AWS Test 1 and 2
Which of the following AWS services can be used to prevent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack? (Select three)
Amazon CloudFront with Route 53; AWS Shield; AWS WAF
Which of the following AWS services allows a database to have flexible schema and supports document data models?
Amazon DynamoDB
An e-commerce company wants to assess its applications deployed on EC2 instances for vulnerabilities and deviations from AWS best practices. Which AWS service can be used to facilitate this?
Amazon Inspector
A company is using a message broker service on its on-premises application and wants to move this messaging functionality to AWS Cloud. Which of the following AWS services is the right choice to move the existing functionality easily?
Amazon MQ
A startup is looking for 24x7 phone based technical support for his AWS account. Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective AWS support plan for this use-case?
Business
Which AWS Support plan provides architectural guidance contextual to your specific use-cases?
Business
Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to Infrastructure Event Management for an additional fee?
Business
Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to guidance, configuration, and troubleshooting of AWS interoperability with third-party software? (Select two)
Business; Enterprise
A financial services company wants to ensure that its AWS account activity meets the governance, compliance and auditing norms. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?
CloudTrail
An IT company wants to run a log backup process every Monday at 2 AM. The usual runtime of the process is 5 minutes. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build a serverless solution for this use-case? (Select two)
CloudWatch; Lambda
The engineering team at an IT company wants to monitor the CPU utilization for its fleet of EC2 instances and send an email to the administrator if the utilization exceeds 80%. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build this solution? (Select two)
CloudWatch; SNS
Which of the following AWS services has encryption enabled by default?
Cloudtrail Logs
What are the fundamental drivers of cost with AWS Cloud?
Compute, Storage and Outbound Data Transfer
Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is a shared responsibility of both AWS and the customer?
Configuration Management
An e-commerce company has deployed an RDS database in a single Availability Zone. The engineering team wants to ensure that in case of an AZ outage, the database should continue working on the same endpoint without any manual administrative intervention. Which of the following solutions can address this use-case?
Configure the database in RDS Multi-AZ deployment with automatic failover to the standby
A company wants to have control over creating and using its own keys for encryption on AWS services. Which of the following can be used for this use-case?
Customer Managed CMK
A fleet of Amazon EC2 instances spread across different Availability Zones needs to access, edit and share file-based data stored centrally on a system. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?
Database encryption
Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to only 7 core checks from the AWS Trusted Advisor Best Practice Checks? (Select two)
Developer; Basic
A data analytics company is running a proprietary batch analytics application on AWS and wants to use a storage service which would be accessed by hundreds of EC2 instances simultaneously to append data to existing files. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?
EFS
Which of the following are the storage services offered by the AWS Cloud? (Select two)
EFS; S3
Which of the following are correct statements regarding the AWS Global Infrastructure? (Select two)
Each Availability Zone(AZ) consists of one or more discrete data centers; Each AWS Region consists of two or more Availability Zones
As per the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of AWS from a security and compliance point of view?
Edge Location Management
According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are responsibilities of the customer for Amazon RDS?
Elastic File System (EFS)
Which of the following are examples of Horizontal Scalability (aka Elasticity)? (Select two)
Elastic Load Balancing; Read Replicas in Amazon RDS
Which characteristic of Cloud Computing imparts the ability to acquire resources as you need and release when you no longer need them?
Elasticity
What are the advantages that AWS Cloud offers over a traditional on-premises IT infrastructure? (Select two)
Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs; Trade capital expense for variable expense
A multi-national company wants to migrate its IT infrastructure to AWS Cloud and is looking for a concierge support team as well as a response time of around an hour in case the systems go down. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following support plans would you recommend to the company?
Enterprise
Which AWS support plan provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?
Enterprise
Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement about Scaling, a design principle of Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Fault tolerance is achieved by Vertical Scaling
Which of the following statements are correct about the AWS account root user (Select two)
It is highly recommended to enable Multi Factor Authentication(MFA) for root user account; Root user access credentials are the email address and password used to create the AWS account
Which of the following is a serverless AWS service?
Lambda
Which AWS Route 53 routing policy would you use to improve the performance for your customers by routing the requests to the AWS endpoint that provides the fastest experience?
Latency routing policy
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) offers protection from common web exploits at which layer?
Layer 7
A multi-national company has just moved its infrastructure from its on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. As part of the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for which of the following?
Physical and Environmental Controls
Due to regulatory and compliance reasons, an organization has deployed its entire IT infrastructure on its on-premises data center. How would you classify this deployment model?
Private
Which of the following use-cases is NOT supported by Amazon Rekognition?
Quickly resize photos to create thumbnails
Which of the following is an AWS database service?
Redshift
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides guidance on building cloud based applications using AWS best practices. Which of the following options are the pillars mentioned in the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select two)
Reliability; Cost Optimization
A startup wants to provision an EC2 instance for the lowest possible cost for a long-term duration but needs to make sure that the instance would never be interrupted. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following options would you recommend?
Reserved Instance
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about AWS Auto Scaling?
You can automatically deploy AWS Shield when a DDoS attack is detected
An intern at an IT company provisioned a Linux based On-demand EC2 instance with per-second billing but terminated it within 30 seconds as he wanted to provision another instance type. What is the duration for which the instance would be charged?
60 seconds
A customer has created a VPC and a subnet within AWS Cloud. Which of the following statements is correct?
A VPC spans all of the Availability Zones in the Region whereas a subnet spans only one Availability Zone in the Region
Which of the following options can be used to access and manage all AWS services (Select three)?
AWS Command Line Interface(CLI); AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK); AWS Management Console
An organization has a complex IT architecture involving a lot of system dependencies and it wants to track the history of changes to each resource. Which AWS service will help the organization track the history of configuration changes for all the resources?
AWS Config
Which AWS services can be used to facilitate organizational change management, part of the Reliability pillar of AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select three)
AWS Config; Amazon CloudWatch; AWS CloudTrail
Which of the following AWS services can be used to connect a company's on-premises environment to a VPC without using the public internet?
AWS Direct Connect
A developer has written a simple web application in PHP and he wants to just upload his code to AWS Cloud and have AWS handle the deployment automatically but still wants access to the underlying operating system for further enhancements. As a Cloud Practioner, which of the following AWS services would you recommend for this use-case?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Which of the following statements are true about AWS Lambda? (Select two)
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers; You pay for the compute time you consume
Which AWS service enables users to find, buy, and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment?
AWS Marketplace
A retail company has multiple AWS accounts for each of its departments. Which of the following AWS services can be used to set up consolidated billing and a single payment method for these AWS accounts?
AWS Organizations
Which of the following is correct about AWS "Developer" Support plan?
AWS Web Application Firewall(WAF)
The DevOps team at an e-commerce company is trying to debug performance issues for its serverless application built using a microservices architecture. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?
AWS X-Ray
A social media company wants to protect its web application from common web exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Which of the following AWS services can be used to address this use-case?
Allows one contact to open unlimited cases
A data analytics company has some data stored on Amazon S3 and wants to do SQL based analysis on this data with minimum effort. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following AWS services will you suggest for this use case?
Amazon Athena
Which policy describes prohibited uses of the web services offered by Amazon Web Services?
AWS Acceptable Use Policy
Which of the following AWS services are always free to use (Select two)?
AWS Auto Scaling; Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Which AWS technology/service helps you to scale your resources to match supply with demand while still keeping your cloud solution cost-effective?
AWS Auto-Scaling
Which AWS service will help you receive alerts when the reservation utilization falls below the defined threshold?
AWS Budgets
Which AWS service would you use to send alerts when the costs for your AWS account exceed your budgeted amount?
AWS Budgets
Which AWS service helps you define your infrastructure as code?
AWS CloudFormation
Due to regulatory and compliance reasons, an organization is supposed to use a hardware device for any data encryption operations in the cloud. Which AWS service can be used to meet this compliance requirement?
AWS CloudHSM
Which of the following AWS services should be used to automatically distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets?
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Which of the following AWS services are part of the AWS Foundation services for the Reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework in AWS Cloud? (Select two)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM); AWS Trusted Advisor
Which of the following AWS services is essential for implementing security of resources in AWS Cloud?
AWS Identity and Access Management(IAM)
Which of the following AWS services manages account privileges?
AWS Identity and Access Management(IAM)
Which service gives a personalized view of the status of the AWS services that are part of your Cloud architecture so that you can quickly assess the impact on your business when AWS service(s) are experiencing issues?
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
An organization is planning to move its infrastructure from the on-premises datacenter to AWS Cloud. As a Cloud Practioner, which options would you recommend so that the organization can identify the right AWS services to build solutions on AWS Cloud (Select two)?
AWS Service Catalog; AWS Partner Network
Which AWS service publishes up-to-the-minute information on the general status and availability of all AWS services in all the Regions of AWS Cloud?
AWS Service Health Dashboard
Which AWS Service can be used to mitigate a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?
AWS Shield
Which of the following is a hybrid storage service that allows on-premises applications to access data on AWS Cloud?
AWS Storage Gateway
Which tool will help you review your workloads against current AWS best practices for cost optimization, security, and performance improvement and then obtain advice to architect them better?
AWS Trusted Advisor
Which of the following solutions can you use to connect your on-premises network with AWS Cloud (Select two).
AWS VPN; AWS Direct Connect
An online gaming company wants to block users from certain geographies from accessing its content. Which AWS services can be used to accomplish this task? (Select two)
AWS WAF; Route 53
Which AWS service can be used to provision resources to run big data workloads on Hadoop clusters?
Amazon EMR
Which AWS compute service provides the EASIEST way to access resizable compute capacity in the cloud with support for per-second billing and access to the underlying OS?
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2)
Which AWS service can be used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images?
Amazon Elastic Container Registry(ECR)
Which AWS service should be used when you want to run container applications, but want to avoid the operational overhead of scaling, patching, securing, and managing servers?
Amazon Elastic Container Service - Fargate launch type
A silicon valley based healthcare startup stores anonymized patient health data on Amazon S3. The CTO further wants to ensure that any sensitive data on S3 is discovered and identified. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?
Amazon Macie
Which of the following AWS services comes under the Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud Computing Type?
Amazon Rekognition
Which AWS service can be used to review the compliance and governance-related documents on AWS?
Artifact
Which AWS service helps with global application availability and performance using the AWS global network?
Global Accelerator
Multi AZ (Availability Zone) deployment is an example of which of the following?
High Availability
An organization deploys its IT infrastructure in a combination of its on-premises data center along with AWS Cloud. How would you categorize this deployment model?
Hybrid Deployment
Access Key ID and Secret Access Key are tied to which of the following AWS Identity and Access Management entities?
IAM User
Which of the following AWS services are global in scope? (Select two)
IAM(AWS Identity and Access Management); Amazon CloudFront
A research group wants to use EC2 instances to run a scientific computation application that has a fault tolerant architecture. The application needs high-performance hardware disks that provide fast I/O performance. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following storage options would you recommend as the MOST cost-effective solution?
Instance Store
As per AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of the customer from a security and compliance point of view?
Manage Elastic Block Store (EBS) backups using EBS snapshots
As per the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of the customer from a security and compliance point of view?
Managing patches of the guest operating system on Amazon EC2
What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Multi-AZ configuration?
Multi-AZ enhances database availability
Which AWS EC2 pricing model is the most cost-effective and flexible with no requirement for a long term resource commitment or upfront payment but still guarantees that instance would not be interrupted?
On-Demand Instances
Which of the following statement is correct regarding the AWS pricing policy for data transfer charges into or out of an AWS Region?
Only outbound data transfer is charged
Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective option to purchase an EC2 Reserved Instance?
Partial Upfront payment option with standard 3-years term
Which of the following is the correct statement regarding the AWS Storage services?
S3 is object based storage, EBS is block based storage and EFS is file based storage.
Which AWS services can be used to decouple components of a microservices based application on AWS Cloud? (Select two)
SNS; SQS
Which design principle of the AWS Well-Architected Framework can answer the question- "Who did what"?
Security
Which of the following statement is correct for a Security Group and a Network Access Control List?
Security Group acts as a firewall at the instance level whereas Network Access Control List acts as a firewall at the subnet level
The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps organizations build robust Cloud solutions based on AWS recommended best practices. Which of the following are part of the five pillars mandated in the Well-Architected Framework? (Select two)
Security; Performance Efficiency
Which of the following represents a serverless stack on AWS Cloud?
Step Function, DynamoDB, Lambda
What are the different gateway types supported by AWS Storage Gateway service?
Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Volume Gateway
A photo sharing web application wants to store thumbnails of user-uploaded images on Amazon S3. The thumbnails are rarely used but need to be immediately accessible from the web application. The thumbnails can be regenerated easily if they are lost. Which is the most cost-effective way to store these thumbnails on S3?
Use S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access(One-Zone IA) to store the thumbnails
