Missed Questions

Question 1

What options exist for accidental deletion in S3?

Answer 1

Versioning on deletions

Question 2

What is a predefined security policy?

Answer 2

Determine protocols and ciphers used between load balancer and client

Question 3

What resource allows creation of subnets, modify IP address ranges, change network configurations, etc?

Answer 3

Virtual Private Cloud

Question 4

What is the best solution for multiple new employees that need different access?

Answer 4

Use AWS Organizations and service control policies to manage actions and services

Question 5

What’s the best option for EC2 only needed for 9 months?

Answer 5

Partial Upfront Reserved Instance

Question 6

What storage class when unsure of access patterns of your data objects?

Answer 6

S3 Intelligent-Tiering

Question 7

What automatic monitoring is available in 5-minute increments for EC2?

Answer 7

Basic (free and collects metrics at 5-minute intervals)

Question 8

How to get a CPU dashboard of metrics at 1-minute intervals?

Answer 8

Detailed Monitoring for EC2 instances and CloudWatch for the dashboard

Question 9

CloudWatch vs CloudTrail

Answer 9

CloudTrail is for logging via API; CloudWatch is for viewing metrics

Question 10

Linux OS on EC2 - how is it classified and who is responsible for patching?

Answer 10

Guest Operating System; Customer’s Responsibility

Question 11

What tools to migrate MySQL DB to Amazon RDS?

Answer 11

AWS DMS and MySQL tools

Question 12

What instances would an Auto Scaling group use?

Answer 12

Spot Instances and On-Demand Instances

Question 13

What are S3 Bucket Name limitiations?

Answer 13

No uppercase, no underscores, no name duplications anywhere

Question 14

What component can allow private subnet to connect to internet and make connections highly available?

Answer 14

NAT Gateway

Question 15

What regional storage option gives ability to store and manage files?

Answer 15

Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)

Question 16

What pillar is effective running workloads and gaining insight into operations and process improvements for business value?

Answer 16

Operational Excellence

Question 17

What piller is a workload functioning correctly and consistently?

Answer 17

Reliability

Question 18

What piller is efficient usage of resources and maintaining efficiency as demands and tech chnages?

Answer 18

Performance Efficiency

Question 19

What pillar is ensuring security and asset protection?

Answer 19

Security

Question 20

What pillar is operating systems in a way that delivers business value in most economical way?

Answer 20

Cost Optimization

Question 21

What service can create hierarchical estimate of costs grouped by sections of the organization’s architecture?

Answer 21

AWS Pricing Calculator

Question 22

When does DynamoDB encrypt data at rest?

Answer 22

Only when creating a new table structure

Question 23

Which component allows keeping up with employees, project listings, and tech resources over time?

Answer 23

Entity Lifecycle Tracking

Question 24

What VPC endpoint focuses only on DynamoDB and Amazon S3?

Answer 24

Gateway type endpoint

Question 25

Who is responsible for encrypting data at rest for a file sharing server?

Answer 25

The customer

Question 26

How can you connect VPCs so devices can communicate?

Answer 26

VPC Peering

Question 27

What is the AWS-provided firewall and who configures it?

Answer 27

It's a Security Group (acts as a firewall) and the customer configures it

Question 28

What is an Elastic IP?

Answer 28

Public, static IPv4 address allocated to your account until you release it. It can be rapidly remapped to another instance, but is only for 1 Region. It incurs a cost whether it is used or not, until released.

Question 29

What is a key benefit of S3 related to data durability?

Answer 29

Data is automatically distributed across 3 Availability Zones within a Region

Question 30

Which caching solution routes traffic within AWS resources and also outside AWS using cloud DNS?

Answer 30

Route 53

Question 31

What compute resources option for a CONSISTENT level of resource usage for 3 years?

Answer 31

Savings Plan model - up to 72% savings compared to On-Demand. Anything beyond the committed amount is processed as On-Demand

Question 32

What S3 bucket policy can limit access to a specific object?

Answer 32

IP Address Range, Custom Prefix, and AWS Account

Question 33

What instance type allows changing resource type during the term?

Answer 33

Convertible Reserved Instances - but only when changing to higher or equal value to original instance

Question 34

What's the first thing to do when logging in as root user for the first time?

Answer 34

Turn on Mult-factor authentication