AWS - Practice Exam #1
Dedicated Host
A big data analytics company is moving its IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. The company has some server-bound software licenses that it wants to use on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following EC2 instance types would you recommend to the company?
Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
A company needs a storage solution for a project wherein the data is accessed less frequently but needs rapid access when required. Which S3 storage class is the MOST cost-effective for the given use-case?
Amazon Inspector
A company runs an application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The company wants to automate the traditional maintenance job of running timely assessments and checking for OS vulnerabilities. As a Cloud Practitioner, which service will you suggest for this use case?
Use AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts of all units and then share the reserved EC2 instances amongst all units
A company uses reserved EC2 instances across multiple units with each unit having its own AWS account. However, some of the units under-utilize their reserved instances while other units need more reserved instances. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following would you recommend as the most cost-optimal solution?
Customer Managed CMK
A company wants to have control over creating and using its own keys for encryption on AWS services. Which of the following can be used for this use-case?
Agility
A company wants to move to AWS cloud and release new features with quick iterations by utilizing relevant AWS services whenever required. Which of the following characteristics of AWS Cloud does it want to leverage?
Contact AWS Abuse Team
A cyber forensics team has detected that AWS owned IP-addresses are being used to carry out malicious attacks. As this constitutes prohibited use of AWS services, which of the following is the correct solution to address this issue?
EFS
A data analytics company is running a proprietary batch analytics application on AWS and wants to use a storage service which would be accessed by hundreds of EC2 instances simultaneously to append data to existing files. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?
CloudTrail
A financial services company wants to ensure that its AWS account activity meets the governance, compliance, and auditing norms. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?
AWS Artifact
A medical research startup wants to understand the compliance of AWS services concerning HIPAA guidelines. Which AWS service can be used to review the HIPAA compliance and governance-related documents on AWS?
Physical and Environmental controls
A multi-national company has just moved its infrastructure from its on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. As part of the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for which of the following?
APN Consulting Partner
A multi-national corporation wants to get expert professional advice on migrating to AWS and managing their applications on AWS Cloud. Which of the following entities would you recommend for this engagement?
Instance Store
A research group wants to use EC2 instances to run a scientific computation application that has a fault-tolerant architecture. The application needs high-performance hardware disks that provide fast I/O performance. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following storage options would you recommend as the MOST cost-effective solution?
Amazon Macie
A silicon valley based healthcare startup stores anonymized patient health data on Amazon S3. The CTO further wants to ensure that any sensitive data on S3 is discovered and identified. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?
Utilize AWS Partner Network (APN) to build a custom solution for this infrastructure migration. Leverage AWS Professional Services and set up AWS Landing Zone to accelerate the infrastructure migration.
A startup wants to migrate its data and applications from the on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. Which of the following options can be used by the startup to help with this migration? (Select two)
Reserved Instance
A startup wants to provision an EC2 instance for the lowest possible cost for a long-term duration but needs to make sure that the instance would never be interrupted. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following options would you recommend?
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
A startup wants to set up its IT infrastructure on AWS Cloud. The CTO would like to get an estimate of the monthly AWS bill based on the AWS services that the startup wants to use. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?
Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text for downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Polly to convey the text results via speech
A unicorn startup is building an analytics application with support for a speech-based interface. The application will accept speech-based input from users and then convey results via speech. As a Cloud Practitioner, which solution would you recommend for the given use-case?
AWS Global Accelerator Amazon Route 53
AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running on which of the following resources? (Select two)
Layer 7
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) offers protection from common web exploits at which layer?
Maintaining Amazon S3 data in different availability zones to keep it durable. Replacing faulty hardware of Amazon EC2 instances.
According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are responsibilities of AWS? (Select two)
Data center physical security expenditure. Computing hardware infrastructure expenditure.
An IT company is planning to migrate from an on-premises environment to AWS Cloud. Which of the following expense areas would result in cost savings when the company moves to AWS Cloud? (Select two)
Configure the database in RDS Multi-AZ deployment with automatic failover to the standby
An e-commerce company has deployed an RDS database in a single Availability Zone. The engineering team wants to ensure that in case of an AZ outage, the database should continue working on the same endpoint without any manual administrative intervention. Which of the following solutions can address this use-case?
60 seconds
An intern at an IT company provisioned a Linux based On-demand EC2 instance with per-second billing but terminated it within 30 seconds as he wanted to provision another instance type. What is the duration for which the instance would be charged?
Manage Elastic Block Store (EBS) backups using EBS snapshots
As per AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of the customer from a security and compliance point of view?
90
Compared to the On-demand prices, what is the highest possible discount offered for spot instances?
Security Performance Efficiency
The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps organizations build robust Cloud solutions based on AWS recommended best practices. Which of the following are part of the five pillars mandated in the Well-Architected Framework? (Select two)
The company would not be charged for this data transfer
The DevOps team at an IT company is moving 500 GB of data from an EC2 instance to an S3 bucket in the same region. Which of the following scenario captures the correct charges for this data transfer?
AMS X-Ray
The DevOps team at an e-commerce company is trying to debug performance issues for its serverless application built using a microservices architecture. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?
Configuration Management
Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is a shared responsibility of both AWS and the customer?
Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs. Trade capital expense for variable expense.
What are the advantages that AWS Cloud offers over a traditional on-premises IT infrastructure? (Select two)
Weighted Routing Policy
Which AWS Route 53 routing policy would you use to route traffic to multiple resources and also choose how much traffic is routed to each resource?
AWS Shield
Which AWS Service can be used to mitigate a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?
Business
Which AWS Support plan provides architectural guidance contextual to your specific use-cases?
AWS Budgets
Which AWS service will help you receive alerts when the reservation utilization falls below the defined threshold?
SQS SNS
Which AWS services can be used to decouple components of a microservices based application on AWS Cloud? (Select two)
Amazon CloudWatch AWS CloudTrail AWS Config
Which AWS services can be used to facilitate organizational change management, part of the Reliability pillar of AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select three)
Business & Enterprise
Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to guidance, configuration, and troubleshooting of AWS interoperability with 3rd-party software?
Basic & Developer
Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to only 7 core checks from the AWS Trusted Advisor Best Practice Checks? (Select two)
Business
Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to Infrastructure Event Management for an additional fee?
Enterprise
Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to online training with self-paced labs?
AWS Direct Connect
Which of the following AWS services can be used to connect a company's on-premises environment to a VPC without using the public internet?
CloudTrail Logs
Which of the following AWS services has encryption enabled by default?
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Which of the following AWS services manages account privileges?
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Which of the following AWS services should be used to automatically distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets?
S3 DynamoDB
Which of the following AWS services support VPC Endpoint Gateway for a private connection from a VPC? (Select two)
RDS DynamoDB EC2 Instances
Which of the following AWS services support reservations to optimize costs? (Select three)
S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Which of the following S3 storage classes takes the most time to retrieve data (also known as first byte latency)?
Each Availability Zone (AZ) consists of one or more discrete data centers. Each AWS Region consists of two or more Availability Zones.
Which of the following are correct statements regarding the AWS Global Infrastructure? (Select two)
Benefit from massive economies of scale. Go global in minutes and deploy applications in multiple regions around the world with just a few clicks. Trade capital expense for variable expense.
Which of the following are the advantages of Cloud Computing? (Select three)
EFS S3
Which of the following are the storage services offered by the AWS Cloud? (Select two)
The AWS Product Team automatically
Which of the following entities applies patches to the underlying OS for AWS Aurora?
The AWS account must be able to operate as a standalone account. Only then it can be removed from AWS organizations.
Which of the following is CORRECT regarding removing an AWS account from AWS Organizations?
The performance of AWS managed RDS instance is better than a customer-managed database instance
Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS managed services such as Amazon RDS?
AWS Storage Gateway
Which of the following is a hybrid storage service that allows on-premises applications to access data on AWS Cloud?
Use Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access AWS resources programmatically
Which of the following is a recommended way to provide programmatic access to AWS resources?
Lambda
Which of the following is a serverless AWS service?
Redshift
Which of the following is an AWS database service?
Fault tolerance is achieved by Vertical Scaling
Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement about Scaling, a design principle of Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Partial upfront payment option with standard 3-years term
Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective option to purchase an EC2 Reserved Instance?
Step Function, DynamoDB, Lambda
Which of the following represents a serverless stack on AWS Cloud?
A Security Group can have allow rules only. A NAT Gateway is managed by AWS
Which of the following statements are CORRECT regarding the AWS VPC service? (Select two)
EBS volume can be attached to a single instance in the same Availability Zone whereas EFS file system can be mounted on instances across multiple Availability Zones.
Which of the following statements are CORRECT regarding the Availability Zone (AZ) specific characteristics of EBS and EFS storage types?
AWS Shield Standard
Which security service of AWS is enabled for all AWS customers, by default, at no additional cost?
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Which type of Cloud Computing does Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) represent?
