Practice Questions 1 Flashcards

1
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What is cloud computing?

A

On-demand delivery of IT resources and applications through the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing

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2
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What is another name for on-premises deployment?

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Private cloud deployment

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3
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How does the scale of cloud computing help you to save costs?

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The aggregated cloud usage from a large number of customers results in lower pay-as-you-go prices.

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4
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Which Amazon EC2 instance type is suitable for data warehousing applications?

A

Storage optimized

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5
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Which Amazon EC2 instance type balances compute, memory, and networking resources?

A

General purpose

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6
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Which Amazon EC2 instance type is ideal for high-performance databases?

A

Memory optimized

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7
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Which Amazon EC2 instance type offers high-performance processors?

A

Compute optimized

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8
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Which Amazon EC2 pricing option provides a discount when you specify a number of EC2 instances to run a specific OS, instance family and size, and tenancy in one Region?

A

Standard reserved instances

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9
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Which Amazon EC2 pricing option provides a discount when you make an hourly spend commitment to an instance family and Region for a 1-year or 3-year term?

A

EC2 Instance Savings Plans

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10
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Which AWS service is the best choice for publishing messages to subscribers?

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

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11
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You want to use an Amazon EC2 instance for a batch processing workload. What would be the best Amazon EC2 instance type to use?

A

Compute optimized

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12
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What are the contract length options for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances?

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1 Year and 3 Years

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13
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You have a workload that will run for a total of 6 months and can withstand interruptions. What would be the most cost-efficient Amazon EC2 purchasing option?

A

Spot Instance

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14
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Which process is an example of Elastic Load Balancing?

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Ensuring that no single Amazon EC2 instance has to carry the full workload on its own

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15
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You want to deploy and manage containerized applications. Which service should you use?

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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16
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Which statement best describes an Availability Zone?

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A fully isolated portion of the AWS global infrastructure

17
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Which statement is TRUE for the AWS global infrastructure?

A

A Region consists of three or more Availability Zones.

18
Q

Which factors should be considered when selecting a Region? (2 Answers)

A

Compliance with data governance and legal requirements.

Proximity to your customers

19
Q

Which statement best describes Amazon CloudFront?

A

A global content delivery service

20
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Which site does Amazon CloudFront use to cache copies of content for faster delivery to users at any location?

A

Edge location

21
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Which action can you perform with AWS Outposts?

A

Extend AWS infrastructure and services to different locations including your on-premises data center.

22
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Which statement best describes an AWS account’s default network access control list?

A

It is stateless and allows all inbound and outbound traffic.

23
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Which statement best describes DNS resolution?

A

Translating a domain name to an IP address

24
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Your company has an application that uses Amazon EC2 instances to run the customer-facing website and Amazon RDS database instances to store customers’ personal information. How should the developer configure the VPC according to best practices?

A

Place the Amazon EC2 instances in a public subnet and the Amazon RDS database instances in a private subnet.

25
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Which component can be used to establish a private dedicated connection between your company’s data center and AWS?

A

AWS Direct Connect

26
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Which statement best describes security groups?

A

They are stateful and deny all inbound traffic by default.

27
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Which component is used to connect a VPC to the internet?

A

Internet gateway

28
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Which service is used to manage the DNS records for domain names?

A

Amazon Route 53

29
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Which of the following are characteristics of the Amazon EBS service? (Select TWO.)

A

Best for data that requires retention.

Separate drives from the host computer of an EC2 instance

30
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You want to store data that is infrequently accessed but must be immediately available when needed. Which Amazon S3 storage class should you use?

A

S3 Standard-IA