Cloud Practitioner - PRACTICE 4 Flashcards
Which AWS service should be used to create a billing alarm?
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS CloudTrail
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon QuickSight
Amazon CloudWatch
You can monitor your estimated AWS charges by using Amazon CloudWatch. When you enable the monitoring of estimated charges for your AWS account, the estimated charges are calculated and sent several times daily to CloudWatch as metric data.
How can consolidated billing within AWS Organizations help lower overall monthly expenses?
- By providing a consolidated view of monthly billing across multiple accounts
- By pooling usage across multiple accounts to achieve a pricing tier discount
- By automating the creation of new accounts through Als
- By leveraging service control policies (SCP) for centralized service management
By pooling usage across multiple accounts to achieve a pricing tier discount
You can use the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations to consolidate billing and payment for multiple AWS accounts or multiple Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd (AISPL) accounts. Every organization in AWS Organizations has a master (payer) account that pays the charges of all the member (linked) accounts.
Which Amazon EC2 pricing model should be used to comply with per-core software license requirements?
- Dedicated Hosts
- On-Demand Instances
- Spot Instances
- Reserved Instances
Dedicated Hosts
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts allow you to use your eligible software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle on Amazon EC2, so that you get the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of using your own licenses, but with the resiliency, simplicity and elasticity of AWS.
Which of the following are advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)
- AWS manages the maintenance of the cloud infrastructure
- AWS manages the security of applications built on AWS
- AWS manages capacity planning for physical servers
- AWS manages the development of applications on AWS
- AWS manages cost planning for virtual servers
AWS manages the maintenance of the cloud infrastructure & AWS manages capacity planning for physical servers
AWS is responsible for security of the AWS Cloud as well as capacity planning and maintenance of the AWS infrastructure. This includes physical infrastructure such as data centers, servers, storage systems, and networking equipment.
The ability to horizontally scale Amazon EC2 instances based on demand is an example of which concept?
- Economy of scale
- Elasticity
- High availability
- Agility
Elasticity
Elasticity is the ability to dynamically adjust the capacity of a service or resource based on demand. Scaling can be vertical (e.g. increase instance size) or horizontal (e.g. add more EC2 instances).
Which AWS service provides a quick and automated way to create and manage AWS accounts?
- AWS QuickSight
- Amazon LightSail
- AWS Organizations
- Amazon Connect
AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations is a web service that enables you to consolidate your multiple AWS accounts into an organization and centrally manage your accounts and their resources. The AWS Organizations API can be used to create AWS accounts and this can be automated through code.
Which tool can be used to create alerts when the actual or forecasted cost of AWS services exceed a certain threshold?
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Budgets
- AWS Cost and Usage report
- AWS CloudTrail
AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.
A user has an AWS account with a Business-level AWS Support plan and needs assistance with handling a production service disruption. Which action should the user take?
- Contact the dedicated Technical Account Manager
- Contact the dedicated AWS Concierge Support team
- Open a business-critical system down support case
- Open a production system down support case
Open a production system down support case
The Business support plan provides a service level agreement (SLA) of <1 hour for production system down support cases.
Which type of AWS Storage Gateway can be used to backup data with popular backup software?
- File Gateway
- Volume Gateway
- Gateway Virtual Tape Library
- Backup Gateway
The Gateway Virtual Tape Library
The Gateway Virtual Tape Library can be used with popular backup software such as NetBackup, Backup Exec and Veeam. Uses a virtual media changer and tape drives.
You would like to collect custom metrics from a production application every 1 minute. What type of monitoring should you use?
- CloudWatch with detailed monitoring
- CloudTrail with basic monitoring
- CloudWatch with basic monitoring
- CloudTrail with detailed monitoring
CloudWatch with detailed monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS. CloudWatch is for performance monitoring (CloudTrail is for auditing).
What billing timeframes are available for Amazon EC2 on-demand instances? (Select TWO.)
- Per week
- Per day
- Per hour
- Per minute
- Per second
Per second & Per hour
With EC2 you are billed either by the second, for some Linux instances, or by the hour for all other instance types.
Which Amazon EC2 pricing option provides significant discounts for fixed term contracts?
- Reserved Instances
- Spot Instances
- Dedicated Instances
- Dedicated Hosts
Reserved instances
Reserved instances provide significant discounts, up to 75% compared to On-Demand pricing, by paying for capacity ahead of time.
When using Amazon RDS databases, which items are you charged for? (Select TWO.)
- Inbound data transfer
- Multi AZ
- Single AZ
- Backup up to the DB size
- Outbound data transfer
Multi AZ & Outbound data transfer
With Amazon RDS you are charged for the type and size of database, the uptime, any additional storage of backup (above the DB size), requests, deployment type (e.g. you pay for multi AZ), and data transfer outbound.
How are AWS Lambda functions triggered?
- Events
- Schedules
- Metrics
- Counters
Events
AWS Lambda lets you run code as functions without provisioning or managing server. Lambda-based applications (also referred to as serverless applications) are composed of functions triggered by events.
Which tool can be used to provide real time guidance on provisioning resources following AWS best practices?
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
- AWS Inspector
- AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Trusted Advisor
Trusted Advisor is an online resource that helps to reduce cost, increase performance and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment. Trusted Advisor provides real time guidance to help you provision your resources following best practices.
When performing a total cost of ownership (CO) analysis between on-premises and the AWS Cloud, which factors are only relevant to on-premises deployments? (Select TWO.)
- Hardware procurement teams
- Operating system licensing
- Facility operations costs
- Database administration
- Application licensing
Hardware procurement teams & Facility operations costs
Facility operations and hardware procurement costs are something you no longer need to pay for in the AWS Cloud. These factors therefore must be included as an on-premise cost so you can understand the cost of staying in your own data centers. Database administration, operating system licensing and application licensing will still be required in the AWS Cloud.
How does “elasticity” benefit an application design?
- By reducing interdependencies between application components
- By automatically scaling resources based on demand
- By selecting the correct storage tier for your workload
- By reserving capacity to reduce cost
By automatically scaling resources based on demand
Elasticity refers to the automatic scaling of resources based on demand.
What is the benefit of using fully managed services compared to deploying 3rd party software on EC2?
- You don’t need to back-up your data
- Improved security
- Reduced operational overhead
- You have greater control and flexibility
Reduced operational overhead
Fully managed services reduce your operational overhead as AWS manage not just the infrastructure layer but the service layers above it. Examples are Amazon Aurora and Amazon ElastiCache where the database is managed for you.
What are the fundamental charges for an Amazon EC2 instance? (Select TWO.)
- Basic monitoring
- Data storage
- Server uptime
- AMI
- Private IP address
Data storage & Server uptime
When using EC2 instances you are charged for the compute uptime of the instance based on the family and type you chose. You are also charged for the amount of data provisioned.
Which AWS service uses a highly secure hardware storage device to store encryption keys?
- AWS CloudHSM
- AWSIAM
- Amazon Cloud Directory
- AWS WAF
AWS CloudHSM
AWS CloudHSM is a cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that allows you to easily add secure key storage and high-performance crypto operations to your AWS applications
Which type of security control can be used to deny network access from a specific IP address?
- AWS Shield
- AWS WAF
- Network ACL
- Security Group
Network ACL
A Network ACL supports allow and deny rules. You can create a deny rule specifying a specific IP address that you would like to block.
Which service can be used to manage configuration versions?
- AWS Service Catalog
- AWS Artifact
- Amazon Inspector
- AWS Config
AWS Config
AWS Config is a fully-managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and regulatory compliance.
Which aspects of security on AWS are customer responsibilities? (Select TWO.)
- Setting up account password policies
- Physical access controls
- Server-side encryption
- Patching of storage systems
- Availability of AWS regions
Setting up account password policies & Server-side encryption
AWS are responsible for the “security of the cloud”. This includes protecting the infrastructure that runs all of the services offered in the AWS Cloud. The customer is responsible for “security in the cloud”.
Which of the following are architectural best practices for the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)
- Deploy into multiple Availability Zones
- Deploy into a single availability zone
- Close coupling
- Design for fault tolerance
- Create monolithic architectures
Deploy into multiple Availability Zones & Design for fault tolerance
It is an architectural best practice to deploy your resources into multiple availability zones and design for fault tolerance. These both ensure that
if resources or infrastructure fails, your application continues to run.
To reduce the price of your Amazon EC2 instances, which term lengths are available for reserved instances? (Select TWO.)
- 4 years
- 1 year
- 5 years
- 2 years
- 3 years
1 year & 3 year
Reserved instances provide significant discounts, up to 75% compared to On-Demand pricing, by paying for capacity ahead of time. They are good for applications that have predictable usage, that need reserved capacity, and for customers who can commit to a 1 or 3-year term.