Practice Exam 1 Flashcards

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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?

Scalability
Reliability
Agility
Elasticity

A

Agility

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

Language-specific Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
AWS CLI
AWS Management Console
AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK)

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AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK)

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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?

AWS Consulting Partner
Concierge Support Team
APN Technology Partner
AWS Trusted Advisor

A

AWS Consulting Partner

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

Trade CAPEX for variable expense
Allocate a few months of planning for your infrastructure capacity needs
Go global in minutes and deploy applications in multiple regions around the world with just a few clicks
Spend money on building and maintaining data centers
Benefit from massive economies of scale

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

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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?

Dedicated Host
Dedicated Instance
Reserved Instance
On-Demand Instance

A

Dedicated Host

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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?

Spot Instance
On-demand Instance
Dedicated Host
Reserved Instance

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Reserved Instance

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

Amazon Elasticsearch
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Auto Scaling
AWS Elastic Load Balancing

A

AWS Elastic Load Balancing

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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?

Instance Store
EBS
EFS
S3

A

EFS

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

Business
Basic
Enterprise
Developer

A

Business

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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?

AWS Artifact
AWS Secrets Manager
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Systems Manager

A

AWS Artifact

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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?

Amazon RDS for MySQL
Amazon DynamoDB with global tables
Amazon Aurora with multi-master clusters
Amaxon DynamoDB with DynamoDB Accelerator

A

Amazon DynamoDB with global tables

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

Use Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access AWS resources programmatically
Create a new IAM user and share the username and password
Use IAM groups to access AWS resources programmatically
Use MFA to access AWS resources programmatically

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

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

AWS CloudTrain
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Budgets
AWS Pricing Calculator

A

AWS Budgets

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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?

Amazon Macie
Amazon Polly
AWS Secrets Manager
AWS Glue

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Amazon Macie

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

S3
DocumentDB
DynamoDB
EC2 Instances
RDS
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DynamoDB
EC2 Instances
RDS

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

AWS WAF
WAS Secrets Manager
AWS Shield Standard
AWS Shield Advanced

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AWS Shield Standard

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

S3
SQS
EC2
EFS
SNS
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S3

EFS

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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)

AWS Config
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon CouldWatch
Amazon Inspector
AWS CloudTrail
A

AWS Config
Amazon CouldWatch
AWS CloudTrail

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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?

AWS Owned CMK
Secrets Manager
AWS Managed CMK
Customer Managed CMK

A

Customer Managed CMK

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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?

600 s
300 s
30 s
60 s

A

60 s

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

Amazon Route 53
AWS Global Accelerator
AWS Cloud Formation
Amazon API Gateway
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
A

Amazon Route 53

AWS Global Accelerator

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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?

  • Use Amazon Polly to convert speech to text and Amazon transcribe to convey results via speech
  • Use Amazon Translate to convert speech to text then use Amazon Polly to convey the text results via speech
  • Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text then use Amazon Polly to convey the results via speech
  • Use Amazon Polly to convert speech to text then amazon translate to convey the text results via speech
A

Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text then use Amazon Polly to convey the results via speech

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

  • Elastic File Storage (EFS)
  • CloudTrail Logs
  • Amazon S3
  • Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
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CloudTrail Logs

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

  • Maintaining Amazon S3 data in different AZs to keep it durable
  • Creating IAM role for accessing Amazon EC2 Instances
  • Creating S3 bucket policies for appropriate user accounts
  • Replacing faulty hardware of Amazon EC2 Instances
  • Enabling MFA on AWS accounts
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  • Maintaining Amazon S3 data in different AZs to keep it durable
  • Replacing faulty hardware of Amazon EC2 Instances
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Which of the following is a serverless AWS service?

  • EMR
  • EC2
  • Beanstalk
  • Lambda
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  • Lambda
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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?

  • Enable client-side encryption using AWS encryption SDK
  • Encryption is enabled by default for all the objects written to Amazon S3. Additional configuration is not required.
  • Enable server-side encryption with KMS keys stored in AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS)
  • Enable server-side encryption with Amazon S3-Managed Keys (SSE-S3)
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  • Enable client-side encryption using AWS encryption SDK
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Which of the following AWS services support VPC Endpoint Gateway for a private connection from a VPC? (Select two)

  • S3
  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon SNS
  • DynamoDB
  • Amazon SQS
A
  • S3

- DynamoDB

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

  • Provide lower latency to applications by maintaining servers on-premises
  • Trade capital expense for variable expose
  • Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs
  • Make a capacity decision before deploying an application, to reduce costs
  • Increase speed and agility by keeping servers and other required resources ready before time in your data centers
A
  • Trade capital expense for variable expose

- Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs

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

  • PaaS
  • NaaS
  • SaaS
  • IaaS
A
  • IaaS
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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?

  • AWS Compute Optimizer
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • AWS Cost Explorer
  • AWS Budgets
A
  • AWS Compute Optimizer
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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?

  • Failover routing policy
  • Weighted routing policy
  • Latency routing policy
  • Simple routing policy
A
  • Weighted routing policy
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Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective option to purchase an EC2 Reserved Instance?

  • All upfront payment option with standard 1-year term
  • Partial upfront payment option with standard 3-year term
  • No upfront payment option with standard 1-year term
  • No upfront payment option with standard 3-year term
A
  • Partial upfront payment option with standard 3-year term
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Which AWS Service can be used to mitigate a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

  • AWS Systems Manager
  • Amazon CloudWarch
  • AWS Shield
  • AWS KMS
A
  • AWS Shield
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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.

  • Fault tolerance is achieved by Vertical Scaling
  • Vertical scaling implies you scale by adding more power (CPU, RAM) to your existing machine/node
  • Fault tolerance is achieved by Horizontal Scaling
  • Horizontal scaling implies you scale by adding more instances to your existing pool of resources
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  • Fault tolerance is achieved by Vertical Scaling
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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?

  • Provision of the database via CloudFormation
  • Configure the database in RDS Multi-AZ deployment with automatic failover to the standby
  • Configure the database in RDS read replica mode with automatic failover to the standby
    Deploy the database via Elastic Beanstalk
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  • Configure the database in RDS Multi-AZ deployment with automatic failover to the standby
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Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to online training with self-paced labs?

  • Business
  • Basic
  • Developer
  • Enterprise
A
  • Enterprise
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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?

  • Amazon VPC Endpoint
  • Internet Gateway
  • Site-to-site VPN
  • AWS Direct Connect
A
  • AWS Direct Connect
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Which AWS Support plan provides architectural guidance contextual to your specific use-cases?

  • Business
  • Enterprise
  • Developer
  • Basic
A
  • Business
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Which of the following is an AWS database service?

  • Storage Gateway
  • Database Migration Service
  • Glue
  • Redshift
A
  • Redshift
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Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is a shared responsibility of both AWS and the customer?

  • Configuration management
  • Infrastructure maintenance of Amazon S3 storage servers
  • AZ infrastructure maintenance
  • Guarantee data separation among various AWS cutstomers
A
  • Configuration management
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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)

  • Credit 1 is applied, which expires in Jult, to the EC2 charge leaving 900 Ec2 and 500S3
  • Then credit 2 is applied to the remaining 900 of EC2
  • Only one credit can be used in one billing cycle and the customer has a choice of which one
  • Credit one is applied, which expires in july, to Amazon S3 which leaves $1000 EC2 and $400 S3
    Then, credit 2 is applied to $500 for Amazon S3 usage
A
  • Credit 1 is applied, which expires in Jult, to the EC2 charge leaving 900 Ec2 and 500S3
  • Then credit 2 is applied to the remaining 900 of EC2
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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)

  • Consult moderators on AWS Developer Forums
  • Rause a support ticket with AWS support for further assistance
  • Utilize AWS Partner Network (APN) to build a custom solution for the infrastructure migration
  • Leverage AWS Professional Services to accelerate the infrastructure migration
  • Use AWS Trusted Advisor to automate the infrastructure migration
A
  • Utilize AWS Partner Network (APN) to build a custom solution for the infrastructure migration
  • Leverage AWS Professional Services to accelerate the infrastructure migration
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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?

  • Amazon S3 Glacier
  • Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access
  • Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
  • Amazon S2 Standard
A
  • Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access
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Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS managed services such as Amazon RDS?

  • The performance of AWS managed RDS instance is better than a customer-managed database instance
  • The customer needs to manage database backups
  • The customer needs to patch the underlying OS
  • There is no need to optimize database instance type and size
A
  • The performance of AWS managed RDS instance is better than a customer-managed database instance
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Compared to the On-demand prices, what is the highest possible discount offered for spot instances?

  • 10
  • 50
  • 90
  • 75
A
  • 90
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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?

  • AWS Cost Eplorer
  • AWS Pricing Calculator
  • AWS Cost & Usage Report
  • AWS Budgets
A
  • AWS Pricing Calculator
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Which of the following S3 storage classes takes the most time to retrieve data (also known as first byte latency)?

  • S3 Standard
  • S3 Intelligent-Tiering
  • S3 Glacier Deep Archive
  • S3 Glacier
A
  • S3 Glacier Deep Archive
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Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to only 7 core checks from the AWS Trusted Advisor Best Practice Checks? (Select two)

  • Enterprise
  • Buisness
  • Corporate
  • Basic
  • Deveoper
A
  • Basic

- Deveoper

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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?

  • Use AWS Systems Manager to manage AWS accounts of all units and then share the reserved EC2 instances amongst all units
  • Use AWS Cost Explorer to manage AWS accounts of all units and then share the reserved EC2 instances amongst all units
  • Use AWS Trusted Advisor to manage AWS accounts of all units and then share the reserved EC2 instances amongst all units
  • Use AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts of all units and then share the reserved EC2 instances amongst all units
A
  • Use AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts of all units and then share the reserved EC2 instances amongst all units
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Which of the following statements are CORRECT regarding the Availability Zone (AZ) specific characteristics of EBS and EFS storage types?

  • EBS Volume can be attached to a single instance in the same AZ and EFS file system can only be mounted on instances in the same AZ
  • EBS Volume can be attached to one or more instances in multiple AZs and EFS file system can only be mounted on instances across multiple AZs
  • EBS Volume can be attached to one or more instances in multiple AZs and EFS file system can be mounted on instances in the same AZ
  • EBS Volume can be attached to a single instance in the same AZ whereas EFS file system can only be mounted on instances across multiple AZs
A
  • EBS Volume can be attached to a single instance in the same AZ whereas EFS file system can only be mounted on instances across multiple AZs
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Which of the following AWS Support plans provide access to guidance, configuration, and troubleshooting of AWS interoperability with third-party software? (Select two)

  • Developer
  • Basic
  • Business
  • Enterprise
  • Corporate
A
  • Business

- Enterprise

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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?

  • Trusted Advisor
  • CloudTrail
  • Cloud Watch
  • Config
A
  • CloudTrail
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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?

  • The company would only be charged for the inbound data transfer into the S3 bucket
  • The company would be charged for both the outbound data transfer from EC2 instance as well as the inbound data transfer into the S3 bucket
  • The company would not be charged for this data transfer
  • The company would only be charged from the outbound data transfer from the EC2 instance
A
  • The company would not be charged for this data transfer

Per AWS pricing, data transfer between S3 and EC2 instances within the same region is not charged, so there would be no data transfer charge for moving 500 GB of data from an EC2 instance to an S3 bucket in the same region.

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

  • Layer 4 and 7
  • Layer 4
  • Layer 3
  • Layer 7
A
  • Layer 7

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that lets you monitor the HTTP and HTTPS requests that are forwarded to an Amazon API Gateway API, Amazon CloudFront or an Application Load Balancer. HTTP and HTTPS requests are part of the Application layer, which is layer 7.

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

  • Each AZ consists of two or more discrete data centers
  • Each AWS Region consists of one or more AZs
  • Each AWS Region consists of two or more Edge Locations
  • Each AZ consists of one or more discrete data centers
  • Each AWS Region consists of two or more AZs
A
  • Each AZ consists of one or more discrete data centers
  • Each AWS Region consists of two or more AZs
    AWS has the concept of a Region, which is a physical location around the world where AWS clusters data centers. Each AWS Region consists of multiple (two or more), isolated, and physically separate AZ’s within a geographic area. Each AZ has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networks.

An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region. All AZ’s in an AWS Region are interconnected with high-bandwidth, low-latency networking, over fully redundant, dedicated metro fiber providing high-throughput, low-latency networking between AZ’s.

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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?

  • AWS -X-Ray
  • AWS Trusted Advisor
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Amazon Pinpoint
A
  • AWS -X-Ray

You can use AWS X-Ray to analyze and debug serverless and distributed applications such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors.

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

  • The AWS Support after receiving a request from the customer
  • The AWS customer by using AWS Systems Manager
  • The AWS Product Team automatically
  • The AWS customer by SSHing on the instances
A
  • The AWS Product Team automatically
    Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Amazon Aurora is fully managed by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), which automates time-consuming administration tasks like hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups. The AWS Product team is responsible for applying patches to the underlying OS for AWS Aurora.
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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?

  • Physical and Environmental Controls
  • Patching guest OS
  • Configuring customer applications
  • Service and Communications Protection or Zone Security
A
  • Physical and Environmental Controls
59
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Which of the following is CORRECT regarding removing an AWS account from AWS Organizations?

  • The AWS account must not have any Service Control Policies (SCPs) attached to it. Only then can it be removed from AWS organizations
  • Raise a support ticket with AWS Support to remove the account
  • The AWS account must be able to operate as a standalone account. Only then can it be removed from AWS Organizations
  • The AWS account can be removed from AWS Systems Manager
A
  • The AWS account must be able to operate as a standalone account. Only then can it be removed from AWS Organizations
60
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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)

  • Project manager salary
  • Computing hardware infrastructure expenditure
  • Developer salary
  • Data center physical security expenditure
  • SaaS application license fee
A
  • Computing hardware infrastructure expenditure

- Data center physical security expenditure

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

  • Lambda
  • SQS
  • SNS
  • Step Function
  • EC2
A
  • SQS

- SNS

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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?

  • Amazon Inspector
  • AWS Shield
  • Amazon GuardDuty
  • Amazon Macie
A
  • Amazon Inspector
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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?

  • Write an email to JEff Bezos
  • Contact AWS Developer Forum moderators
  • Contact AWS Support
  • Contact AWS Abuse Team
A
  • Contact AWS Abuse Team
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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?

  • EBS
  • S3
  • Instance Store
  • EFS
A
  • Instance Store
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Which of the following statements are CORRECT regarding the AWS VPC service? (Select two)

  • A NACL can have allow rules only
  • A NAT Gateway is managed by AWS
  • A Security Group can have allow rules only
  • A Security Group can have both allow and deny rules
  • A NAT instance is managed by AWS
A
  • A NAT Gateway is managed by AWS

- A Security Group can have allow rules only