Quizlet - AWS Flashcards
What is the ability provided by AWS to enable fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and your Amazon S3 bucket.
A. File Transfer
B. HTTP Transfer
C. Transfer Acceleration
D. S3 Acceleration
C. Transfer Acceleration
There is a requirement for storage of objects. The objects should be able to be downloaded via a URL. Which storage option would you choose?
A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon Storage Gateway
D. Amazon EBS
A. Amazon S3
What is the value of having AWS Cloud services accessible through an Application Programming Interface (API)?
A. Cloud resources can be managed programatically
B. AWS infrastructure use will always be cost-optimized
C. All application testing is managed by AWS
D. Customer -owned, on -premises infrastructure becomes programmable
A. Cloud resources can be managed programatically
A company is deploying a two-tier, highly available web application to AWS. The application needs a storage layer to store artifacts such as photos and videos. Which of the following services can be used as the underlying storage mechanism?
A. Amazon EBS volume
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon EC2 instance store
D. Amazon RDS instance
B. Amazon S3
Which of the following is the concept of Autoscaling
A. To scale up resources based on demand
B. To distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances
C. To distribute traffic to AWS resources across multiple regions
D. To increase the size of the EC2 Instance based on demand
A. To scale up resources based on demand
A Company needs to know which user was responsible for terminating several Amazon Elastic Cloud (Amazon EC2) Instances. Where can the customer find this information?
A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. Amazon EC2 instance usage report
C. Amazon Cloud Watch
D. AWS Cloud Trail Logs
D. AWS Cloud Trail Logs
Which of the following is a factor when calculating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the AWS Cloud?
A. The number of servers migrated to AWS
B. The number of users migrated to AWS
C. The number of passwords migrated to AWS
D. The number of keys migrated to AWS
A. The number of servers migrated to AWS
Your company has just started using the resources on the AWS cloud. They want to get an idea on the costs being incurred so far for the resources being used. How can this be achieved?
A. By going to the Amazon EC2 dashboard. Here you can see the costs of the running EC2 resources.
B. By using the AWS Cost and Usage reports Explorer. Here you can see the running and forecast costs.
C. By using the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard. This dashboard will give you all the cost.
D. By seeing the AWS Cloud Trail logs.
B. By using the AWS Cost and Usage reports Explorer. Here you can see the running and forecast costs.
Which of the following features of AWS RDS allows for offloading reads of the database?
A. Cross region replication
B. Creating read replica’s
C. Using snapshots
D. Using Multi-AZ feature
B. Creating read replica’s
Which of the following is AWS managed database service provides processing power that is up to 5X faster than a traditional MySQL database?
A. MariaDB
B. Aurora
C. PostgreSQL
D. DynamoDB
B. Aurora
A company wants to create standard templates for deployment of their infrastructure. Which AWS service can be used in this regard? Please choose one option.
A. Amazon Simple Workflow Service
B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
C. AWS Cloud Formation
D. AWS OpsWorks
C. AWS Cloud Formation
As per the AWS Acceptable Use Policy, penetration testing of EC2 instances:
A. May be performed by AWS, and will be performed by AWS upon customer request.
B. May be performed by AWS, and is periodically performed by AWS.
C. Are expressly prohibited under all circumstances.
D. May be performed by the customer on their own instances with prior authorization from AWS.
E. May be performed by the customer on their own instances, only if performed from EC2 instances.
D. May be performed by the customer on their own instances with prior authorization from AWS.
Which of the following is not a disaster recovery deployment technique.
A. Pilot light
B. Warm standby
C. Single site
D. Mult-site
C. Single site
You have a set of developers that need to use .Net to call AWS Services. Which of the following tools can be used to achieve this purpose?
A. AWS SDK
B. AWS Console
C. AWS CLI
D. AWS IAM
A. AWS SDK
If you wanted to take a backup of an EBS Volume, what would you do?
A. Store the EBS volume in S3
B. Store the EBS volume in an RDS database
C. Create an EBS snapshot
D. Store the EBS volume in DynamoDB
C. Create an EBS snapshot
When creating security groups, which of the following is a responsibility of the customer? Choose 2 answers from the options given below:
A. Giving a name and description for the security group.
B. Defining the rules as per the customer requirements.
C. Ensure the rules are applied immediately.
D. Ensure the security groups are linked to the Elastic Network interface.
A. Giving a name and description for the security group.
B. Defining the rules as per the customer requirements.
What AWS service has built-in DDOS mitigation?
A. CloudTrail
B. EC2
C. CloudFront
D. CloudWatch
C. CloudFront
Which of the following is not a supported database in the AWS RDS service?
A. Aurora
B. MariaDB
C. MySQL
D. DB2
D. DB2
There is a requirement to move 10 TB data warehouse to the AWS cloud. Which of the following is ideal service which can be used to move this amount of data to the AWS cloud/
A. Amazon Snowball
B. Amazon Direct Connect
C. Amazon S3 MultiPart UPload
D. Amazon S3 Connector
A. Amazon Snowball
When designing a system, you use the principle of “design for failure and nothing will fail.” Which of the following services /features of AWS can assist in supporting this design principle. Choose 3 answers from the options given below:
A. Availability Zones
B. Regions
C. Elasitc Load Balancer
D. Pay as you go
A. Availability Zones
B. Regions
C. Elasitc Load Balancer
Which of the following is used to derive the costs for moving artifacts from onpremise to AWS?
A. AWS TCO calculator
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Cost Explorer
d. AWS Consolidating billing
A. AWS TCO calculator
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot instances are appropriate for which of the following workloads?
A. Workloads that are only run in the morning and stopped at night.
B. Workloads where the availiability of the Amazon EC2 instances can be flexible.
C. Workloads that need to run for long periods of time without interruption.
D. Workloads that are critical and need Amazon EC2 instances with termination protection.
B. Workloads where the availiability of the Amazon EC2 instances can be flexible.
Which of the following initiatives from AWS helps organizations reduce the overall expenditure for IT companies when they host resources on the AWS Cloud?
A. The decommission older hardware
B. They continually reduce the cost of cloud computing
C. They use better security mechanisms so you don’t need to think about security at all
D. They allow deployment of multiple resources
B. They continually reduce the cost of cloud computing
AWS provides a storage option known as Amazon Glacier. What is this AWS service designed for? Please specify 2 correct options.
A. Cached session data
B. Infrequently accessed data
C. Data archives
D. Active database storage
B. Infrequently accessed data
C. Data archives
When working with the AWS Cloud which of the following are headaches you don’t need to worry about? Choose 2 answers from the options given below:
A. Having complete control over the physical infrastructure, so you don’t need to worry about what AWS is doing.
B. Having the pay as you go model, so you don’t need to worry if you are burning costs for non-running resources.
C. No upfront costs
D. Having no need to worry about security
B. Having the pay as you go model, so you don’t need to worry if you are burning costs for non-running resources.
C. No upfront costs
Which of the following are attributes to the costing for using the Simple Storage Service? Choose 2 answers from the options given below:
A. The storage class used for the objects stored.
B. Number of S3 buckets.
C. The total size in gigabytes of all objects stored.
D. Using encyprtion in S3.
A. The storage class used for the objects stored.
C. The total size in gigabytes of all objects stored.
You are developing and planning an application onto the AWS Cloud. This application needs to be PCI Compliance. Which of the below steps would you carry out to ensure the compliance is met for the application. Chose 2 answers from the following:
A. Choose AWS services which are PCI compliant
B. Ensure the right steps are taken during application development for PCI Compliance
C. Ensure the AWS Services are made PCI Compliant
D. Do an audit after the deployment of the application for PCI Compliance
A. Choose AWS services which are PCI compliant
B. Ensure the right steps are taken during application development for PCI Compliance
Currently your organization has an operational team that takes care of ID management in their on-premise data center. They now also need to manage users and groups created in AWS. Which of the following AWS tools would they need to use for preforming this management function.
A. AWS Config
B. AWS Cloud Trail
C. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
D. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
D. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Which of the following services helps in governance, compliance, and risk auditing in AWS?
A. AWS Config
B. AWS Cloudtrail
C. AWS Cloudwatch
D. AWS SNS
B. AWS Cloudtrail
A company does not want to manage their database. Which of the following services is a fully managed NoSQL database provided by AWS.
A. AWS RDS
B. DynamoDB
C. Oracle RDS
D. Elastic Map Reduce
B. DynamoDB
Which of the following services allows you to analyze EC2 Instances against predefined security templates to check for vulnerabilities?
A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS Inspector
C. AWS WAF
D. AWS Shield
B. AWS Inspector
What service from AWS can help manage the costs for all resources in AWS?
A. Cost Explorer
B. Cost Allocation Tags
C. AWS Consolidated billing
D. Payment History
A. Cost Explorer
A disaster recovery strategy on AWS should be based on launching infrastructure in a separate:
A. Subnet
B. AWS Region
C. AWS edge location
D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
B. AWS Region
A company is deploying a 2-tier, highly available web application to AWS. Which service provides durable storage for static content while utilizing lower Overall CPU resources for the web tier?
A. Amazon EBS volume
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon EC2 instance store
D. Amazon RDS instance
B. Amazon S3
Which of the following terms refers to another geographic location in AWS?
A. Availability Zone
B. Data center
C. Region
D. Edge location
C. Region
Which of the following are right principles when designing cloud based systems? Choose 2 answers from the options below:
A. Build tightly-coupled components
B. Build loosely-coupled components
C. Assume everything will fail
D. Use as many services as possible
B. Build loosely-coupled components
C. Assume everything will fail
Which of the following options would entice a company to use AWS over an on-premises data center? Choose 2 answers from the options given below:
A. Having access to Free and Unlimited Storage
B. Having access to Unlimited Physical servers
C. Having a highly available infrastructure
D. Ability to use resources on demand
C. Having a highly available infrastructure
D. Ability to use resources on demand
What is the service provided by AWS that allows developers to easily deploy and manage applications on the cloud? Please choose one answer from the options below:
A. CloudFormation
B. Elastic BeanStalk
C. Opsworks
D. Container Service
B. Elastic BeanStalk
Your company has just started using the resources on the AWS cloud. They want to get an idea on the costs being incurred so far for the resources being used. How can this be achieved?
A. By going to the Amazon EC2 dashboard. Here you can see the costs of the running EC2 resources.
B. By using the AWS Cost and Usage reports Explorer. Here you can see the running and forecast costs.
C. By using the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard. This dashboard will give you all the cost.
D. By seeing the AWS Cloud Trail logs.
B. By using the AWS Cost and Usage reports Explorer. Here you can see the running and forecast costs.
Which of the following from AWS can be used to transfer petabytes of data from on-premise locations to the AWS Cloud.
A. AWS Import/Export
B. AWS EC2
C. AWS Snowball
D. AWS Transfer
C. AWS Snowball
What acts as a firewall that controls the traffic allowed to reach one or more instances?
A. Security group
B. ACL
C. IAM
D. IAM
A. Security group
Which of the following services is a serverless compute service in AWS?
A. AWS EC2
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Lambda
D. AWS Opswork
C. AWS Lambda
What are the four levels of AWS Premium Support?
A. Basic, Developer, Business Enterprise
B. Basic, Startup, Business, Enterprise
C. Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold
D. All support is free
A. Basic, Developer, Business Enterprise
The main benefit of decoupling an application is to:
A. Create a tightly integrated application.
B. Reduce inter-dependencies so failures do not impact other components.
C. Enable data syncronization across the web application layer.
D. Have the ability to execute automated bootstrapping actions.
B. Reduce inter-dependencies so failures do not impact other components.
Which of the following services can provide a complete audit trail of all AWS services used within an account?
A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. Amazon EC2 instance usage report
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. AWS Cloud Trail Logs
D. AWS Cloud Trail Logs
Which of the following are advantages of having infrastructure hosted on the AWS Cloud? Chose 2 answers from the options given below.
A. Having complete control over the physical infrastructure.
B. Having the pay as you go model
C. No upfront costs
D. Having no need to worry about security
B. Having the pay as you go model
C. No upfront costs
A company is planning to migrate their existing AWS Services to the Cloud. Which of the following would help them do a cost benefit analysis of moving to the AWS Cloud.
A. AWS TCO calculator
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Cost Explorer
D. AWS Consolidating billing
A. AWS TCO calculator
Which of the following are features of an edge location. Choose 3 answers from the options given below.
A. Distribute content to users
B. Cache common responses
C. Distribute load across multiple resources
D. Used in conjunction with the CloudFront service
A. Distribute content to users
B. Cache common responses
D. Used in conjunction with the CloudFront service
Which service allows for the collection and tracking of metrics for AWS services?
A. Amazon Cloud Front
B. Amazon Cloud Search
C. Amazon Cloud Watch
D. Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML)
C. Amazon Cloud Watch