Batch #1 Flashcards

1
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Which AWS hybrid storage service enables a user’s on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage

A

AWS Storage Gateway

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A user has limited knowledge of AWS services, but wants to quickly deploy a scalable Node.js application in an Amazon VPC.

Which service should be used to deploy the application?

A

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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3
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A Service Control Policy (SCP) is used to manage the maximum available permissions and is associated with which of the following?

Service control policies (SCPs) manage permissions for which of the following?

A

AWS Organizations

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4
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What can be used to allow an application running on an Amazon EC2 instance to securely store data in an Amazon S3 bucket without using long-term credentials?

A

AWS IAM Role

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5
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Which AWS service should a Cloud Practitioner use to automate configuration management using Puppet?

A

AWS OpsWork

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6
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Which Amazon EC2 pricing model should be avoided if a workload cannot accept interruption if capacity becomes temporarily unavailable?

A

Spot Instances

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Which AWS-managed service can be used to process vast amounts of data using a hosted Hadoop framework?

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Amazon EMR; Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. EMR utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.

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8
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Which AWS service can be used to load data from Amazon S3, transform it, and move it to another destination?

A

Amazon Glue

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9
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Which AWS dashboard displays relevant and timely information to help users manage events in progress, and provides proactive notifications to help plan for scheduled activities?

A

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

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10
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Which AWS service does AWS Snowball Edge natively support?

A

Amazon EC2

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11
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A cloud practitioner needs to migrate a 70 TB of data from an on-premises data center into the AWS Cloud. The company has a slow and unreliable internet connection.

Which AWS service can the cloud practitioner leverage to transfer the data?

A

AWS Snowball; AWS Snowball is a method of transferring the data using a physical device. A Snowball Edge device can hold up to 80 TB so a single device can be used. This transfer method completely avoids the slow and unreliable internet connection

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12
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What are the names of two types of AWS Storage Gateway?

A

Gateway Virtual Tape Libriary and FileGateway

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13
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A Cloud Practitioner requires a simple method to identify if unrestricted access to resources has been allowed by security groups. Which service can the Cloud Practitioner use?

A

AWS Trusted Advisor

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14
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A Cloud Practitioner noticed that IP addresses that are owned by AWS are being used to attempt to flood ports on some of the company’s systems.

To whom should the issue be reported?

A

AWS Trust and Safety Team

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15
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Which AWS service is used to send both text and email messages from distributed applications?

A

AWS Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

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16
Q

Which of the following criteria are used to charge for Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes? (Select TWO)

A

Provisioned IOPS, Volume Type

17
Q

Which of the following AWS Support plans is the MOST cost-effective when getting enhanced technical support by Cloud Support Engineers?

A

Business

18
Q

Which of the following services are provided by Amazon Route 53

A

Health checks and monitoring and domain registration

19
Q

Which of the following is a repository service that helps in maintaining application dependencies via integration with commonly used package managers and build tools like Maven, Gradle, npm, etc?

A

AWS CodeArtifact

20
Q

Which of the following services/tools offers a user-friendly graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices without a need for command-line interface or REST APIs?

A

AWS OpsHub

21
Q

Which member of the AWS Snow Family is used by the Edge computing applications for IoT use cases for facilitating the collection and processing of data to gain immediate insights and then transfer the data to AWS?

A

AWS Snowcone

22
Q

A company is introducing a new product to their customers, and is expecting a surge in traffic to their web application. As part of their Enterprise Support plan, which of the following provides the company with architectural and scaling guidance?

A

AWS Infrastructure Event Management is a short-term engagement with AWS Support, included in the Enterprise-level Support product offering, and available for additional purchase for Business-level Support subscribers. AWS Infrastructure Event Management partners with your technical and project resources to gain a deep understanding of your use case and provide architectural and scaling guidance for an event. Common use-case examples for AWS Event Management include advertising launches, new product launches, and infrastructure migrations to AWS.

23
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Which of the following must an IAM user provide to interact with AWS services using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?

A

Access Keys

24
Q

EC2 instance pricing varies depending on many variables:

A
  • The buying option (On-demand, Savings Plans, Reserved, Spot, Dedicated)
  • Selected instance type
  • Selected Region
  • Number of instances
  • Load balancing
  • Allocated Elastic IP Addresses
25
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Which of the following AWS services is designed with native Multi-AZ fault tolerance in mind? (Choose TWO)

A

S3, DynamoDB

26
Q

What is the primary storage service used by Amazon RDS database instances?

A

EBS; EBS volumes are performant for your most demanding workloads, including mission-critical applications such as SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft products. Amazon EBS scales with your performance needs, whether you are supporting millions of gaming customers or billions of e-commerce transactions. A broad range of workloads, such as relational databases (including Amazon RDS databases) and non-relational databases (including Cassandra and MongoDB), enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows are widely deployed on Amazon EBS.

27
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A company is trying to analyze the costs applied to their AWS account recently. Which of the following provides them the most granular data about their AWS costs and usage?

A

AWS Cost & Usage Report