Section 18.5 - 20

Question 1

Both Budgets and CloudWatch Billing Alarms can notify you when your costs/usage is exceeding your budget. What can budgets do that CloudWatch BA cannot?

Answer 1

Budgets can send you an alert when you are forecasted to exceed your budget, CWBA can only send an alert when you actually exceed it.

Question 2

A company would like to choose the best Savings Plan and forecast its cost in the next 3 months. Which AWS service can help?

Answer 2

Cost Explorer

Question 3

Which of the following options can provide up to 66% discount compared to On-demand for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage for 1 or 3 years and offers the possibility to change EC2 instances family type?

Answer 3

Compute Savings Plans

Question 4

– Which EC2 option provides up to a 72% discount compared to on demand for 1 or 3 years, but does not offer the possibility to change EC2 instances family type?

Answer 4

EC2 reserved instances

Question 5

You are running an on-demand Linux EC2 instance, what timing is applied regarding billing?

Answer 5

Pay per second

Question 6

You need to create temporary, limited privileges credentials for AWS, what service can you use to accomplish this?

Answer 6

AWS Security Token Service (STS)

Question 7

I want to use Active Directory with AWS, which tool allows me to do this?

Answer 7

AWS Directory Services

Question 8

Which service allows you have a single login for all your AWS accounts in AWS Organization, Business cloud apps, SAML2.0-enabled apps, and EC2 Windows Instances?

Answer 8

AWS IAM Identity Center

Question 9

What service would you use for virtual desktops, or managed desktops in AWS?

Answer 9

Amazon WorkSpaces

Question 10

How can you minimize latencies with Amazon WorkSpaces?

Answer 10

Have as many workspace regions as company location centers, each location center should have a WorkSpace set up nearby

Question 11

You are using GrpahQL, what AWS app can you use alongside it?

Answer 11

AWS AppSync

Question 12

This tool allows you to create CloudFormation templates visually to design and build apps on AWS

Answer 12

AWS Application Composer

Question 13

I want to test my app across thousands of REAL devices, what AWS service can I use to do this?

Answer 13

AWS Device Farm

Question 14

What service can be used to automatically backup your Amazon EC2 instances, or other AWS services?

Answer 14

AWS Backup

Question 15

What is the cheapest disaster recovery strategy?

Answer 15

Backup and restore

Question 16

What is cheaper, Warm Standby or Pilot Light?

Answer 16

Pilot Light

Question 17

When you hear “incremental backups” you should think what?

Answer 17

Amazon DataSync

Question 18

A central location to discover, assess, plan, and track your migration and modernization

Answer 18

AWS Migration Hub

Question 19

This managed service is based on Chaos Engineering, it runs fault injection experiments on AWS workloads

Answer 19

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)