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A start-up would like to monitor its cost on the AWS Cloud and would like to choose an optimal Savings Plan. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you use?
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer lets you explore your AWS costs and usage at both a high level and at a detailed level of analysis, and empowering you to dive deeper using several filtering dimensions (e.g., AWS Service, Region, Linked Account, etc.) AWS Cost Explorer also gives you access to a set of default reports to help you get started, while also allowing you to create custom reports from scratch.
Customers can receive Savings Plan recommendations at the member (linked) account level in addition to the existing AWS organization-level recommendations in AWS Cost Explorer
A company would like to define a set of rules to manage objects cost-effectively between storage classes. As a Cloud Practitioner, which Amazon S3 feature would you use?
S3 Lifecycle management
To manage your objects so that they are stored cost-effectively throughout their lifecycle, configure their Amazon S3 Lifecycle. An S3 Lifecycle configuration is a set of rules that define actions that Amazon S3 applies to a group of objects. There are two types of actions: Transition actions (define when objects transition to another storage class) and expiration actions (define when objects expire. Amazon S3 deletes expired objects on your behalf).
In this particular use-case, you would use a transition action.
Which of the following AWS Support plans is the MOST cost-effective when getting enhanced technical support by Cloud Support Engineers?
Business
AWS recommends Business Support if you have production workloads on AWS and want 24x7 phone, email and chat access to technical support and architectural guidance in the context of your specific use-cases. You get full access to AWS Trusted Advisor Best Practice Checks. It is also the cheapeast support plan to provide enhanced technical support by Cloud Support Engineers.
A company would like to move 50 petabytes (PBs) of data from its on-premises data centers to AWS in the MOST cost-effective way. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following solutions would you choose?
AWS Snowmobile
AWS Snowmobile is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck. Snowmobile makes it easy to move massive volumes of data to the cloud, including video libraries, image repositories, or even a complete data center migration. Transferring data with Snowmobile is more secure, fast and cost-effective.
A start-up would like to quickly deploy a popular technology on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS tool would you use for this task?
AWS Quick Starts references
Quick Starts are built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help you deploy popular technologies on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability. These accelerators reduce hundreds of manual procedures into just a few steps, so you can build your production environment quickly and start using it immediately.
Each Quick Start includes AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployment and a guide that discusses the architecture and provides step-by-step deployment instructions.
An engineering team is new to the AWS Cloud and it would like to launch a dev/test environment with low monthly pricing. Which AWS service can address this use-case?
Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS. Lightsail plans include everything you need to jumpstart your project – a virtual machine, SSD- based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP address – for a low, predictable price. It is not used to run batch jobs.
It is great for people with little cloud experience to launch quickly a popular IT solution ready to use immediately.
Which of the following statements is the MOST accurate when describing AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) which allows you to deploy and scale web applications and services
AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes it even easier for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud. Developers simply upload their application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.
It is a Platform as a Service as you only manage the applications and the data.
A research lab needs to be notified in case of a configuration change for security and compliance reasons. Which AWS service can assist with this task?
AWS Config
AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. With Config, you can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. This enables you to simplify compliance auditing, security analysis, change management, and operational troubleshooting.
A company would like to move its infrastructure to AWS Cloud. Which of the following should be included in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) estimate?
Power cooling and server administration
A company would like to move its infrastructure to AWS Cloud. Which of the following should be included in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) estimate?
Power cooling and server administration
