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What is Cloud Computing?

A. Backing up files that are stored on desktop and mobile devices to prevent data loss

B. Deploying applications connected to on-premises infrastructure

C. Running code without needing to manage or provision servers

D. On-demand delivery of IT resources and applications through the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing

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D. On-demand delivery of IT resources and applications through the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing

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What is another name for on-premises deployment?

A. Private cloud deployment

B. Cloud-based application

C. Hybrid deployment:

D. AWS Cloud

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A. Private cloud deployment

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How does the scale of cloud computing help you to save costs?

A. You do not have to invest in technology resources before using them.

B. The aggregated cloud usage from a large number of customers results in lower pay-as-you-go prices.

C. Accessing services on-demand helps to prevent excess or limited capacity.

D. You can quickly deploy applications to customers and provide them with low latency.

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B. The aggregated cloud usage from a large number of customers results in lower pay-as-you-go prices.

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Which Amazon EC2 instance type is suitable for data warehousing applications?

A. Memory Optimized

B. Storage Optimized

C. General Purpose

D. Compute Optimized

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B. Storage Optimized

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Which Amazon EC2 instance type balances compute, memory, and networking resources?

A. Memory Optimized

B. Storage Optimized

C. General Purpose

D. Compute Optimized

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C. General Purpose

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Which Amazon EC2 instance type offers high-performance processors?

A. Memory Optimized

B. Storage Optimized

C. General Purpose

D. Compute Optimized

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D. Compute Optimized

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Which Amazon EC2 pricing option provides a discount when you make an hourly spend commitment to an instance family and Region for a 1-year or 3-year term?

A. On-Demand

B. EC2 Instance Savings Plans

C. Spot Instances

D. Reserved Instances

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B. EC2 Instance Savings Plans

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Which Amazon EC2 instance type is ideal for high-performance databases?

A. Memory Optimized

B. Storage Optimized

C. General Purpose

D. Compute Optimized

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A. Memory Optimized

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Which AWS service is the best choice for publishing messages to subscribers?

A. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

B. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

C. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

D. Elastic Load Balancing

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C. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

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You want to use an Amazon EC2 instance for a batch processing workload. What would be the best Amazon EC2 instance type to use?

A. General Purpose

B. Memory Optimized

C. Compute Optimized

D. Storage Optimized

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C. Compute Optimized

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What are the contract length options for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances? (Select TWO.)

A. 1 year

B. 2 years

C. 3 years

D. 4 years

E. 5 Years

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A. 1 year
C. 3 years

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You have a workload that will run for a total of 6 months and can withstand interruptions. What would be the most cost-efficient Amazon EC2 purchasing option?

A. Reserved Instance

B. Spot Instance

C. Dedicated Instance

D. On-Demand Instance

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B. Spot Instance

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Which process is an example of Elastic Load Balancing?

A. Ensuring that no single Amazon EC2 instance has to carry the full workload on its own

B. Removing unneeded Amazon EC2 instances when demand is low

C. Adding a second Amazon EC2 instance during an online store’s popular sale

D. Automatically adjusting the number of Amazon EC2 instances to meet demand
Incorrect b/c this is an example of Auto-Scaling

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A. Ensuring that no single Amazon EC2 instance has to carry the full workload on its own

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You want to deploy and manage containerized applications. Which service should you use?

A. AWS Lambda

B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

C. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

D. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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D. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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Which statement best describes an Availability Zone?

A. A geographical area that contains AWS resources

B. A single data center or group of data centers within a Region

C. A data center that an AWS service uses to perform service-specific operations

D. A service that you can use to run AWS infrastructure within your own on-premises data center in a hybrid approach

A

B. A single data center or group of data centers within a Region

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Which statement is TRUE for the AWS global infrastructure?

A. A Region consists of a single Availability Zone.

B. An Availability Zone consists of two or more Regions.

C. A Region consists of three or more Availability Zones.

D. An Availability Zone consists of a single Region.

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C. A Region consists of three or more Availability Zones.

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Which factors should be considered when selecting a Region? (Select TWO.)

A. Compliance with data governance and legal requirements

B. Proximity to your customers

C. Access to 24/7 technical support

D. Ability to assign custom permissions to different users

E. Access to the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

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A. Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
B. Proximity to your customers

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Which statement best describes Amazon CloudFront?

A. A service that enables you to run infrastructure in a hybrid cloud approach

B. A serverless compute engine for containers

C. A service that enables you to send and receive messages between software components through a queue

D. A global content delivery service

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D. A global content delivery service

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Which site does Amazon CloudFront use to cache copies of content for faster delivery to users at any location?

A. Region

B. Availability Zone

C. Edge Location

D. Origin

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C. Edge Location

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What action can you perform with AWS Outposts?

A. Automate actions for AWS services and applications through scripts.

B. Access wizards and automated workflows to perform tasks in AWS services.

C. Develop AWS applications in supported programming languages.

D. Extend AWS infrastructure and services to different locations including your on-premises data center.

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D. Extend AWS infrastructure and services to different locations including your on-premises data center.

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Which statement best describes an AWS account’s default network access control list?

A. It is stateless and denies all inbound and outbound traffic.

B. It is stateful and allows all inbound and outbound traffic.

C. It is stateless and allows all inbound and outbound traffic.

D. It is stateful and denies all inbound and outbound traffic.

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C. It is stateless and allows all inbound and outbound traffic.

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Your company has an application that uses Amazon EC2 instances to run the customer-facing website and Amazon RDS database instances to store customers’ personal information. How should the developer configure the VPC according to best practices?

A. Place the Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet and the Amazon RDS database instances in a public subnet.

B. Place the Amazon EC2 instances in a public subnet and the Amazon RDS database instances in a private subnet.

C. Place the Amazon EC2 instances and the Amazon RDS database instances in a public subnet.

D. Place the Amazon EC2 instances and the Amazon RDS database instances in a private subnet.

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B. Place the Amazon EC2 instances in a public subnet and the Amazon RDS database instances in a private subnet.

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Which statement best describes security groups?

A. They are stateful and deny all inbound traffic by default.

B. They are stateful and allow all inbound traffic by default.

C. They are stateless and deny all inbound traffic by default.

D. They are stateless and allow all inbound traffic by default.

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A. They are stateful and deny all inbound traffic by default.

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Which component can be used to establish a private dedicated connection between your company’s data center and AWS?

A. Private Subnet

B. DNS

C. AWS Direct Connect

D. Virtual Private Gateway

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C. AWS Direct Connect

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Which component is used to connect a VPC to the internet?

A. Public Subnet

B. Edge Location

C. Security Group

D. Internet Gateway

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D. Internet Gateway

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Which service is used to manage the DNS records for domain names?

A. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

B. AWS Direct Connect

C. Amazon Cloud Front

D. Amazon Route 53

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D. Amazon Route 53

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Which of the following are characteristics of the Amazon EBS service? (Select TWO.)

A. Best for data that requires retention

B. Best for temporary data that is not kept long term

C. Separate drives from the host computer of an EC2 instance

D. Physically attached to the host computer of an EC2 instance

E. Data is deleted when an EC2 instance is stopped

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A. Best for data that requires retention

C. Separate drives from the host computer of an EC2 instance

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What are the scenarios in which you should use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? (Select TWO.)

A. Running a serverless database

B. Using SQL to organize data

C. Storing data in a key-value database

D. Scaling up to 10 trillion requests per day

E. Storing data in an Amazon Aurora database

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B. Using SQL to organize data

E. Storing data in an Amazon Aurora database

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You want to store data that is infrequently accessed but must be immediately available when needed. Which Amazon S3 storage class should you use?

A. S3 Intelligent-Tiering

B. S3 Glacier Deep Archive

C. S3 Standard-IA

D. S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

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C. S3 Standard-IA

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Which Amazon S3 storage classes are optimized for archival data? (Select TWO.)

A. Amazon S3 Standard

B. Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

C. Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering:

D. Amazon S3 Standard-IA:

E. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

A

B. Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

E. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

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Which statement or statements are TRUE about Amazon EBS volumes and Amazon EFS file systems?

A. EBS volumes store data within a single Availability Zone. Amazon EFS file systems store data across multiple Availability Zones.

B. EBS volumes store data across multiple Availability Zones. Amazon EFS file systems store data within a single Availability Zone.

C. EBS volumes and Amazon EFS file systems both store data within a single Availability Zone.

D. EBS volumes and Amazon EFS file systems both store data across multiple Availability Zones.

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A. EBS volumes store data within a single Availability Zone. Amazon EFS file systems store data across multiple Availability Zones.

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You want to store data in an object storage service. Which AWS service is best for this type of storage?

A. Amazon Managed Block Chain:

B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS):

D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

A

D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

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Which statement best describes Amazon DynamoDB?

A. A service that enables you to run relational databases in the AWS Cloud

B. A serverless key-value database service

C. A service that you can use to migrate relational databases, nonrelational databases, and other types of data stores

D. An enterprise-class relational database

A

B. A serverless key-value database service

32
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Which service is used to query and analyze data across a data warehouse?

A. Amazon Redshift

B. Amazon Neptune

C. Amazon DocumentDB:

D. Amazon ElastiCache

A

A. Amazon Redshift

33
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Which tasks are the responsibilities of customers? (Select TWO.)

A. Maintaining network infrastructure

B. Patching software on Amazon EC2 instances

C. Implementing physical security controls at data centers

D. Setting permissions for Amazon S3 objects

E. Maintaining servers that run Amazon EC2 instances

A

B. Patching software on Amazon EC2 instances

D. Setting permissions for Amazon S3 objects

34
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You are configuring service control policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations. Which identities and resources can SCPs be applied to? (Select TWO.)

A. IAM users

B. IAM groups

C. An individual member account

D. IAM roles

E. An Organization Unit (OU)

A

C. An individual member account

E. An Organization Unit (OU)

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Which tasks can you complete in AWS Artifact? (Select TWO.)

A. Access AWS compliance reports on-demand.

B. Consolidate and manage multiple AWS accounts within a central location.

C. Create users to enable people and applications to interact with AWS services and resources.

D. Set permissions for accounts by configuring service control policies (SCPs)

E. Review, accept, and manage agreements with AWS

A

A. Access AWS compliance reports on-demand

E. Review, accept, and manage agreements with AWS

36
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Which statement best describes an IAM policy?

A. An authentication process that provides an extra layer of protection for your AWS account

B. A document that grants or denies permissions to AWS services and resources

C. An identity that you can assume to gain temporary access to permissions:

D. The identity that is established when you first create an AWS account

A

B. A document that grants or denies permissions to AWS services and resources

37
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An employee requires temporary access to create several Amazon S3 buckets. Which option would be the best choice for this task?

A. AWS account root user

B. IAM group

C. IAM role

D. Service Control Policy

A

C. IAM role

38
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Which statement best describes the principle of least privilege?

A. Adding an IAM user into at least one IAM group

B. Checking a packet’s permissions against an access control list

C. Granting only the permissions that are needed to perform specific tasks

D. Performing a denial of service attack that originates from at least one device

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C. Granting only the permissions that are needed to perform specific tasks

39
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Which service helps protect your applications against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks?

A. Amazon GuardDuty

B. AWS Inspector:

C. AWS Artifact

D. AWS Shield

A

D. AWS Shield

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Which task can AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) perform?

A. Configure multi-factor authentication (MFA)

B. Update the AWS account root user password

C. Create cryptographic keys

D. Assign permissions to users and groups.

A

C. Create cryptographic keys

41
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Which tasks can you perform using AWS CloudTrail? (Select TWO.)

A. Monitor your AWS infrastructure and resources in real time

B. Track user activities and API requests throughout your AWS infrastructure

C. View metrics and graphs to monitor the performance of resources

D. Filter logs to assist with operational analysis and troubleshooting

E. Configure automatic actions and alerts in response to metrics

A

B. Track user activities and API requests throughout your AWS infrastructure

D. Filter logs to assist with operational analysis and troubleshooting

42
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Which actions can you perform using Amazon CloudWatch? (Select TWO.)

A. Monitor your resources’ utilization and performance

B. Receive real-time guidance for improving your AWS environment

C. Compare your infrastructure to AWS best practices in five categories

D. Access metrics from a single dashboard

E. Automatically detect unusual account activity

A

A. Monitor your resources’ utilization and performance

D. Access metrics from a single dashboard

43
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Which service enables you to review the security of your Amazon S3 buckets by checking for open access permissions?

A. Amazon Cloud Watch

B. AWS CloudTrail

C. AWS Trusted Advisor

D. Amazon GuardDuty

A

C. AWS Trusted Advisor

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Which categories are included in the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard? (Select TWO.)

A. Reliability

B. Performance

C. Scalability

D. Elasticity

E. Fault Tolerance

A

B. Performance

E. Fault Tolerance

45
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The AWS Free Tier includes offers that are available to new AWS customers for a certain period of time following their AWS sign-up date. What is the duration of this period?

A. 3 months

B. 6 months

C. 9 months

D. 12 months

A

D. 12 months

46
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Which Support plan includes all AWS Trusted Advisor checks at the lowest cost?

A. Basic

B. Developer

C. Business

D. Enterprise

A

C. Business

47
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Which action can you perform with consolidated billing?

A. Review how much cost your predicted AWS usage will incur by the end of the month

B. Create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS

C. Combine usage across accounts to receive volume pricing discounts

D. Visualize and manage your AWS costs and usage over time

A

C. Combine usage across accounts to receive volume pricing discounts

48
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Which pricing tool is used to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time?

A. AWS Pricing Calculator:

B. AWS Budgets

C. AWS Cost Explorer

D. AWS Free Tier

A

C. AWS Cost Explorer

49
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Which pricing tool enables you to receive alerts when your service usage exceeds a threshold that you have defined?

A. Billing dashboard in the AWS Management Console

B. AWS Budgets

C. AWS Free Tier

D. AWS Cost Explorer

A

B. AWS Budgets

50
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Your company wants to receive support from an AWS Technical Account Manager (TAM). Which support plan should you choose?

A. Developer

B. Enterprise

C. Basic

D. Business

A

B. Enterprise

51
Q

Which service or resource is used to find third-party software that runs on AWS?

A. AWS Marketplace

B. AWS Free Tier

C. AWS Support

D. Billing dashboard in the AWS Management Console

A

A. AWS Marketplace

52
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Which Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework helps you design, implement, and optimize your AWS infrastructure based on your business goals and perspectives?

A. Business Perspective

B. Platform Perspective

C. Operations Perspective

D. People Perspective

A

B. Platform Perspective

53
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Which migration strategy involves moving to a different product?

A. Refactoring

B. Retiring

C. Replatforming

D. Repurchasing

A

D. Repurchasing

54
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What is the storage capacity of Snowball Edge Storage Optimized?

A. 40 TB

B. 60 TB

C. 80 TB

D. 100 TB

A

C. 80 TB

55
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Which service enables you to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models?

A. Amazon Textract

B. Amazon Lex:

C. AWS Deep Racer

D. Amazon SageMaker

A

D. Amazon SageMaker

56
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Which Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework helps you structure the selection and implementation of permissions?

A. Governance Perspective:

B. Security Perspective

C. Operations Perspective:

D. Business Perspective:

A

B. Security Perspective

57
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Which strategies are included in the six strategies for application migration? (Select TWO.)

A. Revisiting

B. Retaining

C. Remembering

D. Redeveloping

E. Rehosting

A

B. Retaining

E. Rehosting

58
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What is the storage capacity of AWS Snowmobile?

A. 40 PB

B. 60 PB

C. 80 PB

D. 100 PB

A

D. 100 PB

59
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Which statement best describes Amazon Lex?

A. A service that enables you to build conversational interfaces using voice and text

B. A machine learning service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents

C. A document database service that supports MongoDB workloads

D. A service that enables you to identify potentially fraudulent online activities

A

A. A service that enables you to build conversational interfaces using voice and text

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Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on the ability of a workload to consistently and correctly perform its intended functions?

A. Operational Excellence

B. Performance Efficiency

C. Security

D. Reliability

A

D. Reliability

61
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Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework includes the ability to run workloads effectively and gain insights into their operations?

A. Cost Optimization

B. Operational Excellence

C. Performance Efficiency

D. Reliability

A

B. Operational Excellence

62
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Which process is an example of benefiting from massive economies of scale?

A. Deploying an application in multiple Regions around the world

B. Receiving lower pay-as-you-go prices as the result of AWS customers’ aggregated usage of services

C. Paying for compute time as you use it instead of investing upfront costs in data centers

d. Scaling your infrastructure capacity in and out to meet demand

A

B. Receiving lower pay-as-you-go prices as the result of AWS customers’ aggregated usage of services

63
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What are the benefits of cloud computing? (Select TWO.)

A. Increase speed and agility

B. Benefit from smaller economies of scale

C. Trade variable expense for upfront expense

D. Maintain infrastructure capacity

E. Maintain infrastructure capacity

A

A. Increase speed and agility

E. Maintain infrastructure capacity

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