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1
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Which service should you use if you need a scalable, fast, and flexible non-relational database service?

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Amazon DynamoDB

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What is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability?

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Amazon DynamoDB

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What is a data warehousing service that is specifically designed for online analytic processing (OLAP) and business intelligence (BI) applications which require complex queries against large datasets?

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Amazon Redshift

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Which database is used primarily as a relational database?

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Amazon RDS

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Which database is commonly used as scalable object storage and not as a nonrelational database?

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Amazon S3

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What can you use to connect your on-premises data center and your cloud architecture in AWS?

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Virtual Private Gateway and Amazon Route 53

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What is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web svc?

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Amazon Route 53

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What enables EC2 instances in private subnet to connect to the Internet or other AWS services, but prevent the Internet from initiating a connection with those instances?

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NAT Gateway

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What is VPC Peering? What can you VPC Peer with?

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Networking connection between two VPCs; can create a VPC peering connection between your own VPCs, with a VPC in another AWS account, or with a VPC in a different AWS Region.

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What are six advantages of using Cloud Computing?

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  1. Trade capital expense for variable expense
  2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
  3. Stop guessing capacity
  4. Increase speed and agility
  5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
  6. Go global in minutes
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In the VPC dashboard of your AWS Management Console, which of the following services or features below can you manage?

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All of the components of your VPCs (Subnets, Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways, Elastic IPs and many more)

Control the security of your VPC by configuring the Network ACLs and Security Groups

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How can you apply and easily manage the common access permissions to a large number of IAM users in AWS?

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Attach policies/permissions to new IAM Group; then, add the IAM Users to the IAM Group

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13
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Which of the following services in AWS could you use to deploy a web application to servers running on-premises?

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OpsWorks & CodeDeploy

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14
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What are patterns of cloud architecture for mission-critical application in AWS which must be highly available?

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Use multiple Availability Zones to ensure that the application can handle the failure of any single component.

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What can improve the security of your Identity and Access Management (IAM) users?

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  1. Rotate credentials regularly
  2. Configure a strong password policy for your users
  3. Enable MFA
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Which type of Elastic Load Balancer supports path-based routing, host-based routing, and bi-directional communication channels using WebSockets?

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Application Load Balancer

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Which type of Elastic Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required. Operating at the connection level (Layer 4), Network Load Balancer routes traffic to targets within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and is capable of handling millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latencies, as well as sudden and volatile traffic patterns?

A

Network Load Balancer

18
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What is a security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS?

A

Amazon Macie

19
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What service is primarily used for governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account?

A

AWS CloudTrail

20
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What service is just a virtual private server (VPS) solution and is not used for Amazon EC2 Scaling. This service provides developers compute, storage, and networking capacity and capabilities to deploy and manage websites and web applications in the cloud?

A

Amazon LightSail

21
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How does AWS lessen the time to provision your IT resources?

A

It provides various ways to programmatically provision IT resources

22
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What is capable of inspecting your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money, improving system performance and reliability, or closing security gaps?

A

AWS Trusted Advisor

23
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What is a is capable of inspecting your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money, improving system performance and reliability, or closing security gaps?

A

AWS Cost Explorer

24
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What gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount?

A

AWS Budgets

25
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What is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS?

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AWS Inspector

26
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What categories does Trusted Advisor check?

A

Cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service limits

27
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Which Cost Management Tool allows you to track your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) usage and view the discounted RI rate that was charged to your resources?

A

AWS Cost and Usage Report

28
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What provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources?

A

AWS Systems Manager

29
Q

What additional features do Business or Enterprise support plans have?

A

Use-case guidance, AWS Trusted Advisor, API for interacting w/ support center and trusted advisors, and 3rd party software support

30
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What is an audit service that records all API calls made to your AWS account?

A

CloudTrail

31
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What is an automated security assessment service for EC2 instance (virtual OS)?

A

Amazon Inspector Service

32
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Opportunity to replace upfront _____ with ___ variable costs is a key financial benefit of migrating systems from on-prem to AWS

A

CAPEX & low

33
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In the Shared Responsibility Model, what are shared control between AWS and the customer?

A

Controls which apply to both the infra and customer layer, including Patch mgmgt, config mgmt, and awareness & training

34
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Which service provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services?

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AWS CloudTrail

35
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What is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources?

A

AWS Config

36
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What should you use to retrieve compliance-related docs, such as ISO certifications, Payment Card Industry (PCI), and Service Organization Control (SOC) reports?

A

AWS Artifacts

37
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What service makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud by providing cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups?

A

Amazon RDS

38
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What can you use to launch a new Amazon RDS database cluster to your VPC?

A

AWS CloudFormation
AWS CLI
AWS Management Console

39
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What is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates?

A

AWS CodePipeline

40
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What can a developer use to interact with your AWS services?

A

AWS Management Console
AWS SDKs
AWS CLI

41
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Which service should you use if there is a need to launch a customized self-hosted database which requires a scheduled shutdown every night to save on cost?

A

Amazon EC2 instance w/ an EBS volume

42
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What is the recommended storage option when you run a database on an instance?

A

Amazon EBS

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