Extra Exam 2

Question 1

What AWS service can be used to connect to a company’s on-premises environment to a VPC without using the public internet?

Answer 1

AWS Direct Connect

Question 2

An e-commerce company wants to assess its applications deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances for vulnerabilities and deviations from AWS best practices. Which AWS service can be used to facilitate this?

Answer 2

Inspector

Question 3

A developer has written a simple web application in PHP and he wants to just upload his code to AWS Cloud and have AWS handle the deployment automatically but still wants access to the underlying operating system for further enhancements. As a Cloud Practioner, which of the following AWS services would you recommend for this use-case?

Answer 3

Elastic Beanstalk

Question 4

The engineering team at an IT company wants to monitor the CPU utilization for its fleet of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and send an email to the administrator if the utilization exceeds 80%. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build this solution?

Answer 4

CloudWatch and SNS

Question 5

A company is using a message broker service on its on-premises application and wants to move this messaging functionality to AWS Cloud. Which of the following AWS services is the right choice to move the existing functionality easily?

Answer 5

Amazon MQ

Question 6

AWS Compute Optimizer delivers recommendations for which of the following AWS resources? (4)

Answer 6

EC2, Auto Scaling Groups, Lambda, EBS

Question 7

An IT company wants to run a log backup process every Monday at 2 AM. The usual runtime of the process is 5 minutes. As a Cloud Practitioner, which 2 AWS services would you recommend to build a serverless solution for this use-case?

Answer 7

Lambda and EventBridge

Question 8

An e-commerce company wants to store data from a recommendation engine in a database. As a Cloud Practioner, which AWS service would you recommend to provide this functionality with the LEAST operational overhead for any scale?

Answer 8

DynamoDB

Question 9

Which AWS Services are global in scope?

RDS
S3
EC2
CloudFront
IAM

Answer 9

CloudFront, IAM

Question 10

A VPC spans ___ of the AZs in the region, a subnet spans ___ AZ in the region

Answer 10

all; one

Question 11

Which AWS service allows you store, manage, and deploy Docker container images?

Answer 11

ECR

Question 12

What is the responsibility of AWS in terms of security?

Identity and Access Mangement
Edge Location Management
Server-side encryption
Customer Data

Answer 12

Edge Location Management

Question 13

An org. has a complex IT architecture involving a lot of system dependencies and it wants to track the history of changes to each resource. Which AWS service will help the organization track the history of configuration changes for all the resources?

Answer 13

AWS Config

Question 14

Which AWS service helps with global application availability and performance using the AWS global network?

Answer 14

AWS global accelerator

Question 15

AWS pricing policy for data transfer charges into or out of an AWS region

Answer 15

Only outbound data transfer is charged

Question 16

Which AWS service is essential for implementing security of resources in the AWS cloud?

Answer 16

AWS IAM

Question 17

What diff. gateway types are supported by AWS Storage Gateway service?

Answer 17

Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Volume Gateway

Question 18

What’s the PRIMARY benefit of deploying an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB with one standby?

Answer 18

A Multi-AZ DB increases database availability

Question 19

Which EC2 pricing model is the most cost-effective and flexible with no requirement for a long term resource commitment or upfront payment but still guarantees that instance would not be interrupted

Answer 19

On-demand instances

Question 20

A social media company wants to protect its web application from common web exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. What can help with this?

Answer 20

AWS CloudWatch

Question 21

Which of the following statements are true about Lambda?

You pay for compute time you consume for AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda allows you to orchestrate and manage Docker containers to facilitate complex containerized applications on AWS

AWS Lambda provides access to the underlying operating system to control its behavior through code

AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers

Answer 21

You pay for compute time you consume for AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers