AWS - Practice Exam #1, AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam #2

Which AWS service can be used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images?

Amazon Container Registry (ECR)

Which of the following AWS services allows a database to have flexible schema and supports document data models?

Amazon DynamoDB

90

Compared to the On-demand prices, what is the highest possible discount offered for spot instances?

What are the fundamental drivers of cost with AWS Cloud?

Compute, Storage and Outbound Data Transfer

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

Which of the following use-cases is NOT supported by Amazon Rekognition?

Quickly resize photos to create thumbnails

Which of the following are examples of Horizontal Scalability (aka Elasticity)? (Select two)

Read Replicas in Amazon RDS Elastic Loud Balancing

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

AWS Elastic Load Balancing

Which of the following AWS services should be used to automatically distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets?

S3 DynamoDB

Which of the following AWS services support VPC Endpoint Gateway for a private connection from a VPC? (Select two)

RDS DynamoDB EC2 Instances

Which of the following AWS services support reservations to optimize costs? (Select three)

S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Which of the following S3 storage classes takes the most time to retrieve data (also known as first byte latency)?

Each Availability Zone (AZ) consists of one or more discrete data centers. Each AWS Region consists of two or more Availability Zones.

Which of the following are correct statements regarding the AWS Global Infrastructure? (Select two)

Benefit from massive economies of scale. Go global in minutes and deploy applications in multiple regions around the world with just a few clicks. Trade capital expense for variable expense.

Which of the following are the advantages of Cloud Computing? (Select three)

EFS S3

Which of the following are the storage services offered by the AWS Cloud? (Select two)

The AWS Product Team automatically

Which of the following entities applies patches to the underlying OS for AWS Aurora?

The AWS account must be able to operate as a standalone account. Only then it can be removed from AWS organizations.

Which of the following is CORRECT regarding removing an AWS account from AWS Organizations?

The performance of AWS managed RDS instance is better than a customer-managed database instance

Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS managed services such as Amazon RDS?

AWS Storage Gateway

Which of the following is a hybrid storage service that allows on-premises applications to access data on AWS Cloud?

Use Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access AWS resources programmatically

Which of the following is a recommended way to provide programmatic access to AWS resources?

Lambda

Which of the following is a serverless AWS service?

Redshift

Which of the following is an AWS database service?

Fault tolerance is achieved by Vertical Scaling

Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement about Scaling, a design principle of Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Partial upfront payment option with standard 3-years term

Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective option to purchase an EC2 Reserved Instance?

Step Function, DynamoDB, Lambda

Which of the following represents a serverless stack on AWS Cloud?

A Security Group can have allow rules only. A NAT Gateway is managed by AWS

Which of the following statements are CORRECT regarding the AWS VPC service? (Select two)

EBS volume can be attached to a single instance in the same Availability Zone whereas EFS file system can be mounted on instances across multiple Availability Zones.

Which of the following statements are CORRECT regarding the Availability Zone (AZ) specific characteristics of EBS and EFS storage types?

AWS Shield Standard

Which security service of AWS is enabled for all AWS customers, by default, at no additional cost?

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Which type of Cloud Computing does Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) represent?

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

Dedicated Host

A big data analytics company is moving its IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. The company has some server-bound software licenses that it wants to use on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following EC2 instance types would you recommend to the company?

Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

A company needs a storage solution for a project wherein the data is accessed less frequently but needs rapid access when required. Which S3 storage class is the MOST cost-effective for the given use-case?

Amazon Inspector

A company runs an application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The company wants to automate the traditional maintenance job of running timely assessments and checking for OS vulnerabilities. As a Cloud Practitioner, which service will you suggest for this use case?

Use AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts of all units and then share the reserved EC2 instances amongst all units

A company uses reserved EC2 instances across multiple units with each unit having its own AWS account. However, some of the units under-utilize their reserved instances while other units need more reserved instances. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following would you recommend as the most cost-optimal solution?

Customer Managed CMK

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?

Agility

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?

Contact AWS Abuse Team

A cyber forensics team has detected that AWS owned IP-addresses are being used to carry out malicious attacks. As this constitutes prohibited use of AWS services, which of the following is the correct solution to address this issue?

EFS

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?

CloudTrail

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?

AWS Artifact

A medical research startup wants to understand the compliance of AWS services concerning HIPAA guidelines. Which AWS service can be used to review the HIPAA compliance and governance-related documents on AWS?

Physical and Environmental controls

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?

APN Consulting Partner

A multi-national corporation wants to get expert professional advice on migrating to AWS and managing their applications on AWS Cloud. Which of the following entities would you recommend for this engagement?

Instance Store

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?

Amazon Macie

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?

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

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 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

Layer 7

AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) offers protection from common web exploits at which layer?

Maintaining Amazon S3 data in different availability zones to keep it durable. Replacing faulty hardware of Amazon EC2 instances.

According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are responsibilities of AWS? (Select two)

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

CloudTrail Logs

Which of the following AWS services has encryption enabled by default?

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Which of the following AWS services manages account privileges?

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 (SDK) AWS Management Console

Utilize AWS Partner Network (APN) to build a custom solution for this infrastructure migration. Leverage AWS Professional Services and set up AWS Landing Zone to accelerate the infrastructure migration.

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)

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?

AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

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?

Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text for downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Polly to convey the text results via speech

A unicorn startup is building an analytics application with support for a speech-based interface. The application will accept speech-based input from users and then convey results via speech. As a Cloud Practitioner, which solution would you recommend for the given use-case?

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 helps you define your infrastructure as code?

AWS CloudFormation

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?

AWS Fargate

Which of the following statements are true about AWS Lambda? (Select two)

AWS Lambda lets you can code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.

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

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

AWS Global Accelerator Amazon Route 53

AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running on which of the following resources? (Select two)

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 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)

Data center physical security expenditure. Computing hardware infrastructure expenditure.

An IT company is planning to migrate from an on-premises environment to AWS Cloud. Which of the following expense areas would result in cost savings when the company moves to AWS Cloud? (Select two)

Configure the database in RDS Multi-AZ deployment with automatic failover to the standby

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?

60 seconds

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?

Manage Elastic Block Store (EBS) backups using EBS snapshots

As per AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of the customer from a security and compliance point of view?

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

Which of the following AWS services are always free to use (Select two)?

Identity and Access Management (IAM) AWS Auto Scaling

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?

Only outbound data transfer is charged

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

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)

SNS CloudWatch

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

Business

Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to Infrastructure Event Management for an additional fee?

Security Performance Efficiency

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)

The company would not be charged for this data transfer

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?

AMS X-Ray

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?

Configuration Management

Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is a shared responsibility of both AWS and the customer?

Enterprise

Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to online training with self-paced labs?

AWS Direct Connect

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?

Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs. Trade capital expense for variable expense.

What are the advantages that AWS Cloud offers over a traditional on-premises IT infrastructure? (Select two)

Weighted Routing Policy

Which AWS Route 53 routing policy would you use to route traffic to multiple resources and also choose how much traffic is routed to each resource?

AWS Shield

Which AWS Service can be used to mitigate a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

Business

Which AWS Support plan provides architectural guidance contextual to your specific use-cases?

AWS Budgets

Which AWS service will help you receive alerts when the reservation utilization falls below the defined threshold?

SQS SNS

Which AWS services can be used to decouple components of a microservices based application on AWS Cloud? (Select two)

Amazon CloudWatch 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)

Business & Enterprise

Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to guidance, configuration, and troubleshooting of AWS interoperability with 3rd-party software?

Basic & Developer

Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to only 7 core checks from the AWS Trusted Advisor Best Practice Checks? (Select two)