AWS TEST 1 Flashcards
Under the AWS shared responsibility model what is the customer responsible for? (choose 2)
- Configuration of Security Groups
- Encryption of Customer Data
What advantages does deploying Amazon CloudFront provide? (choose 2)
- Reduced Latency
- Improved Performance for end users
Which items can be configured from within the VPC management console? (choose 2)
- Security Groups
- Subnets
How does AWS assist organisations’ with their capacity requirements?
You don’t need to guess your capacity needs
Which feature of AWS allows you to deploy a new application for which the requirements may change over time?
Elasticity
What is the term for describing the action of automatically running scripts on Amazon EC2 instances when launched to install software?
Bootstrapping
Which AWS service allows you to connect to storage from on-premise servers using standard file protocols?
Amazon EFS
What considerations are there when choosing which region to use? (choose 2)
- Latency
- Data Soverneigty
Which service can be used to help you to migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely?
AWS DMS
What strategy can assist with allocating metadata to AWS resources for cost tracking and visibility?
Tagging
Under the shared responsibility model, what are examples of shared controls? (choose 2)
- Patch Management
- Configuration Management
Which statement below is incorrect in relation to Security Groups?
Stateless
Which service can be used to track the CPU usage of an EC2 instance?
Amazon Cloudwatch
Which type of Amazon Elastic Load Balancer operates at layer 7 of the OSI model only?
Application Load Balancer
Which AWS service is used to enable multi-factor authentication?
AWS IAM
Which service supports the resolution of public domain names to IP addresses or AWS resources?
Amazon Route 53
What is the most cost-effective support plan that should be selected to provide at least a 1-hour response time for a production system failure?
Business
Which of the following are features of Amazon CloudWatch? (choose 2)
- Can be access via commandline, AWS SDKs and the AWS Management Console
- Used to gain system wide visibility into resource utilization
Which statement below is incorrect in relation to Network ACLs?
Operate at the availability zone level
The AWS global infrastructure is composed of? (choose 2)
- Availability Zone
- Regions
What can you use to quickly connect your office securely to your Amazon VPC?
AWS managed VPN
Which storage service allows you to connect multiple EC2 instances concurrently using file-level protocols?
Amazon EFS
Which aspects of security on AWS are customer responsibilities? (choose 2)
- Setting up account password policies
- Server-side encryption
Which of the statements below is accurate regarding Amazon S3 buckets? (choose 2)
- buckets are region specific
- bucket names must be unique globally
Which service can be used for building and integrating loosely-coupled, distributed applications?
Amazon SNS
Which service can you use to provision a preconfigured server with little to no AWS experience?
Amazon Lightsail
Which services are integrated with KMS encryption? (choose 2)
- Amazon EBS
- Amazon RDS
Which AWS service allows you to use block-based volumes on-premise that are then asynchronously backed up to Amazon S3?
AWS Storage Gateway Volume Gateway
What is the most cost-effective EC2 pricing option to use for a non-critical overnight workload?
Spot
Which service records API activity on your account and delivers log files to an Amazon S3 bucket?
Amazon Cloudtrail
Which of the following statements is correct in relation to consolidated billing? (choose 2)
- One bill is provided per AWS Organization
- Paying accounts are independent and cannot access resources of other accounts
Which feature can you use to grant read/write access to an Amazon S3 bucket?
IAM Policy
What benefits does Amazon EC2 provide over using non-cloud servers? (choose 2)
- Inexpensive
- Elastic web-scale computing
Which AWS service can an organization use to automate operational tasks on EC2 instances using existing Chef cookbooks?
AWS OpsWorks
Which AWS database service supports complex queries and joins and is suitable for a transactional database deployment?
Amazon RDS
What benefits are provided by Amazon CloudFront? (choose 2)
- Built-in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Prevention
- Content is cached at Edge Locations for fast distribution to customers
For which services does Amazon not charge customers? (choose 2)
- Amazon VPC
- Amazon CloudFormation
