Technology Flashcards

1
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Which of the following AWS services gives you a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources, alerting you and providing remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that my affect you?

A

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

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2
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You need to implement an automated service that will scan your AWS environment with the goal of both improving security and reducing costs. Which service should you use?

A

Trusted Advisor

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3
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AWS VPC is a component of which of the following overall services categories?

A

Networking & Content Delivery

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4
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For a subnet to be public and send non-local traffic to the Internet, we must update the Route Table of the public subnet and attach which of the following to the VPC that contains the subnet?

A

Internet Gateway

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5
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Which of the following Load Balancers uses Listeners, Targets, and Target Groups?

A

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

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6
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Which of the following are AWS compute services? choose 2.

A

Lambda

EC2

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7
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Which of the following is AWS’ event-driven, serverless compute service?

A

Lambda

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8
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True or False: S3 is object storage suitable for the storage of ‘flat’ files like Word documents, photos, etc

A

True

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9
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You need a “virtual hard disk” for your EC2 instance. Which of the following should you choose?

A

EBS (Elastic Block Storage)

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10
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Which of the given services offer on-demand downloads of AWS security and compliance reports?

AWS Artifact
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Directory Service
Amazon Inspector
None
A

AWS Artifact

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11
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Which of the following services enables customers to build and run applications on-premises using the same programming interfaces as in AWS Regions?

AWS Lambda
AWS Batch
AWS Outposts
Amazon EC2

A

AWS Outposts

a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to customer premises.

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12
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Which of the following services are defined as global services in AWS? (Choose all that apply)

AWS STS (security token service)
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon CloudFront
AWS IAM (Identity Access Management)
Amazon VPC (virtual private cloud)
A

AWS STS
Amazon CloudFront
AWS IAM

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13
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Which of the following resources can be used specifically to Availability Zone in which they reside? (Choose all that apply)

Elastic IP Addresses
EBS Volumes
Amazon EC2 resource identifiers
Instances
Key Pairs
A

EBS Volumes

Instances

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14
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A secure, durable and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 storage class for data archiving and long-term backup.

Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3
Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon Redshift

A

Amazon S3 Glacier

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15
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You have been tasked to implement a NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability for your new APP. Which of the following database services will you implement in order to meet the requirement?

Amazon Redshift
Amazon Aurora
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Neptune

A

Amazon DynamoDB

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16
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Which AWS service should you use if you need to set up and operate a highly scalable MongoDB database?

Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DocumentDB

A

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, reliable, and fully-managed database service.

17
Q

Which AWS service should you use if you need to set up and operate a highly scalable MySQL database?

Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DocumentDB

A

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database engine that’s compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

18
Q

Describes the difference between an Availability Zone and a Local Zone?

A

An Availability Zone is an isolated location within an AWS region while a Local Zone is an extension of an AWS Region in geographic proximity to your users

A Local Zone is an extension of an AWS Region in geographic proximity to your users. Local Zones have their own connections to the internet and support AWS Direct Connect, so resources created in a Local Zone can serve local users with low-latency communications.

19
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You are working on a global scale application that recently met underperformance issues. You have been tasked to implement a solution to speed up the distribution of your static and dynamic web content. Which of the following AWS service will you implement to fix the issue?

Amazon VPC
Amazon Route 53
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon API Gateway

A

Amazon CloudFront speeds up the distribution of your static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .php, image, and media files. When users request your content, CloudFront delivers it through a worldwide network of edge locations that provide low latency and high performance.

20
Q

According to Amazon Inc., there are six advantages of cloud computing. Which of the following is not considered an advantage?

Increase Speed & Agility
Stop spending money running & maintaining data centers
Go global in minutes
Increase infrastructure capacity needs

A

Increase infrastructure capacity needs