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You want to keep your monthly billing under $100. What can you set up in order to be notified when the monthly bill approaches $100?

A. A CloudTrail billing alarm that triggers an SNS notification to your email address
B. A SNS billing alarm that triggers a CloudWatch notification to your email address
C. A CloudWatch billing alarm that triggers an SNS notification to your email address
D. A CloudWatch billing alarm that triggers a CloudTrail notification to your email address

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C. A CloudWatch billing alarm that triggers an SNS notification to your email address

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What two services/featues are required to have highly available and fault tolerant architecture in AWS?
A. Elastic Load Balancer
B. CloudFront
C. ElastiCache
D. Auto Scaling
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A. Elastic Load Balancer

D. Auto Scaling

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Your company's upper management is getting very nervous about managing governance, compliance, and risk auditing in AWS. What service should you enable and inform upper management about?
A. CloudAudit
B. CloudTrail
C. CloudCompliance
D. CloudWatch
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B. CloudTrail

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The concept of elasticity is most closely associated with which of the following?
A. Auto Scaling
B. Network Security
C. Serverless Computing
D. Elastic Load Balancing
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A. Auto Scaling

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Which endpoints are possible to send messages to with Simple Notification Service? Choose 3.
A. SMS
B. FTM
C. SQS
D. Lambda
A

A. SMS
C. SQS
D. Lambda

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What are the benefits of DynamoDB (choose 3)?
A. Supports multiple known NoSQL database engines like MariaDB and Oracle NoSQL
B. Automatic scaling of throughput capacity
C. Single digit millisecond latency
D. Supports both document and key-value store data models

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B. Automatic scaling of throughput capacity
C. Single digit millisecond latency
D. Supports both document and key-value store data models

DynamoDB does not use or support other NoSQL database engines

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You are trying to organize and import to AWS gigabytes of data that are currently structured in JSON-like, name-value documents. What AWS service would best fit your needs?
A. Lambda
B. Aurora
C. RDS
D. DynamoDB
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D. DynamoDB which is AWS’ NoSQL database offering. NoSQL databases are for non-structured data that are typically stored in JSON-like, name-value documents

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What AWS service will allow a large data set to be imported into a relational database service?
A. RDS
B. Redshift
C. NoSQL
D. DynamoDB
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A. RDS

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What is AWS' serverless compute service?
A. S3
B. Lambda
C. EC2
D. None of the Above
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B. Lambda

AWS has two main compute services: EC2 which is server-based and Lambda which is serverless

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What is the availability and durability rating of S3 Standard Storage Class?
A. 99.999999999% Durability and 99.99% Availability
B. 99.999999999% Availability and 99.90% Durability
C. 99.999999999% Availability and 99.99% Durability
D. 99.999999999% Durability and 99.00% Availability

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A. 99.999999999% Durability and 99.99% Availability

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What AWS service has built-in DDoS mitigation?
A. CloudFront
B. CloudTrail
C. CloudWatch
D. EC2
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A. CloudFront

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What services have built-in DDoS mitigation and/or protection?
A. EC2
B. RDS
C. SNS
D. None of the above
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D. None of the above

AWS services with built-in DDoS mitigation/protection include:

  1. Route 53
  2. CloudFront
  3. WAF (web application firewall)
  4. Elastic Load Balancing
  5. VPCs and Security groups
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Under what circumstances would someone want to use ElastiCache? (choose 2)
A. They need a NoSQL database option
B. They need to use Edge Locations to cache content
C. They need improved performance of their web application
D. They need in-memory data store service

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C. They need improved performance of their web application

D. They need in-memory data store service

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What are the benefits of AWS Organizations (choose two)?
A. Analyze cost across multiple AWS accounts
B. Automate AWS account creation and management
C. Centrally manage access policies across multiple AWS accounts
D. None of the above

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B. Automate AWS account creation and management

C. Centrally manage access policies across multiple AWS accounts

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What AWS service allows you to have your own private network in the AWS cloud?
A. Virtual Private Network - VPN
Virtual Private Cloud - VPC
C. Virtual Cloud Network
D. None of the above
A

B. Virtual Private Cloud

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What best describes the concept of high availability?
A. The ability for a system to grow and shrink based on demand
B. The ability for a system to withstand a certain amount of failure and still remain functional
C. The ability for a system to grow in size, capacity and/or scope.
D. The ability for a system to be accessible when you attempt to access it.

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D. The ability for a system to be accessible when you attempt to access it.

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The use of what AWS feature or service allows companies to track and categorize spending on a detailed level?
A. Cost allocation tags
B. Consolidated billing
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Marketplace
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C. AWS Budgets

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What AWS team assists customers with accelerating cloud adoption through paid engagements in any of several specialty practice areas?
A. AWS Enterprise Support
B. AWS Solution Architects
C. AWS Professional Services
D. AWS Account Managers
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C. AWS Professional Services

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Which AWS services can host a Microsoft SQL Server database (choose two):
A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Relational Database Service
C. Amazon Aurora
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon S3
A

A. Amazon EC2

B. Amazon Relational Database Service

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Which of the following inspects AWS environments to find opportunities that can save money for users and also improve system performance?
A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Consolidated Billing
D. Detailed Billing
A

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

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Which AWS characteristics make AWS cost effective for a workload with dynamic user demand (choose two)?
A. High availability
B. Shared security model
C. Elasticity
D. Pay-as-you-go pricing
E. Reliability
A

C. Elasticity

D. Pay-as-you-go pricing

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Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon S3? Choose two
A. A global file system
B. An object store
C. A local file store
D. A network file system
E. A durable storage system
A

A. A global file system

B. An object store

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Which services can be used across hybrid AWS Cloud architectures - Choose 2
A. Amazon Route 53
B. Virtual Private Gateway
C. Classic Load Balancer
D. Auto Scaling
E. Amazon CloudWatch default metrics
A

A. Amazon Route 53

B. Virtual Private Gateway

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A company is considering using AWS for a self-hosted database that requires a nightly shutdown for maintenance and cost-saving purposes. Which service should the company use?
A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with Amazon EC2 instance store
D. Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store

A

D. Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store

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Which AWS tools assist with estimating costs (choose three)
A. Detailed billing report
B. Cost allocation tags
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
E. Cost Estimator

A

B. Cost allocation tags
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

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According to best practices, how should an application be designed to run in the AWS Cloud?
A. Use tightly coupled components
B. Use loosely coupled components
C. Use infrequently coupled components
D. Use frequently coupled components
A

B. Use loosely coupled components

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Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data? Choose two
A. Amazon Glacier
B. Amazon RDS
C. AWS Snowball
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon EFS
A

A. Amazon Glacier

B. Amazon RDS

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A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales. Which AWS service should they use?
A. Amazon Aurora
B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon ElastiCache
A

A. Amazon Aurora

29
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Which of the following is the customer's responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?
A. Patching underlying infrastructure
B. Physical security
C. Patching Amazon EC2 instances
D. Patching network infrastructure
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C. Patching Amazon EC2 instances

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Which of the following are features of Amazon CloudWatch Logs? Choose two
A. Summaries by Amazon Simple Notification Service
B. Free Amazon Elastisearch Service analytics
C. Provided at no charge
D. Real-time monitoring
E. Adjustable retention

A

D. Real-time monitoring

E. Adjustable retention

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Which of the following AWS Cloud services can be used to run a customer-managed relational database?
A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon DynamoDB
A

A. Amazon EC2

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A Company is looking for a scalable data warehouse solution. Which of the following AWS solutions would meet the company's needs?
A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Kinesis
D. Amazon Redshift
A

D. Amazon Redshift

33
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Which of the following IAM entities are associated with an access key ID and secret access key when using AWS CLI?
A. IAM Group
B. IAM User
C. IAM Role
D. IAM Policy
A

D. IAM Policy

34
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Which of the following security-related services does AWS offer? Choose two
A. Multi-factor authentication physical tokens
B. AWS Trusted Advisor security check
C. Data Encryption
D. Automated penetration testing
E. Amazon S3 copyrighted content detection

A

C. Data Encryption

D. Automated penetration testing

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Which AWS service provides a simple and scalable shared file storage solution for use with Linux-based AWS and on-premises servers?
A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon EBS
D. Amazon EFS
A

D. Amazon EFS

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Which AWS service allows companies to connect an Amazon VPC to an on-premises data center?
A. AWS VPN
B. Amazon Redshift
C. API Gateway
D. Amazon Direct Connect
A

D. Amazon Direct Connect

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Which of the following are categories of AWS Trusted Advisor? Choose two
A. Fault Tolerance
B. Instance Usage
C. Infrastructure
D. Performance
E. Storage Capacity
A

A. Fault Tolerance

D. Performance

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Which AWS service provides the ability to manage infrastructure as code?
A. AWS CodePipeline
B. AWS CodeDeploy
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. AWS CloudFormation
A

D. AWS CloudFormation

39
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If a customer needs to audit the change management of AWS resources, which of the following AWS services should the customer use?
A. AWS Config
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. Amazon Inspector
A

A. AWS Config

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Which of the following services could be used to deploy an application to servers running on-premises? Choose two
A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
B. AWS OpsWorks
C. AWS Code Deploy
D. AWS Batch
E. AWS X-Ray
A

B. AWS OpsWorks

C. AWS Code Deploy

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Which Amazon Ec2 pricing model adjusts based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?
A. On-demand instances
B. Reserved instances
C. Spot instances
D. Convertible Reserved Instances
A

C. Spot instances

42
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Which design principles for cloud architecture are recommended when re-architecting a large monolithic application? Choose two.
A. Use manual monitoring
B. Use fixed servers
C. Implement loose coupling
D. Rely on individual components
E. Design for scalability
A

D. Rely on individual components

E. Design for scalability

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Which of the following steps should be taken by a customer when conducting penetration testing on AWS?
A. Conduct penetration testing using Amazon Inspector and then notify AWS support
B. Request and wait for approval from the customer’s internal security team and then conduct testing
C. Notify AWS support and then conduct testing immediately
D. Request and wait for approval from AWS support and then conduct testing

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B. Request and wait for approval from the customer’s internal security team and then conduct testing

44
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Which AWS Cost Management tool allows you to view the most granular data about your AWS bill?
A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost and Usage report
D. AWS Billing dashboard
A

C. AWS Cost and Usage report

45
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Which of the following can an AWS customer use to launch a new Amazon Relational Database Service cluster? Choose two.
A. AWS Concierge
B. AWS CloudFormation
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
E. AWS Management console
A

A. AWS Concierge

E. AWS Management console

46
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Which service is best for storing common database query results, which helps to alleviate database access load?
A. Amazon Machine Learning
B. Amazon SQS
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store
A

C. Amazon ElastiCache

47
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Which of the following features can be configured through the Amazon VPC dashboard? choose two
A. Amazon CloudFront distributions
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Security Groups
D. Subnets
E. Elastic Load Balancing
A

C. Security Groups

D. Subnets

48
Q 
Which of the following common IT tasks can AWS cover to free up company IT resources? Choose two
A. Patching database software
B. Testing application releases
C. Backing up databases
D. Creating database schema
E. Running penetration tests
A

A. Patching database software

E. Running penetration tests

49
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Which services are parts of the AWS serverless platform?
A. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena
B. Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Amazon EMR
C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS
D. Amazon Athena, Amazon Cognito, Amazon EC2

A

C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS

50
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Which of the following can a customer use to enable single signon (SSO) to the AWS Console?
A. Amazon Connect
B. AWS Directory Service
C. Amazon Pinpoint
D. Amazon Rekognition
A

B. AWS Directory Service

51
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As part of the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following operational controls do users fully inherit from AWS?
A. Security management of data center
B. Patch Management
C. Configuration management
D. User and access management
A

D. User and access management

52
Q 
A company is considering moving its on-premises data center to AWS. What factors should be included in doing a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis? Choose two
A. Amazon EC2 instance availability
B. Power consumption of the data center
C. Labor costs to replace old servers
D. Application Developer time
E. Database engine capacity
A

B. Power consumption of the data center

C. Labor costs to replace old servers

53
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What function do security groups serve related to Amazon EC2 instance security?
A. Act as a virtual firewall for the Amazon EC2 instance
B. Secure AWS user accounts with AWS IAM policies.
C. Provide DDos protection with AWS Shield
D. Use Amazon CloudFront to protect the Amazon EC2 instance.

A

A. Act as a virtual firewall for the Amazon EC2 instance

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