Practice Test 2
Which AWS service can be used to establish a dedicated, private network connection between AWS and your datacenter? AWS Snowball AMazon CloudFront Amazon Route 53 AWS Direct Connect
AWS Direct Connect
Savings Plans are available for which of the following AWS compute services? (Choose TWO) AWS Lambda AMazon Lightsail Amazon EC2 AWS Outposts AWS Batch
AWS Lambda Amazon EC2
Your company is designing a new application that will store and retrieve photos and videos. Which of the following services should you recommend as the underlying storage mechanism? Amazon EBS Amazon S3 Amazon SQS Amazon Instance Store
Amazon S3
Which of the following EC2 instances purchasing options supports the Bring your own license (BYOL) model for almost every BYOL scenario? On-demand instances Dedicated instances Dedicated hosts Reserved instances
Dedicated hosts
What does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Provide A PaaS solution to automate application deployment A compute engine for Amazon ECS A NoSQL database service A scalable file storage solution for use with AWS and on-premises servers
A PaaS solution to automate application deployment
What are the default security credentials that are required to access the AWS management console for an IAM user account? MFA A user name and password Access keys Security tokens
A user name and password
In your on-premises environment, you can create as many virtual servers as you need from a single template. What can you use to perform the same in AWS? EBS Snapshot IAM MAI An internet gateway
AMI
A company has created a solution that helps AWS customers improve their architectures on AWS. Which AWS program may support this company? AWS Professional Services APN technology partners AWS TAM APN Consulting Partners
APN Consulting Partners
A company has deployed a new web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Which of the following should they use to ensure that the incoming HTTP traffic is distributed evenly across the instances? AWS Network Load Balancer AWS Application Load Balancer AWS EC2 Auto Recovery AWS Auto Scaling
AWS Application Load Balancer
What is the AWS tool that enables you to use scripts to manage all AWS services and resources? AWS OpsWorks AWS Service Catalog AWS CLI AWS Console
AWS CLI
What are the change management tools that helps AWS customers audit and monitor all resource changes in their AWS environment? (Choose TWO) AWS Config AWS Transit Gateway Amazon Comprehend AWS X-ray AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config AWS CLoudTrail
What are the connectivity options that can be sued to build hybrid cloud architectures? (Choose TWO) AWS Cloud9 AWS Direct Connect AWS Cloudtrail AWS VPN AWS Artifact
AWS Direct Connect AWS VPN
An organization runs many systems and uses many AWS products. Which of the following services enables them to control how each developer interacts with these products? Network Access control Lists Amazon EMR Amazon RDS AWS Identity and Access Management
AWS Identity and Access Management
What is the AWS serverless service that allows you to run your applications without any administrative burden? Amazon RDS instances AWS Lambda Amazon LightSail Amazon EC2 instances
AWS Lambda
What is the AWS service that enables you to manage all of your AWS accounts from a single master account? AWS Organizations AWS WAF AWS Trusted Advisor Amazon Config
AWS Organizations
Which of the following services can help protect your web applications from SQL injection and other vulnerabilities in your application code? Amazon Cognito AWS WAF AWS IAM Amazon Aurora
AWS WAF
A company is developing a new application using a microservices framework. The new application is having performance and latency issues. Which AWS service should be used to troubleshoot these issues? AWS CloudTrail AWS X-ray AWS CodePipeline Amazon Inspector
AWS X-ray
Which of the following is equivalent to a user name and password and is used to authenticate your programmatic access to AWS services and APIs? MFA Instance password Key pairs Access keys
Access Keys
Amazon glacier is an Amazon S3 storage class that is suitable for storing _________ & __________. (choose TWO) Active archives Active databases Long-term analytic data Cached data Dynamic websites' assets
Active archives Long-term analytic data
Which of the following AWS offerings is a MySQL-compatible relational database service that can scale capacity automatically based on demand? Amazon RDS for PostrgeSQL Amazon Neptune Amazon Aurora Amazon RDS for SQL server
Amazon Aurora
Which AWS services can be used to improve the performance of a global application and reduce latency for its users? (Choose TWO) Amazon CloudFront AWS Direct Connect AWS KMS AWS Glue AWS Global Accelerator
Amazon CloudFront AWS Global Accelerator
Which of the following AWS services is designed with native Multi-AZ fault tolerance in mind? (choose TWO) Amazon DynamoDB AWS Snowball Amazon Simple Storage Service Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Simple Storage Service
What is the primary storage service used by Amazon RDS database instances? Amazon EFS Amazon EBS Amazon Glacier Amazon S3
Amazon EBS
What is the AWS service that provides you the highest level of control over the underlying virtual infrastructure? Amazon EC2 Amazon RDS Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Redshift
Amazon EC2
Which of the following AWS services can be used as a compute resource? (Choose TWO) Amazon EC2 Amazon VPC Amazon s3 AWS Lambda Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon EC2 AWS Lambda
What are the AWS services/features that can help you maintain a highly available and fault-tolerant architecture in AWS?(Choose TWO) Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling AWS Direct Connect Network ACLs CloudFormation Elastic Load Balancer
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Elastic Load Balancer
Which of the following services allows you to run containerized applications on a cluster of EC2 instances? Amazon ECS Amazon Data Pipeline AWS Cloud9 AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Amazon ECS
Where can you store files in AWS? (Choose two) Amazon ECS Amazon EFS Amazon EBS Amazon EMR Amazon SNS
Amazon EFS Amazon EBS
An organization needs to analyze and process a large number of data sets. Which AWS service should they use? Amazon MQ Amazon SQS Amazon EMR Amazon SNS
Amazon EMR
What is the AWS service that performs automated network assessments of Amazon EC2 instances to check for vulnerabilities? Amazon Kinesis Amazon Inspector Security groups AWS Network Access Control Lists
Amazon Inspector
A company has a large amount of structure data stored in their on-premises data center. They are planning to migrate all the data to AWS, what is the most appropriate AWS database option? Amazon ElastiCache Amazon SNS Amazon RDS Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon RDS
What is the AWS data warehouse service that supports a high level of query performance on large amounts of datasets? Amazon Redshift Amazon RDS Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Redshift
Which AWS service can be used to store and reliably deliver messages across distributed systems? Amazon Simple Email service Amazon Simple Queue Service AWS storage gateway Amazon Simple storage service
Amazon Simple Queue Service
Which of the following are important design principles you should adopt when designing systems on AWS? (Choose TWO) Treat servers as fixed resources Automate wherever possible Always use global services in your architecture rather than regional services Remove single points of failure Always choose to pay as you go
Automate wherever possible Remove single points of failure
Using Amazon RDS falls under the shared responsibility model. Which of the following are customer responsibilities? (Choose two) Building the relational database schema Patching the database software Performing backups Managing the database settings Installing the database software
Building the relational database schema Managing the database settings
Which of the following services will help businesses ensure compliance in AWS? Cloudfront Cloudendure migration Cloudtrail Cloudwatch
CloudTrail
Sarah has deployed an application in the Northern California(us-west-1) region. After examining the application's traffic, she notices that about 30% of the traffic is coming from Asia. What can she do to reduce latency for the users in Asia? Create a CDN using CloudFront, so that content is cached at Edge Locations close to and in Asia Recreate the website content Migrate the application to a hosting provider in Asia Replicate the current resources across multiple Availability Zones within the same region
Create a CDN using CloudFront, so that content is cached at Edge Locations close to and in Asia
Which of the below is a best-practice when building applications on AWS? Strengthen physical security by applying the principle of least privilege Use IAM policies to maintain performance Ensure that the application runs on hardware form trusted vendors Decouple the components of the application so that they run independently
Decouple the components of the application so that they run independently
A company has business critical workloads hosted on AWS and they are unwilling to accept any downtime. Which of the following is a recommended best practice to protect their workloads in the event of an unexpected natural disaster? Create point-in-time backups in another subnet and recover this data when a disaster occurs Deploy AWS resources across multiple availability zone within the same AWS region Replicate data across multiple edge locations worldwide and use amazon cloudfront to perform automatic failover in the even t of an outage Deploy AWS resources to another AWS region and implement an Active-Active disaster recovery strategy
Deploy AWS resource to another AWS region and implement an Active-Active disaster recovery strategy
How are AWS customers billed for Linux-based Amazon EC2 usage? EC2 instances will be billed on one day increments, with a minimum of one month EC2 instances will be billed on one second increments, with a minimum of one minute EC2 instances will be billed on one hour increments, with a minimum of one day EC2 instances will be billed on one minute increments, with a minimum of one hour
EC2 instances will be billed on one second increments, with a minimum of one minute
AWS has created a large number of Edge Locations as part of its Global Infrastructure. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of using Edge Locations? Edge locations are used by CloudFront to cache the most recent responses Edge locations are used by CloudFront to distribute traffic across multiple instances to reduce latency Edge locations are used by CloudFront to distribute content to global users with low latency Edge locations are used by CloudFront to improve your end users' experience when uploading files.
Edge locations are used by CloudFront to distribute traffic across multiple instances to reduce latency
What are two advantages of using Cloud Computing over using traditional data centers? (Choose TWO) Dedicated hosting Eliminating single points of failure(SPOFs) Reserved compute capacity Distributed infrastructure Virtualized compute resources
Eliminating single points of failure (SPOFs) Distributed infrastructure
Which of the following activities may help reduce your AWS monthly costs? Deploying your AWS resources across multiple Availability zones Using the AWS network load balancer (NLB) to load balance the incoming HTTP requests Removing all of your cost allocation tags Enabling amazon EC2 auto scaling for all of your workloads
Enabling Amazon EC2 auto scaling for all of your workloads
Under the Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following controls do customers fully inherit from AWS? (Choose TWO) Database controls Awareness & Training Patch management controls Environmental controls Physical controls
Environment controls Physical controls
Your application has recently experienced significant global growth, and international users are complaining of high latency. What is the AWS characteristic that can help improve your international users' experience? Elasticity High availability global reach Data durability
Global reach
Based on the AWS shared responsibility Model, which of the following are the sole responsibility of AWS? (Choose TWO) Installing software on EC2 instances Hardware maintenance Configuring Access Control Lists(ACLs) Monitoring network performance Creating hypervisors
Hardware maintenance Creating hypervisors
Using Amazon EC2 falls under which of the following cloud computing models? IaaS PaaS SaaS IaaS and SaaS
IaaS
What does Amazon ElastiCache Provide? An online software store that allows customers to launch pre-configured software with just a few clicks An Ehcache compatible in-memory data store In-memory caching for read-heavy applications A domain name system in the cloud
In-memory caching for read-heavy applications
Which of the following will impact the price paid for an EC2 instance? (Choose TWO) Number of buckets The availability zone where the instance is provisioned Load balancing Number of private IPs Instance type
Load balancing Instance type
Which of the following should be considered when performing a TCO analysis to compare the costs of running an application on AWS instead of on-premises? Application development Physical hardware Market research Business analysis
Physical hardware
According to the AWS Shared Responsibility model, which of the following are the responsibility of the customer> (Choose TWO) Controlling physical access to AWS Regions Ensuring that the underlying EC2 host is configured properly Protecting the confidentiality of data in transit in Amazon S3 Managing environmental events of AWS data centers Patching applications installed on Amazon EC2
Protecting the confidentiality of data in transit in Amazon Ss3 Patching applications installed on Amazon EC2
What are the Amazon RDS features that can be sued to improve the availability of your database? (choose TWO) Read Replicas Automatic patching AWS Regions Edge locations Multi-AZ deployment
Read Replicas Multi-AZ deployment
Which of the following is one of the benefits of moving infrastructure form an on-premises data center to AWS? Free support for all enterprise customers Automatic data protection AWS holds responsibility for managing customer applications Reduced capital expenditure (CapEx)
Reduced Capital Expenditure (CapEx)
A company needs to host a database in Amazon RDS for at least three years. Which of the following options would be the most cost-effective solution? Reserved instances - no upfront Spot instances On-demand instances Reserved instance - partial upfront
Reserved instances - partial upfront
A company is migrating its on-premises database to Amazon RDS. What should the company do to ensure Amazon RDS costs are kept to a minimum? Use a multi-region active-active architecture Use a multi-region active-passive architecture Combine on-demand capacity reservations with savings plans Right-size before and after migration
Right-size before and after migration
What is the AWS service/feature that takes advantage of Amazon CloudFront's globally distributed edge locations to transfer files to S3 with higher upload speeds? AWS Snowball AWS Snowmobile AWS WAF S3 transfer acceleration
S3 transfer acceleration
Which of the following describes the payment model that AWS makes available for customers that can commit to using Amazon EC2 over a one or 3-year term to reduce their total computing costs? Pay less by using more Save when you reserve Pay less as AWS grows Pay as you go
Save when you reserve
Which of the following aspects of security are managed by AWS? (Choose TWO) Encryption of EBS volumes VPC security Access permissions Securing global physical infrastructure Hardware patching
Securing global physical infrastructure Hardware patching
Which of the following AWS security features is associated with an EC2 instance and functions to filter incoming traffic requests? VPC flow logs Network ACL AWS x-ray Security groups
Security groups
Which of the following can help protect your EC2 instances from DDoS attacks?(Choose TWO) AWS IAM Security groups AWS Batch Network Access Control Lists(Network ACLs) AWS CloudHSM
Security groups Network Access Control Lists (Network ACLs)
Jessica is managing an e-commerce web application in AWS. The application is hosted on six EC2 instances. One day, three of the instances crashed; but none of her customers were affected. What has Jessica done correctly in this scenario? She has properly built a scalable system She has properly built an elastic system She has properly built a fault tolerant system She has properly built an encrypted system
She has properly built a fault tolerant system
Which statement best describes the operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? The ability to monitor systems and improve supporting processes and procedures The efficient use of computing resources to meet requirements The ability of a system to recover gracefully from failure The ability to manage datacenter operations more efficiently
The ability to monitor systems and improve supporting processes and procedures
Which of the following procedures will help reduce your Amazon S3 costs? Pick the right availability zone for your S3 bucket Use the right combination of storage classes based on different use cases Move all the data stored in S3 standard to EBS Use the import/export feature to move old files automatically to Amazon Glacier
Use the right combination of storage classes based on different use cases
You are working on two projects that require completely different network configurations. Which AWS service or feature will allow you to isolate resources and network configurations? Virtual Private Cloud Security Groups internet Gateways Amazon CloudFront
Virtual Private CLoud
Which statement is correct with regard to AWS service limits? (Choose TWO) The Amazon Simple Email service is responsible for sending email notifications when usage approaches a service limit You can use the AWS Trusted Advisor to monitor your service limits You can contact AWS support to increase the service limits Each IAM user has the same service limits There are no service limits on AWS
You can use the AWS Trusted Advisor to monitor your service limits You can contact AWS support to increase the service limits
