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What is the primary purpose of AWS CloudFormation?
To manage cloud infrastructure through version-controlled templates
To automate software deployments to a variety of AWS services
To monitor cloud resource utilization and application performance
To provide a detailed audit trail of user activity and API usage
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For EC2 Instances, what is the primary benefit of utilizing Placement Groups?
To host instances in separate data centers for high availability
To distribute instances across multiple Availability Zones automatically
To enhance network performance through low latency and high throughput
To enable instances to share data via Instance Store
3
What is an advantage of using EC2 Spot Instances?
Longer running times
Predictable pricing
Lower cost compared to on-demand instances
Dedicated physical server
4
Which AWS service automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances?
Auto Scaling Group (ASG)
Amazon EC2
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Amazon S3
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What AWS service allows the decoupling of application components through a pub/sub messaging service?
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
Amazon SNS
Amazon SQS
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What does AWS Global Accelerator mainly optimize in user traffic routing?
Data storage locations
Internet Gateway performance
Internet traffic to your application
Security Group configurations
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Which type of storage is ephemeral and data is lost on instance stop or termination?
Instance Store
EBS
S3
Glacier
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What's the best way to analyze JSON log files in S3 with minimal changes?
Store logs in CloudWatch Logs and run SQL queries from the console.
Load data into Amazon Redshift and run SQL queries.
Use Amazon Athena directly with S3 for on-demand queries.
Catalog logs with AWS Glue, use Apache Spark on EMR for queries.
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What IAM feature allows you to set permissions that grant access to AWS resources in different accounts?
User Policies
Access Keys
Group Policies
Cross-account roles
10
Which AWS service provides managed NAT for private subnet internet access?
Internet Gateway
NAT Gateway
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon VPC Peering
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Which AWS service offers a global CDN for fast, low-latency data and media delivery?
AWS Global Accelerator
Amazon Route 53
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon CloudFront
12
Which AWS service simplifies app development without managing infrastructure?
Amazon EC2
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13
To grant the EC2 instance private network access to S3 without internet connectivity, you can:
Stream logs to CloudWatch Logs and export to S3.
Utilize an instance profile on EC2 for S3 access.
Create an API Gateway API with a private link to S3.
Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket.
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EBS Provisioned IOPS (io1 and io2) volumes are best suited for which of the following workloads?
Sequential read and write
Data warehousing
High-frequency online transaction processing (OLTP)
Large scale read-only
15
Which AWS database service is optimized for in-memory caching to improve the performance of web applications?
Amazon RDS
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon Aurora
Amazon DynamoDB
16
After duplicating architecture, users can't see all documents on web app refresh. Solution?
Copy data to both EBS volumes
Copy data to Amazon EFS
ALB request to both servers
Configure ALB for document routing
17
Which S3 feature prevents object deletion or overwrite by keeping versions?
S3 Object Lock
S3 Cross-Region Replication
S3 Transfer Acceleration
S3 Lifecycle Policies
18
Did you already take your Cloud Practitioner Certification exam ?
Yes
No
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What is the primary purpose of an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) in AWS?
To automatically adjust the number of EC2 instances to meet the load
To increase the storage capacity of EBS volumes automatically
To manage the deployment of applications on EC2 instances
To distribute load across EC2 instances
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When using Amazon RDS, which feature enables you to achieve high availability?
Multi-AZ deployments
Database snapshots
Automated backups
Read replicas
21
In AWS, which service is primarily used to collect and process large streams of data records in real time?
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon S3
AWS Lambda
Amazon Redshift
22
Which of the following is NOT a feature of Amazon Route 53?
Latency-based routing
Health Checks
DNS routing
Virtual Private Network (VPN) configurations
23
In machine learning projects, which AWS service allows you to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly?
AWS DeepLens
Amazon SageMaker
AWS DeepRacer
Amazon Rekognition
24
How many AZs does Aurora automatically replicate data across for availability?
6
2
4
3
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Which routing policy is NOT supported by Route 53?
Dynamic
Weighted
Geolocation
Multivalue
26
Which statement accurately describes the concept of serverless computing in AWS?
Requires pre-provisioning and managing server capacity
Enables serverless app development and execution
Involves managing server instances manually for scalability and flexibility
It refers to the exclusive use of EC2 instances for computing resources
27
S3 buckets are private by default. Which feature can be used to serve static assets publicly in a controlled manner?
Security Groups
VPC Endpoints
IAM roles
Bucket Policies
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In the context of Monitoring and Audit, which service provides automated compliance checks based on AWS best practices?
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Config
29
What's the longest retention period for RDS Automated Backups?
90 days
35 days
7 days
45 days
30
Which of the following AWS services is a fully managed container orchestration service?
Amazon EC2
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Amazon ECS
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Which feature of Elastic Load Balancing helps protect your applications against DDoS attacks?
AWS Shield
Cross-zone load balancing
Sticky sessions
Connection draining
