Which of the following represent economic advantages of moving to the AWS cloud?

AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam 3

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Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is an example of security in the AWS Cloud?

Managing edge locations

Physical security

Firewall configuration

Global infrastructure

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Which of the following statements best describes a key difference between Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation?

CloudFormation is faster in deploying applications than Elastic Beanstalk

CloudFormation offers more potential for customization than Elastic Beanstalk, because you can actually design and script yourself

Elastic Beanstalk is faster in deploying applications than CloudFormation.

Elastic Beanstalk uses Elastic load balancing and CloudFormation doesn't

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Which AWS hybrid storage service enables a user’s on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage?

AWS Backup

Amazon Connect

AWS Direct Connect

AWS Storage Gateway

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What is the best way to apply an organizational system to EC2 instances so they can be identified by descriptors such as purpose or department?

Use descriptive hostnames

Organize the instances into separate subnets

Apply tags

Use the instance meta-data

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(Select TWO) Under the AWS shared responsibility model, what are the customer's responsibilities?

Physical and environmental security

Physical network devices including firewalls

Storage device decommissioning

Security of data in transit

Data integrity authentication

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What technology enables compute capacity to adjust as loads change?

Load balancing

Automatic failover

Auto Scaling

Round robin

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(Select TWO) Which of these are managed database services in AWS?

Amazon RDS

Amazon DynamoDB

AWS Lambda

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon EC2

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(Select TWO) What are two correct statements about AWS Organizations with consolidated billing?

Multiple bills are provided per organization

One bill provided for multiple accounts

Linked accounts lose their management independence

Volume pricing discounts applied across multiple accounts

CloudTrail can be configured per organization

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What feature of Amazon S3 enables you to set rules to automatically transfer objects between different storage classes at defined time intervals?

Elastic Data Management

Object Lifecycle Management

Auto Lifecycle Scaling

S3 Archiving

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(Select TWO) What are the advantages of Availability Zones?

They allow regional disaster recovery

They provide fault isolation

They enable the caching of data for faster delivery to end users

They are connected by low-latency network connections

They enable you to connect your on-premises networks to AWS to form a hybrid cloud

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An Amazon EC2 instance running the Amazon Linux 2 AMI is billed in what increment?

Per second

Per hour

Per CPU

Per GB

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What are Edge locations used for?

They are used for terminating VPN connections

They are used by CloudFront for caching content

They are the public-facing APIs for Amazon S3

They are used by regions for inter-region connectivity

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Which service allows an organization to view operational data from multiple AWS services through a unified user interface and automate operational tasks?

AWS Config

AWS Systems Manager

Amazon CloudWatch

AWS OpsWorks

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Which of the following best describes an Availability Zone in the AWS Cloud?

One or more physical data centers

A completely isolated geographic location

One or more edge locations based around the world

A subnet for deploying resources into

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(Select TWO) Which of the following are features of Amazon CloudWatch?

It is used to gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization

It records an account activity and service events from most AWS services

It is used for auditing of API calls

It can be accessed via API, command-line interface, AWS SDKs, and the AWS Management Console

It provides visibility into user activity by recording actions taken on your account

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Which AWS support plan comes with a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

Basic

Developer

Business

Enterprise

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You wish to deploy EC2 Instances in the Amazon AWS Cloud and utilize your own Microsoft Volume Licenses. Which EC2 pricing option allows you to use your existing server licenses?

Dedicated Hosts

Spot Instance

Reserved Instances

On-Demand Instances

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You are concerned that you may be getting close to some of the default service limits for several AWS services. What AWS tool can be used to display current usage and limits?

AWS CloudWatch

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Systems Manager

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Which AWS service should a Cloud Practitioner use to automate configuration management using Puppet?

AWS Config

AWS OpsWorks

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Systems Manager

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Which of the following services is used to send an alert from CloudWatch?

Amazon SQS

Amazon EBS

Amazon SNS

Amazon SES

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(Select TWO) Which of the following represent economic advantages of moving to the AWS cloud?

Reduce the need to manage applications

Increase efficiencies through automation

Reduce the rate of change

Reduce the need to manage infrastructure

Increase time to market for new applications

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Which AWS service does API Gateway integrate with to enable users from around the world to achieve the lowest possible latency for API requests and responses?

AWS Direct Connect

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

Amazon CloudFront

AWS Lambda

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Which Amazon RDS deployment type is best used to enable fault tolerance in the event of the failure of an availability zone?

Multiple Regions

Read Replicas

Write Replicas

Multiple Availability Zones

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What is the main benefit of designing application components that are decoupled?

Tightly integrate the application

Cost reduction

Reduce dependencies between components of an application

Security

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Which service provides the ability to simply upload applications and have AWS handle the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring?

Amazon EC2

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

AWS OpsWorks

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What can a Cloud Practitioner use the AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator for?

Generate reports that break down AWS Cloud compute costs by duration, resource, or tags

Estimate savings when comparing the AWS Cloud to an on-premises environment

Estimate a monthly bill for the AWS Cloud resources that will be used

Enable billing alerts to monitor actual AWS costs compared to estimated costs

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Which Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance type enables you to match your capacity reservation to predictable recurring dates and times?

Standard RI

Convertible RI

Scheduled RI

Customized RI

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Which of the choices below best describes what Auto Scaling is well suited for?

Only for applications that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage

Both for applications that have stable demand patterns and that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage.

Only for applications with a stable usage pattern but extremely high workload

Both for applications that use frameworks and SDKs to enhance its customer relationship

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Which AWS service enables developers and data scientists to build, train, and deploy machine learning models?

Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Comprehend

Amazon SageMaker

Amazon MQ

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What does an "endpoint" refer to in AWS?

An endpoint is created only when the application needs to connect to the database.

An endpoint is an access point created to connect to an application deployed usingWindows Azure.

An endpoint is a URL that is the entry point for a web service.

An endpoint is the access point that connects the data center to the outside world.

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Which AWS service will provide this assessment report?

EC2 security groups

AWS Config

Amazon Macie

Amazon Inspector

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Which service can be used to create sophisticated, interactive graph applications?

Amazon RedShift

Amazon Neptune

AWS X-Ray

Amazon Athena

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Which AWS database service provides a fully managed data warehouse that can be analyzed using SQL tools and business intelligence tools?

Amazon RDS

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon RedShift

Amazon ElastiCache

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What is the best way for an organization to transfer hundreds of terabytes of data from their on-premise data center into Amazon S3 with limited bandwidth available?

Use S3 Transfer Acceleration

Apply compression before uploading

Use AWS Snowball

Use Amazon CloudFront

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Which storage type can be mounted using the NFS protocol to many EC2 instances simultaneously?

Amazon Instance Store

Amazon EBS

Amazon S3

Amazon S3

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What is a benefit of moving an on-premises database to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

There is no need to manage operating systems

You can scale vertically without downtime

There is no database administration required

You can run any database engine

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(Select TWO) Which AWS support plans provide support via email, chat and phone?

Basic

Developer

Business

Enterprise

Global

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Which statement best describes elasticity in the cloud?

The ability to scale resources up or down and only pay for what you use

The ability for a system to recover from the failure of a single component

A flexible model of code development that results in faster deployment times

A pricing model that allows upfront payments and term commitments to reduce cost

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You need to run a production process that will use several EC2 instances and run constantly on an ongoing basis. The process cannot be interrupted or restarted without issue. What EC2 pricing model would be best for this workload?

Reserved instances

Spot instances

On-demand instances

Flexible instances

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Which AWS service is known as a “serverless” service and runs code as functions triggered by events?

Amazon ECS

AWS Lambda

Amazon CodeDeploy

Amazon Cognito

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(Select TWO) For which services does Amazon not charge customers?

Amazon VPC

Amazon EBS

Amazon CloudFormation

Amazon S3

Amazon SNS

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Which statement best describes Amazon Route 53?

Amazon Route 53 is a service that enables routing within VPCs in an account

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service

Amazon Route 53 enables hybrid cloud models by extending an organization's on-premise networks into the AWS cloud

Amazon Route 53 is a service for distributing incoming connections between a fleet of registered EC2 instances

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Data stored in Amazon S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% __________

uptime

availability

scalability

durability

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(Select TWO) In the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, what is AWS responsible for?

Server-side encryption

Customer data

The maintenance of the hosts virtualization software

Network level security

Physical security of the AWS data centers

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Your organization has offices around the world and some employees travel between offices. How should their accounts be setup?

IAM is a global service, just create the users in one place

Create a separate account in IAM within each region in which they will travel

Set the user account as a “global” account when created

Enable MFA for the accounts

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Which service provides a way to convert video and audio files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs?

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

AWS Glue

Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Comprehend

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What type of cloud computing service type do AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon RDS correspond to?

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Which AWS service lets you use Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Systems Manager

AWS OpsWorks

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(Select TWO) What are two benefits of using AWS Lambda?

No servers to manage

Integrated snapshots

Continuous scaling (scale out)

Flexible operating system choices

Open source software

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A security operations engineer needs to implement threat detection and monitoring for malicious or unauthorized behavior. Which service should be used?

AWS Shield

AWS KMS

AWS CloudHSM

AWS GuardDuty

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Which feature of AWS IAM enables you to identify unnecessary permissions that have been assigned to users?

Role Advisor

Access Advisor

Permissions Advisor

Group Advisor

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Which AWS service helps customers meet corporate, contractual, and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated hardware appliances within the AWS Cloud?

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS CloudHSM

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

AWS Directory Service

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Which authentication method is used to authenticate programmatic calls to AWS services?

Console password

Server certificate

Key pair

Access keys

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Which of the following traditional disaster recovery methods runs your site in AWS as well as on your existing on-site infrastructure, in an active-active configuration?

Pilot Light

Multi-site solution

AWS Production to an AWS DR Solution

Active-passive solution

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Which of the following activities is NOT performed by the Auto Scaling policy?

Scaling down instance counts

Scaling up instance counts

Maintaining current instance levels

Changing instance types

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How can you obtain a discount on your RDS database instances?

Purchase a LightSail Database Instance

Purchase a Redundant Database Instance

Purchase a Reserved Database Instance

Purchase a Spot Database Instanceewdfcxxz

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What feature of Amazon S3 enables you to set rules to automatically transfer objects between different storage classes at defined time intervals?

Elastic Data Management

Object Lifecycle Management

Auto Lifecycle Scaling

S3 Archiving

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An organization has been using AWS for a few months. The finance team wants to visualize the pattern of AWS spending. Which of the below AWS tools will help for this requirement?

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS CloudWatch

AWS Consolidated Billing

AWS Cost Manager

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What tool provides real time guidance to help you provision your resources following best practices in the areas of cost optimization, performance, security and fault tolerance?

AWS Inspector

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

AWS IAM

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For AWS Enterprise customers, any questions about billing and overall AWS account can be directed to which AWS support personnel?

AWS Concierge

AWS Technical Account Manager

AWS Billing & Accounts

AWS Support

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How can an organization track resource inventory and configuration history for the purpose of security and regulatory compliance?

Configure AWS Config with the resource types

Create an Amazon CloudTrail trail

Implement Amazon GuardDuty

Run a report with AWS Artifact

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Which AWS Support plan provides access to architectural and operational reviews, as well as 24/7 access to Cloud Support Engineers through email, online chat, and phone?

Basic

Business

Developer

Enterprise

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Which service can an organization use to track API activity within their account?

AWS CloudTrail

Amazon CloudWatch

AWS IAM

AWS CloudHSM

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Which of the below is a fully managed Amazon search service based on open source software?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS OpsWorks

Amazon CloudSearch

Amazon Elasticsearch

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Which AWS Service stores objects as a collection in an archive file format like a tar or zip file?

Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

Amazon Glacier

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 IA

Which of the following are economic advantages of the AWS cloud?

Which of the following is a benefit of moving to the AWS cloud?

Which of the following represent economic advantages of moving to the AWS cloud choose two choose?

What is a benefit of moving to the AWS cloud in terms of improving?