Cloud Flashcards
A corporation would like to simplify access management to multiple AWS accounts as well as facilitate
AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) access to its AWS accounts. As a Cloud Practitioner,
which AWS service would you use for this task?
-AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
-AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)
-AWS Cognito
-AWS IAM Identity Center
AWS IAM Identity Center
The DevOps team at an e-commerce company is trying to debug performance issues for its serverless
application built using a microservices architecture. As a Cloud Practitioner,
which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?
-Amazon Pinpoint
-AWS Trusted Advisor
-AWS CloudFormation
-AWS X-Ray
-AWS X-Ray
Which option is a common stakeholder role for the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) platform perspective? (Select two)
-Chief Information Officer (CIO)
-Chief Product Officer (CPO)
-Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
-Chief Data Officer (CDO)
-Engineer
-Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
-Engineer
A financial services company wants to migrate from its on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. As a Cloud Practitioner,
which AWS service would you recommend so that the company can compare the cost of running their IT infrastructure on-premises vs AWS Cloud?
-AWS Pricing Calculator
-AWS Trusted Advisor
-AWS Budgets
-AWS Cost Explorer
-AWS Pricing Calculator
A developer would like to automate operations on his on-premises environment using Chef and Puppet.
Which AWS service can help with this task?
-AWS CloudFormation
-AWS Batch
-AWS CodeDeploy
-AWS OpsWorks
-AWS OpsWorks
A unicorn startup is building an analytics application with support for a speech-based interface.
The application will accept speech-based input from users and then convey results via speech.
As a Cloud Practitioner, which solution would you recommend for the given use-case?
-Use Amazon Polly to convert speech to text for downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Transcribe to convey the text results via speech
-Use Amazon Translate to convert speech to text for downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Polly to convey the text results via speech
-Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text for downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Polly to convey the text results via speech
-Use Amazon Polly to convert speech to text for downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Translate to convey the text results via speech
-Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text for downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Polly to convey the text results via speech
Which AWS Route 53 routing policy would you use to route traffic to multiple resources
and also choose how much traffic is routed to each resource?
-Weighted routing
-Simple routing
-latency-based routing
-Failover routing
-Weighted routing
Which of the following options is NOT a feature of Amazon Inspector?
-Inspect running operating systems (OS) against known vulnerabilities
-Automate security assessments
-Analyze against unintended network accessibility
-Track configuration changes
-Track configuration changes
Which of the following options are the benefits of using AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? (Select TWO)
-High availability
-Fault tolerance
-Agility
-Storage
-Less costly
-High availability
-Fault tolerance
A data analytics company is running a proprietary batch analytics application on AWS and wants to use a
storage service which would be accessed by hundreds of EC2 instances simultaneously to append data to existing files.
As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?
-Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
-Instance Store
-Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
-Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
-Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
A Cloud Practitioner would like to get operational insights of its resources to quickly
identify any issues that might impact applications using those resources.
Which AWS service can help with this task?
-AWS Trusted Advisor
-AWS Systems Manager
-AWS Health Dashboard - Your Account Health
-Amazon Inspector
-AWS Systems Manager
An IT company is on a cost-optimization spree and wants to identify all Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) instances that are under-utilized. Which AWS services can be used off-the-shelf
to address this use-case without needing any manual configurations? (Select two)
-AWS Trusted Advisor
-AWS Budgets
-AWS Cost Explorer
-Amazon CloudWatch
-AWS Cost & Usage Report (AWS CUR)
-AWS Trusted Advisor
-AWS Cost Explorer
Which of the following are the advantages of using the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO)
-Stop guessing about capacity
-Trade operational expense for capital expense
-Limited scaling
-AWS is responsible for security in the cloud
-Increase speed and agility
-Stop guessing about capacity
-Increase speed and agility
Which of the following AWS services can be used to forecast your AWS account usage and costs?
-AWS Pricing Calculator
-AWS Cost Explorer
-AWS Budgets
-AWS Cost & Usage Report (AWS CUR)
-AWS Cost Explorer
A financial services company wants to ensure that its AWS account activity meets the governance,
compliance and auditing norms. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?
-AWS CloudTrail
-AWS Config
-Amazon CloudWatch
-AWS Trusted Advisor
-AWS CloudTrail
A photo sharing web application wants to store thumbnails of user-uploaded images
on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The thumbnails are rarely used but need to be
immediately accessible from the web application. The thumbnails can be regenerated easily
if they are lost. Which is the most cost-effective way to store these thumbnails on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)?
-Use Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) to store the thumbnails
-Use Amazon S3 Standard to store the thumbnails
-Use Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) to store the thumbnails
-Use Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval to store the thumbnails
Use Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) to store the thumbnails
Which of the following AWS authentication mechanisms supports an AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) device that you can plug into a USB port on your computer?
-U2F security key
-Hardware Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) device
-SMS text message-based Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA)
-Virtual Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) device
-U2F security key
AWS Marketplace facilitates which of the following use-cases? (Select two)
-Buy Amazon EC2 Standard Reserved Instances (RI)
-AWS customer can buy software that has been bundled into customized Amazon Machine Image (AMIs) by the AWS Marketplace sellers
-Raise request for purchasing AWS Direct Connect connection
-Purchase compliance documents from third-party vendors
-Sell Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to AWS customers
-AWS customer can buy software that has been bundled into customized Amazon Machine Image (AMIs) by the AWS Marketplace sellers
-Sell Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to AWS customers
Which AWS service can be used to subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of the status of all AWS service interruptions?
-AWS Health Dashboard - Your Account Health
-AWS Health Dashboard - Service Health
-Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
-AWS Lambda
-AWS Health Dashboard - Your Account Health
An intern at an IT company provisioned a Linux based On-demand EC2 instance with per-second billing
but terminated it within 30 seconds as he wanted to provision another instance type.
What is the duration for which the instance would be charged?
-60 seconds
-300 seconds
-600 seconds
-30 seconds
-60 seconds
A start-up would like to quickly deploy a popular technology on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner,
which AWS tool would you use for this task?
-AWS Forums
-AWS CodeDeploy
-AWS Whitepapers
-AWS Partner Solutions (formerly Quick Starts)
-AWS Partner Solutions (formerly Quick Starts)
AWS Organizations provides which of the following benefits? (Select two)
-Provision Amazon EC2 Spot instances across the member AWS accounts
-Volume discounts for Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 aggregated across the member AWS accounts
-Deploy patches on Amazon EC2 instances across the member AWS accounts
-Check vulnerabilities on Amazon EC2 instances across the member AWS accounts
-Share the reserved Amazon EC2 instances amongst the member AWS accounts
-Volume discounts for Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 aggregated across the member AWS accounts
-Share the reserved Amazon EC2 instances amongst the member AWS accounts
AWS Compute Optimizer delivers recommendations for which of the following AWS resources? (Select two)
-AWS Lambda functions, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
-Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
-Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups
-Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), AWS Lambda functions
-Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), AWS Lambda functions
-Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups
-Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), AWS Lambda functions
A startup runs its proprietary application on docker containers. As a Cloud Practitioner,
which AWS service would you recommend so that the startup can run containers and still have access to the underlying servers?
-Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
-AWS Lambda
-AWS Fargate
-Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
-Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)