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Which free, online AWS tool lets you accurately estimate the costs you would pay for the use of any combination of AWS resources?

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The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

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You can set up alerts that will trigger notifications when your monthly AWS costs approach a preset amount using which service?

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AWS Budgets

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You can closely analyze the way your account resources are being consumed and how much they’re costing by using which AWS service?

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AWS Cost and Usage Reports

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Which AWS service identifies insecure, inefficient, or wasteful configurations on your account?

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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Which AWS support plans include access to the full range of Trusted Advisor checks?

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Business and Enterprise

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How much would Business support cost for an account that consumed $60,000 dollars in a given month?

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$4,200 (7 percent of $60,000)

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Which AWS documentation resources should you consult for in-depth architectural and design guidance?

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White papers

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True/False: An AWS Region consists of two or more Availability Zones that connect to each other over the public internet.

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False: AZs within a single Region are connected directly over a low-latency network.

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How can you simplify the long-term administration of permissions for an AWS account with many users?

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Assign your users to groups so you only need to edit group permissions.

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Which AWS Dashboard do you use to create and manage access keys so you can administrate your resources remotely?

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The Security Credentials Dashboard

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How can you organize multiple related running resources into a single custom dashboard within the Management Console to make it easier to visualize and access important resources?

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Using resource groups (through AWS Systems Manager)

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What’s the best AWS service to use to closely monitor the health and behavior of your cloud-based applications?

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AWS CloudWatch

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Which AWS service lets you organize, visualize, and manage your account costs?

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AWS Cost Explorer

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Which AWS service offers you access to EC2 infrastructure but takes care of the provisioning invisibly, leaving you responsible only for your application code?

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Elastic Beanstalk

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Some EC2 instance types come with data volumes that are physically connected to the instance’s physical host. What are these volumes called?

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EC2 instance store volumes

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Which two AWS services provide administration interfaces for managing large Docker clusters?

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS—and its Fargate subset) and Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)

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Which of the S3-related storage classes provides the least-expensive options?

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S3 Glacier

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How can you optimize your S3 storage costs and performance by automating the transfer of data between storage classes?

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By enabling Lifecycle Management

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Is it possible to directly connect local data archives that expect a tape backup interface with S3-based buckets?

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Yes, using an AWS Storage Gateway appliance

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Which S3 service class will provide greater data availability: S3 Standard-IA or S3 One Zone-IA?

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S3 Standard-IA, offering 99.9 percent availability against 99.5 percent for S3 One Zone-IA

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What’s the best way to increase data durability for your RDS databases?

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Enable Multi-AZ to replicate your data.

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What is Amazon Redshift?

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A fast and scalable data warehouse service

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How is the speed by which an RDS database can access its data measured?

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Input/output operations per second (IOPS)

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Which RDS instance class will be most cost-effective for nonproduction testing requirements where you don’t need consistent high performance?

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The Burstable Performance instance class

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What must be defined so that instances within a virtual private cloud (VPC) can have access to external networks?

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An internet gateway

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What firewall-like device can be configured at the subnet level to control network access to your instances?

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A network access control list (ACL)

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What firewall-like device can be configured at the instance level to control network access?

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A security group

28
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A ________ is a virtual network you define as an isolated organizing structure containing EC2 instances and other resources.

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A virtual private cloud (VPC)

29
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Is it possible to create a fast, dedicated network connection between your local infrastructure and your AWS-based resources?

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Yes, using AWS Direct Connect

30
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Is it possible to create direct links between multiple VPCs in a single or multiple accounts?

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Yes, using VPC Peering

31
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What AWS tool can automate the provisioning and launching of new resources to meet growing user demand?

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AWS Auto Scaling

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Which top-level category of AWS services (as organized in the Management Console) can, as a group, form an important part of your organization’s DevOps process?

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Developer Tools

33
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What AWS service can be used to automate the process of building and testing your source code?

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AWS CodeBuild

34
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Which AWS service can be used to design and automate the steps required to handle application code releases from start to deployment?

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AWS CodePipeline

35
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What, in terms of AWS deployments, is a “multitiered” environment?

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Any deployment that includes multiple classes of resources. Combining front-end EC2 web servers, an RDS database instance, and an Elastic Load Balancer would be a common example.

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What is Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)?

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A managed service allowing you to share file system objects between EC2 instances across your AWS account and, through AWS Direct Connect or AWS VPN connections, with on-premises infrastructure

37
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________ can help you improve application performance through in-memory data caches.

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Amazon ElastiCache

38
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What AWS service lets you use SQL queries to analyze data stored in S3 buckets?

A

Amazon Athena

39
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What is the function of Amazon Kinesis?

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Capturing and analyzing very large volumes of data streaming generated by multiple log, transaction, and social media sources

40
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Which AWS service lets you set a desired account-wide configuration profile and regularly audit your account settings to ensure you’re in compliance?

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AWS Config

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What is AWS Systems Manager?

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A single, unified interface through which you can monitor and automate the administration of resources running in multiple AWS services account-wide

42
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_______________ is a scalable service that converts media files to formats that better fit your application’s target usage.

A

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

43
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What is Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML)?

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A set of visualization tools and wizards designed to guide users through the creation of machine learning models

44
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How can you efficiently run big data frameworks like Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Hive within your AWS resources?

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Using Amazon EMR

45
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What is AWS Cognito?

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A tool for directly managing user sign-up and sign-in for your website or mobile apps

46
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Is it possible to host remote Windows or Linux desktops for your organization’s users using AWS?

A

Yes, using Amazon WorkSpaces

47
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_______ can be used to manage both programmatic and human-readable communications between AWS service resources and humans.

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AWS Simple Notification Service

48
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What text format does the credential report use?

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csv

49
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What is created when you make an application load balancer?

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A publicly resolvable DNS hostname (for the balancer)

50
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CLI needs what to work?

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Outbound network access to port 443 and access key ID w/ secret access key

51
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You routinely execute shell scripts on your EC2 instances. What is best service to automate this?

A

Systems Manager

52
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Which feature of RDS can improve performace?

A

read replicas

53
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Does RDS have auto scaling?

A

YES!, it has to be manually enabled

54
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Which feature of S3 can delete objects?

A

object lifecycle configurations

55
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EC2 Auto Scaling strives to maintain the number of instances defined by which of the following settings?

A

Desired capacity

56
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Which EC2 Auto Scaling feature can improve cost efficiency?

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Dynamic scaling policies

57
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Which AWS service creates a temporary Docker container?

A

CodeBuild

58
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Which AWS service can store information about network connections to an EC2 instance?

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Cloudwatch logs. CloudWatch logs can receive and store VPC flow logs that contain information about network connections to an EC2 instance in a VPC.

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Can code deploy create lambda functions?

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yes

60
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Which term describes the process of automatically testing and deploying code to production?

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continuous delivery

61
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What does a CloudFormation template contain?

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Code describing AWS resources. A CloudFormation template contains code describing AWS resources. It doesn’t contain AWS CLI commands. A CloudFormation template can be used to create a stack that contains AWS resources.

62
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You’re storing security logs in CloudTrail logs and need to retain them for at least 15 years. How can you do this? (Select TWO.)

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Do nothing, as CloudTrail logs store logs indefinitely.

Export logs to S3

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Where does a relational database service (RDS) instance store its databases?

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Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume.

An RDS instance stores databases on an EBS volume. It stores snapshots in S3. DynamoDB is a nonrelational database service that stores data in tables that are stored on one or more partitions.

64
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T/F each region is designed to be completely isolated from other AWS regions

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True

65
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T/F Each region is collections of VPCs

A

False, they are composed of 2 or more AZs. VPCs exist within accounts on per region basis

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