AWS Cloud Practitioner Test Questions

The characteristics of an Enterprise Agreement:

A more traditional purchase model

The steps to identify workloads to migrate, architecting an environment, workload integration, functional validation and optimizing the design and deployment are best described as the:

Application Migration Plan

Three main ways enterprises are using AWS:

To move existing work from data center to the cloud. To avoid overprovisioning resources based on forecast. To build entirely new projects, applications, webpages and whole new types of business.

Which term best describes the guidance document that separates complex IT environment into manageable areas of focus?

Cloud Adoption Framework

Use a single online agreement customer needs to:

Acquire services directly from the AWS website with a credit card

Identity management access control usage auditing key storage and monitoring and logs are components of which category of the AWS platform?

Administration and Security

Speed to deploy, robust platform and breadth of services, supporting culture of innovation and experimentation are examples of what key benefit of AWS?

Agility

"Defining the target state architecture of the organization and creating the required blueprints and roadmaps."

Maturity Perspective

Your company has a subsidiary based in Europe. That company wants to create a new website, hosted on AWS, which invites US citizens to travel on European holidays. Which region should you recommend for the subsidiary?

North Viriginia, because the majority of website visitors will be in the United States and this region typically offers the lowest AWS price.

How does AWS scaling help enable lower TCO vs on premise environment?

Offering a variety of consumption pricing options to take advantage of the immense AWS scale. Aggregating the workloads of hundreds of thousands of customers into its data centers. Amazon specific hardware designs

What is cloud computing?

On-Demand IT Resources Accessible Online Pay-As-You-Go

"Presents the ongoing management of the functioning IT environment of AWS"

Operating Perspective

The AWS Well Architected Framework consist of which five pillars?

Operational Excellence Security Reliability Performance Efficiency Optimization

What are 3 advantages of cloud computing?

Pay for only what you use. Rapid access to computing resources. Self-service infrastructure

Startup on a budget is prohibited from laying out capital expenses for hardware and infrastructure. Which AWS benefit addresses their need?

Pay for resources as needed on a variable basis

"Defining and acquiring the skills needed to adopt the AWS cloud platform"

People Perspective

Which are the basic configuration areas you are comparing when using TCO calculator?

Physical server or virtual machines AWS Region Your IT Environment

"Providing patterns, guidance and tools for optimal use of the technology service to implement."

Platform Perspective

"Managing portfolios, programs and projects to deliver expected business outcome on time and within budget while keeping risk at acceptable levels."

Process Perspective

Select the cost areas that are factored when following the AWS TCO methodology:

Server Storage Network IT Labor Costs

What is a Cloud Center of Excellence responsible for?

Setting the charter, policies and architecture standards. Interfacing with the organization at the technical and board level.

Primary benefits of moving to the AWS cloud?

Shift company focus to the things that differentiate. Increase agility, speed and innovation

The inherent flexibility and scale of AWS can be used to help customers save money in which of the following usage patterns?

Steady State Spikey but predictable. Uncertain and unpredictable.

Select 3 key benefits of AWS Marketplace

Store to offer pre-configured software Quickly launch pre-configured server image Breadth of available prod optimized for AWS

To compare the cost of running your application in an on premise or colocation environment to AWS its best to use which tool?

TCO Calculator

What are key advantages of AWS Global Infrastructure?

Liberated from maintaining on premise IT Ops. Distinct locations insulated from failures. Your content in routed to the location nearest to your customers.

How does AWS offer IT infrastructure at a low cost?

AWS passes the savings along to customers in the form of lower prices. Scale allows AWS to reduce cost. AWS is comfortable running high volume, low margin business.

Cloud computing allows you to consume IT resources on demand over the Internet?

True

Which AWS service makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used by your data?

AWS Key Management Store (KMS)

Which resource is best described as a strong and growing community of companies that offer a wide range of products and services on the AWS platform?

AWS Partner Network

To achieve global presence, AWS lets you place your applications in which of the following infrastructure pieces around the world?

AWS Region

Which describes Simple Storage Solution (S3)?

A very large object store in which you can store any amount of data inexpensively and securely.

Which of the following describes EC2?

A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

Which AWS tool should you use to calculate the cost of launching a web application?

AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

A customer needs to connect on premise software appliance with cloud based storage. Which AWS service is best suited for their storage needs?

AWS Storage Gateway

Which AWS service is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that is used to write, run, and debug code using a web browser?

AWS Cloud 9

Which AWS service will record access to API calls and save logs in your Amazon S3 bucket no matter how those API calls were made?

AWS Cloud Trail

Which AWS service allows users to fully manage their own key stores?

AWS CloudHSM (hardware security module)

Which AWS service provides you with an AWS inventory configuration history and configuration change notification to enable security and governance?

AWS Config

Which AWS service track resource configuration changes, review history of configuration changes and analyze configuration changes?

AWS Config

Which of the following service is described as a managed service that supports hybrid solutions by allowing customers to connect their AWS resources with an existing on premise Microsoft Active Directory?

AWS Directory Services

Which service offers centralized key management at cloud scale and support multi-factor authentication?

AWS IAM

You can control who can do what in your AWS environment when and from where. Also receive multi-factor authentication, which service is it?

AWS IAM

Which of the following controls are managed by the AWS customer known as security "in" the cloud?

AWS IAM Amazon S3 server side encryption Data integrity authentication

Because of company security requirements a customer needs to restrict user access to specific resources. Which AWS service can be used to manage users and groups both inside and outside AWS?

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

A company needs to analyze the API calls into their account to perform security analysis and to detect user behavior patterns. Which AWS service is best suited for their security analysis needs?

Amazon Cloud Trail

What AWS service allows you to quickly provision replicas of your production environment to conduct development and testing?

Amazon CloudFormation

Which components of AWS analytics enables customers to process and analyze large amounts of data?

Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)

Which of the following statements are true?

Amazon Glacier is a storage service for data archiving and backup. AWS Storage Gateway enables customers to store data in Amazon S3 from an on premise appliance.

A social media company needs to capture and process user data to identify changing trends, evaluate social graph dynamics and provide analytics on sentiment and sharing behavior. Which AWS service is best suited for their analytics needs?

Amazon Kinesis

A customer needs to be able to manage the volume of data which has become too large to scale the database, perform queries and generate reports. Which AWS service is best suited for their analytics needs?

Amazon Redshift

Which one of the following services effectively allows customers to provision a private, isolated section of the network into which they can deploy resources?

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

For users who want to access their desktop from mobile devices such as tablets and laptops, which AWS service best matches their needs?

Amazon Workspaces

2 responses auditing and compliance practices with AWS environment

Environment is monitored continuously. Environment audits are performed by 3rd party.

An AWS specialist who helps customers drive more value from their existing datasets using cloud-based tools and techniques is a specialist in which are?

Big Data / Analytics Specialist

"Identifying, delivering and measuring business impact using architectural approaches that align technical delivery to business imperatives."

Business Perspectives

Refining and advancing services, architecture, networks, storage, security, application migration, application modernization, deployment and ongoing manage services is a function of which of the following entities?

Center of Excellence

Revising your application architecture setting workload metrics with Cloud Watch and employing auto scaling are practices to optimize your cost by helping you to:

Choose the right instance types.

The AWS Big Data Ecosystem covers these aspects of Big Data solution delivery?

Collect, Store, Process, Analyze, Visualize

EC2 is part of which core service?

Compute

Which of the following are core components of the AWS platform?

Compute Database Storage Networking

AWS Foundation Services

Compute Network Storage Security and Identity Applications

What service does AWS Cloud Trail offer to customers?

Control access to log files. Storage of log files. Obtain alerts on log file creation and misconfiguration. Generate customized reporting of log data.

Which is true regarding ownership and control of your data?

Customers can encrypt their content any way they choose. There is no automatic replication of data outside of your chosen AWS region. AWS makes no secondary use of customer content

True about AWS service economic benefits:

Customers can start or stop using a service at any time. Customers only pay for what they use. Each AWS service is priced independently.

Which of the following statements best describe Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Database engine used with MySQL or ARORA

AWS Platform Services

Databases Analytics Application Services Management Tools Developer Tools Mobile Services Internet of Things

For customers to get comfortable with AWS which strategy is typically deployed for moving to the cloud?

Development and Testing

Which describes availability zones?

Distinct locations within an AWS region that are engineered to be insulated from failure and low latency.

Compute capacity by the hour for spiky workloads

EC2 On Demand Instances

For time insensitive workloads, workloads that can be interrupted and certain workloads built for high availability you can bid for unused EC2 capacity at prices that fluctuate based on supply and demand. This is called?

EC2 Spot Instance

A stock trading company wants to deliver real time data to its customers. Which component of the AWS global infrastructure best represents the robust content delivery network of AWS?

Edge Locations

Development of online game for social and mobile platform requires solution to scale based on demand. Which attribute of cloud computing best represents this solution?

Elasticity

3 benefits of AWS partner ecosystem.

Enable customer to find partners to get the most out of cloud. Provide members of AWS with business, technology and marketing support. Partners can join programs to support their business.

(SRM) Which control managed by AWS "of" the clouds?

Global infrastructure The physical security of the facilities in which the service operates. The components of the physical server

Core application building blocks, on premise corporate directories, networking configuration, encryption technology, backup tools. Can directly be integrated with AWS services they provide similar functionality. Are examples of what type of AWS support?

Hybrid IT Architecture

Which of the following responses are included in the AWS security control framework?

IT Operations

Enterprise can federate their user identities from there on premise corporate directory to AWS for authentication and authorization of users who want to merge AWS resources. This is an example of:

Identity Federation

Which of the following best describes Auto Scaling?

Increase or decrease compute resources on demand to meet your deployment needs and minimize cost.

For traditional datacenters purchasing decisions for infrastructure are driven by peak load requirements so the infrastructure is typically over-built for average requirements resulting in a massively under-utilized environment. Which limitation of traditional data centers is best represented in this scenario?

Inflexible Physical Assets

AWS Direct connect is a service developed to:

Integrate existing data centers seamlessly with AWS

What do the responsibilities of the executive sponsor include?

Keep the project aligned with the organization strategy. Follow path of least resistance Own the business case

What are the responsibilities of the role of procurement?

Rationalize the number of vendors. Govern and control purchasing Manage price negotiation

Useful EC2 model for "steady state" workloads

Reserved Instances

"Defining and implementing the required levels of security, governance and risk management to achieve compliance."

Security Perspective

A definition for Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is?

The acquisition and operating costs for running an infrastructure environment along with the cost of refreshing, decommissioning and retiring systems.

From cost saving perspective, which of the following are the primary advantage of moving to AWS cloud?

There are multiple pricing models in AWS, so you can optimize your spend depending on what workload is. The more you use AWS the lower your costs are. AWS runs at massive scale and that scale is passed onto customers in the form of lower prices.

AWS specialist who help customers understand the economic benefits of amount to AWS is a specialist in which area?

Total Cost of Ownership

6 Advantages and Benefits of AWS Cloud Computing

Trade capital expenses for variable expenses. Benefit from massive economies of scale. Stop guessing capacity. Increase speed and agility. Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers. Go global in minutes.

The shared responsibility model means that AWS has secured the underlying infrastructure and customers must secure resources deployed onto the infrastructure.

True

Which tool inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations when opportunities exist to save money by eliminating unused and idle resources or making commitments to reserved capacity?

Trusted Advisor

Which describes cloud computing?

Users can access resources anytime from anywhere Computing resources are delivered as a service There is no need to purchase and maintain hardware.

Customer can bridge on premise data center footprint with AWS cloud resources being deployed through which services?

VPN Tunnels AWS Direct Connect Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Which of the following response are true about AWS security benefits?

Validate design and operational effectiveness through AWS third party audits Benefits all customers

Which way can AWS help educate your teams on the benefit AWS can bring their roles?

Vertical-specific sessions on leveraging benefits of AWS AWS industry events across the globe for new and existing customers. Workshops and custom presentations with sales and technology teams.

The AWS pricing principles are based on the following:

Volume pricing discounts Pay as you go Reserved instance discounts

When getting started with AWS it is recommended that you begin:

With small-scale low-risk workload such as a development and testing project.

Which of the following activities is supported by the AWS Cloud Trail?

You can automate trail creation for your organization. You can get a history of AWS API calls and related events. AWS provides a log of all requests for AWS resources within your account.

Which one of the following is True about your control of the content you place in AWS?

You can encrypt data before storing it in AWS services