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Cloud Partitioner Test 4 Flashcards

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Availability Zones are physically separated by a meaningful distance from any other AZ, although all are within 100 km or 60 miles of each other. What is the primary reason why Availability Zones are set up the way they are now?

a. To maximize area coverage in a Region
b. Price of the land is cheaper in those locations
c. To achieve better network connectivity to users in the location
d. To keep them as far apart from each other in case of a disaster

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d. To keep them as far apart from each other in case of a disaster

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Which among the following is the most cost-effective and scalable choice for object storage?

a. Amazon EBS
b. Amazon EFS
c. AWS Storage Gateway
d. Amazon S3

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d. Amazon S3

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What cloud computing model deals with services such as EC2 instances?

a. PaaS
b. IaaS
c. SaaS
d. DBaaS

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b. IaaS

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How is expense shifted when moving from traditional servers to the Cloud?

a. Capital expense is traded for operational expense
b. Variable expense is traded for capital expense
c. Capital expense is traded for variable expense
d. Operational expense is traded for variable expense

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c. Capital expense is traded for variable expense

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If you are tasked to create a lightweight Wordpress site in AWS without having to install the package on your own, which PaaS solution in AWS will allow you to do this easily?

a. Amazon Lightsail
b. AWS Glue
c. Amazon GameLift
d. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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a. Amazon Lightsail

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Which of the following perspective includes the foundational capabilities of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)?

a. Security
b. Reliability
c. Scalability
d. Sustainability

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a. Security

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Which cloud computing advantage describes how you can easily deploy your application in multiple AWS regions with just a few clicks?

a. Stop guessing capacity
b. Go global in minutes
c. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
d. Benefit from massive economies of scale

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b. Go global in minutes

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A company is looking for a cloud computing solution for its business requirements, requiring a computing instance with no long-term commitment. Which of the following cloud computing options would be most suitable?

a. On-Demand Instances only
b. On-Demand Instances and Reserved Instances
c. Dedicated Hosts and Reserved Instances
d. Dedicated Hosts only

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a. On-Demand Instances only

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Which of the following controls does the customer fully inherit from AWS based on the Shared Responsibility Model?

a. Configuration Management
b. Awareness and Training
c. Physical and Environmental Controls
d. Patch Management

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c. Physical and Environmental Controls

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Which payment plan will give you the largest discount when purchasing EC2 reserved instances?

a. Partial upfront payment for a 3-year term purchase
b. Partial upfront payment for a 1-year term purchase
c. All upfront payment for a 1-year term purchase
d. All upfront payment for a 3-year term purchase

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d. All upfront payment for a 3-year term purchase

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Which of the following does AWS automatically handle for you? (Select TWO.)

a. Secure AWS data centers from environmental hazards
b. Provide web application firewall protection to your public endpoints.
c. Makes sure your data is safely kept and replicated between AZs
d. Introduce updates and patches to EC2 guest operating systems
e. Introduce updates and patches to EC2 hypervisors

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a. Secure AWS data centers from environmental hazards
e. Introduce updates and patches to EC2 hypervisors

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What is the lowest support plan that allows an unlimited number of technical support cases to be opened?

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

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a. Developer

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A customer is choosing the best AWS support plan which includes a designated Technical Account Manager. Which of the following should they choose?

a. Enterprise
b. Enterprise On-Ramp
c. Developer
d. Business

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a. Enterprise

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You have a customized EC2 instance running your latest web application. How can you create an exact copy of this instance in another region?

a. Create backups of all your EBS volumes and copy them to another region.

b. Create a load balancer with an auto scaling group that is linked between your two regions. Scale up to have another instance running in the other region.

c. Create a golden AMI of the instance and copy it to the other region.

d. There is no way to do this in AWS. You will have to perform the transfer manually.

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c. Create a golden AMI of the instance and copy it to the other region.

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Which of the following is true regarding the AWS Cost and Usage report? (Select TWO.)

a. Allows you to load your cost and usage information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and AWS QuickSight

b. Provides you a dashboard that lets you view the status of your month-to-date AWS expenditure and provides access to a number of other cost management products that can help you dig deeper into your AWS costs and usage

c. Provides you with granular data about your AWS costs and usage

d. Helps you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time via an intuitive interface that enables you to quickly create custom reports

e. Lets you set custom cost and usage budgets that alert you when those thresholds are exceeded

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a. Allows you to load your cost and usage information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and AWS QuickSight

c. Provides you with granular data about your AWS costs and usage

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Which AWS service allows me to patch my Windows EC2 instances without having to RDP into them?

a. AWS CodeDeploy
b. Amazon Simple Workflow
c. AWS CloudFormation
d. AWS Systems Manager

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d. AWS Systems Manager

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As an AWS customer, what offering do you naturally inherit from AWS after you sign up?

a. All the hardware and software that you provision in the AWS cloud

b. All the best practices of AWS policies, architecture, and operational processes built to satisfy your requirements

c. All the data you store in and retrieve from AWS

d. All the responsibilities in enforcing security and compliance policies of your organization

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b. All the best practices of AWS policies, architecture, and operational processes built to satisfy your requirements

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Which of the following is an example of having a highly available application in AWS?

a. Running spot instances for your EC2 workloads
b. Running your RDS instance with multi-AZ enabled
c. Running CloudFront for the static website in your S3 bucket
d. Using SQS to decouple messages between a sender and a receiver

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b. Running your RDS instance with multi-AZ enabled

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Which of the following do you need to programmatically interact with your AWS environment? (Select TWO.)

a. Access keys
b. AWS Management Console
c. Account username and password
d. AWS Lambda
e. AWS SDK

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a. Access keys
e. AWS SDK

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Which compliance requirement has AWS achieved that allows handling of medical information?

a. PCI DSS
b. SOC 1
c. SOC 2
d. HIPAA

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d. HIPAA

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Which of the following is part of the best practices in securing your AWS account?

a. Grant Most Privilege
b. Create an IAM user with admin privileges instead of using root
c. Always manually define permissions to each and every individual IAM user
d. Enable MFA only on the root account

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b. Create an IAM user with admin privileges instead of using root

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Which of the following is an example of IaaS in AWS?

a. Amazon EC2
b. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
c. AWS CloudFormation
d. AWS IAM

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a. Amazon EC2

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What is the right arrangement of the AWS Global Infrastructure components according to their geographical coverage area size, in descending order?

a. Edge Locations, Availability Zones, Regions
b. Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations
c. Availability Zones, Edge Locations, Regions
d. Regions, Edge Locations, Availability Zones

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b. Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations

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A company has a large amount of data stored in multiple sources such as S3, Redshift, and RDS, and they need to extract, transform and load this data into a data warehouse.

Which AWS service can help automate this process?

a. Amazon EC2
b. AWS Glue
c. AWS Lambda
d. Amazon Athena

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b. AWS Glue

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Which of the following instances is it better to use IAM roles rather than IAM users? (Select TWO.)

a. When you want to provide AWS services permissions to do certain actions

b. When you have outside entities that need to perform specific actions in your AWS account

c. When you need a GUI to interact with your AWS environment

d. If you have employees who will constantly need access to your AWS resources

e. When you need an administrator to handle the AWS account for you

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a. When you want to provide AWS services permissions to do certain actions

b. When you have outside entities that need to perform specific actions in your AWS account

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Which of the following AWS services are considered to be global services? (Select TWO.)

a. Amazon Route 53
b. AWS Lambda
c. AWS WAF
d. Amazon VPC
e. AWS CloudTrail

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a. Amazon Route 53
c. AWS WAF

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A customer has a popular website that has millions of viewers from all over the world and has read-heavy database workloads. Which of the following is the best option to use to increase the read throughput on their database?

a. Enable Amazon RDS Read Replicas
b. Use SQS to queue up the requests
c. Enable Multi-AZ deployments
d. Enable Amazon RDS Standby Replicas

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a. Enable Amazon RDS Read Replicas

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Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS Config?

a. Facilitates the real-time monitoring of AWS resources for security threats.
b. Facilitates the management of user access to AWS resources.
c. Facilitates adherence to regulatory requirements and best practices.
d. Facilitates the automation of AWS resource deployment.

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c. Facilitates adherence to regulatory requirements and best practices.

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An organization plans to build an online application form with a detection capability to recognize attributes appearing in the images. This feature will remove forms that contain inappropriate photos uploaded by users. However, the development team has no experience building machine-learning models.

Which of the following services would you recommend?

a. Amazon Kendra
b. Amazon Rekognition
c. Amazon SageMaker
d. Amazon Detective

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b. Amazon Rekognition

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An employee is asking for access to your S3 buckets. What should be the level of access that you should provide to him?

a. Ask what type of access he requires and only provide him those permissions
b. Give him administrator access levels
c. Give him S3 full access
d. Give him read-only access

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a. Ask what type of access he requires and only provide him those permissions

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Which of the following does the Enterprise support plan provide to customers in AWS? (Select TWO.)

a. 15-minute response time support if your production system goes down
b. Proactive Technical Account Management
c. Limited access to the 7 Core Trusted Advisor checks
d. 5-minute response time support if your business-critical system goes down
e. Access to online self-paced labs

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b. Proactive Technical Account Management
e. Access to online self-paced labs

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What is a good disaster recovery precaution if you are launching a dynamic web application with mission-critical workloads that need to be available all the time?

a. Run applications in the cloud but keep all data locally.
b. Always keep backup data stored in two different S3 buckets.
c. Launch applications in two different AWS Regions to prevent downtime during regional outages.
d. Launch applications in two different AZs to prevent downtime during regional outages.

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c. Launch applications in two different AWS Regions to prevent downtime during regional outages.

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A customer has recently experienced an SQL injection attack on their web application’s database hosted in EC2. They submitted a complaint ticket to AWS. What should be the response from AWS?

a. AWS should secure their infrastructure better to reduce these kinds of incidents.
b. AWS should reiterate that the customer is responsible for the security of their applications in the Cloud.
c. AWS and the customer should contact a third party auditor to verify the incident.
d. AWS should not be liable for the damages since the customer should have properly patched the EC2 instance.

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b. AWS should reiterate that the customer is responsible for the security of their applications in the Cloud.

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When is using Amazon RDS a better choice than using a local database?

a. When you need a free Enterprise license for your Enterprise databases
b. When you want to offload administration responsibilities from yourself
c. When you need full control of your SQL database
d. When you need a fast network connection to your local web servers

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b. When you want to offload administration responsibilities from yourself

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A mobile game startup plans to upgrade its local servers to serve consumers better. However, locally stored data cannot be migrated due to compliance requirements. Which of the following options would you recommend to satisfy this requirement?

a. Utilize AWS web servers but keep your data locally. Setup a hybrid model in which the web servers in AWS will communicate with your local data store.

b. Do not perform any migration for now to save up some capital for a large scale migration in the future.

c. Slowly migrate your web servers and data into AWS while keeping your budget in check.

d. Dispose all of your servers and migrate your data to AWS since it will be cheaper and more durable to store data in the cloud.

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a. Utilize AWS web servers but keep your data locally. Setup a hybrid model in which the web servers in AWS will communicate with your local data store.

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A customer is using Amazon S3 to store sprites of game characters. When players retrieve these sprites, they are temporarily stored on the player’s computer. The sprites are currently stored in the S3 Standard storage class. Which of the following options would you recommend to optimize storage costs?

a. Have the customer directly upload the sprites to S3 Standard - Infrequent Access.
b. Add a lifecycle policy to move sprites to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after the customer uploads them.
c. Add a lifecycle policy to move sprites to S3 Standard - Infrequent Access after the customer uploads them.
d. Have the customer compress the sprites to reduce storage consumption.

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a. Have the customer directly upload the sprites to S3 Standard - Infrequent Access

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In the event of a disaster or an outage, AWS recommends that you spread your servers and databases at least in different _____?

a. Availability Zones
b. VPCs
c. Regions
d. AWS Accounts

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a. Availability Zones

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Which AWS well-architected pillar stresses the importance of selecting the most appropriate and right number of resource types for your requirements?

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

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a. Cost optimization

39
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Which of the following actions does not affect costs when using Amazon S3?

a. Moving objects out of your S3 bucket to another bucket
b. Making GET requests to your S3 objects
c. Data transfer costs for uploading objects into your S3 bucket.
d. Choosing S3 Standard IA rather than One Zone IA

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c. Data transfer costs for uploading objects into your S3 bucket.

40
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Which of the following services should you provision if your local data center requires additional storage space without having to migrate data?

a. AWS Storage Gateway
b. AWS Backup
c. AWS Direct Connect
d. AWS Snowball Edge

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a. AWS Storage Gateway

41
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What type of EBS volume is recommended for most workloads and is also usable as a boot volume?

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

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b. General Purpose SSD

42
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In implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) in your cloud architecture, which service will make it easy for you to set up your entire development and continuous delivery toolchain for coding, building, testing, and deploying your application code?

a. AWS CodeBuild
b. AWS CodeStar
c. AWS CodeCommit
d. AWS CodePipeline

A

b. AWS CodeStar

43
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A Software Engineer is having trouble migrating and configuring a licensed application on an EC2 instance. Which of the following options would you recommend to quickly get the applications up and running in AWS?

a. Create a Docker image of the application and launch Docker in the EC2 instances.

b. Setup a VPN connection from her local network to her AWS VPC, which essentially means that her work is now running in the Cloud.

c. Use AWS Application Discovery Service to create an exact copy of the application in EC2.

d. Try to look for an AMI in the AWS Marketplace that provides a similar setup to her application stack.

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d. Try to look for an AMI in the AWS Marketplace that provides a similar setup to her application stack.

44
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Which AWS service will allow you to serve your dynamic web content to users globally?

a. Amazon CloudFront
b. AWS Elastic Load Balancer
c. Amazon S3
d. Amazon Route 53

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a. Amazon CloudFront

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A company recently migrated its e-commerce application to AWS in order to handle a surge in customer traffic. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances and uses Amazon RDS to manage the product catalog and inventory.

Which of the following options provides disaster recovery solutions for Amazon EC2? (Select TWO.)

a. Amazon EC2 AMI
b. Amazon RDS Snapshots
c. AWS Security Hub
d. AWS Health Dashboard
e. Amazon EBS Snapshots

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a. Amazon EC2 AMI
e. Amazon EBS Snapshots

46
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Where can the customer view his Reserved Instance usage for the past month?

a. AWS Organizations
b. Amazon EC2
c. Amazon S3
d. AWS Billing Console

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d. AWS Billing Console

47
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Which of the following is not a standard design principle when designing systems in AWS?

a. Loose coupling
b. Disposable resources instead of fixed servers
c. Servers, not services
d. Design for failure

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c. Servers, not services

48
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A company is planning to use AWS Cloud to augment the resources of their on-premises data center to better serve their customers around the world. How does a company benefit from using AWS?

a.Replace low variable costs with upfront capital infrastructure expenses
b. Replace high variable costs with upfront capital infrastructure expenses
c. Benefit from massive discounts from the Amazon.com shopping website
d. Benefit from massive economies of scale

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d. Benefit from massive economies of scale

49
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Which service offers volume discounts when you enable Consolidated Billing?

a. Amazon S3
b. Amazon CloudFront
c. Amazon SNS
d. AWS CloudTrail

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a. Amazon S3

50
Q

Which of the following RDS engines allows you to bring your own license (BYOL)?

a. PostgreSQL
b. MS SQL
c. MySQL
d. Oracle

A

d. Oracle

51
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Which of the following purchase options offers the most significant discount compared to On-Demand instance pricing to process steady-state workloads that will continuously be running for a year and also provide capacity reservation?

a. Dedicated Instance
b. Standard Reserved Instance
c. Savings Plans
d. Convertible Reserved Instance

A

b. Standard Reserved Instance

52
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What is an advantage of cloud computing when it comes to equipment expenditures?

a. AWS introduces cost reductions each year in their services.
b. AWS makes sure that physical devices are continuously secured and monitored.
c. You can easily scale and manage the number of resources running in your cloud environment.
d. AWS uses the cheapest possible equipment for their data centers so that they do not charge expensive fees.

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a. AWS introduces cost reductions each year in their services.

53
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You have an Amazon Linux EC2 instance running for an hour and thirty minutes. How will AWS bill you in terms of usage?

a. You will be billed for an hour and thirty minutes according to the per-second billing rule
b. You will be billed for one hour and thirty minutes according to the hourly billing rule
c. You will only be billed for an hour according to the hourly billing rule
d. You will be billed for an hour and twenty-nine minutes according to the per second billing rule

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a. You will be billed for an hour and thirty minutes according to the per-second billing rule

54
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Which of the following services combine 5G networks with AWS compute and storage services for the benefit of high-performance mobile applications?

a. AWS Wavelength
b. AWS Cloud9
c. AWS Amplify
d. AWS Control Tower

A

a. AWS Wavelength

55
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What infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront utilize to speed up content delivery to customers?

a. Edge Locations
b. Local Zones
c. Direct Connect
d. Availability Zones

A

a. Edge Locations

56
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A number of servers in your on-premises data center have been collecting dust over the past few years. What is the benefit of moving to the Cloud in this case?

a. The ability to pay for only what you use
b. AWS has automated services for you
c. The ability to provision resources only when you need them
d. Physical servers are managed and maintained by AWS for you

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c. The ability to provision resources only when you need them

57
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A leading mobile game company has a mission-critical server that is currently down in AWS. The Systems Administrator needs to bring it back up within 15 minutes for service continuity. Which of the following support plans will allow the Administrator to contact technical support to immediately resolve the issue?

a. Enterprise On-Ramp
b. Business
c. Developer
d. Enterprise

A

d. Enterprise

58
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What are the benefits of using Amazon DynamoDB as your database? (Select TWO.)

a.You can perform very complex queries and joins without deterioration in performance

b. You can store different kinds of unstructured data that would normally not be suitable for relational databases

c. DynamoDB is self-healing, which means your data is scanned for errors and is repaired continuously

d. Database size scales automatically so you won’t have to worry about capacity

e. DynamoDB offers 11 9’s in terms of durability, according to the SLA

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b. You can store different kinds of unstructured data that would normally not be suitable for relational databases

d. Database size scales automatically so you won’t have to worry about capacity

59
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Which of the following is not a part of the AWS Global Infrastructure?

a. Availability Zones
b. Placement Groups
c. Regions
d. Edge Locations

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b. Placement Groups

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Which AWS storage service offers faster disk read and write performance and provides temporary block-level storage for your instance?

a. EBS Throughput Optimized HDD
b. Instance Store
c. EFS
d. EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD

A

b. Instance Store

61
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A startup is in need of a database that is capable of self-healing and has a high throughput. Which of the following services fits these criteria?

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

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a. Amazon Aurora

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An e-commerce company is considering migrating its website to the AWS Cloud to improve its scalability and reduce costs.

Which statements explain the business value of migration to the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)

a. Companies that migrate to the AWS Cloud eliminate the need to plan for high availability and disaster recovery.

b. Companies that migrate to the AWS Cloud reduce IT costs related to infrastructure, freeing the budget for reinvestment in other areas.

c. Applications are modernized because migration to the AWS Cloud requires companies to rearchitect and rewrite all enterprise applications.

d. Migrating to AWS Cloud offers the e-commerce company access to advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities.

e. The migration of enterprise applications to the AWS Cloud makes these applications automatically available on mobile devices.

A

a. Companies that migrate to the AWS Cloud eliminate the need to plan for high availability and disaster recovery.

b. Companies that migrate to the AWS Cloud reduce IT costs related to infrastructure, freeing the budget for reinvestment in other areas.

63
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What AWS service can monitor the compliance status of your AWS resources against a set of compliance guidelines?

a. AWS IAM
b. Amazon CloudWatch
c. AWS Artifact
d. AWS Config

A

d. AWS Config

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What does AWS do when a storage device reaches the end of its lifespan?

a. AWS wipes the drives and sends it back to the manufacturer to procure a new one

b. AWS simply wipes the device and disposes it

c. AWS follows a strict decommissioning process as described in compliance procedures

d. AWS archives the device in case customers request their data again

A

c. AWS follows a strict decommissioning process as described in compliance procedures

65
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You believe that your AWS root account may have been used without you knowing. What can you do to tighten the security on the root account?

a. Configure MFA for your root account
b. Enable Cloudtrail to monitor for suspicious logins
c. Disable root account credentials and use an IAM user with admin privileges instead
d. Change the root account password often

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a. Configure MFA for your root account

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