Which are an important architectural principle when designing cloud applications?

Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer responsible for?

A. Ensuring that disk drives are wiped after use.
B. Ensuring that firmware is updated on hardware devices.
C. Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest.
D. Ensuring that network cables are category six or higher

C. Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest.

The use of what AWS feature or service allows companies to track and categorize spending on a detailed level?

A. Cost allocation tags
B. Consolidated billing
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Marketplace

C. AWS Budgets

Which service stores objects, provides real-time access to those objects, and offers versioning and lifecycle capabilities?

A. Amazon Glacier
B. AWS Storage Gateway
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon EBS

C. Amazon S3

What AWS team assists customers with accelerating cloud adoption through paid engagements in any of several specialty practice areas?

A. AWS Enterprise Support
B. AWS Solutions Architects
C. AWS Professional Services
D. AWS Account Managers

C. AWS Professional Services

A customer would like to design and build a new workload on AWS Cloud but does not have the AWS-related software technical expertise in-house. Which of the following AWS programs can a customer take advantage of to achieve that outcome?

A. AWS Partner Network Technology Partners
B. AWS Marketplace
C. AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners
D. AWS Service Catalog

C. AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners

Distributing workloads across multiple Availability Zones supports which cloud architecture design principle?

A. Implement automation.
B. Design for agility.
C. Design for failure.
D. Implement elasticity.

C. Design for failure.

Which AWS services can host a Microsoft SQL Server database? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
C. Amazon Aurora
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon S3

A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

Which of the following inspects AWS environments to find opportunities that can save money for users and also improve system performance?

A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Consolidated billing
D. Detailed billing

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

Which of the following Amazon EC2 pricing models allow customers to use existing server-bound software licenses?

A. Spot Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Dedicated Hosts
D. On-Demand Instances

C. Dedicated Hosts

Which AWS characteristics make AWS cost effective for a workload with dynamic user demand? (Choose two.)

A. High availability
B. Shared security model
C. Elasticity
D. Pay-as-you-go pricing
E. Reliability

C. Elasticity
D. Pay-as-you-go pricing

Which service enables risk auditing by continuously monitoring and logging account activity, including user actions in the AWS Management Console and AWS SDKs?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Config
D. AWS Health

B. AWS CloudTrail

Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Choose two.)

A. A global file system
B. An object store
C. A local file store
D. A network file system
E. A durable storage system

B. An object store
D. A network file system

Which services can be used across hybrid AWS Cloud architectures? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Route 53
B. Virtual Private Gateway
C. Classic Load Balancer
D. Auto Scaling
E. Amazon CloudWatch default metrics

A. Amazon Route 53
B. Virtual Private Gateway

What costs are included when comparing AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with on-premises TCO?

A. Project management
B. Antivirus software licensing
C. Data center security
D. Software development

C. Data center security

A company is considering using AWS for a self-hosted database that requires a nightly shutdown for maintenance and cost-saving purposes. Which service should the company use?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with Amazon EC2 instance store
D. Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

D. Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Which of the following is a correct relationship between regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations?

A. Data centers contain regions.
B. Regions contain Availability Zones.
C. Availability Zones contain edge locations.
D. Edge locations contain regions.

B. Regions contain Availability Zones.

Which AWS tools assist with estimating costs? (Choose three.)

A. Detailed billing report
B. Cost allocation tags
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
E. Cost Estimator

B. Cost allocation tags
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Which of the following are advantages of AWS consolidated billing? (Choose two.)

A. The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts
B. Service limits increasing by default in all accounts
C. A fixed discount on the monthly bill
D. Potential volume discounts, as usage in all accounts is combined
E. The automatic extension of the master account's AWS support plan to all accounts

A. The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts
D. Potential volume discounts, as usage in all accounts is combined

Which of the following Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models provides the highest average savings compared to On-Demand pricing?

A. One-year, No Upfront, Standard RI pricing
B. One-year, All Upfront, Convertible RI pricing
C. Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing
D. Three-year, No Upfront, Convertible RI pricing

C. Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing

Compared with costs in traditional and virtualized data centers, AWS has:

A. greater variable costs and greater upfront costs.
B. fixed usage costs and lower upfront costs.
C. lower variable costs and greater upfront costs.
D. lower variable costs and lower upfront costs

D. lower variable costs and lower upfront costs

A characteristic of edge locations is that they:

A. host Amazon EC2 instances closer to users
B. help lower latency and improve performance for users.
C. cache frequently changing data without reaching the origin server.
D. refresh data changes daily.

C. cache frequently changing data without reaching the origin server.

Which of the following can limit Amazon Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to specific users?

A. A public and private key-pair
B. Amazon Inspector
C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
D. Security Groups

C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies

Which of the following security-related actions are available at no cost?

A. Calling AWS Support
B. Contacting AWS Professional Services to request a workshop
C. Accessing forums, blogs, and whitepapers
D. Attending AWS classes at a local university

C. Accessing forums, blogs, and whitepapers

Which of the Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models can change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of RIs of equal or greater value?

A. Dedicated RIs
B. Scheduled RIs
C. Convertible RIs
D. Standard RIs

C. Convertible RIs

Which AWS feature will reduce the customer's total cost of ownership (TCO)?

A. Shared responsibility security model
B. Single tenancy
C. Elastic computing
D. Encryption

C. Elastic computing

Which of the following services will automatically scale with an expected increase in web traffic?

A. AWS CodePipeline
B. Elastic Load Balancing
C. Amazon EBS
D. AWS Direct Connect

B. Elastic Load Balancing

Where are AWS compliance documents, such as an SOC 1 report, located?

A. Amazon Inspector
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Artifact
D. AWS Certificate Manager

C. AWS Artifact

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following activities are the customer's responsibility? (Choose two.)

A. Patching operating system components for Amazon Relational Database Server (Amazon RDS)
B. Encrypting data on the client-side
C. Training the data center staff
D. Configuring Network Access Control Lists (ACL)
E. Maintaining environmental controls within a data cente

B. Encrypting data on the client-side
D. Configuring Network Access Control Lists (ACL)

Which is a recommended pattern for designing a highly available architecture on AWS?

A. Ensure that components have low-latency network connectivity.
B. Run enough Amazon EC2 instances to operate at peak load.
C. Ensure that the application is designed to accommodate failure of any single component.
D. Use a monolithic application that handles all operations

C. Ensure that the application is designed to accommodate failure of any single component.

According to best practices, how should an application be designed to run in the AWS Cloud?

A. Use tighly coupled components.
B. Use loosely coupled components.
C. Use infrequently coupled components.
D. Use frequently coupled components

B. Use loosely coupled components.

AWS supports which of the following methods to add security to Identity and Access Management (IAM) users? (Choose two.)

A. Implementing Amazon Recognition
B. Using AWS Shield-protected resources
C. Blocking access with Security Groups
D. Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
E. Enforcing password strength and expiration

D. Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
E. Enforcing password strength and expiration

Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Glacier
B. Amazon RDS
C. AWS Snowball
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon EFS

B. Amazon RDS
E. Amazon EFS

What is one of the advantages of the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

A. It simplifies relational database administration tasks.
B. It provides 99.99999999999% reliability and durability.
C. It automatically scales databases for loads.
D. It enabled users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resource

A. It simplifies relational database administration tasks.

A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales. Which AWS service should they use?

A. Amazon Aurora
B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon ElastiCache

A. Amazon Aurora

Which of the following components of the AWS Global Infrastructure consists of one or more discrete data centers interconnected through low latency links?

A. Availability Zone
B. Edge location
C. Region
D. Private networking

A. Availability Zone

Which of the following is a shared control between the customer and AWS?

A. Providing a key for Amazon S3 client-side encryption
B. Configuration of an Amazon EC2 instance
C. Environmental controls of physical AWS data centers
D. Awareness and training

D. Awareness and training

How many Availability Zones should compute resources be provisioned across to achieve high availability?

A. A minimum of one
B. A minimum of two
C. A minimum of three
D. A minimum of four or more

B. A minimum of two

One of the advantages to moving infrastructure from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud is:

A. it allows the business to eliminate IT bills.
B. it allows the business to put a server in each customer's data center.
C. it allows the business to focus on business activities.
D. it allows the business to leave servers unpatched

C. it allows the business to focus on business activities.

What is the lowest-cost, durable storage option for retaining database backups for immediate retrieval?

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon EBS
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store

A. Amazon S3

Which AWS IAM feature allows developers to access AWS services through the AWS CLI?

A. API keys
B. Access keys
C. User names/Passwords
D. SSH keys

B. Access keys

Which of the following is a fast and reliable NoSQL database service?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon RDS
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon S3

C. Amazon DynamoDB

What is an example of agility in the AWS Cloud?

A. Access to multiple instance types
B. Access to managed services
C. Using Consolidated Billing to produce one bill
D. Decreased acquisition time for new compute resource

D. Decreased acquisition time for new compute resource

Which service should a customer use to consolidate and centrally manage multiple AWS accounts?

A. AWS IAM
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Schema Conversion Tool
D. AWS Config

B. AWS Organizations

What approach to transcoding a large number of individual video files adheres to AWS architecture principles?

A. Using many instances in parallel
B. Using a single large instance during off-peak hours
C. Using dedicated hardware
D. Using a large GPU instance type

A. Using many instances in parallel

For which auditing process does AWS have sole responsibility?

A. AWS IAM policies
B. Physical security
C. Amazon S3 bucket policies
D. AWS CloudTrail Logs

B. Physical security

Which feature of the AWS Cloud will support an international company's requirement for low latency to all of its customers?

A. Fault tolerance
B. Global reach
C. Pay-as-you-go pricing
D. High availability

B. Global reach

Which of the following is the customer's responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Patching underlying infrastructure
B. Physical security
C. Patching Amazon EC2 instances
D. Patching network infrastructure

C. Patching Amazon EC2 instances

A customer is using multiple AWS accounts with separate billing.
How can the customer take advantage of volume discounts with minimal impact to the AWS resources?

A. Create one global AWS acount and move all AWS resources to that account.
B. Sign up for three years of Reserved Instance pricing up front.
C. Use the consolidated billing feature from AWS Organizations.
D. Sign up for the AWS Enterprise support plan to get volume discounts.

C. Use the consolidated billing feature from AWS Organizations.

Which of the following are features of Amazon CloudWatch Logs? (Choose two.)

A. Summaries by Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
B. Free Amazon Elasticsearch Service analytics
C. Provided at no charge
D. Real-time monitoring
E. Adjustable retention

D. Real-time monitoring
E. Adjustable retention

Which of the following is an AWS managed Domain Name System (DNS) web service?

A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon Neptune
C. Amazon SageMaker
D. Amazon Lightsail

A. Amazon Route 53

A customer is deploying a new application and needs to choose an AWS Region. Which of the following factors could influence the customer's decision? (Choose two.)

A. Reduced latency to users
B. The application's presentation in the local language
C. Data sovereignty compliance
D. Cooling costs in hotter climates
E. Proximity to the customer's office for on-site visits

A. Reduced latency to users
C. Data sovereignty compliance

Which storage service can be used as a low-cost option for hosting static websites?

A. Amazon Glacier
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3

Which Amazon EC2 instance pricing model can provide discounts of up to 90%?

A. Reserved Instances
B. On-Demand
C. Dedicated Hosts
D. Spot Instances

D. Spot Instances

What is the AWS customer responsible for according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Physical access controls
B. Data encryption
C. Secure disposal of storage devices
D. Environmental risk management

B. Data encryption

Which of the following AWS Cloud services can be used to run a customer-managed relational database?

A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon DynamoDB

A. Amazon EC2

A company is looking for a scalable data warehouse solution.
Which of the following AWS solutions would meet the company's needs?

A. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Kinesis
D. Amazon Redshift

D. Amazon Redshift

Which statement best describes Elastic Load Balancing?

A. It translates a domain name into an IP address using DNS.
B. It distributes incoming application traffic across one or more Amazon EC2 instances.
C. It collects metrics on connected Amazon EC2 instances.
D. It automatically adjusts the number of Amazon EC2 instances to support incoming traffic

B. It distributes incoming application traffic across one or more Amazon EC2 instances.

Which of the following are valid ways for a customer to interact with AWS services? (Choose two.)

A. Command line interface (CLI)
B. On-premises
C. Software Development Kits (SDKs)
D. Software-as-a-service (SAAS)
E. Hybrid

A. Command line interface (CLI)
C. Software Development Kits (SDKs)

The AWS Cloud's multiple Regions are an example of:

A. agility.
B. global infrastructure.
C. elasticity.
D. pay-as-you-go pricing

B. global infrastructure.

Which of the following AWS services can be used to serve large amounts of online video content with the lowest possible latency? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Storage Gateway
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
D. Amazon Glacier
E. Amazon CloudFront

B. Amazon S3
E. Amazon CloudFront

Web servers running on Amazon EC2 access a legacy application running in a corporate data center. What term would describe this model?

A. Cloud-native
B. Partner network
C. Hybrid architecture
D. Infrastructure as a service

C. Hybrid architecture

What is the benefit of using AWS managed services, such as Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

A. They require the customer to monitor and replace failing instances.
B. They have better performance than customer-managed services.
C. They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.
D. They do not require the customer to optimize instance type or size selection.

C. They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.

Which service provides a virtually unlimited amount of online highly durable object storage?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
D. Amazon S3

D. Amazon S3

Which of the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities is associated with an access key ID and secret access key when using AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?

A. IAM group
B. IAM user
C. IAM role
D. IAM policy

B. IAM user

Which of the following security-related services does AWS offer? (Choose two.)

A. Multi-factor authentication physical tokens
B. AWS Trusted Advisor security checks
C. Data encryption
D. Automated penetration testing
E. Amazon S3 copyrighted content detection

B. AWS Trusted Advisor security checks
C. Data encryption

Which AWS managed service is used to host databases?

A. AWS Batch
B. AWS Artifact
C. AWS Data Pipeline
D. Amazon RDS

D. Amazon RDS

Which AWS service provides a simple and scalable shared file storage solution for use with Linux-based AWS and on-premises servers?

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon EBS
D. Amazon EFS

D. Amazon EFS

When architecting cloud applications, which of the following are a key design principle?

A. Use the largest instance possible
B. Provision capacity for peak load
C. Use the Scrum development process
D. Implement elasticity

D. Implement elasticity

Which AWS service should be used for long-term, low-cost storage of data backups?

A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon Glacier
C. AWS Snowball
D. AWS EBS

B. Amazon Glacier

Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is a shared control between a customer and AWS?

A. Physical controls
B. Patch management
C. Zone security
D. Data center auditing

B. Patch management

Which AWS service allows companies to connect an Amazon VPC to an on-premises data center?

A. AWS VPN
B. Amazon Redshift
C. API Gateway
D. Amazon Direct Connect

D. Amazon Direct Connect

A company wants to reduce the physical compute footprint that developers use to run code. Which service would meet that need by enabling serverless architectures?

A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
B. AWS Lambda
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. AWS CodeCommit

B. AWS Lambda

Which AWS service provides alerts when an AWS event may impact a company's AWS resources?

A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
B. AWS Service Health Dashboard
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Infrastructure Event Managemen

A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Which of the following are categories of AWS Trusted Advisor? (Choose two.)

A. Fault Tolerance
B. Instance Usage
C. Infrastructure
D. Performance
E. Storage Capacity

A. Fault Tolerance
D. Performance

Which task is AWS responsible for in the shared responsibility model for security and compliance?

A. Granting access to individuals and services
B. Encrypting data in transit
C. Updating Amazon EC2 host firmware
D. Updating operating systems

C. Updating Amazon EC2 host firmware

Where should a company go to search software listings from independent software vendors to find, test, buy and deploy software that runs on AWS?

A. AWS Marketplace
B. Amazon Lumberyard
C. AWS Artifact
D. Amazon CloudSearch

A. AWS Marketplace

Which of the following is a benefit of using the AWS Cloud?

A. Permissive security removes the administrative burden.
B. Ability to focus on revenue-generating activities.
C. Control over cloud network hardware.
D. Choice of specific cloud hardware vendors

B. Ability to focus on revenue-generating activities.

When performing a cost analysis that supports physical isolation of a customer workload, which compute hosting model should be accounted for in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?

A. Dedicated Hosts
B. Reserved Instances
C. On-Demand Instances
D. No Upfront Reserved Instances

A. Dedicated Hosts

Which AWS service provides the ability to manage infrastructure as code?

A. AWS CodePipeline
B. AWS CodeDeploy
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. AWS CloudFormation

D. AWS CloudFormation

If a customer needs to audit the change management of AWS resources, which of the following. AWS services should the customer use?

A. AWS Config
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. Amazon Inspector

A. AWS Config

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

A. A code repository with customizable build and team commit features.
B. A metrics repository with customizable notification thresholds and channels.
C. A security configuration repository with threat analytics.
D. A rule repository of a web application firewall with automated vulnerability prevention

B. A metrics repository with customizable notification thresholds and channels.

Which service allows a company with multiple AWS accounts to combine its usage to obtain volume discounts?

A. AWS Server Migration Service
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

B. AWS Organizations

Which of the following services could be used to deploy an application to servers running on-premises? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
B. AWS OpsWorks
C. AWS CodeDeploy
D. AWS Batch
E. AWS X-Ray

B. AWS OpsWorks
C. AWS CodeDeploy

Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Convertible Reserved Instances

C. Spot Instances

Which design principles for cloud architecture are recommended when re-architecting a large monolithic application? (Choose two.)

A. Use manual monitoring.
B. Use fixed servers.
C. Implement loose coupling.
D. Rely on individual components.
E. Design for scalability

C. Implement loose coupling.
E. Design for scalability.

Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that allows for one-hour target response time for support cases?

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

B. Business

Where can AWS compliance and certification reports be downloaded?

A. AWS Artifact
B. AWS Concierge
C. AWS Certificate Manager
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

A. AWS Artifact

Which AWS service provides a customized view of the health of specific AWS services that power a customer's workloads running on AWS?

A. AWS Service Health Dashboard
B. AWS X-Ray
C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
D. Amazon CloudWatch

C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Which of the following is an advantage of consolidated billing on AWS?

A. Volume pricing qualification
B. Shared access permissions
C. Multiple bills per account
D. Eliminates the need for tagging

A. Volume pricing qualification

Which of the following steps should be taken by a customer when conducting penetration testing on AWS?

A. Conduct penetration testing using Amazon Inspector, and then notify AWS support.
B. Request and wait for approval from the customer's internal security team, and then conduct
testing.
C. Notify AWS support, and then conduct testing immediately.
D. Request and wait for approval from AWS support, and then conduct testing

D. Request and wait for approval from AWS support, and then conduct testing

Which of the following AWS features enables a user to launch a pre-configured Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance?

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
B. Amazon Machine Image
C. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
D. Amazon AppStream 2.0

B. Amazon Machine Image

How would an AWS customer easily apply common access controls to a large set of users?

A. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group.
B. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM role.
C. Apply the same IAM policy to all IAM users with access to the same workload.
D. Apply an IAM policy to an Amazon Cognito user pool.

A. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group.

What technology enables compute capacity to adjust as loads change?

A. Load balancing
B. Automatic failover
C. Round robin
D. Auto Scaling

D. Auto Scaling

Which AWS services are defined as global instead of regional? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon CloudFront
E. Amazon DynamoDB

A. Amazon Route 53
D. Amazon CloudFront

Which AWS service would you use to obtain compliance reports and certificates?

A. AWS Artifact
B. AWS Lambda
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS Certificate Manager

A. AWS Artifact

Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the AWS customer? (Choose two.)

A. Ensuring that application data is encrypted at rest
B. Ensuring that AWS NTP servers are set to the correct time
C. Ensuring that users have received security training in the use of AWS services
D. Ensuring that access to data centers is restricted
E. Ensuring that hardware is disposed of properl

A. Ensuring that application data is encrypted at rest
C. Ensuring that users have received security training in the use of AWS services

Which AWS service can be used to manually launch instances based on resource requirements?

A. Amazon EBS
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon EC2
D. Amazon ECS

C. Amazon EC2

A company is migrating an application that is running non-interruptible workloads for a three-year time frame. Which pricing construct would provide the MOST cost-effective solution?

A. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
B. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances
C. Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances
D. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

D. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

The financial benefits of using AWS are: (Choose two.)

A. reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
B. increased capital expenditure (capex).
C. reduced operational expenditure (opex).
D. deferred payment plans for startups.
E. business credit lines for stratups

A. reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
C. reduced operational expenditure (opex).

Which AWS Cost Management tool allows you to view the most granular data about your AWS bill?

A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost and Usage report
D. AWS Billing dashboard

C. AWS Cost and Usage report

Which of the following can an AWS customer use to launch a new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) cluster?

A. AWS Concierge
B. AWS CloudFormation
C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
E. AWS Management Console

E. AWS Management Console

Which of the following is an AWS Cloud architecture design principle?

A. Implement single points of failure.
B. Implement loose coupling.
C. Implement monolithic design.
D. Implement vertical scaling.

B. Implement loose coupling.

Which of the following security measures protect access to an AWS account? (Choose two.)

A. Enable AWS CloudTrail.
B. Grant least privilege access to IAM users.
C. Create one IAM user and share with many developers and users.
D. Enable Amazon CloudFront.
E. Activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users

B. Grant least privilege access to IAM users.
E. Activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users

Which service provides a hybrid storage service that enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use cloud storage?

A. Amazon Glacier
B. AWS Snowball
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS

C. AWS Storage Gateway

Which of the following services falls under the responsibility of the customer to maintain operating system configuration, security patching, and networking?

A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. AWS Fargate

B. Amazon EC2

Which of the following is an important architectural design principle when designing cloud applications?

A. Use multiple Availability Zones.
B. Use tightly coupled components.
C. Use open source software.
D. Provision extra capacity.

A. Use multiple Availability Zones.

Which AWS support plan includes a dedicated Technical Account Manager?

A. Developer
B. Enterprise
C. Business
D. Basic

B. Enterprise

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers which of the following benefits over traditional database management?

A. AWS manages the data stored in Amazon RDS tables.
B. AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system.
C. AWS automatically scales up instance types on demand.
D. AWS manages the database type

B. AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system.

Which service is best for storing common database query results, which helps to alleviate database access load?

A. Amazon Machine Learning
B. Amazon SQS
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store

C. Amazon ElastiCache

Which of the following is a component of the shared responsibility model managed entirely by AWS?

A. Patching operating system software
B. Encrypting data
C. Enforcing multi-factor authentication
D. Auditing physical data center assets

D. Auditing physical data center assets

Which options does AWS make available for customers who want to learn about security in the cloud in an instructor-led setting? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS Online Tech Talks
C. AWS Blog
D. AWS Forums
E. AWS Classroom Training

B. AWS Online Tech Talks
E. AWS Classroom Training

Which of the following features can be configured through the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Dashboard? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon CloudFront distributions
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Security Groups
D. Subnets
E. Elastic Load Balancing

C. Security Groups
D. Subnets

If each department within a company has its own AWS account, what is one way to enable consolidated billing?

A. Use AWS Budgets on each account to pay only to budget
B. Contact AWS Support for a monthly bill.
C. Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join.
D. Put all invoices into one Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, load data into Amazon Redshift, and then run a billing report.

C. Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join.

How do customers benefit from Amazon's massive economies of scale?

A. Periodic price reductions as the result of Amazon's operational efficiencies
B. New Amazon EC2 instance types providing the latest hardware
C. The ability to scale up and down when needed
D. Increased reliability in the underlying hardware of Amazon EC2 instance

A. Periodic price reductions as the result of Amazon's operational efficiencies

Which AWS services can be used to gather information about AWS account activity? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Cloud9
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS CloudHSM
E. Amazon CloudWatch

C. AWS CloudTrail
E. Amazon CloudWatch

Which of the following common IT tasks can AWS cover to free up company IT resources? (Choose two.)

A. Patching databases software
B. Testing application releases
C. Backing up databases
D. Creating database schema
E. Running penetration tests

A. Patching databases software
C. Backing up databases

In which scenario should Amazon EC2 Spot Instances be used?

A. A company wants to move its main website to AWS from an on-premises web server.
B. A company has a number of application services whose Service Level Agreement (SLA) requires 99.999% uptime.
C. A company's heavily used legacy database is currently running on-premises.
D. A company has a number of infrequent, interruptible jobs that are currently using On-Demand Instances.

D. A company has a number of infrequent, interruptible jobs that are currently using On-Demand Instances.

Which AWS feature should a customer leverage to achieve high availability of an application?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. Availability Zones
C. Data centers
D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

B. Availability Zones

Which is the minimum AWS Support plan that includes Infrastructure Event Management without additional costs?

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

A. Enterprise

Which AWS service can serve a static website?

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Amazon QuickSight
D. AWS X-Ray

A. Amazon S3

How does AWS shorten the time to provision IT resources?

A. It supplies an online IT ticketing platform for resource requests.
B. It supports automatic code validation services.
C. It provides the ability to programmatically provision existing resources.
D. It automates the resource request process from a company's IT vendor list

C. It provides the ability to programmatically provision existing resources.

What can AWS edge locations be used for? (Choose two.)

A. Hosting applications
B. Delivering content closer to users
C. Running NoSQL database caching services
D. Reducing traffic on the server by caching responses
E. Sending notification messages to end users

B. Delivering content closer to users
D. Reducing traffic on the server by caching responses

Which of the following can limit Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to specific users?

A. A public and private key-pair
B. Amazon Inspector
C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
D. Security Groups

C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies

A solution that is able to support growth in users, traffic, or data size with no drop in performance aligns with which cloud architecture principle?

A. Think parallel
B. Implement elasticity
C. Decouple your components
D. Design for failure

B. Implement elasticity

A company will be moving from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. What would be one financial difference after the move?

A. Moving from variable operational expense (opex) to upfront capital expense (capex).
B. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable capital expense (capex).
C. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable operational expense (opex).
D. Elimination of upfront capital expense (capex) and elimination of variable operational
expense (opex)

C. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable operational expense (opex).

How should a customer forecast the future costs for running a new web application?

A. Amazon Aurora Backtrack
B. Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Cost and Usage report

C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

B. Business

Which of the following tasks is the responsibility of AWS?

A. Encrypting client-side data
B. Configuring AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles
C. Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor
D. Setting user password policies

C. Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor

One benefit of On-Demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) pricing is:

A. the ability to bid for a lower hourly cost.
B. paying a daily rate regardless of time used.
C. paying only for time used.
D. pre-paying for instances and paying a lower hourly rate

C. paying only for time used.

An administrator needs to rapidly deploy a popular IT solution and start using it immediately.

Where can the administrator find assistance?
A. AWS Well-Architected Framework documentation
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS CodeCommit
D. AWS Quick Start reference deployments

D. AWS Quick Start reference deployments

Which of the following services is in the category of AWS serverless platform?

A. Amazon EMR
B. Elastic Load Balancing
C. AWS Lambda
D. AWS Mobile Hub

C. AWS Lambda

Which services are parts of the AWS serverless platform?

A. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena
B. Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Amazon EMR
C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS
D. Amazon Athena, Amazon Cognito, Amazon EC2

C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS

According to the AWS shared responsibility model, what is the sole responsibility of AWS?

A. Application security
B. Edge location management
C. Patch management
D. Client-side data

B. Edge location management

Which AWS IAM feature is used to associate a set of permissions with multiple users?

A. Multi-factor authentication
B. Groups
C. Password policies
D. Access keys

B. Groups

Which of the following are benefits of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Unlimited uptime
B. Elasticity
C. Agility
D. Colocation
E. Capital expenses

B. Elasticity
C. Agility

Which of the following can a customer use to enable single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Console?

A. Amazon Connect
B. AWS Directory Service
C. Amazon Pinpoint
D. Amazon Rekognition

B. AWS Directory Service

What are the multiple, isolated locations within an AWS Region that are connected by low-latency networks called?

A. AWS Direct Connects
B. Amazon VPCs
C. Edge locations
D. Availability Zones

D. Availability Zones

Which of the following benefits does the AWS Compliance program provide to AWS customers?(Choose two.)

A. It verifies that hosted workloads are automatically compliant with the controls of supported compliance frameworks.
B. AWS is responsible for the maintenance of common compliance framework documentation.
C. It assures customers that AWS is maintaining physical security and data protection.
D. It ensures the use of compliance frameworks that are being used by other cloud providers.
E. It will adopt new compliance frameworks as they become relevant to customer workload

B. AWS is responsible for the maintenance of common compliance framework documentation.
C. It assures customers that AWS is maintaining physical security and data protection.

Which of the following services provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports?

A. AWS IAM
B. AWS Artifact
C. Amazon GuardDuty
D. AWS KMS

B. AWS Artifact

As part of the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following operational controls do users fully inherit from AWS?

A. Security management of data center
B. Patch management
C. Configuration management
D. User and access management

A. Security management of data center

When comparing AWS Cloud with on-premises Total Cost of Ownership, which expenses must be considered? (Choose two.)

A. Software development
B. Project management
C. Storage hardware
D. Physical servers
E. Antivirus software license

C. Storage hardware
D. Physical servers

Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the customer? (Choose two.)

A. Maintaining the underlying Amazon EC2 hardware.
B. Managing the VPC network access control lists.
C. Encrypting data in transit and at rest.
D. Replacing failed hard disk drives.
E. Deploying hardware in different Availability Zones

B. Managing the VPC network access control lists.
C. Encrypting data in transit and at rest.

Which scenarios represent the concept of elasticity on AWS? (Choose two.)

A. Scaling the number of Amazon EC2 instances based on traffic.
B. Resizing Amazon RDS instances as business needs change.
C. Automatically directing traffic to less-utilized Amazon EC2 instances.
D. Using AWS compliance documents to accelerate the compliance process.
E. Having the ability to create and govern environments using cod

A. Scaling the number of Amazon EC2 instances based on traffic.
B. Resizing Amazon RDS instances as business needs change.

When is it beneficial for a company to use a Spot Instance?

A. When there is flexibility in when an application needs to run.
B. When there are mission-critical workloads.
C. When dedicated capacity is needed.
D. When an instance should not be stopped

A. When there is flexibility in when an application needs to run.

A company is considering moving its on-premises data center to AWS. What factors should be included in doing a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon EC2 instance availability
B. Power consumption of the data center
C. Labor costs to replace old servers
D. Application developer time
E. Database engine capacity

B. Power consumption of the data center
C. Labor costs to replace old servers

How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda?

A. Users bid on the maximum price they are willing to pay per hour.
B. Users choose a 1-, 3- or 5-year upfront payment term.
C. Users pay for the required permanent storage on a file system or in a database.
D. Users pay based on the number of requests and consumed compute resources.

D. Users pay based on the number of requests and consumed compute resources.

What function do security groups serve related Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance security?

A. Act as a virtual firewall for the Amazon EC2 instance.
B. Secure AWS user accounts with AWS identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.
C. Provide DDoS protection with AWS Shield
D. Use Amazon CloudFront to protect the Amazon EC2 instance

A. Act as a virtual firewall for the Amazon EC2 instance.

Which disaster recovery scenario offers the lowest probability of down time?

A. Backup and restore
B. Pilot light
C. Warm standby
D. Multi-site active-active

D. Multi-site active-active

What will help a company perform a cost benefit analysis of migrating to the AWS Cloud?

A. Cost Explorer
B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Which of the following provides the ability to share the cost benefits of Reserved Instances across AWS accounts?

A. AWS Cost Explorer between AWS accounts
B. Linked accounts and consolidated billing
C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instance Utilization Report
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Usage Report between AWS account

B. Linked accounts and consolidated billing

A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to simplify and consolidate its billing process. Which AWS service will achieve this?

A. AWS Cost and Usage Reports
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Cost Explorer
D. AWS Budgets

B. AWS Organizations

A company is designing an application hosted in a single AWS Region serving end-users spread across the world. The company wants to provide the end-users low latency access to the application data.
Which of the following services will help fulfill this requirement?

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. Amazon Route 53 global DNS
D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) transfer acceleration

A. Amazon CloudFront

Which of the following deployment models enables customers to fully trade their capital IT expenses for operational expenses?

A. On-premises
B. Hybrid
C. Cloud
D. Platform as a service

C. Cloud

How is asset management on AWS easier than asset management in a physical data center?

A. AWS provides a Configuration Management Database that users can maintain.
B. AWS performs infrastructure discovery scans on the customer's behalf.
C. Amazon EC2 automatically generates an asset report and places it in the customer's
specified Amazon S3 bucket.
D. Users can gather asset metadata reliably with a few API calls.

B. AWS performs infrastructure discovery scans on the customer's behalf.

What feature of Amazon RDS helps to create globally redundant databases?

A. Snapshots
B. Automatic patching and updating
C. Cross-Region read replicas
D. Provisioned IOPS

C. Cross-Region read replicas

Using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to grant access only to the resources needed to perform a task is a concept known as:

A. restricted access.
B. as-needed access.
C. least privilege access.
D. token access.

C. least privilege access.

Which methods can be used to identify AWS costs by departments? (Choose two.)

A. Enable multi-factor authentication for the AWS account root user.
B. Create separate accounts for each department.
C. Use Reserved Instances whenever possible.
D. Use tags to associate each instance with a particular department.
E. Pay bills using purchase orders

B. Create separate accounts for each department.
D. Use tags to associate each instance with a particular department.

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customer responsibilities include which one of the following?

A. Securing the hardware, software, facilities, and networks that run all products and services.
B. Providing certificates, reports, and other documentation directly to AWS customers under
NDA.
C. Configuring the operating system, network, and firewall.
D. Obtaining industry certifications and independent third-party attestation

C. Configuring the operating system, network, and firewall.

Which managed AWS service provides real-time guidance on AWS security best practices?

A. AWS X-Ray
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. AWS Systems Manage

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

Which feature adds elasticity to Amazon EC2 instances to handle the changing demand for workloads?

A. Resource groups
B. Lifecycle policies
C. Application Load Balancer
D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customers are responsible for which aspects of security in the cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Visualization management
B. Hardware management
C. Encryption management
D. Facilities management

C. Encryption management
E. Firewall management

Which AWS hybrid storage service enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage through standard file-storage protocols?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. AWS Snowball
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. AWS Snowball Edge

C. AWS Storage Gateway

What is a responsibility of AWS in the shared responsibility model?

A. Updating the network ACLs to block traffic to vulnerable ports.
B. Patching operating systems running on Amazon EC2 instances.
C. Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.
D. Updating the security group rules to block traffic to the vulnerable port

C. Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.

Which architectural principle is used when deploying an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance in Multiple Availability Zone mode?

A. Implement loose coupling.
B. Design for failure.
C. Automate everything that can be automated.
D. Use services, not servers

B. Design for failure.

What does it mean to grant least privilege to AWS IAM users?

A. It is granting permissions to a single user only.
B. It is granting permissions using AWS IAM policies only.
C. It is granting Administrator Access policy permissions to trustworthy users.
D. It is granting only the permissions required to perform a given task.

D. It is granting only the permissions required to perform a given task.

What is a benefit of loose coupling as a principle of cloud architecture design?
A. It facilitates low-latency request handling
B. It allows applications to have dependent workflows.
C. It prevents cascading failures between different components.
D. It allows companies to focus on their physical data center operation

C. It prevents cascading failures between different components.

A director has been tasked with investigating hybrid cloud architecture. The company currently accesses AWS over the public internet.
Which service will facilitate private hybrid connectivity?

A. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) NAT Gateway
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Transfer Acceleration
D. AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)

B. AWS Direct Connect

A company's web application currently has tight dependencies on underlying components, so when one component fails the entire web application fails. Applying which AWS Cloud design
principle will address the current design issue?

A. Implementing elasticity, enabling the application to scale up or scale down as demand changes.
B. Enabling several EC2 instances to run in parallel to achieve better performance
C. Focusing on decoupling components by isolating them and ensuring individual components can function when other components fail.
D. Doubling EC2 computing resources to increase system fault tolerance

C. Focusing on decoupling components by isolating them and ensuring individual components can function when other components fail.

How can a customer increase security to AWS account logons? (Choose two.)

A. Configure AWS Certificate Manager
B. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
C. Use Amazon Cognito to manage access
D. Configure a strong password policy
E. Enable AWS Organizations

B. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
C. Use Amazon Cognito to manage access

What AWS service would be used to centrally manage AWS access across multiple accounts?
A. AWS Service Catalog
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Organizations

D. AWS Organizations

Which AWS service can a customer use to set up an alert notification when the account is approaching a particular dollar amount?

A. AWS Cost and Usage reports
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost Explorer
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

B. AWS Budgets

What can users access from AWS Artifact?

A. AWS security and compliance documents
B. A download of configuration management details for all AWS resources
C. Training materials for AWS services
D. A security assessment of the applications deployed in the AWS Cloud

A. AWS security and compliance documents

Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides designated Technical Account Managers?

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

A. Enterprise

Which of the following is an AWS Well-Architected Framework design principle related to reliability?

A. Deployment to a single Availability Zone
B. Ability to recover from failure
C. Design for cost optimization
D. Perform operations as code

B. Ability to recover from failure

Which type of AWS storage is ephemeral and is deleted when an instance is stopped or terminated?

A. Amazon EBS
B. Amazon EC2 instance store
C. Amazon EFS
D. Amazon S3

B. Amazon EC2 instance store

What is an advantage of using the AWS Cloud over a traditional on-premises solution?

A. Users do not have to guess about future capacity needs.
B. Users can utilize existing hardware contracts for purchases.
C. Users can fix costs no matter what their traffic is.
D. Users can avoid audits by using reports from AWS.

A. Users do not have to guess about future capacity needs.

Which of the following is an AWS-managed compute service?

A. Amazon SWF
B. Amazon EC2
C. AWS Lambda
D. Amazon Aurora

B. Amazon EC2

Which of the following is an important architectural principle when designing cloud applications?

A. Store data and backups in the same region.
B. Design tightly coupled system components.
C. Avoid multi-threading.
D. Design for failure

D. Design for failure

Which mechanism allows developers to access AWS services from application code?

A. AWS Software Development Kit
B. AWS Management Console
C. AWS CodePipeline
D. AWS Config

A. AWS Software Development Kit

After creating an EC2 instance to host an application, the traffic to the site far exceeds what was expected. You decide to move to a larger instance type. What AWS principal does this represent?

A. Durability
B. Horizontal Scaling
C. Elasticity
D. Vertical Scaling

D. Vertical Scaling

A development team has created a large amount of CloudFormation templates in the JSON format. Which AWS database can store these documents?

A. DynamoDB
B. Amazon RedShift
C. AWS MySQL
D. Amazon Aurora

A. DynamoDB

You need to track your AWS costs on a detailed level. Which tool will allow you to do this?

A. Cost Allocation Tags
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS CloudWatch
D. AWS Organizations

A. Cost Allocation Tags

Your company utilizes DNS and wants to migrate DNS and management of DNS to the cloud. Which AWS service would you use?

A. Route 53
B. CloudFormation
C. CloudFront
D. Application Load Balancers

A. Route 53

With which AWS service, coupled with EC2, can you implement elasticity by adding and removing instances as needed?

A. Auto Scaling
B. AWS Systems Manager
C. CloudFormation
D. Elastic Beanstalk

A. Auto Scaling

AWS Trusted Advisor provide checks in 5 different categories. Which item is not one of those checks?

A. Elasticity
B. Cost Optimization
C. Security
D. Fault Tolerance

A. Elasticity

You have been tasked to create an S3 bucket for storing templates. A team member has forwarded you the templates, which are used for creating multiple different AWS resources such as S3 buckets, EC2 instances, and VPCs. Which service uses these templates to create AWS resources?

A. OpsWorks
B. CloudFormation
C. Elastic Beanstalk
D. EC2

B. CloudFormation

A company needs to use a Load Balancer which can serve traffic at the TCP, and UDP layers. Additionally, it needs to handle millions of requests per second at very low latencies. Which Load Balancer should they use?

A. Network Load Balancer
B. Application Load Balancer
C. Classic Load Balancer
D. TCP Load Balancer

A. Network Load Balancer

You have infrequently accessed data in S3 buckets that you want to transfer to Glacier. What can you use in AWS to do this?

A. Database Migration Service
B. S3 Lifecycle Policy
C. Bucket Policy
D. Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

B. S3 Lifecycle Policy

In order to improve fault tolerance, you would like to begin using services that provide fault tolerance. Which AWS services provide automatic replication across Availability Zones?

A. EC2
B. VPC
C. S3
D. DynamoDb

C. S3
D. DynamoDb

Your team needs to begin monitoring the applications running in your AWS account. Which AWS service can you use?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS Config
C. AWS App Monitoring
D. Amazon Cloudtrail

A. Amazon CloudWatch

You want to group together EC2 instances and manage them as a group. One thing you want to do is issue commands remotely to these instances. Which AWS service will you use?

A. Systems Manager
B. CloudFormation
C. Load Balancing
D. Auto Scaling

A. Systems Manager

A recent audit has dictated that a company begin keeping a log of AWS Management Console actions and API calls. Which AWS service can help with this?

A. AWS CloudTrail
B. CloudWatch
C. AWS X-Ray
D. AWS Inspector

A. AWS CloudTrail

Your company has decided to migrate a SQL Server database to a newly created AWS account. Which service can be used to migrate the database?

A. DynamoDB
B. ElastiCache
C. AWS RDS
D. Database Migration Service

D. Database Migration Service

After experiencing unusual behavior in your AWS account, you need to determine if there are any issues with AWS that may be affecting your account. What section of the AWS portal helps you to inspect account alerts and find remediation guidance for your account?

A. AWS CloudWatch
B. AWS SNS
C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
D. AWS Service Health Dashboard

C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

You need an AWS service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in images and videos. Which service would you choose?

A. CloudWatch
B. Rekognition
C. CloudSearch
D. AWS Inspector

B. Rekognition

Which is an important architectural principle when designing cloud application?

There are 6 principles of cloud computing architecture design, including reasonable deployment, business continuity, elastic expansion, performance efficiency, security compliance, and continuous operation.

Which of the following is an important architectural design principle?

Without knowing and understanding what a symmetrical design looks like, however, these asymmetrical wins would have been difficult to create. This is why symmetry is such an important architectural principle.

What are the basic requirements of cloud architecture design?

Client infrastructure, application, service, runtime cloud, storage, infrastructure, management and security all these are the components of cloud computing architecture.

Which of the following is an AWS cloud architecture design principle?

Implementing the single points of failure is one of the design principles of AWS architecture.