AWS Solution Architect Flashcards

Exam Prep

1
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Fully managed solution for deploying a multi-region, multi-master database

A

Dynamo DB

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Easiest way to process and analyze real-time, streaming data

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Kinesis Data Streams

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3
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Process standard SQL queries to process and ingest data from Kinesis Streams

A

Kinesis Data Analytics

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4
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Load Balancer with Dynamic Port Mapping

A

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

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5
Q

Authenticate using MFA device

A

AWS Management Console & AWS API

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6
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Inexpensive Active Directory-compatible service with common directory features

A

AWS Simple AD

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7
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Best Practices for Setting up Bastion Hosts

A

Deploy in 2 AZs, use Auto Scaling Group and Elastic IP address

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8
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AWS Service to send alerts via email or SNS topic for cost forecasting

A

AWS Budgets

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9
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Utilizes Hadoop framework and lunches all nodes for a given cluster in same EC2 AZ.

A

Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) cluster

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10
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Options for Storing CloudWatch log files

A

CloudWatch Logs & Splunk

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11
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How long data should be downloaded once you Amazon Glacier is achieved

A

24 Hours

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12
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For EC2 Reserved Instances capacity is reserved for what term?

A

1 or 2 years standard

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13
Q

Can EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) be placement groups?

A

Yes

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14
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What you call to a read only copy of RDS database?

A

Read Replicate

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15
Q

What protocols should be implemented on ELBs to start recording of IP addresses of the clients that connect to your web applications?

A

X-Forwarded-For request header and HTTP & Proxy Protocol and TCP

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16
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Implement connectivity between all of the VPCs across several locations around the world.

A

Use inter-region VPC peering & Implement a fully meshed architecture

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17
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AWS Service to convert audio and video file to smartphone and tablet compatible formats

A

Elastic Transcoder

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18
Q

Regional Edge Caches are ________ by default for CloudFront Distributions

A

Enabled

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19
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Audit trail for operations on the S3 buckets

A

Enable server access logging for the S3 buckets

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20
Q

DynamoDB is more cost effective for _____ heavy workloads ? / read or write ?

A

Read

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21
Q

How is DynamoDB priced?

A

It is priced based on provisioned throughput (read/write)

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22
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A web service that makes it easy to deploy and run Memcached or Redis protocol-compliant server nodes in the cloud.

A

ElastiCache

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23
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fully managed directory service in the AWS cloud.

A

AWS Simple AD

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24
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A solution for capturing, transforming and loading streaming data into an Amazon RedShift

A

1) Kinesis Data Firehose for capturing the data and loading it into RedShift
2) Lambda for transforming the data

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25
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a file-level storage solution

A

Amazon EFS

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26
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Service that always keeps three copies of your data and provides continuous/incremental backups

A

Redshift

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27
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Package, Test and Deploy the serverless application stack

A

AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model)

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28
Q

Default outbound rule of Security Group in VPC

A

Allows all traffic to all IP addresses.

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29
Q

Can you recover keys if you lose credentials of CloudHSM?

A

There is no way to recover your keys if you lose your credentials

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30
Q

AWS Service to securely connect the smart devices to cloud platform?

A

AWS IoT Core

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31
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_________ determines where network traffic is directed.

A

Route Tables

32
Q

ELB for extremely high throughput and extremely low latencies?

A

Network Load Balancer (NLB)

33
Q

Which AWS service can be used to automate the release process of Lambda applications?

A

1) AWS CodeDeploy
2) AWS CodePipeline

34
Q

AWS service that can be used to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud.

A

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

35
Q

AWS offering, which enables you to focus on building applications, while letting AWS handle

A

Amazon EKS managed Kubernetes

36
Q

List stream-based services

A

Kinesis & DynamoDB

37
Q

Service used for processing and analyze real-time, streaming data.

A

Kinesis Data Streams

38
Q

Service used for standard SQL queries to
process Kinesis data streams

A

Kinesis Data Analytics

39
Q

Service used for millions of messages

A

SQL Queue

40
Q

ELB Service that allows dynamic port mapping

A

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

41
Q

highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) service

A

Amazon Route 53

42
Q

AWS Service that lets you manage applications and servers on AWS and on-premises

A

AWS OpsWorks Stacks

43
Q

point-in-time copy of your data and can be used to enable disaster recovery, migrate data across regions and accounts

A

EBS Snapshots

44
Q

a virtual private server (VPS) provider

A

Amazon Lightsail

45
Q

A user who does not have AWS credentials or permission to access an S3 object can be granted temporary access by using a pre-signed URL

A
46
Q

What will be the effect upon an attached Elastic IP address if the instance is terminated by the user?

A

It remains attached to the instance.

47
Q

A collection of physical devices that help migrate large amounts of data into and out of the cloud without depending on networks.

A

The AWS Snow Family

48
Q

A hub-and-spoke VPN technology offered by AWS

A

AWS VPN CloudHub

49
Q

Identify the means to secure S3 data from both accidental deletion and overwrite.

A

Enable S3 versioning on the bucket

50
Q

Which AWS service records Application Program Interface (API) calls made on your account and delivers log files to your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket?

A

AWS CloudTrail

51
Q

Which service allows you to process nearly limitless streams of data in flight?

A

Amazon Kinesis Streams

52
Q

_________ allows you to ingest massive streams of data and store the data on Amazon S3 (as well as Amazon Redshift
and Amazon Elasticsearch).

A

Amazon Kinesis Firehose

53
Q

What PaaS service is used for automatic deployment of application?

A

AWS ElasticBeanstalk

54
Q

_________ is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration
change notifications to enable security and governance

A

AWS Config

55
Q

_________ is the fastest and simplest way to get an application up and running on AWS.

A

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

56
Q

AWS Cloud services is best suited as an alternative for storing session state information

A

Amazon DynamoDB

57
Q

Which type of DNS record should you use to resolve an IP address to a domain name?

A

A PTR record

58
Q

Which type of record is commonly used to route traffic to an IPv6 address?

A

An AAAA record

59
Q

Which DNS record must all zones have by default?

A

SOA

60
Q

What is the longest configurable message retention period for Amazon Simple Queue Service

A

14 days

60
Q

Default time for SQS Visibility timeout

A

30 seconds

60
Q

What is the default message retention period for Amazon Simple Queue Service

A

4 days

61
Q

Longest time available for SQS Visibility timeout

A

12 hours

62
Q

What are valid properties of SQS messages?

A

Body and Message ID

63
Q

How does Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) deliver messages?

A

Amazon SQS doesn’t guarantee delivery of your messages in any particular order.

64
Q

The maximum time for an Amazon SQS long polling timeout is __________ seconds

A

20 seconds

65
Q

What is the maximum size IP address range that you can have in an Amazon VPC ?

A

/16

66
Q

How long does Amazon CloudWatch keep metric data?

A

2 weeks

67
Q

___ is installed on ELB to accept incoming traffic

A

Listener

68
Q

____ is event based integrated serverless service

A

Lambda

69
Q

How AWS Charges Lambda Function?

A

It is per execution time

70
Q

How much max memory can be used in Lambda?

A

10240 MB i.e. 10 GB Max

71
Q

Maximum timeout for Lambda Function is _____ ?

A

15 Minutes

72
Q

Fully managed Service to manage API, publish, monitor and secure APIs at any ascal

A

API Gateway

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