test 11 Flashcards by Michael Cessaro

What is the most cost effective EC2 purchasing options for users with urgent computing needs for large amounts of additional capacity?

a.
Spot Instances
b.
Reserved Instances
c.
Dedicated Instances
d.
On-Demand Instances

a.
Spot Instances

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Your system is frequently facing an extra load. How could you automate the process of increasing capacity? Choose two.

a. Using Golden Images
b. Using bootstrapping
c. Using Automated Beanstalk
d. Using AWS EBS

a. Using Golden Images

b. Using bootstrapping

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Which of the following services can businesses use for video conferencing?

a.
Amazon Chime
b.
Amazon SES
c.
Amazon Glue
d.
Amazon Polly

a.
Amazon Chime

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Your organization uses Chef heavily to operate their configuration management systems. Which AWS Cloud service provides integration with Chef recipes to automate the configurations of their servers across the Amazon EC2 Instances?

a.
AWS Config
b.
AWS OpsWorks
c.
Auto-Scaling
d.
AWS CloudFormation

b.
AWS OpsWorks

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The TCO gap between AWS infrastructure and traditional infrastructure has widened over the last couple of years. Which of the following could be the reason for that?

a.
They allow deployment of multiple resources.
b.
They decommission older hardware.
c.
They use better security mechanisms so you don’t need to think about security at all.
d.
They continually reduce the cost of cloud computing.

d.
They continually reduce the cost of cloud computing.

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Which of the following is an advantage of using cloud computing? (Select all that apply)

a. Help companies get customers fast.
b. Trade capital expense for variable expense.
c. There is no need to monitor or audit.
d. Elimnate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs.

b. Trade capital expense for variable expense.

d. Elimnate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs.

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How would you pay for AWS Snowball?

a.
Per No. of Requests.
b.
Per Hour
c.
Per GB
d.
Per Job

d.
Per Job

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You are working to develop a document generator application that helps users create and modify PDFs. Which of the following will allow you to publish your application?

a.
Amazon Publisher
b.
AWS Serverless Application Repository
c.
Amazon AppStream
d.
AWS Marketplace

b.
AWS Serverless Application Repository

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If you are using an on-demand EC2 Instance, how are you being charged for it?

a.
You are charged per second, based on an hourly rate, and there are termination fees.
b.
You are charged per minute, based on an hourly rate, and there are no termination fees.
c.
You are charged per second, based on a daily rate, and there are no termination fees.
d.
You are charged per second, based on an hourly rate, and there are no termination fees.

d.
You are charged per second, based on an hourly rate, and there are no termination fees.

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You work for a large consulting firm that has just hired a junior consultant named Nina, who will be working on a large AWS project. She will be working remotely. You create a new IAM user for her named “Nina” in your company’s AWS account. On Nina’s first day, you ask her to make a change to a CloudWatch alarm in an Auto Scaling group. Nina reports back that she does not have access to CloudWatch or auto scaling in the AWS console. What might be the reason for this?

a.
When you created the new user you forgot to assign access keys.
b.
There is a non-explicit deny to all new users.
c.
Because she is working remotely, she cannot modify anything in the Auto-Scaling group via her terminal.
d.
Only IAM account sys-admins can make changes to the Auto-Scaling groups.

There is a non-explicit deny to all new users.

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Which of the following can be used to increase the security for your VPC? (Select all that apply)

a. Security Groups
b. Flow Logs
c. Amazon Lex
d. ACLs

a. Security Groups

b. Flow Logs

d. ACLs

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Which of the following can be used to protect data at rest on Amazon S3? (Select all that apply)

a. Versioning
b. Backup
c. Encryption
d. Replication
e. None of the above

a. Versioning
b. Backup
c. Encryption
d. Replication

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By default, who from the below roles has complete administrative control over all resources in the respective AWS account?

a.
AWS Account Owner
b.
AWS Trusted Advisors
c.
AWS Programmers
d.
AWS Security Team

a.
AWS Account Owner

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Which of the following services can be used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet?

a.
AWS Certificate Manager
b.
None of the Above.
c.
Amazon Cloud Directory
d.
AWS Communications Auditor

a.
AWS Certificate Manager

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What are the different types of identities on AWS? (Select all that apply)

a. IAM Policies
b. IAM Groups
c. IAM Users
d. IAM Roles

b. IAM Groups
c. IAM Users
d. IAM Roles

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How long does the AWS free usage tier for EC2 last for?

a.
1 Month upon signup.
b.
Forever
c.
12 Months upon signup.
d.
6 Months upon signup.

c.
12 Months upon signup.

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What languages does AWS Lambda support? (Select all that apply)

a. C++
b. C
c. Node.js
d. Python

b. C

c. Node.js

d. Python

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AWS has pre-built plugins for popular third-party services like GitHub. Which of the following is a benefit of having such plugins?

a.
With these plugins one can use AWS CodeDeploy to easily build out an end-to-end solution.
b.
With these plugins one can use AWS CodeCommit to easily build out an end-to-end solution.
c.
With these plugs one can use AWS CodePipeline to easily build out an end-to-end solution.
d.
None of the Above.

c.
With these plugs one can use AWS CodePipeline to easily build out an end-to-end solution.

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Which one of the below is not an AWS Storage Service?

a.
Amazon S3
b.
Amazon EBS
c.
Amazon Glacier
d.
Amazon CloudFront

d.
Amazon CloudFront

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You need to select an EC2 Instance type to serve your workloads. If you have flexibility about the availability of the Amazon EC2 Instance, which of the following EC2 Instances would be more appropriate?

a.
Spot Instances.
b.
Dedicated Instances
c.
On-Demand Instances
d.
Reserved Instances can be provisioned within minutes.

a.
Spot Instances.

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Your company expects a response time of less than 15 minutes for Business-critical system hosted on AWS. Which support plan is best suited for this requirement?

a.
Basic
b.
Business
c.
Developer
d.
Enterprise

d.
Enterprise

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You are building an online cloud storage platform. You are unsure about the storage capacity requirements. Which AWS service would you use?

a.
RDS
b.
EC2
c.
EBS
d.
S3

d.
S3

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What are the AWS services that belong to the application services? Choose 2 answers

a. Amazon SWF
b. Amazon API Gateway
c. AWS Greengrass
d. Amazon Polly

a. Amazon SWF

b. Amazon API Gateway

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You decided to buy one reserved instance for one year. Which of the following options provides the largest discount?

a.
All up-front cost.
b.
No up-front cost.
c.
Partial up-front cost.
d.
None of the Above.

a.
All up-front cost.

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A company is using EC2 Instances to run their e-commerce site on the AWS Platform. A busy e-commerce site could lose thousands of dollars for every minute it is unavailable. Which of the below principles would they adopt to ensure that even if some of the EC2 Instances stopped working , their site will continue to run as usual? a. Using a fault-tolerant system. b. Using an Adaptive system. c. Using an Elastic system. d. Using a scalable system.

a. Using a fault-tolerant system.

You need to secure your AWS service APIs against unauthorized access. What should you do? a. Use only on private e-mail for access the console. b. Download root access privileges to your device. c. Apply Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) d. Set up two login passwords.

c. Apply Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

There are a lot of advantages in changing your traditional hosting provider to AWS. One of these advantages is the ability to save costs. What does Amazon EC2 provide to save you costs? a. Ability to tag instances to reduce the overall cost. b. The ability to only pay for what you use. c. The ability to choose low cost AMI's to prepare the EC2 Instances. d. Having the ability of automated backups of the EC2 instance, so that you don't need to worry about the maintenance costs.

b. The ability to only pay for what you use.

Which of the following are factors you must consider when determining the region you will work on? (choose two) a. The number of VPCs you can have. b. Cost c. Proximity to your end users. d. The level of security of the region.

b. Cost c. Proximity to your end users.

Through which of the following interfaces is AWS Identity and Access Management available? (select all that apply) a. AWS SDKs b. AWS Management Console c. IAM Query API d. Command Line Interface (CLI) e. None of above

a. AWS SDKs b. AWS Management Console c. IAM Query API d. Command Line Interface (CLI)

AWS allows you to create a “Golden Environment,” in which you can capture your security policies (such as firewall rules, network access controls, internal/external subnets, and operating system hardening), reuse it among multiple projects, and become part of your continuous integration pipeline. Which of the following AWS services has the advantage of creating such environment? a. AWS Auto-Scaling b. AWS Config c. AWS CloudFormation d. AWS CloudTrail

c. AWS CloudFormation

For mobile applications, which of the following would allow client devices to get controlled access to AWS resources? a. Amazon Macie b. Amazon Inspector c. Amazon Cognito d. Amazon GuardDuty

c. Amazon Cognito

Due to the nature of the traditional infrastructure environments and its upfront cost model, they can only introduce fixed, long-running servers that cause a lot of problems like heterogeneous configurations emerging from continuing changes and software patches applied overtime. Which of the following approaches solved these problems in the AWS environment? a. Continues Resources instead of Fixed Servers b. Fixed Resources instead of Disposable Servers. c. Disposable Resources Instead of Fixed Servers. d. Provisional resources instead of Fixed Servers

c. Disposable Resources Instead of Fixed Servers.

Which of the following features of AWS RDS allows offloading reads of the database? a. Using Snapshots b. Using Multi-Az feature. c. Cross Region Replication d. Creating Read Replica's

d. Creating Read Replica's

Which of the following AWS services can be used for backup and archiving? (Choose two) a. AWS Data Pipeline b. Amazon Workspaces c. Amazon Glacier d. AWS Storage Gateway

c. Amazon Glacier d. AWS Storage Gateway

What does a "Domain" refer to in Amazon SWF? a. The DNS record for the Amazon SWF service. b. A special type of worker. c. A collection of related Workflows. d. A security group in which only tasks inside can communicate with each other.

c. A collection of related Workflows.

Which of the following AWS services uses tiered pricing? a. VPC b. Lightsail c. AWS Cost Explorer d. S3

d. S3

You want to store some objects in AWS and make them downloadable via a URL. Which of the following services would be most suitable? a. Amazon S3 b. Amazon Glacier c. Amazon EBS d. Amazon Storage Gateway

a. Amazon S3

What is the key difference between an availability zone and an edge location? a. Edge locations are used as control stations for AWS resources. b. None of the Above. c. An Availability zone is an Amazon resource within an AWS region, whereas an edge location will deliver cached content to the closest location to reduce latency. d. An edge location is a specific resource within the AWS region; An availability zone is a grouping of AWS resources in a specific region.

c. An Availability zone is an Amazon resource within an AWS region, whereas an edge location will deliver cached content to the closest location to reduce latency.

A company has a web application that is running on a number of Amazon EC2 instances. The app is approaching 100% CPU Utilization on one of them. How could they reduce the load on that instance? a. Terminate the instance and recreat a new one. b. Use the CloudFront distribution method. c. Create a load balancer and register the Amazon EC2 instances with it. d. Recreate the app to handle such huge traffic.

c. Create a load balancer and register the Amazon EC2 instances with it.

Which of the following services can be used to monitor the HTTP and HTTPS requests that are forwarded to Amazon CloudFront? a. AWS EC2 b. AWS Firewall c. AWS Protection d. AWS WAF

d. AWS WAF

What does the “Server Side Encryption” option in Amazon S3 provide? a. It provides an encrypted virtual disk in the cloud. b. It encrypts the files that you send to Amazon S3, on the server side. c. It doesn't exist for Amazon S3, but only for Amazon EC2 d. It allows to upload files using an SSL endpoint, for a secure transfer.

b. It encrypts the files that you send to Amazon S3, on the server side.

Which of the following AWS support plans would give you an access to a “Well-Architected Review” delivered by AWS Solution Architects? a. Developer b. Enterprise c. Business d. Basic

. Enterprise

what are the benefits of the Amazon Cloud Directory? (Choose two) a. Cloud Directory has a fixed schema so your applications remain secure. b. Scale automatically to hundreds of millions of objects. c. You can search for all the parent objects along a dimension after creating a small number of queries. d. Efficiently organize hierarchies of data across multiple dimensions.

b. Scale automatically to hundreds of millions of objects. D. Efficiently organize hierarchies of data across multiple dimensions.

If there is a need to build a tool for searching and comparing faces in your application, which of the following AWS services could help? a. None of the Above. b. Amazon Kinesis c. Amazon Polly d. Amazon Rekognitio

d. Amazon Rekognitio

You are designing a web application that will be hosted in the AWS Cloud. Which of the following should you care about to reduce interdependencies so that failures do not impact other components? a. Segregation b. Integration c. Decoupling d. Aggregation

c. Decoupling

What are the characteristics of the AWS business support plan? (Select all that apply) a. 24x7 access to customer service. b. 24x7 access to Cloud Support Engineers via e-mail, chat & phone. c. Access to a Well-Architected Review delivered by AWS Solution Architects d. Business hours access to Cloud Support Associates via e-mail.

a. 24x7 access to customer service. b. 24x7 access to Cloud Support Engineers via e-mail, chat & phone.

Which of the following tools can be used to estimate your monthly bill? a. AWS Monthly Cost Explorer b. AWS Advanced Monthly Cost Explorer c. Advanced Monthly Calculator d. Simple Monthly Calculator

d. Simple Monthly Calculator

Which of the following is a factor you should consider when estimating the cost of Amazon EC2? (Select all that apply) a. Number of Instances b. Instance Type c. Clock hours of server time. d. Number of security groups.

a. Number of Instances b. Instance Type c. Clock hours of server time.

Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS? a. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) b. AWS Direct Connect c. AWS Config d. Amazon Route 53

a. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

An external auditor requests a log of all access to the AWS resources in the company’s account. Which of the following services can be used to give such information? a. AWS EC2 b. AWS CloudWatch c. AWS Cloudtrail d. AWS SNS

c. AWS Cloudtrail

What should you do if you see resources, which you don’t remember creating, in the AWS Management Console? (Select all that apply) a. Respond to any notifications you received from AWS Support through the AWS Support Center b. Delete any resources on your account you didn't create, such as EC2 instances and AMIs, EBS volumes and snapshots, and IAM users. c. Give your root account password to a specialized person to secure your account. d. Change your AWS root account password and the passwords of an IAM users.

a. Respond to any notifications you received from AWS Support through the AWS Support Center b. Delete any resources on your account you didn't create, such as EC2 instances and AMIs, EBS volumes and snapshots, and IAM users. d. Change your AWS root account password and the passwords of an IAM users.

What are the benefits of using AWS X-Ray? (Choose two) a. Reviewing request behavior. b. Discovering application issues. c. Provides automatic monitoring and recovery for your search domains. d. Offers powerful auto-scaling for all search domains.

a. Reviewing request behavior. b. Discovering application issues.

You work for a hospital that needs to store patients’ medical records for a minimum of 10 years. Most of these records will never be accessed but must be made available upon request (within a few hours). What is the most effective cost storage option? a. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) b. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) c. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) d. Amazon Glacier

d. Amazon Glacier

What is the purpose of AWS's Route 53 service? (Select all that apply) a. Domain Name System (DNS) service b. Provides infrastructure security optimization recommendations. c. Responsible for all security issues. d. Domain Registration

a. Domain Name System (DNS) service d. Domain Registration

Which of the following storage options would you choose if low storage cost were paramount and there is no need for millisecond access to your data? a. Amazon Glacier b. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) c. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) d. Amazon S3

a. Amazon Glacier

What are the benefits of using Amazon VPC ? (Select all that apply) a. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment. b. Uses IPv6 only for secure and easy access to resources and applications. c. You can select your own IP address range. d. You can configure route tbales and network gateways. e. None of the above

a. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment. c. You can select your own IP address range. d. You can configure route tbales and network gateways.

Which of the following AWS services allows you to convert text to MP3 audio? a. Amazon Polly b. None of the Above. c. Amazon Recognition d. Amazon Kinesis

a. Amazon Polly

Which of the following is true regarding the Amazon EC2 security group? a. You can modify the rules for a security group only if the security group controls the traffic for just one instance. b. You can modify the outbound rules for EC2-Classic. c. You can modify the rules for a security group only when a new instance is created. d. You can modify the rules for a security group at any time.

d. You can modify the rules for a security group at any time.

While creating the snapshots using the API, what action should you implement? a. DeploySnapshot b. MakeSnapshot c. FreshSnapshot d. CreateSnapshot

d. CreateSnapshot

You have bought 4 Amazon EC2 reserved instances for a 1 year term. After 7 months, and depending on your usage, you decide to sell 2 of your instances on the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace. Which of the following is true regarding the previous scenario? a. The buyer can modify the instance type, availability zone, platform and the other configurations at any time. b. You can set only the upfront price for your reserved instances. c. You cannot sell your reserved instances as there is only 5 months remaining in the term of the Reserved Instance you are listing. d. Each Reserved Instance sold on the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace will be charged a service fee of 12% monthly.

b. You can set only the upfront price for your reserved instances.

What services does AWS offer for free? (Select all that apply) a. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk b. Amazon RDS c. AWS Lambda d. AWS IAM

a. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk d. AWS IAM

A user is planning to use the AWS Cloud formation for automatic deployment requirements. Which of the below mentioned components are required as a part of the template? a. Parameters b. Outputs c. Resources d. Template Version

c. Resources

What can you use in order to have a common data source for multiple EC2 instances? a. Amazon Elastic File System b. Simple Storage Service c. AWS Storage Gateway d. Amazon Elastic File Manager

a. Amazon Elastic File System

Which of the following DynamoDB features provides fast, local, read and write performance for global applications? a. Global Tables b. Global PITR c. DynamoDB DAX d. Point-in-time Recover

a. Global Tables

You have multiple accounts in AWS. What option can be used to ensure costs can be reduced? a. Costs are automatically reduced for multiple accounts by AWS. b. Combined Billing c. Consolidated Billing d. It is not possible to reduce costs with multiple accounts.

c. Consolidated Billing