CLF-C02 Questions Flashcards

Question 1

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A company plans to use an Amazon Snowball Edge device to transfer files to the AWS Cloud.
Which activities related to a Snowball Edge device are available to the company at no cost?

A. Use of the Snowball Edge appliance for a 10-day period
B. The transfer of data out of Amazon S3 and to the Snowball Edge appliance
C. The transfer of data from the Snowball Edge appliance into Amazon S3
D. Daily use of the Snowball Edge appliance after 10 days

Answer

A

C. The transfer of data from the Snowball Edge appliance into Amazon S3

Data transfer IN to Amazon S3 is $0.00 per GB (except for small files as explained below).
Data transfer OUT of Amazon S3 is priced by region. See data transfer OUT pricing by region in the table below.
https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/pricing/

Question 2

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A company has deployed applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to assess application vulnerabilities and must identify infrastructure deployments that do not meet best practices.
Which AWS service can the company use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. Amazon Inspector
C. AWS Config
D. Amazon GuardDuty

Answer

A

B. Amazon Inspector

AWS Inspector automatically assess vulnerability and unintended network exposure. It assess based on known vulnerabilities and then notify to AWS resources owner for remediate.
https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/features/?nc=sn&loc=2&refid=3da0c7fb-0599-4e9f-a78c-2df84cba096e

Question 3

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A company has a centralized group of users with large file storage requirements that have exceeded the space available on premises. The company wants to extend its file storage capabilities for this group while retaining the performance benefit of sharing content locally.
What is the MOST operationally efficient AWS solution for this scenario?

A. Create an Amazon S3 bucket for each user. Mount each bucket by using an S3 file system mounting utility.
B. Configure and deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway. Connect each user’s workstation to the file gateway.
C. Move each user’s working environment to Amazon WorkSpaces. Set up an Amazon WorkDocs account for each user.
D. Deploy an Amazon EC2 instance and attach an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned IOPS volume. Share the EBS volume directly with the users.

Answer

A

B. Configure and deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway. Connect each user’s workstation to the file gateway.

AWS Storage Gateway is a set of hybrid cloud storage services that provide on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.
https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/

Question 4

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According to security best practices, how should an Amazon EC2 instance be given access to an Amazon S3 bucket?

A. Hard code an IAM user’s secret key and access key directly in the application, and upload the file.
B. Store the IAM user’s secret key and access key in a text file on the EC2 instance, read the keys, then upload the file.
C. Have the EC2 instance assume a role to obtain the privileges to upload the file.
D. Modify the S3 bucket policy so that any service can upload to it at any time.

Answer

A

C. Have the EC2 instance assume a role to obtain the privileges to upload the file.

The recommended security best practice for giving an Amazon EC2 instance access to an Amazon S3 bucket is option C: Have the EC2 instance assume a role to obtain the privileges to upload the file. This involves using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to grant temporary permissions to the EC2 instance, rather than hard-coding or storing access keys directly in the application or on the instance.

Question 5

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Which option is a customer responsibility when using Amazon DynamoDB under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?

A. Physical security of DynamoDB
B. Patching of DynamoDB
C. Access to DynamoDB tables
D. Encryption of data at rest in DynamoDB

Answer

A

C. Access to DynamoDB tables

Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, the responsibility for certain aspects of a service is divided between AWS and the customer. Regarding Amazon DynamoDB:

The customer is responsible for:

C. Access to DynamoDB tables

This means that the customer is responsible for managing and controlling access to their DynamoDB tables, including setting up appropriate IAM (Identity and Access Management) permissions and policies.

Question 6

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Which option is a perspective that includes foundational capabilities of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)?

A. Sustainability
B. Performance efficiency
C. Governance
D. Reliability

Answer

A

C. Governance

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework perspectives are -
- Business
- People
- Governance
- Platform
- Security
- Operations

https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-adoption-framework/

Question 7

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A company is running and managing its own Docker environment on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants an alternative to help manage cluster size, scheduling, and environment maintenance.
Which AWS service meets these requirements?

A. AWS Lambda
B. Amazon RDS
C. AWS Fargate
D. Amazon Athena

Answer

A

C. AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate is a technology that you can use with Amazon ECS to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters of Amazon EC2 instances.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/userguide/what-is-fargate.html

Question 8

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A company wants to run a NoSQL database on Amazon EC2 instances.
Which task is the responsibility of AWS in this scenario?

A. Update the guest operating system of the EC2 instances.
B. Maintain high availability at the database layer.
C. Patch the physical infrastructure that hosts the EC2 instances.
D. Configure the security group firewall.

Answer

A

C. Patch the physical infrastructure that hosts the EC2 instances.

Responsibility of AWS: AWS manages the physical infrastructure, including patching and updates at the hardware level. Customers do not have direct control over the physical infrastructure.

Question 9

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Which AWS services or tools can identify rightsizing opportunities for Amazon EC2 instances? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Billing Conductor
C. Amazon CodeGuru
D. Amazon SageMaker
E. AWS Compute Optimizer

Answer

A

A. AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer provides cost and usage reports, allowing you to analyze your historical costs and usage patterns. While it doesn’t directly identify rightsizing opportunities, it can help you understand your current spending and identify areas where rightsizing might be beneficial.

E. AWS Compute Optimizer

AWS Compute Optimizer is a service that recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads. It analyzes the historical utilization of your Amazon EC2 instances and provides recommendations for rightsizing, which involves changing the instance type to a better fit based on the workload’s requirements.

Question 10

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Which of the following are benefits of using AWS Trusted Advisor? (Choose two.)

A. Providing high-performance container orchestration
B. Creating and rotating encryption keys
C. Detecting underutilized resources to save costs
D. Improving security by proactively monitoring the AWS environment
E. Implementing enforced tagging across AWS resources

Answer

A

C. Detecting underutilized resources to save costs
D. Improving security by proactively monitoring the AWS environment

C & D are correct.

Benefits of Trusted Advisor:
* Cost optimization - Trusted Advisor can help you save cost with actionable recommendations by analyzing usage, configuration and spend.
* Performance - Trusted Advisor can help improve the performance of your services with actionable recommendations by analyzing usage and configuration.
* Security - Trusted Advisor can help improve the security of your AWS environment by suggesting foundational security best practices curated by security experts.
* Fault tolerance - Trusted Advisor can help improve the reliability of your services.
* Service quotas - Service quotas are the maximum number of resources that you can create in an AWS account.

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-advisor/

Question 11

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Which of the following is an advantage that users experience when they move on-premises workloads to the AWS Cloud?

A. Elimination of expenses for running and maintaining data centers
B. Price discounts that are identical to discounts from hardware providers
C. Distribution of all operational controls to AWS
D. Elimination of operational expenses

Answer

A

A. Elimination of expenses for running and maintaining data centers.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/six-advantages-of-cloud-computing.html

Question 12

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A company wants to manage deployed IT services and govern its infrastructure as code (IaC) templates.
Which AWS service will meet this requirement?

A. AWS Resource Explorer
B. AWS Service Catalog
C. AWS Organizations
D. AWS Systems Manager

Answer

A

B. AWS Service Catalog

AWS Resource Explorer: Search for and discover relevant resources across AWS
AWS Service Catalog: Create, share, organize, and govern your curated IaC templates
AWS Organizations: An account management service that lets you consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization and centrally manage.
AWS Systems Manager: Manage your resources on AWS and in multicloud and hybrid environments.

Question 13

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Which AWS service or tool helps users visualize, understand, and manage spending and usage over time?

A. AWS Organizations
B. AWS Pricing Calculator
C. AWS Cost Explorer
D. AWS Service Catalog

Answer

A

C. AWS Cost Explorer: Visualizes, understands, and manages AWS spending and usage over time. Provides detailed insights, historical data, and forecasting.

A. AWS Organizations: Manages multiple AWS accounts in an organization, aiding in billing and cost allocation. Not focused on detailed spending visualization.

B. AWS Pricing Calculator: Estimates AWS service costs based on configurations. Lacks detailed historical spending and usage insights.

C. AWS Cost Explorer: Visualizes, understands, and manages AWS spending and usage over time. Provides detailed insights, historical data, and forecasting.

D. AWS Service Catalog: Manages approved IT service catalogs but doesn’t focus on detailed cost visualization.

Question 14

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A company is using a central data platform to manage multiple types of data for its customers. The company wants to use AWS services to discover, transform, and visualize the data.
Which combination of AWS services should the company use to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Glue
B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
C. Amazon Redshift
D. Amazon QuickSight
E. Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)

Answer

A

A. AWS Glue
D. Amazon QuickSight

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development.
https://aws.amazon.com/glue/

Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale. With QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, paginated reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries.
https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/

Question 15

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A global company wants to migrate its third-party applications to the AWS Cloud. The company wants help from a global team of experts to complete the migration faster and more reliably in accordance with AWS internal best practices.
Which AWS service or resource will meet these requirements?

A. AWS Support
B. AWS Professional Services
C. AWS Launch Wizard
D. AWS Managed Services (AMS)

Answer

A

B. AWS Professional Services

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that can help you realize your desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with your team and your chosen member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute your enterprise cloud computing initiatives.
https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/

Question 16

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An e-learning platform needs to run an application for 2 months each year. The application will be deployed on Amazon EC2 instances. Any application downtime during those 2 months must be avoided.
Which EC2 purchasing option will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. Reserved Instances
B. Dedicated Hosts
C. Spot Instances
D. On-Demand Instances

Answer

A

D. On-Demand Instances

“On-Demand Instances are recommended for:
* Users that prefer the low cost and flexibility of EC2 without any upfront payment or long-term commitment
* Applications with short-term, spiky, or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted
* Applications being developed or tested on EC2 for the first time”

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

Question 17

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A developer wants to deploy an application quickly on AWS without manually creating the required resources.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

A. Amazon EC2
B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
C. AWS CodeBuild
D. Amazon Personalize

Answer

A

B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

With Elastic Beanstalk, you can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud without having to learn about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Elastic Beanstalk reduces management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring.

Question 18

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A company is storing sensitive customer data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to protect the data from accidental deletion or overwriting.
Which S3 feature should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. S3 Lifecycle rules
B. S3 Versioning
C. S3 bucket policies
D. S3 server-side encryption

Answer

A

B. S3 Versioning

Versioning in Amazon S3 is a means of keeping multiple variants of an object in the same bucket. You can use the S3 Versioning feature to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your buckets.
Versioning-enabled buckets can help you recover objects from accidental deletion or overwrite. For example, if you delete an object, Amazon S3 inserts a delete marker instead of removing the object permanently.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Versioning.html

Question 19

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Which AWS service provides the ability to manage infrastructure as code?

A. AWS CodePipeline
B. AWS CodeDeploy
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. AWS CloudFormation

Answer

A

D. AWS CloudFormation

The Correct answer is D.

AWS CloudFormation lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code.
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

Question 20

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An online gaming company needs to choose a purchasing option to run its Amazon EC2 instances for 1 year. The web traffic is consistent, and any increases in traffic are predictable. The EC2 instances must be online and available without any disruption.
Which EC2 instance purchasing option will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Spot Fleet

Answer

A

B. Reserved Instances

Reserved Instances (RIs) provide a significant discount (compared to On-Demand Instances) in exchange for a commitment of one or three years. They are suitable for consistent, predictable workloads. RIs offer cost-effectiveness while ensuring the EC2 instances are online and available without disruptions.

Question 21

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Which AWS service or feature allows a user to establish a dedicated network connection between a company’s on-premises data center and the AWS Cloud?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. VPC peering
C. AWS VPN
D. Amazon Route 53

Answer

A

A. AWS Direct Connect

Create a dedicated network connection to AWS.
The AWS Direct Connect cloud service is the shortest path to your AWS resources. While in transit, your network traffic remains on the AWS global network and never touches the public internet.
https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/

Question 22

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Which option is a physical location of the AWS global infrastructure?

A. AWS DataSync
B. AWS Region
C. Amazon Connect
D. AWS Organizations

Answer

A

B. AWS Region

AWS has the concept of a Region, which is a physical location around the world where we cluster data centers. We call each group of logical data centers an Availability Zone. Each AWS Region consists of a minimum of three, isolated, and physically separate AZs within a geographic area.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az/

Question 23

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A company wants to protect its AWS Cloud information, systems, and assets while performing risk assessment and mitigation tasks.
Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework is supported by these goals?

A. Reliability
B. Security
C. Operational excellence
D. Performance efficiency

Answer

A

B. Security

Security: Focuses on protecting information, systems, and assets. It involves implementing best practices for identity and access management, data protection, and risk assessment and mitigation.

Question 24

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What is the purpose of having an internet gateway within a VPC?

A. To create a VPN connection to the VPC
B. To allow communication between the VPC and the internet
C. To impose bandwidth constraints on internet traffic
D. To load balance traffic from the internet across Amazon EC2 instances

Answer

A

B. To allow communication between the VPC and the internet

“An internet gateway is a horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available VPC component that allows communication between your VPC and the internet.”

Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html

Question 25

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A company is running a monolithic on-premises application that does not scale and is difficult to maintain. The company has a plan to migrate the application to AWS and divide the application into microservices.
Which best practice of the AWS Well-Architected Framework is the company following with this plan?

A. Integrate functional testing as part of AWS deployment.
B. Use automation to deploy changes.
C. Deploy the application to multiple locations.
D. Implement loosely coupled dependencies.

Answer

A

D. Implement loosely coupled dependencies.

Dependencies such as queuing systems, streaming systems, workflows, and load balancers are loosely coupled. Loose coupling helps isolate behavior of a component from other components that depend on it, increasing resiliency and agility.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/rel_prevent_interaction_failure_loosely_coupled_system.html

Question 26

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A company has an AWS account. The company wants to audit its password and access key rotation details for compliance purposes.
Which AWS service or tool will meet this requirement?

A. IAM Access Analyzer
B. AWS Artifact
C. IAM credential report
D. AWS Audit Manager

Answer

A

C. IAM credential report

You can use credential reports to assist in your auditing and compliance efforts. You can use the report to audit the effects of credential lifecycle requirements, such as password and access key updates.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_getting-report.html

Question 27

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A company wants to receive a notification when a specific AWS cost threshold is reached.
Which AWS services or tools can the company use to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
B. AWS Budgets
C. Cost Explorer
D. Amazon CloudWatch
E. AWS Cost and Usage Report

Answer

A

B. AWS Budgets
D. Amazon CloudWatch

B. AWS Budgets: AWS Budgets is a service that allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets for your AWS resources. You can configure a budget with a specific threshold and define actions, such as sending notifications, when that threshold is reached.

D. Amazon CloudWatch: Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service that can be used to collect and track metrics, logs, and events from various AWS resources. It supports setting up alarms based on cost metrics, so you can create an alarm for a specific cost threshold and configure it to send notifications when the threshold is breached.

Question 28

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Which AWS service or resource provides answers to the most frequently asked security-related questions that AWS receives from its users?

A. AWS Artifact
B. Amazon Connect
C. AWS Chatbot
D. AWS Knowledge Center

Answer

A

D. AWS Knowledge Center

The AWS Knowledge Center helps answer the questions most frequently asked by AWS Support customers.

Question 29

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Which tasks are customer responsibilities, according to the AWS shared responsibility model? (Choose two.)

A. Configure the AWS provided security group firewall.
B. Classify company assets in the AWS Cloud.
C. Determine which Availability Zones to use for Amazon S3 buckets.
D. Patch or upgrade Amazon DynamoDB.
E. Select Amazon EC2 instances to run AWS Lambda on.

Answer

A

A. Configure the AWS provided security group firewall.
B. Classify company assets in the AWS Cloud.

A. Configure the AWS provided security group firewall: Customers are responsible for configuring and managing security group firewalls to control inbound and outbound traffic to their AWS resources.

B. Classify company assets in the AWS Cloud: Asset classification is typically a customer responsibility as part of their data governance and security practices.

The other options are not accurate in the context of customer responsibilities:

C. Determine which Availability Zones to use for Amazon S3 buckets: This is more of a design decision and falls under the AWS management responsibilities.

D. Patch or upgrade Amazon DynamoDB: Patching or upgrading services like Amazon DynamoDB is managed by AWS. Customers are not responsible for patching or upgrading the underlying infrastructure or services provided by AWS.

E. Select Amazon EC2 instances to run AWS Lambda on: The selection of underlying infrastructure for serverless services like AWS Lambda is managed by AWS. Customers focus on writing and deploying functions without managing the underlying instances.

Question 30

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Which of the following are pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Choose two.)

A. Availability
B. Reliability
C. Scalability
D. Responsive design
E. Operational excellence

Answer

A

B. Reliability
E. Operational excellence

There are 6 pillars -
1. Operational excellence
2. Security
3. Reliability
4. Performance efficiency
5. Cost optimization
6. Sustainability

Question 31

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

A. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
B. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
C. Amazon CloudWatch alerts
D. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

Answer

A

A. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) sends notifications two ways, A2A and A2P. A2A provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications. These applications include Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, and other HTTPS endpoints. A2P functionality lets you send messages to your customers with SMS texts, push notifications, and email.
https://aws.amazon.com/sns/

Question 32

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A user needs programmatic access to AWS resources through the AWS CLI or the AWS API.
Which option will provide the user with the appropriate access?

A. Amazon Inspector
B. Access keys
C. SSH public keys
D. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys

Answer

A

B. Access keys

“Access keys are long-term credentials for an IAM user or the AWS account root user. You can use access keys to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI or AWS API (directly or using the AWS SDK).”
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html

Question 33

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A company runs thousands of simultaneous simulations using AWS Batch. Each simulation is stateless, is fault tolerant, and runs for up to 3 hours.
Which pricing model enables the company to optimize costs and meet these requirements?

A. Reserved Instances
B. Spot Instances
C. On-Demand Instances
D. Dedicated Instances

Answer

A

B. Spot Instances

Spot Instances: Allow users to bid for unused EC2 capacity, potentially providing cost savings. They are suitable for workloads that are fault-tolerant and can handle interruptions. Spot Instances are a good fit for the described scenario of thousands of simultaneous simulations.

Question 34

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What does the concept of agility mean in AWS Cloud computing? (Choose two.)

A. The speed at which AWS resources are implemented
B. The speed at which AWS creates new AWS Regions
C. The ability to experiment quickly
D. The elimination of wasted capacity
E. The low cost of entry into cloud computing

Answer

A

A. The speed at which AWS resources are implemented: Agility in AWS refers to the ability to quickly provision and implement resources, allowing users to adapt to changing requirements and scale resources as needed.

C. The ability to experiment quickly: Agility involves the capability to experiment rapidly, enabling users to innovate, test ideas, and iterate quickly in the cloud environment.

The other options are described as follows:

B. The speed at which AWS creates new AWS Regions: The creation of new AWS Regions is not typically within the control of individual AWS customers. AWS decides when and where to create new regions based on business considerations.

D. The elimination of wasted capacity: While efficiency and cost optimization are important aspects of cloud computing, the elimination of wasted capacity is not a direct aspect of the concept of agility.

E. The low cost of entry into cloud computing: While cost considerations are important, the low cost of entry is not a defining aspect of agility. Agility focuses more on speed, flexibility, and the ability to respond quickly to changing demands.

Question 35

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A company needs to block SQL injection attacks.
Which AWS service or feature can meet this requirement?

A. AWS WAF
B. AWS Shield
C. Network ACLs
D. Security groups

Answer

A

A. AWS WAF

A. AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall): A web application firewall that allows users to create custom rules to filter and monitor HTTP or HTTPS requests to a web application. It helps protect against common web exploits, including SQL injection attacks, by allowing the blocking or rate-limiting of malicious requests.

Question 36

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Which AWS service or feature identifies whether an Amazon S3 bucket or an IAM role has been shared with an external entity?

A. AWS Service Catalog
B. AWS Systems Manager
C. AWS IAM Access Analyzer
D. AWS Organizations

Answer

A

C. AWS IAM Access Analyzer

IAM Access Analyzer helps identify resources in your organization and accounts that are shared with an external entity.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/what-is-access-analyzer.html

Question 37

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A cloud practitioner needs to obtain AWS compliance reports before migrating an environment to the AWS Cloud.
How can these reports be generated?

A. Contact the AWS Compliance team.
B. Download the reports from AWS Artifact.
C. Open a case with AWS Support.
D. Generate the reports with Amazon Macie.

Answer

A

B. Download the reports from AWS Artifact.

AWS Artifact is a portal that provides access to various compliance reports, including certifications, attestations, and other relevant documents. You can download these reports directly from AWS Artifact.

Question 38

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An ecommerce company has migrated its IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud.
Which cost is the company’s direct responsibility?

A. Cost of application software licenses
B. Cost of the hardware infrastructure on AWS
C. Cost of power for the AWS servers
D. Cost of physical security for the AWS data center

Answer

A

A. Cost of application software licenses

A. Cost of application software licenses: In the AWS Cloud, customers are responsible for the cost of application software licenses. This includes any software licenses required to run applications on AWS services. AWS provides the underlying infrastructure, and customers are responsible for licensing their application software.

Question 39

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A company is setting up AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) on an AWS account.
Which recommendation complies with IAM security best practices?

A. Use the account root user access keys for administrative tasks.
B. Grant broad permissions so that all company employees can access the resources they need.
C. Turn on multi-factor authentication (MFA) for added security during the login process.
D. Avoid rotating credentials to prevent issues in production applications.

Answer

A

C. Turn on multi-factor authentication (MFA) for added security during the login process.

C. Turn on multi-factor authentication (MFA) for added security during the login process: Enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a security best practice. It adds an extra layer of protection by requiring users to provide a second form of authentication in addition to their password. This helps prevent unauthorized access even if credentials are compromised.

Question 40

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Elasticity in the AWS Cloud refers to which of the following? (Choose two.)

A. How quickly an Amazon EC2 instance can be restarted
B. The ability to rightsize resources as demand shifts
C. The maximum amount of RAM an Amazon EC2 instance can use
D. The pay-as-you-go billing model
E. How easily resources can be procured when they are needed

Answer

A

B. The ability to rightsize resources as demand shifts
E. How easily resources can be procured when they are needed

B. The ability to rightsize resources as demand shifts: Elasticity involves the ability to dynamically adjust the size of resources (e.g., adding or removing instances) based on changing demand.

E. How easily resources can be procured when they are needed: Elasticity involves the ease with which resources can be provisioned or de-provisioned based on changing demand, providing flexibility and scalability.

Question 41

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Which service enables customers to audit API calls in their AWS accounts?

A. AWS CloudTrail
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS X-Ray

Answer

A

A. AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail is a service that records all API calls made on your AWS account. It provides a detailed history of events, including who made the call, what actions were performed, and from which IP address the call originated. This audit trail is valuable for security, compliance, troubleshooting, and monitoring purposes, and it helps you maintain visibility into how your AWS resources are being used.

Question 42

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What is a customer responsibility when using AWS Lambda according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Managing the code within the Lambda function
B. Confirming that the hardware is working in the data center
C. Patching the operating system
D. Shutting down Lambda functions when they are no longer in use

Answer

A

A. Managing the code within the Lambda function

Customers are responsible for developing, deploying, and managing the code and dependencies within the Lambda function.

Question 43

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A company has 5 TB of data stored in Amazon S3. The company plans to occasionally run queries on the data for analysis.
Which AWS service should the company use to run these queries in the MOST cost-effective manner?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Athena
C. Amazon Kinesis
D. Amazon RDS

Answer

A

B. Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is a serverless query service that allows you to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL queries. You don’t need to set up or manage any infrastructure; you only pay for the queries you run. It is well-suited for ad-hoc and exploratory analysis on data stored in S3 without the need for maintaining a separate database.

Question 44

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Which AWS service can be used at no additional cost?

A. Amazon SageMaker
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Organizations
D. Amazon CloudWatch

Answer

A

C. AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations is an account management service that enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. AWS Organizations is offered at no additional charge. You are charged only for AWS resources that users and roles in your member accounts use. For example, you are charged the standard fees for Amazon EC2 instances that are used by users or roles in your member accounts.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_introduction.html

Question 45

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Which AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) capability belongs to the people perspective?

A. Data architecture
B. Event management
C. Cloud fluency
D. Strategic partnership

Answer

A

C. Cloud fluency

Cloud fluency belongs to the people perspective within the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/people-perspective.html

Question 46

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A company wants to make an upfront commitment for continued use of its production Amazon EC2 instances in exchange for a reduced overall cost.
Which pricing options meet these requirements with the LOWEST cost? (Choose two.)

A. Spot Instances
B. On-Demand Instances
C. Reserved Instances
D. Savings Plans
E. Dedicated Hosts

Answer

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C. Reserved Instances
D. Savings Plans

C. Reserved Instances: Reserved Instances provide a significant discount (up to 75%) compared to On-Demand pricing in exchange for a one-time upfront payment and/or a lower hourly rate. The more you commit, the greater the discount.

D. Savings Plans: Savings Plans offer flexible pricing and savings on your AWS usage, with discounts of up to 72% compared to On-Demand pricing. With Savings Plans, you commit to a certain amount of usage (measured in dollars per hour) for a one- or three-year term, and receive a lower rate for that usage.

Question 47

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A company wants to migrate its on-premises relational databases to the AWS Cloud. The company wants to use infrastructure as close to its current geographical location as possible.
Which AWS service or resource should the company use to select its Amazon RDS deployment area?

A. Amazon Connect
B. AWS Wavelength
C. AWS Regions
D. AWS Direct Connect

Answer

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C. AWS Regions

AWS Regions are geographical locations where AWS data centers (Availability Zones) are situated. When deploying Amazon RDS, you can choose the AWS Region that is geographically closest to your current location to reduce latency and improve performance.

Question 48

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A company is exploring the use of the AWS Cloud, and needs to create a cost estimate for a project before the infrastructure is provisioned.
Which AWS service or feature can be used to estimate costs before deployment?

A. AWS Free Tier
B. AWS Pricing Calculator
C. AWS Billing and Cost Management
D. AWS Cost and Usage Report

Answer

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AWS Pricing Calculator

The AWS Pricing Calculator is a tool that allows users to estimate the cost of using AWS services based on their projected usage. It provides a detailed breakdown of costs for different services and configurations.

Question 49

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A company is building an application that needs to deliver images and videos globally with minimal latency.
Which approach can the company use to accomplish this in a cost effective manner?

A. Deliver the content through Amazon CloudFront.
B. Store the content on Amazon S3 and enable S3 cross-region replication.
C. Implement a VPN across multiple AWS Regions.
D. Deliver the content through AWS PrivateLink.

Answer

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A. Deliver the content through Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates the delivery of static and dynamic content, including images and videos, to users globally. It helps minimize latency by caching content at edge locations worldwide.

Question 50

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Which option is a benefit of the economies of scale based on the advantages of cloud computing?

A. The ability to trade variable expense for fixed expense
B. Increased speed and agility
C. Lower variable costs over fixed costs
D. Increased operational costs across data centers

Answer

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C. Lower variable costs over fixed costs

This is a key benefit of economies of scale. With cloud computing, as usage increases, the cost per unit of resources tends to decrease due to the efficiency gained from large-scale operations.

Question 51

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Which of the following is a software development framework that a company can use to define cloud resources as code and provision the resources through AWS CloudFormation?

A. AWS CLI
B. AWS Developer Center
C. AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
D. AWS CodeStar

Answer

A

C. AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

AWS CDK is a software development framework that enables developers to define infrastructure as code (IaC) using familiar programming languages like TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, and more.

Question 52

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A company is developing an application that uses multiple AWS services. The application needs to use temporary, limited-privilege credentials for authentication with other AWS APIs.
Which AWS service or feature should the company use to meet these authentication requirements?

A. Amazon API Gateway
B. IAM users
C. AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS)
D. IAM instance profiles

Answer

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AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS)

AWS STS is the correct choice for providing temporary, limited-privilege credentials. It enables you to request temporary credentials with a specific set of permissions (via roles), which can be used to authenticate with other AWS services. This is commonly used for scenarios where you need to grant temporary access to resources without exposing long-term credentials.

Question 53

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Which AWS service is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) service that aggregates alerts from various AWS services and partner products in a standardized format?

A. AWS Security Hub
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon EventBridge
D. Amazon GuardDuty

Answer

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A. AWS Security Hub

“AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) service that performs automated, continuous security best practice checks against your AWS resources to help you identify misconfigurations, and aggregates your security alerts (i.e. findings) in a standardized format so that you can more easily enrich, investigate, and remediate them.”

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/security-hub/features/?nc=sn&loc=2

Question 54

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Which AWS service is always provided at no charge?

A. Amazon S3
B. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
C. Elastic Load Balancers
D. AWS WAF

Answer

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B. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

“IAM is a feature of your AWS account and is offered at no additional charge.”

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/iam/getting-started/?nc=sn&loc=3

Question 55

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To reduce costs, a company is planning to migrate a NoSQL database to AWS.
Which AWS service is fully managed and can automatically scale throughput capacity to meet database workload demands?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Aurora
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon RDS

Answer

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C. Amazon DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a non-relational database which means it is a NONSQL database.

Aurora and RDS are relational, as for Redshift that is for exabytes of data and complex queries.

Question 56

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A company is using Amazon DynamoDB.
Which task is the company’s responsibility, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Patch the operating system.
B. Provision hosts.
C. Manage database access permissions.
D. Secure the operating system.

Answer

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C. Manage database access permissions.

This is the customer’s responsibility. Customers are responsible for defining and managing access permissions to their DynamoDB tables, specifying who can perform various operations on the tables.

Question 57

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A company has a test AWS environment. A company is planning on testing an application within AWS. The application testing can be interrupted and does not need to run continuously.
Which Amazon EC2 purchasing option will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Dedicated Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Reserved Instances

Answer

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C. Spot Instances

Spot Instances are a good fit for stateless, fault-tolerant workloads that can be interrupted without any impact on the overall job.

Question 58

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Which AWS service gives users the ability to discover and protect sensitive data that is stored in Amazon S3 buckets?

A. Amazon Macie
B. Amazon Detective
C. Amazon GuardDuty
D. AWS IAM Access Analyzer

Answer

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A. Amazon Macie

Amazon Macie: automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII), in Amazon S3.

Question 59

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Which of the following services can be used to block network traffic to an instance? (Choose two.)

A. Security groups
B. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs
C. Network ACLs
D. Amazon CloudWatch
E. AWS CloudTrail

Answer

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A. Security groups
C. Network ACLs

Security groups are stateful firewalls that control inbound and outbound traffic at the instance level. You can configure security groups to allow or deny specific types of network traffic to and from your instances.

Network ACLs (Access Control Lists) are stateless firewalls that control traffic at the subnet level. Network ACLs define rules to allow or deny traffic based on source and destination IP addresses, ports, and protocols.

Question 60

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Which AWS service can identify when an Amazon EC2 instance was terminated?

A. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Compute Optimizer
D. Amazon EventBridge

Answer

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B. AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail is a service that records all API activity in your AWS account, including the termination of EC2 instances. It creates log entries for various events, providing an audit trail of actions taken on resources. By reviewing CloudTrail logs, you can identify when an EC2 instance was terminated, who initiated the termination, and other relevant details about the event.

Question 61

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Which of the following is a fully managed MySQL-compatible database?

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Redshift
D. Amazon Aurora

Answer

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D. Amazon Aurora

Amazon S3: Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an object storage service and is not a database.

Amazon DynamoDB: A fully managed NoSQL database service, but it is not MySQL-compatible.

Amazon Redshift: A fully managed data warehouse service, not a MySQL-compatible database.

Amazon Aurora: A fully managed relational database engine compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. It offers the performance and availability of commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases.
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Question 62

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Which AWS service supports a hybrid architecture that gives users the ability to extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to data centers, co-location environments, or on-premises facilities?

A. AWS Snowmobile
B. AWS Local Zones
C. AWS Outposts
D. AWS Fargate

Answer

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C. AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts enables you to run AWS infrastructure and services on premises while seamlessly connecting to the AWS cloud. This service extends the AWS ecosystem to your on-premises locations, allowing you to take advantage of cloud benefits while addressing the requirements of data residency, low-latency applications, and specific regulatory needs in hybrid environments.

Question 63

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Which AWS service can run a managed PostgreSQL database that provides online transaction processing (OLTP)?

A. Amazon DynamoDB
B. Amazon Athena
C. Amazon RDS
D. Amazon EMR

Answer

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C. Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)

Amazon RDS supports various database engines, including PostgreSQL, and offers a managed database service suitable for OLTP workloads. With Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, you can easily set up, operate, and scale a PostgreSQL database without the administrative overhead of managing the infrastructure.

Question 64

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A company wants to provide managed Windows virtual desktops and applications to its remote employees over secure network connections.
Which AWS services can the company use to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Connect
B. Amazon AppStream 2.0
C. Amazon WorkSpaces
D. AWS Site-to-Site VPN
E. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Answer

A

B. Amazon AppStream 2.0
C. Amazon WorkSpaces

B. Amazon AppStream 2.0: Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a service that enables you to stream desktop applications to users through web browsers. You can deliver Windows applications securely to remote users without the need to provision and manage full virtual desktops.

C. Amazon WorkSpaces: Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) solution that provides Windows desktops to users. You can configure and manage virtual desktops for remote employees using WorkSpaces.

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C. Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty is an AWS service that is designed to monitor and detect potential security threats in your AWS environment. It helps to identify unusual and unauthorized activities, including misconfigured security groups that may be allowing unrestricted access to specific ports. GuardDuty uses machine learning and threat intelligence to analyze data and generate alerts, making it an effective tool for enhancing the security of your AWS infrastructure.

While options like AWS Trusted Advisor and Amazon CloudWatch offer valuable monitoring capabilities, they do not specifically focus on detecting security group misconfigurations. Therefore, in this scenario, Amazon GuardDuty is the most appropriate choice.

Answer 66

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A. Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB: A key-value and document database that provides single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. It is a fully managed NoSQL database service designed for applications that require consistent, single-digit millisecond latency, regardless of the volume of requests.

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B. Spot Instances

Spot Instances are the most cost-effective option for scenarios where the workload is flexible and can be interrupted. Spot Instances allow you to use spare EC2 capacity at a significantly lower cost than On-Demand Instances. Spot Instances are suitable for workloads like batch processing, data analysis, and machine learning jobs that do not require continuous, uninterrupted operation

Answer 68

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B. EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots

B. EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs): AMIs are used to create backups of EC2 instances, and they can be used to launch replacement instances in the event of a disaster or data loss. AMIs are essential for creating recovery points for your EC2 instances.

C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots: EBS snapshots allow you to create point-in-time backups of your EBS volumes. These snapshots can be used to restore data or create new EBS volumes, making them a key component of disaster recovery for EC2 instances.

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B. AWS CloudShell

B. AWS CloudShell: A browser-based shell provided by AWS that enables command-line access to AWS resources directly from the AWS Management Console. Users can use AWS CloudShell to run AWS CLI commands and use various AWS tools without installing any additional software. It provides a convenient and secure way to interact with AWS resources in the cloud.

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B. AWS Transit Gateway

AWS Transit Gateway connects your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks through a central hub. This connection simplifies your network and puts an end to complex peering relationships. Transit Gateway acts as a highly scalable cloud router—each new connection is made only once.

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D. AWS Enterprise Support

AWS Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) offers architecture and scaling guidance and operational support during the preparation and execution of planned events, such as shopping holidays, product launches, and migrations. For these events, AWS Infrastructure Event Management will help you assess operational readiness, identify and mitigate risks, and execute your event confidently with AWS experts by your side. The program is included in the Enterprise Support plan and is available to Business Support customers for an additional fee.

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B. AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles.

https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/

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C. AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect establishes a dedicated private connection between your on-premises infrastructure and AWS.

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C. AWS KMS

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS): A fully managed service that makes it easy for you to create, control, and manage encryption keys used to encrypt your data. It integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, including Amazon EBS, for encryption purposes.

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A. AWS Management Console

AWS Management Console: A web-based interface that allows users to access and manage their AWS resources using a graphical user interface (GUI). This console provides an easy-to-use platform for various AWS services.

Answer 76

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B. High economies of scale
C. Launch globally in minutes

B. High economies of scale: AWS Cloud leverages high economies of scale, allowing customers to benefit from cost savings due to the massive scale of AWS infrastructure. This enables cost-effective solutions for businesses.

C. Launch globally in minutes: One of the advantages of the AWS Cloud is the ability to deploy applications and resources globally in a matter of minutes. This quick global deployment facilitates flexibility and responsiveness to changing business needs.

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D. High availability

The ability of an architecture to withstand failures with minimal downtime is a characteristic of high availability. High availability ensures that your system remains operational and accessible even in the face of component failures. This is critical for maintaining a reliable and responsive application or service.

Answer 78

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D. AWS CloudFormation

A service that allows you to define and provision AWS infrastructure as code in a safe, predictable, and repeatable manner. It enables the developer to create and manage a collection of AWS resources by describing the infrastructure in a template. This helps in maintaining both development and production environments consistently.

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B. Configure firewalls and networks.

Configure firewalls and networks: This is a customer responsibility. Customers have control over configuring security groups, network access control lists (ACLs), and other network-related configurations to control traffic to and from their resources.

Answer 80

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B. AWS Global Accelerator

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that helps you improve the availability, performance, and security of your public applications. Global Accelerator provides two global static public IPs that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints, such as Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, and elastic IPs.

Answer 81

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C. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. It allows one application to send messages to a queue, and another application to retrieve those messages from the queue. This can be helpful in scenarios where the sender and receiver are not required to interact with each other in real-time.

Answer 82

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A. Volume discounts
C. One bill for multiple accounts

Consolidated billing has the following benefits:
- ONE BILL – You get one bill for multiple accounts.
- Combined usage – You can combine the usage across all accounts in the organization to share the VOLUME PRICING DISCOUNTS, Reserved Instance discounts, and Savings Plans. This can result in a lower charge for your project, department, or company than with individual standalone accounts.

Answer 83

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Access Analyzer for S3 is an AWS service that analyzes S3 buckets for bucket policies and ACLs that allow public or restricted access. Allows users to easily identify buckets with insecure permission settings and take action to remediate them.

Answer 84

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A. AWS Artifact

A portal that provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports, certifications, and attestations. It is a centralized location for various compliance-related documents.

Answer 85

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A. Amazon CloudFront

A content delivery network (CDN) service that enables companies to deliver static and dynamic web content, including applications, to end users with low latency and high transfer speeds. It helps deploy an application close to end users.

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C. AWS Global Accelerator

A service that uses the AWS global network to optimize the routing of traffic to applications. It improves the availability and performance of applications by utilizing anycast IP addresses. It specifically improves network performance globally.

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A. Amazon S3

Provides highly durable object storage with 99.999999999% (11 9’s) durability.

Answer 88

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D. Operating system installations

AWS provides the infrastructure and services (like EC2) that include a range of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with pre-installed operating systems. This means AWS is responsible for ensuring that these AMIs are available and that the underlying infrastructure to run these instances is secure and reliable.

Answer 89

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B. The ability to use the pay-as-you-go model.
D. No longer having to guess what capacity will be required.

B. The ability to use the pay-as-you-go model - AWS provides a flexible and cost-effective pay-as-you-go pricing model, allowing users to pay only for the resources they consume without upfront costs or long-term commitments.

D. No longer having to guess what capacity will be required - AWS offers scalable resources, enabling users to dynamically scale up or down based on their actual needs. This eliminates the need for upfront capacity planning and allows for efficient resource utilization.

Answer 90

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C. AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway: A hybrid cloud storage service that enables on-premises applications to use cloud storage seamlessly. It provides file, volume, and tape gateway interfaces to integrate on-premises environments with AWS Cloud storage. This service allows on-premises users to access virtually unlimited cloud storage while maintaining a hybrid storage infrastructure.

Answer 91

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A. AWS Pricing Calculator

Pricing Calculator: A web-based tool that allows users to estimate the cost of using AWS services. It helps in understanding and estimating the costs associated with various AWS resources based on usage patterns, regions, and other parameters. Users can input their specific requirements to get an estimated monthly cost.

Answer 92

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A. AWS Software Development Kit

AWS Software Development Kit (SDK): A set of libraries and tools that allows developers to interact with AWS services directly from their applications.

Answer 93

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C. Learn to improve from operational failures.

Learn to improve from operational failures: This is a key principle of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. It emphasizes the importance of learning from failures and continuously improving the architecture based on operational experiences.

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C. least privilege access.

Least privilege access means granting users or entities the minimum level of permissions required to perform their tasks, reducing the risk of unintended or malicious actions.

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D. Network ACL

ACL = subnet, Security Groups = instances

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B. Amazon Redshift Serverless

B. Amazon Redshift: A fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. It is specifically designed for analytics and data warehousing, offering fast query performance using SQL queries and integration with various business intelligence tools.

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B. AWS enables capacity to be adjusted on demand.
E. AWS eliminates many of the costs of building and maintaining on-premises data centers.

B. AWS enables capacity to be adjusted on demand: AWS provides the flexibility to scale resources up or down based on demand. This allows businesses to optimize costs by only paying for the resources they actually use, avoiding unnecessary expenses during periods of lower demand.

E. AWS eliminates many of the costs of building and maintaining on-premises data centers: With AWS, businesses can leverage cloud infrastructure without the need to invest in and maintain physical data centers. This eliminates upfront capital expenses, ongoing maintenance costs, and the need to overprovision resources for future growth, leading to significant cost savings.

Answer 98

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B. IAM role

IAM role: Are used to delegate permissions to users, applications, or services. In the context of cross-account access, you can create an IAM role in the target account and define policies that grant access to the necessary resources. Users in the source account can assume the role to access resources in the target account. IAM roles are commonly used for cross-account access scenarios.

Answer 99

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C. Maintenance of physical and environmental controls

Maintenance of physical and environmental controls: This task is the responsibility of AWS. AWS manages the physical infrastructure, including data center security, environmental controls (such as cooling and power), and other aspects related to the underlying infrastructure.

Answer 100

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D. AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code.

Answer 101

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A. Data architecture

The correct answer is A, the clue is “Platform perspective capabilities” and only “Data Architecture” include in the list.

ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/platform-perspective.html

Answer 102

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B. Rightsizing

Right sizing is the process of matching instance types and sizes to your workload performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost.

Ref link: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-optimization/right-sizing/#:~:text=Right%20sizing%20is%20the%20process,at%20the%20lowest%20possible%20cost.

Answer 103

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B. AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.

Answer 104

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B. AWS Budgets

AWS Budgets is the tool that provides users with the ability to plan their service usage, service costs, and instance reservations.

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B. Perform client-side data encryption.
C. Configure IAM credentials.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

Answer 106

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A. Grant the developer access to only the AWS resources needed to perform the job.
E. Ensure the account password policy requires a minimum length.

A. Grant the developer access to only the AWS resources needed to perform the job: Following the principle of least privilege, it is advisable to provide the developer with access only to the specific AWS resources necessary for their job role. This minimizes the potential impact of security incidents and limits the scope of actions the developer can perform.

E. Ensure the account password policy requires a minimum length: Implementing a password policy that requires a minimum length is a good security practice. It helps enhance the strength of passwords and contributes to better overall account security. Longer passwords are generally more resistant to brute-force attacks.

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B. Consolidated billing

Consolidated billing allows you to combine multiple AWS accounts and aggregate the usage and spending across those accounts. This simplifies billing and enables you to take advantage of volume discounts, which can lead to cost savings

Answer 108

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C. IAM roles

IAM (Identity and Access Management) roles provide a secure way to grant permissions to AWS services and resources. In this scenario, you can create an IAM role with the necessary permissions for the EC2 instance to access other AWS services. Then, you can associate the IAM role with the EC2 instance.

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A. Amazon FSx

Amazon FSx: A fully managed file storage service that is compatible with Windows file servers. It is designed to provide shared file storage for Windows-based applications, making it a suitable choice for the company’s requirement of a fully managed Windows file server.

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D. Amazon S3 File Gateway

Amazon S3 File Gateway provides a seamless way to connect to the cloud in order to store application data files and backup images as durable objects in Amazon S3 cloud storage. Amazon S3 File Gateway offers SMB or NFS-based access to data in Amazon S3 with local caching. It can be used for on-premises data-intensive Amazon EC2-based applications that need file protocol access to S3 object storage.
https://aws.amazon.com/es/storagegateway/file/s3/

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C. AWS CloudTrail

“CloudTrail enables auditing, security monitoring, and operational troubleshooting by tracking user activity and API usage. CloudTrail logs, continuously monitors, and retains account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure, giving you control over storage, analysis, and remediation actions.”

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/faqs/

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C. Savings Plans

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B. Amazon Personalize

Amazon Personalize accelerates your digital transformation with ML, making it easier to integrate personalized recommendations into existing websites, applications, email marketing systems, and more.

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B. Align

“Align phase focuses on identifying capability gaps across the six AWS CAF perspectives, identifying cross-organizational dependencies, and surfacing stakeholder concerns and challenges.”

Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/your-cloud-transformation-journey.html

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B. AWS WAF

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from attacks by allowing you to configure rules that allow, block, or monitor (count) web requests based on conditions that you define. These conditions include IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, URI strings, SQL injection and cross-site scripting.”

References: https://aws.amazon.com/waf/faqs/

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A. EC2 Image Builder

EC2 Image Builder is a fully-managed AWS service that makes it easier to automate the creation, management, and deployment of customized, secure, and up-to-date “golden” server images that are pre-installed and pre-configured with software and settings to meet specific IT standards.

Answer 117

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B. Amazon Inspector

“Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Lambda functions, and container workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.”

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/faqs/

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B. Amazon EC2

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that runs your code without provisioning or managing servers. However, Lambda functions have a maximum execution time of 15 minutes. Therefore, Lambda is not suitable for workloads that need to run for longer than 15 minutes.

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C. VPC Flow Logs

VPC flow logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC.

https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/#:~:text=VPC%20flow%20logs%20is%20a,network%20interfaces%20in%20your%20VPC

Answer 120

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AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

AWS Secrets Manager is specifically designed for managing sensitive information such as passwords, database credentials, and API keys securely. (FYI so is AWS Secrets Manager - but that service costs $1 per secret).

Answer 121

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C. Amazon EC2

“For full control over your compute environment, choose to run your containers on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)”

https://aws.amazon.com/containers/

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D. AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations is the service that provides the features you mentioned for managing multiple AWS accounts within an organization.

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C. Amazon S3 File Gateway

Amazon S3 File Gateway provides a seamless way to connect to the cloud in order to store application data files and backup images as durable objects in Amazon S3 cloud storage.

https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/file/s3/

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A. AWS WAF

“AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from attacks by allowing you to configure rules that allow, block, or monitor (count) web requests based on conditions that you define. These conditions include IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, URI strings, SQL injection and cross-site scripting.”

References: https://aws.amazon.com/waf/faqs/

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A. AWS CLI

“The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.”

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/cli/

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C. AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor is a service that helps users secure and optimize their AWS environments. Trusted Advisor offers a range of recommendations in five categories:

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B. Operations

AWS CAF Operations perspective capabilities
* Observability
* Event management (AIOps)
* Incident and problem management
* Change and release management
* Performance and capacity management
* Configuration management
* Patch management
* Availability and continuity management
* Application management

Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/operations-perspective.html

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B. Reserved Instances
D. Saving Plans

For a steady, predictable, and uninterruptible compute workload, the most cost-effective Amazon EC2 instance purchasing options would typically be:

B. Reserved Instances: Reserved Instances provide a significant discount compared to On-Demand Instances in exchange for a commitment to a one- or three-year term. Since the workload is steady and predictable, you can forecast your usage and purchase Reserved Instances accordingly, optimizing costs over time.

D. Saving Plans: Similar to Reserved Instances, Savings Plans offer significant discounts on usage in exchange for committing to a specific amount of compute usage (measured in dollars per hour) over a one- or three-year term. Savings Plans provide flexibility across a wider range of instance types and regions compared to Reserved Instances.

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A. On-Demand Instances

*On-Demand Instances – short workload, predictable pricing, pay by second

Answer 130

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C. Patch management

“AWS is responsible for patching and fixing flaws within the infrastructure, but customers are responsible for patching their guest OS and applications.”

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

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B. Consolidated billing
E. Multiple AWS accounts

Consolidated billing is a feature of AWS Organizations that allows you to combine billing for multiple AWS accounts.
Creating multiple AWS accounts, one for each department, is an effective way to segregate resources, manage permissions, and track costs separately.

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D. Apply updates to the Nitro Hypervisor.

The Nitro Hypervisor is a component of the underlying infrastructure managed by AWS.

Answer 133

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B. Pay-as-you-go pricing

Answer 134

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C. Data monetization

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/your-cloud-transformation-journey.html

Answer 135

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D. A consultative review and architecture guidance for the company’s applications

Designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) to provide consultative architectural and operational guidance delivered in the context of your applications and use-cases to help you achieve the greatest value from AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/

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C. Spot Instances

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C. Incident response
D. Infrastructure protection

Infrastructure protection – Validate that systems and services within your workload are protected against unintended and unauthorized access and potential vulnerabilities

Incident response – Reduce potential harm by effectively responding to security incidents. Quick, effective, and consistent responses to security incidents will help you reduce potential harm

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/security-perspective.html

Answer 138

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C. EC2 Instance Savings Plans

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B. Elasticity

The characteristic of the AWS Cloud that helps users eliminate underutilized CPU capacity is elasticity. Elasticity allows users to scale their computing resources up or down based on their needs, which helps to eliminate underutilized CPU capacity.

Answer 140

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B. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
E. AWS Step Functions

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS): SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that allows components of a distributed application to communicate asynchronously. It helps decouple the sender and receiver components, providing flexibility and fault tolerance.

AWS Step Functions: AWS Step Functions allow you to coordinate and sequence AWS services, including Lambda functions, in a serverless workflow. It helps in creating workflows that are scalable, resilient, and loosely coupled.

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A. AWS Budgets

AWS Budgets is the AWS Cloud service that allows users to set custom spending thresholds and receive alerts when those thresholds are exceeded. It helps users to keep track of their AWS spending by providing notifications based on their budget limits.

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Benefits management – Ensure that the business benefits associated with your cloud investments are realized and sustained. The success of your transformation is determined by the resulting business benefits.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/governance-perspective.html

Answer 143

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B. S3 Transfer Acceleration

S3 Transfer Acceleration is a feature that utilizes Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed edge locations to accelerate the upload of objects to an S3 bucket.

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A. On-Demand Instances

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B. Envision

Identify and prioritize transformation opportunities in line with your strategic objectives. Associating your transformation initiatives with key stakeholders and measurable business outcomes will help you demonstrate value as you progress through your transformation journey.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/your-cloud-transformation-journey.html

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B. Application data security

Answer 147

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A. Use EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions.

Answer 148

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D. Refactor

Answer 149

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C. To access the AWS account through a CLI

Use Access Keys for Programmatic Access (CLI / SDK)

Answer 150

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B. Availability Zone

An availability zone consists of multiple data centers, which are all equipped with independent power, cooling and networking infrastructure all housed in separate facilities.

Answer 151

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A. AWS Snowmobile

AWS Snowmobile is the appropriate choice for migrating 50 petabytes of file storage data to AWS with the least possible operational overhead.

Answer 152

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A. Amazon AppStream 2.0

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a cloud-based desktop streaming service that allows companies to deploy applications and desktops to any device, including lightweight laptops.

Answer 153

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D. Amazon S3

For cost-effective storage and querying of large volumes of data, especially log data, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is the most suitable option.

Answer 154

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D. Avoid monolithic architecture by segmenting workloads.

Monolithic architectures can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain, and prone to failures. Segmenting workloads into smaller, more manageable components allows for greater scalability, resilience, and flexibility in the cloud.

Answer 155

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A. AWS CloudTrail

With AWS CloudTrail, you can monitor your AWS deployments in the cloud by getting a history of AWS API calls for your account, including API calls made by using the AWS Management Console, the AWS SDKs, the command line tools, and higher-level AWS services.

Answer 156

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A. Management of the guest operating systems

Answer 157

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D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Answer 158

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C. AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager helps in the secure storage, rotation, and retrieval of sensitive credentials such as API keys, database passwords, and other secrets used by applications.

Answer 159

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B. Amazon Macie

Amazon Macie is a data security service that discovers sensitive data using machine learning and pattern matching, provides visibility into data security risks, and enables automated protection against those risks.

Answer 160

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C. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the root user.
D. Create an IAM user with administrator privileges for daily administrative tasks, instead of using the root user.

Answer 161

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D. Modify the DB instance to be a Multi-AZ deployment.

In an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment, Amazon RDS automatically creates a primary database (DB) instance and synchronously replicates the data to an instance in a different AZ. When it detects a failure, Amazon RDS automatically fails over to a standby instance without manual intervention.

Answer 162

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A. Reserved Instances

Reserved Instances are well-suited for applications with steady, predictable workloads over a term commitment, such as one year

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A. The company

Networking and traffic protection are a customer responsibility.

Answer 164

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B. Reliability

The reliability pillar focuses on workloads performing their intended functions and how to recover quickly from failure to meet demands. Key topics include distributed system design, recovery planning, and adapting to changing requirements.

Answer 165

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D. IAM Access Analyzer

IAM Access Analyzer external access analyzers help identify resources in your organization and accounts that are shared with an external entity.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/what-is-access-analyzer.html

Answer 166

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C. Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is the AWS service that gives users the ability to create interactive business intelligence (BI) dashboards that can include machine learning insights.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/

Answer 167

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B. Resource elasticity

Elasticity - The ability to acquire resources as you need them and release resources when you no longer need them. In the cloud, you want to do this automatically.

Answer 168

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B. Use IAM roles for applications that require access to the S3 bucket.

Use IAM roles for applications and AWS services that require Amazon S3 access.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/security-best-practices.html

Answer 169

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D. The ability to provision and deprovision resources quickly with minimal effort

The agility provided by AWS is closely tied to the ability to provision and deprovision resources rapidly. AWS allows users to scale their infrastructure up or down based on demand, enabling them to quickly deploy new resources when needed and release them when no longer necessary.

Answer 170

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B. Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito supports authentication with identity providers (IdPs) through Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0). You can use an IdP that supports SAML with Amazon Cognito to provide a simple onboarding flow for your users.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/saml-identity-provider.html

Answer 171

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D. AWS Health Dashboard

The AWS Health Dashboard is a centralized location where users can find information about the availability and operation of AWS services. It provides an overview of the current status of AWS services, including planned and unplanned events. Users can also search for specific services to get more detailed information.

Answer 172

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A. VPC Flow Logs

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs.html

Answer 173

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C. Customer data

Customers are always responsible for managing their own customer data.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

Answer 174

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B. AWS Artifact

Answer 175

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C. Amazon Inspector

Amazon Inspector automatically discovers workloads, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and Lambda functions, and scans them for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.
https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/

Answer 176

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C. AWS Application Discovery Service

AWS Application Discovery Service collects both server and database configuration information. Server information includes hostnames, IP addresses, MAC addresses, as well as the resource allocation and utilization details of key resources such as CPU, network, memory, and disk.

Answer 177

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C. Rotate access keys on a reoccurring basis.

Credentials should be rotated or changed on a periodic time frame. For this reason it is considered a security best practice to rotate access keys.

Answer 178

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A. AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

AWS migration readiness assessment (MRA) is an AWS process of gaining insights about your enterprise’s current cloud readiness and building an action plan to close identified gaps, using the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF).

Answer 179

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B. Amazon S3 is an object storage service that provides high-level performance, security, scalability, and data availability.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

Answer 180

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C. Pay-as-you-go pricing

Answer 181

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A. AWS VPN
C. AWS Direct Connect

Answer 182

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B. Amazon DynamoDB

Redshift is a data warehouse service, while RDS and Aurora is a relational database service. So Amazon DynamoDB is the answer.

Answer 183

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B. Base the selection of Amazon EC2 instance types on past utilization patterns.
C. Use Amazon S3 Lifecycle policies to move objects that users access infrequently to lower-cost storage tiers.

Only answers that actually address cloud costs.

Answer 184

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B. Security groups

Security groups is the only answer that applies to EC2 level.

Answer 185

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C. Automatically scale to meet demand.
E. Automatically recover from failure.

A. Perform operations as code –> Operational Excellence
B. Enable traceability –> Security
C. Automatically scale to meet demand –> Reliability
D. Deploy resources globally to improve response time –> Performance Efficiency
E. Automatically recover from failure –> Reliability

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/the-6-pillars-of-the-aws-well-architected-framework/

Answer 186

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C. AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation enables you to use a template file to create and delete a collection of resources together as a single unit (a stack).

Answer 187

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A. Inbound data transfer from the internet

There is no charge for inbound data transfer across all services in all Regions. Data transfer from AWS to the internet is charged per service, with rates specific to the originating Region.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/overview-of-data-transfer-costs-for-common-architectures/
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

Answer 188

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D. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

Amazon SQS FIFO queues preserve the order in which messages are sent and received, and avoid that a message is processed more than once. This ensures that the messages are processed in first-in, first-out (FIFO) order1.

Answer 189

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D. AWS CloudShell

AWS CloudShell is a browser-based, pre-authenticated shell that you can launch directly from the AWS Management Console.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudshell/latest/userguide/welcome.html

Answer 190

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B. Amazon RDS
E. Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is a fully managed, PostgreSQL–compatible.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/Aurora.AuroraPostgreSQL.html
In addition to the benefits of Aurora, Aurora PostgreSQL offers a convenient migration pathway from Amazon RDS into Aurora, with push-button migration tools that convert your existing RDS for PostgreSQL applications to Aurora PostgreSQL.

Answer 191

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D. AWS Snowball Edge

AWS Snowball Edge is a type of Snowball device with on-board storage and compute power for select AWS capabilities. Snowball Edge can do local processing and edge-computing workloads in addition to transferring data between your local environment and the AWS Cloud.

Answer 192

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B. IAM roles

IAM provides fine-grained access control across all of AWS. You can use roles to delegate access to users, applications, or services that don’t normally have access to your AWS resources.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles.html

Answer 193

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B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk - deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, . NET, PHP, Node. js, Python, Ruby.

Deploy scalable web applications in minutes without the complexity of provisioning and managing underlying infrastructure.
https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

Answer 194

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A. Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience.
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

Answer 195

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D. AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that customers can use to find, buy, deploy, and manage third-party software, data, and services to build solutions and run their businesses.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/what-is-marketplace.html

Answer 196

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C. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed Microsoft Windows file servers, backed by a fully native Windows file system. Amazon FSx has native support for Windows file system features and for the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol to access file storage over a network.

Answer 197

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A. AWS Firewall Manager

AWS Firewall Manager simplifies your administration and maintenance tasks across multiple accounts and resources for a variety of protections, including AWS WAF, AWS Shield Advanced, Amazon VPC security groups, AWS Network Firewall, and Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall.

Firewall Manager is particularly useful when you want to protect your entire organization rather than a small number of specific accounts and resources, or if you frequently add new resources that you want to protect.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/fms-chapter.html

Answer 198

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D. Maintain the physical hardware of the infrastructure.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

Answer 199

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B. NAT gateway

You can use a public NAT gateway to enable instances in a private subnet to send outbound traffic to the internet, while preventing the internet from establishing connections to the instances.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/nat-gateway-scenarios.html

Answer 200

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A. Securing the virtualization layer
D. Patching the operating system on Amazon RDS instances

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

Answer 201

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B. S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval for archiving data that might infrequently need to be restored, once or twice per year, within a few hours

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/backup-recovery/amazon-s3-glacier.html

Answer 202

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D. AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer

IAM Access Analyzer is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in IAM Access Analyzer.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/logging-using-cloudtrail.html

Answer 203

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D. AWS Partner Network (APN)

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is designed to help companies find qualified third-party consultants, software vendors, and managed service providers who are specialized in working with AWS services. APN Partners offer various levels of support and expertise to assist with maintaining and optimizing AWS environments based on specific business needs.

Answer 204

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C. AWS Cost and Usage Report

After you create a Cost and Usage Report, AWS sends your report to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. AWS updates your report at least once a day until your charges are finalized.

Your report files consist of a .csv file or a collection of .csv files and a manifest file. You can choose to configure your report data for integration with Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, or Amazon QuickSight.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/what-is-cur.html

Answer 205

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A. AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway connects on-premises environments with cloud storage through cached volumes, stored volumes and tape-based backup.

https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/

Answer 206

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B. Use tags to organize the resources. Activate cost allocation tags to track AWS costs on a detailed level.

Business Tags - Cost Center/Business Unit – Identify the cost center or business unit associated with a resource, typically for cost allocation and tracking.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/tag-editor/latest/userguide/tagging.html

Answer 207

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D. AWS Batch

AWS Batch is a fully managed service that enables you to run large-scale compute workloads in the cloud without provisioning resources or managing schedulers.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/high-performance-computing-lens/batch-based-architecture.html

Answer 208

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A. Amazon Route 53
D. AWS Global Accelerator

Amazon Route 53 provides a global DNS service that can be used as a public or private endpoint for RTC clients to register and connect with media applications. With Amazon Route 53, DNS health checks can be configured to route traffic to healthy endpoints or to independently monitor the health of your application.

AWS Global Accelerator continually monitors the health of your application endpoints, and automatically redirects traffic to the nearest healthy endpoints in the event of current endpoints turning unhealthy.

Answer 209

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A. Scale the number of EC2 instances in or out automatically, based on demand.

You can use scaling policies to increase or decrease the number of instances in your group dynamically to meet changing conditions. When the scaling policy is in effect, the Auto Scaling group adjusts the desired capacity of the group, between the minimum and maximum capacity values that you specify, and launches or terminates the instances as needed.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/auto-scaling-groups.html

Answer 210

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B. Deploy globally in minutes.
D. Take advantage of economies of scale.

Answer 211

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D. AWS Shield

AWS provides two levels of protection against DDoS attacks: AWS Shield Standard and AWS Shield Advanced.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/shield/

Answer 212

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A. AWS CloudFormation

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) accelerates cloud development using common programming languages to model your applications.
https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

Answer 213

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D. Spot Instances

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud and are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices.

Answer 214

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B. Security groups

Security Groups operate at the instance level

Answer 215

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D. Increase speed and agility

Quickly = Agility/Speed

Answer 216

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A. IAM user groups

An IAM user group is a collection of IAM users. User groups let you specify permissions for multiple users, which can make it easier to manage the permissions for those users. For example, you could have a user group called Admins and give that user group typical administrator permissions. Any user in that user group automatically has Admins group permissions. If a new user joins your organization and needs administrator privileges you can assign the appropriate permissions by adding the user to the Admins user group. If a person changes jobs in your organization, instead of editing that user’s permissions you can remove them from the old user groups and add them to the appropriate new user groups.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_groups.html

Answer 217

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B. AWS Secrets Manager

https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/

Answer 218

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C. AWS Artifact

AWS Artifact provides on-demand downloads of AWS security and compliance documents, such as AWS ISO certifications, Payment Card Industry (PCI) reports, and Service Organization Control (SOC) reports. You can submit the security and compliance documents (also known as audit artifacts) to your auditors or regulators to demonstrate the security and compliance of the AWS infrastructure and services that you use.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/artifact/latest/ug/what-is-aws-artifact.html

Answer 219

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A. Server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3)
B. Server-side encryption with AWS KMS managed keys (SSE-KMS)

Amazon S3 now applies server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) as the base level of encryption for every bucket in Amazon S3. Starting January 5, 2023, all new object uploads to Amazon S3 are automatically encrypted at no additional cost and with no impact on performance. T

Unless you specify otherwise, buckets use SSE-S3 by default to encrypt objects. However, you can choose to configure buckets to use server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys (SSE-KMS) instead.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingKMSEncryption.html

Answer 220

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C. Amazon Cognito

With Amazon Cognito, you can add user sign-up and sign-in features and control access to your web and mobile applications.

https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/

Answer 221

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B. AWS Config

AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.

https://aws.amazon.com/config/

Answer 222

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C. 3 hours, 6 minutes

On-Demand Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour or second (minimum of 60 seconds) with no long-term commitments.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/announcing-amazon-ec2-per-second-billing/

The customer will be billed for 3 hours and 6 minutes because the 6 seconds are rounded up to the next minute.

Answer 223

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C. AWS Shield

Maximize application availability and responsiveness with managed DDoS protection
https://aws.amazon.com/shield/

Answer 224

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D. Migration Evaluator

Starting today, customers considering AWS for running on-premises workloads can request a business case from Migration Evaluator (Formerly TSO Logic) at no cost.

The results captured are used to generate a transparent business case which aligns business and technology stakeholders to provide a prescriptive next step in your migration journey.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/07/introducing-migration-evaluator-fast-track-business-case-aws/

Answer 225

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A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
D. AWS Service Health Dashboard

AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services you are using, as well as alerts that are automatically triggered by changes in the health of those services.

You can use the AWS Health Dashboard – Service health to view the health of all AWS services.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/12/introducing-aws-personal-health-dashboard/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/ug/aws-health-dashboard-status.html

Answer 226

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C. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a managed migration and replication service that helps you move your databases and analytics workloads to AWS quickly and securely.

Answer 227

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B. Rightsizing

Rightsize workloads according to your workload preferences through artificial intelligence and machine learning-based analytics to reduce costs by up to 25%.

https://aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/

Answer 228

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B. Amazon Macie

Discover and protect your sensitive data at scale

https://aws.amazon.com/macie/

Answer 229

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B. Reserved Instances

Reserved Instances provide a significant discount compared to On-Demand Instances while offering a commitment to a specific instance type in a particular region for a term of 1 or 3 years.

Answer 230

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B. AWS customers

The answer is B. The customer has to select AWS KMS. If the customer does not explicit select it then nothing will be encrypted.

Answer 231

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B. Record API calls made to AWS services.

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. It records API calls made on your account, including who made the call, the services used, the actions performed, and when they occurred.

Answer 232

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C. Amazon EC2

Customers that deploy an Amazon EC2 instance are responsible for management of the guest operating system (including updates and security patches)
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

Answer 233

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C. AWS IAM Access Analyzer

AWS IAM Access Analyzer is a service that helps you identify and manage access permissions in your AWS environment.

Answer 234

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B. Amazon EC2

Customers that deploy an Amazon EC2 instance are responsible for management of the guest operating system (including updates and security patches)
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

Answer 235

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D. Enterprise Support

Users receive access to a support concierge at the Enterprise Support level. With AWS Enterprise Support, customers have access to a support concierge who can help with case management, provide guidance on best practices, and assist with various AWS-related inquiries.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/

Answer 236

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C. AWS Application Composer

AWS Application Composer helps you visually compose and configure AWS services into serverless applications backed by infrastructure as code.

AWS Application Composer - Visually design and build modern applications quickly

https://aws.amazon.com/application-composer/

Answer 237

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D. AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace is the service that provides access to third-party solutions for AWS.

Answer 238

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C. Configuration of infrastructure devices

AWS is responsible for the underlying infrastructure of the EC2 hosts.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

Answer 239

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D. Amazon Aurora Serverless

If cost is not a concern and you want the least management overhead, Amazon Aurora Serverless would be the best option. Amazon Aurora Serverless provides the highest level of automation and scalability as it is a serverless database solution. You don’t have to worry about managing database instances, scaling, or maintenance. The database automatically scales up and down to meet your application’s requirements, and you only pay for the resources you actually use.

Answer 240

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D. Provide public endpoints to store and retrieve data.
E. Manage the infrastructure layer and the operating system.

AWS responsibility “Security of the Cloud” - AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure that runs all of the services offered in the AWS Cloud. This infrastructure is composed of the hardware, software, networking, and facilities that run AWS Cloud services.

Answer 241

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C. Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/route53/

Answer 242

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D. Amazon EC2 updates and security patches

Customers that deploy an Amazon EC2 instance are responsible for management of the guest operating system (including updates and security patches)
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

Answer 243

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D. AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail:
o Records or logs transactions.
o You can use API calls to provision, manage, and configure your AWS resources. With CloudTrail, you can view a complete history of user activity and API calls for your applications and resources (API caller, timeframe, Source IP, etc.).

Answer 244

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D. Use On-Demand Instances.

The company requires short-term but continuous computing resources. All other options require upfront payment and longer than 6 months contractual obligations.

Answer 245

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B. Use AWS Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) support.

AWS Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) offers architecture and scaling guidance and operational support during the preparation and execution of planned events

Answer 246

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A. Use AWS Organizations and create one account for each business unit.

Using AWS Organizations allows you to centrally manage and govern multiple AWS accounts. By creating separate accounts for each business unit, you can easily isolate and track costs for each unit without mixing them up. This approach provides a clear separation of resources and costs, simplifying cost management and tracking. Additionally, AWS provides consolidated billing and cost allocation features within Organizations, making it easier to manage billing and costs across multiple accounts.

Answer 247

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B. Amazon Timestream

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, and serverless time-series database service that makes it easier to store and analyze trillions of events per day up to 1,000 times faster.

Answer 248

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A. Configuration management

Configuration Management – AWS maintains the configuration of its infrastructure devices, but a customer is responsible for configuring their own guest operating systems, databases, and applications.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model

Answer 249

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A. Spot Instances

Spot Instances are recommended for stateless, fault-tolerant, flexible applications.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-best-practices.html

Answer 250

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D. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

For a scenario where data is rarely accessed, and the company can regenerate the data if needed, the most cost-effective storage class would be S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA). This storage class stores data in a single availability zone, providing cost savings compared to storage classes that store data redundantly across multiple availability zones.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/announcing-s3-one-zone-infrequent-access-a-new-amazon-s3-storage-class/

Answer 251

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C. AWS Managed Services (AMS)

AWS Managed Services (AMS) helps you adopt AWS at scale and operate more efficiently and securely.

https://aws.amazon.com/managed-services/

Answer 252

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D. AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

The AWS CDK supports TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#/.Net, and Go. Developers can use one of these supported programming languages to define reusable cloud components.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/home.html

Answer 253

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D. Standard Reserved Instances

The question says that the server is already “right-sized” - so it will not be changing. It will also only be needed for 1 year. Therefore, standard (right-sized) reserved (1 year commitment) instance is the correct answer here.

Answer 254

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D. AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless integration with data security features between your on-premises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure.

Answer 255

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A. The company will be charged the standard pay-as-you-go service rates for the usage that exceeds the Free Tier usage.

When your free usage term expires or if your application use exceeds the tiers, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.
https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&all-free-tier.sort-order=asc&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Types=all&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Categories=all

Answer 256

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D. Operations

The Operations perspective helps ensure that your cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the needs of your business.
https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-adoption-framework/

Answer 257

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A. AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

Use the AWS CAF to identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, evaluate and improve your cloud readiness, and iteratively evolve your transformation roadmap.
https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-adoption-framework/

Answer 258

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D. Migration Evaluator

Analyze your current state, define your target state, and develop a migration readiness plan with projected cloud costs to reach your financial business objectives faster.

https://aws.amazon.com/migration-evaluator/

Answer 259

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B. AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations is the service that enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage.

Answer 260

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C. Reliability

The reliability pillar focuses on workloads performing their intended functions and how to recover quickly from failure to meet demands.
https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/?wa-lens-whitepapers.sort-by=item.additionalFields.sortDate&wa-lens-whitepapers.sort-order=desc&wa-guidance-whitepapers.sort-by=item.additionalFields.sortDate&wa-guidance-whitepapers.sort-order=desc

Answer 261

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B. AWS Glue

AWS Glue consolidates major data integration capabilities into a single service. These include data discovery, modern ETL, cleansing, transforming, and centralized cataloging. It’s also serverless, which means there’s no infrastructure to manage.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/what-is-glue.html

Answer 262

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C. AWS Snowmobile

AWS Snowmobile moves extremely large amounts of data to AWS. Transfer up to 100 PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot-long ruggedized shipping container pulled by a semi-trailer truck.

Answer 263

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C. AWS Budgets

You can set up optional notifications that warn you if you exceed, or are forecasted to exceed, your budgeted amount for cost or usage budgets.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/budgets-managing-costs.html

Answer 264

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C. Answering billing and account inquiries

Billing Assistance - White-glove (Concierge) access to billing issues for Enterprise On-Ramp customers.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/

Answer 265

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B. Reserved Instances

A Reserved Instance offers cost savings of up to 72% over On-Demand price. In addition, Reserved Instance three-year terms offer much greater savings over one-year terms.

https://aws.amazon.com/compare/the-difference-between-on-demand-instances-and-reserved-instances/#:~:text=A%20Reserved%20Instance%20offers%20cost,savings%20over%20one%2Dyear%20terms.

Answer 266

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C. Savings Plans

Savings Plans provide significant savings over On-Demand pricing, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hr) for a 1 or 3 year period.

Answer 267

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B. Performance efficiency
C. Cost optimization

https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/?wa-lens-whitepapers.sort-by=item.additionalFields.sortDate&wa-lens-whitepapers.sort-order=desc&wa-guidance-whitepapers.sort-by=item.additionalFields.sortDate&wa-guidance-whitepapers.sort-order=desc

Answer 268

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C. Use Amazon CloudFront with the EC2 instances configured as the source.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates the delivery of your websites, APIs, video content, or other web assets. In this scenario, using Amazon CloudFront is the most suitable option to minimize latency for users all over the world.

Answer 269

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C. AWS Snow Family

Purpose-built devices to cost effectively move petabytes of data, offline. Lease a Snow device to move your data to the cloud.
https://aws.amazon.com/snow/

Answer 270

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D. AWS offers high availability.
E. AWS provides economies of scale.

Answer 271

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A. Spot Instances

Answer 272

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B. Cost optimization recommendations
D. Security checks

Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment, and then makes recommendations when opportunities exist to save money, improve system availability and performance, or help close security gaps.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awssupport/latest/user/trusted-advisor.html

Answer 273

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B. S3 Lifecycle

With S3 Lifecycle configuration rules, you can tell Amazon S3 to transition objects to less-expensive storage classes, or archive or delete them.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lifecycle-mgmt.html

Answer 274

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D. Global reach

Deploying applications across multiple AWS Regions allows companies to provide low-latency access to their services for users in different geographical locations, thereby improving global reach and availability.

Answer 275

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D. AWS Snowball Edge

AWS Snowball Edge is a type of Snowball device with on-board storage and compute power for select AWS capabilities. Snowball Edge can do local processing and edge-computing workloads in addition to transferring data between your local environment and the AWS Cloud.

Answer 276

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B. Make frequent, small, reversible changes.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/oe-design-principles.html

Answer 277

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D. Management of infrastructure is offloaded to AWS.

With serverless computing, developers can focus on writing code without worrying about server provisioning, scaling, or maintenance. AWS takes care of the underlying infrastructure, allowing developers to concentrate on building and deploying applications.

Answer 278

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C. AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS)

AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) as a web service that enables you to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for users.

Answer 279

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D. AWS WAF

AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) is a web application firewall service that helps protect web applications from common web exploits and attacks, including SQL injection attacks.

https://aws.amazon.com/waf/

Answer 280

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D. Reserved Instances

Answer 281

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C. Maintain the configuration of guest operating systems and applications.
D. Manage decisions involving encryption options.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

Answer 282

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B. IAM credential reports

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_getting-report.html
IAM credential reports are delivered in CSV format. “mfa_active” is one of many columns of this report. When a MFA device is enabled for the user, value of this column is TRUE.

Answer 283

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D. AWS Security Hub

AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management service that automates best practice checks, aggregates alerts, and supports automated remediation.

AWS Security Hub provides you with a comprehensive view of your security state in AWS and helps you assess your AWS environment against security industry standards and best practices.

Security Hub collects security data across AWS accounts, AWS services, and supported third-party products and helps you analyze your security trends and identify the highest priority security issues.

Answer 284

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B. Operational excellence

The Operational Excellence pillar includes the ability to support development and run workloads effectively, gain insight into their operations, and to continuously improve supporting processes and procedures to deliver business value.

Answer 285

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C. Amazon Macie

Answer 286

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C. AWS Artifact

Answer 287

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C. Download the IAM credential report, then provide the report to the auditor.

You can use the AWS Management Console to download a credential report as a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_getting-report.html

Answer 288

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A. Allow access to an Amazon EC2 instance through only a specific port.

You can specify the source, port range, and protocol for each inbound rule. You can specify the destination, port range, and protocol for each outbound rule.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-security-groups.html

Answer 289

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A. Accelerated computing

Accelerated computing instances are made to work with graphic intensive workloads.

If you require high processing capability, you’ll benefit from using accelerated computing instances, which provide access to hardware-based compute accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), or AWS Inferentia.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/accelerated-computing-instances.html

Answer 290

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A. They are stateless.
D. They process rules in order, starting with the lowest numbered rule, when deciding whether to allow traffic.

NACLs are stateless, which means that information about previously sent or received traffic is not saved.

Each rule has a number from 1 to 32766. We evaluate the rules in order, starting with the lowest numbered rule, when deciding whether allow or deny traffic.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-network-acls.html

Answer 291

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B. Data engineering
C. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)

Answer 292

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B. Amazon EC2 instances

The customer is responsible for applying the latest security updates and patches to Amazon EC2 instances.

Answer 293

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D. S3 Intelligent-Tiering

S3 Intelligent-Tiering is the ideal storage class for data with unknown, changing, or unpredictable access patterns, independent of object size or retention period.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/intelligent-tiering/

Answer 294

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C. Incident response
D. Infrastructure protection

Answer 295

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B. Create a custom IAM policy.

An AWS managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by AWS.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html

Answer 296

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B. The customer is responsible for rotating keys.

Answer 297

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C. AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace allows you to find, purchase, and deploy a wide range of pre-configured third-party software, including firewall solutions, on your Amazon EC2 instances.

Answer 298

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C. Agility

Agility in cloud computing refers to the ability to quickly develop, test, and launch applications that the business needs.

Answer 299

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D. Physical and environmental controls

Answer 300

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C. The root user is the first sign-in identity that is available when an AWS account is created.

Answer 301

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D. AWS CloudTraiI

AWS CloudTrail is the service that records API calls and related events made on your AWS account.

Answer 302

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A. AWS CLI

The AWS CLI is a command-line tool provided by AWS that allows developers and administrators to interact with AWS services directly from the command line.

Answer 303

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C. AWS DataSync

AWS DataSync is a service designed for securely transferring large amounts of data between on-premises storage and Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, or Amazon FSx for Windows File Server.

Answer 304

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B. AWS CloudFormation

CloudFormation will allow you to use infrastructure as code and allow you to repeat deployments fast and always be the same.

Answer 305

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D. AWS CodeStar

AWS CodeStar is a cloud-based service for creating, managing, and working with software development projects on AWS. You can quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS with an AWS CodeStar project.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloud9/latest/user-guide/codestar-projects.html

Answer 306

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D. Hybrid

AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions delivering AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience.

https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/

Answer 307

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D. Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service that scales to handle billions of relationships and lets you query them with milliseconds latency, at a low cost for that kind of capacity.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/neptune/latest/userguide/graph-get-started.html

Answer 308

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D. AWS WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkSpaces offers an easy way to provide a cloud-based desktop experience to your end users
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/

Answer 309

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A. VPC Flow Logs

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs.html

Answer 310

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B. Amazon EC2 instance store

An instance store provides temporary block-level storage for your instance.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.html

Answer 311

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A. Amazon FSx File Gateway

Amazon FSx File Gateway optimizes on-premises access to fully managed, highly reliable file shares in Amazon FSx for Windows File Server.
https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/file/fsx/

Answer 312

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B. Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere. S3 is a simple storage service that offers industry leading durability, availability, performance, security, and virtually unlimited scalability at very low costs.

Answer 313

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D. Amazon CloudWatch alarm

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service that provides data and actionable insights for AWS resources. You can set up CloudWatch alarms to monitor metrics, such as CPU utilization, and trigger Auto Scaling actions based on defined thresholds.

Answer 314

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B. People

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/people-perspective.html

Answer 315

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D. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is the service designed to help migrate on-premises databases to managed cloud database services in a simplified manner. It supports various database engines and provides a reliable and efficient way to migrate data with minimal downtime.

Answer 316

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C. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Provide highly available, high performance storage to your Windows applications with full SMB support.

https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/windows/

Answer 317

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B. Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-source frameworks, supporting open-table and file formats.

Answer 318

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B. AWS re:Post

re:Post provides access to curated knowledge and a vibrant community that helps you become even more successful on AWS.

https://repost.aws/

Answer 319

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A. Amazon Kendra

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service that uses natural language processing and advanced machine learning algorithms to return specific answers to search questions from your data.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html

Answer 320

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B. Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS Global Accelerator

CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that uses a global network of edge locations to deliver content, such as web pages, videos, and images, to users with low latency and high transfer speeds.

Global Accelerator is a service that uses a network of AWS edge locations to route traffic over the AWS global network, improving the availability and performance of applications.

Answer 321

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C. Choose Amazon RDS for MySQL.

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a fully managed relational database service that takes care of tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

Answer 322

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B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Deploy scalable web applications in minutes without the complexity of provisioning and managing underlying infrastructure.

Answer 323

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A. AWS Software Development Kit

The AWS Software Development Kit (SDK) is the mechanism that allows developers to access AWS services from application code. The SDK provides libraries and APIs that developers can use to interact with AWS services programmatically.

Answer 324

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B. Threat detection

Understand and identify potential security misconfigurations, threats, or unexpected behaviors. A better understanding of security threats will enable you to prioritize protective controls.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/security-perspective.html

Answer 325

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C. AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect is the service that allows a company to establish a private network connection between its corporate network and an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

Answer 326

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C. VPC peering
E. AWS Transit Gateway

A VPC peering connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them privately.

You can configure your transit gateway as multiple isolated routers - which can route traffic between VPC’s.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-peering.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/tgw/transit-gateway-isolated.html

Answer 327

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C. Amazon Polly

Deploy high-quality, natural-sounding human voices in dozens of languages

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

Answer 328

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A. Amazon Lightsail

LightSail gets you started quickly with preconfigured Linux and Windows application stacks and an intuitive management console.

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/

Answer 329

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A. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon SageMaker

Savings Plan are available for:
- Compute Savings Plans
- EC2 Instance Savings Plans
- SageMaker Savings Plans

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/latest/userguide/what-is-savings-plans.html

Answer 330

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C. AWS Cost Explorer

The rightsizing recommendations feature in Cost Explorer helps you identify cost-saving opportunities by downsizing or terminating instances in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-rightsizing.html

Answer 331

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B. Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/

Answer 332

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C. Amazon Comprehend

Uncover valuable insights from text in documents, customer support tickets, product reviews, emails, social media feeds, and more.

Amazon Comprehend is a natural-language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to uncover valuable insights and connections in text.

Answer 333

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C. Protection of physical network infrastructure

Answer 334

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A. Envision phase
B. Align phase

https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-adoption-framework/

Answer 335

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A. IAM credential report

You can generate and download a credential report that lists all users in your account and the status of their various credentials, including passwords, access keys, and MFA devices.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_getting-report.html

Answer 336

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C. Operational excellence

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/operational-excellence-pillar/operational-excellence.html

Answer 337

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A. S3 Inventory report

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/storage-inventory.html

Answer 338

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C. AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On)

AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) enables centralized authentication and authorization across multiple AWS accounts and other business applications. It allows users to sign in once and access resources in various accounts without the need for separate credentials for each account.

Answer 339

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B. Security groups

Security groups act as virtual firewalls for your Amazon EC2 instances, controlling inbound and outbound traffic.

Answer 340

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A. Multi-Region

Using a Multi-Region architecture allows you to distribute your application across different AWS regions, providing redundancy and minimizing the impact of potential regional failures.

Answer 341

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C. AWS Management Console

The Management Console provides a number of organized and human-friendly ways to review, monitor, and interact with resources that you have created
https://aws.amazon.com/console/features/

Answer 342

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A. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

AWS IAM is the service specifically designed for managing access to AWS services and resources.

Answer 343

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B. Cloud financial management
C. Application portfolio management

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/governance-perspective.html

Answer 344

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D. AWS Migration Hub

AWS Migration Hub (Migration Hub) provides a single place to discover your existing servers, plan migrations, and track the status of each application migration.

Answer 345

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A. Use Amazon EC2 Instance Connect.
D. Use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/connect-to-linux-instance.html

Answer 346

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D. Elasticity

Answer 347

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B. The deletion of an AWS account.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/root-user-tasks.html

Answer 348

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C. Automatic cost savings by moving objects between tiers based on access pattern changes

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering is the only cloud storage class that delivers automatic storage cost savings when data access patterns change, without performance impact or operational overhead.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/intelligent-tiering/

Answer 349

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A. Spot Instances

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-instances.html

Answer 350

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A. Envision

Envision phase focuses on demonstrating how cloud will help accelerate your business outcomes.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/your-cloud-transformation-journey.html

Answer 351

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A. Internet gateway

An internet gateway is a horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available VPC component that allows communication between your VPC and the internet.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html

Answer 352

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D. AWS CloudFormation

For AWS cloud development, the built-in choice for infrastructure as code is AWS CloudFormation.

Answer 353

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C. Design for automated recovery from failure.

From a design principle standpoint, its more important to recover from failure than to plan ahead for peak capacity.

Answer 354

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B. AWS Snowmobile

AWS Snowmobile moves extremely large amounts of data to AWS. Transfer up to 100 PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot-long ruggedized shipping container pulled by a semi-trailer truck.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

Answer 355

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B. Performance efficiency
E. Operational excellence

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/welcome.html

Answer 356

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C. AWS Direct Connect

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html

Answer 357

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A. Maximize utilization of Amazon EC2 instances.
E. Reduce the need for users to reinstall applications.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/design-principles-for-sustainability-in-the-cloud.html

Answer 358

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A. AWS replaces upfront capital expenditures with pay-as-you-go costs.
D. AWS uses economies of scale to continually reduce prices.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/tco-cost-optimization-best-practices-for-managing-usage/

Answer 359

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C. AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts allows you to deploy AWS-designed infrastructure on-premises, providing a consistent hybrid experience. With AWS Outposts, you can run compute and storage workloads locally on your premises while seamlessly connecting to the rest of AWS’s broad array of services in the cloud.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/outposts/latest/userguide/what-is-outposts.html

Answer 360

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D. AWS Fargate
E. AWS Lambda

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that allows you to run containers without managing the underlying infrastructure.

AWS Lambda is a fully serverless compute service that allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. It automatically scales your applications in response to incoming traffic.

Answer 361

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C. Dedicated Hosts

Dedicated Hosts allow you to use your existing per-socket, per-core, or per-VM software licenses

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/

Answer 362

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D. AWS Auto Scaling

If there are issues that cause Amazon EC2 to consider the instances in your Auto Scaling group impaired, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling automatically replaces the impaired instances as part of its health check.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/ts-as-healthchecks.html

Answer 363

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B. AWS Storage Gateway

Provide on-premises applications with access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.

https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/

Answer 364

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B. Secure delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users globally with low latency

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that helps you distribute your static and dynamic content quickly and reliably with high speed

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

Answer 365

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D. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk helps you deploy and manage web applications with capacity provisioning, app health monitoring, and more.

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

Answer 366

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C. Amazon QuickSight Q

With the Generative business intelligence (BI) capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight, BI users can build, discover, and share actionable insights and narratives in seconds using intuitive natural language experiences.

https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/q/

Answer 367

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B. S3 Transfer Acceleration

S3TA improves transfer performance by routing traffic through Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed Edge Locations and over AWS backbone networks, and by using network protocol optimizations.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/transfer-acceleration/

Answer 368

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B. Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Introduction.html

Answer 369

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C. Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/

Answer 370

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D. Loosely couple components.

Loosely couple components (microservices) are conceptually small pieces of “monolithic” application created/implemented to isolate failures between dependent components in the AWS Cloud

Answer 371

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B. Global reach

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/six-advantages-of-cloud-computing.html

Go Global in minutes = Global Reach

Answer 372

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C. Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch is an AWS monitoring service for cloud resources and the applications that you run on AWS. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/logging-monitoring-for-application-owners/aws-services-logging-monitoring.html

Answer 373

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A. Amazon EC2

AWS Compute Optimizer helps avoid overprovisioning and underprovisioning four types of AWS resources—Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) services on AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda functions—based on your utilization data.

https://aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/

Answer 374

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B. AWS Application Discovery Service

AWS Application Discovery Service helps you plan your migration to the AWS cloud by collecting usage and configuration data about your on-premises servers and databases. Application Discovery Service is integrated with AWS Migration Hub and AWS Database Migration Service Fleet Advisor.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/application-discovery/latest/userguide/what-is-appdiscovery.html

Answer 375

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B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a managed service that provides message delivery from publishers to subscribers (also known as producers and consumers).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/welcome.html

Answer 376

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A. AWS Pricing Calculator

AWS Pricing Calculator is a free web-based planning tool that you can use to create cost estimates for using AWS services.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pricing-calculator/latest/userguide/what-is-pricing-calculator.html

Answer 377

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A. Organizational alignment
C. Organization design

A and C are correct.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/foundational-capabilities.html

Answer 378

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A. Program and project management
D. Risk management

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/foundational-capabilities.html

Answer 379

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A. Landing zone and network management

The customer must configure the rest of the options.

Answer 380

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C. AWS Backup

AWS Backup provides a centralized backup console, a set of backup APIs, and the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to manage backups across the AWS services that your applications use.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/whatisbackup.html

Answer 381

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C. Performance efficiency

Answer 382

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A. Cost allocation tags

Cost allocation tags enable you to categorize and track your AWS costs. When you apply tags to your AWS resources (such as EC2 instances or S3 buckets), AWS generates a Cost and Usage Report that includes usage and costs aggregated by tags.

Answer 383

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C. Amazon Detective

Amazon Detective makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of security issues or suspicious activities. It automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build a linked set of data that enables you to easily conduct investigations.

Answer 384

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B. Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito provides authentication, authorization, and user management for web and mobile apps. Users can sign in directly with a user name and password, or through third-party identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, as well as through enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0.

Answer 385

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D. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.

Answer 386

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D. AWS SDKs

WS SDKs provide a set of tools for developers to integrate with and manage AWS services programmatically. These SDKs support multiple programming languages, including Java, Python, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, and Go, among others, enabling developers to use the language they are most comfortable with to interact with AWS services

Answer 387

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A. Migration Evaluator

The complimentary AWS service that helps create data-driven business cases for cloud planning is AWS Migration Evaluator, formerly known as TSO Logic. AWS Migration Evaluator assists organizations in understanding the cost-benefits of moving to AWS by analyzing their current on-premises IT infrastructure usage and costs.

Answer 388

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C. Patch management of the underlying infrastructure for managed services

Answer 389

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A. People

Answer 390

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D. Platform

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/foundational-capabilities.html

Answer 391

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A. Compute Savings Plans

Answer 392

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B. Amazon CloudWatch

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