Real Exam Questions Flashcards

1
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Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data?

Amazon Glacier
Amazon RDS
AWS Snowball
Amazon Redshift
Amazon EFS
A

Amazon RDS

Amazon EFS

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What is one of the advantages of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

It simplifies relational database administration tasks
It provides 99.99999999% reliability and durability
It automatically scales databases for loads
It enables users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resources

A

It simplifies relational database administration tasks

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3
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A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales. Which AWs service should they use?

Amazon Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache

A

Amazon Aurora

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Which of the following components of the AWS Global Infrastructure consists of one or more discrete data centers interconnected through low latency links?

Availability Zone
Edge Locations
Region
Private networking

A

Availability Zone

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5
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Which of the following a shared control between the customer and AWS?

Providing a key for Amazon S3 client-side encryption
Configuration of an Amazon EC2 instance
Environment controls of physical AWS data centers
Awareness and training

A

Awareness and training

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What is the lowest-cost, durable storage option for retaining database backups for immediate retrieval?

Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2 instance store

A

Amazon S3

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Which of the following is a fast and reliable NoSQL database service?

Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon S3

A

Amazon DynamoDB

Redshift & RDS are MySQL, S3 is object storage

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What is an example of agility in the AWS cloud?

Access to multiple instance types
Access to managed services
Using consolidate billing to produce one bill
Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

A

Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

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What approach to transcoding a large number of individual files adheres to AWS architecture principles?

Using many instances in parallel
Using a single large instance during off-peak hours
Using dedicated hardware
Using a large GPU instance type

A

Using many instances in parallel

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Which feature of the AWS cloud will support an international company’s requirement for low latency to all of it’s customers?

Fault tolerance
Global reach
Pay-as-you-go pricing
High availability

A

Global reach

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Which of the following are features of Amazon CloudWatch logs? (Choose two)

Summaries by Amazon SNS
Free Amazon Elastisearch Service Analytics
Provided at no charge
Real-time monitoring
Adjustable retention
A

Real-time monitoring

Adjustable Retention

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12
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Which storage service can be used as a low-cost option for hosting static websites?

Amazon Glacier
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

A

Amazon S3

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What is the benefit of using AWS managed services, such as Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

They require the customer to monitor and replace failing instances

They have better performance than customer-managed services

They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs

They do not require the customer to optimize instance type or size selections

A

They have better performance than customer-managed services

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A company wants to reduce the physical compute footprint that developers use to run code. Which service would meet that need by enabling serverless architecture?

Amazon EC2
AWS Lambda
Amazon DynamoDB
AWS CodeCommit

A

AWS Lambda,

when you see serverless architecture think Lambda

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When performing a cost analysis that supports physical isolation of a customer workload, which compute hosting model should be accounted for in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?

Dedicated hosts
Reserved instances
On-demand instances
No upfront reserved instances

A

Dedicated hosts (allows ioslation)

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16
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Which AWs service provides the ability to manage infrastructure as code?

AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS Direct Connect
AWS CloudFormation

A

AWS CloudFormation

17
Q

If a customer needs to audit the change management of AWS resources, which of the following AWS services should the customer use?

AWS Config
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Inspector

A

AWS Config

18
Q

Which of the following services could be used to deploy an application to servers running on-premises? (Choose two)

AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS OpsWorks
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS batch
AWS X-Ray
A

AWS OpsWorks

AWS CodeDeploy

19
Q

Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?

On-Demand Instances
Reserved Instances
Spot Instances
Convertible Reserved Instances

A

Spot Instances

20
Q

Which is the MINIMUM AWS support plan that allows for one-hour target response time for support cases?

Enterprise
Business
Developer
Basic

A

Business

21
Q

How would an AWS customer easily apply common access controls to a large set of users?

Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group
Apply an IAM policy to an IAM role
Apply the same IAM policy to all IAM users with access to the same workload
Apply an IAM policy to an Amazon Cognito user pool

A

Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group