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  1. A traditional three-tier architecture comprises which of the following tiers? (Choose three.)
    A. Security tier
    B. Application tier
    C. Web tier
    D. Database tier
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  1. B, C, D. A traditional three-tier architecture consists of the Web tier, Application tier, and Database tier. In AWS, the Web tier will be in the public subnet, and the Application and Database tiers will be in a private subnet.
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  1. An AWS region comprises two or more physical locations that provide high availability and fault tolerance for your applications. Those physical locations are called what?
    A. Cloud datacenters
    B. Edge locations
    C. Availability zones
    D. DMZ zones
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  1. C. There will be at least two availability zones in each AWS region to provide high availability and fault tolerance to your applications.
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  1. You want to deploy your applications and databases in a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud. Which AWS service provides you an isolated networking layer?
    A. Regions
    B. Amazon Route 53
    C. Amazon VPC
    D. Availability zones
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  1. C. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud and acts as a networking layer for your EC2 instances and database services.
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  1. You want to host a static website, and you don’t want to manage any servers. Which of the following services will help you achieve this?
    A. AWS Lambda
    B. Amazon EC2
    C. Amazon OpsWorks
    D. Amazon S3
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  1. D. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) will help you host a static website without your having to provision and maintain any servers.
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  1. You want to monitor your EC2 instances for CPU utilization and memory and visualize the health of the server using a dashboard. Which of the following AWS services could be used for this case?
    A. Amazon OpsWorks
    B. Amazon CloudWatch
    C. AWS CloudTrial
    D. Amazon VPC Flowlogs
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  1. B. Amazon CloudWatch provides those metrics in one-minute and five-minute intervals. You can use a Personal Health Dashboard to monitor the EC2 instance’s performance.
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  1. You want to scale your current EC2 servers and you do not want to manage the scaling manually. Which AWS service will detect when an instance is unhealthy, terminate it, and replace it with a new one?
    A. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
    B. Amazon Route 53
    C. Amazon CloudWatch
    D. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
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  1. A. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling will automatically detect when an instance is unhealthy, terminate it, and replace it with a new one.
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  1. You have been storing your data in Amazon S3, and you are required to query the data without moving it to a database using ANSI SQL. Which AWS service enables you to quickly query the data stored in S3?
    A. Amazon EMR
    B. Amazon Simple Queue Service
    C. Amazon Athena
    D. Amazon Neptune
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  1. C. With Amazon Athena, you can query data stored in Amazon S3 by defining the schema. You start querying using standard ANSI SQL.
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  1. Your company needs a service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. To save costs, the company doesn’t want to pay for infrastructure in an idle state. Which of the following services could you use for this scenario?
    A. AWS Lambda
    B. Amazon EC2
    C. AWS Fargate
    D. Amazon Lightsail
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  1. A. Using AWS Lambda, you can run your code without provisioning or managing servers. Your company would pay only for the compute time that you consume, and there is no charge when your code is not running.
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  1. You want to migrate your relational database to AWS, but you don’t want to perform the time-consuming administration tasks such as database installation, patching, and backups. Which of the following will meet your needs?
    A. AWS Fargate
    B. Amazon RDS
    C. Amazon S3
    D. Amazon Athena
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  1. B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) automates time-consuming database administration tasks, such as database installation, patching, and daily backups.
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  1. Your gaming application is a data-intensive application and requires high throughput and low latency for gamers who access your application. Which AWS service provides support for an in-memory database?
    A. Amazon EC2
    B. Amazon RDS
    C. Amazon S3
    D. Amazon ElastiCache
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  1. D. Amazon ElastiCache offers fully managed, in-memory data stores that can be used to build data-intensive gaming applications to provide high throughput and low latency for your users.
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  1. In your global enterprise, applications are running in different countries, and you want to route traffic to your applications based on a few criteria, such as the endpoint health of the server instance, the geographic location of the user, and latency. Which AWS service is most appropriate for this scenario?
    A. Amazon Route 53
    B. Application Load Balancer
    C. Network Load Balancer
    D. Classic Load Balancer
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  1. A. The Amazon Route 53 service routes your traffic based on the endpoint health of your instance, the geographic location of the user, and latency.
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  1. Your compliance team wants to audit your AWS environment to gain the event history of all your AWS account activity, including any actions taken using the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, or command-line tools. Which AWS service tracks user activity and API usage?
    A. Amazon CloudWatch
    B. AWS CloudTrail
    C. Amazon VPC Flow Logs
    D. Amazon Cognito
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  1. B. AWS CloudTrail helps you monitor continuously and provides event history of all AWS account activity.
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  1. You have strict requirement to protect stored data against site-level failures, errors, and threats. Which AWS service provides unmatched durability by automatically storing data across multiple availability zones within an AWS region?
    A. Amazon Neptune
    B. Amazon RDS
    C. Amazon S3
    D. Amazon Timestream
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  1. C. Amazon S3 provides 99.99999999999 percent durability by storing data across multiple systems within an AWS region.
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  1. You want to use a content delivery network (CDN) service to deliver data and videos securely to your global customers, with low latency and high transfer speeds. Which of the following AWS service will provide the CDN capability?
    A. Amazon DynamoDB
    B. Amazon S3
    C. Amazon Route 53
    D. Amazon CloudFront
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  1. D. Amazon CloudFront is a CDN service that securely delivers videos, data, and applications to your customers.
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  1. You have large amount of data in tape storage in an on-premises datacenter, and you want to migrate it to AWS to save costs and to meet long-term backup compliance requirements. Which AWS service provides data archival at a low cost?
    A. Amazon S3 Glacier
    B. Amazon S3
    C. Amazon CloudFront
    D. Amazon RDS
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  1. A. Amazon S3 Glacier provides extremely low-cost cloud storage for long-term backup.
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  1. You want to create and manage AWS users and groups to allow and deny access to AWS resources, but you do not want to pay for this service. Which of the following services provides this capability?
    A. AWS IoT Core
    B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
    C. AWS CloudFormation
    D. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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  1. D. The AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service can be used to create and manage AWS users and groups to allow and deny access to AWS resources at no charge.
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  1. You have 75 terabytes of life sciences data in your datacenter and want to move to the AWS cloud quickly and efficiently. Which of the following services could quickly move the data to S3?
    A. AWS Snowball
    B. Amazon Redshift
    C. Amazon DynamoDB
    D. Amazon S3
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  1. A. The AWS Snowball service could be used to transfer the data to the device, which is then shipped back to AWS, where the data is copied into your S3 bucket.
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  1. Your company wants to use a dedicated network connection from on-premises to AWS to reduce network costs and increase bandwidth throughput without using the Internet. Which of the following services provides these capabilities?
    A. Amazon VPC
    B. AWS CloudFront
    C. AWS VPN
    D. AWS Direct Connect
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  1. D. AWS Direct Connect provides private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter using a dedicated network connection to reduce network costs and increase bandwidth throughput without using the Internet.
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  1. Your new application needs a hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to store data on AWS cloud storage. Which of the following provides the hybrid storage service?
    A. AWS Storage Gateway
    B. Amazon S3
    C. Amazon S3 Glacier
    D. Amazon EBS
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  1. A. The AWS Storage Gateway service provides hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to store data on the AWS cloud.
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  1. You are developing an application that will be used by millions of users, and you want your users to sign-up and sign-in easily using social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Which of the following services helps you to achieve this solution?
    A. Amazon Macie
    B. Amazon Inspector
    C. Amazon Cognito
    D. Amazon GuardDuty
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  1. C. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers via SAML 2.0.
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  1. You want use a managed distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection service to safeguard your applications that are running on AWS. Which AWS service provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations for DDoS protection?
    A. Amazon Macie
    B. AWS Shield
    C. Amazon GuardDuty
    D. AWS WAF
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  1. B. AWS Shield provides a managed DDoS protection service that minimizes application downtime and latency.
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  1. You want to use a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Which of the following services could be used to protect your web application?
    A. AWS WAF
    B. AWS Shield
    C. Amazon Inspector
    D. Amazon Macie
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  1. A. The AWS WAF service acts as web application firewall and protects your web applications from common attack patterns such as SQL injection.
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  1. You want to automate the build, test, and deploy phases of your release cycle every time there is a code change. Which of the following developer tools services could you use?
    A. AWS CodeBuild
    B. AWS CodeCommit
    C. AWS CodeDeploy
    D. AWS CodePipeline
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  1. D. AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate the build, test, and deploy phases of your release cycle every time there is a code change.
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  1. Your team wants to automate software deployments to eliminate the need for error-prone manual operations. Which of the following developer tools services automates software deployments?
    A. AWS CodeBuild
    B. AWS CodeCommit
    C. AWS CodeDeploy
    D. AWS CodePipeline
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  1. C. AWS CodeDeploy is a managed deployment service that automates software deployments and makes it easier to rapidly release new features, while avoiding error-prone manual operations.
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  1. You want use an automated process to compile your source code, run tests, and produce software packages that are ready to deploy. Which of the following developer tools automates the compilation and tests your software packages?
    A. AWS CodePipeline
    B. AWS CodeDeploy
    C. AWS CodeCommit
    D. AWS CodeBuild
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  1. D. AWS CodeBuild is a managed continuous integration service that compiles your source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready for deployment.

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