Cloud Technology and Services (CCP) Flashcards
Which of the following will allow you to create a data warehouse in AWS for your business intelligence needs?
Amazon Redshift
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?
Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
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?
Instance metadata
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?
AWS Snowcone
Which of the following are true regarding Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? (Select TWO.)
- Simplifies the management of time-consuming database administration tasks
- Makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database
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.)
- Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
- Amazon EC2
What service allows you to create alarms that notify you when EC2 CPU Utilization thresholds are breached?
Amazon CloudWatch
Which service offers volume discounts when you enable Consolidated Billing?
Amazon S3
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?
AWS Snowball Edge
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?
Create a golden AMI of the instance and copy it to the other region.
You are planning to create point-in-time backups of your Amazon EBS volumes. Which of the following are correct statements? (Select TWO.)
- EBS backups are stored durably in Amazon S3
- You can create point-in-time backups through EBS snapshots
A company plans to migrate their on-premises MySQL database to Amazon RDS. Which AWS service should they use for this task?
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
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?
AWS Glue
Which of the following services should you provision if your local data center requires additional storage space without having to migrate data?
AWS Storage Gateway
Which of the following is not required when launching an EBS-backed EC2 instance?
Elastic IP address