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1
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Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer responsible for?

A

Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest.

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

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AWS Budgets

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

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Amazon S3

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

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AWS Professional Services

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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?

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AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners

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

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Design for failure.

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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

A. Amazon EC2

B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

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

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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

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Dedicated Hosts

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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
A

C. Elasticity

D. Pay-as-you-go pricing

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

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AWS CloudTrail

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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
A

A. A global file system

B. An object store

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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

A. Amazon Route 53

B. Virtual Private Gateway

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

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Project management

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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?

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Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) AA26345F620F79A78626181E9CE96B6D

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

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Regions contain Availability Zones.

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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

A

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

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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

A. The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts

D. Potential volume discounts, as usage in all accounts is combined

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

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Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing

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

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lower variable costs and lower upfront costs.

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A characteristic of edge locations is that they:

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cache frequently changing data without reaching the origin server.

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

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies

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23
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Which of the following security-related actions are available at no cost?

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Accessing forums, blogs, and whitepapers

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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?

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Convertible RIs

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

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Elastic computing

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

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Elastic Load Balancing

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

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AWS Artifact

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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 center

A

B. Encrypting data on the client-side

D. Configuring Network Access Control Lists (ACL)

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

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

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30
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According to best practices, how should an application be designed to run in the AWS Cloud?

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Use loosely coupled components.

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

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

A

D. Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

E. Enforcing password strength and expiration

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32
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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
A

A. Amazon Glacier

B. Amazon RDS

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33
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What is one of the advantages of the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

A

It simplifies relational database administration tasks.

34
Q

A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales.

Which AWS service should they use?

A

Amazon Aurora

35
Q

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

36
Q

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

A

Awareness and training

37
Q

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

A

A minimum of two

38
Q

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

A

it allows the business to focus on business activities.

39
Q

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

A

Amazon S3

40
Q

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

A

SSH keys

41
Q

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

A

Amazon DynamoDB

42
Q

What is an example of agility in the AWS Cloud?

A

Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

43
Q

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

A

AWS Organizations

44
Q

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

A

Using many instances in parallel

45
Q

For which auditing process does AWS have sole responsibility?

A

Physical security

46
Q

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

A

Global reach

47
Q

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

A

Patching Amazon EC2 instances

48
Q

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

Use the consolidated billing feature from AWS Organizations.

49
Q

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

A

D. Real-time monitoring

E. Adjustable retention

50
Q

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

A

Amazon Route 53

51
Q

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

A. Reduced latency to users

C. Data sovereignty compliance

52
Q

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

A

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

53
Q

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

A

Spot Instances

54
Q

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

A

Data encryption

55
Q

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

A

Amazon EC2

56
Q

A company is looking for a scalable data warehouse solution.

Which of the AWS solutions would meet the company’s needs?

A

Amazon Redshift

57
Q

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

A

Elastic Load Balancing

58
Q

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

A. Command line interface
B. On-premises
C. Software Development Kits
D. Software-as-a-service
E. Hybrid
A

A. Command line interface

C. Software Development Kits

59
Q

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

A

global infrastructure.

60
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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. Amazom CloudFront
A

B. Amazon S3

E. Amazom CloudFront

61
Q

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

A

Hybrid architecture

62
Q

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

A

They have better performance than customer-managed services.

63
Q

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

A

Amazon S3

64
Q 
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 policy

65
Q

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

A

C. Data encryption

D. Automated penetration testing

66
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Which AWS managed service is used to host databases?

A

Amazon RDS

67
Q

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

A

Amazon EFS

68
Q

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

A

Provision capacity for peak load

69
Q

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

A

Amazon Glacier

70
Q

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

A

Patch management

71
Q

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

A

Amazon Direct Connect

72
Q

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

AWS Lambda

73
Q

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

A

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

74
Q 
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

A. Fault Tolerance

D. Performance

75
Q

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

A

Encrypting data in transit

76
Q

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

77
Q

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

A

Ability to focus on revenue-generating activities.

78
Q

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

79
Q

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

A

AWS CloudFormation

80
Q

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

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