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
Agility
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)
AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK)
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
AWS Consulting Partner
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
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
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
Dedicated Host
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
Reserved Instance
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
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
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
EFS
Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to Infrastructure Event Management for an additional fee?
Business
Basic
Enterprise
Developer
Business
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
AWS Artifact
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
Amazon DynamoDB with global tables
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
Use Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access AWS resources programmatically
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
AWS Budgets
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
Amazon Macie
Which of the following AWS services support reservations to optimize costs? (Select three)
S3 DocumentDB DynamoDB EC2 Instances RDS
DynamoDB
EC2 Instances
RDS
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
AWS Shield Standard
Which of the following are the storage services offered by the AWS Cloud? (Select two)
S3 SQS EC2 EFS SNS
S3
EFS
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
AWS Config
Amazon CouldWatch
AWS CloudTrail
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
Customer Managed CMK
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
60 s
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
Amazon Route 53
AWS Global Accelerator
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
Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text then use Amazon Polly to convey the results via speech
Which of the following AWS services has encryption enabled by default?
- Elastic File Storage (EFS)
- CloudTrail Logs
- Amazon S3
- Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
CloudTrail Logs
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
- Maintaining Amazon S3 data in different AZs to keep it durable
- Replacing faulty hardware of Amazon EC2 Instances
Which of the following is a serverless AWS service?
- EMR
- EC2
- Beanstalk
- Lambda
- Lambda
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)
- Enable client-side encryption using AWS encryption SDK