Practice Questions

Question 1

Which tasks are the responsibilities of AWS?

Answer 1

Maintaining virtualization infrastructure
Configuring AWS infrastructure devices

Question 2

Which service builds the workflows that are required for human review of machine learning predictions?

Answer 2

Amazon Augmented AI

Question 3

Which tool provides automation actions for AWS services and applications through scripts?

Answer 3

AWS Command Line Interface
The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) provides the capability to control multiple AWS services directly from the command line within one tool. For example, a person can use commands to start an Amazon EC2 instance, connect an Amazon EC2 instance to a specific Auto Scaling group, and more. The AWS CLI is available for users on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Question 4

Which Amazon EC2 pricing option reduces costs when a business makes an hourly spend commitment to an instance family and Region for a 1-year or 3-year term?

Answer 4

EC2 Instance Savings Plans
EC2 Instance Savings Plans reduces compute costs by committing to a consistent hourly spend for a 1-year or 3-year term. This results in savings of up to 72% over On-Demand Instance costs. Any EC2 usage up to the commitment is charged at the discounted Savings Plan rate (for example, $10 an hour). Any EC2 usage beyond the commitment is charged at regular On-Demand Instance rates.

Question 5

Which AWS Trusted Advisor category includes checks for high-utilization EC2 instances?

Answer 5

Performance
In this category, AWS Trusted Advisor also helps improve the performance of services by providing recommendations for how to take advantage of provisioned throughput.

Question 6

Which service is used to transfer up to 100 PB of data to AWS?

Answer 6

AWS Snowmobile

Question 7

Which service consolidates and manages multiple AWS accounts from a central location?

Answer 7

AWS Organizations
In AWS Organizations, businesses centrally control permissions for their accounts by using service control policies (SCPs). Additionally, businesses can use the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations to combine usage and receive a single bill for multiple AWS accounts.

Question 8

Which Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework focuses on recovering IT workloads to meet the requirements of business stakeholders?

Answer 8

Operations Perspective
The Operations Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework also includes principles for operating in the cloud by using agile best practices.

Question 9

In the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class, Amazon S3 moves objects between a frequent access tier and an infrequent access tier. Which storage classes are used for these tiers?

Answer 9

S3 Standard
S3 Standard-IA

Question 10

Which service provides the capability to quickly deploy and scale applications on AWS?

Answer 10

AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Businesses upload their application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

Question 11

Which service provides review details for user activities and API calls that have occurred within an AWS environment?

Answer 11

AWS CloudTrail
With CloudTrail, a person can view a complete history of user activity and API calls for their applications and resources.

Question 12

Which component or service establishes a dedicated private connection between an on-premises data center and virtual private cloud (VPC)?

Answer 12

AWS Direct Connect
AWS Direct Connect is a service that establishes a dedicated private connection between an on-premises data center and VPC.

Question 13

Which actions can a person perform in Amazon Route 53?

Answer 13

Connect user requests to infrastructure in AWS and outside of AWS.
Manage DNS records for domain names.
Amazon Route 53 is a DNS web service. It gives developers and businesses a reliable way to route end users to internet applications that are hosted in AWS.

Question 14

Which statement best describes AWS Marketplace?

Answer 14

A digital catalog that includes thousands of listings from independent software vendors.

Question 15

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on using computing resources in ways that meet system requirements?

Answer 15

Performance Efficiency
The Performance Efficiency pillar focuses on using computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.

Question 16

Which statement is TRUE for AWS Lambda?

Answer 16

Businesses pay only for compute time while their code is running.

AWS Lambda is a service that runs code without needing to provision or manage servers.

Question 17

Which statement best describes Elastic Load Balancing?

Answer 17

A service that distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances.

A load balancer acts as a single point of contact for all incoming web traffic to an Auto Scaling group. This means that as Amazon EC2 instances are added or removed in response to the amount of incoming traffic, these requests are routed to the load balancer first and then spread across multiple resources that will handle them.

Question 18

Which tool provides the capability to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time?

Answer 18

AWS Cost Explorer
With AWS Cost Explorer, businesses can quickly create custom reports to analyze their AWS cost and usage data.

Question 19

A cloud architect wants Amazon S3 to monitor object access patterns. Which storage class should they use?

Answer 19

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
In the Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class, Amazon S3 monitors object access patterns. If an object has not been accessed for 30 consecutive days, Amazon S3 automatically moves it to the infrequent access tier, Amazon S3 Standard-IA. If an object is accessed in the infrequent access tier, Amazon S3 automatically moves it to the frequent access tier, Amazon S3 Standard.

Question 20

An application developer wants to send and receive messages between distributed application components. Which service should they use?

Answer 20

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Amazon SQS is a message queuing service. Using Amazon SQS, an application developer can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume size, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available.

Question 21

Statement best describes Amazon GuardDuty

Answer 21

A service that provides intelligent threat detection for your AWS infrastructure and resources.

AWS GuardDuty identifies threats by continually monitoring the network activity and account behavior within an AWS environment.

Question 22

An application developer wants to store data in a key-value database. Which service should they use?

Answer 22

Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value database service. A key-value database might include data pairs such as “Name: John Doe,” “Address: 123 Any Street,” and “City: Anytown”.

Question 23

Which action can a person perform in Amazon CloudFront?

Answer 23

Deliver content to customers through a global network of edge locations.
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery service.

Question 24

Which Support plans include access to all AWS Trusted Advisor checks?

Answer 24

Business and Enterprise

Question 25

A cloud engineer is running an Amazon EC2 instance and wants to store data in an attached resource. Their data is temporary and will not be kept long term. Which resource should they use?

Answer 25

instance store Instance stores are ideal for temporary data that does not need to be kept long term.

Question 26

A cloud engineer wants to store data in a volume that is attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. Which service should they use?

Answer 26

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Amazon EBS provides block-level storage volumes for Amazon EC2 instances. If a person stops or terminates an Amazon EC2 instance, all the data on the attached EBS volume remains available.

Question 27

Which virtual private cloud (VPC) component controls inbound and outbound traffic for Amazon EC2 instances?

Answer 27

Security Group A security group is a virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic for an Amazon EC2 instance. By default, a security group denies all inbound traffic and allows all outbound traffic. Businesses can add custom rules to configure which traffic should be allowed or denied.

Question 28

Which service runs containerized applications on AWS?

Answer 28

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Amazon EKS is a fully managed service that runs Kubernetes on AWS. Kubernetes is open-source software that deploys and manages containerized applications at scale.

Question 29

Statement best describes an Availability Zone?

Answer 29

A fully isolated portion of the AWS global infrastructure. An Availability Zone is a single data center or a group of data centers within a Region. Availability Zones are located tens of miles apart from each other. This helps them to provide interconnectivity to support the services and applications that run within a Region.

Question 30

A company is hosting a static website from a single Amazon S3 bucket. Which AWS service will achiever lower latency and high transfer speeds?

Answer 30

Amazon CloudFront CloudFront is a web service that speeds up the distribution of your static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .js, and image files, to your users. Content is cached in edge locations. Content that is repeatedly accessed can be served from the edge locations instead of the source S3 bucket.

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Business

Question 32

Which AWS service should be used to implement encryption in transit?

Answer 32

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) ACM is a service that is used to create, store, and renew public and private SSL/TLS certificates. You can use ACM to implement encryption in transit and at rest by using a protocol, such as TLS.

Question 33

Which AWS service allows customers to purchase unused Amazon EC2 capacity at an often discounted rate?

Answer 33

Spot Instances With Spot Instances, you can access unused EC2 capacity. Spot Instances can be discounted.

Question 34

A user deploys an Amazon RDS DB instance in multiple Availability Zones. This strategy involves which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

Answer 34

Reliability

Question 35

A user needs to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3. Which AWS service can meet these requirements?

Answer 35

Amazon Macie Macie is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.

Question 36

Each department within a company has its own independent AWS account and its own payment method. The company needs to centralize departmental governance and consolidate payments. How can the company achieve these objectives by using AWS services or features?

Answer 36

Create an organization in AWS Organizations with all features enabled within one account. Invite all accounts to join the organization

Question 37

A company wants to establish a consistent and private connection from the company's on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

Answer 37

Amazon Direct Connect

Question 38

A company requires an encrypted connection between the company's on-premises servers and AWS. The connection must use the company's existing internet connection. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Answer 38

AWS Site-to-Site VPN Site-to-Site VPN creates an encrypted network path between your on-premises network and your AWS Cloud network. This connection between your on-premises network and your AWS Cloud network uses the internet.

Question 39

A company wants to create a learning application for students. The learning application must give students the option to choose a button to have the text read out loud to them. Which AWS machine learning service will meet this requirement?

Answer 39

Amazon Polly Amazon Polly is a machine learning service that converts text to speech. This service provides the ability to read text out loud.

Question 40

How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda usage once the free tier has been exceeded?

Answer 40

By the time it takes for the Lambda function to run. By the number of requests made for a given Lambda function.

Question 41

An application development team needs a solution that sends an alert to an entire development team if a quality assurance test fails on an application. Which AWS service should the application development team use to meet the requirement?

Answer 41

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Question 42

A company has an on-premises Linux-based server with an Oracle database that runs on it. The company wants to migrate the database server to run on an Amazon EC2 instance in AWS. Which service should the company use to complete the migration?

Answer 42

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) WS MGN is an automated lift-and-shift solution. This solution can migrate physical servers and any databases or applications that run on them to EC2 instances in AWS.

Question 43

What are benefits of using the AWS Cloud for companies with customers in many countries around the world?

Answer 43

Companies can deploy applications in multiple AWS Regions to reduce latency. Amazon CloudFront has multiple edge locations around the world to reduce latency.

Question 44

Which credential components are required to gain programmatic access to an AWS account?

Question 45

Which of the functionalities are characteristics of Amazon S3?

Answer 45

An object Store A durable storage system

Question 46

A company requires a relational database on AWS that records new customer orders from a website. Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?

Answer 46

Amazon Aurora

Question 47

What are the advantages of deploying an application with Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones?

Answer 47

Preventing a single point of failure Increasing the availability of the application

Question 48

Which tasks are the customer's responsibility according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

Answer 48

Configure IAM users according to the principle of least privilege. Configure an Amazon S3 bucket to allow public access.

Question 49

Which AWS service identifies security groups that allow unrestricted access to a user's AWS resources?

Answer 49

AWS Trusted Advisor