AWS Cloud Practitioner Review
What can be used to allow an application running on an Amazon EC2 instance to securely store data in an Amazon S3 bucket without using long-term credentials? AWS IAM access key AWS IAM role AWS Systems Manager Amazon Connect
AWS IAM role
Which AWS service should a Cloud Practitioner use to automate configuration management using Puppet? AWS CloudFormation AWS Config AWS OpsWorks AWS Systems Manager
AWS OpsWorks
A company is deploying an application on Amazon EC2 that requires low-latency access to application components in an on-premises data center. Which AWS service or resource can the company use to extend their existing VPC to the on-premises data center? AWS Direct Connect Amazon Workspaces Amazon Connect AWS Outposts
AWS Outposts
A cloud practitioner needs to migrate a 70 TB of data from an on-premises data center into the AWS Cloud. The company has a slow and unreliable internet connection. Which AWS service can the cloud practitioner leverage to transfer the data? AWS Snowball AWS Storage Gateway AWS DataSync Amazon S3 Glacier
AWS Snowball
Which AWS hybrid storage service enables a user's on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage? Amazon Connect AWS Storage Gateway AWS Backup AWS Direct Connect
AWS Storage Gateway
A Cloud Practitioner noticed that IP addresses that are owned by AWS are being used to attempt to flood ports on some of the company's systems. To whom should the issue be reported? AWS Professional Services AWS Trust & Safety team AWS Partner Network (APN) AWS Technical Account Manager (TAM)
AWS Trust & Safety team
A Cloud Practitioner requires a simple method to identify if unrestricted access to resources has been allowed by security groups. Which service can the Cloud Practitioner use? Amazon CloudWatch VPC Flow Logs AWS Trusted Advisor AWS CloudTrail
AWS Trusted Advisor
What AWS service, tool, or feature can help companies identify underutilized Amazon EC2 instances and reduce their costs? Consolidated billing AWS Trusted Advisor Cost Explorer Amazon Inspector
AWS Trusted Advisor
Which of the following will help a user determine if they need to request an Amazon EC2 service limit increase? Amazon RDS AWS Health Dashboard AWS Cost Explorer AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor
A company plan to move the application development to AWS. Which benefits can they achieve when developing and running applications in the AWS Cloud compared to on-premises? (Select TWO.) AWS makes it easy to implement high availability. AWS can accommodate large changes in application demand. AWS will fully manage the entire application. AWS takes care of application security patching. AWS automatically replicates all data globally.
AWS makes it easy to implement high availability. AWS can accommodate large changes in application demand.
A website has a global customer base and users have reported poor performance when connecting to the site. Which AWS service will improve the customer experience by reducing latency? Amazon ElastiCache Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Amazon CloudFront AWS Direct Connect
Amazon CloudFront
A company is planning to deploy an application with a relational database on AWS. The application layer requires access to the database instance's operating system in order to run scripts. The company prefer to keep management overhead to a minimum. Which deployment should be used for the database? Amazon DynamoDB Amazon S3 Amazon EC2 Amazon RDS
Amazon EC2
A company plans to deploy a relational database on AWS. The IT department will perform database administration. Which service should the company use? Amazon DynamoDB Amazon EC2 Amazon RedShift Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon EC2
Customers using AWS services must patch operating systems on which of the following services? Amazon EC2 Amazon DynamoDB AWS Lambda AWS Fargate
Amazon EC2
Which AWS services offer compute capabilities? (Select TWO.) Amazon DynamoDB AWS Lambda Amazon CloudHSM Amazon EFS Amazon ECS
Amazon ECS AWS Lambda
Which resource should a new user on AWS use to get help with deploying popular technologies based on AWS best practices, including architecture and deployment instructions? AWS Quick Starts AWS Artifact AWS CloudFormation AWS Config
Amazon Quick Starts
A Cloud Practitioner wants to configure the AWS CLI for programmatic access to AWS services. Which credential components are required? (Select TWO.) An access key ID A public key An IAM Role A secret access key A private key
An access key ID A secret access key
A Cloud Practitioner requires point-in-time recovery (PITR) for an Amazon DynamoDB table. Who is responsible for configuring and performing backups? The customer is responsible for configuring and AWS is responsible for performing backups. The customer is responsible for both tasks. AWS is responsible for both tasks. AWS is responsible for configuring and the user is responsible for performing backups.
The customer is responsible for configuring and AWS is responsible for performing backups.
What should a Cloud Practitioner ensure when designing a highly available architecture on AWS? Servers have low-latency and high throughput network connectivity. A single monolithic application component handles all operations. The failure of a single component should not affect the application. There are enough servers to run at peak load available at all times.
The failure of a single component should not affect the application.
Which of the following AWS services are compute services? (Select TWO.) Amazon Inspector Amazon EFS AWS Batch AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS CloudTrail
1. AWS Beanstalk 2. AWS Batch
Which AWS services can a company use to gather information about activity in their AWS account? (Select TWO.) Amazon CloudFront Amazon Connect AWS CloudTrail AWS Trusted Advisor Amazon CloudWatch
1. AWS CloudTrail 2. Amazon CloudWatch
A company is deploying a new web application in a single AWS Region that will be used by users globally. Which AWS services will assist with lowering latency and improving transfer speeds for the global users? (Select TWO.) AWS Direct Connect AWS Snowcone AWS Transit Gateway Amazon CloudFront AWS Global Accelerator
1. AWS Global Accelerator 2. Amazon CloudFront
Which benefits can a company gain by deploying a relational database on Amazon RDS instead of Amazon EC2? (Select TWO.) Automated backups Software patching Indexing of tables Schema management Root access to OS
1. Automated backups 2. Software patching
Which design principles are enabled by the AWS Cloud to improve the operation of workloads? (Select TWO.) - Remove single points of failure - Minimize platform design - Minimum viable product - Customized hardware - Loose coupling
1. Remove Single Points of Failure 2. Loose coupling
When running applications in the AWS Cloud, which common tasks can AWS manage on behalf of their customers? (Select TWO.) Application security testing Application source code auditing Taking a backup of a database Patching database software Creating a database schema
1. Taking a backup of database 2. Patching database software
Which AWS service helps customers meet corporate, contractual, and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated hardware appliances within the AWS Cloud? AWS Secrets Manager AWS Directory Service AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) AWS CloudHSM
AWS CloudHSM
A company needs an AWS service that can continuously monitor the company's AWS account. If there are any changes to the architecture, members of the team must be contacted. Which service will meet these requirements? AWS Trusted Advisor Amazon GuardDuty AWS Config Amazon Macie
AWS Config
A user has limited knowledge of AWS services, but wants to quickly deploy a scalable Node.js application in an Amazon VPC. Which service should be used to deploy the application? AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS CloudFormation Amazon EC2 Amazon LightSail
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Which tasks can a user complete using the AWS Cost Management tools? (Select TWO.) Create budgets and receive notifications if current or forecasted usage exceeds the budgets. Launch either EC2 Spot instances or On-Demand instances based on the current pricing. Automatically terminate AWS resources if budget thresholds are exceeded. Move data stored in Amazon S3 Standard to an archiving storage class to reduce cost. Delete all of your AWS resources with a single click.
Create budgets and receive notifications if current or forecasted usage exceeds the budgets. Automatically terminate AWS resources if budget thresholds are exceeded.
A company has many underutilized compute resources on-premises. Which AWS Cloud feature will help resolve this issue? Fault tolerance Global deployment High availability Elasticity
Elasticity
Question 32: Incorrect A user is planning to launch three EC2 instances behind a single Elastic Load Balancer. The deployment should be highly available. How should the user achieve this? Launch the instances in multiple AWS Regions, and use Elastic IP addresses. Launch the instances as EC2 Spot Instances in the same AWS Region and the same Availability Zone. Launch the instances as EC2 Reserved Instances in the same AWS Region, but in different Availability Zones. Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.
Launch the instances across multiple availability zones in a single AWS region.
According to the shared responsibility model, which security-related task is the responsibility of the customer? Maintaining server-side encryption. Maintaining physical networking configuration. Maintaining firewall configurations at a hardware level. Securing servers and racks at AWS data centers.
Maintaining server-side encryption.
Amazon S3 is typically used for which of the following use cases? (Select TWO.) Install an operating system Media hosting Message queue In-memory data cache Host a static website
Media hosting Host a static website
Which of the following best describes an Availability Zone in the AWS Cloud? One or more physical data centers One or more edge locations based around the world A subnet for deploying resources into A completely isolated geographic location
One or more physical data centers
Which of the following tasks can a user perform to optimize Amazon EC2 costs? (Select TWO.) Set a budget to limit spending on Amazon EC2 instances using AWS Budgets. Create a policy to restrict IAM users from accessing the Amazon EC2 console. Create users in a single Region to reduce the spread of EC2 instances globally. Implement Auto Scaling groups to add and remove instances based on demand. Purchase Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances.
Purchase Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. Implement Auto Scaling groups to add and remove instances based on demand.
What advantages does a database administrator obtain by using the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)? RDS provides 99.99999999999% reliability and durability. RDS simplifies relational database administration tasks. RDS databases automatically scale based on load. RDS enables users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resources.
RDS simplifies relational database administration tasks.
What is the function of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling? Scales the size of EC2 instances up or down automatically, based on demand. Automatically modifies the network throughput of EC2 instances, based on demand. Automatically updates the EC2 pricing model, based on demand. Scales the number of EC2 instances in or out automatically, based on demand.
Scales the number of EC2 instances in or out automatically, based on demand.
Which Amazon EC2 tool acts as a virtual firewall to control inbound and outbound traffic to an EC2 instance? AWS WAF AWS Shield Network access control list (ACL) Security group
Security group
