AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Practice Exam 2

What is the AWS service that enables you to manage all of your AWS accounts from a single master account?

AWS Organizations

Which of the following is equivalent to a user name and password and is used to authenticate your programmatic access to AWS services and APIs?

Access Keys

What is the AWS service that performs automated network assessments of Amazon EC2 instances to check for vulnerabilities?

Amazon Inspector

Which AWS service can be used to store and reliably deliver messages across distributed systems?

Amazon Simple Queue Service

Which of the following are important design principles you should adopt when designing systems on AWS? (Choose TWO)

Automate wherever possible Remove single points of failure

AWS has created a large number of Edge Locations as part of its Global Infrastructure. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of using Edge Locations?

Edge locations are used by CloudFront to distribute traffic across multiple instances to reduce latency

What does Amazon ElastiCache provide?

In-memory caching for read-heavy applications

Under the Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following controls do customers fully inherit from AWS? (Choose TWO)

Physical controls Environmental controls

Jessica is managing an e-commerce web application in AWS. The application is hosted on six EC2 instances. One day, three of the instances crashed; but none of her customers were affected. What has Jessica done correctly in this scenario?

She has properly built a fault tolerant system

What does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provide?

A PaaS solution to automate application deployment

What are the default security credentials that are required to access the AWS management console for an IAM user account?

A user name and password

In your on-premises environment, you can create as many virtual servers as you need from a single template. What can you use to perform the same in AWS?

AMI

A company has created a solution that helps AWS customers improve their architectures on AWS. Which AWS program may support this company?

APN Consulting Partners

A company has deployed a new web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Which of the following should they use to ensure that the incoming HTTP traffic is distributed evenly across the instances?

AWS Application Load Balancer

What is the AWS tool that enables you to use scripts to manage all AWS services and resources?

AWS CLI

What are the change management tools that helps AWS customers audit and monitor all resource changes in their AWS environment? (Choose TWO)

AWS CloudTrail AWS Config

Which AWS Service can be used to establish a dedicated, private network connection between AWS and your datacenter?

AWS Direct Connect

What are the connectivity options that can be used to build hybrid cloud architectures? (Choose TWO)

AWS Direct Connect AWS VPN

Which AWS services can be used to improve the performance of a global application and reduce latency for its users? (Choose TWO)

AWS Global accelerator Amazon CloudFront

An organization runs many systems and uses many AWS products. Which of the following services enables them to control how each developer interacts with these products?

AWS Identity and Access Management

What is the AWS serverless service that allows you to run your applications without any administrative burden?

AWS Lambda

Which of the following AWS services can be used as a compute resource? (Choose TWO)

AWS Lambda Amazon EC2

Which of the following services can help protect your web applications from SQL injection and other vulnerabilities in your application code?

AWS WAF

A company is developing a new application using a microservices framework. The new application is having performance and latency issues. Which AWS Service should be used to troubleshoot these issues?

AWS X-Ray

Amazon Glacier is an Amazon S3 storage class that is suitable for storing ____________ & ______________. (Choose TWO)

Active archives Long-term analytics data

Which of the following AWS offerings is a MySQL-compatible relational database service that can scale capacity automatically based on demand?

Amazon Aurora

Which of the following AWS services is designed with native Multi-AZ fault tolerance in mind? (Choose TWO)

Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Simple Storage Service

What is the primary storage service used by Amazon RDS database instances?

Amazon EBS

Where can you store files in AWS? (Choose TWO)

Amazon EBS Amazon EFS

What is the AWS service that provides you the highest level of control over the underlying virtual infrastructure?

Amazon EC2

Savings Plans are available for which of the following AWS compute services? (Choose TWO)

Amazon EC2 AWS Lambda

Which of the following services allows you to run containerized applications on a cluster of EC2 instances?

Amazon ECS

An organization needs to analyze and process a large number of data sets. Which AWS service should they use?

Amazon EMR

A company has a large amount of structured data stored in their on-premises data center. They are planning to migrate all the data to AWS, what is the most appropriate AWS database option?

Amazon RDS

What is the AWS data warehouse service that supports a high level of query performance on large amounts of datasets?

Amazon Redshift

Your company is designing a new application that will store and retrieve photos and videos. Which of the following services should you recommend as the underlying storage mechanism?

Amazon S3

Which of the following services will help businesses ensure compliance in AWS?

CloudTrail

Sarah has deployed an application in the Northern California (us-west-1) region. After examining the application's traffic, she notices that about 30% of the traffic is coming from Asia. What can she do to reduce latency for the users in Asia?

Create a CDN using CloudFront, so that content is cached at Edge Locations close to and in Asia

Based on the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are the sole responsibility of AWS? (Choose TWO)

Creating hypervisors Hardware maintenance

Which of the below is a best-practice when building applications on AWS?

Decouple the components of the application so that they run independently

Which of the following EC2 instance purchasing options supports the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model for almost every BYOL scenario?

Dedicated Hosts

A company has business critical workloads hosted on AWS and they are unwilling to accept any downtime. Which of the following is a recommended best practice to protect their workloads in the event of an unexpected natural disaster?

Deploy AWS resources to another AWS Region and implement an Active-Active disaster recovery strategy

What are two advantages of using Cloud Computing over using traditional data centers? (Choose TWO)

Distributed infrastructure Eliminating Single Points of Failure (SPOFs)

How are AWS customers billed for Linux-based Amazon EC2 usage?

EC2 instances will be billed on one second increments, with a minimum of one minute

What are the AWS services\features that can help you maintain a highly available and fault-tolerant architecture in AWS? (Choose TWO)

Elastic Load Balancer Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Which of the following activities may help reduce your AWS monthly costs? (Choose TWO)

Enabling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for all of your workloads Creating a lifecycle policy to move infrequently accessed data to less expensive storage tiers

Your application has recently experienced significant global growth, and international users are complaining of high latency. What is the AWS characteristic that can help improve your international users' experience?

Global reach

Using Amazon EC2 falls under which of the following cloud computing models?

IaaS

Which of the following will impact the price paid for an EC2 instance? (Choose TWO)

Instance type Load balancing

Using Amazon RDS falls under the shared responsibility model. Which of the following are customer responsibilities? (Choose TWO)

Managing the database settings Building the relational database schema

What are the Amazon RDS features that can be used to improve the availability of your database? (Choose TWO)

Multi-AZ Deployment Read Replicas

Which of the following can help protect your EC2 instances from DDoS attacks? (Choose TWO)

Network Access Control Lists (Network ACLs) Security Groups

According to the AWS Shared responsibility model, which of the following are the responsibility of the customer? (Choose TWO)

Patching applications installed on Amazon EC2 Protecting the confidentiality of data in transit in Amazon S3

Which of the following should be considered when performing a TCO analysis to compare the costs of running an application on AWS instead of on-premises?

Physical hardware

Which of the following is one of the benefits of moving infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS?

Reduced Capital Expenditure (CapEx)

A company needs to host a database in Amazon RDS for at least three years. Which of the following options would be the most cost-effective solution?

Reserved instances - Partial Upfront

A company is migrating its on-premises database to Amazon RDS. What should the company do to ensure Amazon RDS costs are kept to a minimum?

Right-size before and after migration

What is the AWS service\feature that takes advantage of Amazon CloudFront's globally distributed edge locations to transfer files to S3 with higher upload speeds?

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Which of the following describes the payment model that AWS makes available for customers that can commit to using Amazon EC2 over a one or 3-year term to reduce their total computing costs?

Save when you reserve

Which of the following aspects of security are managed by AWS? (Choose TWO)

Securing global physical infrastructure Hardware patching

Which of the following AWS security features is associated with an EC2 instance and functions to filter incoming traffic requests?

Security Groups

Which statement best describes the operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

The ability to monitor systems and improve supporting processes and procedures

Which of the following procedures will help reduce your Amazon S3 costs?

Use the right combination of storage classes based on different use cases

You are working on two projects that require completely different network configurations. Which AWS service or feature will allow you to isolate resources and network configurations?

Virtual Private Cloud

Which statement is correct with regards to AWS service limits? (Choose TWO)

You can contact AWS support to increase the service limits You can use the AWS Trusted Advisor to monitor your service limits