Practice Question set 20

Which of the functionalities are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Select TWO.) B

A durable storage system. - Amazon S3 is a durable object storage service.

Which credential components are required to gain programmatic access to an AWS account? (Select TWO.) B

A secret access key - Programmatic access requires an access key ID and a secret access key that can be assigned to an AWS user.

A company has an on-premises Linux-based server with an Oracle database that runs on it. The company wants to migrate the database server to run on an Amazon EC2 instance in AWS. Which service should the company use to complete the migration?

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) - AWS MGN is an automated lift-and-shift solution. This solution can migrate physical servers and any databases or applications that run on them to EC2 instances in AWS.

A company is moving all of their development activities to AWS. The company wants a solution to store and manage their developers' source code. Which AWS coding service will meet this requirement?

AWS CodeCommit - CodeCommit is a source code version control service. CodeCommit helps users store and manage developers' source code in AWS.

A company wants to establish a consistent and private connection from the company's on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

AWS Direct Connect - Direct Connect links your internal network to a Direct Connect location through a standard Ethernet fiber-optic cable. One end of the cable connects to your router. The other end of the cable connects to a Direct Connect router. AWS Direct Connect is consistent and private because your company is the only user of the cable.

A company requires an encrypted connection between the company's on-premises servers and AWS. The connection must use the company's existing internet connection. Which solution will meet these requirements?

AWS Site-to-Site VPN - Site-to-Site VPN creates an encrypted network path between your on-premises network and your AWS Cloud network. This connection between your on-premises network and your AWS Cloud network uses the internet.

Which AWS service identifies security groups that allow unrestricted access to a user's AWS resources?

AWS Trusted Advisor - Trusted Advisor checks security groups for rules that allow unrestricted access to a resource. Unrestricted access increases opportunities for malicious activity, such as hacking, denial-of-service attacks, or loss of data.

A company requires a relational database on AWS that records new customer orders from a website. Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?

Amazon Aurora - Aurora is a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

A company is hosting a static website from a single Amazon S3 bucket. Which AWS service will achieve lower latency and high transfer speeds?

Amazon CloudFront - CloudFront is a web service that speeds up the distribution of your static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .js, and image files, to your users. Content is cached in edge locations. Content that is repeatedly accessed can be served from the edge locations instead of the source S3 bucket.

What are benefits of using the AWS Cloud for companies with customers in many countries around the world? (Select TWO.) B

Amazon CloudFront has multiple edge locations around the world to reduce latency. - CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to global customers with low latency and high transfer speeds.

A company needs to monitor and receive alerts about AWS Management Console sign-in events that involve the AWS account root user. Which AWS service can the company use to meet these requirements?

Amazon CloudWatch - CloudWatch monitors your AWS resources and the applications that you run on AWS in real time. You can use CloudWatch with AWS CloudTrail to monitor and receive alerts about console sign-in events that involve the AWS account root user.

A user needs to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3. Which AWS service can meet these requirements?

Amazon Macie - Macie is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.

A company wants to create a learning application for students. The learning application must give students the option to choose a button to have the text read out loud to them. Which AWS machine learning service will meet this requirement?

Amazon Polly. - Amazon Polly is a machine learning service that converts text to speech. This service provides the ability to read text out loud.

What is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?

Bussiness. - You can call or chat with technical support by using the Business Support plan or the Enterprise Support plan. The Business Support plan is the minimum plan that provides this feature.

How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda usage once the free tier has been exceeded? (Select TWO.) B

By the number of requests made for a given Lambda function. - Lambda charges are dependent on the number of requests for your Lambda functions.

How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda usage once the free tier has been exceeded? (Select TWO.) A

By the time it takes for the Lambda function to run. - Lambda charges are dependent on the amount of time it takes to run the code.

A user deploys an Amazon RDS DB instance in multiple Availability Zones. This strategy involves which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

Reliability - The reliability pillar includes the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it is expected to do so. The deployment of Amazon RDS in multiple Availability Zones supports the goal of reliability because it reduces single points of failure.

Which AWS service allows customers to purchase unused Amazon EC2 capacity at an often discounted rate?

Spot Instances. - With Spot Instances, you can access unused EC2 capacity. Spot Instances can be discounted.

What are benefits of using the AWS Cloud for companies with customers in many countries around the world? (Select TWO.) A

Companies can deploy applications in multiple AWS regions to reduce latency. - The use of Regions around the world will improve an application's global performance and reduce latency for users.

Which tasks are the customer's responsibility according to the AWS shared responsibility model? (Select TWO.) A

Configure IAM users according to the principle of least privilege. - AWS provides AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) as a service. The customer defines IAM users and the access policies that apply to those users.

Which tasks are the customer's responsibility according to the AWS shared responsibility model? (Select TWO.) B

Configure an Amazon S3 bucket to allow public access. - The customer determines access permissions to S3 buckets that the customer owns.

Each department within a company has its own independent AWS account and its own payment method. The company needs to centralize departmental governance and consolidate payments. How can the company achieve these objectives by using AWS services or features?

Create an organization in AWS Organizations with all features enabled within one account. Invite all accounts to join the organization. - Organizations provides centralized governance and billing for an AWS environment, including multiple accounts.

What are the advantages of deploying an application with Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones? (Select TWO.) B

Increasing the availability of the application. - If you host all your instances in a single location that is affected by a failure, none of your instances would be available. Availability Zones are designed for physical redundancy and to provide resilience with uninterrupted performance.

What are the advantages of deploying an application with Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones? (Select TWO.) A

Preventing a single point of failure. - The deployment of the EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones prevents a single point of failure. Availability Zones are designed for physical redundancy and to provide resilience with uninterrupted performance.

Which credential components are required to gain programmatic access to an AWS account? (Select TWO.) A

An access key ID - Programmatic access requires an access key ID and a secret access key that can be assigned to an AWS user.

Which of the functionalities are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Select TWO.) A

An object store. - Amazon S3 is an object storage service.