Exam Questions Review COPY Flashcards

1
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When you create an encrypted _______ _____ _______ , you’re able to specify a customer master key using Key Management Services.

A

Amazon EBS volume

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____ _______ provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application

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AWS X-Ray

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___ _______ _______is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker

A

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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This dashboard simply shows the current service health and any issues across Regions.

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AWS Service Health Dashboard

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5
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What is the best use case for the AWS ElastiCache database? 3

A

Fast temporary storage for a small amount of data
In-Memory Database

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In accordance with AWS shared responsibility model it is a customer responsibility to enable PITR on and AWS is responsible

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for actually performing the backups

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7
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_______ _______ _______ do not grant permissions, only restrict them

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Service control policies (SCPs)

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8
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SCPs in AWS Organizations are used to control which ____ _________ are allowed in an account.

A

API actions

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9
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_____ ______ _________ gives you one ________ for distributing traffic across multiple virtual appliances while scaling them up or down, based on demand.

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Gateway Load Balancer, gateway

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10
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The ___ _______ _________ allows you to test and troubleshoot identity-based policies, IAM permissions boundaries, service control policies (SCPs), and resource-based policies.

A

IAM policy simulator

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_______ __________ is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud.

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Amazon QuickSight

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12
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Which load balancer is ideal for load balancing of both TCP and UDP traffic. And capable of handling millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latencies.

A

Network Load Balancer

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13
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Point-in-time recovery (PITR) provides continuous

A

backups of your DynamoDB table data

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14
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Which AWS service provides a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution.

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Amazon WorkSpaces

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15
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What are the ways a user can access resources in their AWS account? (3)

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AWS Management Console
Application code
AWS Command Line Interface

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16
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_______ ____________ is used to direct traffic to application endpoints in different Regions using the AWS global network.

AWS Global Accelerator
AWS Lambda
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

A

Global Accelerator

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17
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CloudFront provides protection with ____ ____ and _____ _______ .

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AWS WAF and AWS Shield.

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18
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What does the Principal element in and IAM policy represent?

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The Principal element specifies the user, account, service, or entity that is allowed or denied access to a resource

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19
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Which AWS service is used for running SQL queries on data in Amazon S3.

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Amazon Athena

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20
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___ _________ lets you use Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments.

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AWS OpsWorks

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21
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________ __________ can be accessed from any device, and seamlessly embedded into your applications, portals, and websites.

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QuickSight dashboards

22
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The ________ ___ acts as a firewall at the subnet level, not the instance level.

A

Network ACL

23
Q

_______ works with EC2 instances to uncover and report vulnerabilities

A

Inspector

24
Q

What is the best use case for Amazon RDS? 2

A

Need traditional database
Data is well-formed and structured

25
Q

_______ _____ gives you constant visibility of the data security and data privacy of your data stored in Amazon S3

A

Amazon Macie

26
Q

AWS Organizations offers ________ ________ ________ that you can use to manage permissions in your organization.

A

Service control policies (SCPs)

27
Q

IAM ______ are the users (IAM users and federated users) and roles that are created and used for authentication.

A

entities

28
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___ _____ _________ , you can input the services you will use, as well as the configuration of those services, and get an estimate of the costs these services will accrue

A

AWS Pricing Calculator

29
Q

What other tasks require root user credentials?

A

Activate IAM access to the Billing and Cost Mgmt
Configuring S3 bucket to enable MFA

30
Q

_______ & _______ are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers

A

Chef & Puppet

31
Q

Which load balancer is ideal for advanced load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic?

A

Application Load Balancer

32
Q

___ _______ _______ will launch resources in response to demand, this will not ensure the resource are ready in time without a delay if there is a sudden increase in traffic

A

EC2 Step scaling

33
Q

When utilizing Amazon S3 cross-region replication Both source and destination buckets

A

must have versioning enabled

34
Q

A _______ ______ acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to protect your EC2 instance by controlling inbound and outbound traffic.

A

security group

35
Q

Which type of credential should a Cloud Practitioner use for programmatic access to AWS resources from the AWS CLI/API?

A

Access Keys

36
Q

New security groups by default block all incoming traffic but

A

allow outbound traffic

37
Q

What are common use cases for S3?

A

Static web hosting
Storing application assets

38
Q

Between EC2 and IAM which is a global service and which is regional?

A

Identity and Access Management is a global service.
EC2 is regional

39
Q

Buckets that are configured for object replication can be owned by the

A

same AWS account or by different accounts

40
Q

This dashboard shows issues or upcoming events that may impact your resources. But it does not notify of service limit breaches.

A

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

41
Q

___ _____ _________ allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time.

A

AWS Cost Explorer

42
Q

________________ ________ provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data

A

Point-in-time recovery (PITR)

43
Q

What is the best use case to run a database on EC2? 3

A

Need access to OS
Need Full Control over instance and database
3rd Party Database engine that’s not available in RDS

44
Q

Which benefits can a company gain by deploying a relational database on Amazon RDS instead of Amazon EC2?

A

automatic backups and software patching.

45
Q

Which load balancer helps you easily deploy, scale, and manage your third-party virtual appliances.

A

Gateway Load Balancer

46
Q

What is the best use case for the DynamoDB database? 3

A

NoSQL database
Dynamic Scaling
Serverless

47
Q

_____ _______ is a service for collecting streaming data.

A

Amazon Kinesis

48
Q

____ _______ uses the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI commands, and API operations to handle routine database tasks.

A

Amazon Aurora

49
Q

_______ ____ consolidates your view of your security and compliance status in the cloud.

A

Security Hub

50
Q

_______ _______ is extremely fast and scales up to 128 TB. It also offers automatic backups.

A

Amazon Aurora

51
Q

Which database is faster Amazon Aurora or MySql?

A

Amazon Aurora can be up to 5x faster than RDS MySQL

52
Q

is when you use an external directory, such as your corporate one, to grant users in that directory access to AWS resources.

A

Federated access