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

A. Ensuring that disk drives are wiped after use.
B. Ensuring that firmware is updated on hardware devices.
C. Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest.
D. Ensuring that network cables are category six or higher.

C

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

A. Cost allocation tags
B. Consolidated billing
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Marketplace

A

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

A. Amazon Glacier
B. AWS Storage Gateway
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon EBS

C

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

A. AWS Enterprise Support
B. AWS Solutions Architects
C. AWS Professional Services
D. AWS Account Managers

C

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?

A. AWS Partner Network Technology Partners
B. AWS Marketplace
C. AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners
D. AWS Service Catalog

C

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

A. Implement automation.
B. Design for agility.
C. Design for failure.
D. Implement elasticity.

A (many people said it's C, not 100% sure)

Which AWS services can host a Microsoft SQL Server database? (Select TWO.)

A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
C. Amazon Aurora
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon S3

AB

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

A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Consolidated billing
D. Detailed billing

B

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

A. Spot Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Dedicated Hosts
D. On-Demand Instances

C

Which AWS characteristics make AWS cost effective for a workload with dynamic user demand? (Select TWO.)

A. High availability
B. Shared security model
C. Elasticity
D. Pay-as-you-go pricing
E. Reliability

CD

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

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Config
D. AWS Health

B

Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Select 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

BE

Which services can be used across hybrid AWS Cloud architectures? (Select TWO.)

A. Amazon Route 53
B. Virtual Private Gateway
C. Classic Load Balancer
D. Auto Scaling
E. Amazon CloudWatch default metrics

AB

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

A. Project management
B. Antivirus software licensing
C. Data center security
D. Software development

C

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?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with Amazon EC2 instance store
D. Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

D

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

A. Data centers contain regions.
B. Regions contain Availability Zones.
C. Availability Zones contain edge locations.
D. Edge locations contain regions.

B

Which AWS tools assist with estimating costs? (Select 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

BCD

Which of the following are advantages of AWS consolidated billing? (Select 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

AD

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

A. One-year, No Upfront, Standard RI pricing
B. One-year, All Upfront, Convertible RI pricing
C. Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing
D. Three-year, No Upfront, Convertible RI pricing

C

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

A. greater variable costs and greater upfront costs.
B. fixed usage costs and lower upfront costs.
C. lower variable costs and greater upfront costs.
D. lower variable costs and lower upfront costs.

D

A characteristic of edge locations is that they:

A. host Amazon EC2 instances closer to users.
B. help lower latency and improve performance for users.
C. cache frequently changing data without reaching the origin server.
D. refresh data changes daily.

B

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

A. A public and private key-pair
B. Amazon Inspector
C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
D. Security Groups

C

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

A. Calling AWS Support
B. Contacting AWS Professional Services to request a workshop
C. Accessing forums, blogs, and whitepapers
D. Attending AWS classes at a local university

C

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?

A. Dedicated RIs
B. Scheduled RIs
C. Convertible RIs
D. Standard RIs

C

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

A. Shared responsibility security model
B. Single tenancy
C. Elastic computing
D. Encryption

C (? Many people said A, which also makes sense)

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

A. AWS CodePipeline
B. Elastic Load Balancing
C. Amazon EBS
D. AWS Direct Connect

B

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

A. Amazon Inspector
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Artifact
D. AWS Certificate Manager

C

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following activities are the customer's responsibility? (Select 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

BD

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

A. Ensure that components have low-latency network connectivity.
B. Run enough Amazon EC2 instances to operate at peak load.
C. Ensure that the application is designed to accommodate failure of any single component.
D. Use a monolithic application that handles all operations.

C

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

A. Use tighly coupled components.
B. Use loosely coupled components.
C. Use infrequently coupled components.
D. Use frequently coupled components.

B

AWS supports which of the following methods to add security to Identity and Access Management (IAM) users? (Select 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

DE

Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data? (Select TWO.)

A. Amazon Glacier
B. Amazon RDS
C. AWS Snowball
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon EFS

BE

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

A. It simplifies relational database administration tasks.
B. It provides 99.99999999999% reliability and durability.
C. It automatically scales databases for loads.
D. It enabled users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resources.

A

A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales.Which AWS service should they use?

A. Amazon Aurora
B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon ElastiCache

A

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
B. Edge location
C. Region
D. Private networking

A

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

A. Providing a key for Amazon S3 client-side encryption
B. Configuration of an Amazon EC2 instance
C. Environmental controls of physical AWS data centers
D. Awareness and training

D

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

A. A minimum of one
B. A minimum of two
C. A minimum of three
D. A minimum of four or more

B

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

A. it allows the business to eliminate IT bills.
B. it allows the business to put a server in each customer's data center.
C. it allows the business to focus on business activities.
D. it allows the business to leave servers unpatched.

C

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

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon EBS
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store

A

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

A. API keys
B. Access keys
C. User names/Passwords
D. SSH keys

B

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

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon RDS
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon S3

C

What is an example of agility in the AWS Cloud?

A. Access to multiple instance types
B. Access to managed services
C. Using Consolidated Billing to produce one bill
D. Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

D

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

A. AWS IAM
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Schema Conversion Tool
D. AWS Config

B

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

A. Using many instances in parallel
B. Using a single large instance during off-peak hours
C. Using dedicated hardware
D. Using a large GPU instance type

A

For which auditing process does AWS have sole responsibility?

A. AWS IAM policies
B. Physical security
C. Amazon S3 bucket policies
D. AWS CloudTrail Logs

B

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

A. Fault tolerance
B. Global reach
C. Pay-as-you-go pricing
D. High availability

B

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

A. Patching underlying infrastructure
B. Physical security
C. Patching Amazon EC2 instances
D. Patching network infrastructure

C

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. Create one global AWS acount and move all AWS resources to tha account.
B. Sign up for three years of Reserved Instance pricing up front.
C. Use the consolidated billing feature from AWS Organizations.
D. Sign up for the AWS Enterprise support plan to get volume discounts.

C

Which of the following are features of Amazon CloudWatch Logs? (Select 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

DE

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

A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon Neptune
C. Amazon SageMaker
D. Amazon Lightsail

A

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? (Select 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

AC

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

A. Amazon Glacier
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

D

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

A. Reserved Instances
B. On-Demand
C. Dedicated Hosts
D. Spot Instances

D

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

A. Physical access controls
B. Data encryption
C. Secure disposal of storage devices
D. Environmental risk management

B

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

A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon DynamoDB

A

A company is looking for a scalable data warehouse solution. Which of the following AWS solutions would meet the company's needs?

A. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Kinesis
D. Amazon Redshift

D

Which statement best describes Elastic Load Balancing?

A. It translates a domain name into an IP address using DNS.
B. It distributes incoming application traffic across one or more Amazon EC2 instances.
C. It collects metrics on connected Amazon EC2 instances.
D. It automatically adjusts the number of Amazon EC2 instances to support incoming traffic.

B

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

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

AC

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

A. agility.
B. global infrastructure.
C. elasticity.
D. pay-as-you-go pricing.

B

Which of the following AWS services can be used to serve large amounts of online video content with the lowest possible latency? (Select TWO.)

A. AWS Storage Gateway
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
D. Amazon Glacier
E. Amazon CloudFront

BE (C can as well, but S3 and CloudFront are better)

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

A. Cloud-native
B. Partner network
C. Hybrid architecture
D. Infrastructure as a service

C

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

A. They require the customer to monitor and replace failing instances.
B. They have better performance than customer-managed services.
C. They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.
D. They do not require the customer to optimize instance type or size selections.

D (pretty unsure, people made good arguments for C. I agree with D)

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

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
D. Amazon S3

D

Which of the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities is associated with an access key ID and secret access key when using AWS CommandLine Interface (AWS CLI)?

A. IAM group
B. IAM user
C. IAM role
D. IAM policy

B

Which of the following security-related services does AWS offer? (Select 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

BC

Which AWS managed service is used to host databases?

A. AWS Batch
B. AWS Artifact
C. AWS Data Pipeline
D. Amazon RDS

D

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

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon EBS
D. Amazon EFS

D (Elastic File System)

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

A. Use the largest instance possible
B. Provision capacity for peak load
C. Use the Scrum development process
D. Implement elasticity

D

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

A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon Glacier
C. AWS Snowball
D. AWS EBS

B

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

A. Physical controls
B. Patch management
C. Zone security
D. Data center auditing

B

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

A. AWS VPN
B. Amazon Redshift
C. API Gateway
D. Amazon Direct Connect

D

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. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
B. AWS Lambda
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. AWS CodeCommit

B

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

A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
B. AWS Service Health Dashboard
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Infrastructure Event Management

A (service health = general status of AWS services, personal health = status of services underlying your AWS resources)

Which of the following are categories of AWS Trusted Advisor? (Select TWO.)

A. Fault Tolerance
B. Instance Usage
C. Infrastructure
D. Performance
E. Storage Capacity

AD (Trusted advisor provides best practices recommendations for five categories: cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, service limits)

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

A. Granting access to individuals and services
B. Encrypting data in transit
C. Updating Amazon EC2 host firmware
D. Updating operating systems

C

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
B. Amazon Lumberyard
C. AWS Artifact
D. Amazon CloudSearch

A

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

A. Permissive security removes the administrative burden.
B. Ability to focus on revenue-generating activities.
C. Control over cloud network hardware.
D. Choice of specific cloud hardware vendors.

B

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
B. Reserved Instances
C. On-Demand Instances
D. No Upfront Reserved Instances

A

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

A. AWS CodePipeline
B. AWS CodeDeploy
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. AWS CloudFormation

D (CloudFormation lets you describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment)

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
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. Amazon Inspector

A (Config enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources)

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

A. A code repository with customizable build and team commit features.
B. A metrics repository with customizable notification thresholds and channels.
C. A security configuration repository with threat analytics.
D. A rule repository of a web application firewall with automated vulnerability prevention features.

B

Which service allows a company with multiple AWS accounts to combine its usage to obtain volume discounts?

A. AWS Server Migration Service
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

B

Which of the following services could be used to deploy an application to servers running on-premises? (Select TWO.)

A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
B. AWS OpsWorks
C. AWS CodeDeploy
D. AWS Batch
E. AWS X-Ray

BC

Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Convertible Reserved Instances

C

Which design principles for cloud architecture are recommended when re-architecting a large monolithic application? (Select TWO.)

A. Use manual monitoring.
B. Use fixed servers.
C. Implement loose coupling.
D. Rely on individual components.
E. Design for scalability.

CE

Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that allows for one-hour target response time for support cases?

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

B

Where can AWS compliance and certification reports be downloaded?

A. AWS Artifact
B. AWS Concierge
C. AWS Certificate Manager
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

A (Artifact is your go-to, central resource for compliance-related information that matters to you)

Which AWS service provides a customized view of the health of specific AWS services that power a customer's workloads running on AWS?

A. AWS Service Health Dashboard
B. AWS X-Ray
C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
D. Amazon CloudWatch

C

Which of the following is an advantage of consolidated billing on AWS?

A. Volume pricing qualification
B. Shared access permissions
C. Multiple bills per account
D. Eliminates the need for tagging

A

Which of the following steps should be taken by a customer when conducting penetration testing on AWS?

A. Conduct penetration testing using Amazon Inspector, and then notify AWS support.
B. Request and wait for approval from the customer's internal security team, and then conduct testing.
C. Notify AWS support, and then conduct testing immediately.
D. Request and wait for approval from AWS support, and then conduct testing.

B

Which of the following AWS features enables a user to launch a pre-configured Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance?

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
B. Amazon Machine Image
C. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
D. Amazon AppStream 2.0

B

How would an AWS customer easily apply common access controls to a large set of users?

A. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group.
B. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM role.
C. Apply the same IAM policy to all IAM users with access to the same workload.
D. Apply an IAM policy to an Amazon Cognito user pool.

A

What technology enables compute capacity to adjust as loads change?

A. Load balancing
B. Automatic failover
C. Round robin
D. Auto Scaling

D

Which AWS services are defined as global instead of regional? (Select TWO.)

A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon CloudFront
E. Amazon DynamoDB

AD

Which AWS service would you use to obtain compliance reports and certificates?

A. AWS Artifact
B. AWS Lambda
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS Certificate Manager

A

Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the AWS customer? (Select TWO.)

A. Ensuring that application data is encrypted at rest
B. Ensuring that AWS NTP servers are set to the correct time
C. Ensuring that users have received security training in the use of AWS services
D. Ensuring that access to data centers is restricted
E. Ensuring that hardware is disposed of properly

AC

Which AWS service can be used to manually launch instances based on resource requirements?

A. Amazon EBS
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon EC2
D. Amazon ECS

C

A company is migrating an application that is running non-interruptible workloads for a three-year time frame.Which pricing construct would provide the MOST cost-effective solution?

A. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
B. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances
C. Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances
D. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

D

The financial benefits of using AWS are: (Select TWO.)

A. reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
B. increased capital expenditure (capex).
C. reduced operational expenditure (opex).
D. deferred payment plans for startups.
E. business credit lines for stratups.

AC

Which AWS Cost Management tool allows you to view the most granular data about your AWS bill?

A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost and Usage report
D. AWS Billing dashboard

C

Which of the following can an AWS customer use to launch a new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) cluster? (Select TWO.)

A. AWS Concierge
B. AWS CloudFormation
C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
E. AWS Management Console

BE

Which of the following is an AWS Cloud architecture design principle?

A. Implement single points of failure.
B. Implement loose coupling.
C. Implement monolithic design.
D. Implement vertical scaling.

B

Which of the following security measures protect access to an AWS account? (Select TWO.)

A. Enable AWS CloudTrail.
B. Grant least privilege access to IAM users.
C. Create one IAM user and share with many developers and users.
D. Enable Amazon CloudFront.
E. Activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users.

BE

Which service provides a hybrid storage service that enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use cloud storage?

A. Amazon Glacier
B. AWS Snowball
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)

C

Which of the following services falls under the responsibility of the customer to maintain operating system configuration, security patching, and networking?

A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. AWS Fargate

B

Which of the following is an important architectural design principle when designing cloud applications?

A. Use multiple Availability Zones.
B. Use tightly coupled components.
C. Use open source software.
D. Provision extra capacity.

A

Which AWS support plan includes a dedicated Technical Account Manager?

A. Developer
B. Enterprise
C. Business
D. Basic

B

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers which of the following benefits over traditional database management?

A. AWS manages the data stored in Amazon RDS tables.
B. AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system.
C. AWS automatically scales up instance types on demand.
D. AWS manages the database type.

B

Which service is best for storing common database query results, which helps to alleviate database access load?

A. Amazon Machine Learning
B. Amazon SQS
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store

C

Which of the following is a component of the shared responsibility model managed entirely by AWS?

A. Patching operating system software
B. Encrypting data
C. Enforcing multi-factor authentication
D. Auditing physical data center assets

D

Which options does AWS make available for customers who want to learn about security in the cloud in an instructor-led setting? (Select TWO.)

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS Online Tech Talks
C. AWS Blog
D. AWS Forums
E. AWS Classroom Training

BE

Which of the following features can be configured through the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Dashboard? (Select TWO.)

A. Amazon CloudFront distributions
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Security Groups
D. Subnets
E. Elastic Load Balancing

CD

If each department within a company has its own AWS account, what is one way to enable consolidated billing?

A. Use AWS Budgets on each account to pay only to budget.
B. Contact AWS Support for a monthly bill.
C. Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join.
D. Put all invoices into one Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, load data into Amazon Redshift, and then run a billing report.

C

How do customers benefit from Amazon's massive economies of scale?

A. Periodic price reductions as the result of Amazon's operational efficiencies
B. New Amazon EC2 instance types providing the latest hardware
C. The ability to scale up and down when needed
D. Increased reliability in the underlying hardware of Amazon EC2 instances

A (C looks right to me, but almost everyone replied with A with good reasoning and links)

Which AWS services can be used to gather information about AWS account activity? (Select TWO.)

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Cloud9
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS CloudHSM
E. Amazon CloudWatch

CE

Which of the following common IT tasks can AWS cover to free up company IT resources? (Select TWO.)

A. Patching databases software
B. Testing application releases
C. Backing up databases
D. Creating database schema
E. Running penetration tests

AC

In which scenario should Amazon EC2 Spot Instances be used?

A. A company wants to move its main website to AWS from an on-premises web server.
B. A company has a number of application services whose Service Level Agreement (SLA) requires 99.999% uptime.
C. A company's heavily used legacy database is currently running on-premises.
D. A company has a number of infrequent, interruptible jobs that are currently using On-Demand Instances.

D

Which AWS feature should a customer leverage to achieve high availability of an application?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. Availability Zones
C. Data centers
D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

B

Which is the minimum AWS Support plan that includes Infrastructure Event Management without additional costs?

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

A

Which AWS service can serve a static website?

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Amazon QuickSight
D. AWS X-Ray

A

How does AWS shorten the time to provision IT resources?

A. It supplies an online IT ticketing platform for resource requests.
B. It supports automatic code validation services.
C. It provides the ability to programmatically provision existing resources.
D. It automates the resource request process from a company's IT vendor list.

C

What can AWS edge locations be used for? (Select TWO.)

A. Hosting applications
B. Delivering content closer to users
C. Running NoSQL database caching services
D. Reducing traffic on the server by caching responses
E. Sending notification messages to end users

BD

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

A. A public and private key-pair
B. Amazon Inspector
C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
D. Security Groups

C

A solution that is able to support growth in users, traffic, or data size with no drop in performance aligns with which cloud architecture principle?

A. Think parallel
B. Implement elasticity
C. Decouple your components
D. Design for failure

B

A company will be moving from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud.What would be one financial difference after the move?

A. Moving from variable operational expense (opex) to upfront capital expense (capex).
B. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable capital expense (capex).
C. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable operational expense (opex).
D. Elimination of upfront capital expense (capex) and elimination of variable operational expense (opex)

C

How should a customer forecast the future costs for running a new web application?

A. Amazon Aurora Backtrack
B. Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Cost and Usage report

C (possibly D, although pretty sure D needs past history, which doesn't apply to a new app)

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

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

B

Which of the following tasks is the responsibility of AWS?

A. Encrypting client-side data
B. Configuring AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles
C. Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor
D. Setting user password policies

C

One benefit of On-Demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) pricing is:

A. the ability to bid for a lower hourly cost.
B. paying a daily rate regardless of time used.
C. paying only for time used.
D. pre-paying for instances and paying a lower hourly rate.

C

An administrator needs to rapidly deploy a popular IT solution and start using it immediately.Where can the administrator find assistance?

A. AWS Well-Architected Framework documentation
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS CodeCommit
D. AWS Quick Start reference deployments

D

Which of the following services is in the category of AWS serverless platform?

A. Amazon EMR
B. Elastic Load Balancing
C. AWS Lambda
D. AWS Mobile Hub

C

Which services are parts of the AWS serverless platform?

A. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena
B. Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Amazon EMR
C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS
D. Amazon Athena, Amazon Cognito, Amazon EC2

C

Which of the following options describes the most common AWS billing model?

A. Annual billing
B. Pay in advance
C. Daily billing
D. Pay as you go

D

Which method would you use to access AWS services through an easy-to-use graphical interface?

A. AWS EasyLaunch
B. Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs)
C. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
D. AWS Management Console

D

Who is responsible for security of the cloud according to the shared responsibility model?

A. Customer
B. AWS
C. IAM roles
D. AWS Support

B

Which AWS service enables you to repeatedly and predictably provision resources to power your applications?

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Cloud Map
C. AWS CloudFormation
D. AWS CloudTrail

C

Which of the following is a responsibility of the customer according to the shared responsibility model?

A. Protection of the global infrastructure
B. Availability of third-party audit reports
C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
D. Physical security of the facilities in which the service operates

C

You have an application composed of individual services and you need to route a request to a service based on the content of the request. What type of load balancer should you use?

A. VPN Load Balancer
B. Classic Load Balancer
C. Network Load Balancer
D. Application Load Balancer

D

Which of the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework is defined as the ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures?

A. Performance efficiency
B. Operational excellence
C. Reliability
D. Security

B

Which service provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances?

A. Amazon EFS
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon EBS
D. Amazon S3

C

Which of the following use cases is appropriate for Amazon CloudFront? (Choose THREE.)

A. Static asset caching
B. Schema generation
C. Live on-demand video streaming
D. Auto Scaling
E. Security and encryption
F. Database backups

ACE

Which of the following components is included in the value proposition of the AWS Cloud?

A. Fully independent development without parameters
B. Massive economies of scale
C. Informal security restrictions
D. Physical relocation of your servers

B

Which of the following AWS services has no additional charge associated with its use? (The resources provisioned within the service may incur costs.)

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
B. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
D. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

D

What is Amazon Route 53?

A. A highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service
B. A fast and flexible nonrelational database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale
C. A monitoring and management service that collects and tracks metrics
D. A cloud service solution that establishes private connectivity between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment

A

Which of the following defines the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?

A. Packages that enable access to AWS in a variety of programming languages
B. A suite of utilities that can be launched from a command program in Linux, macOS, or Windows
C. A systematic approach to evaluating and implementing architectures
D. A rich graphical interface to a majority of the features offered by AWS

B

Which of the following instance types provides you with a significant discount compared to On-Demand Instance pricing?

A. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances
B. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
C. Amazon EC2 Instant Instances
D. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

D

You have been tasked with distributing a newsletter that will be pushed out ot administrators by email. Which of the following is the best solution?

A. Create a messaging queue in Amazon CloudFront
B. Store the newsletters in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket and distribute them with AWS CloudTrail
C. Create a topic in Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) that administrators can subscribe to
D. Route the newsletters to an Amazon ElastiCashe store

C

Which parts of the AWS infrastructure support increased resilience?

A. Multiple Availability Zones within a Region
B. Multiple AWS Direct Connect (DX) gateways within a data center
C. Multiple Regions distributed globally
D. Multiple edge locations within a Region

A

Which service sends notifications or automatically makes changes to the resources being monitored based on rules you established?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. Amazon Aurora
C. Amazon EC2
D. Elastic Load Balancing

A

Which of the following is a best practice for adding an additional layer of security when logging into the AWS Management Console?

A. Root access permissions
B. Secondary password
C. Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
D. Secondary user name

C

Users of your services are reporting latency. With on-premises architecture you would notify your Administrator to launch another server to balance the load. How can this be automated using AWS?

A. Create six Amazon EC2 instances in different Availability Zones
B. Enable an Aazon CloudWatch alarm to trigger a scaling policy
C. Create a new template using AWS CloudFormation
D. Enable AWS CloudTrail to monitor latency issues

B

Your company is developing a critical application, and the security of the application is one of the top priorities. Which of the following AWS services will provide recommendations for security optimization for you infrastructure?

A. Amazon Aurora
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

D

Which of the following services provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, understand and respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS CloudFormation
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS Cloud9

A

Which of the following tasks is the customer's responsibility when creating Amazon VPC security groups?

A. Choosing the level of physical security for the network
B. Adding rules regarding inbound traffic to the security group
C. Ensuring that the security groups are linked to Amazon EC2
D. Selecting an appropriate load balancing strategy for the network routers

B

Which of the following examples best demonstrates the agility that cloud computing offers?

A. Spin up servers in minutes, and shut down servers when you don't need them
B. Increase network throughput with AWS Direct Connect (DX) nodes
C. Quickly deploy multi-factor authentication (MFA) to multiple data centers
D. Protect your data by centralizing your applications in one Availability Zone

A

What is Elastic Load Balancing?

A. Automatically stopping traffic when targets are overloaded
B. Automatically monitoring traffic to ensure that costs are kept beneath a specified threshold
C. Automatically slowing traffic to decrease latency
D. Automatically distributing traffic across multiple targets

D

A company has 70 employees divided into 10 departments. The IT administrator wants to customize each department's access to AWS. Which of the following options is most appropriate?

A. Make each employee an AWS account root user
B. Create a temporary role for each employee, and revise their access as needed
C. Create an IAM group for each department, and assign IAM users to the groups
D. Create an IAM role for each department, and assign IAM users to the roles

C

Which category of services includes Amazon S3?

A. Computing
B. Migration
C. Security
D. Storage

D

Which AWS service is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS?

A. AWS Identity and Access Management
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS Shield

D

Which of the following AWS concepts refers to "Established best practices developed through lessons learned by working with customers"?

A. Security of the Cloud
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Reference architecture
D. Well-Architected Framework

D

Which component of the AWS global infrastructure supports the caching of content for faster access?

A. Regions
B. Edge locations
C. Availability Zones
D. AWS Direct Connect locations

B

How is storage typically priced on AWS Cloud?

A. Charged by speed of transfer
B. Charged per GB
C. Charged per hour or second
D. Charged by instance type

B

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