Amazon AWS practice quizlet
With Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), what is the maximum size IP address range you can have in a VPC? (Select the best answer.)
/16
With Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), what is the smallest size subnet you can have in a VPC? (Select the best answer.)
/28
You are a solutions architect who works at a large retail company that is migrating its existing infrastructure to AWS. You recommend that they use a custom VPC. When you create a VPC, you assign it to an IPv4 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block of 10.0.1.0/24 (which has 256 total IP addresses). How many IP addresses are available? (Select the best answer.)
251
What is true about Regions? (Choose two.)
A Region is a physical location that has multiple Availability Zones., Each Region is located in a separate geographic area.
Regarding Amazon S3 Glacier, what is a Vault? (Select the best answer)
A container for storing archives
Which of these statements about Availability Zones is not true? (Select the best answer.)
A data center can be used for more than one Availability Zone.
What happens when you use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to create a new VPC? (Select the best answer.)
A main route table is created by default.
What is included in an Amazon Machine Image? (AMI)
A template for the root volume for the instance Launch permissions that control which AWS accounts can use the AMI to launch instances A block device mapping that specifies the volumes to attach to the instance when it's launched
What is included in an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)? (Select the best answer)
A template for the root volume for the instance Launch permissions that control which AWS accounts can use the AMI to launch instances A block device mapping that speicifies the volumes to attach to the instance when its launched
Where can a customer go to get more details about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) billing activity that took place 3 months ago? (Select the best answer.)
AWS Cost Explorer
What is the service provided by AWS that enables developers to easily deploy and manage applications in the cloud?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
What is the service provided by AWS that enables developers to easily deploy and manage applications in the cloud? (Select the best answer)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Which AWS service helps developers quickly deploy resources which can make use of different programming languages, usch as .Net and Java?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Which AWS service helps developers quickly deploy resourece which can make use of different programming languages such as .Net and Jaba
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Which of the following services is a serverless compute service in AWS
AWS Lambda
Which of the following services is a serverless compute service in AWS? (Select the best answer)
AWS Lambda
When creating an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy, what are the two types of access that can be granted to a user? (Choose two.)
AWS Management Console access, Programmatic access
Which of the following are geographic areas that host two or more Availability Zones? (Select the best answer.)
AWS Regions
Which component of AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? (Select the best answer.)
AWS edge locations
Which component of AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery?
AWS edge locations
Which component of the AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? (Select the best answer.)
AWS edge locations
Which AWS service provides infrastructure security optimization recommendations
AWS trusted advisor
A company has an application, which consists of a .NET layer that connects to a MySQL database. They want to move this application on to AWS and use AWS features such as high availability and automated backups. Which of the following would be an ideal database for this use case? (Select the best answer)
Amazon Aurora
If you are developing an application that requires a database with extremely fast performance, fast scalability, and flexibility in the database schema, which service should you consider? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon DynamoDB
Which of the following is a fully managed NoSQL database service
Amazon DynamoDB
You are designing an ecommerce web application that will scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. Which database technology is best suited to hold the session state in this example?
Amazon DynamoDB
Which of the following are features of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)? (Choose two)
Amazon EBS volumes can be encrypted transparently to workloads on the attached instance., Data stored on Amazon EBS is automatically replicated within an Availability Zone.
Which of the following is a compute service? (Select the best answer)
Amazon EC2
Which of the following must be specified when launching a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Windows Instance?
Amazon EC2 instance type Amazon Machine Image
Which of the following must be specified when launching a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Windows instance? (Choose two)
Amazon EC2 instance type, Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with variable compute workloads?
Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed
Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads
Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed
Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads? (Select the best answer)
Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.
Which AWS Cloud service is best suited for analyzing your data by using standard structured query language (SQL) and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon Redshift
A company wants to store data that is not frequently accessed. What is the best and cost-effective solution that should be considered
Amazon S3 Glacier
Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS
Amazon VPC
Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS? (Select the best answer.)
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
What are the advantages of cloud computing over computing on-premises
Avoid large capital purchases Use on-demand capacity go global in minutes increase speed and agility
What are the four support plans offered by AWS Support? (Select the best answer.)
Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise
Which of the following should be done by the AWS account root user? (Select the best answer.)
Change the AWS support plan
Which of the following use cases is appropriate for using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? (Select the best answer.)
Complex transactions
What should you consider when choosing a database type? (Select the best answer.)
Data Size Data access period Query frequency Highly available
There is no charge for which of the following? (Choose two answers.)
Data transfer between services within the same AWS Region, Inbound data transfer (with some exceptions)
Which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) feature ensures your instances will not share a physical host with instances from any other AWS customer? (Select the best answer)
Dedicated Instances
Which Amazon Eleastic Compute Cloud (EC2) feature ensures your instance will not share a physical host with instance from any other AWS customer?
Dedicated Instances
Which of the following are best practices to secure your account using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? (Choose two.)
Define fine-grained access rights., Manage access to AWS resources.
After initial login, what does AWS recommend as the best practice for the AWS account root user? (Select the best answer.)
Delete the access keys of the AWS account root user
As AWS grows, the cost of doing business is reduced and savings are passed back to the customer with lower pricing. What is this optimization called? (Select the best answer.)
Economies of scale
A SysOps engineer working at a company wants to protect their data in transit and at rest. What services could they use to protect their data?
Elastic Load Balancing Amazon Elastic Block Store Amazon Simple Storage Service
How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS Management Console? (Select the best answer.)
Enable multi-factor authentication
In the shared responsibility model, which of the following are examples of "security in the cloud"? (Choose two.)
Encryption of data at rest and data in transit, Security group configurations
Containers contain an entire operating system. (True or False?)
False
Containers contain an entire operation system
False
True or False? AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
False
True or False? By default, all data stored in Amazon S3 is viewable by the public.
False
True or False? Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases, and a broad set of application services over the internet. You own the network-connected hardware required for these services and Amazon Web Services provisions what you need.
False
True or False? Edge locations are only located in the same general area as Regions.
False
True or False? Private subnets have direct access to the internet.
False
True or false? To receive the discounted rate associated with Reserved Instances, you must make a full, upfront payment for the term of the agreement. (Select the best answer.)
False
True or false? Unlimited services are available with the AWS Free Tier to new AWS customers for 12 months following their AWS sign-up date. (Select the best answer.)
False
______ means the infrastructure has built-in component redundancy and ______ means that resources dynamically adjust to increases or decreases in capacity requirements.
Fault tolerant, elastic and scalable
When are free data transfers applicable across AWS? (Choose two.)
Free outbound data transfer between AWS services within the same Region, Free inbound data transfer for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
Which of the following are not benefits of AWS Cloud computing? (Choose two.)
High latency, Multiple procurement cycles
Which of the following is AWS's responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?
Maintaining physical hardware
Which of the following is the responsibility of AWS under the AWS shared responsibility model? (Select the best answer.)
Maintaining physical hardware
You need to allow resources in a private subnet to access the internet. Which of the following must be present to enable this access? (Select the best answer.)
NAT gateway
Which of the following is an optional security control that can be applied at the subnet layer of a VPC? (Select the best answer.)
Network ACL
For certain services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you can invest in reserved capacity. What options are available for Reserved Instances? (Choose three.)
PURI, NURI, AURI
Which of these is not a benefit of cloud computing over on-premises computing? (Select the best answer.)
Pay for racking, stacking, and powering servers
In Amazon DynamoDB, what does the query operation enable you to do? (Select the best answer.)
Query a table using the partition key and an optional sort key filter Query any secondary indexes that exist for a table Efficiently retrieve items from a table or secondary index
Which Amazon EC2 option is best for long-term workloads with predictable usage patterns? (Select the best answer)
Reserved Instances
Which Amazon EC2 option is best for long-term workloads with predictable usage patterns
Reserved instances
Your web application needs four instances to support steady traffic all of the time. On the last day of the month, the traffic triples. What is the most cost-effective way to handle this pattern? (Select the best answer)
Run four Reserved Instances constantly, then add eight On-Demand Instances on the last day of each month.
Your web application needs four instances to support steady traffic all of the time. On the last day of the month, the traffic triples. what is the most cost-effective way to handle this pattern
Run four reserved instances constatnly, then add eight On-Demand instances on the last day of each month
You need to find an item in an Amazon DynamoDB table using an attribute other than the item's primary key. Which of the following operations should you use? (Select the best answer.)
Scan
If your project requires monthly reports that iterate through very large amounts of data, which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) purchasing option should you consider?
Scheduled Reserved Instances
If your project requires monthly reports that iterate through very large amounts of data, which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) purchasing option should you consider? (Select the best answer)
Scheduled Reserved Instances
Which of the following can be used to protect Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances hosted in AWS? (Select the best answer.)
Security group
In the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for providing what? (Select the best answer.)
Security of the cloud
Which of the following can be used as a storage class for an S3 object lifecycle policy? (Choose three)
Simple Storage Service Glacier, S3 - Infrequent Access, S3 - Standard Access
Which of these are ways to access AWS core services? (Choose three)
Software Development Kits (SDKs), AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS Management Console
Which of these is not a cloud deployment model?
System administration as a service
What AWS tool compares the cost of running your application in an on-premises data center to AWS? (Select the best answer.)
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
True or False? AWS Organizations enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts so that you centrally manage them.
True
True or False? AWS owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for application services, while you provision and use what you need.
True
True or False? Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage suitable for the storage of flat files like Microsoft Word documents, photos, etc.
True
True or False? Availability Zones within a Region are connected through low-latency links.
True
True or False? Networking, storage, compute, and databases are examples of service categories that AWS offers.
True
True or false? AWS offers a variety of services at no charge, for example, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Consolidated Billing, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, automatic scaling, AWS OpsWorks and AWS CloudFormation. However, you might be charged for other AWS services that you use in conjunction with these services.
True
True or false? Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery.
True
When you create a bucket in Amazon S3, it is associated with a specific AWS Region. (Select the best answer)
True
In Amazon DynamoDB, an attribute is ______. (Select the best answer.)
a fundamental data element
You can run applications and workloads from a Region closer to the end users to_______ latency.
decrease
Economies of scale result from ______. (Select the best answer)
having hundreds of thousands of customers aggregated in the cloud
You can use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to: (Select the best answer)
implement storage for Amazon EC2 instances that multiple virtual machines can access at the same time.
Amazon S3 replicates all objects ______. (Select the best answer)
in multiple Availability Zones within the same Region
AWS highly recommends provisioning your compute resources across _______ Availability Zones. (Select the best answer.)
multiple
What is the pricing model that enables AWS customers to pay for resources on an as-needed basis?
pay as you go
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is recommended when data _______ and _______. (Choose two)
requires an encryption solution, must be quickly accessible, requiring long-term persistence
The name of an S3 bucket must be unique _________. (Select the best answer)
worldwide across all AWS accounts
