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A retail company is migrating its IT infrastructure applications from on premises to the AWS Cloud.Which costs will the company eliminate with this migration? (Choose two.)
A. Cost of data center operations
B. Cost of application licensing
C. Cost of marketing campaigns
D. Cost of physical server hardware
E. Cost of network management

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A. Cost of data center operations
D. Cost of physical server hardware

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What is a benefit of moving to the AWS Cloud in terms of improving time to market?
A. Decreased deployment speed
B. Increased application security
C. Increased business agility
D. Increased backup capabilities

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C. Increased business agility

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Which of the following are characteristics of a serverless application that runs in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)
A. Users must manually configure Amazon EC2 instances.
B. Users have a choice of operating systems.
C. The application has built-in fault tolerance.
D. Users can run Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.
E. The application can scale based on demand.

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C. The application has built-in fault tolerance.
E. The application can scale based on demand.

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A company has existing software licenses that it wants to bring to AWS, but the licensing model requires licensing physical cores.How can the company meet this requirement in the AWS Cloud?
A. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance with default tenancy.
B. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance on a Dedicated Host.
C. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation.
D. Purchase Dedicated Reserved Instances.

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B. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance on a Dedicated Host.

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A company has a complex AWS architecture. The company needs assistance from a dedicated technical professional who can suggest strategies regarding incidents, trade-offs, support, and risk management.Which AWS Support plan will provide the required support?
A. AWS Business Support
B. AWS Enterprise Support
C. AWS Developer Support
D. AWS Basic Support

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B. AWS Enterprise Support

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Which of the following is an advantage that the AWS Cloud provides to users?
A. Users eliminate the need to guess about infrastructure capacity requirements.
B. Users decrease their variable costs by maintaining sole ownership of IT hardware.
C. Users maintain control of underlying IT infrastructure hardware.
D. Users maintain control of operating systems for managed services.

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A. Users eliminate the need to guess about infrastructure capacity requirements.

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Which AWS services can use AWS WAF to protect against common web exploitations? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS Transfer Family
D. AWS Site-to-Site VPN
E. Amazon API Gateway

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B. Amazon CloudFront
E. Amazon API Gateway

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Which controls are shared under the AWS shared responsibility model? (Choose two.)
A. Awareness and training
B. Patching of Amazon RDS
C. Configuration management
D. Physical and environmental controls
E. Service and communications protection or security

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A. Awareness and training
C. Configuration management

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A company manages global applications that require static IP addresses.Which AWS service would enable the company to improve the availability and performance of its applications?
A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Global Accelerator
C. Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
D. Amazon API Gateway

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B. AWS Global Accelerator

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Which of the following are AWS compute services? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon Lightsail
B. AWS Systems Manager
C. AWS CloudFormation
D. AWS Batch
E. Amazon Inspector

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A. Amazon Lightsail
D. AWS Batch

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A company needs to report on events that involve the specific AWS services that the company uses.Which AWS service or resource can the company use with Amazon CloudWatch to meet this requirement?
A. Amazon Inspector
B. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS CloudTrail logs

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D. AWS CloudTrail logs

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A company with AWS Enterprise Support needs help understanding its monthly AWS bill and wants to implement billing best practices.Which AWS tool or resource is available to accomplish these goals?
A. Resource tagging
B. AWS Concierge Support team
C. AWS Abuse team
D. AWS Support

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B. AWS Concierge Support team

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Which of the following is an AWS key-value database offering consistent single-digit millisecond performance at any scale?
A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon Aurora
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon Redshift

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C. Amazon DynamoDB

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A company is developing a new Node.js application. The application must have a scalable NoSQL database to meet increasing demand as the popularity of the application grows.Which AWS service will meet the requirements for the database?
A. Amazon Aurora Serverless
B. Amazon ElastiCache
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon Redshift

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C. Amazon DynamoDB

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A company wants to set up an entire development and continuous delivery toolchain for coding, building, testing, and deploying code.Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
A. Amazon CodeGuru
B. AWS CodeStar
C. AWS CodeCommit
D. AWS CodeDeploy

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B. AWS CodeStar

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Which service enables customers to audit API calls in their AWS accounts?
A. AWS CloudTrail
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS X-Ray

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A. AWS CloudTrail

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A company is moving its office and must establish an encrypted connection to AWS.Which AWS service will help meet this requirement?
A. AWS VPN
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Amazon API Gateway
D. Amazon Connect

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A. AWS VPN

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A company needs steady and predictable performance from its Amazon EC2 instances at the lowest possible cost. The company also needs the ability to scale resources to ensure that it has the right resources available at the right time.Which AWS service or resource will meet these requirements?
A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. Application Load Balancer
C. AWS Batch
D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

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D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

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Which action will provide documentation to help a company evaluate whether its use of the AWS Cloud is compliant with local regulatory standards?
A. Running Amazon GuardDuty
B. Using AWS Artifact
C. Creating an AWS Support ticket
D. Evaluating AWS CloudTrail logs

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B. Using AWS Artifact

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A company wants a cost-effective option when running its applications in an Amazon EC2 instance for short time periods. The applications can be interrupted.Which EC2 instance type will meet these requirements?
A. Spot Instances
B. On-Demand Instances
C. Reserved Instances
D. Dedicated Instances

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A. Spot Instances

21
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A retail company is building a new mobile app. The company is evaluating whether to build the app at an on-premises data center or in the AWS Cloud.Which of the following are benefits of building this app in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)
A. A large, upfront capital expense and low variable expenses
B. Increased speed for trying out new projects
C. Complete control over the physical security of the infrastructure
D. Flexibility to scale up in minutes as the application becomes popular
E. Ability to pick the specific data centers that will host the application servers

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B. Increased speed for trying out new projects
D. Flexibility to scale up in minutes as the application becomes popular

22
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A developer is working on enhancing applications at AWS. The developer needs a service that can securely host GitHub-based code, repositories, and version controls.Which AWS service should the developer use?
A. AWS CodeStar
B. Amazon CodeGuru
C. AWS CodeCommit
D. AWS CodePipeline

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C. AWS CodeCommit

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What is an AWS Region?
A. A broad set of global, cloud-based products that include compute, storage, and databases
B. A physical location around the world where data centers are clustered
C. One or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity
D. A service that developers use to build applications that deliver latencies of single-digit milliseconds to users

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B. A physical location around the world where data centers are clustered

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Which AWS benefit enables users to deploy cloud infrastructure that consists of multiple geographic regions connected by a network with low latency, high throughput, and redundancy?
A. Economies of scale
B. Security
C. Elasticity
D. Global reach

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D. Global reach

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A company is considering a migration from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The company’s IT team needs to offload support of the workload.What should the IT team do to accomplish this goal?
A. Use AWS Managed Services to provision, run, and support the company infrastructure.
B. Build hardware refreshes into the operational calendar to ensure availability.
C. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Amazon EC2 instances.
D. Overprovision compute capacity for seasonal events and traffic spikes to prevent downtime.

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A. Use AWS Managed Services to provision, run, and support the company infrastructure.

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What is a benefit of using AWS serverless computing?
A. Application deployment and management are not required.
B. Application security will be fully managed by AWS.
C. Monitoring and logging are not needed.
D. Management of infrastructure is offloaded to AWS.

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D. Management of infrastructure is offloaded to AWS.

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A company plans to launch an application that will run in multiple locations within the United States. The company needs to identify the two AWS Regions where the application can operate at the lowest price.Which AWS service or feature should the company use to determine the Regions that offer the lowest price?
A. Cost Explorer
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Pricing Calculator

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D. AWS Pricing Calculator

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Which approach will enhance a user’s security on AWS?
A. Use Multi-AZ deployments with Amazon RDS.
B. Create a hybrid architecture by using AWS Direct Connect.
C. Monitor application-specific information with AWS X-Ray.
D. Encrypt data by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

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D. Encrypt data by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

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Which AWS service or tool is associated with an Amazon EC2 instance and acts as a virtual firewall to control inbound and outbound traffic?
A. AWS WAF
B. AWS Shield
C. Network access control list (ACL)
D. Security group

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D. Security group

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A company wants to migrate its on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database server to the AWS Cloud. The company has decided to use Amazon EC2 instances to run this database.Which of the following is the company responsible for managing, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?
A. EC2 hypervisor
B. Security patching of the guest operating system
C. Network connectivity of the host server
D. Uptime service level agreement (SLA) for the EC2 instances

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B. Security patching of the guest operating system

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