CPC Practice Questions

What is the minimum number of Availability Zones that you should set up for your Application Load Balancer in order to create a highly available architecture?

2

Which of the following best describes what CloudWatch is?

A metric repository

these services can only deploy applications to your AWS resources and not to the servers located in your on-premises data center.

AWS CloudFormation and AWS Elastic Beanstalk

A company is planning to adopt a hybrid cloud architecture with AWS. Which of the following can they use to assist them in estimating their costs? (Select TWO.)

AWS Pricing calculator and AWS Sales Representative

Which of the following shares a collection of offerings to help you achieve specific business outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption through paid engagements in several specialty practice areas?

AWS Professional Services

Which type of Elastic Load Balancer supports path-based routing, host-based routing, and bi-directional communication channels using WebSockets?

Application Load Balancer

Which AWS service should you use if you need to launch a highly scalable MySQL database?

Aurora

Which of the following are regarded as regional services in AWS? (Select TWO.)

Batch and EFS

Users from different parts of the globe are complaining about the slow performance of the newly launched photo-sharing website in loading their high-resolution images. Which combination of AWS services should you use to serve the files with lowest possible latency? (Select TWO.)

CLoudFront & S3

A company has enlisted the help of TDojo Consulting Co. to assist them in designing an AWS disaster recovery solution for their on-premises bare metal servers and SQL databases. The implementation has to be robust, fast, and simple to use. It should also prevent any type of data loss from occurring. The company would like to keep track of the status of the migration.

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery

Which service provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services?

CloudTrail

Tutorials Dojo would like to test their new mobile app on multiple devices at once in a coordinated fashion using AWS. Which of the following services will help speed up the process? (Select TWO.)

Device farm & Mobil hub

Which service should you use if you need a scalable, fast, and flexible nonrelational database service?

DynamoDB

There is a requirement to launch a new database in AWS where the customer assumes the responsibility and management of the guest operating system, including updates and security patches. Which of the following services should the customer use?

EC2

Which service should you use if there is a need to launch a customized self-hosted database which requires a scheduled shutdown every night to save on cost?

EC2 instance w/ an EBS volume

Among the following services, which is the most suitable one to use to store the results of I/O-intensive SQL database queries to improve application performance?

ElastiCache

What service provides the lowest-cost storage option for retaining database backups which also allows occasional data retrieval in minutes?

Glacier

Which of the following IAM identities is associated with the access keys that are used in managing your cloud resources via the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?

IAM User

Advantages of consolidated billing

One bill, easy tracking, combined usage(share volume pricing discounts), FREE

Which AWS services should you use to store rapidly changing data with low read and write latencies? (Select TWO.)

RDS & EBS

You need to host a new Microsoft SQL Server database in AWS for an urgent project. Which AWS services should you use to meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)

RDS &EC2

Which of the following can you use to resolve the connection between your on-premises VPN and your AWS virtual private cloud? (Select TWO.)

Route53 and Virtual Private Gateway

Which of the following is capable of inspecting your AWS environment and making recommendations to lower expenditures, improve system performance and reliability, and close security gaps?

Trusted Advisor

A company is designing a new cloud architecture for its mission-critical application in AWS which must be highly-available. Which of the following is the recommended pattern to meet this requirement?

Use multiple AZ's to ensure that the app can handle the failure of any single component

What is Redshift

a data warehousing service that is specifically designed for online analytic processing (OLAP) and business intelligence (BI) applications which require complex queries against large datasets.

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery

a tool that minimizes downtime and data loss by providing fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS Cloud

Which of the following are the things that Amazon CloudWatch Logs can accomplish? (Select TWO.)

adjust the retention policy for each log group & monitor app logs from EC2 instances

How can you apply and easily manage the common access permissions to a large number of IAM users in AWS?

attach necessary policies or permissions to new IAM group, then add IAM users to the IAM group

In the Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following options below is a shared control between AWS and the customer?

awareness and training

Which of the following allows you to set coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define?

aws budgets

Which of the following Cost Management Tools allows you to track your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) usage and view the discounted RI rate that was charged to your resources?

cost and usage report

Which of the following characteristics correctly describes the Amazon Simple Storage Service? (Select TWO.)

highly durable object storage infrastructure & virtually unlimited space

What are the benefits of using Edge locations in AWS? (Select TWO.)

imporves app performance by delivering content closer to your users provides caching which reduces the load on your origin servers

Which of the following is true regarding Elastic Load Balancing?

it distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, in multiple AZ's

Which of the following is a key design principle when running an application in AWS?

loose coupling

Which among the options below can you use to launch a new Amazon RDS database cluster to your VPC? (Select TWO.)

management console & cloud-formation

AWS Device Farm

n application testing service that lets you improve the quality of your web and mobile apps by testing them across an extensive range of desktop browsers and real mobile devices; without having to provision and manage any testing infrastructure.

A company which has a basic support plan needs resources to deploy, test, and improve their AWS environment. Which of the following can they use for free?

online documentation, whitepapers, blogs and support forums

A company has hybrid cloud architecture where their on-premises data center interacts with their cloud resources in AWS. Which of the following services in AWS could you use to deploy a web application to servers running on-premises? (Select TWO.)

opsworks and codedeploy

Which of the following is an advantage of using managed services like RDS, ElastiCache, and CloudSearch in AWS?

simplifies all of your OS patching and backup activities to help keep your resources current and secure

Which of the following are true regarding Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? (Select TWO.)

simplifies the management of time-consuming database administration tasks and Makes it easy to set up, and scale a relational database

A company is in the process of choosing the most suitable AWS Region to migrate its applications. Which of the following factors should they consider? (Select TWO.)

support country-specific data sovereignty compliance requirements & enhance customer experiences by reducing latency to users

In AWS, _______ is one of the advantages of Consolidated Billing.

volume pricing

Which of the following options below is solely the responsibility of the customer in accordance with the AWS shared responsibility model?

zone security