Extra Exam 6 Flashcards

1
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As part of a flexible pricing model, AWS offers two types of Savings Plans. Which of the following are the Savings Plans from AWS?

Compute Savings Plans, Storage Savings Plans
Instance Saving Plans, Storage Savings Plans
Compute Savings Plans, EC2 Instance Savings Plans

A

Compute Savings Plans, EC2 Savings Plans

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What services/tools offers a user-friendly graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices without a need for command-line interface or REST APIs?

AppStream 2.0
AWS Transfer Family
AWS OpsHub
AWS OpsWorks

A

AWS OpsHub

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3
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AWS Support offers five support plans for its customers. Which of the following features are covered as part of the AWS Basic Support Plan?

One-on-one responses to account and billing questions
Use-case guidance
Service health checks
Client-side diagnostic tools

A

One-on-one responses to account and billing questions

Service health checks

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Which AWS service allows you to connect any number of IoT devices to the cloud without requiring you to provision or manage servers?

IoT Core
IoT Gateaway

A

IoT Core

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A supply chain company is looking for a database that provides a centrally verifiable history of all changes made to data residing in it. This functionality is critical for the product and needs to be available off the shelf without the need for any customizations.

Which of the following databases is the right choice for this use case?

A

QLDB

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6
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Which of the following statements are correct regarding Amazon API Gateway?

API Gateway can call a Lambda function to create the front door of a serverless application
API Gateway can be configured to send data directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Stream
If an API response is served by cached data, it is not yet considered an API call for billing purposes
API Gateway doesnot yet support API result caching
API Gateway creates RESTful APIs, Storage Gateway creates WebSocket APIs

A

API Gateway can call a Lambda function to create the front door of a serverless application

API Gateway can be configured to send data directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Stream

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An e-commerce company has its on-premises data storage on an NFS file system that is accessed in parallel by multiple applications. The company is looking at moving the applications and data stores to AWS Cloud.

Which storage service should the company use to move their files to AWS Cloud seamlessly if the application is hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances?

A

Elastic File System (EFS)

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8
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Which of the following AWS services are offered free of cost?

EC2 Spot Instances
ASG
Elastic Beanstalk
CloudWatch facilitated detailed monitoring of EC2 instances
An Elastic IP address, which is chargeable as long as it is associated with an EC2 instance

A

ASG and Beanstalk

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9
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Which of the following is the least effort way to encrypt data for AWS services only in your AWS account using AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?

Use KMS APIs to encrypt data within your application by using the Encryption SDK
Use AWS owned CMK in the service you wish to use encryption
Create your own customer managed keys (CMKs) in KMS
Use AWS managed master keys that are automatically created in your account for each service

A

Use AWS managed master keys that are automatically created in your account for each service

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10
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Which of the following statements are correct regarding the health monitoring and reporting capabilities supported by AWS Elastic Beanstalk? (2)

AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides only basic health reporting system; Combined with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), they provide advanced health check features

With basic health reporting, the AWS Elastic Beanstalk service does not publish any metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

In a single instance environment, AWS Elastic Beanstalk determines the instance’s health by monitoring the Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) health settings

The AWS Elastic Beanstalk health monitoring can determine that the environment’s Auto Scaling group is available and has a minimum of at least one instance

A

With basic health reporting, the AWS Elastic Beanstalk service does not publish any metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

The AWS Elastic Beanstalk health monitoring can determine that the environment’s Auto Scaling group is available and has a minimum of at least one instance

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Name 3 data sources are used by Amazon Detective to analyze events and identify potential security issues?

A

CloudTrail logs, VPC Flow Logs, and GuardDuty findings

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12
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CodePipeline uses ___________ _______ to detect changes in __________ repositories used as a source for a pipeline

A

CloudWatch Events; CodeCommit

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13
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Which feature/functionality will help you organize your AWS resources, manage and automate tasks on large numbers of resources at a time?

Organizations
Resource Groups
Tags
WorkSpaces

A

Resource groups – multiple tags create resource groups!

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14
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Which of the following AWS services can be used to continuously monitor both malicious activities as well as unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts and workloads?

GuardDuty
Inspector
Detective
Security Hub

A

GuardDuty

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15
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As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following 2 credentials would you recommend for signing in to the AWS Management Console to meet security best practices?

Access Key ID
IAM Username and password
Secret Access Key
X.509 certificate
Multi Factor authentication

A

IAM Username and password
Multi Factor authentication

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16
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A financial consulting company is looking for automated reference deployments, that will speed up the process of deploying its financial solutions on AWS Cloud. The reference deployment should be able to deploy most of the well-known functions of financial services and leave space for customizations, if necessary.

Which AWS service will help achieve this requirement?

AWS Partner Solutions(formerly Quick Starts)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS CloudFormation
AWS QuickSight

A

AWS Partner Solutions(formerly Quick Starts)

17
Q

AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) can be deployed on what 4 services?

A

CloudFront, ALB, API Gateway, AppSync

18
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A company is looking at a service/tool to automate and minimize the time spent on keeping the server images up-to-date. These server images are used by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances as well as the on-premises systems.

Which AWS service will help achieve the company’s need?

CloudFormation templates
AMI
Systems Manager
EC2 Image Builder

A

EC2 Image Builder

19
Q

Which of the following statements are correct regarding the AWS Control Tower?

AWS Control Tower helps you deploy a multi-account AWS environment and operate it with day-to-day reminders and recommendations

AWS Control Tower is an AWS native service providing a pre-defined set of blueprints and guardrails to help customers implement a landing zone for new AWS accounts

A

AWS Control Tower is an AWS native service providing a pre-defined set of blueprints and guardrails to help customers implement a landing zone for new AWS accounts

20
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Which member of the AWS Snow Family is used by the Edge computing applications for IoT use cases for facilitating the collection and processing of data to gain immediate insights and then transfer the data to AWS?

A

Snowcone

21
Q

With _______ _________, you can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud without having to learn about the infrastructure that runs those applications

A

Elastic Beanstalk

22
Q

A healthcare company wants to implement a continuous replication based disaster recovery mechanism and provide fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS Cloud. Which of the following represents the best-fit solution for this use case?

A

Elastic Disaster Recovery (Formerly known as CloudEndure)

23
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Each AWS ________ project includes development tools, including AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy, that can be used on their own and with existing AWS applications

A

CodeStar

24
Q

You can use ________ and ______ to develop, build, and deploy a serverless web application

A

CodeStar; Cloud9

25
Q

A weather-tracking application is built using Amazon DynamoDB. The performance of the application has been consistently good. But lately, the team has realized that during holidays and travel seasons, the load on the application is high and the read requests consume most of the database resources, thereby drastically increasing the overall application latency.

Which feature/service will help resolve this issue?

A

DAX DynamoDB Accelerator

26
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Which of the following AWS services is delivered globally rather than regionally?
S3
Snowmobile
EFS
WorkSpaces

A

WorkSpaces

27
Q

A company is looking for ways to make its desktop applications available to the employees from browsers on their devices/laptops. Which AWS service will help achieve this requirement without having to procure servers or maintain infrastructure?

Amazon AppStream 2.0
AWS Outposts
Amazon WorkSpaces

A

Amazon AppStream 2.0

28
Q

Which free tool helps to review the state of your workloads and compares them to the latest AWS architectural best practices after you have answered a series of questions about your workload?

AWS Well-Architected Framework
AWS Well-Architected Tool
AWS Trusted Advisor

A

AWS Well-Architected Tool

29
Q

A team manager needs data about the changes that have taken place for AWS resources in his account during the past two weeks. Which AWS service can help get this data?

A

AWS Config

30
Q

T/F - Traffic between Availability Zones (AZ) is not encrypted by default, but can be configured from AWS console

A

False, all traffic is encrypted

31
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An e-commerce company needs to generate custom reports and graphs every week for analyzing the product sales data. The company is looking at a tool/service that will help them analyze this data using interactive dashboards with minimal effort. The dashboards also need to be accessible from any device.

Which AWS tool/service will you recommend for this use-case?

Quicksight
Athena
Glue

A

Quicksight