AWS Practice
What AWS tool lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS?
AWS Pricing Calculator
Which of the following are geographic areas that host two or more Availability Zones?
AWS Regions
After you move to the AWS Cloud, you want to ensure that the right security settings are put in place which online tool can assist in security compliance?
AWS Trusted Advisor
Which component of AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? (BEST ANSWER).
AWS edge location
Which component of the AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery?
AWS edge locations
In Amazon DynamoDB, what does the query operation enable you to do? Query a table using the parition 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 All of the above
All of the above
What should you consider when choosing database type? Data Size Data access period Query frequency Highly available All of the above
All of the above
There is an audit at your company and they need to have a log of all access to AWS resources in the account. Which of the following services can assist in providing these details?
Amazon CloudTrail
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
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 serves, storage, databases, and a broad set of application services over the internet. You won the network-connected hardware required for these services and Amazon web Services provisions what you need.
False
True or False? Private subnets have direct access to the internet.
False
In the shared responsibility model, which of the following are examples of "security in the cloud?" (Choose Two)
Security group configurations Answer Encryption of data at rest and data in transit
In the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for providing what?
Security of the Cloud
Which of the following can be used as a storage class for an S3 object lifecycle policy?
Simple Storage Service Glacier S3 - Infrequent Access Which of the following can be used as a storage class for an S3 object lifecycle policy?
In Elastic Load Balancing, when the load balancer detects an unhealthy target, which of the following are true? (Choose THREE)
Stops routing traffic to that target Resumes routing traffic when it detects that the target is healthy again Routes traffic to a healthy target
Which statement is true about the pricing model on AWS?
Storage is typically charged per gigabyte
Which of these is NOT a cloud computing model?
System administrator as a service
Which of the following is not one of the four areas of the performance efficiency pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select the best answer)
Traceability
Which of the following are elements of an Auto Scaling group? (Choose THREE)
minimum size Desired capacity maximum size
AWS highlight recommends provisioning your compute resources across _____ Availability Zones.
multiple
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?
251
Regarding Amazon S3 Glacier, what is a Vault? (BEST ANSWER)
A container for storing archives
Which of these statements about Availability Zones is not true?
A data center can be used for more than one Availability Zone
In Amazon DynamoDB, an attribute is ________.
A fundamental data element
For certain services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you invest in reserved capacity. What options are available for Reserve Instances? (Choose Three)
AURI NURI PURI
Which of the following are features of Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)? (Choose two)
Amazon EBS volumes can be encrypted transparently to workloads on the attached instances. Data stored on Amazon EBS is automatically replicated within Availability Zone
Which of the following AWS tools help your application scale up or down based on demand? (Choose two)
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Elastic Load Balancing
Which of the following elements are used to crate an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launch configuration (Choose THREE)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Instance type Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes
Which AWS Cloud service is best suited is best suited for analyzing your data by using standard structured query language (SQL) and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools?
Amazon Redshift
Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS?
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
What are the three types of load balancers that Elastic Load Balancing offers? Internet Load Balancer Application Load Balancer Network Load Balancer Computer Load Balancer Classic Load Balancer Auto Scaling Load Balancer
Application Load Balancer Network Load Balancer Classic Load Balancer
Which of the following is a principle when designing cloud-based systems?
Assume everything will fail
After initial login, what does AWS recommend as the best practice for the AWS account root user?
Delete the access keys of the AWS 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?
Economies of scale
True or False? AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of you AWS resources.
False
What is defined as the ability for a system to remain operational even if some of the components of that system fail?
Fault tolerance
Which of the following is an options security control that can be applied at the subnet layer of a VPC?
Firewall
What are the advantages of cloud computing over computing on-remises? (Select the best answer)
Go global in minutes
Economies of scale result from ______.
Having hundreds of thousands of customers aggregated in cloud
Which of the following best describes a system that can withstand some measures of degradation, experiences minimal downtime, and requires minimal human intervention?
Highly available
You can use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to:
Implement storage for Amazon EC2 instances that multiple virtual machines can access at the same time.
Amazon S3 replicates all objects ___.
In multiple Availability Zones within the same Region
What is the focus of the sustainability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework? (BEST ANSWER)
Minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is recommended when data ____ and _____. (Choose two)
Must be quickly accessible, requiring long-term persistence. Requires an encryption solution
You need to allow resources in a private subnet to access the internet. Which of the following must be present to enable this access?
NAT gateway
Which of these is NOT a benefit of cloud computing over on-premises computing?
Pay for racking, stacking, and powering servers
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)
Programmatic access AWS Management Console access
What are benefits of using AWS Organizations? (Choose two)
Provides the ability to create groups of accounts and then attach policies to a group Simplifies automating account creation and management by using APIs
Which of the following is a measure of your system's ability to provide functionality when desired by the user?
Reliability
Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling? (Choose three)
Responds to changing conditions by adding or terminating instances Launches instances from a specified Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Enforces a minimum number of running Amazon EC2 instances
You need to find an item in an Amazon DynamDB table using an attribute other than the item's primary key. Which of the following operations should you use? (Select the best answer.)
Scan
True or False? AWS owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for application services, while you provision and use what you need.
True
The name of an S3 bucket must be unique _____. (needs the correct answer)
Worldwide across all AWS accounts
True or False? By default, all data stored in Amazon S3 is viewable by the public.
f
Unlimited services are available with the AWS Free Tier to new AWS customers for 12 months following AWS sign-up date.
f
True or False? AWS organizations enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts so that you centrally manage them.
t
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.
t
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.
t
True or False? Availability Zones within a Region are connected through low-latency links.
t
True or False? When you create a bucket in Amazon S3, it is associated with a specific AWS Region.
t
True/False Networking, storage, compute, and databases are examples of service categories that AWS offers.
t
