Course Assessment

Which scenario is a good fit for Amazon Redshift?

A company needs a data warehouse to support analytics applications.

Which statement reflects a design principle of the Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

Replace one large resource with multiple, smaller resources, and distribute requests across these smaller resources.

What are advantages of cloud computing for a company moving from a traditional on-premises computing model? (Select TWO.)

Resources can be created, scaled up, scaled down, or destroyed based on demand. The company can focus less on infrastructure and focus more on differentiating the business

What role do security groups play in managing access to Amazon EC2 instances?

Security groups provide a set of rules to control traffic to or from an instance.

which statement accurately describes a content delivery network (cdn)?

A CDN caches frequently requested files.

Which statements about how a company would use AWS Organizations are accurate? (Select TWO.)

A company can benefit from volume discounts with consolidated billing A company can consolidate and centrally manage multiple AWS accounts.

Which scenario best describes a use case for Amazon Aurora?

A company needs a highly available PostgreSQL-compatible database.

Which IT requirement would lead an architect to choose an infrastructure as a service (laas) cloud service model?

A company wants to maintain the highest level of flexibility over its IT resources.

Which scenario should be addressed with a Network Load Balancer?

A solution must load balance millions of requests per second while maintaining low latency

A cloud practitioner wants to visualize their AWS costs per EC2 instance type for the past 3 months. Which AWS tool or feature should they use?

AWS Cost Explorer

How does AWS Trusted Advisor assist a company getting started with AWS?

AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations on configuring your AWS resources.

Which statements about responsibility are accurate based on the AWS shared responsibility model? (Select TWO.)

AWS is responsible for the physical security of data centers. Customers are responsible for managing their user data.

Which statement about Amazon S3 Glacier security is accurate?

Access to Amazon S3 Glacier can be managed using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.

A company has an ecommerce site that requires storage and retrieval of unstructured customer metadata to support one of its microservices. Which database option Is best suited to store this data?

Amazon DynamoDB

Which statement about Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is true?

Amazon EBS volumes persist independently from the Amazon EC2 instances that they're attached to.

A company needs to store billions of low volume daily events that will be used for analytics. Which storage option best fits this use case?

Amazon S3

A company needs to store long-lived data. They need the data to be available Immediately, but access patterns are unpredictable. Which Amazon 53 storage class would be most cost-effective?

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

Which scenario describes a use case for AWS CloudTrail?

An account administrator wants the ability to track user activity on their account.

A network administrator wants to configure a public subnet and route incoming and outgoing traffic to and from an Amazon EC2 instance in the public subnet to the public internet. Which virtual private cloud (VPC) feature should they use?

An internet gateway

How does cloud computing improve a company's ability to provision resources to meet capacity demands compared to on-premises computing?

Cloud resources can scale up or down based on demand

How do economies of scale help customers moving to cloud computing from on-premises computing?

Customers can achieve lower variable costs and scale infrastructure beyond what is possible on premises.

A company has an application running on two Amazon EC2 instances. They want to reduce idle EC2 capacity. The application load is difficult to forecast, and they want to keep the CPU utilization close to 40 percent on all instances. Which type of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling should they configure?

Dynamic scaling

What is the relationship between AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and data centers?

Each Region has locations called Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone has data centers

Which feature of Amazon RDS should a company configure to enable high availability?

Multi-AZ deployment

A company has a set of big data processing jobs in Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) that need a lot of compute. Which Amazon EC2 instancing pricing model would meet the need at the lowest possible cost?

Spot Instance

How does the AWS Billing Dashboard help companies analyze their AWS usage to find potential cost-saving opportunities?

The billing dashboard shows the status of the month-to-date AWS expenditure and the AWS services that account for the majority of the overall expenditure.

Which option describes the capability of Amazon virtual private clouds (VPCs)?

They can span Availability Zones.

Which statement about AWS storage services is accurate?

To access an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), the file system must be mounted on an Amazon EC2 instance in your virtual private cloud (VPC).

Which statement about AWS Regions is true?

Using a Region as close as possible to users can reduce latency.