AWS Cloud Practitioner Practice Exam Flashcards
Where was the first Region located?
North Virginia
Which of the following is an example of SaaS?
Facebook and Google Maps
What are two ways that moving to an AWS cloud can benefit an organization?
- Increase speed and agility
2. Stop guessing about capacity
What is the purpose of granting least privileges?
Granting least privileges ensures users may only have access to what is required to perform their assigned tasks
Why is it important to create individual IAM users for each person interacting with the AWS account?
Each user is going to be performing their own tasks and will need their own specific permissions
What AWS service do you use to create Billing Alarms?
CloudWatch
Which of the statements below is correct in relation to Consolidated Billing? (choose 3)
- You can combine usage and share volume pricing discounts
- It’s a free service
- You receive a single bill for multiple accounts
Can you have two buckets with the same name.
No
Which storage tier should you choose for files that are easily replaceable that you also need to retrieve quickly when you have a tight budget?
Standard One Zone IA (infrequent Access)
What is a graph database?
A type of database that stores information where a significant amount of the value is the relationship between the data points
Which of the following would you use for OLAP?
Redshift
What does it mean to be serverless?
Serverless is the native architecture of the cloud that enables you to shift more of your operational responsibilities to AWS
How does AWS Route53 check the health of resources?
By sending requests over regular intervals to verify that it’s reachable, available, and functional
What type of information is CloudTrail monitoring?
User activity within the AWS console and platform
Is detailed monitoring available at no extra charge
No
What is a service that allows you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configuration of individual resources?
AWS Config
Which AWS support plan comes with a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?
Enterprise
Which of the following is not one of the support plans?
Organization
Which of the following are characteristics of consolidated billing? (Select all that apply)
- Combine resource usage to maximize bulk pricing discounts
- You get one bill for multiple accounts
- It is offered at no additional cost
When should you turn on multi part uploads?
When uploading files approximately 100 MB or larger
Is EBS ephemeral storage?
No, it is an easy to use, high-performance, block-storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale.
Which routing policy description describes the following policy type: Geoproximity routing
Use when you want to route traffic based on the location of your resources and, optionally, shift traffic from resources in one location to resources in another.
Do Subnets span multiple Availability Zones
No
What is Amazon Athena used for?
An interactive query service used to analyze data within S3
The AWS snow family of devices are used for: (Select all that apply)
- Transferring of large amounts of data when the network speed would make the transfer take too long
- Transferring data without the reliance of a network
- Processing of data in transit while offline
- Transferring of data when security regulations don’t allow for the data to be transferred over the internet
When should you choose Memcached over Redis?
When you need a simple, in memory data store option that supports multi threaded architecture
What is the purpose of using Systems Manager?
The management of multiple EC2 instances
When you stop an instance, you still have to pay for:
Any EBS volumes being used
Which of the following is not a database option offered by AWS?
MongoDB
