Neal Davis Practice Tests

Question 1

Which services can be used for asynchronous integration between application components?

Answer 1

SQS and Step Functions

Question 2

Which service can be used for building and integrating loosely coupled, distributed applications?

Answer 2

SNS

Question 3

Identify scope (regional/global) of following:

1. Lambda
2. Route 53
3. S3
4. EC2
5. CloudFront

Answer 3

Global: Route 53 and Cloudfront

Regional: S3, EC2, Lambda

Question 4

Elasticity definition

Answer 4

The ability to acquire resources as you need them and release resources when you no longer need them. In the cloud, you want to do this automatically.

Question 5

Scalability definition

Answer 5

A measurement of a system’s ability to grow to accommodate an increase in demand

Question 6

which feature of AWS allows you to deploy a new application for which the requirements may change over time?

Answer 6

elasticity

Question 7

What services are free / no charge?

Answer 7

VPC and Cloudformation

Question 8

Whata benefits does EC2 provide over using non-cloud providers?

Answer 8

inexpensive (b/c of AWS scale) and elasticity

Question 9

What are 2 examples of shared responsibility?

Answer 9

Patch management and configuration management. AWS and customers have to perform these tasks.

Question 10

Where are key pairs made? Whats their purpose?

Answer 10

In EC2, used for SSH

Question 11

Which services provide protection measures against DDOS attacks?

Answer 11

Cloudfront and AWS WAF

Question 12

Advantages of AZs? Choose 2

Answer 12

low latency network connections and fault isolation

Question 13

how is data protected by default in s3?

Answer 13

objects redundantly stored on multiple devices across multiple facilities within a region

Question 14

what service has automated backups as default configuration?

Answer 14

RDS

Question 15

What authentication methods are available in IAM

Answer 15

console passwords, access keys, server certificates

Question 16

Name feature of fast secure east transfer of files over long distance

Answer 16

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Question 17

AWS service based on open source software?

Answer 17

ElasticCache

Question 18

Costs of Glacier based on

Answer 18

storage and retrieval

Question 19

you are concerned you are getting close to your default service limits for several AWS services. What aws tool can be used to display current usage and limits?

Answer 19

Trusted advisor

Question 20

How can an organization track resource inventory and configuration history for the purpose of security and regulatory compliance?

Answer 20

Configure AWS Config with the resource types

Question 21

A security operations engineer needs to implement threat detection and monitoring for malicious or unauthorized behavior. Which service should be used?

Answer 21

AWS GuardDuty

Question 22

Which service can be used to create multiple accounts?

Answer 22

AWS Organizations

Question 23

What is billing increment for EC2 instance?

Answer 23

Hour or Second depending on instance type

Question 24

What service is used to move exabytes of data?

Answer 24

Snowmobile