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Which of the following is not required when launching an EBS-backed EC2 instance?

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Elastic IP address

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Which of the following services allows you to quickly query data in S3 using SQL without having to set up and manage any servers?

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Amazon Athena

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Which of the following services displays the general status of all available AWS Services and informs you if a service is experiencing availability issues?

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AWS Health Dashboard

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Which of the following is a continuous delivery service that you should use to automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates?

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AWS CodePipeline

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There is an incident with your team where an S3 object was deleted using an account without the owner’s knowledge. What can be done to prevent unauthorized deletion of your S3 objects?

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Configure MFA delete on the S3 bucket.

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Which of the following are the things that Amazon CloudWatch Logs can accomplish? (Select TWO.)

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  1. Adjust the retention policy for each log group.
  2. Monitor application logs from Amazon EC2 Instances.
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Which of the following is true regarding Elastic Load Balancing?

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It distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones.

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Which among the options below can you use to launch a new Amazon RDS database cluster to your VPC? (Select TWO.)

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AWS CloudFormation
AWS Management Console

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A company which has a basic support plan needs resources to deploy, test, and improve their AWS environment. Which of the following can they use for free?

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AWS online documentation, whitepapers, blogs and support forums

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A team of developers needs to run hundreds of thousands of fully managed batch computing jobs on AWS. Which of the following service should they choose?

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AWS Batch

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Which of the following scaling types can forecast future traffic of your application to help you schedule and provision the right number of EC2 instances in advance?

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Predictive scaling

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Which of the following best describes what CloudWatch can be used for?

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A repository for metrics and logs

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How is expense shifted when moving from traditional servers to the Cloud?

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Capital expense is traded for variable expense

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Which of the following is an AWS service that provides secure key storage and cryptographic operations, such as encryption and decryption, hashing, and digital signing?

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AWS Secrets Manager

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A Software Engineer is working on a new project for the company. The project entails creating a web application with the PHP framework and releasing it to the AWS Cloud. Given the company’s limited resources and the Software Engineer’s tight deadline, the Software Engineer must devise a plan for quickly deploying the application to AWS while avoiding the time-consuming process of setting up and configuring the infrastructure.

Which of the following service will allow the Software Engineer to quickly deploy their application into the AWS Cloud without building or launching the individual resources themselves?

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Which of the following are pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select TWO.)

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Performance Efficiency
Sustainability

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A company has web servers running on Amazon EC2 instances that access a RESTful API hosted on their on-premises data center. What kind of architecture is the company using?

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Hybrid Architecture

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A customer has a number of on-demand instances running simultaneously to serve customer transactions. Occasionally, most of these instances do not perform any tasks when demand is low. What is a good cost optimization strategy to implement for this case?

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Implement an auto scaling group to control the number of running instances at a time

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Which of the following services allows you to purchase Reserved Instances? (Select TWO.)

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Amazon RDS
Amazon EC2

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Which AWS well-architected pillar stresses the importance of selecting the most appropriate and right number of resource types for your requirements?

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Cost optimization

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Which of the following is an AWS hybrid storage service that allows you to connect your on-premises data storage to Amazon S3 and simplify storage management?

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AWS Storage Gateway

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A customer wants to run their application in the cloud via EC2 instances. Their code is currently stored in Github. Which tool could they use to launch their code onto EC2 instances?

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AWS CodeDeploy

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If you are using the Enterprise Support plan, who is your designated technical point of contact that provides all the necessary AWS expertise to maintain an operationally healthy AWS environment?

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Technical Account Manager (TAM)

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What are the benefits of using Edge locations in AWS? (Select TWO.)

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  1. Improves application performance by delivering content closer to your users
  2. Provides caching which reduces the load on your origin servers
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You have an Amazon Linux EC2 instance running for an hour and thirty minutes. How will AWS bill you in terms of usage?

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You will be billed for an hour and thirty minutes according to the per-second billing rule

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Which of the following tasks fall under the sole responsibility of AWS based on the shared responsibility model?

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Physical and environmental controls

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The IT Security team of your company needs to conduct a vulnerability analysis on your application servers to ensure that the EC2 instances comply with the annual security IT audit. You need to set up an automated security assessment service to improve the security and compliance of your applications. The solution should automatically assess applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from the AWS best practices.

Which of the following options would you implement to satisfy this requirement?

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AWS Inspector

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A company intends to utilize Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions as their primary compute resources in the long term. The company wants to use these compute resources for at least 3 years at the cheapest cost.

Which AWS purchasing options would optimize the company’s computing costs?

A

Compute Savings Plans

29
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Which of the following are the relevant stakeholders in the Platform perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)? (Select TWO.)

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  1. IT Architects
  2. Technology Leaders
30
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When is using Amazon RDS a better choice than using a local database?

A

When you want to offload administration responsibilities from yourself

31
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How can your RDS production instances be more cost-effective when they will be used for a long period of time?

A

You can request reserved instances to get discounts on your instance costs

32
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Which of the following is an example of IaaS in AWS?

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Amazon EC2

33
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A customer needs to establish a dedicated connection between their on-premises network and their AWS VPC that provides a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. Which of the following network services should they use?

A

AWS Direct Connect

34
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In the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, whose responsibility is it to patch the host operating system of an Amazon EC2 instance?

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AWS

35
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Which among the options below is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service in AWS?

A

Route 53

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A group of Software Engineers is working on a project that requires a new Microsoft SQL Server database to be hosted in AWS. The team needs to ensure that the database can be set up quickly and efficiently to meet an urgent deadline.

Which of the following AWS services should they use to meet their requirement? (Select TWO.)

A

Amazon EC2
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

37
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Which of the following is needed to retrieve a list of your EC2 instances using the AWS CLI?

A

Access Keys

38
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A company is using multiple AWS services to host their application, and they want to ensure that they optimize the environment by adhering to AWS best practices.

Which of the following services is capable of inspecting your AWS environment and making recommendations to lower expenditures, improve system performance and reliability, and close security gaps?

A

AWS Trusted Advisor

39
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Which of the following security features can be enabled in Amazon Workspaces to ensure compliance with regulations and protect sensitive data?

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Enabling multi-factor authentication for user access to workspaces.

40
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An organization hosted its application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. To determine whether traffic reaches the instances, they need to capture IP traffic to and from network interfaces.

Which of the following services should they use?

A

VPC Flow Logs

41
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Which of the following cost management capabilities does AWS immediately provide you even before you create your AWS account?

A

Allows you to estimate your monthly spending in AWS.

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43
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Which of the following should you set up in order to connect your AWS VPC network to your local network via an IPsec tunnel?

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A VPN gateway in your VPC connected to the Customer Gateway in your on-premises network

44
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Which of the following is the company’s responsibility when migrating an application from on-premises infrastructure to AWS cloud?

A

Managing software licenses.

45
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Which AWS storage service offers faster disk read and write performance and provides temporary block-level storage for your instance?

A

Instance Store

46
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When a company uses AWS and decouple from their on-premises data center, they will be able to have which of the following benefits? (Select TWO.)

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Reduce time to market.
Decrease your TCO.

47
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Which among the services below can you use to test and troubleshoot IAM and resource-based policies?

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IAM Policy Simulator

48
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An organization plans to set up a highly available application architecture in AWS. Which of the following satisfies this requirement?

A

Span auto-scaling groups across multiple Availability Zones.

49
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Which of the following are advantages of Cloud Computing? (Select TWO.)

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Trade capital expense for variable expense.
Increase speed and agility.

50
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A startup plans to host an application to an Amazon EC2 instance. The VPC subnets have custom network ACLs to ensure that only authorized traffic is allowed to access the application.

Which of the following are features of network ACLs? (Select TWO.)

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NACLs allow both inbound and outbound rules.
NACLs are stateless.

51
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An e-commerce company is considering migrating its website to the AWS Cloud to improve its scalability and reduce costs.

Which statements explain the business value of migration to the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)

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  1. Companies migrating to AWS Cloud can benefit from improving service level agreements (SLAs) while reducing risk and unplanned outages.
  2. Companies that migrate to the AWS Cloud reduce IT costs related to infrastructure, freeing the budget for reinvestment in other areas.
52
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Which of the following AWS services are considered to be global services? (Select TWO.)

A

AWS WAF
Amazon Route 53

53
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Your organization would like to boost productivity by improving business communication channels and customer service experience. Which of the following AWS applications would you suggest? (Select TWO.)

A

Amazon Connect
Amazon Chime

54
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Which of the following is a key financial benefit of migrating systems hosted on your on-premises data center to AWS?

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Opportunity to replace upfront capital expenses (CAPEX) with low variable costs.

55
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A Software Developer is working on an application for a startup. The company wants to incorporate a conversational interface that allows customers to interact with the app through voice and text.

Which of the following AWS service would help the developer to build the application?

A

Amazon Lex

56
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Which of the following services simplifies contact center operations, improves agent efficiency, lowers costs, and can scale to support millions of customers?

A

Amazon Connect

57
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Which of the following AWS services does Amazon EBS use natively for encryption?

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AWS KMS

58
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What benefits does AWS cloud provide for elasticity compared to on-premises implementations?

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Easier Scalability

59
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A high-performance computing (HPC) application needs a storage service in AWS that can be used as a centralized Windows File Server for multiple EC2 instances.

Which of the following should they use?

A

Amazon FSx

60
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Which of the following Amazon RDS features should you use to achieve high availability with automatic failover?

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Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments

61
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Which of the following practices demonstrate operational excellence in AWS cloud? (Select TWO.)

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  1. Perform monthly game days on your AWS environment
  2. Deploy small, incremental changes to your production servers using AWS CodeDeploy
62
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Which of the following options is an AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) perspective specifically tailored to ensure your cloud investments expedite your digital transformation goals and business outcomes?

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Business perspective

63
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Which of the following provides the key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads in the cloud?

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AWS Well-Architected Framework

64
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The root AWS account of your company was compromised and fortunately, there was no major data leak. What should you do to prevent this from happening again? (Select TWO.)

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  1. Configure a strong password policy for your users
  2. Enable MFA
65
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Which cloud computing advantage describes how you can easily deploy your application in multiple AWS regions with just a few clicks?

A

Go global in minutes

66
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What feature will allow you to label and sort your EC2 instances according to their deployment stage (development, staging, production)?

A

Instance tags

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