AWS Practice Test 2
What are the fundamental drivers of cost with AWS Cloud? Compute, Databases and Inbound Data Transfer Compute, Storage and Inbound Data Transfer Compute, Storage and Outbound Data Transfer Compute, Databases and Outbound Data Transfer
"Compute, Storage and Outbound Data Transfer" There are three fundamental drivers of cost with AWS: compute, storage, and outbound data transfer. In most cases, there is no charge for inbound data transfer or data transfer between other AWS services within the same region. Outbound data transfer is aggregated across services and then charged at the outbound data transfer rate.
A customer has created a VPC and a subnet within AWS Cloud. Which of the following statements is correct? Both the VPC and the subnet span all of the Availability Zones in the Region A subnet spans all of the Availability Zones in the Region whereas a VPC spans only one Availability Zone in the Region Both the VPC and the subnet span only one Availability Zone in the Region A VPC spans all of the Availability Zones in the Region whereas a subnet spans only one Availability Zone in the Region
A VPC spans all of the Availability Zones in the Region whereas a subnet spans only one Availability Zone in the Region Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including the selection of your IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. A VPC spans all of the Availability Zones in the Region. A subnet is a range of IP addresses within your VPC. A subnet spans only one Availability Zone in the Region.
Which AWS service would you use to send alerts when the costs for your AWS account exceed your budgeted amount? AWS Pricing Calculator AWS Budgets AWS Cost Explorer AWS Organizations
AWS Budgets AWS Budgets gives the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. You can also use AWS Budgets to set reservation utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define. Budgets can be created at the monthly, quarterly, or yearly level, and you can customize the start and end dates. You can further refine your budget to track costs associated with multiple dimensions, such as AWS service, linked account, tag, and others. Budget alerts can be sent via email and/or Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) topic.
Due to regulatory and compliance reasons, an organization is supposed to use a hardware device for any data encryption operations in the cloud. Which AWS service can be used to meet this compliance requirement? AWS Key Management Service (KMS) AWS Secrets Manager AWS Trusted Advisor AWS CloudHSM
AWS CloudHSM AWS CloudHSM is a cloud-based Hardware Security Module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your encryption keys on the AWS Cloud. With CloudHSM, you can manage your encryption keys using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs. It is a fully-managed service that automates time-consuming administrative tasks for you, such as hardware provisioning, software patching, high-availability, and backups.
Which of the following AWS services comes under the Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud Computing Type? AWS Elastic Beanstalk Elastic Load Balancing Amazon Rekognition Amazon EC2
Amazon Rekognition
Multi AZ (Availability Zone) deployment is an example of which of the following? High Availability Performance Efficiency Horizontal Scaling Vertical Scaling
Correct option: High Availability - A system that is available is capable of delivering the designed functionality at a given point in time. Highly available systems are those that can withstand some measure of degradation while still remaining available. On AWS Cloud, you can run instances for an application across multi AZ to achieve High Availability.
Which AWS support plan provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM)? Business Business & Enterprise Developer Enterprise
"Enterprise" AWS offers three different support plans to cater to each of its customers - Developer, Business, and Enterprise Support plans. A basic support plan is included for all AWS customers. AWS Enterprise Support provides customers with concierge-like service where the main focus is helping the customer achieve their outcomes and find success in the cloud. With Enterprise Support, you get 24x7 technical support from high-quality engineers, tools and technology to automatically manage the health of your environment, consultative architectural guidance delivered in the context of your applications and use-cases, and a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) to coordinate access to proactive/preventative programs and AWS subject matter experts.
Which policy describes prohibited uses of the web services offered by Amazon Web Services? AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Applicable Use Policy AWS Fair Use Policy AWS Acceptable Use Policy
AWS Acceptable Use Policy The Acceptable Use Policy describes prohibited uses of the web services offered by Amazon Web Services, Inc. and its affiliates (the "Services") and the website located at http://aws.amazon.com (the "AWS Site"). This policy is present at https://aws.amazon.com/aup/ and is updated on a need basis by AWS.
A developer has written a simple web application in PHP and he wants to just upload his code to AWS Cloud and have AWS handle the deployment automatically but still wants access to the underlying operating system for further enhancements. As a Cloud Practioner, which of the following AWS services would you recommend for this use-case? Amazon EC2 AWS CloudFormation AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS. Simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. At the same time, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can access the underlying resources at any time. There is no additional charge for Elastic Beanstalk - you pay only for the AWS resources needed to store and run your applications.
Which of the following AWS services is essential for implementing security of resources in AWS Cloud? AWS Shield AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Amazon CloudWatch AWS WAF
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources. IAM enables security best practices by allowing you to grant unique security credentials to users and groups to specify which AWS service APIs and resources they can access. These features make IAM an important service for the overall security of AWS resources in your account. IAM is secure by default; users have no access to AWS resources until permissions are explicitly granted.
Which of the following AWS services are global in scope? (Select two) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Amazon S3 Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Amazon CloudFront AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Amazon CloudFront Most of the services that AWS offers are Region specific. But few services, by definition, need to be in a global scope because of the underlying service they offer. AWS IAM, Amazon CloudFront, Route 53 and WAF are some of the global services. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources. Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment.
Which of the following statements are true about AWS Lambda? (Select two) AWS Lambda provides access to the underlying operating system to control its behavior through code You pay for the compute time you consume Allows you to install databases on the underlying serverless Operating System Allows you to orchestrate and manage Docker containers to facilitate complex containerized applications on AWS AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers You pay for the compute time you consume AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. AWS Lambda executes your code only when needed and scales automatically, from a few requests per day to thousands per second. You pay for the compute time and the number of requests for your Lambda function - there is no charge when your code is not running. With AWS Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration. AWS Lambda runs your code on a high-availability compute infrastructure and performs all of the administration of the compute resources, including server and operating system maintenance, capacity provisioning and automatic scaling, code monitoring and logging.
A retail company has multiple AWS accounts for each of its departments. Which of the following AWS services can be used to set up consolidated billing and a single payment method for these AWS accounts? AWS Cost Explorer AWS Secrets Manager AWS Budgets AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations AWS Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts. Using AWS Organizations, you can automate account creation, create groups of accounts to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these groups for governance. You can also simplify billing by setting up a single payment method for all of your AWS accounts. AWS Organizations is available to all AWS customers at no additional charge.
Which service gives a personalized view of the status of the AWS services that are part of your Cloud architecture so that you can quickly assess the impact on your business when AWS service(s) are experiencing issues? Amazon CloudWatch AWS Service Health Dashboard AWS Inspector AWS Personal Health Dashboard
AWS Personal Health Dashboard AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you. With Personal Health Dashboard, alerts are triggered by changes in the health of your AWS resources, giving you event visibility, and guidance to help quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
An organization is planning to move its infrastructure from the on-premises datacenter to AWS Cloud. As a Cloud Practioner, which options would you recommend so that the organization can identify the right AWS services to build solutions on AWS Cloud (Select two)? Amazon CloudWatch AWS Organizations AWS CloudTrail AWS Service Catalog AWS Partner Network
AWS Service Catalog - AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS Partner Network - Organizations can take help from the AWS Partner Network (APN) to identify the right AWS services to build solutions on AWS Cloud. APN is the global partner program for technology and consulting businesses that leverage Amazon Web Services to build solutions and services for customers.
Which AWS service publishes up-to-the-minute information on the general status and availability of all AWS services in all the Regions of AWS Cloud? AWS Personal Health Dashboard AWS Service Health Dashboard Amazon CloudWatch AWS CloudFormation
AWS Service Health Dashboard AWS Service Health Dashboard publishes most up-to-the-minute information on the status and availability of all AWS services in tabular form for all Regions that AWS is present in. You can check on this page https://status.aws.amazon.com/ to get current status information.
Which of the following AWS services are part of the AWS Foundation services for the Reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework in AWS Cloud? (Select two) Amazon CloudWatch AWS CloudTrail AWS CloudFormation AWS Service Quotas AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Service Quotas Foundations are part of the Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. AWS states that before architecting any system, foundational requirements that influence reliability should be in place. The services that are part of foundations are: Amazon VPC, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Service Quotas (formerly called AWS Service Limits). AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides you real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices on cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, service limits, and performance improvement. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor regularly help keep your solutions provisioned optimally. Service Quotas enables you to view and manage your quotas for AWS services from a central location. Quotas, also referred to as limits in AWS, are the maximum values for the resources, actions, and items in your AWS account. Each AWS service defines its quotas and establishes default values for those quotas.
Which of the following solutions can you use to connect your on-premises network with AWS Cloud (Select two). Internet Gateway Amazon Route 53 AWS Direct Connect AWS VPN Amazon VPC
AWS VPN - AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions establish secure connections between on-premises networks, remote offices, client devices, and the AWS global network. AWS VPN is comprised of two services: AWS Site-to-Site VPN and AWS Client VPN. Together, they deliver a highly-available, managed, and elastic cloud VPN solution to protect your network traffic. AWS Direct Connect - AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.
An online gaming company wants to block users from certain geographies from accessing its content. Which AWS services can be used to accomplish this task? (Select two) AWS Shield AWS WAF CloudWatch Route 53 AWS Protect
AWS WAF AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from attacks by allowing you to configure rules that allow, block, or monitor (count) web requests based on conditions that you define. These conditions include IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, URI strings, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting. You can use the IP address based match rule to block specific geographies. The accuracy of the IP Address to country lookup database varies by Region. Based on recent tests, AWS mentions that the overall accuracy for the IP address to country mapping is 99.8%. Route 53 Route 53 is Amazon's Domain Name System (DNS) web service. You can use Route 53 geolocation routing policy to block certain geographies. When you use geolocation routing, you can localize your content and present some or all of your website in the language of your users. You can also use geolocation routing to restrict the distribution of content to only the locations in which you have distribution rights.
Which of the following is correct about AWS "Developer" Support plan? Allows one contact to open a limited number of cases per month Allows unlimited contacts to open a limited number of cases per month Allows unlimited contacts to open unlimited cases Allows one contact to open unlimited cases
Allows one contact to open unlimited cases AWS Developer Support plan allows one primary contact to open unlimited cases.
A data analytics company has some data stored on Amazon S3 and wants to do SQL based analysis on this data with minimum effort. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following AWS services will you suggest for this use case? Redshift DynamoDB Amazon Aurora Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
AWS Compute Optimizer delivers recommendations for which of the following AWS resources? (Select two) Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Amazon EBS volumes, AWS Lambda functions Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups AWS Lambda functions, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), AWS Lambda functions
Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups Amazon EBS volumes, AWS Lambda functions AWS Compute Optimizer helps you identify the optimal AWS resource configurations, such as Amazon EC2 instance types, Amazon EBS volume configurations, and AWS Lambda function memory sizes, using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics. AWS Compute Optimizer delivers recommendations for selected types of EC2 instances, EC2 Auto Scaling groups, EBS volumes, and Lambda functions. Compute Optimizer calculates an individual performance risk score for each resource dimension of the recommended instance, including CPU, memory, EBS throughput, EBS IOPS, disk throughput, disk throughput, network throughput, and network packets per second (PPS). AWS Compute Optimizer provides EC2 instance type and size recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups with a fixed group size, meaning desired, minimum, and maximum are all set to the same value and have no scaling policy attached. AWS Compute Optimizer supports IOPS and throughput recommendations for General Purpose (SSD) (gp3) volumes and IOPS recommendations for Provisioned IOPS (io1 and io2) volumes. Compute Optimizer helps you optimize two categories of Lambda functions. The first category includes Lambda functions that may be over-provisioned in memory sizes. The second category includes compute-intensive Lambda functions that may benefit from additional CPU power.
Which AWS compute service provides the EASIEST way to access resizable compute capacity in the cloud with support for per-second billing and access to the underlying OS? AWS Lambda Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Lightsail Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud with support for per-second billing. It is the easiest way to provision servers on AWS Cloud and access the underlying OS. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change.
Which AWS service should be used when you want to run container applications, but want to avoid the operational overhead of scaling, patching, securing, and managing servers? Amazon Elastic Container Service - Fargate launch type Amazon Elastic Container Service - EC2 launch type Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) AWS Lambda
Amazon Elastic Container Service - Fargate launch type AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers. It works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Fargate makes it easy for you to focus on building your applications. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Fargate allocates the right amount of compute, eliminating the need to choose instances and scale cluster capacity. You only pay for the resources required to run your containers, so there is no over-provisioning and paying for additional servers. Fargate runs each task or pod in its kernel providing the tasks and pods their own isolated compute environment. This enables your application to have workload isolation and improved security by design.
An e-commerce company wants to assess its applications deployed on EC2 instances for vulnerabilities and deviations from AWS best practices. Which AWS service can be used to facilitate this? AWS Trusted Advisor Amazon Inspector AWS Secrets Manager AWS CloudHSM
Amazon Inspector Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices.
A company is using a message broker service on its on-premises application and wants to move this messaging functionality to AWS Cloud. Which of the following AWS services is the right choice to move the existing functionality easily? Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Amazon MQ Amazon Kinesis Data Stream
Amazon MQ - Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. Amazon MQ reduces your operational responsibilities by managing the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers for you. Because Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols, you can easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code. If you're using messaging with existing applications, and want to move the messaging functionality to the cloud quickly and easily, AWS recommends you consider Amazon MQ. It supports industry-standard APIs and protocols so you can switch from any standards-based message broker to Amazon MQ without rewriting the messaging code in your applications. If you are building brand new applications in the cloud, AWS recommends you consider Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS.
An IT company wants to run a log backup process every Monday at 2 AM. The usual runtime of the process is 5 minutes. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build a serverless solution for this use-case? (Select two) EC2 Instance CloudWatch Lambda Step Function Systems Manager
CloudWatch - Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. Lambda - AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume. The lambda has a maximum execution time of 15 minutes, so it can be used to run this log backup process. To build the solution for the given use-case, you can create a CloudWatch Events rule that triggers on a schedule via a cron expression. You can then set the Lambda as the target for this rule.
he engineering team at an IT company wants to monitor the CPU utilization for its fleet of EC2 instances and send an email to the administrator if the utilization exceeds 80%. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build this solution? (Select two) SNS SQS CloudTrail Lambda CloudWatch
CloudWatch - Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. You can create an CloudWatch alarm that sends an email message using Amazon SNS when the alarm changes state from OK to ALARM. The alarm changes to the ALARM state when the average CPU use of an EC2 instance exceeds a specified threshold for consecutive specified periods. SNS - Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a highly available, durable, secure, fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables you to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
An organization has a complex IT architecture involving a lot of system dependencies and it wants to track the history of changes to each resource. Which AWS service will help the organization track the history of configuration changes for all the resources? AWS CloudFormation AWS Config AWS Service Catalog AWS CloudTrail
Correct option: AWS Config AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. Think resource-specific history, audit, and compliance; think Config. With AWS Config, you can do the following: 1. Evaluate your AWS resource configurations for desired settings. 2. Get a snapshot of the current configurations of the supported resources that are associated with your AWS account. 3. Retrieve configurations of one or more resources that exist in your account. 4. Retrieve historical configurations of one or more resources. 5. Receive a notification whenever a resource is created, modified, or deleted. 6.View relationships between resources. For example, you might want to find all resources that use a particular security group.
A gaming company is looking at a technology/service that can deliver a consistent low-latency gameplay to ensure a great user experience for end-users in various locations. Which AWS technology/service will provide the necessary low-latency access to the end-users? AWS Edge Locations AWS Direct Connect AWS Local Zones AWS Wavelength
Correct option: AWS Local Zones AWS Local Zones allow you to use select AWS services, like compute and storage services, closer to more end-users, providing them very low latency access to the applications running locally. AWS Local Zones are also connected to the parent region via Amazon's redundant and very high bandwidth private network, giving applications running in AWS Local Zones fast, secure, and seamless access to the rest of AWS services. You should use AWS Local Zones to deploy workloads closer to your end-users for low-latency requirements. AWS Local Zones have their connection to the internet and support AWS Direct Connect, so resources created in the Local Zone can serve local end-users with very low-latency communications. Various AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon FSx, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EMR, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are available locally in the AWS Local Zones. You can also use services that orchestrate or work with local services such as Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon EKS clusters, Amazon ECS clusters, Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS CloudFormation. AWS Local Zones also provide a high-bandwidth, secure connection to the AWS Region, allowing you to seamlessly connect to the full range of services in the AWS Region through the same APIs and toolsets.
Which AWS service enables users to find, buy, and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment? AWS Marketplace AWS OpsWorks AWS Systems Manager AWS Config
Correct option: AWS Marketplace AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. AWS Marketplace includes thousands of software listings from popular categories such as security, networking, storage, machine learning, IoT, business intelligence, database, and DevOps. You can use AWS Marketplace as a buyer (subscriber) or as a seller (provider), or both. Anyone with an AWS account can use AWS Marketplace as a consumer and can register to become a seller.
A company's flagship application runs on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. As per the new policies, the system administrators are looking for the best way to provide secure shell access to AWS EC2 instances without opening new ports or using public IP addresses. Which tool/service will help you achieve this requirement? Amazon Route 53 AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Amazon Inspector Amazon EC2 Instance Connect
Correct option: AWS Systems Manager Session Manager AWS SSM Session Manager is a fully-managed service that provides you with an interactive browser-based shell and CLI experience. It helps provide secure and auditable instance management without the need to open inbound ports, maintain bastion hosts, and manage SSH keys. Session Manager helps to enable compliance with corporate policies that require controlled access to instances, increase security and auditability of access to the instances while providing simplicity and cross-platform instance access to end-users.
Which of the following AWS services allows a database to have flexible schema and supports document data models? Amazon Aurora Amazon DynamoDB Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Amazon Redshift
Correct option: Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database that supports key-value and document data models and enables developers to build modern, serverless applications that can start small and scale globally to support petabytes of data and tens of millions of read and write requests per second. DynamoDB supports both key-value and document data models. This enables DynamoDB to have a flexible schema, so each row can have any number of columns at any point in time. This allows you to easily adapt the tables as your business requirements change, without having to redefine the table schema as you would in relational databases.
Which AWS service can be used to provision resources to run big data workloads on Hadoop clusters? AWS Batch AWS Step Function Amazon EMR Amazon EC2
Correct option: Amazon EMR - Amazon EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto. Amazon EMR can be used to provision resources to run big data workloads on Hadoop clusters.
Which AWS service can be used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images? Amazon EC2 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Amazon Lambda
Correct option: Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) - Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) can be used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. Amazon ECR eliminates the need to operate your container repositories. You can then pull your docker images from ECR and run those on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS).
A startup is looking for 24x7 phone based technical support for his AWS account. Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective AWS support plan for this use-case? Basic Business Enterprise Developer
Correct option: Business AWS offers three different support plans to cater to each of its customers - Developer, Business, and Enterprise Support plans. A basic support plan is included for all AWS customers. Business - AWS recommends Business Support if you have production workloads on AWS and want 24x7 phone, email and chat access to technical support and architectural guidance in the context of your specific use-cases. Enterprise Support plan also provides 24x7 phone, email and chat access to technical support however it's much costlier than Business Support plan. Developer plan does not provide 24x7 phone based technical support. Therefore Business Support plan is the correct option for the given use-case. Exam Alert:
As per the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of AWS from a security and compliance point of view? Server-side Encryption Edge Location Management Customer Data Identity and Access Management
Correct option: Edge Location Management Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. This shared model can help relieve the customer's operational burden as AWS operates, manages, and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities in which the service operates. AWS is responsible for security "of" the cloud. This covers their global infrastructure elements including Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations.
A fleet of Amazon EC2 instances spread across different Availability Zones needs to access, edit and share file-based data stored centrally on a system. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case? Amazon S3 EC2 Instance Store Elastic File System (EFS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) Volume
Correct option: Elastic File System (EFS) Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, scalable, fully managed, elastic NFS file system. It is built to scale on-demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth. Amazon EFS is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, enabling your applications to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies.
Which AWS Route 53 routing policy would you use to improve the performance for your customers by routing the requests to the AWS endpoint that provides the fastest experience? Simple routing policy Failover routing policy Latency routing policy Weighted routing policy
Correct option: Latency routing policy Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other. If your application is hosted in multiple AWS Regions, you can use latency routing policy to improve the performance for your users by serving their requests from the AWS Region that provides the lowest latency. To use latency-based routing, you create latency records for your resources in multiple AWS Regions. When Route 53 receives a DNS query for your domain or subdomain (example.com or acme.example.com), it determines which AWS Regions you've created latency records for, determines which region gives the user the lowest latency, and then selects a latency record for that region. Route 53 responds with the value from the selected record, such as the IP address for a web server.
What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Multi-AZ configuration? Multi-AZ reduces database usage costs Multi-AZ enhances database availability Multi-AZ improves database performance for read-heavy workloads Multi-AZ protects the database from a regional failure
Correct option: Multi-AZ enhances database availability Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments provide enhanced availability and durability for RDS database (DB) instances, making them a natural fit for production database workloads. When you provision a Multi-AZ DB Instance, Amazon RDS automatically creates a primary DB Instance and synchronously replicates the data to a standby instance in a different Availability Zone (AZ). In case of an infrastructure failure, Amazon RDS performs an automatic failover to the standby so that you can resume database operations as soon as the failover is complete.
Which of the following statement is correct regarding the AWS pricing policy for data transfer charges into or out of an AWS Region? Only inbound data transfer is charged Both inbound data transfer and outbound data transfer are charged Only outbound data transfer is charged Neither inbound nor outbound data transfer are charged
Correct option: Only outbound data transfer is charged One of the main benefits of cloud services is the ability it gives you to optimize costs to match your needs, even as those needs change. AWS services do not have complex dependencies or licensing requirements, so you can get exactly what you need to build innovative, cost-effective solutions using the latest technology. There are three fundamental drivers of cost with AWS: compute, storage, and outbound data transfer. These characteristics vary somewhat, depending on the AWS product and pricing model you choose. Outbound data to the internet from all AWS regions is billed at region-specific, tiered data transfer rates. Inbound data transfer into all AWS regions from the internet is free.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides guidance on building cloud based applications using AWS best practices. Which of the following options are the pillars mentioned in the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select two) Cost Optimization Reliability Elasticity Availability Scalability
Correct option: Reliability Cost Optimization The Well-Architected Framework provides guidance on building secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for cloud based applications. Based on five pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization — the Framework provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures, and implement designs that will scale over time.
A photo sharing web application wants to store thumbnails of user-uploaded images on Amazon S3. The thumbnails are rarely used but need to be immediately accessible from the web application. The thumbnails can be regenerated easily if they are lost. Which is the most cost-effective way to store these thumbnails on S3? Use S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access (One-Zone IA) to store the thumbnails Use S3 Standard to store the thumbnails Use S3 Standard Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) to store the thumbnails Use S3 Glacier to store the thumbnails
Correct option: Use S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access (One-Zone IA) to store the thumbnails S3 One Zone-IA is for data that is accessed less frequently but requires rapid access when needed. Unlike other S3 Storage Classes which store data in a minimum of three Availability Zones (AZs), S3 One Zone-IA stores data in a single AZ and costs 20% less than S3 Standard-IA. S3 One Zone-IA offers the same high durability, high throughput, and low latency of S3 Standard, with a low per GB storage price and per GB retrieval fee. Although S3 One Zone-IA offers less availability than S3 Standard but that's not an issue for the given use-case since the thumbnails can be regenerated easily. As the thumbnails are rarely used but need to be rapidly accessed when required, so S3 One Zone-IA is the best choice for this use-case.
Which AWS technology/service helps you to scale your resources to match supply with demand while still keeping your cloud solution cost-effective? AWS OpsWorks AWS CloudFormation AWS Auto Scaling AWS Cost Explorer
Correct option: AWS Auto Scaling AWS Auto Scaling monitors applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Using AWS Auto Scaling, it's easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes. The service provides a simple, powerful user interface that lets you build scaling plans for resources including Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora Replicas. AWS Auto Scaling makes scaling simple with recommendations that allow you to optimize performance, costs, or balance between them.
Which tool will help you review your workloads against current AWS best practices for cost optimization, security, and performance improvement and then obtain advice to architect them better? AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Cost Explorer Amazon Inspector Amazon CloudWatch
Correct option: AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides you real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices on cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, service limits, and performance improvement. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor regularly help keep your solutions provisioned optimally. All AWS customers get access to the seven core Trusted Advisor checks to help increase the security and performance of the AWS environment.
A company wants a fully managed, flexible, and scalable file storage system, with low latency access, for its Windows-based applications. Which AWS service is the right choice for the company? Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Amazon FSx for Lustre Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Correct option: Amazon FSx for Windows File Server - Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable, and scalable file storage that is accessible over the industry-standard Service Message Block (SMB) protocol. It is built on Windows Server, delivering a wide range of administrative features such as user quotas, end-user file restore, and Microsoft Active Directory (AD) integration. To support a wide spectrum of workloads, Amazon FSx provides high levels of throughput, IOPS and consistent sub-millisecond latencies. Amazon FSx is accessible from Windows, Linux, and macOS compute instances and devices. For Windows-based applications, Amazon FSx provides fully managed Windows file servers with features and performance optimized for "lift-and-shift" business-critical application workloads including home directories (user shares), media workflows, and ERP applications. It is accessible from Windows and Linux instances via the SMB protocol.
Access Key ID and Secret Access Key are tied to which of the following AWS Identity and Access Management entities? IAM User IAM Group AWS Policy IAM Role
Correct option: IAM User Access keys are long-term credentials for an IAM user or the AWS account root user. You can use access keys to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI or AWS API (directly or using the AWS SDK). Access keys consist of two parts: an access key ID (for example, AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE) and a secret access key (for example, wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY). As a user name and password, you must use both the access key ID and secret access key together to authenticate your requests. Access Keys are secret, just like a password. You should never share them.
Which of the following AWS services can be used to prevent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack? (Select three) AWS CloudHSM Amazon CloudFront with Route 53 AWS WAF Amazon Inspector AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Shield
Correct options: AWS Shield - AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection. AWS WAF - By using AWS WAF, you can configure web access control lists (Web ACLs) on your CloudFront distributions or Application Load Balancers to filter and block requests based on request signatures. Besides, by using AWS WAF's rate-based rules, you can automatically block the IP addresses of bad actors when requests matching a rule exceed a threshold that you define. Amazon CloudFront with Route 53 - AWS hosts CloudFront and Route 53 services on a distributed network of proxy servers in data centers throughout the world called edge locations. Using the global Amazon network of edge locations for application delivery and DNS service plays an important part in building a comprehensive defense against DDoS attacks for your dynamic web applications.
Which of the following options can be used to access and manage all AWS services (Select three)? AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK) AWS Secrets Manager Amazon API Gateway AWS Management Console AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) AWS Systems Manager
Correct options: AWS services can be accessed in three different ways: AWS Management Console - This is a simple web interface for accessing AWS services. AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) - You can access AWS services from the command line and automate service management with scripts. AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK) - You can also access via AWS SDK that provides language-specific abstracted APIs for AWS services.
Which of the following use-cases is NOT supported by Amazon Rekognition? Detect text in a photo Quickly resize photos to create thumbnails Identify person in a photo Label objects in a photo
Correct options: Quickly resize photos to create thumbnails - You cannot use Rekognition to resize photos to create thumbnails. With Amazon Rekognition, you can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in images and videos, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Amazon Rekognition also provides highly accurate facial analysis and facial search capabilities that you can use to detect, analyze, and compare faces for a wide variety of user verification, people counting, and public safety use cases.
According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are responsibilities of the customer for Amazon RDS? Managing the underlying server hardware on which RDS runs Applying patches to the RDS database Database encryption Applying patches to the underlying OS
Database encryption - Under the shared model, customers are responsible for managing their data, including data encryption.
Which of the following are examples of Horizontal Scalability (aka Elasticity)? (Select two) Elastic Load Balancing Modify an EC2 instance type from t2.nano to u-12tb1.metal Modify a Database instance to higher CPU and RAM Add a bigger CPU to a computer Read Replicas in Amazon RDS
Elastic Load Balancing Read Replicas in Amazon RDS A "horizontally scalable" system is one that can increase capacity by adding more computers to the system. This is in contrast to a "vertically scalable" system, which is constrained to running its processes on only one computer; in such systems, the only way to increase performance is to add more resources into one computer in the form of faster (or more) CPUs, memory or storage. Horizontally scalable systems are oftentimes able to outperform vertically scalable systems by enabling parallel execution of workloads and distributing those across many different computers. Elastic Load Balancing - Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones. This falls under Horizontal Scaling. "Read Replicas in Amazon RDS" - Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Read replicas allow you to create read-only copies that are synchronized with your master database. You can also place your read replica in a different AWS Region closer to your users for better performance. Read replicas are an example of horizontal scaling of resources.
Which characteristic of Cloud Computing imparts the ability to acquire resources as you need and release when you no longer need them? Durability Resiliency Reliability Elasticity
Elasticity The ability to acquire resources as you need and release when they are no longer needed is termed as Elasticity of the Cloud. With cloud computing, you don't have to over-provision resources upfront to handle peak levels of business activity in the future. Instead, you provision the number of resources that you need. You can scale these resources up or down instantly to grow and shrink capacity as your business needs change.
A multi-national company wants to migrate its IT infrastructure to AWS Cloud and is looking for a concierge support team as well as a response time of around an hour in case the systems go down. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following support plans would you recommend to the company? Business Individual Developer Enterprise
Enterprise The Concierge Support Team is only available for the Enterprise Support plan. The Concierge Team are AWS billing and account experts that specialize in working with enterprise accounts. They will quickly and efficiently assist you with your billing and account inquiries. Enterprise Support plan provides a response time of fewer than 15 minutes for business-critical systems and provides a response time of less than an hour for production systems related outage. So this is the correct option.
A social media company wants to protect its web application from common web exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Which of the following AWS services can be used to address this use-case? AWS CloudWatch Amazon Inspector Amazon GuardDuty AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Explanation Correct option: AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. AWS WAF gives you control over how traffic reaches your applications by enabling you to create security rules that block common attack patterns such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting. You can also use rate-based rules to mitigate the Web layer DDoS attack.
Which AWS service helps with global application availability and performance using the AWS global network? Global Accelerator Amazon Route 53 Elastic Load Balancer Amazon CloudFront
Global Accelerator AWS Global Accelerator is a service that improves the availability and performance of your applications with local or global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions, such as your Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, or Amazon EC2 instances. AWS Global Accelerator uses the AWS global network to optimize the path from your users to your applications, improving the performance of your traffic by as much as 60%. Global Accelerator improves performance for a wide range of applications over TCP or UDP by proxying packets at the edge to applications running in one or more AWS Regions. Global Accelerator is a good fit for non-HTTP use cases, such as gaming (UDP), IoT (MQTT), or Voice over IP, as well as for HTTP use cases that specifically require static IP addresses or deterministic, fast regional failover.
An organization deploys its IT infrastructure in a combination of its on-premises data center along with AWS Cloud. How would you categorize this deployment model? Private deployment Mixed deployment Cloud deployment Hybrid deployment
Hybrid deployment A hybrid deployment is a way to connect your on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. The most common method of hybrid deployment is between the cloud and existing on-premises infrastructure to extend an organization's infrastructure into the cloud while connecting cloud resources to internal systems.
Which of the following AWS services are always free to use (Select two)? Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DynamoDB Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Identity and Access Management (IAM) AWS Auto Scaling
Identity and Access Management (IAM) - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources. IAM is a feature of your AWS account offered at no additional charge. AWS Auto Scaling - AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts the capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Using AWS Auto Scaling, it's easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes. AWS Auto Scaling is available at no additional charge. You pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications and Amazon CloudWatch monitoring fees.
As per the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of the customer from a security and compliance point of view? Managing patches of the guest operating system on Amazon EC2 Availability Zone infrastructure management Configuration management for AWS global infrastructure Patching/fixing flaws within the AWS infrastructure
Managing patches of the guest operating system on Amazon EC2 Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. This shared model can help relieve the customer's operational burden as AWS operates, manages, and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities in which the service operates. As per the AWS shared responsibility model, the customer is responsible for security "in" the cloud. Customers that deploy an Amazon EC2 instance are responsible for the management of the guest operating system (including updates and security patches), any application software or utilities installed by the customer on the instances, and the configuration of the AWS-provided firewall (called a security group) on each instance.
Which AWS EC2 pricing model is the most cost-effective and flexible with no requirement for a long term resource commitment or upfront payment but still guarantees that instance would not be interrupted? On-demand Instances Spot Instances Reserved Instances Dedicated Hosts
On-Demand Instances - An On-Demand Instance is an instance that you use on-demand. You have full control over its lifecycle — you decide when to launch, stop, hibernate, start, reboot, or terminate it. There is no long-term commitment required when you purchase On-Demand Instances. There is no upfront payment and you pay only for the seconds that your On-Demand Instances are running. The price per second for running an On-Demand Instance is fixed. On-demand instances cannot be interrupted.
Which of the following statements are correct about the AWS account root user (Select two) Root user account password cannot be changed once it is set Root account gets unrestricted permissions when the account is created, but these can be restricted using IAM policies Root user access credentials are the email address and password used to create the AWS account Root user credentials should only be shared with managers requiring administrative responsibilities to complete their jobs It is highly recommended to enable Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for root user account
Root user access credentials are the email address and password used to create the AWS account It is highly recommended to enable Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for root user account The Email address and the password used for signing up for AWS services are the AWS account root user credentials. Root account, therefore, has full permissions on all AWS resources under that account. Restricting root account access is not possible. As a best practice, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) should be set on the root account. The root account password can be changed after account creation. For all employees performing various administrative jobs, create individual user accounts using AWS IAM, and give administrative permissions as needed.
Which of the following is the correct statement regarding the AWS Storage services? S3 is object based storage, EBS is file based storage and EFS is block based storage S3 is block based storage, EBS is object based storage and EFS is file based storage S3 is file based storage, EBS is block based storage and EFS is object based storage S3 is object based storage, EBS is block based storage and EFS is file based storage
S3 is object based storage, EBS is block based storage and EFS is file based storage Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, scalable, fully managed, elastic NFS file system. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction-intensive workloads at any scale. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
Which of the following statement is correct for a Security Group and a Network Access Control List? Security Group acts as a firewall at the instance level whereas Network Access Control List acts as a firewall at the subnet level Security Group acts as a firewall at the VPC level whereas Network Access Control List acts as a firewall at the AZ level Security Group acts as a firewall at the AZ level whereas Network Access Control List acts as a firewall at the VPC level Security Group acts as a firewall at the subnet level whereas Network Access Control List acts as a firewall at the instance level
Security Group acts as a firewall at the instance level whereas Network Access Control List acts as a firewall at the subnet level A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic. When you launch an instance in a VPC, you can assign up to five security groups to the instance. Security groups act at the instance level, not the subnet level. A network access control list (ACL) is an optional layer of security for your VPC that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of one or more subnets (i.e. it works at subnet level).
What are the different gateway types supported by AWS Storage Gateway service? Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Block Gateway Tape Gateway, Object Gateway and Volume Gateway Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Volume Gateway Object Gateway, File Gateway and Block Gateway
Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Volume Gateway AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that connects your existing on-premises environments with the AWS Cloud. Customers use Storage Gateway to simplify storage management and reduce costs for key hybrid cloud storage use cases. These include moving tape backups to the cloud, reducing on-premises storage with cloud-backed file shares, providing low latency access to data in AWS for on-premises applications, as well as various migration, archiving, processing, and disaster recovery use cases. AWS Storage Gateway service provides three different types of gateways - Tape Gateway, File Gateway, and Volume Gateway - that seamlessly connect on-premises applications to cloud storage, caching data locally for low-latency access.
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about AWS Auto Scaling? You can scale out and add more EC2 instances to match an increase in demand as well as scale in and remove EC2 instances to match a reduced demand You can automatically remove unhealthy instances You can automatically deploy AWS Shield when a DDoS attack is detected You can automatically register new instances to a Load Balancer
You can automatically deploy AWS Shield when a DDoS attack is detected AWS Auto Scaling is helpful during a DDoS attack, as it can scale out resources fast. But, it cannot automatically deploy AWS Shield service onto its group of resources.
