Technology Flashcards

Question 1

Q

A customer has an on-premises 5-gigabyte Oracle database that needs to be migrated to AWS and converted to Aurora. The customer requires minimal downtime to the database. Which service is the best option for migration and conversion?

DataSync
Direct Connect
Database Migration Service
Snowmobile

Answer

A

Database Migration Service

DMS supports homogeneous migrations like Oracle to Oracle and heterogeneous migrations like Oracle to Aurora, with minimal downtime.

Question 2

Q

A company would like to build an application that supports multiple languages. Which machine learning service allows the company to add localization to their application?

Rekognition
Polly
Translate
SageMaker

Answer

A

Translate

Translate provides language translation.

Question 3

Q

A customer would like to store secondary backup copies of on-premises data to the cloud. The customer is not concerned about an extra level of protection by geographic redundancy but requires rapid access to the data when it is needed. Which Amazon S3 storage class should be used as the lowest cost option with rapid access?

-S3 Standard-Infrequent Access
-S3 Glacier Deep Archive
-S3 Standard
-S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access

Answer

A

S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access

S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access is designed for customers who want a lower cost option for infrequently accessed data but do not require the multiple Availability Zone data resilience model of the S3 Standard or S3 Standard-Infrequent Access storage classes. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access provides millisecond access when the data is needed.

Question 4

Q

Your sales operations group would like to perform monthly analyses on large amounts of sales activity. They want to be able to rank the performance of different territories, product categories, and sales channels. They will use visualization tools to generate graphical representations of the data. Which AWS service will provide the best solution for storing the sales data?

-Amazon ElastiCache
-Amazon Aurora
-Amazon Redshift
-Amazon DynamoDB

Answer

A

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift provides the best solution for performing queries based on a predefined set of dimensions. Redshift organizes data for high performance based on user-specified distribution schemes. Amazon ElastiCache provides in-memory performance, but no data organization assistance. Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB are good solutions, but Redshift’s columnar storage gives it the edge.

Question 5

Q

Which of the following are classified as migration services?
Choose2
-AWS OpsWorks
-AWS Config
-AWS Application Discovery Service
-AWS Snowball

Answer

A

AWS Application Discovery Service

AWS Application Discovery Service helps you gather information about your on-premises environment and is considered a migration tool. https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-migration/

AWS Snowball

Snowball helps you migrate massive amounts of data into cloud, so it is considered a migration tool. https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-migration/

Question 6

Q

Which of the following is TRUE when considering subnets in a VPC?

-Subnets within a VPC can only communicate with each other if a NAT gateway is deployed.
-By default, subnets within a VPC cannot communicate with each other.
-Subnets within a VPC can only communicate with each other if an internet gateway is deployed.
-By default, all subnets within a VPC can communicate with each other.

Answer

A

By default, all subnets within a VPC can communicate with each other.

By default, all subnets within a VPC can communicate with each other, without needing any other resources or configuration. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Subnets.html

Question 7

Q

A solutions architect wants to design an application architecture that reduces the risk of cascading failures between components. Which design principles should be considered when planning the cloud architecture?
Choose2

a. Design the architecture to reduce inter-dependencies
b. Design the architecture to leverage inter-dependencies
c. Build monolithic systems
d. Utilize tightly coupled components
e. Utilize loosely coupled components

Answer

A

a. Design the architecture to reduce inter-dependencies

Architectures should be designed in a way that reduces inter-dependencies and the risk of cascading failures between components.

e. Utilize loosely coupled components

Loosely coupled components are connected but not dependent on each other. Loose coupling reduces the risk of cascading failures and can be achieved through asynchronous integration.

Question 8

Q

A customer is migrating their on-premises data center to AWS and has bandwidth constraints. Which service allows them to transport exabyte-scale datasets into AWS in a cost-effective and secure manner?

a. Snowball
b. DataSync
c. Snowmobile
d. Snowcone

Answer

A

Snowmobile

The Snow Family allows you to transfer large amounts of on-premises data to AWS using a physical device. Snowmobile transports multi-petabyte or exabyte-scale data.

Question 9

Q

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

Compute

Database

Management Tools

Migration Services

Networking and Content Delivery

Answer

A

Networking and Content Delivery

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) gives you full control over your virtual networking environment, including resource placement, connectivity, and security. VPC can be found under the Networking and Content Delivery category of services in the AWS Management Console.

Question 10

Q

A company is using CloudTrail to simplify operational analysis and troubleshooting. When tracking user activity, which content fields does CloudTrail track when a user accesses the AWS Management Console?

choose 2

a. Region
b. Resource tag
c. Availability Zone
d. Username
e. Previous state of the affected resource

Answer

A

a. Region

CloudTrail tracks the AWS Region that the request was made to, such as us-east-1.

b. Username

CloudTrail allows you to track the username.

Question 11

Q

What is the maximum number of objects you can store in S3 per AWS account?

a. 65,536
b. 262,144
c. Unlimited
d. 1,048,576

Answer

A

Unlimited

You can store an essentially unlimited number of objects in S3 - either in a single bucket or across multiple in your account. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/BucketRestrictions.html

Question 12

Q

You are trying out AWS on a trial basis and need to deploy an application without having to configure servers. Which AWS service can you use?

choose 1

a. Auto Scaling
b. Elastic Beanstalk
c. ECS
d. CloudFormation

Answer

A

Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk allows you to deploy your web applications and web services to AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

Question 13

Q

What benefits can CloudFront bring to your e-commerce website?
choose 3

a. Advanced analytics into customer journeys
b. Protection against network and application layer attacks via WAF
c. Lower latency for customers of your e-commerce website
d. Increased application availability
e. A scalable managed database that integrates seamlessly with Lambda and EC2

Answer

A

B. Protection against network and application layer attacks via WAF

CloudFront provides protection with AWS WAF and AWS Shield.

C. Lower latency for customers of your e-commerce website

CloudFront provides the ability to cache both static and dynamic content around the world, ensuring quick response times for customers when retrieving cached website content.

D. Increased application availability

CloudFront provides the ability to cache both static and dynamic content around the world, ensuring quick response times for customers when retrieving cached website content.

Question 14

Q

You have a MySQL database that you want to migrate to the cloud, and you need it to be significantly faster there. You are looking for a speed increase up to 5 times the current performance. Which AWS offering could you use?

choose 1

a. Amazon RDS MySQL
b. Amazon Aurora
c. DynamoDB
d. ElastiCache

Answer

A

Amazon Aurora

Aurora is a relational database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL that was created by AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/

IS NOT
Amazon RDS MySQL
Although migrating a MySQL database to Amazon RDS MySQL is typical, you will not achieve the up to 5 times speed increase. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/mysql/

Question 15

Q

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. CloudFormation
b. AWS Inspector
c. CloudWatch
d. AWS CloudTrail

Answer

A

AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail tracks user activity and API calls within your account.

Is NOT
CloudWatch
why
CloudWatch is a collection of services that help you monitor and observe your cloud resources

Question 16

Q

Which of the following are load balancer types offered by AWS?

choose 3

a. Application
b. Service
c. Web
d. Original
e. Network
f. Database
g. Classic

Answer

A

a. Application
Application is a valid load balancer type AWS offers.

b. Network
Network is a valid load balancer type AWS offers.

c. Classic
Classic is a valid load balancer type AWS offers.

Question 17

Q

You want to use an AWS service that enables you to notify select Tech Support members in your company (via email) of any cloud-related issues to attend to. Which of the following services will accomplish that?

a. Simple Email Service
b. Simple Queue Service
c. Simple Workflow Service
d. Simple Notification Service

Answer

A

Simple Notification Service

With Simple Notification Service, or Amazon SNS, you can create and appropriately name a topic to which you publish your messages. Then, the select Tech Support members can subscribe to that topic to receive these messages as email notifications.

Question 18

Q

Which of the following can be specified as an origin when creating a CloudFront distribution?

chose 3

a. An S3 bucket
b. An elastic load balancer
c. An RDS instance
d. A domain name

Answer

A

a. An S3 bucket
b. An elastic load balancer
d. A domain name

Question 19

Q

Which of the following database migrations are classified as heterogeneous?

choose 2

a. MySQL to Amazon Aurora MySQL
b. Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
c. Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
d. Oracle to Amazon RDS for Oracle

Answer

A

b. Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

In heterogeneous database migrations, the source and target databases tend to be different in schema structure, data type, and database code. Oracle and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL are not the same.

c. Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

In heterogeneous database migrations, the source and target databases tend to be different in schema structure, data type, and database code. SQL Server and PostgreSQL are not the same.

Question 20

Q

Which type of Elastic Load Balancer is recommended for flexible application management and supports HTTP and HTTPS/2 traffic?

choose 1
a. Application Load Balancer
b. Network Load Balancer
c. Classic Load Balancer
d. None. The application needs to be upgraded.

Answer

A

a. Application Load Balancer

Application Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS (HTTPS/2) traffic and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern application architectures, including microservices and containers. Operating at the individual request level (Layer 7), Application Load Balancer routes traffic to targets within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) based on the content of the request.

Question 21

Q

A company with a business-critical application needs to ensure business continuity and that they will not be impacted by capacity restraints in a given Region. How can the company ensure this?

choose 3

a. Convertible Reserved Instance (RI) with a capacity reservation
b. On-demand capacity reservation
c. Savings Plan with a capacity reservation
d. Spot instance with a capacity reservation
e. Standard Reserved Instance (RI) with a capacity reservation

Answer

A

a. Convertible Reserved Instance (RI) with a capacity reservation

A Reserved Instance is a reservation of resources and capacity for either 1 or 3 years. A capacity reservation offers assurance that the customer will be given preference if there is ever a capacity constraint in a Region.

b. On-demand capacity reservation

On-Demand Capacity Reservations enable you to reserve compute capacity for your Amazon EC2 instances for any duration.

e. Standard Reserved Instance (RI) with a capacity reservation

A Reserved Instance is a reservation of resources and capacity for either 1 or 3 years. A capacity reservation offers assurance that the customer will be given preference if there is ever a capacity constraint in a Region.

Question 22

Q

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

choose 1

a. AWS Systems Manager

b. CloudFormation

c. Elastic Beanstalk

d. Auto Scaling

Answer

A

d. Auto Scaling

Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance.

IS NOT
Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk allows you to deploy your web applications and web services to AWS.

Question 23

Q

An organization needs to run a MySQL relational database on AWS. They plan to hire their own database administrators to manage their databases, including taking backups, using replication, and clustering. Which option provides the customer the control and flexibility needed?

choose 1

a. Use the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) to launch the MySQL database.

b. Use Systems Manager to install the MySQL database directly to on-premises servers.

c. Install the MySQL database directly on an EC2 instance.

d. Open a case with AWS Support to have them assist the database administrators with the installation of the MySQL database.

Answer

A

c. Install the MySQL database directly on an EC2 instance.

Installing the database directly to EC2 gives the customer complete control over the database and its management.

Question 24

Q

A colleague tells you about a service that uses machine learning to discover and protect sensitive data stored in S3 buckets. Which AWS service does this?

choose 1

a. Inspector
b. SageMaker
c. Rekognition
d. Macie

Answer

A

d. Macie

Macie helps you discover and protect sensitive data.

IS NOT—–
Inspector

Inspector works with EC2 instances to uncover and report vulnerabilities.

Question 25

Q

A company needs a scalable data warehouse to consolidate multiple data sources for reporting, where real-time transaction processing (insert, update, and delete) is not required. Which solution best supports this requirement?

choose 1

a. Relational Database Service (RDS)

b. Redshift
c. Data Pipeline
d. Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

Answer

A

b. Redshift

Redshift is a scalable data warehouse solution that supports querying, reporting, analytics, and business intelligence. It can be used when you need to consolidate multiple data sources for reporting and don’t require real-time transaction processing (insert, update, and delete).

IS NOT —-
c. Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline helps you move data between compute and storage services running either on AWS or on-premises.

Question 26

Q

Which of the following is AWS’ data warehousing service?

a. Redshift
b. EMR
c. Snowball
d. S3 Big Data

Answer

A

a. Redshift

Redshift is AWS’ data warehousing service.

IS NOT—-
Snowball

Snowball is a physical appliance used to transfer data into or out of AWS.

Question 27

Q

A company is planning for a one-time sale of 75% off all products on its website. They expect to see a short-term spike on the sale day. Which EC2 instance type should the company use to meet its requirements and maximize flexibility?

choose 1

a. Standard Reserved Instance (RI)
b. On-Demand
c. Convertible Reserved Instance (RI)
d. EC2 Spot

Answer

A

b. On-Demand

On-Demand is good for applications that have unpredictable workloads that can’t be interrupted.

Question 28

Q

A developer has noticed several SQL injection attacks against a web application running on an EC2 spot instance. What is the best way to prevent this type of attack?

choose 1

a. Web Application Firewall (WAF)
b. Shield Advanced
c. Private subnet
d. Shield Standard

Answer

A

a. Web Application Firewall (WAF)

WAF helps protect your web applications against common web attacks like SQL injection attacks and cross-site scripting.

Question 29

Q

A company has developed a popular online multiplayer gaming application. How can the company enhance its players’ online experience and improve overall application availability and reduce in-game latency?

choose 1

a. Global Accelerator

b. Route 53

c. CloudTrail

d. CloudFront

Answer

A

a. Global Accelerator

Global Accelerator can improve the experience by routing player traffic along with the private AWS global network to the fastest instance of your application. Player traffic is not negatively impacted by internet congestion and local outages.

IS NOT — D

CloudFront

While CloudFront can improve the global availability of static and dynamic content, CloudFront caches content and isn’t the best option for real-time gameplay.

Question 30

Q

An organization needs to run a MySQL relational database on AWS. They plan to hire their own database administrators to manage their databases, including taking backups, using replication, and clustering. Which option provides the customer the control and flexibility needed?

a. se the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) to launch the MySQL database.

b. Open a case with AWS Support to have them assist the database administrators with the installation of the MySQL database.

c. Use Systems Manager to install the MySQL database directly to on-premises servers.

d. Install the MySQL database directly on an EC2 instance.

Answer

A

d. nstall the MySQL database directly on an EC2 instance.

Installing the database directly to EC2 gives the customer complete control over the database and its management.

IS NOT—-A

Use the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) to launch the MySQL database.

RDS does provide a lot of value, like automated backups and software patching, but it does not provide the complete control and flexibility needed by the customer.

Question 31

Q

A company with a business-critical application needs to ensure business continuity and that they will not be impacted by capacity restraints in a given Region. How can the company ensure this?

choose 3

a. Convertible Reserved Instance (RI) with a capacity reservation

b. On-demand capacity reservation

c. Savings Plan with a capacity reservation

d. Standard Reserved Instance (RI) with a capacity reservation

e. Spot instance with a capacity reservation

Answer

A

a. Convertible Reserved Instance (RI) with a capacity reservation

A Reserved Instance is a reservation of resources and capacity for either 1 or 3 years. A capacity reservation offers assurance that the customer will be given preference if there is ever a capacity constraint in a Region.

b. On-demand capacity reservation

On-Demand Capacity Reservations enable you to reserve compute capacity for your Amazon EC2 instances for any duration.

d. Standard Reserved Instance (RI) with a capacity reservation

A Reserved Instance is a reservation of resources and capacity for either 1 or 3 years. A capacity reservation offers assurance that the customer will be given preference if there is ever a capacity constraint in a Region.

Question 32

Q

When analyzing application performance, a developer realizes the queries to the database are taking a long time. What can the developer implement to store common queries and improve performance?

a. ElastiCache

b. Elastic Block Store (EBS)

c. Simple Queue Service (SQS)

d. CloudFront

Answer

A

a. ElastiCache

ElastiCache helps you alleviate database load for data that is accessed often. ElastiCache is a great way to cache common queries.

Question 33

Q

A software company is looking for a tool to automate their deployments from end to end. Which AWS service can provide this continuous delivery functionality?

choose 1

a. CodeDeploy
b. CodePipeline
c. CodeCommit
d. CodeBuild

Answer

A

b. CodePipeline

CodePipeline automates the software release process.

IS NOT A -

CodeDeploy

CodeDeploy manages the deployment of code to compute services in the cloud or on-premises

Question 34

Q

A company is looking to lower its total cost of ownership (TCO) by moving the file system used for its business-critical, Linux-based applications to a managed file system in the cloud. Which service meets their needs?

choose 1

a. Storage Gateway

b. Elastic File System (EFS)

c. FSx

d. Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Answer

A

b. Elastic File System (EFS)

EFS is a fully managed file system that provides elastic file storage for a broad range of Linux-based applications.

IS NOT D—-
Elastic Block Store (EBS)

EBS is a storage device (called a volume) that can be attached to (or removed from) your instance.

Question 35

Q

A company wants to deploy applications entirely on a serverless platform. Which AWS service can they use to build their applications without worrying about managing servers?

choose 1

a. EC2

b. AWS Lambda

c. CloudFormation

d. ElastiCache

Answer

A

b. AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.

IS NOT c—-
CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all Regions and accounts. It is not what your team is looking for in this instance.

Question 36

Q

Scientists would like to analyze terabytes of scientific data from a rover that landed on Mars. Which service will help them find trends and understand the vast amount of data using Hadoop?

choose 1

a. Data Pipeline

b. Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

c. Kinesis

d. SageMaker

Answer

A

b. Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

EMR helps you process large amounts of data using big data frameworks like Hadoop.

IS NOT C —-

Kinesis

Kinesis allows you to analyze data and video streams in real time.

Question 37

Q

A development team wants to gain full observability into the health of their applications and instances in order to provide the best service level to users of their applications. Which services can help them monitor the health of their applications and instances?

choose 3

a. Elastic Beanstalk
b. Route 53
c. Simple Notification Service (SNS)
d. CloudTrail
e. Elastic Load Balancing

Answer

A

a. Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk monitors application health via a health dashboard.

b. Route 53

Route 53 can be used to configure DNS health checks to route traffic to healthy endpoints or to monitor the health of your applications.

e. Elastic Load Balancing

Load balancers monitor the health of EC2 instances and route the traffic to only instances that are in a healthy state.

IS NOT D—-
CloudTrail

While CloudTrail tracks user activity and API calls within your account, it does not monitor the health of applications and instances.

Question 38

Q

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

choose 1

a. Database Migration Service
b. Bucket policy
c. S3 Lifecycle policy
d. Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)

Answer

A

c. S3 Lifecycle policy

You can add rules in an S3 Lifecycle configuration to tell Amazon S3 to transition objects to another Amazon S3 storage class. For example: When you know objects are infrequently accessed, you might transition them to the S3 Standard-IA storage class. You might want to archive objects that you don’t need to access in real time to the S3 Glacier storage class.

IS NOT A—–
Database Migration Service

DMS helps you migrate databases to or within AWS.

Question 39

Q

Several EC2 instances in a public subnet need internet access. Which will you configure as 1 step in granting internet access?

choose 1

a. NAT gateway
b. VPC peering
c. API Gateway
d. Internet gateway

Answer

A

d. Internet gateway

An internet gateway allows public traffic to the internet from a VPC.

IS NOT A—-
NAT gateway

The NAT gateway resides in a public subnet, but it helps to provide internet access to instances in private subnets.

Question 40

Q

A company wants to build a customer identity graph to provide a single unified view of customers and prospects by linking identifiers like website browsing history, preferences, and more. Which database product allows the customer to store and navigate billions of interconnected relationships?

choose 1

a. Aurora
b. DynamoDB
c. Neptune
d. DocumentDB

Answer

A

c. Neptune

Neptune is a fully managed graph database that supports highly connected datasets.

IS NOT—
a. Aurora

Aurora is a relational database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL that was created by AWS.

Question 41

Q

You have a project that will require 90 hours of computing time. There is no deadline, and the work can be stopped and restarted without adverse effect. Which of the following computing options offers the most cost-effective solution?

choose 1

a. Reserved Instances
b. Custom Instances
c. Spot Instances
d. On-Demand Instances

Answer

A

c. Spot Instances

Spot Instances are usually the most cost-effective solution for workloads that can be interrupted. On-Demand and Reserved Instances are both more expensive in this use case, and Custom Instances do not exist.

IS NOT D—
On-Demand Instances

On-Demand is good for applications that have unpredictable workloads that cannotbe interrupted, and is more expensive in this use case.

Question 42

Q

A company ingests data to S3 using Kinesis. What is the easiest way for the company to run ad hoc SQL queries against the data in S3 without the need to manage servers?

choose 1

a. Import the data into the RDS management console.

b. Use DMS to migrate the data to a DynamoDB table for easy querying.

c. Use Macie.

d. Use Athena.

Answer

A

d. Use Athena.

Athena allows the company to query data in S3 using standard SQL.

Question 43

Q

Several S3 buckets have been deleted, and a few EC2 instances have been terminated. Which AWS service can you use to determine who took these actions?

a. Trusted Advisor

b. AWS CloudWatch

c. AWS CloudTrail

d. Amazon Inspector

Answer

A

c. AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail provides the event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services.

Question 44

Q

Which of the following AWS services can assist you with cost optimization?

choose 1

a. AWS Shield

b. AWS Inspector

c. AWS WAF

d. AWS Trusted Advisor

Answer

A

d. AWS Trusted Advisor

Trusted Advisor can assist you with the cost optimization of your AWS environment

Question 45

Q

A customer wants to run an application on a local version of an EC2 instance in a disconnected environment. Which Snow Family device supports this?

choose 1

a. Snowball

b. Snowcone

c. Snowball Edge

d. Snowmobile

Answer

A

c. Snowball Edge

Snowball Edge offers on-board storage and compute power that can handle local processing and edge-computing workloads in disconnected environments and handles transferring data between your local environment and AWS. Snowball Edge supports S3, EC2, Lambda, and IoT Greengrass.

Question 46

Q

A development team has created a large amount of CloudFormation templates in the JSON format. Which AWS database would be best suited for storing these documents?

choose 1

a. Amazon Aurora

b. Amazon RedShift

c. AWS MySQL

d. Amazon DocumentDB

Answer

A

d. Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data.

Question 47

Q

A company would like to implement a hybrid storage model where they connect on-premises data storage to storage in the AWS Cloud in order to move their backups to the cloud. What is the best and most efficient way to achieve this?

choose 1

a. Storage Gateway

b. Site-to-Site VPN

d. Direct Connect

e. Elastic File System (EFS)

Answer

A

a. Storage Gateway

Storage Gateway is a hybrid storage service that allows you to connect on-premises and cloud data.

Question 48

Q

You need to store key-value pairs of users and their high scores for a gaming application. Which is the fastest and cheapest storage option for this type of data?

choose 1

a. Amazon RedShift

b. RDS MySQL

c. Amazon S3

d. DynamoDB

Answer

A

d. DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL key-value and document database. DynamoDB scales automatically to massive workloads with fast performance and is the best choice for this scenario.

Question 49

Q

An EC2 instance in your VPC needs which of the following for the internet gateway to route its traffic to the internet?

choose 1

a. Public IP address

b. Private IP address

c. CNAME

d. A record

Answer

A

a. Public IP address

An EC2 instance in your VPC needs a public IP address for the internet gateway to route its traffic to the internet.

Question 50

Q

AWS Trusted Advisor provides checks and recommended actions. Which of the following is not one of those checks?

choose 1

a. CloudFront content delivery optimization

b. Unrestricted access for specific ports on EC2

c. Checks to determine if an administrative user is used instead of the root account

d. Checks for usage more than 80% of the service limit

Answer

A

c. Checks to determine if an administrative user is used instead of the root account

This is not a check provided in Trusted Advisor.

IS NOT D

Checks for usage more than 80% of the service limit

This is a check performed in Trusted Advisor.

Question 51

Q

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

choose 1

a. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

b. Trusted Advisor

c. AWS Systems Manager

d. CloudTrail

Answer

A

a. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

AWS Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view of the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources.

Question 52

Q

A developer is trying to programmatically retrieve information from an EC2 instance such as public keys, IP address, and instance ID. From where can this information be retrieved?

choose 1

a. Instance metadata

b. Instance snapshot

c. Instance user data

d. CloudWatch Logs

Answer

A

a. Instance metadata

This type of data is stored in instance metadata.

Question 53

Q

A healthcare agency needs to store certain patient information for up to 10 years. To save cost, they want to archive this data to cheaper storage. The data needs to be retrieved within 12 hours. Which is the cheapest option?

choose 1

a. S3 Standard-IA

b. Glacier Deep Archive

c. Redshift

d. Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (Formerly S3 Glacier)

Answer

A

b. Glacier Deep Archive

Glacier Deep Archive meets the requirement and is the cheapest option.

Question 54

Q

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

choose 1

a. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

b. Trusted Advisor

c. AWS Systems Manager

d. CloudTrail

Answer

A

a. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

AWS Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view of the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources

Question 55

Q

Trusted Advisor is classified as what type of AWS service?

choose 1

a. Application Integration

b. Compute

c. Security, Identity, and Compliance

d. Management & Governance

Answer

A

d. Management & Governance

AWS Trusted Advisor is a Management and Governance tool. It guides you on how to best manage your resources based on AWS best practices in five categories

IS NOT —- A
Application Integration

AWS Trusted Advisor is a Management and Governance tool.

Question 56

Q

Which of the following AWS services is an example of Platform as a Service?

choose 1

a. AWS Lambda

b. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

c. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

d. Amazon S3

Answer

A

b. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Platform as a Service, or PaaS, enables the development, running, and management of applications on the cloud without the need to build and maintain an infrastructure. That is precisely what Elastic Beanstalk provides; it’s the ability to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications.

IS NOT C

Question 57

Q

ElastiCache is an example of what type of AWS service?

choose 1

a. Compute

b. Analytics

c. Database

d. Storage

Answer

A

c. Database

ElastiCache is an in-memory cache service used to improve database performance. This means that it saves your most common queries for quicker data retrieval rather than retrieving directly from your database. As a result, it is classified as an AWS Database service.

IS NOT D—-
Storage

ElastiCache is not a Storage service.

Question 58

Q

Which of the following falls under AWS compute services category?

choose 3

a. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

b. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

c. Amazon Lightsail

d. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

e. Budgets

f. Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)

Answer

A

b. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk is a compute service used to deploy web applications.

c. Amazon Lightsail

Lightsail is a compute service.

d. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

EC2 is a compute service.

ARE NOT ——-
a. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

EFS is classified as storage service.

f. Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)

Amazon RDS is classified as database service.

Question 59

Q

Which of the following are AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance services?

choose 3

a. AWS Trusted Advisor

b. AWS Secrets Manager

c. AWS Organizations

d. AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

e. AWS Security Hub

Answer

A

b. AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager is part of the Security, Identity, and Compliance services. It is a secrets management service that helps you protect access to your applications, services, and IT resources.

d. AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

AWS Key Management Service is part of the Security, Identity, and Compliance services. It is a managed service that enables you to easily create and control the keys used for cryptographic operations.

e. AWS Security Hub

AWS Security Hub is part of the Security, Identity, and Compliance services. It provides you with a comprehensive view of your security state within AWS and your compliance with security standards and best practices.

IS NOT A—-
AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor is part of the Management and Governance services. It provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices.

Question 60

Q

Which of the following services does the AWS Shield Standard plan provide?

choose 2

a. Reimburse related Route 53, CloudFront, and ELB DDoS charges

b. Post-attack analysis

c. Network flow monitoring

d. Assistance with protection from common DDoS attacks

Answer

A

c. Network flow monitoring

AWS Shield safeguards web applications. AWS Shield Standard is a base-level plan with features that include network flow monitoring and assistance with protection from common DDoS attacks.

d. Assistance with protection from common DDoS attacks

AWS Shield safeguards web applications. AWS Shield Standard is a base-level plan with features that include network flow monitoring and assistance with protection from common DDoS attacks

Question 61

Q

Which of the following is NOT a database service in AWS?

choose 1

a. Amazon Neptune

b. Amazon Redshift

c. Amazon EBS

d. Amazon Aurora

Answer

A

c. Amazon EBS

Amazon EBS is a storage service providing virtual hard disks in the cloud, while the other services listed are database services.

IS NOT A—-
Amazon Neptune

Neptune is a fully managed graph database that supports highly connected datasets.

Question 62

Q

Which of the following statements are true of Amazon Aurora?

choose 2

a. It is compatible with MariaDB.

b. It is compatible with Oracle.

c. It can deliver up to five times the throughput of MySQL.

d. It is a Relational Database Service (RDS) database engine developed by Amazon.

Answer

A

c. It can deliver up to five times the throughput of MySQL.

Aurora is 5x faster than normal MySQL and 3x faster than normal PostgreSQL.

d. It is a Relational Database Service (RDS) database engine developed by Amazon.

Aurora is an RDS engine developed by Amazon.

Question 63

Q

Which of the following provides the least expensive Amazon S3 storage?

choose 1

a. One Zone-Infrequent Access

b. Glacier Deep Archive

c. Intelligent Tiering

d. Glacier

Answer

A

b. Glacier Deep Archive

Both Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive are for data archiving; as a result, they cost a lot less than the One Zone-Infrequent Access and Intelligent Tiering S3 storage classes, which are for more frequently accessed data. Glacier Deep Archive is the lowest cost option.

Question 64

Q

Which of the following statements are true of Amazon Aurora?

choose 2

a. It is part of the Amazon DynamoDB service.

b. It can deliver up to three times the throughput of MySQL.

c. It is compatible with the MySQL and PostgreSQL database engines.

d. You can use the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI commands, and API operations to handle routine database tasks.

Answer

A

c. It is compatible with the MySQL and PostgreSQL database engines.

Amazon Aurora is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

d. You can use the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI commands, and API operations to handle routine database tasks.

You can handle routine database tasks on it using either the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI commands, or API operations.

Answer 65

A

d. AWS Config

Answer 66

A

a.MySQL

PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle are three types of RDS engines on AWS. By contrast, DynamoDB is Amazon’s nonrelational database solution and RedShift is Amazon’s data warehouse service.

d. PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle are three types of RDS engines on AWS. By contrast, DynamoDB is Amazon’s nonrelational database solution and RedShift is Amazon’s data warehouse service.

e. Oracle

PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle are three types of RDS engines on AWS. By contrast, DynamoDB is Amazon’s nonrelational database solution and RedShift is Amazon’s data warehouse service.

Answer 67

A

c. AWS Auto Scaling

AWS Auto Scaling will ensure you have the optimal number of EC2 instances to handle your application’s load, based on rules you specify. The other services mentioned can help distribute load amongst existing resources, but they do not have the ability by themselves to create new resources.

IS NOT D—
Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances.

Answer 68

A

c. AWS Artifact

AWS Artifact is your go-to, central resource for compliance-related information that matters to you. It provides on-demand access to AWS’ security and compliance reports and select online agreements. AWS Support’s site provides general information about compliance, but it does not hold the secure reports or certificates. AWS IAM is used to control security within your AWS Account. Amazon Macie is a data security classification service.

IS NOT C—
AWS Support

AWS Support does not offer on-demand access to AWS security and compliance reports.

Answer 69

A

a. Aurora

Aurora is a type of RDS engine on AWS.

c. MariaDB

MariaDB is a type of RDS engine on AWS.

IS NOT B—
Redshift

Redshift is for data warehousing.

Answer 70

A

d. Lex

Lex helps you build conversational interfaces like chatbots.

Answer 71

A

c. Network Load Balancer

Network Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required. Operating at the connection level (Layer 4), Network Load Balancer routes traffic to targets within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and is capable of handling millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latencies.

Answer 72

A

d. Aurora

Aurora is AWS’ managed database service that is up to five times faster than a traditional MySQL database.

Answer 73

A

b. Internet gateway

An internet gateway enables resources inside your VPC to reach the internet, as long as route tables and IP addresses are correctly configured in your environment.

IS NOT D—
Network access control list

NACLs ensure proper traffic is allowed in the subnet.

Answer 74

A

b. Redshift

Redshift allows you to run complex analytic queries against petabytes of structured data, using sophisticated query optimization, columnar storage on high-performance local disks, and massively parallel query execution.

IS NOT C…
EMR

EMR is a cloud big data solution for petabyte-scale data processing, interactive analysis, and machine learning. EMR uses open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

Answer 75

A

b. AWS X-Ray

AWS X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components. You can use X-Ray to analyze from simple three-tier applications to complex microservices applications consisting of thousands of services.

Answer 76

A

a. Lambda

EC2 and Lambda are AWS compute services.

b. EC2

EC2 and Lambda are AWS compute services.

Answer 77

A

a. EMR

EMR is a service that makes it easy to process large amounts of data efficiently.

Answer 78

A

b. AWS Trusted Advisor

Trusted Advisor can assist you with the cost optimization of your AWS environment. [

Answer 79

A

c. Elastic Block Store

Elastic Block Store is a storage service - all others are compute services.

Answer 80

A

c. Glacier Deep Archive

Glacier Deep Archive meets the requirement and is the cheapest option.

IS NOT D:::
Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (Formerly S3 Glacier)

Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (Formerly S3 Glacier) meets the requirements provided in the scenario, but it is not the cheapest option.

Answer 81

A

b. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

AWS Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view of the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources.

IS NOT A_—
AWS Systems Manager

AWS Systems Manager help you manage resources.

Answer 82

A

c. EC2 Instance Store

An instance store is a local storage that is physically attached to the host computer and cannot be removed. Storage is temporary since data loss occurs when the EC2 instance is stopped.

IS NOT D—-
Elastic Block Store (EBS)

EBS is a storage device (called a volume) that can be attached to (or removed from) your instance.

Answer 83

A

a. Storage Gateway

Storage Gateway is a hybrid storage service that allows you to connect on-premises and cloud data.

IS NOT c—

Direct Connect

While Direct Connect supports a hybrid model, it’s not the best and most efficient solution.

Answer 84

A

a. AWS Elastic File System

EFS is a storage service.

c. S3

S3 is a storage service.

Answer 85

A

a. RDS

RDS supports several popular database engines: Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and SQL Server.

c. EC2

For complete control of a database, you can install the database software directly on an EC2 instance.

Answer 86

A

b. OpsWorks

OpsWorks allows you to use Chef or Puppet to automate the configuration of your servers and deploy code on-premises or the cloud.

IS NOT c–
CodeDeploy

While CodeDeploy can deploy code to the cloud and on-premises, it is not used to automate the configuration of servers like OpsWorks.

Answer 87

A

a. It provides virtual computing environments.

EC2 allows you to rent and manage virtual servers in the cloud.

d. It provides scalable computing capacity in the AWS cloud.

EC2 allows you to rent and manage virtual servers in the cloud.

e. It supplies various configurations of CPU, memory, storage, and network capacity. You can use a preconfigured template called an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to launch your instance.

EC2 allows you to rent and manage virtual servers in the cloud.

Answer 88

A

b. Management & Governance

AWS Trusted Advisor is a Management and Governance tool. It guides you on how to best manage your resources based on AWS best practices in five categories.

IS NOT A

Security, Identity, and Compliance

AWS Trusted Advisor is a Management and Governance tool.

Answer 89

A

c. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Platform as a Service, or PaaS, enables the development, running, and management of applications on the cloud without the need to build and maintain an infrastructure. That is precisely what Elastic Beanstalk provides; it’s the ability to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications.

Answer 90

A

a. With CloudTrail, you can create a trail that either applies to one Region or to all Regions.

This is true. You can create a trail that applies to one or all Regions.

b. CloudTrail delivers log files within 15 minutes of account activity.

This is true. CloudTrail delivers events within 15 minutes.

d. Log files are encrypted

By default, CloudTrail event log files are encrypted using Amazon S3 server-side encryption.

Answer 91

A

b. AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager is part of the Security, Identity, and Compliance services. It is a secrets management service that helps you protect access to your applications, services, and IT resources.

c. AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

AWS Key Management Service is part of the Security, Identity, and Compliance services. It is a managed service that enables you to easily create and control the keys used for cryptographic operations.

e. AWS Security Hub

AWS Security Hub is part of the Security, Identity, and Compliance services. It provides you with a comprehensive view of your security state within AWS and your compliance with security standards and best practices.

IS NOT D , A
d. AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor is part of the Management and Governance services. It provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices.

a. AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations is part of the Management and Governance services. It helps you centrally govern your environment as you scale your workloads on AWS.

Answer 92

A

a. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk is a compute service used to deploy web applications.

c. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

EC2 is a compute service.

d. Amazon Lightsail

Lightsail is a compute service.

Answer 93

A

d. A segment of a VPC’s IP address range where you can place groups of isolated resources.

A virtual private cloud, or VPC, is the virtual network you create in your AWS account. When you create a VPC, you split it into smaller network segments by specifying a range of IP addresses. These segments are referred to as subnets, and this is where you launch your AWS resources.

Answer 94

A

d. Database

ElastiCache is an in-memory cache service used to improve database performance. This means that it saves your most common queries for quicker data retrieval rather than retrieving directly from your database. As a result, it is classified as an AWS Database service.

Answer 95

A

c. AWS Config

Config specifically focuses on listing the resources in your AWS account and presenting their configuration change history.

Answer 96

A

b. Amazon S3

S3 is a storage service.

c. Amazon EFS

EFS is storage service.

e. Storage Gateway

Storage Gateway is a storage service.

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