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AWS Skills Center - CPC Questions Flashcards

Questions from the AWS AWS Skills Center

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Domain 1

Which of the following AWS services store data globally ? (Select TWO.)

  1. Amazon RDS
  2. Amazon VPC
  3. Amazon CloudFront
  4. Amazon EC2
  5. Amazon IAM
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3. Amazon CloudFront : Amazon CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .js, and image files, to your users. CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations.

5. Amazon IAM : With AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), you can specify who or what can access services and resources in AWS, centrally manage fine-grained permissions, and analyze access to refine permissions across AWS.

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Domain 1

You just saw a social media post is claiming that some AWS services are experiencing outages. How can you check to see if there is a service interruption?

  1. AWS Trusted Advisor
  2. AWS Organizations
  3. AWS Personnal Health Dashboard
  4. Amazon Inspector
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3. Amazon Personal Health Dashboard : AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and guidance for AWS events that might affect your environment. While the Service Health Dashboard shows the general status of AWS services, the Personal Health Dashboard provides proactive and transparent notifications about your specific AWS environment.

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Domain 1

You are reviewing AWS best practices. You monitor several performance characteristics and look for opportunities to implement automation to recover from failures. To which AWS Well Architected Framework pillar does this adhere?
1. Operational Excellence
2. Performance Efficiency
3. Cost optimization
4. Reliability

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4. Reliability : The Reliability pillar includes the reliability pillar encompasses the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to. this includes the ability to operate and test the workload through its total lifecycle.

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Domain 2

In Identity and Access Management, which term applies to a person or application that uses the AWS account root user, an IAM user, or an IAM role to sign in and make requests to AWS?

  1. Principal
  2. IAM Resource
  3. IAM Entity
  4. IAM Identity
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1. Principal : An entity in AWS that can perform actions and access resources. A principal can be an AWS account root user, an IAM user, or a role.

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Domain 3

A large real estate firm has decided to go all in with AWS. Their first step is to migrate 1.2 petabytes of data to AWS. Which AWS service can perform this type of migration?

  1. API Gateway
  2. AWS Data Exchange
  3. AWS Snowball
  4. AWS Database Migration Service
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3. AWS Snowball : AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport service that uses secure devices to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud.

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Domain 3

Developers in your company regularly use the AWS Developer Tool Suite to develop, build, and deploy their applications. You have been notified that there will soon be an audit of AWS account usage patterns. Which of the following will allow you to trace end-to-end user requests made in the applications the developers deploy?

  1. AWS CloudTrail
  2. Amazon CloudWatch
  3. AWS Inspector
  4. AWS X-Ray
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4. AWS X-Ray : provides trace information about any received responses and calls that an instrumented application makes, including to the following: Downstream AWS resources. Microservices. Databases. Web APIs.

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Domain 3

A Healthcare agency needs to store certain patient information for up to 10 years. To save cost, they want to archive this data to cheaper storage. The data needs to be retrieved within 12 hours. Which is the cheapest option?

  1. Amazon Lake Formation
  2. Amazon EFS
  3. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
  4. Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
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3. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive : S3 Glacier Deep Archive is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9s) of data durability and 99.99% availability by redundantly storing data across multiple physically separated AWS Availability Zones in a given year.

The Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class provides two retrieval options ranging from 12-48 hours.

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Domain 3

Your development team is troubleshooting a production microservices application. They are trying to understand all the underlying services the application is using. Which AWS service can help with this?

  1. AWS X-Ray
  2. AWS Inspector
  3. Amazon CloudWatch
  4. AWS Organizations
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1. AWS X-Ray : provides trace information about any received responses and calls that an instrumented application makes, including to the following: Downstream AWS resources. Microservices. Databases. Web APIs.

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Domain 3

You are notified that there is unusual behavior in your AWS account; you need to determine if there are any issues with AWS services that are your account. What section of the AWS portal helps you to inspect account alerts and find remediation guidance for your account?

  1. Amazon SNS
  2. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
  3. AWS CloudWatch
  4. AWS Service Health Dashboard
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2. AWS Personal Health Dashboard : AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and guidance for AWS events that might affect your environment. While the Service Health Dashboard shows the general status of AWS services, the Personal Health Dashboard provides proactive and transparent notifications about your specific AWS environment.

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Domain 4

Your company is looking for a storage solution for their database backups. In the event of a recovery, the backups need to be ready for restoration in 6 hours or less. What is the lowest cost AWS solution for this scenario?

  1. Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
  2. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
  3. Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access
  4. Amazon Glacier Flexible Retrieval
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4. Amazon Glacier Flexible Retrieval : S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval delivers low-cost storage, up to 10% lower cost (than S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval), for archive data that is accessed 1-2 times per year and is retrieved asynchronously.

*Minutes to 12 hours retrieval of data in a lower cost archive S3 storage class
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Expedited
1-5 minutes
Standard
3-5 hours
Bulk
5-12 hours

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Domain 1

Which AWS service can provide a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution?

  1. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  2. AWS Systems Manager
  3. Amazon WorkSpaces
  4. Amazon EC2
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  1. Amazon Workspaces : Amazon WorkSpaces enables you to provision virtual, cloud-based Microsoft Windows, Amazon Linux, or Ubuntu Linux desktops for your users, known as WorkSpaces.
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Domain 1

You are reviewing AWS best practices. You currently reviewing all EC2 instances to be sure we correctly sized them for the workloads they run.
To which AWS Well Architected Framework pillar does this adhere?

  1. Security
  2. Performance Efficiency
  3. Reliability
  4. Sustainability
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  1. Sustainability : The discipline of sustainability addresses the long-term environmental, economic, and societal impact of your business activities.
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Domain 1

Which of the following AWS services store data globally? (Select TWO.)

  1. Amazon EC2
  2. Amazon CloudFront
  3. Amazon VPC
  4. Amazon IAM
  5. Amazon RDS
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  1. Amazon CloudFront
  2. Amazon IAM
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Domain 1

Which of the following are advantages of cloud computing?
(Select TWO.)

  1. Spend smartly when running and maintaining data centers
  2. Stop calculating expense
  3. Benefit from extended reach of global services
  4. Benefit from massive economies of scale.
  5. Trade fixed expense for variable expense
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  1. Benefit from extended reach of global services
  2. Trade fixed expense for variable expense
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Domain 2

A software development team has requested IAM access to be able to work with AWS from the CLI. What will you provide these developers?

  1. Security Token
  2. Root user credentials
  3. User credentials
  4. Access Keys
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  1. Access Keys
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Domain 2

Developers in your company need to interact with AWS from the Command Line Interface. Which security item will you need to provide to the developers?

  1. Access Keys
  2. User credentials
  3. Federated identities
  4. Root account password
A
  1. Access Keys
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Domain 2

You are learning more about securing AWS resources. Which of the following allows you to group user accounts together and assign permissions to the group?

  1. Resource Groups
  2. Tagging
  3. AWS Organizations
  4. AWS IAM
A
  1. AWS IAM
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Domain 3

You have an application that communicates with AWS EC2 instances using Port 80 and Port 443. Which load balancer should you use to balance the traffic coming from this application?

  1. Network Load Balancer
  2. Classic Load Balancer
  3. Hardware Load Balancer
  4. Application Load Balancer
A
  1. Application Load Balancer
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Domain 3

You are running a proof of concept (POC) for an application. You do not want to have to configure servers to run the POC. Which AWS service allows you to run applications without configuring servers?

  1. Amazon ECS
  2. AWS AppSync
  3. AWS CloudFormation
  4. Elastic Beanstalk
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  1. Elastic Beanstalk : Elastic Beanstalk is a service for deploying and scaling web applications and services. Upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment—from capacity provisioning, load balancing, and auto scaling to application health monitoring.
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Domain 3

You have been asked to add a load balancer for an AWS application built several years ago using the EC2-classic network. Which Load Balancer will work with this application?

  1. None, the application needs to be upgraded
  2. Classic Load Balancer
  3. Network Load Balancer
  4. Application Load Balancer
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  1. Classic Load Balancer
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Domain 3

You need to stream data in real-time for a dashboard application running on Amazon EC2 instances. Which AWS service should you use?

  1. AWS Kinesis
  2. Amazon RedShift
  3. AWS Data Pipeline
  4. Amazon DynamoDB DAX
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  1. AWS Kinesis : Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that simplifies the capture, processing, and storage of data streams at any scale.
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Domain 3

Which AWS services can provide automatic replication across
Availability Zones? (Select TWO.)

  1. Amazon Aurora
  2. Amazon DynamoDB
  3. Amazon EC2
  4. Amazon Redshift
  5. Amazon S3
A
  1. Amazon Aurora
  2. Amazon DynamoDB
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Domain 4

Your CFO is concerned about tracking the usage of Reserved EC2 instances. Which AWS feature should be used to track reserved instance usage?

  1. AWS CloudTrail
  2. AWS Cost and Usage Report
  3. AWS Organizations
  4. AWS Trusted Advisor
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  1. AWS Cost and Usage Report

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