Practice Test Review
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?  AWS CloudHSM  AWS Secrets Manager  Amazon Inspector  AWS Trusted Advisor
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  Amazon Kinesis Data Stream  Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)  Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
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?  Developer  Enterprise  Basic  Business
Business
Which AWS Support plan provides architectural guidance contextual to your specific use-cases?  Business  Enterprise  Basic  Developer
Business
Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to Infrastructure Event Management for an additional fee?  Enterprise  Basic  Business  Developer
Business
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? CloudWatch Config CloudTrail Trusted Advisor
CloudTrail
Which of the following AWS services has encryption enabled by default?  Elastic File Storage (EFS)  Elastic Block Storage (EBS)  Amazon S3  CloudTrail Logs
CloudTrail Logs
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)  Lambda  CloudTrail  SQS  CloudWatch  SNS
CloudWatch  SNS
What are the fundamental drivers of cost with AWS Cloud?  Compute, Databases and Inbound Data Transfer  Compute, Databases and Outbound Data Transfer  Compute, Storage and Outbound Data Transfer  Compute, Storage and Inbound Data Transfer
Compute, Storage and Outbound Data Transfer (INBOUND IS FREE!)
Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is a shared responsibility of both AWS and the customer?  Configuration Management  Availability Zone infrastructure maintenance  Guarantee data separation among various AWS customers  Infrastructure maintenance of Amazon S3 storage servers
Configuration Management
A company would like to separate cost for AWS services by the department for cost allocation. Which of the following is the simplest way to achieve this task?
Create tags for each department
According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are responsibilities of the customer for Amazon RDS?  Applying patches to the underlying OS  Applying patches to the RDS database  Managing the underlying server hardware on which RDS runs  Database encryption
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  Corporate  Business  Basic  Enterprise
Developer Basic
Which AWS service would you choose for a data processing project to store unstructured data?
DynamoDB
Which of the following AWS services support VPC Endpoint Gateway for a private connection from a VPC? (Select two)  DynamoDB  Amazon SQS  Amazon SNS  S3  Amazon EC2
DynamoDB S3
Which of the following AWS services offer block-level storage? (Select two) S3 ECS EBS EFS Instance Store
EBS Instance Store
AWS Compute Optimizer delivers recommendations for which of the following AWS resources? (Select two)  Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), AWS Lambda functions Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EFS EBS and Lambda EC2 and EC2 ASG Lambda and Simple Storage Service (S3)
EBS and Lambda EC2 and EC2 ASG
Which of the following AWS services support reservations to optimize costs? (Select three)  EC2 Instances  Lambda  RDS  DocumentDB  S3  DynamoDB
EC2 Instances RDS DynamoDB
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  Instance Store  EBS  S3
EFS
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 Availability Zone (AZ) consists of two or more discrete data centers  Each AWS Region consists of one or more Availability Zones  Each AWS Region consists of two or more Availability Zones  Each AWS Region consists of two or more Edge Locations
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?  Identity and Access Management  Customer Data  Server-side Encryption  Edge Location Management
Edge Location Management
Which characteristic of Cloud Computing imparts the ability to acquire resources as you need and release when you no longer need them?  Reliability  Elasticity  Durability  Resiliency
Elasticity
What are the advantages that AWS Cloud offers over a traditional on-premises IT infrastructure? (Select two)  Increase speed and agility by keeping servers and other required resources ready before time in your data centers  Provide lower latency to applications by maintaining servers on-premises  Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs  Trade capital expense for variable expense  Make a capacity decision before deploying an application, to reduce costs
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?  Business  Developer  Enterprise  Individual
Enterprise
Which AWS support plan provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?  Business  Enterprise  Business & Enterprise  Developer
Enterprise
Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to online training with self-paced labs?
Enterprise
Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to guidance, configuration, and troubleshooting of AWS interoperability with third-party software? (Select two)  Enterprise  Developer  Corporate  Business  Basic
Enterprise Business
Which of the following options are the benefits of using AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? (Select TWO)  Fault tolerance Storage Less Costly High Availability Agility
Fault tolerance High Availability
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 2 AWS services would you recommend to build a serverless solution for this use-case?
Lambda and CloudWatch
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?  Failover routing policy  Weighted routing policy  Latency routing policy  Simple routing policy
Latency routing policy
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?  Patching guest OS  Service and Communications Protection or Zone Security  Physical and Environmental controls  Configuring customer applications
Physical and Environmental controls
Which of the following use-cases is NOT supported by Amazon Rekognition?  Label objects in a photo  Detect text in a photo  Identify person in a photo  Quickly resize photos to create thumbnails
Quickly resize photos to create thumbnails
What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Read Replica configuration? Read Replica improves db scalability Read Replica enhances db availability Read Replica reduces db usage costs Read Replica protects db from regional failure
Read Replica improves db scalability
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)  Availability  Reliability  Elasticity  Scalability  Cost Optimization
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 On-Demand Instance Spot Instance Dedicated Host
Reserved Instance
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?  On-Demand Instance  Dedicated Host  Reserved Instance  Spot Instance
Reserved Instance
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about AWS Auto Scaling?  You can scale out and add more EC2 instances to match an increase in demand as well as scale in and remove EC2 instances to match a reduced demand  You can automatically deploy AWS Shield when a DDoS attack is detected  You can automatically register new instances to a Load Balancer  You can automatically remove unhealthy instances
You can automatically deploy AWS Shield when a DDoS attack is detected
An AWS user is trying to launch an EC2 instance in a given region. What is the region-specific constraint that the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) must meet so that it can be used for this EC2 instance? An AMI is a global entity, so the region is not applicable  You must use an AMI from the same region as that of the EC2 instance. The region of the AMI has no bearing on the performance of the EC2 instance  You can use an AMI from a different region, but it degrades the performance of the EC2 instance  You should use an AMI from the same region, as it improves the performance of the EC2 instance
You must use an AMI from the same region as that of the EC2 instance. The region of the AMI has no bearing on the performance of the EC2 instance
With Cloud Computing, you trade _________ expense for ____________ expense.
capital expense for variable expense
Compared to the On-demand prices, what is the highest possible discount offered for spot instances?  75  10  90  50
90
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  Both the VPC and the subnet span only one Availability Zone in the Region  Both the VPC and the subnet span all of the Availability Zones in the Region  A subnet spans all of the Availability Zones in the Region whereas a VPC spans only one Availability Zone in the Region
A VPC spans all of the Availability Zones in the Region whereas a subnet spans only one Availability Zone in the Region
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  AWS CloudFormation  AWS Service Catalog  AWS CloudTrail
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)  Amazon GuardDuty  AWS Trusted Advisor  AWS Config Amazon CloudWatch  Amazon Inspector  AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config Amazon CloudWatch AWS CloudTrail
Which of the following AWS services can be used to forecast your AWS account usage and costs?  AWS Cost and Usage Reports AWS Cost Explorer AWS Budgets AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
AWS Cost Explorer
An IT company is on a cost-optimization spree and wants to identify all EC2 instances that are under-utilized. Which 2 AWS services can be used to address this use-case?
AWS Cost Explorer AWS Trusted Advisor
Which of the following options can be used to access and manage all AWS services (Select three)?  AWS Secrets Manager  AWS Management Console  AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)  Amazon API Gateway  AWS Systems Manager  AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK)
AWS Management Console AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK)
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 Budgets  AWS Secrets Manager  AWS Organizations  AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Organizations
Data encryption is automatically enabled for which of the following AWS services? (Select two)?  AWS Storage Gateway Amazon S3 Glacier  Amazon EFS drives  Amazon Redshift  Amazon EBS volumes
AWS Storage Gateway Amazon S3 Glacier
A Cloud Practitioner would like to get operational insights of its resources to quickly identify any issues that might impact applications using those resources. Which AWS service can help with this task?  AWS Personal Health Dashboard  AWS Trusted Advisor  AWS Systems Manager  Amazon Inspector
AWS Systems Manager
A company wants to move to AWS cloud and release new features with quick iterations by utilizing relevant AWS services whenever required. Which of the following characteristics of AWS Cloud does it want to leverage?  Reliability  Elasticity  Scalability  Agility
Agility
Which of the following is correct about AWS "Developer" Support plan?  Allows one contact to open a limited number of cases per month  Allows one contact to open unlimited cases  Allows unlimited contacts to open unlimited cases  Allows unlimited contacts to open a limited number of cases per month
Allows one contact to open unlimited cases
The difference between AWS Batch and Step Functions
AWS Batch runs batch computing workloads by provisioning the compute resources. AWS Step Function does not provision any resources
Which AWS service will help you receive alerts when the reservation utilization falls below the defined threshold?  AWS Budgets  AWS Simple Monthly Calculator  AWS Trusted Advisor  AWS CloudTrail
AWS Budgets
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  AWS CloudFormation  Amazon EC2  AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Which of the following AWS services should be used to automatically distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets?  AWS Auto Scaling  AWS Elastic Beanstalk  Amazon Elasticsearch  AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running on which of the following resources? (Select two)  AWS CloudFormation  AWS Elastic Beanstalk  Amazon API Gateway  AWS Global Accelerator  Amazon Route 53
AWS Global Accelerator  Amazon Route 53
Which of the following AWS services are global in scope? (Select two)  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)  AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)  Amazon CloudFront  Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)  Amazon S3
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)  Amazon CloudFront
Which of the following are the serverless computing services offered by AWS (Select two)  AWS Elastic Beanstalk  AWS Lambda  Amazon Lightsail  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)  AWS Fargate
AWS Lambda AWS Fargate
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 Organizations  AWS CloudTrail  Amazon CloudWatch  AWS Partner Network  AWS Service Catalog
AWS Partner Network AWS Service Catalog
A start-up would like to quickly deploy a popular technology on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS tool would you use for this task?  AWS CodeDeploy  AWS Quick Starts references  AWS Whitepapers  AWS Forums
AWS Quick Starts references
Which AWS service can be used to subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of the status of all AWS service interruptions?
AWS Service Health Dashboard
Which security service of AWS is enabled for all AWS customers, by default, at no additional cost?  AWS Shield Advanced  AWS Secrets Manager  AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)  AWS Shield Standard
AWS Shield Standard
A startup wants to set up its IT infrastructure on AWS Cloud. The CTO would like to get an estimate of the monthly AWS bill based on the AWS services that the startup wants to use. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?  AWS Simple Monthly Calculator  AWS Budgets  AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator  AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
Which tool/service will help you access AWS services using programming language-specific APIs?  AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)  Language-specific Integrated Development Environments (IDE)  AWS Management Console  AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK)
AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK)
Which AWS service can help you analyze your infrastructure to identify unattached or underutilized EBS volumes? AWS Config AWS Trusted Advisor AWS CloudWatch Amazon Inspector
AWS Trusted Advisor
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  Amazon Inspector  Amazon CloudWatch  AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Trusted Advisor
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?
AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Service Quotas
Which of the following solutions can you use to connect your on-premises network with AWS Cloud (Select two).  AWS VPN  Amazon Route 53  AWS Direct Connect  Amazon VPC  Internet Gateway
AWS VPN AWS Direct Connect
Which of the following AWS services can be used to prevent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack? (Select three)  AWS CloudHSM  Amazon Inspector  AWS Trusted Advisor  AWS WAF  Amazon CloudFront with Route 53  AWS Shield
AWS WAF Amazon CloudFront with Route 53 AWS Shield
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 Protect  CloudWatch  AWS WAF  Route 53  AWS Shield
AWS WAF Route 53
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 Container Service (ECS)  Amazon Lightsail  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)  AWS Lambda
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Which AWS service can be used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images?  Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)  Amazon Lambda  Amazon EC2  Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Which AWS service makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
A company wants a fully managed, flexible, and scalable file storage system, with low latency access, for its Windows-based applications. Which AWS service is the right choice for the company?  Amazon FSx for Lustre  Amazon FSx for Windows File Server  Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)  Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Which entity ensures that your application on Amazon EC2 always has the right amount of capacity to handle the current traffic demand? Network Load Balancer  Multi AZ deployment  Auto Scaling  Application Load Balancer
Auto Scaling
Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement about Scaling, a design principle of Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.  Horizontal Scaling implies you scale by adding more instances to your existing pool of resources  Fault tolerance is achieved by Horizontal scaling  Vertical Scaling implies you scale by adding more power (CPU, RAM) to your existing machine/node  Fault tolerance is achieved by Vertical Scaling
Fault tolerance is achieved by Vertical Scaling (since a single instance is prone to failure)
Which of the following are correct statements regarding the AWS Shared Responsibility Model? (Select two)  AWS is responsible for training AWS and customer employees on AWS products and services  For abstracted services like Amazon S3, AWS operates the infrastructure layer, the operating system, and platforms  Configuration Management is the responsibility of the customer  For a service like Amazon EC2, that falls under Infrastructure as a Service, AWS is responsible for maintaining guest operating system  AWS is responsible for Security "of" the Cloud
For abstracted services like Amazon S3, AWS operates the infrastructure layer, the operating system, and platforms AWS is responsible for Security "of" the Cloud
Which AWS service helps with global application availability and performance using the AWS global network?  Amazon Route 53  Elastic Load Balancer  Global Accelerator  Amazon CloudFront
Global Accelerator
Multi AZ (Availability Zone) deployment is an example of which of the following?  Horizontal Scaling Vertical Scaling Performance Efficiency High Availability
High Availability
Access Key ID and Secret Access Key are tied to which of the following AWS Identity and Access Management entities?  IAM Role  AWS Policy  IAM Group  IAM User
IAM User
A startup wants to migrate its data and applications from the on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. Which of the following options can be used by the startup to help with this migration? (Select two)  Raise a support ticket with AWS Support for further assistance  Consult moderators on AWS Developer Forums  Leverage AWS Professional Services to accelerate the infrastructure migration  Use AWS Trusted Advisor to automate the infrastructure migration  Utilize AWS Partner Network (APN) to build a custom solution for this infrastructure migration
Leverage AWS Professional Services to accelerate the infrastructure migration Utilize AWS Partner Network (APN) to build a custom solution for this infrastructure migration
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?  Reserved Instances  On-demand Instances  Spot Instances  Dedicated Hosts
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 inbound data transfer is charged  Only outbound data transfer is charged  Both inbound data transfer and outbound data transfer are charged  Neither inbound nor outbound data transfer are charged
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  All upfront payment option with standard 1-year term  No upfront payment option with standard 3-years term  No upfront payment option with standard 1-year term
Partial upfront payment option with standard 3-years term
Which of the following are the best practices when using AWS Organizations? (Select TWO) Restrict account privileges using Service Control Policies (SCP)  Disable CloudTrail on several accounts  Do not use AWS Organizations to automate AWS account creation  Create accounts per department  Never use tags for billing
Restrict account privileges using Service Control Policies (SCP) Create accounts per department
Which of the following statements are correct about the AWS account root user (Select two)  Root user account password cannot be changed once it is set  Root account gets unrestricted permissions when the account is created, but these can be restricted using IAM policies  Root user access credentials are the email address and password used to create the AWS account  Root user credentials should only be shared with managers requiring administrative responsibilities to complete their jobs  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 It is highly recommended to enable Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for root user account
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  Security Group acts as a firewall at the AZ level whereas Network Access Control List acts as a firewall at the VPC level  Security Group acts as a firewall at the VPC level whereas Network Access Control List acts as a firewall at the AZ level  Security Group acts as a firewall at the subnet level whereas Network Access Control List acts as a firewall at the instance level
Security Group acts as a firewall at the instance level whereas Network Access Control List acts as a firewall at the subnet level
AWS Organizations provides which of the following benefits? (Select two)  Check vulnerabilities on EC2 instances across the member AWS accounts  Provision EC2 Spot instances across the member AWS accounts  Share the reserved EC2 instances amongst the member AWS accounts  Volume discounts for Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 aggregated across the member AWS accounts  Deploy patches on EC2 instances across the member AWS accounts
Share the reserved EC2 instances amongst the member AWS accounts  Volume discounts for Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 aggregated across the member AWS accounts
lets you coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows
Step Function
Which of the following represents a serverless stack on AWS Cloud?  EMR, DynamoDB, Lambda  Step Function, DynamoDB, Lambda  Step Function, DynamoDB, EC2  EC2, DynamoDB, Lambda
Step Function, DynamoDB, Lambda
A hybrid storage service that allows on-premises applications to access data on AWS Cloud
Storage Gateway
What are the different gateway types supported by AWS Storage Gateway service?  Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Volume Gateway  Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Block Gateway  Object Gateway, File Gateway and Block Gateway  Tape Gateway, Object Gateway and Volume Gateway
Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Volume Gateway
Which of the following entities applies patches to the underlying OS for AWS Aurora?  The AWS Product Team automatically  The AWS Support after receiving a request from the customer  The AWS customer by using AWS Systems Manager  The AWS customer by SSHing on the instances
The AWS Product Team automatically
Which of the following is CORRECT regarding removing an AWS account from AWS Organizations?  The AWS account must not have any Service Control Policies (SCPs) attached to it. Only then it can be removed from AWS organizations  Raise a support ticket with AWS Support to remove the account  The AWS account can be removed from AWS Systems Manager  The AWS account must be able to operate as a standalone account. Only then it can be removed from AWS organizations
The AWS account must be able to operate as a standalone account. Only then it can be removed from AWS organizations
The DevOps team at an IT company is moving 500 GB of data from an EC2 instance to an S3 bucket in the same region. Which of the following scenario captures the correct charges for this data transfer?  The company would be charged for both the outbound data transfer from EC2 instance as well as the inbound data transfer into the S3 bucket  The company would only be charged for the outbound data transfer from EC2 instance  The company would only be charged for the inbound data transfer into the S3 bucket  The company would not be charged for this data transfer
The company would not be charged for this data transfer
Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS managed services such as Amazon RDS?  There is no need to optimize database instance type and size  The customer needs to patch the underlying OS  The performance of AWS managed RDS instance is better than a customer-managed database instance  The customer needs to manage database backups
The performance of AWS managed RDS instance is better than a customer-managed database instance
Which of the following AWS authentication mechanisms supports a Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) device that you can plug into a USB port on your computer? U2F Security Key Hardware MFA Device SMS text message-based MFA Virtual MFA Device
U2F Security Key
An IT company has a hybrid cloud architecture and it wants to centralize the server logs for its EC2 instances and on-premises servers. Which of the following is the MOST effective for this use-case?
Use CloudWatch Logs for both EC2 and on-premises servers
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 Standard Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) to store the thumbnails  Use S3 Glacier to store the thumbnails  Use S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access (One-Zone IA) to store the thumbnails  Use S3 Standard to store the thumbnails
Use S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access (One-Zone IA) to store the thumbnails (S3 One Zone-IA stores data in a single AZ and costs 20% less than S3 Standard-IA; offers less availability than S3 Standard but the questions says the thumbnails can be regenerated easily)
An organization maintains a separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for each of its business units. Two units need to privately share data. Which is the most optimal way of privately sharing data between the two VPCs? VPC Peering Site to Site VPN AWS Direct Connect VPC Endpoint
VPC Peering
