Udemy: Practice Test #2 Flashcards
A developer has written a simple web application in PHP and he wants to just upload his code to AWS Cloud and have AWS handle the deployment automatically but still wants access to the underlying operating system for further enhancements. As a Cloud Practioner, which of the following AWS services would you recommend for this use-case?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
Which AWS support plan provides access to a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM)?
AWS Business Support
AWS Enterprise Support
AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support
AWS Developer Support
AWS Enterprise Support
AWS offers four different support plans to cater to each of its customers - AWS Developer Support, AWS Business Support, AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support and AWS Enterprise Support plans. A basic support plan is included for all AWS customers.
A company wants a fully managed, flexible, and scalable file storage system, with low latency access, for its Windows-based applications. Which AWS service is the right choice for the company?
Amazon FSx for Lustre
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Which AWS service can be used to provision resources to run big data workloads on Hadoop clusters?
Amazon EMR
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
AWS Step Functions
AWS Batch
Amazon EMR
*Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
*can be used to provision resources to run big data workloads on Hadoop clusters.
Which AWS service helps with global application availability and performance using the AWS global network?
Amazon Route 53
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
AWS Global Accelerator
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Global Accelerator
Which of the following statements are correct about the AWS root user account? (Select two)
It is highly recommended to enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for root user account
Root user access credentials are the email address and password used to create the AWS account
Root user credentials should only be shared with managers requiring administrative responsibilities to complete their jobs
Root user account gets unrestricted permissions when the account is created, but these can be restricted using IAM policies
Root user account password cannot be changed once it is set
It is highly recommended to enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for root user account
Root user access credentials are the email address and password used to create the AWS account
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides guidance on building cloud based applications using AWS best practices. Which of the following options are the pillars mentioned in the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select two)
Scalability
Cost Optimization
Elasticity
Reliability
Availability
Cost Optimization
Reliability
Explanation:
six pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization and sustainability
Which service gives a personalized view of the status of the AWS services that are part of your Cloud architecture so that you can quickly assess the impact on your business when AWS service(s) are experiencing issues?
AWS Health - Your Account Health Dashboard
Amazon Inspector
AWS Health - Service Health Dashboard
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Health - Your Account Health Dashboard
AWS Health - Service Health Dashboard displays the general status of AWS services;
AWS Health - Your Account Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view of the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources.
A company is using a message broker service on its on-premises application and wants to move this messaging functionality to AWS Cloud. Which of the following AWS services is the right choice to move the existing functionality easily?
Amazon MQ
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
Amazon MQ (Message Queue)
Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service
An organization has a complex IT architecture involving a lot of system dependencies and it wants to track the history of changes to each resource. Which AWS service will help the organization track the history of configuration changes for all the resources?
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Service Catalog
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config
AWS Config
Think resource-specific history, audit, and compliance; think Config.
Think account-specific activity and audit; think CloudTrail.
What are the different gateway types supported by AWS Storage Gateway service?
Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Volume Gateway
Tape Gateway, Object Gateway and Volume Gateway
Object Gateway, File Gateway and Block Gateway
Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Block Gateway
Tape Gateway, File Gateway and Volume Gateway
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about AWS Auto Scaling?
You can automatically remove unhealthy instances
You can automatically register new instances to a load balancer
You can automatically deploy AWS Shield when a DDoS attack is detected
You can scale out and add more Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to match an increase in demand as well as scale in and remove Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to match a reduced demand
You can automatically deploy AWS Shield when a DDoS attack is detected
AWS Auto Scaling is helpful during a DDoS attack, as it can scale out resources fast. But, it cannot automatically deploy AWS Shield service onto its group of resources.
Which of the following AWS services can be used to prevent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack? (Select three)
AWS CloudHSM
Amazon Inspector
Amazon CloudFront with Amazon Route 53
AWS Shield
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)
Amazon CloudFront with Amazon Route 53
AWS Shield
AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)
Which AWS compute service provides the EASIEST way to access resizable compute capacity in the cloud with support for per-second billing and access to the underlying OS?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
AWS Lambda
Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Amazon Lightsail comes with monthly payment plans and does not support per second billing, so this option is ruled out.
A data analytics company stores its data on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and wants to do SQL based analysis on this data with minimum effort. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following AWS services will you suggest for this use case?
Amazon Athena
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Athena
You cannot use Amazon Aurora for SQL analysis on S3 based data.
