Practice Test 6 Study Flashcards
Which member of the AWS Snow Family is used by the Edge computing applications for IoT use cases for facilitating the collection and processing of data to gain immediate insights and then transfer the data to AWS?
1. AWS Snowcone
2. AWS Snowposts
3. AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
4. AWS Snowmobile
1 - AWS Snowcone
AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing, edge storage, and data transfer devices, weighing in at 4.5 pounds (2.1 kg) with 8 terabytes of usable storage.
You can use Snowcone in backpacks on first responders, or for IoT, vehicular, and drone use cases.
Which of the following data sources are used by Amazon Detective to analyze events and identify potential security issues?
1. Amazon CloudWatch logs, Amazon VPC flow logs and Amazon GuardDuty Findings
2. Amazon CloudWatch logs, AWS CloudTrail logs and Amazon S3 access logs
3. AWS CloudTrail logs, Amazon VPC flow logs and Amazon GuardDuty logs
4. Amazon CloudWatch logs, AWS CloudTrail logs and Amazon Inspector logs
3 - AWS CloudTrail logs, Amazon VPC flow logs and Amazon GuardDuty logs
Which of the following statements are correct regarding the health monitoring and reporting capabilities supported by AWS Elastic Beanstalk? (Select two)
- The AWS EB health monitoring can determine that the environment’s Auto Scaling group is available and has a min of at least 1 instance
- In a single instance envi, AWS EB determine’s the instance’s health by monitoring the ELB health settings
- AWS EB provides only basic health reporting system; combined with ELB they provide advanced HC features
- The basic health reporting system that provides info about the health of instances in an AWS EB envi doesn’t use HCs performed by ELB
- With basic health reporting the AWS EB service doesn’t publish any metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
1 - The AWS EB health monitoring can determine that the environment’s Auto Scaling group is availble and has a min of at least 1 instance
5 - With basic health reporting the AWS EB service doesn’t publish any metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
Which of the following services/tools offers a user-friendly graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices without a need for command-line interface or REST APIs?
1. AWS OpsWorks
2. AWS Transfer Family
3. AWS OpsHub
4. AppStream 2.0
3 - AWS Ops Hub
AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage your AWS Snowball devices, enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud.
A weather-tracking application is built using Amazon DynamoDB. The performance of the application has been consistently good. But lately, the team has realized that during holidays and travel seasons, the load on the application is high and the read requests consume most of the database resources, thereby drastically increasing the overall application latency.
Which feature/service will help resolve this issue?
1. Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator
2. Amazon CloudFront
3. Amazon DynamoDB Regulator
4. Amazon ElastiCache
1 - Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator
Amazon DynamoDB is designed for scale and performance. In most cases, the DynamoDB response times can be measured in single-digit milliseconds. However, there are certain use cases that require response times in microseconds. For these use cases, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) delivers fast response times for accessing eventually consistent data.
Which of the following AWS services is delivered globally rather than regionally?
1. Amazon S3
2. Amazon EFS
3. Amazon Snowmobile
4. Amazon WorkSpaces
4 - Amazon WorkSpaces
AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage, database, analytics, networking, machine learning and AI, mobile, developer tools, IoT, security, enterprise applications, and much more.
Which free tool helps to review the state of your workloads and compares them to the latest AWS architectural best practices after you have answered a series of questions about your workload?
1. AWS Well-Architected Framework
2. AWS Well-Architected Tool
3. AWS Technical Account Manager (TAM)
4. AWS Trusted Advisor
2 - AWS Well-Architected Tool
The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review the state of your workloads and compares them to the latest AWS architectural best practices.
Which of the following statements are true about AWS Elastic Beanstalk? (Select two)
1. AWS EB supports Java, .NET, PHP but doesn’t support Docker Web apps
2. AWS EB supports Web apps build on different languages. But AWS EB can’t be used for deploying non-Web apps
3. There is no additional charge for AWS EB. You pay only for the underlying AWS resources that your app consumes.
4. AWS EB automates the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing and app deployment, creating an envi that runs a version of your app. However, auto-scaling functionality can’t be automated using AWS EB.
5. With AWS EB, you can quickly deploy and manage apps in the AWS cloud without having to learn about the infrastructure that runs those apps.
3 - There is no additional charge for AWS EB. You pay only for the underlying AWS resources that your app consumes.
5 - With AWS EB, you can quickly deploy and manage apps in the AWS cloud without having to learn about the infrastructure that runs those apps.
Which AWS service allows you to connect any number of IoT devices to the cloud without requiring you to provision or manage servers?
1. AWS IoT Core
2. Amazon Connect
3. AWS Control Tower
4. AWS IoT Gateway
1 - AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core lets you connect IoT devices to the AWS cloud without the need to provision or manage servers.
AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) can be deployed on which of the following services?
1. App Load Balancer, Amazon EC2, Amazon API Gateway
2. AWS AppSync, Amazon CloudFront, App Load Balancer, Amazon EC2
3. Amazon CloudFront, Amazon EC2, Amazon API Gateway, App Load Balancer
4. Amazon Cloud Front, App Load Balancer, Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync
4 - Amazon Cloud Front, App Load Balancer, Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync
You can deploy AWS WAF on Amazon CloudFront as part of your CDN solution, the Application Load Balancer that fronts your web servers or origin servers running on EC2, Amazon API Gateway for your REST APIs, or AWS AppSync for your GraphQL APIs.
Which of the following statements are correct regarding the AWS Control Tower and Service Control Policies? (Select two)
- AWS Control Tower is an AWS native service providing a predefined set of blueprints and guardrails to help customers implement a LZ for new AWS accounts
- Service Control Policies (SCPs) can help grant perms to the accounts in your org
- Service Control Policies (SCPs) by default affect all the users in the AWS Org. They have to be configured to affect only the member accounts if needed
- Service Control Policies (SCPs) are a type of org policy that you can use to manage perms in your org.
- AWS Control Tower helps you deploy a multi-account AWS environment and operate it with day-to-day reminders and recommendations.
1 - AWS Control Tower is an AWS native svc providing a predefined set of blueprints and guardrails to help customers implement a LZ for new AWS accounts
4 - Service Control Policies (SCPs) are a type of org policy that you can use to manage perms in your org.
Which of the following AWS services are offered free of cost? (Select two)
1. An Elastic IP address, which is chargeable as long as it is associated with an EC2 instance
2. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3. AWS Auto Scaling
4. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
5. Amazon Cloud Watch facilitated detailed monitoring of EC2 instances
2 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 - AWS Auto Scaling
A healthcare company wants to implement a continuous replication based disaster recovery mechanism and provide fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS Cloud. Which of the following represents the best-fit solution for this use case?
1. AWS Snowball Edge
2. AWS Storage Gateway
3. CloudCover DR
4. CloudEndure DR
4 - CloudEndure DR
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, available from the AWS Marketplace, continuously replicates server-hosted applications and server-hosted databases from any source into AWS using block-level replication of the underlying server.
Which feature/functionality will help you organize your AWS resources, manage and automate tasks on large numbers of resources at a time?
1. AWS Organizations
2. Tags
3. AWS Resource Groups
4. Amazon WorkSpaces
3 - AWS Resource Groups
In AWS, a resource is an entity that you can work with. Examples include an Amazon EC2 instance, an AWS CloudFormation stack, or an Amazon S3 bucket. If you work with multiple resources, you might find it useful to manage them as a group rather than move from one AWS service to another for each task. If you manage large numbers of related resources, such as EC2 instances that make up an application layer, you likely need to perform bulk actions on these resources at one time.
Which of the following is a repository service that helps in maintaining application dependencies via integration with commonly used package managers and build tools like Maven, Gradle, npm, etc?
1. AWS CodeBuild
2. AWS CodeStar
3. AWS CodeArtifact
4. AWS CodeCommit
3 - AWS CodeArtifact
AWS CodeArtifact is a fully managed artifact repository service that makes it easy for organizations of any size to securely store, publish, and share software packages used in their software development process.
