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Public past Exam questions

1
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Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Choose two.)

A.A global file system
B.An object store
C.A local file store
D.A network file system
E.A durable storage system
A

An object store and a durable storage system.

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Which services can be used across hybrid AWS Cloud architectures? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon Route 53
B. Virtual Private Gateway
C. Classic Load Balancer
D. Auto Scaling
E. Amazon CloudWatch default metrics
A

Route 53 and virtual Private Gateway.

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What costs are included when comparing AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with on-premises TCO?
A. Project management
B. Antivirus software licensing
C. Data center security
D. Software development
A

Data center security

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Which AWS tools assist with estimating costs? (Choose three.)
A. Detailed billing report
B. Cost allocation tags
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
E. Cost Estimator

A

Cost allocation tags, simple monthly calculator, TCO calculator.

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Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer responsible for?
A. Ensuring that disk drives are wiped after use.
B. Ensuring that firmware is updated on hardware devices.
C. Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest.
D. Ensuring that network cables are category six or higher.

A

Ensuring data is encrypted at rest

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The use of what AWS feature or service allows companies to track and categorize spending on a detailed level?
A. Cost allocation tags
B. Consolidated billing
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Marketplace
A

Cost allocation tags

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What AWS team assists customers with accelerating cloud adoption through paid engagements in any of several specialty practice areas?
A. AWS Enterprise Support
B. AWS Solutions Architects
C. AWS Professional Services
D. AWS Account Managers
A

AWS Professional services

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Which AWS services can host a Microsoft SQL Server database? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
C. Amazon Aurora
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon S3

A

EC2 and RDS

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Which of the Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models can change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of RIs of equal or greater value?
A. Dedicated RIs
B. Scheduled RIs
C. Convertible RIs
D. Standard RIs
A

Convertible RIs

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Which of the following services will automatically scale with an expected increase in web traffic?
A. AWS CodePipeline
B. Elastic Load Balancing
C. Amazon EBS
D. AWS Direct Connect
A

Elastic load balancing

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Where are AWS compliance documents, such as an SOC 1 report, located?
A. Amazon Inspector
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Artifact
D. AWS Certificate Manager
A

AWS Artifact

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Which is a recommended pattern for designing a highly available architecture on AWS?
A. Ensure that components have low-latency network connectivity.
B. Run enough Amazon EC2 instances to operate at peak load.
C. Ensure that the application is designed to accommodate failure of any single component.
D. Use a monolithic application that handles all operations.

A

Ensure that the application is designed to accommodate failure of any single component

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According to best practices, how should an application be designed to run in the AWS Cloud?
A. Use tighly coupled components.
B. Use loosely coupled components.
C. Use infrequently coupled components.
D. Use frequently coupled components.
A

Use loosely coupled components

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AWS supports which of the following methods to add security to Identity and Access Management (IAM) users? (Choose two.)
A. Implementing Amazon Rekognition
B. Using AWS Shield-protected resources
C. Blocking access with Security Groups
D. Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
E. Enforcing password strength and expiration

A

MFA and password strength and expiration.

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Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon Glacier
B. Amazon RDS
C. AWS Snowball
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon EFS
A

RDS and EFS.

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What is one of the advantages of the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?
A. It simplifies relational database administration tasks.
B. It provides 99.99999999999% reliability and durability.
C. It automatically scales databases for loads.
D. It enabled users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resources.

A

Simplifies relational database tasks.

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Q 
A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales.
Which AWS service should they use?
A. Amazon Aurora
B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon ElastiCache
A

Aurora

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Which of the following is a shared control between the customer and AWS?
A. Providing a key for Amazon S3 client-side encryption
B. Configuration of an Amazon EC2 instance
C. Environmental controls of physical AWS data centers
D. Awareness and training

A

Awareness and training

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How many Availability Zones should compute resources be provisioned across to achieve high availability?
A. A minimum of one
B. A minimum of two
C. A minimum of three
D. A minimum of four or more
A

Minimum of two

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What is the lowest-cost, durable storage option for retaining database backups for immediate retrieval?
A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon EBS
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store
A

S3

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21
Q 
Which AWS IAM feature allows developers to access AWS services through the AWS CLI?
A. API keys
B. Access keys
C. User names/Passwords
D. SSH keys
A

Access keys.

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What is an example of agility in the AWS Cloud?
A. Access to multiple instance types
B. Access to managed services
C. Using Consolidated Billing to produce one bill
D. Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

A

Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

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What approach to transcoding a large number of individual video files adheres to AWS architecture principles?
A. Using many instances in parallel
B. Using a single large instance during off-peak hours
C. Using dedicated hardware
D. Using a large GPU instance type

A

Many instances in parallel

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Which of the following are features of Amazon CloudWatch Logs? (Choose two.)
A. Summaries by Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
B. Free Amazon Elasticsearch Service analytics
C. Provided at no charge
D. Real-time monitoring
E. Adjustable retention

A

Real time monitoring and adjustable retention

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What is the AWS customer responsible for according to the AWS shared responsibility model?
A. Physical access controls
B. Data encryption
C. Secure disposal of storage devices
D. Environmental risk management
A

Data encryption

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Which of the following AWS services can be used to serve large amounts of online video content with the lowest possible latency? (Choose two.)
A. AWS Storage Gateway
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
D. Amazon Glacier
E. Amazom CloudFront
A

S3 for content and CloudFront for delivery.

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What is the benefit of using AWS managed services, such as Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?
A. They require the customer to monitor and replace failing instances.
B. They have better performance than customer-managed services.
C. They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.
D. They do not require the customer to optimize instance type or size selections

A

They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.

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Which service provides a virtually unlimited amount of online highly durable object storage?
A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
D. Amazon S3

A

S3 (?)

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Which of the following security-related services does AWS offer? (Choose two.)
A. Multi-factor authentication physical tokens
B. AWS Trusted Advisor security checks
C. Data encryption
D. Automated penetration testing
E. Amazon S3 copyrighted content detection

A

Trusted advisor security checks and data encryption (?).

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30
Q 
Which AWS service allows companies to connect an Amazon VPC to an on-premises data center?
A. AWS VPN
B. Amazon Redshift
C. API Gateway
D. Amazon Direct Connect
A

Direct connect

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Q 
Which AWS service provides alerts when an AWS event may impact a company's AWS resources?
A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
B. AWS Service Health Dashboard
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Infrastructure Event Management
A

Personal health dashboard

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Which task is AWS responsible for in the shared responsibility model for security and compliance?
A. Granting access to individuals and services
B. Encrypting data in transit
C. Updating Amazon EC2 host firmware
D. Updating operating systems

A

Updating EC2 host firmware

33
Q 
If a customer needs to audit the change management of AWS resources, which of the following AWS services should the customer use?
A. AWS Config
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. Amazon Inspector
A

AWS config

34
Q 
Which of the following services could be used to deploy an application to servers running on-premises? (Choose two.)
A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
B. AWS OpsWorks
C. AWS CodeDeploy
D. AWS Batch
E. AWS X-Ray
A

OpsWorks and CodeDeploy

35
Q 
Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?
A. On-Demand Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Convertible Reserved Instances
A

Spot instances

36
Q 
Which design principles for cloud architecture are recommended when re-architecting a large monolithic application? (Choose two.)
A. Use manual monitoring.
B. Use fixed servers.
C. Implement loose coupling.
D. Rely on individual components.
E. Design for scalability.
A

Loose coupling and design for scalability

37
Q 
Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that allows for one-hour target response time for support cases?
A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic
A

Business

38
Q 
Where can AWS compliance and certification reports be downloaded?
A. AWS Artifact
B. AWS Concierge
C. AWS Certificate Manager
D. AWS Trusted Advisor
A

Artifact

39
Q 
Which AWS service provides a customized view of the health of specific AWS services that power a customer's workloads running on AWS?
A. AWS Service Health Dashboard
B. AWS X-Ray
C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
D. Amazon CloudWatch
A

Personal health dashboard

40
Q

Which of the following steps should be taken by a customer when conducting penetration testing on AWS?
A. Conduct penetration testing using Amazon Inspector, and then notify AWS support.
B. Request and wait for approval from the customer’s internal security team, and then conduct testing.
C. Notify AWS support, and then conduct testing immediately.
D. Request and wait for approval from AWS support, and then conduct testing.

A

Request and wait for approval from the customer’s internal security team and then conduct testing (as long as only doing the 8 services permitted…).

41
Q

How would an AWS customer easily apply common access controls to a large set of users?
A. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group.
B. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM role.
C. Apply the same IAM policy to all IAM users with access to the same workload.
D. Apply an IAM policy to an Amazon Cognito user pool.

A

Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group.

42
Q 
Which AWS services are defined as global instead of regional? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon CloudFront
E. Amazon DynamoDB
A

Route 53 and CloudFront

43
Q 
Which AWS Cost Management tool allows you to view the most granular data about your AWS bill?
A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost and Usage report
D. AWS Billing dashboard
A

AWS Cost and usage report

44
Q

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers which of the following benefits over traditional database management?
A. AWS manages the data stored in Amazon RDS tables.
B. AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system.
C. AWS automatically scales up instance types on demand.
D. AWS manages the database type.

A

AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system.

45
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Which service is best for storing common database query results, which helps to alleviate database access load?
A. Amazon Machine Learning
B. Amazon SQS
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store
A

ElastiCache

46
Q 
Which of the following features can be configured through the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Dashboard? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon CloudFront distributions
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Security Groups
D. Subnets
E. Elastic Load Balancing
A

Security groups and subnets

47
Q 
Which AWS services can be used to gather information about AWS account activity? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Cloud9
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS CloudHSM
E. Amazon CloudWatch
A

CloudTrail and CloudWatch

48
Q 
How should a customer forecast the future costs for running a new web application?
A. Amazon Aurora Backtrack
B. Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Cost and Usage report
A

Cost and usage report

49
Q 
Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?
A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic
A

Business

50
Q

An administrator needs to rapidly deploy a popular IT solution and start using it immediately.
Where can the administrator find assistance?
A. AWS Well-Architected Framework documentation
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS CodeCommit
D. AWS Quick Start reference deployments

A

AWS Quick Start reference deployments

51
Q

Which services are parts of the AWS serverless platform?
A. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena
B. Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Amazon EMR
C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS
D. Amazon Athena, Amazon Cognito, Amazon EC2

A

AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS

52
Q 
Which of the following can a customer use to enable single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Console?
A. Amazon Connect
B. AWS Directory Service
C. Amazon Pinpoint
D. Amazon Rekognition
A

AWS Directory Service

53
Q

Which of the following benefits does the AWS Compliance program provide to AWS customers? (Choose two.)
A. It verifies that hosted workloads are automatically compliant with the controls of supported compliance frameworks.
B. AWS is responsible for the maintenance of common compliance framework documentation.
C. It assures customers that AWS is maintaining physical security and data protection.
D. It ensures the use of compliance frameworks that are being used by other cloud providers.
E. It will adopt new compliance frameworks as they become relevant to customer workloads.

A

It verifies that hosted workloads are automatically compliant with the controls of supported compliance frameworks.
AWS is responsible for the maintenance of common compliance framework documentation.

54
Q 
As part of the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following operational controls do users fully inherit from AWS?
A. Security management of data center
B. Patch management
C. Configuration management
D. User and access management
A

Security management of data center

55
Q

A company is considering moving its on-premises data center to AWS.
What factors should be included in doing a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon EC2 instance availability
B. Power consumption of the data center
C. Labor costs to replace old servers
D. Application developer time
E. Database engine capacity

A

Power consumption and labour costs.

56
Q 
Which of the following deployment models enables customers to fully trade their capital IT expenses for operational expenses?
A. On-premises
B. Hybrid
C. Cloud
D. Platform as a service
A

Cloud

57
Q

How is asset management on AWS easier than asset management in a physical data center?
A. AWS provides a Configuration Management Database that users can maintain.
B. AWS performs infrastructure discovery scans on the customer’s behalf.
C. Amazon EC2 automatically generates an asset report and places it in the customer’s specified Amazon S3 bucket.
D. Users can gather asset metadata reliably with a few API calls.

A

Configuration management database?

58
Q 
What feature of Amazon RDS helps to create globally redundant databases?
A. Snapshots
B. Automatic patching and updating
C. Cross-Region read replicas
D. Provisioned IOPS
A

Cross region read replicas.

59
Q 
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customers are responsible for which aspects of security in the cloud? (Choose two.)
A. Visualization management
B. Hardware management
C. Encryption management
D. Facilities management
E. Firewall management
A

Encryption and firewall management

60
Q 
Which AWS service can a customer use to set up an alert notification when the account is approaching a particular dollar amount?
A. AWS Cost and Usage reports
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost Explorer
D. AWS Trusted Advisor
A

Budgets

61
Q

What can users access from AWS Artifact?
A. AWS security and compliance documents
B. A download of configuration management details for all AWS resources
C. Training materials for AWS services
D. A security assessment of the applications deployed in the AWS Cloud

A

AWS security and compliance documents

62
Q 
Which service's PRIMARY purpose is software version control?
A. Amazon CodeStar
B. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
C. Amazon Cognito
D. AWS CodeCommit
A

CodeCommit

63
Q 
Which AWS service provides a secure, fast, and cost-effective way to migrate or transport exabyte-scale datasets into AWS?
A. AWS Batch
B. AWS Snowball
C. AWS Migration Hub
D. AWS Snowmobile
A

Snowmobile

64
Q 
Which of the following BEST describe the AWS pricing model? (Choose two.)
A. Fixed-term
B. Pay-as-you-go
C. Colocation
D. Planned
E. Variable cost
A

Pay as you go and variable (?)

65
Q

A startup is working on a new application that needs to go to market quickly. The application requirements may need to be adjusted in the near future.
Which of the following is a characteristic of the AWS Cloud that would meet this specific need?
A. Elasticity
B. Reliability
C. Performance
D. Agility

A

? D or A

66
Q 
Which of the following services have Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation features? (Choose two.)
A. AWS WAF
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon EC2
D. Amazon CloudFront
E. Amazon Inspector
A

WAF and CloudFront

67
Q 
When building a cloud Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model, which cost elements should be considered for workloads running on AWS? (Choose three.)
A. Compute costs
B. Facilities costs
C. Storage costs
D. Data transfer costs
E. Network infrastructure costs
F. Hardware lifecycle costs
A

Compute, storage and data transfer

68
Q

What time-savings advantage is offered with the use of Amazon Rekognition?
A. Amazon Rekognition provides automatic watermarking of images.
B. Amazon Rekognition provides automatic detection of objects appearing in pictures.
C. Amazon Rekognition provides the ability to resize millions of images automatically.
D. Amazon Rekognition uses Amazon Mechanical Turk to allow humans to bid on object detection jobs.

A

Amazon Rekognition provides automatic detection of objects appearing in pictures

69
Q 
Which service should be used to estimate the costs of running a new project on AWS?
A. AWS TCO Calculator
B. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
C. AWS Cost Explorer API
D. AWS Budgets
A

Simple monthly calculator

70
Q 
Which AWS service can be used to generate alerts based on an estimated monthly bill?
A. AWS Config
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. AWS X-Ray
D. AWS CloudTrail
A

CloudWatch

71
Q

Question #210Topic 1
A user wants guidance on possible savings when migrating from on-premises to AWS.
Which tool is suitable for this scenario?
A. AWS Budgets
B. Cost Explorer
C. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
D. AWS Well-Architected Tool

A

Total cost of ownership calculator

72
Q

What are the advantages of Reserved Instances? (Choose two.)
A. They provide a discount over on-demand pricing.
B. They provide access to additional instance types.
C. They provide additional networking capability.
D. Customers can upgrade instances as new types become available.
E. Customers can reserve capacity in an Availability Zone.

A

Provide a discount over on demand pricing and customers can reserve capacity in an AZ.

73
Q

How do Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups help achieve high availability for a web application?
A. They automatically add more instances across multiple AWS Regions based on global demand of the application.
B. They automatically add or replace instances across multiple Availability Zones when the application needs it.
C. They enable the application’s static content to reside closer to end users.
D. They are able to distribute incoming requests across a tier of web server instances.

A

Automatically add or replace instances across multiple Availability Zones when the application needs it.

74
Q

A customer runs an On-Demand Amazon Linux EC2 instance for 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds.
For how much time will the customer be billed?
A. 3 hours, 5 minutes
B. 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds
C. 3 hours, 6 minutes
D. 4 hours

A

3h 5m 6s

75
Q

Which of the following AWS services provide compute resources? (Choose two.)
A. AWS Lambda
B. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
C. AWS CodeDeploy
D. Amazon Glacier
E. AWS Organizations

A

Lambda and ECS

76
Q 
Which of the following allows users to provision a dedicated network connection from their internal network to AWS?
A. AWS CloudHSM
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS VPN
D. Amazon Connect
A

AWS direct connect (?)

77
Q 
Which services use AWS edge locations? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Shield
C. Amazon EC2
D. Amazon RDS
E. Amazon ElastiCache
A

CloudFront and Shield

78
Q 
Which service enables customers to audit and monitor changes in AWS resources?
A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. Amazon GuardDuty
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS Config
A

AWS Config

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