 buckets cannot be in different AWS Regions C. S3 buckets configured for cross-region replication can be owned by a single AWS account or by different accounts D. The source S3 bucket owner must have the source and destination AWS Regions disabled for their account

C. S3 buckets configured for cross-region replication can be owned by a single AWS account or by different accounts

Which of the following tasks is the responsibility of AWS? A. Encrypting client-side data B. Configuring AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles C. Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor D. Setting user password policies

C. Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor

Which of the following features can be configured through the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Dashboard? (Choose two.) A. Amazon CloudFront distributions B. Amazon Route 53 C. Security Groups D. Subnets E. Elastic Load Balancing

C. Security Groups D. Subnets

Which of the following acts as a virtual firewall at the Amazon EC2 instance level to control traffic for one or more instances? A. Access keys B. Virtual private gateways C. Security groups D. Access Control Lists (ACL)

C. Security groups

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

C. Single Site

A cloud practitioner has a data analysis workload that is infrequently executed and can be interrupted without harm.To optimize for cost, which Amazon EC2 purchasing option should be used? A. On-Demand Instances B. Reserved Instances C. Spot Instances D. Dedicated Hosts

C. Spot Instances

Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts based on supply and demand of EC2 instances? A. On-Demand Instances B. Reserved Instances C. Spot Instances D. Convertible Reserved Instances

C. Spot Instances

When comparing AWS Cloud with on-premises Total Cost of Ownership, which expenses must be considered? (Choose two.) A. Software development B. Project management C. Storage hardware D. Physical servers E. Antivirus software license

C. Storage hardware D. Physical servers

Which design principle is achieved by following the reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? A. Vertical scaling B. Manual failure recovery C. Testing recovery procedures D. Changing infrastructure manually

C. Testing recovery procedures

Which of the following AWS services can be used to run a self-managed database? A. Amazon Route 53 B. AWS X-Ray C. AWS Snowmobile D. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

D. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Which requirement must be met for a member account to be unlinked from an AWS Organizations account? A. The linked account must be actively compliant with AWS System and Organization Controls (SOC). B. The payer and the linked account must both create AWS Support cases to request that the member account be unlinked from the organization. C. The member account must meet the requirements of a standalone account. D. The payer account must be used to remove the linked account from the organization.

C. The member account must meet the requirements of a standalone account.

Which of the following is an advantage of using AWS? A. AWS audits user data. B. Data is automatically secure. C. There is no guessing on capacity needs. D. AWS manages compliance needs.

C. There is no guessing on capacity needs.

Which of the following Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models provides the highest average savings compared to On-Demand pricing? A. One-year, No Upfront, Standard RI pricing B. One-year, All Upfront, Convertible RI pricing C. Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing D. Three-year, No Upfront, Convertible RI pricing

C. Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing

Which task is AWS responsible for in the shared responsibility model for security and compliance? A. Granting access to individuals and services B. Encrypting data in transit C. Updating Amazon EC2 host firmware D. Updating operating systems

C. Updating Amazon EC2 host firmware

What is a responsibility of AWS in the shared responsibility model? A. Updating the network ACLs to block traffic to vulnerable ports. B. Patching operating systems running on Amazon EC2 instances. C. Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts. D. Updating the security group rules to block traffic to the vulnerable ports.

C. Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.

A company is migrating from on-premises data centers to the AWS Cloud and is looking for hands-on help with the project. How can the company get this support? (Choose two.) A. Ask for a quote from the AWS Marketplace team to perform a migration into the company's AWS account. B. Contact AWS Support and open a case for assistance C. Use AWS Professional Services to provide guidance and to set up an AWS Landing Zone in the company's AWS account D. Select a partner from the AWS Partner Network (APN) to assist with the migration E. Use Amazon Connect to create a new request for proposal (RFP) for expert assistance in migrating to the AWS Cloud.

C. Use AWS Professional Services to provide guidance and to set up an AWS Landing Zone in the company's AWS account D. Select a partner from the AWS Partner Network (APN) to assist with the migration

A company has an application with users in both Australia and Brazil. All the company infrastructure is currently provisioned in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region inAustralia, and Brazilian users are experiencing high latency.What should the company do to reduce latency? A. Implement AWS Direct Connect for users in Brazil B. Provision resources in the South America (São Paulo) Region in Brazil C. Use AWS Transit Gateway to quickly route users from Brazil to the application D. Launch additional Amazon EC2 instances in Sydney to handle the demand

C. Use AWS Transit Gateway to quickly route users from Brazil to the application

An architecture design includes Amazon EC2, an Elastic Load Balancer, and Amazon RDS.What is the BEST way to get a monthly cost estimation for this architecture? A. Open an AWS Support case, provide the architecture proposal, and ask for a monthly cost estimation. B. Collect the published prices of the AWS services and calculate the monthly estimate. C. Use the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator to estimate the monthly cost. D. Use the AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator to estimate the monthly cost.

C. Use the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator to estimate the monthly cost.

A customer is using multiple AWS accounts with separate billing.How can the customer take advantage of volume discounts with minimal impact to the AWS resources? A. Create one global AWS acount and move all AWS resources to tha account. B. Sign up for three years of Reserved Instance pricing up front. C. Use the consolidated billing feature from AWS Organizations. D. Sign up for the AWS Enterprise support plan to get volume discounts.

C. Use the consolidated billing feature from AWS Organizations.

The continual reduction of AWS Cloud pricing is due to: A. pay-as-you go pricing B. the AWS global infrastructure C. economies of scale D. reserved storage pricing

C. economies of scale

A company wants to build its new application workloads in the AWS Cloud instead of using on-premises resources.What expense can be reduced using the AWS Cloud? A. The cost of writing custom-built Java or Node .js code B. Penetration testing for security C. hardware required to support new applications D. Writing specific test cases for third-party applications.

C. hardware required to support new applications

One of the advantages to moving infrastructure from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud is: A. it allows the business to eliminate IT bills. B. it allows the business to put a server in each customer's data center. C. it allows the business to focus on business activities. D. it allows the business to leave servers unpatched.

C. it allows the business to focus on business activities.

Using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to grant access only to the resources needed to perform a task is a concept known as: A. restricted access. B. as-needed access. C. least privilege access. D. token access.

C. least privilege access.

One benefit of On-Demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) pricing is: A. the ability to bid for a lower hourly cost. B. paying a daily rate regardless of time used. C. paying only for time used. D. pre-paying for instances and paying a lower hourly rate.

C. paying only for time used.

AWS Budgets can be used to: A. prevent a given user from creating a resource B. send an alert when the utilization of Reserved Instances drops below a certain percentage C. set resource limits in AWS accounts to prevent overspending D. split an AWS bill across multiple forms of payment

C. set resource limits in AWS accounts to prevent overspending

In which scenario should Amazon EC2 Spot Instances be used? A. A company wants to move its main website to AWS from an on-premises web server. B. A company has a number of application services whose Service Level Agreement (SLA) requires 99.999% uptime. C. A company's heavily used legacy database is currently running on-premises. D. A company has a number of infrequent, interruptible jobs that are currently using On-Demand Instances.

D. A company has a number of infrequent, interruptible jobs that are currently using On-Demand Instances.

A user is running an application on AWS and notices that one or more AWS-owned IP addresses is involved in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.Who should the user contact FIRST about this situation? A. AWS Premium Support B. AWS Technical Account Manager C. AWS Solutions Architect D. AWS Abuse team

D. AWS Abuse team

Which AWS service provides a self-service portal for on-demand access to AWS compliance reports? A. AWS Config B. AWS Certificate Manager C. Amazon Inspector D. AWS Artifact

D. AWS Artifact

Which AWS service provides the ability to manage infrastructure as code? A. AWS CodePipeline B. AWS CodeDeploy C. AWS Direct Connect D. AWS CloudFormation

D. AWS CloudFormation

You want to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 resource in AWS. Which of the below services can help in this regard? A. AWS CloudTrail B. AWS Inspector C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. AWS CloudWatch

D. AWS CloudWatch

Which service's PRIMARY purpose is software version control? A. Amazon CodeStar B. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) C. Amazon Cognito D. AWS CodeCommit

D. AWS CodeCommit

Which service enables customers to audit and monitor changes in AWS resources? A. AWS Trusted Advisor B. Amazon GuardDuty C. Amazon Inspector D. AWS Config

D. AWS Config

What AWS service would be used to centrally manage AWS access across multiple accounts? A. AWS Service Catalog B. AWS Config C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. AWS Organizations

D. AWS Organizations

What AWS service would be used to centrally manage AWS access policies across multiple accounts? A. AWS Service Catalog B. AWS Config C. AWS Trusted Advisor D. AWS Organizations

D. AWS Organizations

A user is able to set up a master payer account to view consolidated billing reports through: A. AWS Budgets. B. Amazon Macie. C. Amazon QuickSight. D. AWS Organizations.

D. AWS Organizations.

An administrator needs to rapidly deploy a popular IT solution and start using it immediately.Where can the administrator find assistance? A. AWS Well-Architected Framework documentation B. Amazon CloudFront C. AWS CodeCommit D. AWS Quick Start reference deployments

D. AWS Quick Start reference deployments

Your company is planning to host resources in the AWS Cloud. They want to use services which can be used to decouple resources hosted on the cloud. Which of the following services can help fulfil this requirement? A. AWS EBS Volumes B. AWS EBS Snapshots C. AWS Glacier D. AWS SQS

D. AWS SQS

Which AWS security service protects applications from distributed denial of service attacks with always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations? A. Amazon Inspector B. AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) C. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) D. AWS Shield

D. AWS Shield

Which AWS storage service is designed to transfer petabytes of data in and out of the cloud? A. AWS Storage Gateway B. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive C. Amazon Lightsail D. AWS Snowball

D. AWS Snowball

Which AWS service provides a secure, fast, and cost-effective way to migrate or transport exabyte-scale datasets into AWS? A. AWS Batch B. AWS Snowball C. AWS Migration Hub D. AWS Snowmobile

D. AWS Snowmobile

Which AWS hybrid storage service enables a user's on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage? A. AWS Backup B. Amazon Connect C. AWS Direct Connect D. AWS Storage Gateway

D. AWS Storage Gateway

A user who wants to get help with billing and reactivate a suspended account should submit an account and billing request to: A. the AWS Support forum B. AWS Abuse C. an AWS Solutions Architect D. AWS Support

D. AWS Support

Which tool can be used to compare the costs of running a web application in a traditional hosting environment to running it on AWS? A. AWS Cost Explorer B. AWS Budgets C. AWS Cost and Usage report D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

A web application running on AWS has been spammed with malicious requests from a recurring set of IP addresses.Which AWS service can help secure the application and block the malicious traffic? A. AWS IAM B. Amazon GuardDuty C. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) D. AWS WAF

D. AWS WAF

Which AWS service provides a simple and scalable shared file storage solution for use with Linux-based AWS and on-premises servers? A. Amazon S3 B. Amazon Glacier C. Amazon EBS D. Amazon EFS

D. Amazon EFS

A startup is working on a new application that needs to go to market quickly. The application requirements may need to be adjusted in the near future.Which of the following is a characteristic of the AWS Cloud that would meet this specific need? A. Elasticity B. Reliability C. Performance D. Agility

D. Agility

After selecting an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host reservation, which pricing option would provide the largest discount? A. No upfront payment B. Hourly on-demand payment C. Partial upfront payment D. All upfront payment

D. All upfront payment

Which AWS service can be used to query stored datasets directly from Amazon S3 using standard SQL? A. AWS Glue B. AWS Data Pipeline C. Amazon CloudSearch D. Amazon Athena

D. Amazon Athena

Which of the following services is a MySQL-compatible database that automatically grows storage as needed? A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL C. Amazon Lightsail D. Amazon Aurora

D. Amazon Aurora

Which AWS service would a customer use with a static website to achieve lower latency and high transfer speeds? A. AWS Lambda B. Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator C. Amazon Route 53 D. Amazon CloudFront

D. Amazon CloudFront

Which AWS service allows companies to connect an Amazon VPC to an on-premises data center? A. AWS VPN B. Amazon Redshift C. API Gateway D. Amazon Direct Connect

D. Amazon Direct Connect

Which feature adds elasticity to Amazon EC2 instances to handle the changing demand for workloads? A. Resource groups B. Lifecycle policies C. Application Load Balancer D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

A company is migrating an application that is running non-interruptible workloads for a three-year time frame.Which pricing construct would provide the MOST cost-effective solution? A. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances B. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances C. Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances D. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

D. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

A company is considering using AWS for a self-hosted database that requires a nightly shutdown for maintenance and cost-saving purposes.Which service should the company use? A. Amazon Redshift B. Amazon DynamoDB C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with Amazon EC2 instance store D. Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

D. Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

A user needs an automated security assessment report that will identify unintended network access to Amazon EC2 instances and vulnerabilities on those instances.Which AWS service will provide this assessment report? A. EC2 security groups B. AWS Config C. Amazon Macie D. Amazon Inspector

D. Amazon Inspector

Which AWS managed service is used to host databases? A. AWS Batch B. AWS Artifact C. AWS Data Pipeline D. Amazon RDS

D. Amazon RDS

A company is looking for a scalable data warehouse solution.Which of the following AWS solutions would meet the company's needs? A. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) B. Amazon DynamoDB C. Amazon Kinesis D. Amazon Redshift

D. Amazon Redshift

Which AWS service or feature allows the user to manager cross-region application traffic? A. Amazon AppStream 2.0 B. Amazon VPC C. Elastic Load Balancer D. Amazon Route 53

D. Amazon Route 53

Which service provides a virtually unlimited amount of online highly durable object storage? A. Amazon Redshift B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) D. Amazon S3

D. Amazon S3

A Cloud Practitioner needs to store data for 7 years to meet regulatory requirements.Which AWS service will meet this requirement at the LOWEST cost? A. Amazon S3 B. AWS Snowball C. Amazon Redshift D. Amazon S3 Glacier

D. Amazon S3 Glacier

Which of the following storage mechanisms can be used to store messages effectively which can be used across distributed systems?A. Amazon Glacier B. Amazon EBS Volumes C. Amazon EBS Snapshots D. Amazon SQS

D. Amazon SQS

Which storage service can be used as a low-cost option for hosting static websites? A. Amazon Glacier B. Amazon DynamoDB C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of AWS? A. Enabling server-side encryption for objects stored in S3 B. Applying AWS IAM security policies C. Patching the operating system on an Amazon EC2 instance D. Applying updates to the hypervisor

D. Applying updates to the hypervisor

Which of the following is a component of the shared responsibility model managed entirely by AWS? A. Patching operating system software B. Encrypting data C. Enforcing multi-factor authentication D. Auditing physical data center assets

D. Auditing physical data center assets

What technology enables compute capacity to adjust as loads change? A. Load balancing B. Automatic failover C. Round robin D. Auto Scaling

D. Auto Scaling

What is the benefit of elasticity in the AWS Cloud? A. Ensure web traffic is automatically spread across multiple AWS Regions. B. Minimize storage costs by automatically archiving log data. C. Enable AWS to automatically select the most cost-effective services. D. Automatically adjust the required compute capacity to maintain consistent performance.

D. Automatically adjust the required compute capacity to maintain consistent performance.

What are the multiple, isolated locations within an AWS Region that are connected by low-latency networks called? A. AWS Direct Connects B. Amazon VPCs C. Edge locations D. Availability Zones

D. Availability Zones

Which of the following is a shared control between the customer and AWS? A. Providing a key for Amazon S3 client-side encryption B. Configuration of an Amazon EC2 instance C. Environmental controls of physical AWS data centers D. Awareness and training

D. Awareness and training

Which of the following disaster recovery deployment mechanisms has the highest downtime? A. Pilot light B. Warm standby C. Multi Site D. Backup and Restore

D. Backup and Restore

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. CloudWatch Logs

Which AWS tools automatically forecast future AWS costs? A. AWS Support Center B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator D. Cost Explorer

D. Cost Explorer

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

D. DB2

What is an example of agility in the AWS Cloud? A. Access to multiple instance types B. Access to managed services C. Using Consolidated Billing to produce one bill D. Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

D. Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

Which of the following is an important architectural principle when designing cloud applications? A. Store data and backups in the same region. B. Design tightly coupled system components. C. Avoid multi-threading. D. Design for failure

D. Design for failure

Which cloud design principle aligns with AWS Cloud best practices? A. Create fixed dependencies among application components B. Aggregate services on a single instance C. Deploy applications in a single Availability Zone D. Distribute the compute load across multiple resources

D. Distribute the compute load across multiple resources

Which activity is a customer responsibility in the AWS Cloud according to the AWS shared responsibility model? A. Ensuring network connectivity from AWS to the internet B. Patching and fixing flaws within the AWS Cloud infrastructure C. Ensuring the physical security of cloud data centers D. Ensuring Amazon EBS volumes are backed up

D. Ensuring Amazon EBS volumes are backed up

A company is planning to use AWS to host critical resources. Most of their systems are business critical and need to have response times less than 15 minutes. Which of the following support plans should they consider? A. Basic B. Developer C. Business D. Enterprise

D. Enterprise

Which AWS Support plan provides access to architectural and operational reviews, as well as 24/7 access to Senior Cloud Support Engineers through email, online chat, and phone? A. Basic B. Business C. Developer D. Enterprise

D. Enterprise

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

D. Enterprise

Your company is planning to pay for an AWS Support plan. They have the following requirements as far as the support plan goes: • 24x7 access to Cloud Support Engineers via email, chat & phone • A response time of less than 1 hour for any critical faults Which of the following plans will suffice keeping in mind the cost factor? A. Basic B. Developer C. Business D. Enterprise

D. Enterprise

Which AWS Support plan provides a full set of AWS Trusted Advisor checks? A. Business and Developer Support B. Business and Basic Support C. Enterprise and Developer Support D. Enterprise and Business Support

D. Enterprise and Business Support

Which features and benefits does the AWS Organizations service provide? (Choose two.) A. Establishing real-time communications between members of an internal team B. Facilitating the use of NoSQL databases C. Providing automated security checks D. Implementing consolidated billing E. Enforcing the governance of AWS accounts

D. Implementing consolidated billing E. Enforcing the governance of AWS accounts

What is the purpose of AWS Storage Gateway? A. It ensures on-premises data storage is 99.999999999% durable. B. It transports petabytes of data to and from AWS. C. It connects to multiple Amazon EC2 instances. D. It connects on-premises data storage to the AWS Cloud.

D. It connects on-premises data storage to the AWS Cloud.

What does it mean to grant least privilege to AWS IAM users? A. It is granting permissions to a single user only. B. It is granting permissions using AWS IAM policies only. C. It is granting AdministratorAccess policy permissions to trustworthy users. D. It is granting only the permissions required to perform a given task.

D. It is granting only the permissions required to perform a given task.

Which AWS cloud architecture principle states that systems should reduce interdependencies? A. Scalability B. Services, not servers C. Removing single points of failure D. Loose coupling

D. Loose coupling

What is a user responsible for when running an application in the AWS Cloud? A. Managing physical hardware B. Updating the underlying hypervisor C. Providing a list of users approved for data center access D. Managing application software updates

D. Managing application software updates

According to the AWS shared responsibility model, what is AWS responsible for? A. Configuring Amazon VPC B. Managing application code C. Maintaining application traffic D. Managing the network infrastructure

D. Managing the network infrastructure

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. May be performed by the customer on their own instances with prior authorization from AWS

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. Partial Upfront costs Reserved

Which 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

D. Real-time monitoring E. Adjustable retention

Which design principles for cloud architecture are recommended when re-architecting a large monolithic application? (Choose two.) A. Use manual monitoring. B. Use fixed servers. C. Implement loose coupling. D. Rely on individual components. E. Design for scalability.

D. Rely on individual components. E. Design for scalability.

What AWS benefit refers to a customer's ability to deploy applications that scale up and down the meet variable demand? A. Elasticity B. Agility C. Security D. Scalability

D. Scalability

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, what are the customer's responsibilities? (Choose two.) A. Physical and environmental security B. Physical network devices including firewalls C. Storage device decommissioning D. Security of data in transit E. Data integrity authentication

D. Security of data in transit E. Data integrity authentication

What does it mean if a user deploys a hybrid cloud architecture on AWS? A. All resources run using on-premises infrastructure. B. Some resources run on-premises and some run in a colocation center. C. All resources run in the AWS Cloud. D. Some resources run on-premises and some run in the AWS Cloud.

D. Some resources run on-premises and some run in the AWS Cloud.

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. Spot Instances

Which components are required to build a successful site-to-site VPN connection on AWS? (Choose two.) A. Internet gateway B. NAT gateway C. Customer gateway D. Transit gateway E. Virtual private gateway

D. Transit gateway E. Virtual private gateway

A company has deployed several relational databases on Amazon EC2 instances. Every month, the database software vendor releases new security patches that need to be applied to the databases.What is the MOST efficient way to apply the security patches? A. Connect to each database instance on a monthly basis, and download and apply the necessary security patches from the vendor. B. Enable automatic patching for the instances using the Amazon RDS console. C. In AWS Config, configure a rule for the instances and the required patch level. D. Use AWS Systems Manager to automate database patching according to a schedule.

D. Use AWS Systems Manager to automate database patching according to a schedule.

What is the most efficient way to establish network connectivity from on-premises to multiple VPCs in different AWS Regions? A. Use AWS Direct Connect B. Use AWS VPN C. Use AWS Client VPN D. Use an AWS Transit Gateway

D. Use an AWS Transit Gateway

How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda? A. Users bid on the maximum price they are willing to pay per hour. B. Users choose a 1-, 3- or 5-year upfront payment term. C. Users pay for the required permanent storage on a file system or in a database. D. Users pay based on the number of requests and consumed compute resources.

D. Users pay based on the number of requests and consumed compute resources.

AWS supports which of the following methods to add security to Identity and Access Management (IAM) users? (Choose two.) A. Implementing Amazon Rekognition B. Using AWS Shield-protected resources C. Blocking access with Security Groups D. Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) E. Enforcing password strength and expiration

D. Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) E. Enforcing password strength and expiration

What helps a company provide a lower latency experience to its users globally? A. Using an AWS Region that is central to all users B. Using a second Availability Zone in the AWS Region that is using used C. Enabling caching in the AWS Region that is being used D. Using edge locations to put content closer to all users

D. Using edge locations to put content closer to all users

Which Amazon VPC feature enables users to capture information about the IP traffic that reaches Amazon EC2 instances? A. Security groups B. Elastic network interfaces C. Network ACLs D. VPC Flow Logs

D. VPC Flow Logs

A company wants to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to deploy a global commercial application. The deployment solution should be built with the highest redundancy and fault tolerance.Based on this situation, the Amazon EC2 instances should be deployed: A. in a single Availability Zone in one AWS Region B. with multiple Elastic Network Interfaces belonging to different subnets C. across multiple Availability Zones in one AWS Region D. across multiple Availability Zones in two AWS Regions

D. across multiple Availability Zones in two AWS Regions

Treating infrastructure as code in the AWS Cloud allows users to: A. automate migration of on-premises hardware to AWS data centers. B. let a third party automate an audit of the AWS infrastructure. C. turn over application code to AWS so it can run on the AWS infrastructure. D. automate the infrastructure provisioning process.

D. automate the infrastructure provisioning process.

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. lower variable costs and lower upfront costs.

True or False: Access Control Lists are used to make entire buckets (like one hosting an S3 website) public.

False - Bucket policies are used to make entire buckets (like one hosting an S3 website) public.