1 Practice Exam 11

  1. How can a company reduce its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) using AWS?
    • A. By minimizing large capital expenditures.
    • B. By having no responsibility for third-party license costs.
    • C. By having no operational expenditures.
    • D. By having AWS manage applications.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  2. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: B, E
  3. Which of the following will enhance the security of access to the AWS Management Console’? (Select TWO)
    • A. AWS Secrets Manager.
    • B. AWS Certificate Manager.
    • C. AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA).
    • D. Security groups.
    • E. Password policies.
    Answer Correct answer: C, E
  4. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: C, D
  5. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  6. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: A, D
  7. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: A, C
  8. A company wants to expand from one AWS Region into a second AWS Region. What does the company need to do to start supporting the new Region?
    • A. Contact an AWS Account Manager to sign a new contract.
    • B. Move an Availability Zone to the new Region.
    • C. Begin deploying resources in the second Region.
    • D. Download the AWS Management Console for the new Region.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  9. Why is it beneficial to use Elastic Load Balancers with applications?
    • A. They allow for the conversion from Application Load.
    • B. Balancers to Classic Load Balancers.
    • C. They are capable of handling constant changes in network traffic patterns.
    • D. They automatically adjust capacity. They are provided at no charge to users.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  10. 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
    Answer Correct answer: B
  11. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  12. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  13. A company needs 24/7 phone email and chat access with a response time of less than 1 hour if a production system has a service interruption Which AWS Support plan meets these requirements at the LOWEST cost?
    • A. Basic.
    • B. Developer.
    • C. Business.
    • D. Enterprise.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  14. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  15. How does AWS Trusted Advisor provide guidance to users of the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO)
    • A. It identifies software vulnerabilities in applications running on AWS.
    • B. It provides a list of cost optimization recommendations based on current AWS usage.
    • C. It detects potential security vulnerabilities caused by permissions settings on account resources.
    • D. It automatically corrects potential security issues caused by permissions settings on account resources.
    • E. It provides proactive alerting whenever an Amazon EC2 instance has been compromised.
    Answer Correct answer: B, C
  16. Which AWS managed service is used to host databases?
    • A. AWS Batch.
    • B. AWS Artifact.
    • C. AWS Data Pipeline.
    • D. Amazon RDS.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  17. Which of the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities is associated with an access key ID and secret access key when using AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?
    • A. IAM group.
    • B. IAM user.
    • C. IAM role.
    • D. IAM policy.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  18. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  19. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  20. What credential components are required to gain programmatic access to an AWS account? (Select TWO)
    • A. An access key ID.
    • B. A primary key.
    • C. A secret access key.
    • D. A user ID.
    • E. A secondary key.
    Answer Correct answer: A, C
  21. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  22. Which type of AWS storage is ephemeral and is deleted when an instance is stopped Of terminated?
    • A. Amazon EBS.
    • B. Amazon EC2 instance store.
    • C. Amazon EFS.
    • D. Amazon S3.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  23. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  24. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  25. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  26. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: B, E
  27. Which AWS service provides the ability to manage infrastructure as code?
    • A. AWS CodePipeline.
    • B. AWS CodeDeploy.
    • C. AWS Direct Connect.
    • D. AWS CloudFormation.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  28. What is an advantage of deploying an application across multiple Availability Zones?
    • A. There is a lower risk of service failure if a natural disaster causes a service disruption in a given AWS Region.
    • B. The application will have higher availability because it can withstand a service disruption in one Availability Zone.
    • C. There will be better coverage as Availability Zones are geographical^ distant and can serve a wider area.
    • D. There will be decreased application latency that will improve the user experience.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  29. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  30. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  31. AWS Enterprise Support users have access to which service or feature that is not available to users with other AWS Support plans?
    • A. AWS Trusted Advisor.
    • B. AWS Support case.
    • C. Concierge team.
    • D. Amazon Connect.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  32. 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 ).
    Answer Correct answer: C
  33. 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
    Answer Correct answer: A
  34. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  35. Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?
    • A. Enterprise.
    • B. Business.
    • C. Developer.
    • D. Basic.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  36. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  37. 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. appGateway.
    • B. Amazon S3.
    • C. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).
    • D. Amazon Glacier.
    • E. Amazom CloudFront.
    Answer Correct answer: B, E
  38. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: B, D
  39. A company is planning to migrate from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. When AWS tool or service provides detailed reports on estimated cost savings after migration?
    • A. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator.
    • B. Cost Explorer.
    • C. AWS Budgets.
    • D. AWS Migration Hub.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  40. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  41. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  42. How can an AWS user with an AWS Basic Support plan obtain technical assistance from AWS?
    • A. AWS Senior Support Engineers.
    • B. AWS Technical Account Managers.
    • C. AWS Trusted Advisor.
    • D. AWS Discussion Forums.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  43. How can a user protect against AWS service disruptions if a natural disaster affects an entire geographic area?
    • A. Deploy applications across multiple Availability Zones within an AWS Region.
    • B. Use a hybrid cloud computing deployment model within the geographic area.
    • C. Deploy applications across multiple AWS Regions.
    • D. Store application artifacts using AWS Artifact and replicate them across multiple AWS Regions.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  44. Which activity is a customer responsibility in the AWS Cloud according to the AWS shared responsibility model?
    • A. Ensuring network connectivity from AWS to the internet.
    • B. Patching and fixing flaws within the AWS Cloud infrastructure.
    • C. Ensuring the physical security of cloud data centers.
    • D. Ensuring Amazon EBS volumes are backed up.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  45. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  46. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: A, C
  47. 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.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  48. Which disaster recovery scenario offers the lowest probability of down time?
    • A. Backup and restore.
    • B. Pilot light.
    • C. Warm standby.
    • D. Multi-site active-active.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  49. Which service’s PRIMARY purpose is software version control?
    • A. Amazon CodeStar.
    • B. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
    • C. Amazon Cognito.
    • D. AWS CodeCommit.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  50. How can a customer increase security to AWS account logons? (Select TWO)
    • A. Configure AWS Certificate Manager
    • B. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
    • C. Use Amazon Cognito to manage access
    • D. Configure a strong password policy
    • E. Enable AWS Organizations
    Answer Correct answer: B, D