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1
Which architectural best practice aims to reduce interdependencies between application components?
Automation
Removing Single Points of Failure
Services, not Servers
Loose Coupling
2
Which service makes it easier to build event-driven applications?
Amazon EventBridge
Amazon SWF
Amazon SQS
EC2
3
Which Amazon Machine Image can be used to mount an Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file system?
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with Containers
All of the above/options
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Core
Amazon Linux 2 AMI
4
What is an availability zone composed of?
One or more regions
One or more data centers in a location
A collection of edge locations
A collection of VPCs
5
Most cost effective storage tier for data that is not often accessed, retained for 7 years + retrieved within 24 hours?
Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Standard
Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access
6
Which service can be used to find reports on Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance of the AWS cloud?
AWS Service Catalog
Amazon Inspector
AWS Artifact
7
Need to deploy your cloud environment across AWS and your on-prem data center using Direct Connect. Which cloud model?
Public
Hybrid
Private
On-premises
8
Which of the following is an architectural best practice?
Use close coupling
Design for the future
Design for failure
Design monolithic applications
9
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
There are six pillars in the Well-Architected Framework.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework maps out the AWS Regions.
There are four pillars in the Well-Architected Framework.
One pillar of the Well-Architected Framework is Renewability.Check answer
10
How can you run commands on an Amazon EC2 instance at launch time?
With metadata
With user data
With a snapshot
With a container
11
With default settings, what will happen to a root EBS volume when the Amazon EC2 instance is terminated?
It will be retained
It will be deleted
A snapshot will be retained
An AMI will be created
12
Which architectural benefit of the AWS Cloud assists with lowering operational cost?
Design for failure
Horizontal scaling
Loose coupling
Higher-level managed services
13
Which storage device is physically attached to the Amazon EC2 host servers?
Amazon EBS
Elastic Network Adapter
Instance Store volumes
Amazon Machine Image
14
Which Amazon S3 storage class is used for archiving data for long term retention?
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
S3 Glacier Deep Archive
S3 One Zone-IA
S3 Standard
15
Which of the following are considered advantages of the cloud?
Software as a Service
Local Zones
Going global in minutes
Hybrid models
16
Which service can be used to record information about API activity in your AWS account?
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudTrail
17
Which of the following AWS services allows you to convert text to MP3 audio?
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Rekognition
None of the above
Amazon Polly
18
How does Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling assist with cost-effectiveness?
By automating application failover
By launching and terminating instances as demand changes
By balancing load between instances evenly
By choosing the most cost-effective instance type
19
Which statement about Amazon CloudWatch is INCORRECT?
CloudWatch monitoring can include application performance
CloudWatch Alarms can be set to react to changes in your resources
CloudWatch Logs collects and centralizes logs from AWS resources
CloudWatch only integrates with Amazon EC2
20
Which of the following CANNOT be used to access your AWS resources?
Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Software Development Kits (SDKs)
Application code
The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
21
What does an HTTP 200 code represent?
Internal Server Error
The response is a success
Bad Request
There is no such code
22
You have multiple accounts in AWS. What option can be used to ensure costs can be reduced?
It is not possible to reduce costs with multiple accounts
Consolidated billing
Costs are automatically reduced for multiple accounts by AWS
Combined billing
23
Which one of these services is NOT an AWS Storage Service?
Amazon Glacier
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon EBS
Amazon S3
24
Which of the following is a benefit of Lambda?
Reliable highly scalable, hosted queuing
No servers to manage
Instantaneous, push-based delivery
Makes coordinating the components of a distributed application easy
25
Which service allows you to run Docker containers on AWS?
AWS Lambda
Amazon EBS
Amazon ECS
Amazon EC2
26
Which of the following is a benefit of API-driven services?
You can define services through the AWS management console
Increased reliability
You can programmatically and dynamically launch resources
You get greater fault tolerance
27
What is one of the best ways to ensure that your AWS account doesn't get deleted or altered by attackers?
Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the root user.
Change your password frequently
Seek them out and get justice
Use a stronger password
28
What does Elastic Load Balancing use to ensure instances are available?
Scaling Plans
Health checks
CloudWatch Metrics
EC2 Status Checks is incorrect
29
Which of the following is NOT a payment option for Amazon EC2 reserved instances?
All at the end
All upfront
Partial Upfront
No upfront
30
In case of account compromise, which of actions should you perform?
Immediately close your account
Delete all IAM users
Open a support case with AWS
Delete all resources in your account
31
Which service is involved with encryption?
AWS Shield
AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
AWS WAF
32
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes are stored within which construct?
An edge location
A region
An availability zone
A snapshot
33
Pricing model is best suited for batch computing workload that needs notable compute power + can be stopped any time?
Reserved Instances
Dedicated Instances
Spot Instances
On-demand Instances
34
Which service category is not offered by AWS?
Developer Tools
Compute
Database
Data Center
35
You are verifying the latency on a newly released website. It loads really quickly. What type of latency would this be?
Low Latency
Medium Latency
Elastic Latency
High Latency
36
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is an example of what type of database?
Online transaction processing (OLTP)
Data warehouse
No-SQL
Online analytics processing (OLAP)
37
Which storage service is used by Amazon EC2 instances for the root volume?
EBS
Storage Gateway
EFS
S3
38
Which service uses a hardware security module to protect encryption keys in the cloud?
AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
AWS CloudHSM
AWS Service Catalog
39
Which services can scale horizontally?
Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon S3
Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EFS, Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon S3, NAT Instance
40
According to the AWS Shared Responsibility model, who is responsible for data center security?
AWS
The customer
41
Who is responsible for patching networking equipment in AWS?
The Customer
AWS
42
Which service is good for running compute workloads for people who don't have technical expertise with AWS?
Amazon ECS
Amazon EC2
Amazon LightSail
AWS Lambda
43
Which AWS database service offers seamless horizontal scaling?
Amazon RDS
Amazon RedShift
Amazon DynamoDB
Database on Amazon EC2
44
If using a well written templates, how can Amazon CloudFormation assist with building secure environments?
It ensures consistent builds when building repeatably
It does not require privileged access
The responsibility is shared with AWS
45
Does Amazon CloudTrail permanently record all API activity in your account by default?
No
Yes
46
Which of the following is NOT a limitation of scaling vertically?
Can reach a limit of maximum instance size
Requires a load balancer for distributing load
Often requires manual intervention
Typically requires downtime
47
What does a "Domain" refer to in Amazon SWF?
A special type of worker
A collection of related Workflows.
A security group in which only tasks inside can communicate with each other
The DNS record for the Amazon SWF service
48
Which type of scaling does an Amazon Read Replica provide?
Horizontal
Vertical
49
A company is looking for a fully managed graph database service on AWS. Which service would you recommend?
Amazon Neptune
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Relational Database Service
Amazon DynamoDB
50
Which service can assist with protecting against common web-based exploits?
Amazon Route 53
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
AWS CloudHSM
AWS Shield
51
What is AWS' policy regarding penetration testing?
You can perform penetration testing against any service and account
Penetration testing is not allowed under any circumstance
You can only perform penetration testing with permission from AWS
You can perform penetration testing against selected services w/o approval
52
According to AWS Shared Responsibility model, who is responsible for configuring server-side encryption for Amazon S3?
The Customer
AWS
53
While creating the snapshots using the API, which Action should you use?
CreateSnapshot
MakeSnapshot
FreshSnapshot
DeploySnapshot
54
AWS Trusted Advisor does NOT provide advice on which of the following?
Fault Tolerance
Security
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Cost optimization
55
What is an AWS Region composed of?
Two or more availability zones
Two or more Virtual Private Clouds (VPC)
One or more regions
One or more data centers in a location
56
Which of the following services can businesses use for video conferencing?
Amazon Glue
Amazon Polly
Amazon SES
Amazon Chime
57
What is a defining feature of microservice applications?
Being tightly connected
Being loosely coupled
The user interface, business logic, and data access layer are on 1 platform
Server-based computing
58
You need to create a highly available application in the cloud. How can you accomplish this?
Make sure to use a private deployment model.
Make sure that resources are using one Availability Zone (AZ).
Make sure to secure the root user.
Make sure that resources are utilizing multiple Availability Zones (AZs).
59
Which principal should be used when assigning permissions to users or groups?
Most Privilege
Least Privilege
Nesting
Implicit Deny
60
Which storage classes are available for the Amazon Elastic File System?
Standard, Provisioned Throughput
Standard, Instant Retrieval
Standard, Deep Archive
Standard, Infrequent Access Storage
61
Which storage service can be used on-premises to access cloud storage?
AWS Hybrid Service
AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon Storage Block
62
With Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) what must you pay for?
Route Table
Security Group
Internet Gateway
VPN connection
63
A company is looking for a solution that gives control over the OS, instance type and only charges for what they use.
Lambda
Amazon Fargate
Docker Container Image
EC2
64
How can fault tolerance be added to an Amazon RDS database?
Using read replicas
Using multi-AZ
Using Global Replicas
Using EBS snapshots
65
How does DynamoDB scale?
Horizontally
Both vertically and horizontally
Vertically
66
Which AWS services are free?
IAM, Amazon S3, outbound data transfer
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, IAM
Amazon EC2, CloudFormation, IAM
Consolidated billing, EC2 Auto Scaling, NAT Gateway
67
With Amazon S3, objects are stored in which type of root-level container?
A folder
A bucket
A filesystem
A region
68
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about Elastic Load Balancing?
ELB can distribute connections across regions
ELB enables high availability and fault tolerance
ELB can be Internet facing
ELB can distribute connections across availability zones
69
You need to implement low latency. What can you utilize to achieve this?
Data Centers and/or Regions
Local Zones and EC2
Availability Zones (AZs) and/or Regions
Local Zones and/or Edge Locations
70
Which service provides guidance for remediation when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you?
AWS Cloud Compliance
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon Inspector
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
71
Which of the following needs to be considered in a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis?
Data center operations costs
Company marketing campaign costs
Application licensing costs
72
Amazon S3 is an example of what type of storage system?
File
Object
Block
Hybrid
73
Which tool can be used to find compliance information that relates to the AWS Cloud platform?
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Amazon Inspector
AWS Artifact
AWS Trusted Advisor
74
Which AWS support plan comes with a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?
Basic
Developer
Business
Enterprise
75
How would you pay for AWS Snowball?
Per Hour
Per GB
Per Job
Per number of requests
76
What is a key cost advantage of moving to the AWS Cloud?
Many services are free
You can deploy services using an API
You can provision what you need and scale on demand
You can scale almost limitlessly
77
Which service can be used for alerting if the CPU is heavily loaded on an EC2 instance?
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudTrail
78
The best practice "services, not servers" means what?
Try to only use serverless services
You should not use servers such as Amazon EC2
Use more services such as managed services + serverless services
79
With Amazon S3, which of the following are NOT chargeable items?
Quantity of data in S3 buckets
Inbound data transfer
Lifecycle transitions
Transfer Acceleration
80
AWS EC2 Auto Scaling provides which type of scaling?
Vertical
Horizontal
81
What is one benefit of Amazon EC2 compared to traditional servers?
You can scale elastically within minutes
You can use specialized hardware.
You have more control over the OS.
You get more compute power in the cloud.
82
Which of the following services uses AWS edge locations to deliver content to end users with lower latency?
AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
83
What can you use to assign metadata to AWS resources for cost reporting?
Templates
Tags
ARNs
Labels
84
This operates at the instance (interface) level and supports allow rules only.
ACL
Network ACL
Bucket Policies
Security Group
85
You are paying a monthly subscription to a company to host your website. Which cloud computing model is this?
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Cloud as a Service (CaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
