Part 1 Flashcards

1
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Which tool allows you to upload images to S3 using programming language-specific APIs?

A

AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK)

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Which AWS service helps you to automatically deploy code to AWS Fargate?

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Aws Code deploy

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Your company has an application for internal use only, which is running on an EC2 instance. For security reasons, you need to block all other incoming requests to the EC2 instance. Which of the following will help you do this?

A

Security groups

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4
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Which AWS service helps you to protect from SQL injection attacks?

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Aws waf

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A company wants to set up an SSL security certificate for its website to use HTTPS protocol. Which AWS service can be used to deploy SSL Server Certificate?

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Aws certificate manager

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According to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Which pillar focuses on minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads?

A

Sustainability pillar

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Which of the following allows you to create a virtual network for the AWS resources?

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Amazon virtual private cloud

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Your company decided to migrate a MySQL server from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. Which service can help you to save time on database maintenance, configuration, backup, and patching so you can focus on data architecture and performance?

A

Amazon Relational Database Service RDS

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Which tool/service will help you access AWS services using programming language-specific APIs?

A

Aws software developer kit

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A company wants to identify the optimal AWS resource configuration for its workloads so that the company can reduce costs and increase workload performance. Which of the following services can be used to meet this requirement?

A

Aws compute optimizer

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11
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Which AWS services can be used to facilitate organizational change management, part of the Reliability pillar of AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select three)

A

Amazon cloud watch
Aws config
Aws cloudtrail

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An IT company is planning to migrate from an on-premises environment to AWS Cloud. Which of the following expense areas would result in cost savings when the company moves to AWS Cloud? (Select two)

A

Data center physical security expenditure

Computing hardware infrastructure expenditure

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13
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Which of the following are correct statements regarding the AWS Global Infrastructure? (Select two)

A

Each aws feature consists of two or more availability zones

Each avaliability zone (az) consists of one or more discrete data centers

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14
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Which of the following entities applies patches to the underlying OS for AWS Aurora?

A

The AWS Product Team automatically

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A big data analytics company is moving its IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. The company has some server-bound software licenses that it wants to use on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following EC2 instance types would you recommend to the company?

A

Dedicated host

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16
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Which of the following AWS services has encryption enabled by default?

A

Cloudtrail logs

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17
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Which AWS services can be used to facilitate organizational change management, part of the Reliability pillar of AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select three)

A

AWS Config

AWS CloudTrail

Amazon CloudWatch

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Which AWS service can be used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images?

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Amazon ECR

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Which AWS service will help you receive alerts when the reservation utilization falls below the defined threshold?

A

Aws budgets

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20
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Which of the following statements are CORRECT regarding the AWS VPC service? (Select two)

A

A Security Group can have allow rules only
A NAT Gateway is managed by AWS

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21
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According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are responsibilities of AWS? (Select two)

A

Replacing faulty hardware of Amazon EC2 instances -

Maintaining Amazon S3 data in different availability zones to keep it durable -

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22
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Which of the following is an AWS database service?

A

Redshift

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23
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A company needs a storage solution for a project wherein the data is accessed less frequently but needs rapid access when required. Which S3 storage class is the MOST cost-effective for the given use-case?

A

Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

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A startup wants to set up its IT infrastructure on AWS Cloud. The CTO would like to get an estimate of the monthly AWS bill based on the AWS services that the startup wants to use. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?

A

Aws pricing calculator

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Which tool/service will help you access AWS services using programming language-specific APIs?

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Aws software developer kit

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A big data analytics company is moving its IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. The company has some server-bound software licenses that it wants to use on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following EC2 instance types would you recommend to the company?

A

Dedicated host

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27
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Which of the following are the advantages of Cloud Computing? (Select three)

A

Benefit from massive economies of scale
Trade capital expense for variable expense
Go global in minutes and deploy applications in multiple regions around the world with just a few clicks

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28
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A unicorn startup is building an analytics application with support for a speech-based interface. The application will accept speech-based input from users and then convey results via speech. As a Cloud Practitioner, which solution would you recommend for the given use-case?

A

Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text for downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Polly to convey the text results via speech

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29
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Which of the following is a recommended way to provide programmatic access to AWS resources?

A

Use Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access AWS resources programmatically

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30
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Which AWS Route 53 routing policy would you use to route traffic to multiple resources and also choose how much traffic is routed to each resource?

A

Weighted routing policy

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31
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Which of the following AWS services should be used to automatically distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets?

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Aws elastic load balancing

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32
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A company wants to improve the resiliency of its flagship application so it wants to move from its traditional database system to a managed AWS database service to support active-active configuration in both the East and West US AWS regions. The active-active configuration with cross-region support is the prime criteria for any database solution that the company considers.
Which AWS database service is the right fit for this requirement?

A

Amazon dynamodb with global tables

33
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Which of the following AWS services has encryption enabled by default?

A

Cloudtrail logs

34
Q

AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running on which of the following resources? (Select two)

A

Amazon Route 53
AWS Global Accelerator

35
Q

Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to Infrastructure Event Management for an additional fee?

A

Business

36
Q

A medical research startup wants to understand the compliance of AWS services concerning HIPAA guidelines. Which AWS service can be used to review the HIPAA compliance and governance-related documents on AWS?

A

Aws artifact

37
Q

A data analytics company is running a proprietary batch analytics application on AWS and wants to use a storage service which would be accessed by hundreds of EC2 instances simultaneously to append data to existing files. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?

A

Efs

38
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What are the advantages that AWS Cloud offers over a traditional on-premises IT infrastructure? (Select two)

A

Trade capital expense for variable expense

Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs -

39
Q

A web application stores all of its data on Amazon S3 buckets. A client has mandated that data be encrypted before sending it to Amazon S3.
Which of the following is the right technique for encrypting data as needed by the customer?

A

Enable client-side encryption using AWS encryption SDK

40
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AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) offers protection from common web exploits at which layer?

A

Layer 7

41
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Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to online training with self-paced labs?

A

Enterprise

42
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Which of the following is CORRECT regarding removing an AWS account from AWS Organizations?

A

The AWS account must be able to operate as a standalone account. Only then it can be removed from AWS organizations

43
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A company wants to have control over creating and using its own keys for encryption on AWS services. Which of the following can be used for this use-case?

A

Customer managed cmk

44
Q

A multi-national corporation wants to get expert professional advice on migrating to AWS and managing their applications on AWS Cloud. Which of the following entities would you recommend for this engagement?

A

Apn consulting partner

45
Q

A Project Manager, working on AWS for the first time, is confused about how credits are used in AWS. There are two credits available in the manager’s account. Credit one is for $100, expires July 2022, and can be used for either Amazon S3 or Amazon EC2. Credit two is for $50, expires December 2022, and can be used only for Amazon EC2. The manager’s AWS account has incurred two charges: $1000 for Amazon EC2 and $500 for Amazon S3.
What will be the outcome on the overall bill once the credits are used? (Select two)

A

Credit one is applied, which expires in July, to the Amazon EC2 charge which leaves you with a $900 Amazon EC2 charge and a $500 Amazon S3 charge
Then, credit two is applied to the remaining $900 of Amazon EC2 usage

46
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Which AWS Support plan provides architectural guidance contextual to your specific use-cases?

A

Business

47
Q

Which AWS services can be used to decouple components of a microservices based application on AWS Cloud? (Select two)

A

Sns
Sqs

48
Q

Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to guidance, configuration, and troubleshooting of AWS interoperability with third-party software? (Select two)

A

Business
Enterprise

49
Q

Compared to the On-demand prices, what is the highest possible discount offered for spot instances?

A

90

50
Q

Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective option to purchase an EC2 Reserved Instance?

A

Partial upfront payment with standard 3 years term

51
Q

A startup wants to provision an EC2 instance for the lowest possible cost for a long-term duration but needs to make sure that the instance would never be interrupted. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following options would you recommend?

A

Reserved instance

52
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A multi-national company has just moved its infrastructure from its on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. As part of the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for which of the following?

A

Physical and environmental controls

53
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Which security service of AWS is enabled for all AWS customers, by default, at no additional cost?

A

AWS Shield Standard

54
Q

A startup wants to migrate its data and applications from the on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. Which of the following options can be used by the startup to help with this migration? (Select two)

A

Leverage AWS Professional Services to accelerate the infrastructure migration

Utilize AWS Partner Network (APN) to build a custom solution for this infrastructure migration

55
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Which of the following are the storage services offered by the AWS Cloud? (Select two)

A

S3 and
EFS

56
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Which of the following AWS services support reservations to optimize costs? (Select three)

A

EC2 Instances
DynamoDB
RDS

57
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Which of the following AWS services can be used to connect a company’s on-premises environment to a VPC without using the public internet?

A

Aws direct connect

58
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Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS managed services such as Amazon RDS?

A

The performance of AWS managed RDS instance is better than a customer-managed database instance

59
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Which of the following statements are CORRECT regarding the Availability Zone (AZ) specific characteristics of EBS and EFS storage types?

A

EBS volume can be attached to a single instance in the same Availability Zone whereas EFS file system can be mounted on instances across multiple Availability Zones

60
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Which of the following entities applies patches to the underlying OS for AWS Aurora?

A

The aws product team automatically

61
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A company uses reserved EC2 instances across multiple units with each unit having its own AWS account. However, some of the units under-utilize their reserved instances while other units need more reserved instances. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following would you recommend as the most cost-optimal solution?

A

Use AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts of all units and then share the reserved EC2 instances amongst all units

62
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Which of the following S3 storage classes takes the most time to retrieve data (also known as first byte latency)?

A

S3 Glacier Deep Archive

63
Q

A company wants to move to AWS cloud and release new features with quick iterations by utilizing relevant AWS services whenever required. Which of the following characteristics of AWS Cloud does it want to leverage?

A

Agility

64
Q

An intern at an IT company provisioned a Linux based On-demand EC2 instance with per-second billing but terminated it within 30 seconds as he wanted to provision another instance type. What is the duration for which the instance would be charged?

A

60 seconds

65
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A company runs an application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The company wants to automate the traditional maintenance job of running timely assessments and checking for OS vulnerabilities. As a Cloud Practitioner, which service will you suggest for this use case?

A

Amazon inspector

66
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Which type of Cloud Computing does Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) represent?

A

Infrastructure as a service IAAS

67
Q

A cyber forensics team has detected that AWS owned IP-addresses are being used to carry out malicious attacks. As this constitutes prohibited use of AWS services, which of the following is the correct solution to address this issue?

A

Contact AWS Abuse Team

68
Q

The DevOps team at an IT company is moving 500 GB of data from an EC2 instance to an S3 bucket in the same region. Which of the following scenario captures the correct charges for this data transfer?

A

The company would not be charged for this data transfer

69
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Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement about Scaling, a design principle of Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

A

Fault tolerance is achieved by vertical scaling.

70
Q

Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to only 7 core checks from the AWS Trusted Advisor Best Practice Checks? (Select two)

A

BASIC and developer

71
Q

A financial services company wants to ensure that its AWS account activity meets the governance, compliance and auditing norms. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?

A

Cloudtrail

72
Q

Which of the following is a serverless AWS service?

A

Lambda

73
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Which of the following are correct statements regarding the AWS Global Infrastructure? (Select two)

A

Each AWS Region consists of two or more Availability Zones

Each Availability Zone (AZ) consists of one or more discrete data centers

74
Q

A silicon valley based healthcare startup stores anonymized patient health data on Amazon S3. The CTO further wants to ensure that any sensitive data on S3 is discovered and identified to prevent any sensitive data leaks. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?

A

Amazon macie

75
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The DevOps team at an e-commerce company is trying to debug performance issues for its serverless application built using a microservices architecture. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?

A

AWS x-ray

76
Q

Which of the following AWS services support VPC Endpoint Gateway for a private connection from a VPC? (Select two)

A

S3 and dynamodb

77
Q

Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is a shared responsibility of both AWS and the customer?

A

Configuration management

78
Q

A research group wants to use EC2 instances to run a scientific computation application that has a fault tolerant architecture. The application needs high-performance hardware disks that provide fast I/O performance. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following storage options would you recommend as the MOST cost-effective solution?

A

Instance store

79
Q

An e-commerce company has deployed an RDS database in a single Availability Zone. The engineering team wants to ensure that in case of an AZ outage, the database should continue working on the same endpoint without any manual administrative intervention. Which of the following solutions can address this use-case?

A

Configure the database in RDS Multi-AZ deployment with automatic failover to the standby