Test 12 Flashcards by Michael Cessaro

Which of the following AWS services would help to prevent data from being exchanged between devices when they communicate among each other and the cloud?

a.
Amazon Cognito
b.
Amazon Inspector
c.
AWS Greengrass
d.
AWS Glue

c.
AWS Greengrass

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Which of the following can be used to reduce Amazon DynamoDB costs?

a.
Reserved Capacity
b.
Reserved Storage
c.
Reserved Instances
d.
Reserved Nodes

a.
Reserved Capacity

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What AWS storage class should be used for long-term, archival storage?

a.
Infrequent Access
b.
Long-Term
c.
Glacier
d.
Standard

c.
Glacier

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Your company experiences fluctuations in traffic patterns to their e-commerce website based on flash sales. What service can help your company dynamically match the required compute capacity to the spike in traffic during flash sales?

a.
Amazon Glacier
b.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
c.
Amazon SImple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
d.
Auto-Scaling

d.
Auto-Scaling

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You are running a financial services web app on AWS. which of the following AWS services would improve the performance of your app by allowing you to retrieve information from fast in-memory caches?

a.
AWS ElastiCache
b.
AWS S3
c.
AWS EFS
d.
AWS DynamoDB

a.
AWS ElastiCache

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Which of the following AWS services could help you in security analysis and compliance auditing? (Select all that apply)

a. AWS ECS
b. AWS Inspector
c. AWS Config
d. AWS Service Catalog
e. AWS CloudTrail

b. AWS Inspector
c. AWS Config
e. AWS CloudTrail

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How are the Amazon EBS snapshots backed up on Amazon S3 in order to reduce storage costs?

a.
EBS Snapshots are not stored in the Amazon S3
b.
Using Incremental backups.
c.
Using Exponential backups.
d.
Using Decremental backups.

b.
Using Incremental backups.

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AWS provides the ability to create backups of any Amazon EC2 volume into what is known as

a.
Images
b.
Instance Backups
c.
Snapshots
d.
Mirrors

c.
Snapshots

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Your CTO has asked you to contact the AWS support using the chat feature to ask for guidance related to EBS. However, when you open the AWS support center you can’t see a way to contact support via Chat feature. What is missing?

a.
Upgrade to minimum Business support plan.
b.
Chat feature is available only in Enterprise plan.
c.
There is no chat feature in AWS support.
d.
Upgrade from Basic plan to developer plan.

a.
Upgrade to minimum Business support plan.

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Which of the following AWS services provides very high query performance on datasets ranging from 100 GB to 1 PB or more?

a.
AWS DynamoDB
b.
AWS RDS
c.
AWS Redshift
d.
AWS ElastiCache

c.
AWS Redshift

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You need to migrate a large number of on-premises workloads to AWS. Which of the following is the fastest way to achieve your goal?

a.
None of the Above.
b.
Using the AWS Database Migration Service.
c.
Using the AWS Server Migration Service.
d.
Using the AWS Application Discovery Service.

c.
Using the AWS Server Migration Service.

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You have a real-time IoT application that requires sub-millisecond latency. Which of the following services would you use?

a.
Amazon Polly
b.
Amazon IoT caching
c.
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
d.
Amazon IoT Accelerator

c.
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

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Which AWS Cloud service is used to enable the Virtual Multi-Factor Authentication?

a.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
b.
AWS Config
c.
Amazon Inspector
d.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

a.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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On the monthly statement, there is a section where you can see the charges of an outbound data transfer. What is the name of that section?

a.
AWS Data Transfer Out
b.
AWS Out Transfer
c.
AWS Outbound
d.
AWS Outbound Data Transfer

a.
AWS Data Transfer Out

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Which of the following is true regarding elastic IP addresses?

a.
You can have an EIP free of charge.
b.
You can have three EIPs free of charge for each EC2 instance you provision.
c.
You can have any number of EIPs free of charge.
d.
EIPs are not free.

a.
You can have an EIP free of charge.

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Which of the following is not a supported database in the AWS RDS service?

a.
Aurora
b.
DB2
c.
MySQL
d.
MariaDB

b.
DB2

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When dealing with Container Services AWS is responsible for (Select all that apply)

a. Managing the underlying infrastructure and foundation services.
b. Managing firewall rules.
c. Managing the Operating System
d. Managing the application platform.

a. Managing the underlying infrastructure and foundation services.
c. Managing the Operating System
d. Managing the application platform.

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Your company has just started using the resources on the AWS Cloud. They want to get an idea about the costs being incurred so far for the resources being used. How can this be achieved?

a.
By using the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard. This dashboard will give you all the costs.
b.
By seeing the AWS CloudTrail logs.
c.
By going to the Amazon EC2 dashboard. Here you can see the costs of the running EC2 resources.
d.
By using the AWS Cost and usage reports Explorer. Here you can see the running and forecast costs.

d.
By using the AWS Cost and usage reports Explorer. Here you can see the running and forecast costs.

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Which of the following affects the Amazon CloudFront costs? (Select all that apply)

a. Traffic Distribution
b. Data Transfer Out
c. Requests
d. Volumes

a. Traffic Distribution
b. Data Transfer Out
c. Requests

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Which of the following are factors to consider for the Amazon EBS pricing? (Select all that apply)

a. The amount of data transferred out of your application.
b. The compute time you consume.
c. The amount of GB you provision per month for the volume storage.
d. The compute capacity you consume

a. The amount of data transferred out of your application.
c. The amount of GB you provision per month for the volume storage.

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You host a web application across multiple AWS regions in the world, and you need to configure your DNS so that your end users will get the fastest network performance possible. Which routing policy should you apply?

a.
Geolocation Routing Policy
b.
Latency Routing Policy
c.
Failover Routing Policy
d.
Simple Routing Policy

b.
Latency Routing Policy

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You can access the Amazon SNS service by (Select all that apply)

a. AWS Management Console
b. AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
c. AWS SQS
d. Amazon SNS Query API

a. AWS Management Console
b. AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
d. Amazon SNS Query API

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What is the main difference between NACLS and security groups? (Choose two)

a. NACLs are stateful however security groups are stateless.
b. NACLs controls a subnet however security groups controls an instance.
c. NACLs are stateless however security groups are stateful.
d. NACLs controls an instance however security groups controls a subnet.

b. NACLs controls a subnet however security groups controls an instance.
c. NACLs are stateless however security groups are stateful.

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What does the AWS Storage Gateway provide?

a.
It allows to integrate on premises IT environments with Cloud Storage.
b.
It’s a backup solution that provides an on-premises Cloud Storage.
c.
A direct encrypted connection to Amazon S3
d.
It provides an encrypted SSL endpoint for backups in the Cloud.

a.
It allows to integrate on premises IT environments with Cloud Storage.

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Which of the following are features of an edge location? Choose 3 answers a. Used in conjunction with the CloudFront service. b. Distribute content to users. c. Distribute load across multiple resources. d. Cache common responses.

a. Used in conjunction with the CloudFront service. b. Distribute content to users. d. Cache common responses.

You want to transfer 1.3 petabytes of data from on-premises locations to the AWS Cloud, which of the following can be used? a. AWS Transfer b. AWS Snowball c. AWS Import/Export d. AWS EC2

b. AWS Snowball

When giving permission to users via the AWS Identity and Access Management tool , which of the following principles should be applied when granting permissions? a. Principle of Lower Privilege b. Principle of Least Privilege c. Principle of Most Privilege d. Principle of Greatest Privilege

b. Principle of Least Privilege

Which of the following services is a serverless compute service in AWS? a. AWS Lambda b. AWS EC2 c. AWS OpsWork d. AWS Config

a. AWS Lambda

Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying computing workloads? a. Customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances. b. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) costs are billed on a monthly basis. c. Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed. d. Customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads.

c. Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.

You are planning to run Amazon Redshift for at least 13 months. Which of the following approaches would be cost effective? a. Purchasing reserved-instances offerings. b. Purchasing reserved-Capacity offerings. c. Purchasing reserved-node offerings. d. Purchasing On-Demand offerings.

c. Purchasing reserved-node offerings.

What does Amazon DynamoDB provide? a. A fast and reliable PL/SQL database cluster. b. A predictable and scalable MySQL database. c. A fast, high scalable managed NoSQL database service. d. A standalone Cassandra database, managed by AWS.

c. A fast, high scalable managed NoSQL database service.

What does the term “Economies of scale” mean? a. It means that you have the ability to pay-as-you-go. b. It means that AWS will continuously lower costs as it grows. c. None of the Above. d. It means that you save more when you consume more.

b. It means that AWS will continuously lower costs as it grows.

What is the document that provides a formal statement of one or more permissions? a. Role b. Policy c. Permission d. Resource

b. Policy

Which of the following will affect how much you are charged for storing objects in S3? Choose two a. The total size in gigabytes of all objects stored. b. The storage class used for objects stored. c. Creating and deleting S3 buckets. d. Using default encryption for any number of S3 buckets.

a. The total size in gigabytes of all objects stored. b. The storage class used for objects stored.

What best describes penetration testing? a. Testing your own network/application for vulnerabilities. b. Testing your IAM users access to AWS services c. None of the Above. d. Testing your applications ability to penetrate other applications.

a. Testing your own network/application for vulnerabilities.

Which of the following is a cloud computing deployment model that connect infrastructure and applications between cloud-based resources and existing resources that are not located in the cloud ? a. Hybrid b. On-Premises c. None of the Above. d. Cloud

a. Hybrid

You need to run a number of Amazon EC2 Instances that are physically isolated at the host hardware level from instances that belong to other AWS accounts. How can you meet this requirement in a cost effective way? a. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts b. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances. c. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances d. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

b. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances.

If your organization is concerned about storing sensitive data in the cloud, you should __________. (Select all that apply) a. Enable S3 Encryption b. Delete the encryption keys once your data is encrypted. c. Encrypt this data prior to uploading it. d. With AWS you do not need to worry about encryption.

a. Enable S3 Encryption c. Encrypt this data prior to uploading it.

Which of the following allows you to manage your encryption keys on the AWS Cloud?(Choose two) a. AWS KMS b. AWS QMS c. Cloud ESM d. Cloud HSM

a. AWS KMS d. Cloud HSM

Which of the following services can be used in Real-Time Auditing for compliance or vulnerabilities? (select all that apply) a. Amazon MQ b. AWS Config c. AWS Trusted Advisor d. Amazon Inspector

b. AWS Config c. AWS Trusted Advisor d. Amazon Inspector

Engineers are facing a lot of problems when aiming to install and manage batch computing software on traditional data centers. Which of the following AWS services would allow them to easily run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs? a. AWS Computing b. AWS Inspector c. AWS Batch d. AWS Optimizer

c. AWS Batch

Your web application has periodic workloads that run only a few days per week. Which of the following reserved Instance utilization models would be the best? a. Light b. Heavy c. Periodic d. Medium

a. Light

What are the key design principles of the AWS Cloud? (select all that apply) a. Loose Coupling. b. Disposable Resources c. Managed Services instead of Servers. d. Reserved capacity instead of on-demand.

a. Loose Coupling. b. Disposable Resources c. Managed Services instead of Servers.

You are using Amazon RDS, which of the following features would help making automatic failover when the primary database fails to respond? a. RDS Single-AZ b. RDS Multi-AZ c. RDS Write Replica d. RDS Standby Replica

b. RDS Multi-AZ

Your company uses on-demand EC2 Instances dedicated to a project that has just been cancelled. The company does not want to incur charges for these on-demand Instances. However, it also does not want to lose the data yet because there is a chance the project may be revived in the next few days. What should you do to minimize charges for these Instances in the meantime? a. Stop the instances as soon as possible. b. Sell the instances on the AWS On-Demand Instance Marketplace as you can buy other on-demand EC2 Instances later if needed. c. Terminate the instances as soon as possible. d. You cannot minimize charges for this type of instances.

a. Stop the instances as soon as possible.

Which of the following is NOT a factor when estimating the cost of Amazon CloudFront? a. Inbound Traffic. b. Data Transfer Out c. The edge location through which your content is served. d. The number of type and requests (HTTP or HTTPS) made.

a. Inbound Traffic.

Which of the following AWS services should you use to migrate an existing database to AWS? a. AWS Lambda b. AWS Snowball c. AWS Storage Gateway d. AWS DMS

d. AWS DMS

A company has infrastructure hosted in an on-premises data center. They currently have an operational team that takes care of ID management. If they decided to move to the AWS cloud, which of the following services would help them performing the same role in AWS? a. AWS IAM b. AWS KMS c. AWS X-Ray d. AWS CloudTrail

a. AWS IAM

Which of the following would help you collecting important metrics from AWS RDS and EC2 Instances? a. Amazon CloudWatch b. Amazon Config c. Amazon CloudSearch d. Amazon CloudFront

a. Amazon CloudWatch

How to protect your EC2 Instances? Choose two a. By using AMI's b. By using Internet Gateway's c. By using Network Access Control Lists d. By using Security Groups

c. By using Network Access Control Lists d. By using Security Groups

Which of the following are use cases of Amazon EMR? (select all that apply) a. Clickstream Analysis b. Log Analysis c. Financial Analysis d. Real-Time Analytics e. None of the above

a. Clickstream Analysis b. Log Analysis c. Financial Analysis d. Real-Time Analytics

A developer wants to quickly deploy and manage his application in the AWS Cloud, but he doesn’t have any experience with cloud computing to get started. Which of the following AWS services would help him achieve his goal? a. AWS Fargate b. AWS Elastic Beanstalk c. AWS Batch d. AWS X-Ray

b. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Which of the following services gives you access to all AWS auditor-issued reports? a. AWS CloudWatch b. Amazon SNS c. AWS Audit d. AWS Artifact

d. AWS Artifact

Which of the following services can be used to build video analytics applications? a. Amazon Kinesis b. Amazon Athena c. Amazon EMR d. Amazon QuickSight

a. Amazon Kinesis

Which of the following can be used to upload data to Amazon Glacier? (Choose 3 answers) a. AWS CLI b. AWS Glacier SDK c. REST API d. AWS Management Console

a. AWS CLI b. AWS Glacier SDK c. REST API

Which of the following can be attached to EC2 Instances to store data? a. Amazon SQS b. Amazon EBS Volumes c. Amazon EBS Snapshots d. Amazon Glacier

b. Amazon EBS Volumes

What is the standard language that can be used to perform queries in Amazon Athena? a. DBMS b. SQL c. DMX d. NoSQL

b. SQL

What are the advantages of AWS security? (Choose two) a. Meet Compliance Requirements b. Performed Automatically c. Completely Free d. Save Money

a. Meet Compliance Requirements d. Save Money

How are S3 storage classes rated? a. Durability b. None of the Above. c. Availability & Durability d. Availability

c. Availability & Durability

Which of the following services could help you track the impact of your Mobile App campaign? a. Amazon Pinpoint b. Amazon Polly c. Amazon Rekognition d. Amazon Kinesis

a. Amazon Pinpoint

What are the benefits of using the AWS cloudFormation? (select all that apply) a. Provisions your resources in a safe, repeatable manner. b. Allows you to model your entire infrastructure in a text file. c. Applies advanced IAM security features automatically. d. Allows you to treat your infrastructure as just code.

a. Provisions your resources in a safe, repeatable manner. b. Allows you to model your entire infrastructure in a text file. d. Allows you to treat your infrastructure as just code.

A user has launched an EC2 Instance. The instance was terminated as soon as it was launched. Which of the below mentioned options is not a possible reason for this? a. The user account has reached the maximum EC2 instance limit. b. The AMI is missing. It is the required part. c. The user account has reached the maximum volume limit. d. The snapshot is corrupt.

a. The user account has reached the maximum EC2 instance limit.

which of the following storage classes is more appropriate for dynamic websites with predictable access patterns? a. S3 Glacier b. S3 Standard-IA c. S3 Standard d. S3 Intelligent-Tiering

c. S3 Standard

Which of the following has the greatest impact on cost? (Choose two) a. Compute b. Data Transfer In c. Data Transfer Out d. Number of running services.

a. Compute c. Data Transfer Out

Which of the following AWS services uses Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your EC2 Instances? a. AWS CloudFormation b. AWS CloudTrail c. AWS CloudWatch d. AWS OpsWorks

d. AWS OpsWorks