AWS EXAM SET 4 Flashcards
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.)
- Companies that migrate to the AWS Cloud reduce IT costs related to infrastructure, freeing the budget for reinvestment in other areas.
- Companies migrating to AWS Cloud can benefit from improving service level agreements (SLAs) while reducing risk and unplanned outages.
Which AWS storage service offers faster disk read and write performance and provides temporary block-level storage for your instance?
Instance Store
Where can the customer view his Reserved Instance usage for the past month?
AWS Billing Console
In the event of a disaster or an outage, AWS recommends that you spread your servers and databases at least in different _____?
Availability Zones
A company used to experience delays in developing new services due to the time it took to procure and set up on-premises servers. They recently migrated their infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. This change has allowed them to spin up testing environments in just days, accelerating the time to market for their services.
Which of the following AWS Cloud benefits is showcased in this particular scenario?
Agility
A number of servers in your on-premises data center have been collecting dust over the past few years. What is the benefit of moving to the Cloud in this case?
The ability to provision resources only when you need them
A customer is using Amazon S3 to store sprites of game characters. When players retrieve these sprites, they are temporarily stored on the player’s computer. The sprites are currently stored in the S3 Standard storage class. Which of the following options would you recommend to optimize storage costs?
Have the customer directly upload the sprites to S3 Standard – Infrequent Access.
Which of the following is not a standard design principle when designing systems in AWS?
Servers, not services
A customer has recently experienced an SQL injection attack on their web application’s database hosted in EC2. They submitted a complaint ticket to AWS. What should be the response from AWS?
AWS should reiterate that the customer is responsible for the security of their applications in the Cloud.
Which cloud computing advantage describes how you can easily deploy your application in multiple AWS regions with just a few clicks?
Go global in minutes
What does AWS do when a storage device reaches the end of its lifespan?
AWS follows a strict decommissioning process as described in compliance procedures
Which of the following actions does not affect costs when using Amazon S3?
Data transfer costs for uploading objects into your S3 bucket.
What AWS service can monitor the compliance status of your AWS resources against a set of compliance guidelines?
AWS Config
Which compliance requirement has AWS achieved that allows handling of medical information?
HIPPA
Which AWS service will allow you to serve your dynamic web content to users globally?
Amazon CloudFront
How is expense shifted when moving from traditional servers to the Cloud?
Capital expense is traded for variable expense
A startup is in need of a database that is capable of self-healing and has a high throughput. Which of the following services fits these criteria?
Amazon Aurora
What are the benefits of using Amazon DynamoDB as your database? (Select TWO.)
- You can store different kinds of unstructured data that would normally not be suitable for relational databases
- Database size scales automatically so you won’t have to worry about capacity
Which of the following is an example of having a highly available application in AWS?
Running your RDS instance with multi-AZ enabled
A company has a customized EC2 instance running in their latest web application. How can they create an exact copy of this instance in another region?
Create a golden AMI of the instance and copy it to the other region.
When is using Amazon RDS a better choice than using a local database?
When you want to offload administration responsibilities from yourself
What action can be taken to strengthen the security of an AWS root account in the event of suspected unauthorized usage?
Configure MFA for your root account
Which of the following RDS engines allows you to bring your own license (BYOL)?
Oracle
An organization plans to build an online application form with a detection capability to recognize attributes appearing in the images. This feature will remove forms that contain inappropriate photos uploaded by users. However, the development team has no experience building machine-learning models.
Which of the following services would you recommend?
Amazon Rekognition
What is the right arrangement of the AWS Global Infrastructure components according to their geographical coverage area size, in descending order?
Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations
Which of the following is true regarding the AWS Cost and Usage report? (Select TWO.)
- Allows you to load your cost and usage information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and AWS QuickSight
- Provides you with granular data about your AWS costs and usage