AWS 2 Flashcards
A company wants to use the AWS Cloud to provide secure access to desktop applications that are running in a fully managed environment.Which AWS service should the company use to meet this requirement?
A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon AppStream 2.0
C. AWS AppSync
D. AWS Outposts
B. Amazon AppStream 2.0
A company wants to implement threat detection on its AWS infrastructure. However, the company does not want to deploy additional software.Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?
A. Amazon VPC
B. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon GuardDuty
D. AWS Direct Connect
C. Amazon GuardDuty
Which AWS service uses edge locations?
A. Amazon Aurora
B. AWS Global Accelerator
C. Amazon Connect
D. AWS Outposts
B. AWS Global Accelerator
A company needs to install an application in a Docker container.Which AWS service eliminates the need to provision and manage the container hosts?
A. AWS Fargate
B. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
D. Amazon EC2
A. AWS Fargate
Which AWS service or feature checks access policies and offers actionable recommendations to help users set secure and functional policies?
A. AWS Systems Manager
B. AWS IAM Access Analyzer
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. Amazon GuardDuty
B. AWS IAM Access Analyzer
A company has a fleet of cargo ships. The cargo ships have sensors that collect data at sea, where there is intermittent or no internet connectivity. The company needs to collect, format, and process the data at sea and move the data to AWS later.Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?
A. AWS IoT Core
B. Amazon Lightsail
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. AWS Snowball Edge
D. AWS Snowball Edge
A retail company needs to build a highly available architecture for a new ecommerce platform. The company is using only AWS services that replicate data across multiple Availability Zones.Which AWS services should the company use to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
C. Amazon Aurora
D. Amazon DynamoDB
E. Amazon Redshift
A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Which characteristic of the AWS Cloud helps users eliminate underutilized CPU capacity?
A. Agility
B. Elasticity
C. Reliability
D. Durability
B. Elasticity
Service control policies (SCPs) manage permissions for which of the following?
A. Availability Zones
B. AWS Regions
C. AWS Organizations
D. Edge locations
C. AWS Organizations
Which AWS service can be used to encrypt data at rest?
A. Amazon GuardDuty
B. AWS Shield
C. AWS Security Hub
D. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
D. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
Which characteristics are advantages of using the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)
A. A 100% service level agreement (SLA) for all AWS services
B. Compute capacity that is adjusted on demand
C. Availability of AWS Support for code development
D. Enhanced security
E. Increases in cost and complexity
B. Compute capacity that is adjusted on demand
D. Enhanced security
A user is storing objects in Amazon S3. The user needs to restrict access to the objects to meet compliance obligations.What should the user do to meet this requirement?
A. Use AWS Secrets Manager.
B. Tag the objects in the S3 bucket.
C. Use security groups.
D. Use network ACLs.
B. Tag the objects in the S3 bucket.
A company wants to convert video files and audio files from their source format into a format that will play on smartphones, tablets, and web browsers.Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
A. Amazon Elastic Transcoder
B. Amazon Comprehend
C. AWS Glue
D. Amazon Rekognition
A. Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Which of the following are benefits of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling? (Choose two.)
A. Improved health and availability of applications
B. Reduced network latency
C. Optimized performance and costs
D. Automated snapshots of data
E. Cross-Region Replication
A. Improved health and availability of applications
C. Optimized performance and costs
A company has several departments. Each department has its own AWS accounts for its applications. The company wants all AWS costs on a single invoice to simplify payment, but the company wants to know the costs that each department is incurring.Which AWS tool or feature will provide this functionality?
A. AWS Cost and Usage Reports
B. Consolidated billing
C. Savings Plans
D. AWS Budgets
B. Consolidated billing
A company runs its workloads on premises. The company wants to forecast the cost of running a large application on AWS.Which AWS service or tool can the company use to obtain this information?
A. AWS Pricing Calculator
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. Cost Explorer
A. AWS Pricing Calculator
A company wants to eliminate the need to guess infrastructure capacity before deployments. The company also wants to spend its budget on cloud resources only as the company uses the resources.Which advantage of the AWS Cloud matches the company’s requirements?
A. Reliability
B. Global reach
C. Economies of scale
D. Pay-as-you-go pricing
D. Pay-as-you-go pricing
Which AWS service supports a hybrid architecture that gives users the ability to extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to data centers, co- location environments, or on-premises facilities?
A. AWS Snowmobile
B. AWS Local Zones
C. AWS Outposts
D. AWS Fargate
C. AWS Outposts
A company has a physical tape library to store data backups. The tape library is running out of space. The company needs to extend the tape library’s capacity to the AWS Cloud.Which AWS service should the company use to meet this requirement?
A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. AWS Storage Gateway
D. AWS Storage Gateway
An online retail company has seasonal sales spikes several times a year, primarily around holidays. Demand is lower at other times. The company finds it difficult to predict the increasing infrastructure demand for each season.Which advantages of moving to the AWS Cloud would MOST benefit the company? (Choose two.)
A. Global footprint
B. Elasticity
C. AWS service quotas
D. AWS shared responsibility model
E. Pay-as-you-go pricing
B. Elasticity
E. Pay-as-you-go pricing
Which AWS service can be used to turn text into lifelike speech?
A. Amazon Polly
B. Amazon Kendra
C. Amazon Rekognition
D. Amazon Connect
A. Amazon Polly
Which AWS service or tool can be used to capture information about inbound and outbound traffic in an Amazon VPC?
A. VPC Flow Logs
B. Amazon Inspector
C. VPC endpoint services
D. NAT gateway
A. VPC Flow Logs
A company wants to ensure that two Amazon EC2 instances are in separate data centers with minimal communication latency between the data centers.How can the company meet this requirement?
A. Place the EC2 instances in two separate AWS Regions connected with a VPC peering connection.
B. Place the EC2 instances in two separate Availability Zones within the same AWS Region.
C. Place one EC2 instance on premises and the other in an AWS Region. Then connect them by using an AWS VPN connection.
D. Place both EC2 instances in a placement group for dedicated bandwidth.
B. Place the EC2 instances in two separate Availability Zones within the same AWS Region.
In which situations should a company create an IAM user instead of an IAM role? (Choose two.)
A. When an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances requires access to other AWS services
B. When the company creates AWS access credentials for individuals
C. When the company creates an application that runs on a mobile phone that makes requests to AWS
D. When the company needs to add users to IAM groups
E. When users are authenticated in the corporate network and want to be able to use AWS without having to sign in a second time
B. When the company creates AWS access credentials for individuals
D. When the company needs to add users to IAM groups
Which AWS services should a company use to read and write data that changes frequently? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon S3 Glacier
B. Amazon RDS
C. AWS Snowball
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
B. Amazon RDS
E. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Which AWS service is used to provide encryption for Amazon EBS?
A. AWS Certificate Manager
B. AWS Systems Manager
C. AWS KMS
D. AWS Config
C. AWS KMS
Which AWS services make use of global edge locations? (Choose two.)
A. AWS Fargate
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS Global Accelerator
D. AWS Wavelength
E. Amazon VPC
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS Global Accelerator
A company is operating several factories where it builds products. The company needs the ability to process data, store data, and run applications with local system interdependencies that require low latency.Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?
A. AWS IoT Greengrass
B. AWS Lambda
C. AWS Outposts
D. AWS Snowball Edge
C. AWS Outposts