AWS Cloud Practitioner Prep 8

A team manager needs data about the changes that have taken place for AWS resources in his account during the past two weeks. Which AWS service can help get this data? 1. AWS Config 2. AWS CloudTrail 3. Amazon Inspector 4. Amazon CloudWatch

1. AWS Config (a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources)

Which tool/service will help you get a forecast of your spending for the next 12 months? 1. AWS Cost Explorer 2. AWS Marketplace 3. Consolidated Billing of AWS Organizations 4. AWS Pricing Calculator

1. AWS Cost Explorer (lets you explore your AWS costs and usage at both a high level and at a detailed level of analysis, and empowering you to dive deeper using a number of filtering dimensions)

A company stores all their media files to Amazon S3 storage service which is accessed by an application hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to convert these media files into formats that users can playback on mobile devices. Which AWS service/tool helps you achieve this requirement? 1. Amazon Elastic Transcoder 2. AWS Glue 3. Amazon Transcribe 4. Amazon Comprehend

1. Amazon Elastic Transcoder (lets you convert media files that you have stored in Amazon S3 into media files in the formats required by consumer playback devices)

A company is looking at real-time processing of streaming big data for their ad-tech platform. Which of the following AWS services is the right choice for this requirement? 1. Amazon Kinesis data stream 2. Amazon Redshift 3. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) 4. Amazon EMR

1. Amazon Kinesis data stream (enables you to build custom applications that process or analyze streaming data for specialized need)

Which of the following points have to be considered when choosing an AWS Region for a service? (Select two) • 1. Compliance and Data Residency guidelines of the AWS Region should match your business requirements 2. The AWS Region with high availability index should be considered for your business 3. The AWS Region chosen should have all its Availability Zones (AZs) within 100 Kms radius, to keep latency low for hosted applications 4. The AWS Region should have 5G networks, to seamlessly access the breadth of AWS services in the region 5. AWS Region chosen should be geographically closer to the user base that utilizes the hosted AWS services

1. Compliance and Data Residency guidelines of the AWS Region should match your business requirements & 5. AWS Region chosen should be geographically closer to the user base that utilizes the hosted AWS services

Which pillar of AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on using IT and computing resources efficiently, while considering the right resource types and sizes based on workload requirements? 1. Performance Efficiency Pillar 2. Operational Excellence Pillar 3. Cost Optimization Pillar 4. Reliability Pillar

1. Performance Efficiency Pillar (focuses on using IT and computing resources efficiently)

A Security Group has been changed in an AWS account and the manager of the account has asked you to find out the details of the user who changed it. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service will you use to fetch the necessary information? 1. Amazon Inspector 2. AWS CloudTrail 3. AWS X-Ray 4. AWS Trusted Advisor

2. AWS CloudTrail (a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.)

Which member of the AWS Snow Family is used by the Edge computing applications for IoT use cases for facilitating the collection and processing of data to gain immediate insights and then transfer the data to AWS? 1. AWS Snowmobile 2. AWS Snowcone 3. AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 4. AWS Snowposts

2. AWS Snowcone (the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing, edge storage, and data transfer devices, weighing in at 4.5 pounds (2.1 kg) with 8 terabytes of usable storage)

Which of the following are NoSQL database services from AWS? (Select two) 1. Amazon Aurora 2. Amazon DocumentDB 3. Amazon Neptune 4. AWS Storage Gateway 5. Amazon RDS

2. Amazon DocumentDB (In application code, data is represented often as an object or JSON-like document because it is an efficient and intuitive data model for developers.) & 3. Amazon Neptune (A graph database's purpose is to make it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets.)

Which of the following statements are correct regarding the health monitoring and reporting capabilities supported by AWS Elastic Beanstalk? (Select two) 1. The basic health reporting system that provides information about the health of instances in an Elastic Beanstalk environment does not use health checks performed by Elastic Load Balancing 2. The Elastic Beanstalk health monitoring can determine that the environment's Auto Scaling group is available and has a minimum of at least one instance 3. With basic health reporting, the Elastic Beanstalk service does not publish any metrics to Amazon CloudWatch 4. In a single instance environment, Elastic Beanstalk determines the instance's health by monitoring the Elastic Load Balancing health settings 5. AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides only basic health reporting system. Combined with Elastic Load Balancer, they provide advanced health check features

2. The Elastic Beanstalk health monitoring can determine that the environment's Auto Scaling group is available and has a minimum of at least one instance & 3. With basic health reporting, the Elastic Beanstalk service does not publish any metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

A company wants to establish a private, dedicated connection between AWS and its on-premises datacenter. Which AWS service is the right choice for this requirement? 1. Amazon CloudFront 2. AWS Site to Site Virtual Private Network (VPN) 3. AWS Direct Connect 4. Amazon API Gateway

3. AWS Direct Connect (a cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS)

A blogging company is looking at an easy to use solution to host WordPress blogs. The company needs a cost-effective, readily available solution without the need to manage the configurations for servers or the databases. Which AWS service will help you achieve this functionality? 1. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with Amazon S3 for storage 2. Host the application directly on Amazon S3 3. Amazon Lightsail 4. AWS Fargate

3. Amazon Lightsail (the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a solution to build and host their applications on the cloud Lightsail provides developers with compute, storage, and networking capacity and capabilities to deploy and manage websites and web applications in the cloud. Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly - virtual machines, containers, databases, CDN, load balancers, DNS management, etc. - for a low, predictable monthly price.)

A media company uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for storing all its data. Which storage class should it consider for cost-optimal storage of the data that has random access patterns? 1. Amazon S3 Standard-IA 2. Amazon S3 Standard 3. Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering 4. Amazon S3 Random Access

3. Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering (the only cloud storage class that delivers automatic cost savings by moving objects between four access tiers when access patterns change)

As part of a flexible pricing model, AWS offers two types of Savings Plans. Which of the following are the Savings Plans from AWS? 1. Compute Savings Plans, Storage Savings Plans 2. Reserved Instances Savings Plans, EC2 Instance Savings Plans 3. Compute Savings Plans, EC2 Instance Savings Plans 4. Instance Savings Plans, Storage Savings Plans

3. Compute Savings Plans, EC2 Instance Savings Plans (Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage)

As part of log analysis, you have realized that one or more AWS-owned IP addresses are being used for port scanning your on-premises server. Which service/team should you connect to resolve this issue? 1. Reach out to Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, with the details of the incident 2. Use AWS Trusted Advisor to log a complaint with AWS 3. Contact AWS Abuse team 4. Contact AWS Support

3. Contact AWS Abuse team

An online retail clothing store is looking for a service/tool to easily create and embed 3D scenes into their existing web pages to enhance user experience and improve sales. Which AWS service will help create these 3D visuals? 1. Amazon Polly 2. Amazon SageMaker 3. Amazon Sumerian 4. Amazon Comprehend

4 Amazon Sumerian (a managed service that lets you create and run 3D, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications)

A company has defined a baseline that mentions the number of AWS resources to be used for different stages of application testing. However, the company realized that employees are not adhering to the guidelines and provisioning additional resources via API calls, resulting in higher testing costs. Which AWS service will help the company raise alarms whenever the baseline resource numbers are crossed? 1. AWS X-Ray 2. Amazon Detective 3. AWS Config 4. AWS CloudTrail Insights

4. AWS CloudTrail Insights (helps AWS users identify and respond to unusual activity associated with write API calls by continuously analyzing CloudTrail management events)

Which of the following services/tools offers a user-friendly graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices without a need for command-line interface or REST APIs? 1. AWS Transfer Family 2. AppStream 2.0 3. AWS OpsWorks 4. AWS OpsHub

4. AWS OpsHub (a graphical user interface you can use to manage your AWS Snowball devices, enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud)

A financial consulting company is looking for automated reference deployments, that will speed up the process of deploying its financial solutions on AWS Cloud. The reference deployment should be able to deploy most of the well-known functions of financial services and leave space for customizations, if necessary. Which AWS service will help achieve this requirement? 1. Amazon Quicksight 2. AWS Elastic Beanstalk 3. AWS CloudFormation 4. AWS Quick Starts

4. AWS Quick Starts (automated reference deployments for key workloads on the AWS Cloud. Each Quick Start launches, configures and runs the AWS compute, network, storage, and other services required to deploy a specific workload on AWS, using AWS best practices for security and availability.)

Which of the following statements are correct regarding the AWS Control Tower and Service Control Policies? (Select two) 1. AWS Control Tower helps you deploy a multi-account AWS environment and operate it with day-to-day reminders and recommendations 2. Service Control Policies (SCPs), by default, effect all the users in the AWS Organization. They have to be configured to effect only the member accounts, if needed 3. Service Control Policies (SCPs) can help grant permissions to the accounts in your organization 4. Service Control Policies (SCPs) are a type of organization policy that you can use to manage permissions in your organization 5. Control Tower is an AWS native service providing a pre-defined set of blueprints and guardrails to help customers implement a landing zone for new AWS accounts

4. Service Control Policies (SCPs) are a type of organization policy that you can use to manage permissions in your organization (SCPs offer central control over the maximum available permissions for all accounts in your organization) & 5. Control Tower is an AWS native service providing a pre-defined set of blueprints and guardrails to help customers implement a landing zone for new AWS accounts (an AWS native service providing a pre-defined set of blueprints and guardrails to help customers implement a landing zone for new AWS accounts)