Cloud Practitioner - PRACTICE 5 Flashcards
Which AWS service can be used to prepare and load data for analytics using an extract, transform and load (EL) process?
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Glue
- Amazon EMR
- Amazon Athena
AWS Glue
AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.
Which AWS service can be used to send automated notifications to HTTP endpoints?
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon SWF
- Amazon SNS
- Amazon SES
Amazon Simple Notification Service
(Amazon SNS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud. SNS can be used to send automated or manual notifications to email, mobile (SMS), SQS, and HTTP endpoints.
Which of the following constitute the five pillars for the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select TWO.)
- Operational excellence, security,
and reliability - Operational excellence, elasticity and
scalability - Cost prioritization, and cost optimization
- Data consistency, and cost optimization
- Performance efficiency, and cost optimization
Operational excellence, security, and reliability & Performance efficiency, and cost optimization
The five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework are operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization
Assuming you have configured them correctly, which AWS services can scale automatically without intervention? (Select TWO.)
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon S3
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon EBS
Amazon S3 & Dynamo DB
Both S3 and DynamoDB automatically scale as demand dictates. In the case of DynamoDB you can either configure the on-demand or provisioned capacity mode. With on-demand capacity mode DynamoDB automatically adjusts the read and write throughput for you.
Which AWS components aid in the construction of fault-tolerant
applications? (Select TWO.)
- Elastic IP addresses
- ARNs
- AMIs
- Tags
- Block device mappings
Elastic IP addresses & AMIs
Elastic IP addresses can be easily remapped between EC2 instances in the event of a failure. Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) can be used to quickly launch replacement instances when there is a failure
A company wants to utilize a pay as you go cloud model for all of their applications without CAPEX costs and which is highly elastic. Which cloud delivery model will suit them best?
- Public
- Private
- Hybrid
- On-premise
Public
The public cloud is offered under a purely pay as you go model (unless you choose to reserve), and allows companies to completely avoid CAPEX costs. The public cloud is also highly elastic so companies can grow and shrink the applications as demand changes.
Which of the following are advantages of using the AWS cloud computing over legacy IT? (Select TWO.)
- You are able to pass responsibility for the availability of your application to AWS
- You don’t need to worry about over
provisioning as you can elastically scale - You don’t need to patch your operating
systems - You can bring new applications to market faster
- You can bring services closer to your end users
You don’t need to worry about over provisioning as you can elastically scale & You can bring new applications to market faster
With cloud computing you no longer need to guess about capacity as you can elastically scale. This means you don’t end up overprovisioning but instead react to the load on your servers.
Which AWS services form the app-facing services of the AWS serverless infrastructure? (Select TWO.)
- AWS Step Functions
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon EFS
AWS Lambda & Amazon API Gateway
AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway are both app-facing components of the AWS Serverless infrastructure AWS Step Functions is an orchestration service
What is the name of the AWS managed Docker registry service used by the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)?
- Elastic Container Registry
- ECS Container Registry
- Docker Container Registry
- Docker Image Repository
Amazon Elastic Container Registry
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully- managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.
What are two benefits of using AWS Lambda? (Select TWO.)
- No servers to manage
- Integrated snapshots
- Continuous scaling (scale out)
- Flexible operating system choices
- Open source software
No servers to manage & Continuous scaling (scale out)
With AWS Lambda you don’t have any servers to manage (serverless). Lambda functions scale out rather than up running multiple invocations of the function in parallel.
With which service can a developer upload code using a ZIP or WAR file and have the service handle the end-to-end deployment of the resources?
- AWS CodeDeploy
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Amazon ECS
- AWS CodeCommit
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk can be used to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud. Developers upload applications and Elastic Beanstalk handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.
Which service can you use to monitor, store and access log files generated by EC2 instances and on-premises servers?
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Ops Works
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs
- Amazon Kinesis
Amazon CloudWatch Logs
You can use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, AWS CloudTrail, Route 53, and other sources. You can then retrieve the associated log data from CloudWatch Logs.
What offerings are included in the Amazon Lightsail product set? (Select TWO.)
- Virtual Private Server
- NoSQL database
- Managed MySQL database
- Object storage
- Serverless functions
Virtual Private Server & Managed MySQL database
Which AWS service is part of the suite of “serverless” services and runs code as functions?
- Amazon ECS
- Amazon EKS
- AWS Lambda
- AWS CodeCommit
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. The code you run on AWS Lambda is called a “Lambda function”
To reward customers for using their services, what are two ways AWS reduce prices? (Select TWO.)
- Volume based discounts when you use more services
- Reduction in inbound data transfer charges
- Reduced cost for reserved capacity
- Discounts for using a wider variety of services
- Removal of termination fees for customers who spend more
Volume based discounts when you use more services & Reduced cost for reserved capacity
Which type of Amazon RDS automated backup allows you to restore the database with a granularity of as little as 5 minutes?
- Snapshot backup
- Full backup
- Incremental backup
- Point-in-time recovery
Point-in-time recovery
You can restore an Amazon RDS database instance to a specific point in time with a granularity of 5 minutes. Amazon RDS uses transaction logs which it uploads to Amazon S3 to do this.
Which DynamoDB feature provides in-memory acceleration to tables that result in significant performance improvements?
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
- Amazon EFS
- Amazon CloudFront
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for DynamoDB that delivers up to a 10x performance improvement - from milliseconds to microseconds - even at millions of requests per second.
Which AWS service lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices?
- Amazon Workspaces
- AWS Directory Service
- AWS IoT Core
- AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT Core can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely.
Which AWS service enables developers and data scientists to build, train, and deploy machine learning models?
- Amazon Rekognition
- Amazon Comprehend
- Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon MQ
Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. Amazon SageMaker removes all the barriers that typically slow down developers who want to use machine learning.
Which service provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you?
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Inspector
- AWS Personal Health Dashboard
- AWS Shield
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.
What are the primary benefits of using AWS Elastic Load Balancing? (Select TWO.)
- High availability
- Elasticity
- Automation
- Caching
- Regional resilience
High availability & Elasticity
What is an Edge location?
- A public endpoint for Amazon S3
- A content delivery network (CDN) endpoint for CloudFront
- A virtual private gateway for VPN
- A VPC peering connection endpoint
A content delivery network (CDN) endpoint for CloudFront
Edge locations are Content Delivery Network (CDN) endpoints for CloudFront. There are many more edge locations than regions.
What is the relationship between subnets and availability zones?
- You can create one or more subnets within each availability zone
- Subnets span across multiple availability zones
- You can create one subnet per availability zone
- Subnets contain one or more availability zones
You can create one or more subnets within each availability zone
You can create one or more subnets within each availability zone but subnets cannot span across availability zones.
How can you configure Amazon Route 53 to monitor the health and performance of your application?
- Using DNS lookups
- Using Route 53 health checks
- Using the Route 53 API
- Using Cloud Watch
Amazon Route 53 Health Checks
Amazon Route 53 health checks monitor the health and performance of your web applications, web servers, and other resources. None of the other options provide a solution that can check the health and performance of an application.
A developer needs a way to automatically provision a collection of AWS resources. Which AWS service is primarily used for deploying infrastructure as code?
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS CodeDeploy
- Jenkins
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation is a service that gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of related AWS resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion. AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment.
How can a company connect from their on-premises network to VPCs in multiple regions using private connections?
- AWS Managed VPN
- AWS Direct Connect Gateway
- Amazon CloudFront
- Inter-Region VPC Peering
AWS Direct Connect Gateway
You can use an AWS Direct Connect gateway to connect your AWS Direct Connect connection over a private virtual interface to one or more PCs in your account that are located in the same or different Regions