Cloud Technology and Services (CCP) Flashcards

1
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Which of the following will allow you to create a data warehouse in AWS for your business intelligence needs?

A

Amazon Redshift

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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

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3
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A customer needs to retrieve the instance ID, instance profile permissions, and kernel information of their EC2 instance for an app that is running within the same instance. Where can the customer find this information?

A

Instance metadata

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4
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A customer in North Virginia, USA is doing some drone work and collecting environmental data. Which of the following services allows him to easily obtain terabytes of data storage for use in a space-constrained environment and allows him to transfer these data to AWS?

A

AWS Snowcone

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5
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Which of the following are true regarding Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? (Select TWO.)

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  1. Simplifies the management of time-consuming database administration tasks
  2. Makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database
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6
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A group of Software Engineers is working on a project that requires a new Microsoft SQL Server database to be hosted in AWS. The team needs to ensure that the database can be set up quickly and efficiently to meet an urgent deadline.

Which of the following AWS services should they use to meet their requirement? (Select TWO.)

A
  1. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
  2. Amazon EC2
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7
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What service allows you to create alarms that notify you when EC2 CPU Utilization thresholds are breached?

A

Amazon CloudWatch

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8
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Which service offers volume discounts when you enable Consolidated Billing?

A

Amazon S3

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Which of the following is a data transport solution that accelerates moving terabytes to petabytes of data into and out of AWS using appliances with on-board storage and compute capabilities?

A

AWS Snowball Edge

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10
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A company has a customized EC2 instance running in their latest web application. How can they create an exact copy of this instance in another region?

A

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

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

A
  1. EBS backups are stored durably in Amazon S3
  2. You can create point-in-time backups through EBS snapshots
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12
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A company plans to migrate their on-premises MySQL database to Amazon RDS. Which AWS service should they use for this task?

A

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

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13
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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

AWS Glue

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14
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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

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15
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Which of the following is not required when launching an EBS-backed EC2 instance?

A

Elastic IP address

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16
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What type of EBS volume is recommended for most workloads and is also usable as a boot volume?

A

General Purpose SSD

17
Q

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

Throughput Optimized HDD

18
Q

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

A

Instance Store

19
Q

Which among the options below can you use to launch a new Amazon RDS database cluster to your VPC? (Select TWO.)

A
  1. AWS CloudFormation
  2. AWS Management Console
20
Q

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

21
Q

__________ lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.

A

Amazon VPC

22
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 CloudFormation template and deploy it in the new region

23
Q

A company has 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 Elastic File System (EFS)

24
Q

Which of the following is true regarding Elastic Load Balancing?

A

It distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones.

25
Q

Due to a high number of visitors, many customers are timing out from your website which is running in an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances behind an ELB. Upon checking, the Auto Scaling group has stopped adding new instances to your group.

Which of the following Trusted Advisor categories will give you more insight on this issue? (Select TWO.)

A
  1. Service Limits
  2. Performance
26
Q

Which service allows you to add powerful visual analysis feature to your applications that enables you to search, verify, and organize millions of images?

A

Amazon Rekognition

27
Q

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

A

AWS Marketplace

28
Q

A company has a hybrid cloud architecture where their on-premises data center interacts with their cloud resources in AWS. Which of the following services in AWS can you use to deploy a web application to the servers running on-premises? (Select TWO.)

A
  1. AWS Systems Manager
  2. AWS CodeDeploy
29
Q

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

30
Q

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