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Practice 2 Flashcards

1
Q

AWS supports which methods to add security to IAM users?
2 answers

A
  • Using MFA
  • Enforcing password strength and expiration
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2
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Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data?
2 answers

A
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon EFS
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3
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A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales
Which AWS service should they use?

A

AWS Aurora

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4
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Which components of the AWS Global Infrastrucure consists of one or more discrete data centres interconnected through low latency links?

A

Availability Zones

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5
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What is an example of a shared control between customer and AWS?

A

Awareness and training

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6
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How many Availability Zones should compute resources be provisioned across to achieve High-availability?

A

Minimum of two

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7
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One of the advantages to moving infrastructure from an on-premise data centre to the AWS Cloud is…

A

It allows the business to focus on business activities

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What is the lowest-cost, durable storage option for retaining database backups for immediate retrieval?

A

Amazon S3

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9
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Which AWS IAM feature allows developers to access AWS services through AWS CLI?

A

Access Keys

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10
Q

Name a fast and reliable NoSQL database service

A

Amazon DynamoDB

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11
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What is an example of agility in the AWS Cloud?

A

Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

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12
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Which service should a customer use to consolidate and centrally manage multiple AWS accounts?

A

AWS Organisations

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13
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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

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14
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For which auditing process does AWS have sole responsibility?

A

Physical security

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15
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Which feature of the AWS Cloud will support an international company’s requirement for low latency to all of it’s customers?

A

Gloabl reach

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16
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What is a customer’s responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?

A

Patching Amazon EC2 instances

17
Q

A customer is using multiple AWS accounts with separate billing.
How can the customer take advantage of volume discounts with minimal impact to the AWS resources?

A

Use the consolidate billing feature from AWS organisations

18
Q

Name two features of Amazon CloudWatch Logs?

A
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Adjustable retention
19
Q

Name an AWS manged Domain Name System (DNS) web service?

A

Amazon Route 53

20
Q

A customer is deploying a new applicaiton and needs to choose an AWS region.
Which factors should influence the customer’s decision?

A
  • Reduced latency to users
  • Data sovereignty and compliance
21
Q

Which storage service can be used as a low-cost option for hosting static websites?

A

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

22
Q

Which Amazon EC2 instance pricing model can provide discounts of up to 90%?

A

Spot instances

23
Q

Whats is AWS customer responsible for according to the AWS Shared Responsibilty model?

A

Data encryption

24
Q

Which AWS Cloud Services can be used to run a customer-managed relational database?

A

Amazon EC2
NOTE: Dynamo DB is NOSQL type, not RDS

25
Q

A company is looking for a scalable data warehouse solution.
Which AWS solution would meet the company’s needs?

A

Amazon Redshift
NOTE: Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehosue service in the cloud

26
Q

Describe Elastic Load Balancing?

A

It distributes traffic across one or more Amazon EC2 instances

27
Q

What are two valid ways for a customer to interact with AWS services?

A
  • CLI
  • SDKs
28
Q

Which two AWS services can be used to serve large amounts of online video content with the lowest possible latency?

A
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Amazon CloudFront
29
Q

Under the Shared Responsibility Model, what is the customer responsible for?

A

Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest

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