Tutorials Dojo (Cloud Concepts) Flashcards
Which AWS service should you use if you need to launch a highly scalable MySQL OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) database?
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon Aurora = OLTP & MySQL
Amazon DynamoDB is incorrect. Although this service is highly scalable, this is primarily used for nonrelational databases.
Which of the following is true on how AWS lessens the time to provision your IT resources?
It provides an AI-powered IT ticketing platform for fulfilling resource requests.
It provides various ways to programmatically provision IT resources.
It provides an automated system of requesting and fulfilling IT resources from third-party vendors.
It provides express service to deliver your servers to your data centers fast.
It provides various ways to programmatically provision IT resources.
Which of the following are regarded as regional services in AWS? (Select TWO.)
Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)
AWS Security Token Service
Amazon Route 53
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
AWS Batch
Amazon EFS
is a regional service storing data within and across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability and durability.
AWS Batch
is a regional service that simplifies running batch jobs across multiple Availability Zones within a region.
Which of the following cloud best practices reinforces the use of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design principle?
Implement elasticity.
Think parallel.
Design for failure.
Decouple your components.
Decouple your components
loose coupling isolates the various layers and components of your application so that each component interacts asynchronously with the others and treats them as a “black box”.
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.
Which option gives the most convenience and flexibility to determine the best database size while still being cost-effective?
Launch an EC2 instance and install MS SQL Server. Purchase a Standard MSSQL license from Microsoft and apply it to the database you installed.
Launch an RDS instance that runs MS SQL Server Standard. Purchase a Standard MSSQL license and store it in the AWS Managed Services (AMS).
Launch an Amazon Aurora database that runs MS SQL Server. Buy a Standard MSSQL license from the AWS License Manager service.
Use a Windows Server with SQL Server Standard bundled AMI so you won’t need to buy and manage your own license.
Use a Windows Server with SQL Server Standard bundled AMI so you won’t need to buy and manage your own license.
Agility is one of the benefits of using cloud computing that provides customer with what advantage?
Avoid overprovisioning of your infrastructure to ensure you have enough capacity to handle your business operations at the peak level of activity.
Allows you to trade capital expense for variable expense.
Easily deploy your application in multiple physical locations around the world with just a few clicks.
Focus your valuable IT resources on developing applications that differentiate your business rather than managing infrastructure and data centers.
Focus your valuable IT resources on developing applications that differentiate your business rather than managing infrastructure and data centers.
Which of the following are the pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select TWO.)
High Availability
Scalability
Agility
Operational Excellence
Performance Efficiency
Operational Excellence
Performance Efficiency
The use of multi-threading in your Amazon S3 requests via the Multipart Upload API is an example of which AWS cloud best practice?
Allow for evolutionary architectures.
Implement elasticity.
Decouple your components.
Think parallel.
Think parallel.
A company is planning to deploy their high-frequency trading (HFT) application which will store constantly changing financial data in AWS and require low latency access. Which AWS services below should you use? (Select TWO.)
Amazon EFS
Amazon Glacier
AWS Snowball
Amazon S3
Amazon RDS
Amazon EFS
Amazon RDS
Which of the following is not a part of the AWS Global Infrastructure?
Edge Locations
Placement Groups
Availability Zones
Regions
Placement Groups
Which AWS service lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources?
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Internet gateway
Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
Your organization would like to boost productivity by improving business communication channels and customer service experience. Which of the following AWS applications would you suggest? (Select TWO.)
Amazon Chime
AWS Marketplace
Amazon Connect
AWS Transfer Family
Amazon Workspaces
Amazon Chime
Amazon Connect
Which of the following controls does the customer fully inherit from AWS based on the Shared Responsibility Model?
Patch Management
Configuration Management
Physical and Environmental Controls
Awareness and Training
Physical and Environmental Controls
How is expense shifted when moving from traditional servers to the Cloud?
Capital expense is traded for variable expense
Capital expense is traded for operational expense
Variable expense is traded for capital expense
Operational expense is traded for variable expense
Capital expense is traded for variable expense
Which of the following does AWS automatically handle for you? (Select TWO.)
Secure AWS data centers from environmental hazards
Makes sure your data is safely kept and replicated between AZs
Provide web application firewall protection to your public endpoints.
Introduce updates and patches to EC2 guest operating systems
Introduce updates and patches to EC2 hypervisors
Secure AWS data centers from environmental hazards
Introduce updates and patches to EC2 hypervisors
