Cloud Study Guide Flashcards
A company requires an encrypted connection between the company’s on-premises servers and AWS. The connection must use the company’s existing internet connection.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
Site-to-Site VPN creates an encrypted network path between your on-premises network and your AWS Cloud network. This connection between your on-premises network and your AWS Cloud network uses the internet.
Which of the functionalities are characteristics of Amazon S3?
Amazon S3 is an object storage service.
Amazon S3 is a durable object storage service.
Which AWS service allows customers to purchase unused Amazon EC2 capacity at an often discounted rate?
With Spot Instances, you can access unused EC2 capacity. Spot Instances can be discounted.
Which AWS service identifies security groups that allow unrestricted access to a user’s AWS resources?
Trusted Advisor checks security groups for rules that allow unrestricted access to a resource. Unrestricted access increases opportunities for malicious activity, such as hacking, denial-of-service attacks, or loss of data.
A company has an on-premises Linux-based server with an Oracle database that runs on it. The company wants to migrate the database server to run on an Amazon EC2 instance in AWS.
Which service should the company use to complete the migration?
AWS MGN is an automated lift-and-shift solution. This solution can migrate physical servers and any databases or applications that run on them to EC2 instances in AWS.
How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda usage once the free tier has been exceeded?
Lambda charges are dependent on the amount of time it takes to run the code
Lambda charges are dependent on the number of requests for your Lambda functions.
Which credential components are required to gain programmatic access to an AWS account?
Programmatic access requires an access key ID and a secret access key that can be assigned to an AWS user.
Programmatic access requires an access key ID and a secret access key that can be assigned to an AWS user.
A user needs to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3.
Which AWS service can meet these requirements?
Macie is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.
What are the advantages of deploying an application with Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones?
If you host all your instances in a single location that is affected by a failure, none of your instances would be available. Availability Zones are designed for physical redundancy and to provide resilience with uninterrupted performance.
The deployment of the EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones prevents a single point of failure. Availability Zones are designed for physical redundancy and to provide resilience with uninterrupted performance.
A user deploys an Amazon RDS DB instance in multiple Availability Zones.
This strategy involves which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
The reliability pillar includes the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it is expected to do so. The deployment of Amazon RDS in multiple Availability Zones supports the goal of reliability because it reduces single points of failure
A company wants to create a learning application for students. The learning application must give students the option to choose a button to have the text read out loud to them.
Which AWS machine learning service will meet this requirement?
Amazon Polly is a machine learning service that converts text to speech. This service provides the ability to read text out loud.
What is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?
Business
A company needs to monitor and receive alerts about AWS Management Console sign-in events that involve the AWS account root user.
Which AWS service can the company use to meet these requirements?
CloudWatch monitors your AWS resources and the applications that you run on AWS in real time. You can use CloudWatch with AWS CloudTrail to monitor and receive alerts about console sign-in events that involve the AWS account root user
A company is moving all of their development activities to AWS. The company wants a solution to store and manage their developers’ source code.
Which AWS coding service will meet this requirement?
CodeCommit is a source code version control service. CodeCommit helps users store and manage developers’ source code in AWS.
A company requires a relational database on AWS that records new customer orders from a website.
Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?
Aurora is a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases
