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Cloud Partitioner Test 3 Flashcards

1
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You wish to host a static website of your own in AWS at a low cost. Which service should be used for this purpose?

a.Amazon S3 Standard
b.Amazon S3 Infrequent Access
c.Amazon EC2
d.Amazon Elastic Load Balancer

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a.Amazon S3 Standard

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Which of the following is true if you store your data in AWS?

a.All data are stored durably and redundantly in different AZs
b.AWS has the right to review any data stored for potential threats
c.Encryption is required for all data at rest and in transit
d.You are the owner of the data you store in AWS

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d.You are the owner of the data you store in AWS

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Which of the following is needed to retrieve a list of your EC2 instances using the AWS CLI?

a.Username and password
b.MFA
c.SSH keys
d.Access Keys

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d.Access Keys

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A Cloud Architect in a large e-commerce company manages the company’s AWS environment. One day, the Cloud Architect was notified that one of their EC2 instances had been running non-stop for over 30 days, and its usage costs had skyrocketed. The Cloud Architect needs to identify the root cause of the issue and find a way to reduce the usage costs of the instance.

Which of the following AWS services can help the Cloud Architect identify the issue and check if their running resources conform to AWS best practices?

a.AWS Trusted Advisor
b.Amazon CloudWatch
c.AWS Config
d.AWS IAM

A

a.AWS Trusted Advisor

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Which of the following security group rules are valid? (Select TWO.)

a.Outbound HTTPS rule with hostname as destination
b.Inbound HTTP rule with security group ID as source
c.Outbound MYSQL rule with IP address as source
d.Inbound TCP rule with instance ID as source
e.Inbound RDP rule with an address range as source

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b.Inbound HTTP rule with security group ID as source
e.Inbound RDP rule with an address range as source

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You are tasked to simplify the migration of your databases from your on-premises server to AWS. Which service fits best for this purpose?

a.AWS Snowball
b.AWS Database Migration Service
c.AWS Snowmobile
d.AWS Server Migration Service

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b.AWS Database Migration Service

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Which of the following is true about the enhanced technical support response times of the Enterprise support plan in AWS? (Select TWO.)

a.Provides a 48-hour response time support for general guidance

b.Provides a 15-minute response time support if your business-critical system goes down

c.Provides a 1-hour response time support if your production system goes down

d.Provides a 2-hour response time support if your production system got impaired

e.Provides a 12-hour response time support for general guidance

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b.Provides a 15-minute response time support if your business-critical system goes down
c.Provides a 1-hour response time support if your production system goes down

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Which of the following is the responsibility of the customer in the AWS cloud? (Select TWO.)

a.Disposal of disk drives
b.Ensuring that AWS services comply with the standards required of them
c.Managing data stored in the AWS resources
d.Upgrading chipsets to the latest commercially available product
e.Managing users in their AWS account

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c.Managing data stored in the AWS resources
e.Managing users in their AWS account

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Which of the following practices demonstrate operational excellence in AWS cloud? (Select TWO.)

a.Perform monthly game days on your AWS environment
b.Monitor EC2 metric consumption and adjust the instance type accordingly
c.Launching your infrastructure manually via the Console
d.Use serverless applications such as AWS Lambda
e.Deploy small, incremental changes to your production servers using AWS CodeDeploy

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a.Perform monthly game days on your AWS environment
e.Deploy small, incremental changes to your production servers using AWS CodeDeploy

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What service allows you to create alarms that notify you when EC2 CPU Utilization thresholds are breached?

a.Amazon CloudWatch
b.AWS Auto Scaling
c.AWS Config
d.Amazon SNS

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a.Amazon CloudWatch

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What is the main benefit you receive when moving to serverless from non-serverless compute services?

a.Serverless removes management overhead so you can focus on your applications instead
b.You get overall cheaper costs compared to using non-serverless services
c.Serverless are highly available so you don’t have to worry about downtime
d.Security is fully managed for you by the service provider

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a.Serverless removes management overhead so you can focus on your applications instead

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Which service in AWS allows you to host your own Puppet Enterprise infrastructure?

a.AWS Service Catalog
b.AWS Opsworks
c.AWS CloudFormation
d.AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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b.AWS Opsworks

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Which type of Elastic Load Balancer allows you to forward the incoming request to a target group with a Lambda function as a target?

a.Application Load Balancer
b.Classic Load Balancer
c.Gateway Load Balancer
d.Network Load Balancer

A

a.Application Load Balancer

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Which of the following AWS services are used to secure your VPC network? (Select TWO.)

a.Network ACL
b.CloudFront
c.Application load balancer
d.IAM
e.Security group

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a.Network ACL
e.Security group

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Which service in AWS protects your resources from common DDoS attacks in a proactive manner?

a.AWS Shield
b.Security groups
c.AWS WAF
d.Amazon Inspector

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a.AWS Shield

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What service acts as a firewall for your EC2 instances?

a.Network ACL
b.Security Group
c.VPC
d.Elastic Network Interface

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b.Security Group

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You noticed that you cannot reach one of your EC2 web servers behind an ELB whenever you enter the DNS name of your load balancer. Which of the following should you first check to gain more insight on the issue?

a.AWS CloudTrail
b.Amazon CloudWatch
c.AWS Config
d.ELB Health Check

A

d.ELB Health Check

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A startup is recently migrated its infrastructure to the AWS cloud and wants to ensure that users can access the right resources.

Which IAM service is responsible for enforcing privileges and access controls in your AWS environment?

a.IAM Role
b.IAM Group
c.IAM Policy
d.IAM User

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c.IAM Policy

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In which of the following occasions should you use the Amazon SQS in your application system? (Select TWO.)

a.When your application requires the use of industry-standard messaging protocols for message delivery

b.When you have to automate certain tasks in your workflow

c.If you need to decouple certain parts of your system for better fault tolerance

d.If you need to submit push notifications to your event subscribers

e.If you require a durable storage for your application events or messages

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c.If you need to decouple certain parts of your system for better fault tolerance

e.If you require a durable storage for your application events or messages

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Which AWS service lets you provision either Windows or Linux desktops in just a few minutes and can scale easily to provide thousands of desktops to workers?

a.AWS Systems Manager
b.AWS Organizations
c.AWS Cloud9
d.Amazon Workspaces

A

d.Amazon Workspaces

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A Software Engineer is working on a new project for the company. The project entails creating a web application with the PHP framework and releasing it to the AWS Cloud. Given the company’s limited resources and the Software Engineer’s tight deadline, the Software Engineer must devise a plan for quickly deploying the application to AWS while avoiding the time-consuming process of setting up and configuring the infrastructure.

Which of the following service will allow the Software Engineer to quickly deploy their application into the AWS Cloud without building or launching the individual resources themselves?

a.Amazon EBS
b.Amazon EKS
c.AWS Elastic Beanstalk
d.Amazon ECS

A

c.AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Which of the following AWS well-architected pillars discusses the use of the right computing resources to meet demand levels even as the demand changes and technologies evolve?

a.Operational Excellence
b.Performance Efficiency
c.Reliability
d.Cost optimization

A

b.Performance Efficiency

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Which of the following should you set up in order to connect your AWS VPC network to your local network via an IPsec tunnel?

a.An on-premises NAT gateway device connected to your VPC’s Internet Gateway

b.A VPN gateway in your VPC connected to the Customer Gateway in your on-premises network

c.VPC Peering connection between your on-premises network and VPC

d.A NAT gateway in your private subnet connected to your on-premises network

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b.A VPN gateway in your VPC connected to the Customer Gateway in your on-premises network

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Which of the following is a serverless compute service of AWS?

a.Amazon Aurora
b.AWS Lambda
c.Amazon DynamoDB
d.Amazon Athena

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b.AWS Lambda

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A company is using Amazon S3 to store various types of documents in a single bucket, and different teams frequently access the stored objects. If the document is accidentally overwritten or deleted, the data must be recoverable. Which of the following S3 features should they use?

a.S3 Versioning
b.S3 Event Notifications
c.S3 Glacier Vault Lock
d.S3 Lifecycle

A

a.S3 Versioning

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The use of multi-threading in your Amazon S3 requests via the Multipart Upload API is an example of which AWS cloud best practice?

a.Decouple your components.
b.Implement elasticity.
c.Think parallel.
d.Allow for evolutionary architectures.

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c.Think parallel.

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Which of the following provides you access to Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations based on your past usage and indicate potential opportunities for savings as compared to On-Demand usage?

a.AWS Budgets
b.AWS Cost and Usage report
c.AWS Billing Dashboard
d.AWS Cost Explorer

A

d.AWS Cost Explorer

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Which of the following services allow you to mask downtime of your application by rerouting your traffic to healthy instances? (Select TWO.)

a.Amazon Route 53
b.AWS App Mesh
c.VPC Route tables
d.AWS EC2 Auto Scaling
e.AWS ELB

A

a.Amazon Route 53
e.AWS ELB

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Which AWS service lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources?

a.AWS Elastic Beanstalk
b.Internet gateway
c.Amazon VPC
d.Amazon EC2

A

c.Amazon VPC

30
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Which of the following options allows customers to find, buy, and immediately start using the software and services that run on AWS?

a.AWS IQ
b.AWS Partner Network
c.Reserved Instance Marketplace
d.AWS Marketplace

A

d.AWS Marketplace

31
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Which of the following infrastructure correlates to a VPC’s subnet?

a.Region
b.Availability zone
c.Edge location
d.Server

A

b.Availability zone

32
Q

Which of the following are advantages of Cloud Computing? (Select TWO.)

a.Increase speed and agility.
b.Trade capital expense for variable expense.
c.Achieve lower economies of scale.
d.Trade variable expense for capital expense.
e.Massive discounts for your computers, network devices and other equipment from Amazon online shopping website.

A

a.Increase speed and agility.
b.Trade capital expense for variable expense.

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Which type of EC2 instance is the most suitable and cost-effective if the customer will be running mission-critical workloads continuously for a whole year?

a.On-Demand
b.Dedicated
c.Reserved
d.Spot

A

c.Reserved

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Which service in AWS supports various business intelligence tools such as Apache Spark so that you may perform data transformation workloads (ETL) and analytics at a low cost?

a.Amazon EMR
b.Amazon Redshift
c.Amazon OpenSearch
d.Amazon RDS

A

a.Amazon EMR

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How can your RDS production instances be more cost-effective when they will be used for a long period of time?

a.You can easily backup, terminate, and restore RDS instances when you need them

b.You can request reserved instances to get discounts on your instance costs

c.AWS does not charge you when your RDS is idle

d.You can stop your RDS instances when idle to prevent AWS from charging you during this time

A

b.You can request reserved instances to get discounts on your instance costs

36
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Which of the following best describes what an account alias is in IAM?

a. The name AWS assigns to your account
b. Your IAM rootname username
c. A substitute for an account ID in the web address for your account
d. The numerical value of y our account ID

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c. A substitute for an account ID in the web address for your account

37
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Which of the following services allows you to purchase Reserved Instances? (Select TWO.)

a. Amazon EC2
b. Amazon EKS
c. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
d. Amazon RDS
e. AWS Batch

A

a. Amazon EC2
d. Amazon RDS

38
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Which AWS support plan includes a Concierge Support Team which will assist you with your billing and account inquiries, and work with you to implement billing and account best practices?

a. Business support Plan
b. Developer support Plan
c. Basic support plan
d. Enterprise support plan

A

d. Enterprise support plan

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________ is AWS’s digital user engagement service that enables AWS customers to effectively communicate with their end users and measure user engagement across multiple channels including email, Text Messaging (SMS) and Mobile Push Notifications.

a. Amazon Simple Email Service
b. Amazon Pinpoint
c. Amazon Simple Notification Service
d. Amazon SNS Mobile Push

A

b. Amazon Pinpoint

40
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Which service in AWS is best used for data analytics and data warehousing?

a. Amazon DynamoDB
b. Amazon S3
c. Amazon Aurora
d. Amazon Redshift

A

d. Amazon Redshift

41
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A manufacturing company is undergoing an organizational transformation to focus more on its customers, aiming to maximize the value delivered to them. This shift involves promoting team collaboration to ensure alignment with the firm’s strategic objectives.

How can the company achieve this goal while following the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)? (Choose two.)

a. Employ a robust data and analytics platform to generate actionable insights.
b. Introduce new products and revenue models.
c. Transition and upgrade legacy infrastructure through migration and modernization efforts.
d. Adopt agile methodologies for continuous improvement and rapid innovation.
e. Restructure teams to prioritize product-focused and value stream-oriented approaches.

A

d. Adopt agile methodologies for continuous improvement and rapid innovation.
e. Restructure teams to prioritize product-focused and value stream-oriented approaches.

42
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You have a fleet of on-premises servers that require a centralized scalable and durable file storage. It should be able to support massive parallel access. Which of the following is the most appropriate service to use?
a. Amazon EFS
b. Amazon S3
c. Amazon Redshift
d. Amazon Storage Gateway - File Gateway

A

a. Amazon EFS

43
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Which security services in AWS use intelligent systems and machine learning to quickly identify potential security threats and issues in your AWS account? (Select TWO.)

a. Amazon Detective
b. AWS Sumerian
c. Amazon Cognito
d. AWS IAM
e. Amazon GuardDuty

A

a. Amazon Detective
e. Amazon GuardDuty

44
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Which business intelligence tool is offered by Amazon Web Services and allows users to create and publish interactive dashboards and reports easily?

a. Amazon QuickSight
b. AWS CostExplorer
c. AWS Trusted Advisor
d. AWS Cost and Usage Report

A

a. Amazon QuickSight

45
Q

You have multiple AWS accounts in your organization. How can you take advantage of this to save on your monthly costs?

a. Use AWS Organizations and enable consolidated billing
b. Migrate all resources to a central account to take advantage of volume discounts
c. Create IAM Group containing all the AWS accounts and enable consolidated billing
d. Set a budget for each account to minimize spending

A

a. Use AWS Organizations and enable consolidated billing

46
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Which of the following is the most cost-effective service to use if you want to coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows?

a. AWS Step Functions
b. AWS Batch
c. AWS Lambda
d. Amazon SWF

A

a. AWS Step Functions

47
Q

What is the minimum support plan that will provide you access to all Trusted Advisor Checks?

a. Business
b. Enterprise
c. Developer
d. Basic

A

a. Business

48
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You are planning to deploy a video streaming application with frequently accessed, throughput-intensive workloads to your EC2 instance which requires fast, consistent throughput. What EBS volume type should you use to maximize performance as well as cost?

a. General Purpose SSD
b. Cold HDD
c. Provisioned IOPS SSD
d. Throughput Optimized HDD

A

d. Throughput Optimized HDD

49
Q

What is the best way to keep track of all activities made in your AWS account?

a. Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to log all activities
b. Create a multi-region trail in AWS Cloud Trail
c. Use LDAP authentication on your AWS account
d. Set up MFA logging to know who is currently in your environment

A

b. Create a multi-region trail in AWS Cloud Trail

50
Q

A startup plans to build a data lake using Amazon S3 as the primary storage platform. Which of the following options would incur costs? (Select TWO.)

a. Egress data to the internet
b. Ingress data from the internet
c. Modifying S3 event notifications
d. Setting up S3 lifecycle policies
e. Creating S3 bucket policies

A

a. Egress data to the internet
d. Setting up S3 lifecycle policies

51
Q

Your web servers are showing relatively poor performance in delivering content. How can you improve its performance and cost efficiency?

a. Run more web servers to distribute the worklod
b. Apply a caching mechanism that stores frequently accessed content
c. Request AWS to use faster network cables for your servers
d. Use HTTP protocol instead to decrease the time consumed in decrypting content

A

b. Apply a caching mechanism that stores frequently accessed content

52
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A customer needs to identify the IAM user who terminated their production EC2 instance in AWS. Which service should they use in this situation?

a. Amazon Cloud Watch
b. Amazon AppStream 2.0
c. AWS CloudTrail
d. AWS Systems Manager

A

c. AWS CloudTrail

53
Q

You are planning to create point-in-time backups of your Amazon EBS volumes. Which of the following are correct statements? (Select TWO.)

a. Backing up the same EBS volume will create a new back up of the whole volume
b. Instances will have to be stopped first to start the EBS backup
c. You can create point-in-time backups through EBS snapshots
d. EBS backups are stored durably in Amazon S3
e. You can take EBS backups by creating Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

A

c. You can create point-in-time backups through EBS snapshots
d. EBS backups are stored durably in Amazon S3

54
Q

Which of the following is a continuous delivery service that you should use to automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates?

a. Amazon Data Pipeline
b. AWS CodePipeline
c. AWS CodeDeploy
d. AWS CodeCommit

A

b. AWS CodePipeline

55
Q

You have a large number of log files that will be archived in AWS for a long time and should have a retrieval time of 12 hours or less. Which service is the most cost-effective storage class for this purpose?

a. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
b. Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
c. Amazon S3 Standard-IA
d. Amazon EBS Cold HDD

A

a. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

56
Q

A company is planning to deploy its high-frequency trading (HFT) application which will store constantly changing financial data in AWS and require low latency access. Which AWS services below should you use? (Select TWO.)

a. Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
b. Amazon RDS
c. Amazon EFS
d. Amazon S3
e. AWS Snowball Edge

A

b. Amazon RDS
c. Amazon EFS

57
Q

A DevOps Engineer hosted an e-commerce website on AWS in the US East (Northern Virginia) region. Due to recent regulatory changes, the company decided to expand its operations and launch a new instance of the e-commerce website in the Europe (London) region. The DevOps Engineer’s task is to replicate the entire infrastructure of the existing e-commerce website in the new region with the least possible downtime.

Which of the following is best to replicate the entire infrastructure to another AWS Region with the least possible downtime?

a. Create a golden AMI which you can use to redeploy your instances to the new region
b. Enable RDS multi-AZ to have a similar database instance running in the new region
c. Create a CloudFormation template and deploy it in the new region
d. Take an EBS snapshot on all your storage devices and copy them to the new region

A

c. Create a CloudFormation template and deploy it in the new region

58
Q

Which of the following statements is true for AWS CloudTrail?
a. CloudTrail is able to capture application error logs from your EC2 instances
b. CloudTrail charges you for every management event trail created
c. When you create a trail in the AWS Management Console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions by default
d. CloudTrail is disabled by default for newly created AWS accounts

A

c. When you create a trail in the AWS Management Console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions by default

59
Q

What service should you use in order to add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your mobile app with a feature that supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0?

a. AWS Directory Service
b. Amazon Cognito
c. AWS Single SignOn(SSO)
d. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

A

b. Amazon Cognito

60
Q

Your organization would like to boost productivity by improving business communication channels and customer service experience. Which of the following AWS applications would you suggest? (Select TWO.)

a. AWS Transfer Family
b. Amazon Chime
c. Amazon Connect
d. AWS Marketplace
e. Amazon Workspaces

A

b. Amazon Chime
c. Amazon Connect

61
Q

Which of the following services allows you to store Docker images and orchestrate Docker containers in a simple and cost-effective manner? (Select TWO.)

a. AWS CodeCommit
b. Amazon ECS
c. Amazon ECR
d. AWS Lambda
e. AWS Batch

A

b. Amazon ECS
c. Amazon ECR

62
Q

What is the primary reason why you should be using an elastic load balancer for a website with high activity?

a. ELBs help tighten security through the use of security groups
b. ELBs can distribute traffic equally to your backend targets to handle the incoming traffic load
c. ELBs boost your website’s overall performance
d. ELBs help you scale servers easily without manual intervention

A

b. ELBs can distribute traffic equally to your backend targets to handle the incoming traffic load

63
Q

Among the following payment options, which of the following can you choose when you purchase a Standard or Convertible Reserved Instance? (Select TWO.)

a. Partial upfront payment
b. Reserved payment
c. Bill-Me-Later payment
d. Deferred payment
e. All Upfront payment

A

a. Partial upfront payment
e. All Upfront payment

64
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What feature will allow you to label and sort your EC2 instances according to their deployment stage (development, staging, production)?

a. Instance metadata
b. Instance tags
c. Instance type
d. Instance userdata

A

b. Instance tags

65
Q

Which of the following services should you use to deploy and easily rollback a web application from your Git repository to your on-premises server?

a. AWS OpsWorks
b. AWS CloudFormation
c. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
d. AWS Systems Manager

A

a. AWS OpsWorks

AWS Cloud Partitioner (5 decks)

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