Test 3 Flashcards by Michael Cessaro

Which of the following should you consider when creating a tagging strategy for your AWS resources? (Select all that apply)
a. Using a standardized, case-sensitive format for tags.
b. Ramifications of future changes in business requirements
c. Using as much tags as you can to help filter your resources easily.
d. Implementing automated tools to help manage resource tags.

a. Using a standardized, case-sensitive format for tags.
c. Using as much tags as you can to help filter your resources easily.
d. Implementing automated tools to help manage resource tags.

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You are sure that your application deployed with AWS needs frequent updates for the next 6 months. Which of the following services would allow you to make these updates easily, retaining the ability to change the AWS resources powering the application any time?
a.
AWS CodeCommit
b.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
c.
AWS EFS
d.
AWS Lambda

b.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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You want to host a set of servers in AWS using Amazon EC2 instances for a short period (3 months), what is the most cost-effective option?
a.
No Upfront costs reserved.
b.
Spot Instances
c.
On-Demand
d.
Partial Upfront costs reserved

c.
On-Demand

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Which of the following provides high availability and durability? (Select all that apply)
a. S3
b. Aurora
c. EBS
d. EFS
e. None of the above

a. S3
b. Aurora
c. EBS
d. EFS

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Which aws support plan would help provide 24x7 technical support? (Select all that apply )
a. Enterprise
b. Business
c. Basic
d. Developer

a. Enterprise
b. Business

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How can ELBs provide fault tolerance to your application?
a.
By distributing traffic to the unregistered targets.
b.
By creating Read Replicas.
c.
By ensuring that only healthy targets receive traffic.
d.
By replicating your data in multiple availability zones.

c.
By ensuring that only healthy targets receive traffic.

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Which of the following is a factor in determining the right database technology for each workload? (Select all that apply)
a. Latency Requirements
b. The Nature of your queries.
c. The number of reads and writes per second.
d. Software Bugs

a. Latency Requirements
b. The Nature of your queries.
c. The number of reads and writes per second.

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Which of the following makes it easier for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images?
a.
ECS
b.
EBS
c.
EMR
d.
ECR

d.
ECR

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What is the first step in creating an auto scaling system?
a.
Creating launch configuration.
b.
Creating an auto-scaling group.
c.
Creating an auto scaling policy.
d.
Creating the EC2 instances.

a.
Creating launch configuration.

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What AWS service must you use if you want to configure an AWS billing alarm?
a.
CloudMonitor
b.
Consolidated Billing
c.
CloudWatch
d.
CloudTrail

c.
CloudWatch

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What is a one benefit AND a one drawback of buying a reserved EC2 instance? (Select two)
a. Reserved instances is best suited for occasional workloads.
b. Reserved instances can be purchased as a signification discount over on-demand instances.
c. You got Dedicated instances for free.
d. You are locked in to either a one- or three-year pricing commitment.

b. Reserved instances can be purchased as a signification discount over on-demand instances.
d. You are locked in to either a one- or three-year pricing commitment.

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What are the areas of the performance efficiency pillar? (Select all that apply)
a. Trade-Offs
b. Selection
c. Agility
d. Monitoring

a. Trade-Offs
b. Selection
d. Monitoring

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You decided to use Amazon S3 to store infrequently accessed data. What storage class would you use?
a.
S3 SAA Storage
b.
S3 Archive Storage
c.
S3 SIA Storage
d.
S3 Standard Storage

c.
S3 SIA Storage

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Which of the following can be used to increase the fault tolerance of an application?
a.
Deploying resources across multiple edge locations.
b.
Deploying resources across multiple VPC’s.
c.
Deploying resources across multiple Availability Zones.
d.
Deploying resources across multiple AWS Accounts.

c.
Deploying resources across multiple Availability Zones.

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Your company’s upper management is getting very nervous about managing governance, compliance, and risk auditing in AWS. What service should you enable and inform upper management about?
a.
Cloud Compliance
b.
CloudWatch
c.
CloudTrail
d.
CloudAudit

c.
CloudTrail

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What is the concept of an AWS region?
a.
It is the same as an Availability zone.
b.
It is a geographical area divided into Availability Zones.
c.
It is a collection of Computer capacity.
d.
It is a collection of Edge locations.

b.
It is a geographical area divided into Availability Zones.

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You are planning to offload some of the batch processing workloads on to AWS. These jobs can be interrupted and resumed at any time. Which of the following instance types would be the most cost effective to use?
a.
On-Demand
b.
Partial Upfront Reserved
c.
Spot
d.
Full Upfront Reserved

c.
Spot

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Which of the following can be used to call AWS services from the different programming languages?
a.
AWS CLI
b.
AWS Console
c.
AWS SDK
d.
AWS IAM

c.
AWS SDK

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A company needs to implement “resource change tracking” using the API call history. Which AWS service would help the company to achieve this goal?
a.
AWS CloudTrail
b.
AWS CloudFormation
c.
AWS Config
d.
AWS CloudWatch

a.
AWS CloudTrail

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What best describes what AWS is?
a.
AWS is a cloud services provider.
b.
AWS is a security services provider.
c.
None of the Above.
d.
AWS is a hosting services provider.

a.
AWS is a cloud services provider.

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What does AWS offer to secure your network? (Choose two)
a. A built-in firewall.
b. Encryption in transit.
c. Prevent any access to all AWS resources (except the account owner).
d. Add roles automatically to your security groups.

a. A built-in firewall.
b. Encryption in transit.

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What are the design principles for performance efficiency in the cloud? (Select all that apply)
a. Democratize advanced technologies
b. Go global in minutes.
c. Enable traceability
d. Use server-less architecture.

a. Democratize advanced technologies
b. Go global in minutes.
d. Use server-less architecture.

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A company has a distributed application that periodically processes large volumes of data across multiple Amazon EC2 Instances. The application is designed to recover gracefully from Amazon EC2 instance failures. There is a requirement to accomplish this task in the most cost-effective way. Which of the following would be most appropriate?
a.
Spot Instances
b.
Reserved Instances
c.
Dedicated Instances
d.
On-Demand Instances

a.
Spot Instances

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Which of the following are benefits of the AWS’s Relational Database Service (RDS)? (Choose two)
a. You can resize the capacity accordingly
b. It allows you to store unstructured data
c. It allows you to store NoSQL data
d. Automated patches and backups

a. You can resize the capacity accordingly
d. Automated patches and backups

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What is a Security Group? a. A list of users that can access Amazon EC2 Instances. b. None of these. c. A firewall for inbound traffic, built-in around every Amazon EC2 Instance. d. An Access Control List (ACL) for AWS resources.

c. A firewall for inbound traffic, built-in around every Amazon EC2 Instance.

Doodle, Inc. has a web application that ultimately stores billions of images and videos, which runs in Exabyte. Which of the following AWS services can help them transfer the data to AWS? a. S3 Enhanced Uploader b. Snowball c. Snowmobile d. Amazon VPC

c. Snowmobile

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)? a. It offers scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. b. It is considered a server-less web service. c. It eliminates your need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster. d. It can be used to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need.

b. It is considered a server-less web service.

Which of the following AWS services would you use to register a new domain name in the AWS Platform? a. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) b. Amazon Cloud Front c. Amazon Route 53 d. Elastic Load Balancing

c. Amazon Route 53

What are the benefits of DynamoDB? (Select all that apply) a. Supports both document and key-value store data models. b. Automatic scaling of throughput capacity. c. Single-digit millisecond latency. d. Supports multiple known NoSQL database engines like MariaDB and Oracle NoSQL.

a. Supports both document and key-value store data models. b. Automatic scaling of throughput capacity. c. Single-digit millisecond latency.

Big Cloud Jumbo Corp is beginning to explore migrating their entire on-premises data center to AWS. They are very concerned about how much it will cost once their entire IT infrastructure is running on AWS. What tool can you recommend so that they can do a cost-benefit analysis of moving to the AWS Cloud? a. AWS Cost Explorer b. AWS Estimate Calculator c. AWS Migration Cost Calculator d. AWS TCO calculator

d. AWS TCO calculator

Which of the following are two options to pay for the AWS Developer Support Plan? (Choose two) a. 4% of monthly AWS usage. b. Greater of $39 c. Greater of $29 d. 3% of monthly AWS usage.

c. Greater of $29 d. 3% of monthly AWS usage.

What is a placement group in Amazon EC2? a. On the edge location of your web content. b. It is a group used to span multiple Availability Zones. c. It is the AWS region where you run the EC2 instance of your web content. d. It is a group of EC2 instances within a single Availability Zone.

d. It is a group of EC2 instances within a single Availability Zone.

You need to set up a security certificate for a client's eCommerce website as it will use the HTTPS protocol. Which of the below AWS services do you need to access in order to manage your SSL server certificate?(Select all that apply) a. AWS Identity & Access Management b. AWS Directory Service c. Amazon Route 53 d. AWS ACM

a. AWS Identity & Access Management d. AWS ACM

For managed services like Amazon DynamoDB. What are the security tasks that AWS is responsible for? (Select all that apply) a. Installing an antivirus software. b. Configuring firewall. c. Protect Credentials. d. Create the required access policies

a. Installing an antivirus software. b. Configuring firewall.

While working with Amazon S3, you found that six of your S3 buckets were deleted, but no one is taking responsibility. You decide to open an investigation in order to find out who deleted the S3 buckets. Which of the following may help you in your investigation? a. Look at the SNS logs. b. Look at the CloudWatch Logs. c. Look at the S3 Logs. d. Look at the CloudTrail Logs.

d. Look at the CloudTrail Logs.

Which of the following services would help in reducing the complexity and time in planning your application migration to the AWS Cloud? a. AWS Application Discovery Service b. AWS Migration Planner Service c. None of the Above d. AWS Snowball Migration Service

A. AWS Application Discovery Service

There are substantial differences between AWS Marketplace and Amazon DevPay. One of these differences is …………………. a. When you buy from AWS DevPay directly you will get great offers based on your usage. b. Buying from the AWS DevPay is better than the AWS Marketplace especially when working with Amazon VPC. c. AWS Marketplace does not support Reserved and Spot Instances while DevPay does. d. AWS Marketplace supports EBS-backed software, while DevPay does not.

d. AWS Marketplace supports EBS-backed software, while DevPay does not.

If you have large amounts of data that need to be archived, then which of the following would be the most efficient way to store them in AWS? a. Use Amazon Glacier b. Use Amazon EBS c. Use Amazon Storage Gateway d. Use Amazon S3

a. Use Amazon Glacier

Why would a company decide to use AWS over an on-premises data center? (Select all that apply) a. Cost-Effective b. Highly available infrastructure c. No upfront cost d. Elastic resources based on demand e. None of the above

a. Cost-Effective b. Highly available infrastructure c. No upfront cost d. Elastic resources based on demand

Once again, your customers are concerned about the security of their sensitive data, and with their latest inquiry, ask about what happens to old storage devices on AWS. What would be the best answer to this question? a. AWS uses a 3rd part security organization to destroy data as part of the decommissioning process. b. AWS uses the techniques detailed in DoD 5220.22-M to destroy data as part of the decommissioning process. c. AWS uses their own proprietary software to destroy data as part of the decommissioning process. d. AWS reformats the disks and uses them again.

b. AWS uses the techniques detailed in DoD 5220.22-M to destroy data as part of the decommissioning process.

Which of the following services can be used for processing images uploaded to S3? a. AWS Lambda b. AWS Artifact c. Amazon PinPoint d. Amazon Glacier

a. AWS Lambda

A user is trying to save on the costs of AWS services. Which of the below-mentioned options will not help the user save? a. Delete the Auto-Scaling launch configuration after the instances are terminated. b. Delete the unutilized EBS volumes once the instance is terminated c. Delete the AWS ELB after the instances are terminated. d. Release the elastic IP if not required once the instance is terminated.

a. Delete the Auto-Scaling launch configuration after the instances are terminated.

A company wants to add an extra layer of protection to the current authentication mechanism of usernames and passwords. Which of the following can be used? a. Using a mix of user names b. Using AWS WAF c. Using MFA d. Using Password Policies

c. Using MFA

What would we get from having AWS Cloud services accessible through an API?

c. Be able to manage Cloud resources programmatically.

How can you modify user permissions on AWS? a. Using AWS IAM b. Using Security Groups c. Using AWS KMS d. By contacting the AWS Support team.

a. Using AWS IAM

Which of the following would help the customer to delve deeply into the Amazon EC2 billing activity for the last month? a. AWS Cost and Usage Reports b. AWS CloudWatch c. AWS TCO d. AWS Cloud Trail Logs

a. AWS Cost and Usage Reports

What are the AWS recommendations about your root access keys? a. Delete them. b. Only share them with trusted people. c. Save them in a secure place. d. None of the Above.

a. Delete them.

Which of the following is AWS' responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model? a. Securing application access and data b. Managing custom Amazon Machien Images (AMIs) c. Maintaining physical hardware d. Configuring third-party applications

c. Maintaining physical hardware

Which of the following is an AWS managed database service that provides processing power up to 5X faster than a traditional MySQL database? a. DynamoDB b. PostgreSQL c. MariaDB d. Aurora

d. Aurora

What are the main benefits of the AWS Service Catalog? (Choose two) a. Securely store various types of catalogs. b. Store unlimited amounts of catalogs. c. Centrally manage common deployed IT services. d. Quickly deploy approved IT services.

c. Centrally manage common deployed IT services. d. Quickly deploy approved IT services.

You want to quickly deploy your .NET application on the AWS Cloud. Which of the following AWS services can help you? a. AWS SQS b. AWS VPC c. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) d. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

d. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Which of the following is used to control traffic in AWS? (Select all that apply) a. Security Groups b. Routing Groups c. Route Tables d. Network Access Control Lists

a. Security Groups

Which AWS support plan would help provide general guidance when you request Architecture Support? a. Basic b. Business c. Developer d. Enterprise

c. Developer

An organization has been using AWS for a few months. The finance team wants to visualize the pattern of AWS spending. Which of the below AWS tools will help with this requirement? a. AWS CloudWatch b. AWS Consolidated Billing c. AWS Cost Explorer d. AWS Cost Manager

c. AWS Cost Explorer

You have been asked to set up a database in AWS that will require frequent and granular updates. You know that you will need a reasonable amount of storage space but are unsure of the best option. What is the recommended storage option when you run a database on an instance with the above criteria? a. Amazon EBS b. Amazon Glacier c. Amazon S3 d. AWS Storage Gateway

a. Amazon EBS

You want to take a snapshot of an EC2 Instance and create a new instance out of it. In AWS, what is this snapshot equivalent to? a. EC2 Snapshot b. ELP Volume c. EBS Snapshot d. AMI

d. AMI

What are the benefits of having a managed service on AWS? (Select all that apply) a. Lowering Cost b. Lowering Operational Complexity c. Enable developers to do patching activities on their own. d. Deliver new solutions faster. e. Reduce dependency on in-house specialized skills.

a. Lowering Cost b. Lowering Operational Complexity d. Deliver new solutions faster.

Which of the following AWS services can assist you with cost optimization? a. AWS Inspector b. AWS Trusted Advisor c. AWS Shield d. AWS WAF

b. AWS Trusted Advisor

Which of the following is a benefit of running an application across multiple Availability Zones? a. Increase the compute capacity for your application. b. Reduces the total cost of ownership. c. Increases the security for your application. d. Increases the availability of your application.

d. Increases the availability of your application.

Which of the following support plans includes the AWS Support Concierge Service? a. Basic b. Business c. Developer d. Enterprise

d. Enterprise

A company is hosting an infrastructure, and most of the EC2 instances are continually utilized throughout the year. Which of the following would be the most cost-effective? a. Spot Instances b. Reserved Instances c. Regular Instances d. On-Demand Instances

b. Reserved Instances

Amazon SWF is designed to help users___________. a. Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous tasks which are distributed and fault tolerant. b. Design graphical user interface interactions. c. Manage user identification and authorization. d. Store Web Content

a. Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous tasks which are distributed and fault tolerant.