AWS Cloud Practitioner Practice Test 2

What is the minimum number of Availability Zones that you should set up for your application load balancer in order to create a highly available architecture?

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Which of the following best describes what CloudWatch is?

A metric repository

Which of the following characteristics correctly describes the Amazon Simple Storage Service?

A storage service with virtually unlimited space, A highly durable object storage infrastructure

For security audit, a company needs to download the compliance-related documents in AWS such as ISO certifications, Payment Card Industry (PCI), and Service Organization Control (SOC) reports. Which of the following should they use?

AWS Artifact

Which AWS services allows your EC2 compute capacity to automatically scale based on the incoming traffic?

AWS Auto Scaling

Which of the following allows you to set coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define?

AWS Budgets

Which service provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services?

AWS CloudTrail

A company has hybrid cloud architecture where their on-premises data center interacts with their cloud resources in AWS. Which of the following services in AWS could you use to deploy a web application to servers running on-premises?

AWS CodeDeploy, AWS OpsWorks

Which of the following Cost Management Tools allows you to track your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) usage and view the discounted RI rate that was charged to your resources?

AWS Cost and Usage report

Which of the following provides you the most granular data about your AWS costs and usage and also load that information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, AWS QuickSight, or a tool of your choice.

AWS Cost and Usage report

Which among the options below can you use to launch a new Amazon RDS database cluster to your VPC?

AWS Management Console, AWS CloudFormation

Which service should a company use to centrally manage policies and consolidate billing across multiple AWS accounts?

AWS Organization

A company is planning to launch a new system in AWS but they do not have an employee who has AWS-related expertise. Which of the following can help the company to design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on AWS?

AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners

Which of the following shares a collection of offerings to help you achieve specific business outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption through paid engagements in several specialty practice areas?

AWS Professional Services

Which of the following can a developer use to interact with your AWS service?

AWS SDKs, AWS Command Line Interface

A company is planning to adopt a hybrid cloud architecture with AWS. Which of the following can they use to assist them in estimating their costs?

AWS Sales Representative, AWS Pricing Calculator

Which of the following is capable of inspecting your AWS environment and making recommendation to lower expenditures, improve system performance and reliability, and close security gaps

AWS Trusted Advisor

A company which has a basic support plan needs resources to deploy, test, and improve their AWS environment. Which of the following can they use for free?

AWS online documentation, whitepapers, blogs and support forums

What should you provide to your developers to allow them to access your AWS services through the AWS CLI?

Access Keys

Which of the following are the things that Amazon CloudWatch Logs can accomplish?

Adjust the retention policy for each log group. Monitor application logs from Amazon EC2 Instances

A company is currently using On-Demond EC2 instance for their application which they plan to migrate to a Reserved EC2 Instance to save on cost. Which of the following is the most cost-effective option if the application being hosted would be used for more than 3 years.

All Upfront, Standard Reserved Instance Pricing for a 3-yaer term

Which AWS Service should you use if you need to launch a highly scalable MySQL database?

Amazon Aurora

Which service should you use if you need a scalable, fast, and flexible nonrelational database service?

Amazon DynamoDB

Which AWS services should you use to store rapidly changing data with low read and write latencies?

Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS

There is a requirement to launch a new database in AWS where the customer assumes the responsibility and management of the guest operation system, including updates and security patches.

Amazon EC2

Which service should you use if there is a need to launch a customized self-hosted database which requires a scheduled shutdown every night to save cost?

Amazon EC2 instanced with an EBS volume

You need to host a new Microsoft SQL Server database in AWS for an urgent project. Which AWS services should you use to meet this requirement?

Amazon EC2, Amazon Relational Database Service

Which of the following are regarded as regional services in AWS?

Amazon EFS, AWS Batch

Among the following services, which is the most suitable one to use to store the results of I/O-intensive SQL database queries to improve application performance?

Amazon ElasiCache

What service provides the lowest-cost storage option for retaining database backups which also allows occasional data retrieval in minutes?

Amazon Glacier

Users from different parts of the globe are complaining about slow performance of the newly launched photo-sharing website loading their high-resolution images. Which combination of AWS services should you use to serve the file with lowest possible latency?

Amazon S3, Amazon Cloudfront

Which statement below is correct regarding the components of the AWS Global Infrastructure?

An AWS Region contains multiple Availability Zones

Which type of Elastic Load Balancer supports path-based routing, host-based routing, and bi-direction communication channels using WebSockets?

Application Load Balancer

How can you apply and easily manage the common access permissions to a large number of IAM users in AWS?

Attach the necessary policies or permissions required to a new IAM Group then afterwards, add the IAM Users to the IAM group.

_____ is one of the components of AWS Global Infrastructure whichs consists of one or more discrete data centers each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, and housed in separate facilities.

Availability Zones

In the Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following options below is a shared control between AWS and the customer?

Awareness and training

A company is using Amazon S3 to store their static media contents such as photos and videos. Which of the following should you use to provide specific users to access to the bucket?

Bucket Policy

Which of the following is the most cost-effective AWS Support Plan to use if you need access to AWS support API for programmatic case management?

Business

A company has enlisted the help of TDojo Consulting Co. to assist them in designing an AWS disaster recovery solution for their on-premises bare metal servers and SQL databases. The implementation has to be robust, fast, and simple to use. It should also prevent an type of data loss from occurring. The company would like to keep track of the status of the migration.

Cloud Endure

You need to launch a new EC2 Instance for a beta program which is scheduled to change its instance family, operating system, and tenancy exactly 3 months after its trail period. Which type of Reserved Instance (RI) should you use?

Convertible RI

Which of the following allows you to categorize and track your AWS costs on a detailed level?

Cost Allocation tags

Which of the following Amazon EC2 instance purchasing options can help you address compliance requirements and reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses?

Dedicated Host

Which of the following cloud architecture principles below is followed if you distribute your workloads across multiple Availability Zones in AWS as well as using Amazon RDS Multi-AZ?

Design for failure

What are the things that you can implement to improve the security of your identity and Access Management (IAM) users?

Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Configure a strong password policy for your users

A company has web servers running on Amazon EC2 instances that access a RESTful API hosted on their on-premises data. What kind of architecture is the company using?

Hybrid Architecture

Which of the following IAM identities is associated with the access keys that are used in managing your cloud resources via the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

IAM User

Which of the following is true regarding Elastic Load Balancing?

It distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones.

Which of the following is true on how AWS lessens the time to provision your IT resources?

It provides various ways to programmatically provision IT resources

Which of the following is true regarding the Developer support plan in AWS?

Limited access to the 7 Core Trusted Advisor checks, No Access to the AWS Support API

Which of the following is a key design principle when running an application in AWS?

Loose Coupling

A customer is planning to migrate some of their web applications that are hosted on-premises to AWS. Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS over virtualized data centers?

Lower variable costs and lower upfront costs

Which of the following are true regarding Amazon Relational Database Service?

Makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database. Simplifies the management of time-consuming database administration tasks

Which of the following is a key financial benefit of migrating systems hosted on your on-premises data center to AWS?

Opportunity to replace upfront capital expenses (CAPEX) with low variable costs

In AWS Trusted Advisor, which of the following options are included among the five categories being considered to analyze your AWS environment and provide the best practice recommendation?

Performance, Fault Tolerance

What are the benefits of using Edge Locations in AWS?

Provides caching which reduces the load on your origin servers, Improves application performance by delivering content closer to your users

Which among the options below is highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service in AWS?

Route 53

In the VPC dashboard of your AWS Management Console, which of the following services or features below can you manage?

Security Groups, Network ACLs

Which of the following in an advantage of using managed services like RDS, ElastiCahce, and CloudSearch in AWS

Simplifies all of your OS patching and backup activities to help keep your resources current and secure

Which Amazon EC2 instance purchasing option lets you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud and provides up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices?

Spot Instance

A company is in the process of choosing the most suitable AWS Region to migrate their applications. Which of the following factors should they consider?

Support country-specific data sovereignty compliance requirements, Enhance customer experiences by reducing latency to users.

A company is designing a new cloud architecture for its mission-critical application is AWS which must be highly-available. Which of the following is the recommended pattern to meet this requirement?

Use multiple Availability Zones to ensure that the application can handle the failure of any single component

Which of the following can you use to resolve the connection between your on-premises VPN and your AWS virtual private cloud?

Virtual Private Gateway, Amazon Route 53

In AWS, ______ is one of the advantages of Consolidated Billing

Volume Pricing

Which of the following below are the benefits of using Consolidated billing in AWS?

You get one bill for multiple accounts. Share the volume pricing and Reserved Instance discounts by combining the usage across all accounts in the organization

Which of the following options below is solely the responsibility of the customer in accordance with the AWS shared responsibility modal?

Zone Security