Practice Test 2 Missed Questions Flashcards

1
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Which of the following runs your application only when needed, without having to provision servers all the time?

A

AWS Lambda

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2
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Which of the following AWS security features is associated with an EC2 instance and functions to filter incoming traffic requests?

A

Security Groups

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3
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Which of the following services can help protect your web applications from SQL injection and other vulnerabilities in your application code?

A

AWS WAF

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4
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Under the Shared Responsibility Model, what are two are controls which a customer fully inherits from AWS?

A

Environmental

Physical Controls

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5
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What information is required to calculate the Total Cost of Ownership for the AWS Cloud?

A

The number of on premise virtual machines.

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6
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A company created a solution that will help AWS customers improve their architectures on AWS. Which AWS program may support this company?

A

APN Consulting Partners

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7
Q

Your company is planning to host its applications in the AWS Cloud. What are two services that can be used to help decouple distributed software systems and components?

A

AWS SNS

AWS SQS

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8
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What are two things that will impact the price paid for an EC2 instance?

A

Instance Type
Storage Capacity

extra:
- The buying option (On-demand, Reserved, Spot, Dedicated)
- Selected AMI
- Selected instance type
- Region
- Data Transfer in/out
- Storage capacity.

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9
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What is the AWS data warehouse service that supports a very high level of query performance on large amounts of datasets?

A

Amazon Redshift

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10
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Name two reserved instance payment options result in you paying a discounted hourly rate throughout the duration of the term?

A

Partial Upfront

No Upfront?

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11
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What is true about AWS Trusted Adviser’s ability to monitor your service limits?

A

You can use AWS Trusted Adviser to Monitor your service limits.

You can contact support to increase these service limits/

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12
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What is the primary storage service used by Amazon RDS DB instances?

A

Amazon EBS

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13
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What are your options for protecting the confidentiality of data in transit in Amazon S3?

A

Use Client-Side Encryption

Use SSL

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14
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Based on the AWS shared responsibility model, what are two things that are the responsibility of AWS?

A

Creating hypervisors

Hardware maintenance

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15
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What are the security credentials that are required to access the AWS management console of an IAM user account?

A

A user name and password

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16
Q

What are two AWS services are free to use?

A

Auto-scaling

ClouFormation

17
Q

What are two services that can be used to build hybrid cloud architectures?

A

AWS IAM

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

18
Q

What statement best describes the operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

A

The ability to monitor and improve system processes and procedures.

19
Q

There is a need to analyze and process a large number of data sets. Which service can help in this regard?

A

Amazon EMR - Elastic MapReduce

20
Q

You are currently working on an application that uses Lambda as its compute resource. You need a storage resource to store and retrieve photos and videos. Which of the following services can best be used as the underlying storage mechanism?

A

S3 -Simple Storage Service. Usually used for photos and videos.

21
Q

Amazon Glacier is an Amazon S3 storage class that is suitable for storing ____________ & ______________. (

A

Long-term storage & active archives

22
Q

An organization has an on-premises application that serves users from all around the world. If instead the application was deployed in AWS, what is the AWS characteristic that could help reduce latency to their users?

A

Global Reach

23
Q

In your on-premises environment, you can create as many virtual servers as you need from a single template. What can you use to perform the same in AWS?

A

AWS AMI

24
Q

What is the AWS data warehouse service that supports a very high level of query performance on large amounts of datasets?

A

Amazon RDS

25
Q

There is a need to automate the creation of sandbox accounts for developers and granting entities in those accounts access only to the necessary AWS services. Which of the following services would help?

A

AWS Config

26
Q

Which of the following AWS Cloud services is designed with native Multi-AZ fault tolerance in mind?

A

Dynamo DB

Simple Storage Service

27
Q

What are two advantages of using Cloud Computing over using traditional data centers?

A

Eliminating SPOFs

Distributed Infrastructure

28
Q

What is the Amazon RDS feature that allows for data redundancy across regions and improves disaster recovery?

A

Read Replicas

29
Q

There is a need to import a large amount of structured data into a database service. What is the AWS database service that best achieves this?

A

RDS