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What costs are included when comparing AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with on-premises TCO?
Project management
Antivirus software licensing
Data center security
Software development
Data center security
A company wants to reduce the physical compute footprint that developers use to run code. Which service would meet that need by enabling serverless architectures?
Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
AWS Lambda
Amazon DynamoDB
AWS CodeCommit
AWS Lambda
What is the benefit of using AWS managed services, such as Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?
They require the customer to monitor and replace failing instances.
They have better performance than customer-managed services.
They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.
They do not require the customer to optimize instance type or size selections.
They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.
Which of the following are features of Amazon CloudWatch Logs? (Select TWO.)
Summaries by Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
Free Amazon Elasticsearch Service analytics
Provided at no charge
Real-time monitoring
Adjustable retention
Real-time monitoring
Adjustable retention
Which AWS service should be used for long-term, low-cost storage of data backups?
Amazon RDS
Amazon Glacier
AWS Snowball
AWS EBS
Amazon Glacier
Which AWS managed service is used to host databases?
AWS Batch
AWS Artifact
AWS Data Pipeline
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS
Where are AWS compliance documents, such as an SOC 1 report, located?
Amazon Inspector
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Artifact
AWS Certificate Manager
AWS Artifact
The AWS Cloud’s multiple Regions are an example of:
agility
global infrastructure
elasticity
pay-as-you-go pricing.
global infrastructure.
When architecting cloud applications, which of the following are a key design principle?
Use the largest instance possible
Provision capacity for peak load
Use the Scrum development process
Implement elasticity
Implement elasticity
Which design principles for cloud architecture are recommended when re-architecting a large monolithic application? (Select TWO.)
- Use manual monitoring.
- Use fixed servers.
- Implement loose coupling.
- Rely on individual components.
- Design for scalability.
Implement loose coupling.
Rely on individual components.
Which of the following can limit Amazon Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to specific users?
A public and private key-pair
Amazon Inspector
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
Security Groups
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
Which of the following are valid ways for a customer to interact with AWS services? (Select TWO.)
- Command-line interface
- On-premises
- Software Development Kits
- Software-as-a-service
- Hybrid
Command-line interface
Software Development Kits
Which of the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities is associated with an access key ID and secret access key when using AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?
IAM group
IAM user
IAM role
IAM policy
IAM user
Which of the following Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models provides the highest average savings compared to On-Demand pricing?
One-year, No Upfront, Standard RI pricing
One-year, All Upfront, Convertible RI pricing
Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing
Three-year, No Upfront, Convertible RI pricing
Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing
Which AWS service can be used to manually launch instances based on resource requirements?
Amazon EBS
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon ECS
Amazon EC2
Which of the following AWS features enables a user to launch a pre-configured Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance?
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Amazon Machine Image
Amazon EC2Systems Manager
Amazon AppStream 2.0
Amazon Machine Image
Which service should a customer use to consolidate and centrally manage multiple AWS accounts?
AWS IAM
AWS Organizations
AWS Schema Conversion Tool
AWS Config
AWS Organizations
Which AWS service provides a customized view of the health of specific AWS services that power a customer’s workloads running on AWS?
AWS Service Health Dashboard
AWS X-Ray
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer responsible for?
Ensuring that disk drives are wiped after use.
Ensuring that firmware is updated on hardware devices.
Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest.
Ensuring that network cables are category six or higher.
Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest.
Which of the following is a fast and reliable NoSQL database service?
Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon S3
Amazon DynamoDB
A characteristic of edge locations is that they:
host Amazon EC2 instances closer to users.
help lower latency and improve performance for users.
cache frequently changing data without reaching the origin server.
refresh data changes daily.
cache frequently changing data without reaching the origin server.
Which of the following components of the AWS Global Infrastructure consists of one or more discrete data centers interconnected through low latency links?
Availability Zone
Edge location
Region
Private networking
Availability Zone
A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales. Which AWS service should they use?
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon Aurora
Which of the following are advantages of AWS consolidated billing? (Select TWO.)
- The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts
- Service limits increasing by default in all accounts
- A fixed discount on the monthly bill
- Potential volume discounts, as used in all accounts is combined
- The automatic extension of the master account’s AWS support plan to all accounts
The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts
Potential volume discounts, as usage in all accounts, is combined
Which of the following is a benefit of using the AWS Cloud?
Permissive security removes the administrative burden.
Ability to focus on revenue-generating activities.
Control over cloud network hardware.
Choice of specific cloud hardware vendors.
Permissive security removes the administrative burden.
Which of the following services will automatically scale with an expected increase in web traffic?
AWS CodePipeline
Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon EBS
AWS Direct Connect
Elastic Load Balancing
AWS supports which of the following methods to add security to Identity and Access Management (IAM) users? (Select TWO)
- Implementing Amazon Rekognition Using
- AWS Shield-protected resources
- Blocking access with Security Groups
- Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Enforcing password strength and expiration
Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Enforcing password strength and expiration
Which service enables risk auditing by continuously monitoring and logging account activity, including user actions in the AWS Management Console and AWS SDKs?
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config
AWS Health
AWS CloudTrail
Distributing workloads across multiple Availability Zones supports which cloud architecture design principle?
Implement automation.
Design for agility.
Design for failure.
Implement elasticity.
Design for failure.
Which AWS tools assist with estimating costs? (Select three.)
- Detailed billing report
- Cost allocation tags
- AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
- AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
- Cost Estimator
Cost allocation tags
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
Which service stores objects, provides real-time access to those objects, and offers versioning and lifecycle capabilities?
Amazon Glacier
AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon S3
Amazon EBS
Amazon S3
Which of the following AWS services can be used to serve large amounts of online video content with the lowest possible latency? (Select TWO.)
- appGateway
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
- Amazon Glacier Amazon CloudFront
Amazon S3
Amazon CloudFront
According to best practices, how should an application be designed to run in the AWS Cloud?
Use tightly coupled components.
Use loosely coupled components.
Use infrequently coupled components.
Use frequently coupled components.
Use loosely coupled components.
What approach to transcoding a large number of individual video files adheres to AWS architecture principles?
Using many instances in parallel
Using a single large instance during off-peak hours
Using dedicated hardware
Using a large GPU instance type
Using many instances in parallel
Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data? (Select TWO.)
- Amazon Glacier
- Amazon RDS
- AWS Snowball
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon EFS
Amazon RDS
Amazon EFS
What AWS team assists customers with accelerating cloud adoption through paid engagements in any of several specialty practice areas?
AWS Enterprise Support
AWS Solutions Architects
AWS Professional Services
AWS Account Managers
AWS Professional Services
Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that allows for a one-hour target response time for support cases?
Enterprise
Business
Developer
Basic
Business
Compared with costs in traditional and virtualized data centers, AWS has:
greater variable costs and greater upfront costs.
fixed usage costs and lower upfront costs.
lower variable costs and greater upfront costs.
lower variable costs and lower upfront costs.
lower variable costs and lower upfront costs.
Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Select TWO.)
- A global file system
- An object store
- A local file store
- A network file system
- A durable storage system
An object store
A durable storage system
A company is migrating an application that is running non-interruptible workloads for a three-year time frame. Which pricing construct would provide the MOST cost-effective solution?
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances
Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances