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Amazon CloudWatch Logs

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Monitor application logs from Amazon EC2 Instances., Adjust the retention policy for each log group. monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, AWS CloudTrail, Route 53, and other sources.

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AWS Organizations

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Consolidated billing, One bill, Easy tracking, Combined usage, No extra fee, has an master account that pays the charges of all the member accounts. The master account is also called a payer account, and the member account is also known as a linked account.

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benefits of using Edge locations in AWS?

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just a site that CloudFront uses to cache copies of your content for faster delivery to users at any location. Provides caching which reduces the load on your origin servers

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responsibility of the customer in accordance with the AWS shared responsibility model?

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Inherited Controls: Controls which a customer fully inherits from AWS.Physical and Environmental controls.

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Shared Controls

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Patch Management: AWS is responsible for patching and fixing flaws within the infrastructure, but customers are responsible for patching their guest OS and applications.

– Configuration Management: AWS maintains the configuration of its infrastructure devices, but a customer is responsible for configuring their own guest operating systems, databases, and applications.

– Awareness & Training: AWS trains AWS employees, but a customer must train their own employees.

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Customer Specific:

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Service and Communications Protection or Zone Security which may require a customer to route or zone data within specific security environments.

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AWS services should you use to store rapidly changing data with low read and write latencies? (Select TWO.)

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Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS

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Elastic Load Balancing offers four types of load balancers

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Application Load Balancer – This is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS WebSockets traffic and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern application architectures, including microservices and containers
Network Load Balancer – This is best suited for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required.
Classic Load Balancer – This provides basic load balancing across multiple Amazon EC2 instances and operates at both the request level and connection level
Gateway Load Balancer – This provides both Layer 3 gateway and Layer 4 load balancing capabilities.

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Amazon Aurora

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Which AWS service should you use if you need to launch a highly scalable MySQL OLTP database? MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

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different parts of the globe are complaining about the slow performance of the newly launched photo-sharing website in loading their high-resolution images.

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You can configure your application to deliver static content and decrease the end-user latency using Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront.

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Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host

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s a physical server with EC2 instance capacity fully dedicated to your use. Dedicated Hosts can help you address compliance requirements and reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses.

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Which of the following is a key use case of AWS Control Tower?

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An easy way to establish a landing zone that implements an AWS well-architected, multi-account environment and applies the AWS best practices.

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AWS Batch

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s a regional service that simplifies running batch jobs across multiple Availability Zones within a region.

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Amazon EFS

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is a regional service storing data within and across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability and durability.

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global services

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AM, STS, Route 53, CloudFront and WAF

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Zonal services

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EC2 Instance and EBS Volumes where they are tied to the Availability Zone where they were launched. Take note that although EBS Volumes are considered as a zonal service

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EBS snapshots are considered

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as a regional since it is not tied to a specific Availability Zone. The rest of the services are regional in scope.

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company has web servers running on Amazon EC2 instances that access a RESTful API hosted on their on-premises data center. What kind of architecture is the company using?

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Hybrid architecture

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typically used to secure your VPC subnets?

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Network ACL

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allow you to sell your catalog of custom AMIs in AWS?

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AWS Marketplace

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cost-effective payment option when you purchase either a Standard or Convertible Reserved Instance for a 1-year term?

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All upfront

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EC2, which pricing construct adjusts its price based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?

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Spot Instance

23
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Which of the following policies grant the necessary permissions required to access your Amazon S3 resources?

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User policies, Bucket policies

24
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following is one of the benefits of migrating your systems from an on-premises data center to AWS Cloud?

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Enables the customer to focus on business activities rather than on the heavy lifting of racking, stacking, and powering servers

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data transport solution that accelerates moving terabytes to petabytes of data into and out of AWS using appliances with on-board storage and compute capabilities?

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AWS Snowball Edge

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customer has a number of on-demand instances running simultaneously to serve customer transactions. Occasionally, most of these instances do not perform any tasks when demand is low. What is a good cost optimization strategy to implement for this case?

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Implement an auto scaling group to control the number of running instances at a time

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Which of the following actions will AWS charge you for?

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Transfer of EC2 files between two AWS Regions

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Which of the following is not required when launching an EBS-backed EC2 instance?

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Elastic IP address

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Which is a fully-managed source control service that allows you to host Git-based repositories and enable code collaboration for your team via pull requests, branching, and merging?

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AWS CodeCommit

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Which service will allow you to group together users who perform a similar function and apply function-specific privileges?

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AWS IAM

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pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

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Operational Excellence

  1. Security
  2. Reliability
  3. Performance Efficiency
  4. Cost Optimization
  5. Sustainability
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What is the best type of instance purchasing option to choose if you will run an EC2 instance for 3 months to perform a job that is uninterruptible?

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On-Demand

33
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A company wants to launch a Microsoft SQL Server database in AWS. The database instance should only be managed by the company’s DBA and must be accessible via RDP. A standard license for SQL Server is required but the company is not yet sure how much CPU and memory to allocate to the database.

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Use a Windows Server with SQL Server Standard bundled AMI so you won’t need to buy and manage your own license.

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You are permitted to conduct security assessments and penetration testing without prior approval against which AWS resources?

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Amazon EC2 instances, NAT Gateways, and Elastic Load Balancers

– Amazon RDS

– Amazon CloudFront

– Amazon Aurora

– Amazon API Gateways

– AWS Lambda and Lambda Edge functions

– Amazon Lightsail resources

– Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environments

35
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if you need to provide temporary AWS credentials for users who have been authenticated via their social media logins as well as for guest users who do not require any authentication?

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Amazon Cognito Identity Pool

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Which of the following are defined as global services in AWS?

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Amazon AWS Identity and Access considered global services such as IAM, STS, Route 53, CloudFront, and WAF.

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A space agency is using Amazon S3 to store their high-resolution satellite images and videos everyday. Which of the following should they do to minimize the upload time?

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Use the Multipart upload API

38
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Which of the following is the most cost-effective instance purchasing option for hosting an application which will run non-interruptible workloads for a period of three years?

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Amazon EC2 Standard Reserved Instances

39
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A new AWS customer needs to deploy up to 100 t3a.large EC2 instances on their recently launched VPC, which is way beyond the default service limit. What should they do so they can launch their additional instances?

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Create a case in the AWS Support Center page and request a service limit increase.

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Business support plan in AWS?

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Provides a 1-hour response time support if your production system goes down

41
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incident with your team where an S3 object was deleted using an account without the owner’s knowledge. What can be done to prevent unauthorized deletion of your S3 objects?

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Configure MFA delete on the S3 bucket.

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Which of the following AWS Cost Management tools enable you to forecast future costs and usage of your AWS resources based on your past consumption?

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Cost Explorer

43
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Which of the following are the characteristics of Amazon EC2 Convertible Reserved Instances?

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Allows the change of instance family, operating system, tenancy, and payment Has the capability to change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of Reserved Instances of equal or greater value

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Which of the following cloud best practices reinforces the use of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design principle?

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Decouple your components.

45
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When a company uses AWS and decouple from their on-premises data center, they will be able to have which of the following benefits?

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Decrease your TCO Reduce time to market.

46
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A company needs to troubleshoot an issue on their serverless application which is composed of an API Gateway, Lambda function, and a DynamoDB database. Which service should they use to trace user requests as they travel through their entire application?

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AWS X-Ray

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Which of the following is the benefit of using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) over traditional database management?

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Lower administrative burden through automatic software patching and maintenance of the underlying operating system

48
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Amazon VPC

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lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.

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