1 Practice Exam 3

  1. Where can you store files in AWS? (Choose TWO)
    • A. Amazon EFS.
    • B. Amazon SNS.
    • C. Amazon EBS.
    • D. Amazon ECS.
    • E. Amazon EMR.
    Answer Correct answer: A, C
  2. Which AWS service can be used to store and reliably deliver messages across distributed systems?
    • A. Amazon Simple Queue Service.
    • B. AWS Storage Gateway.
    • C. Amazon Simple Email Service.
    • D. Amazon Simple Storage Service.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  3. Which of the following describes the payment model that AWS makes available for customers that can commit to using Amazon EC2 over a one or 3-year term to reduce their total computing costs?
    • A. Pay less as AWS grows.
    • B. Pay as you go.
    • C. Pay less by using more.
    • D. Save when you reserve.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  4. A company is migrating its on-premises database to Amazon RDS. What should the company do to ensure Amazon RDS costs are kept to a minimum?
    • A. Right-size before and after migration.
    • B. Use a Multi-Region Active-Passive architecture.
    • C. Combine On-demand Capacity Reservations with Saving Plans.
    • D. Use a Multi-Region Active-Active architecture.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  5. What is the primary storage service used by Amazon RDS database instances?
    • A. Amazon Glacier.
    • B. Amazon EBS.
    • C. Amazon EFS.
    • D. Amazon S3.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  6. A company is developing a new application using a microservices framework. The new application is having performance and latency issues. Which AWS Service should be used to troubleshoot these issues?
    • A. AWS CodePipeline.
    • B. AWS X-Ray.
    • C. Amazon Inspector.
    • D. AWS CloudTrail.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  7. Which of the following AWS services is designed with native Multi-AZ fault tolerance in mind? (Choose TWO)
    • A. Amazon Redshift.
    • B. AWS Snowball.
    • C. Amazon Simple Storage Service.
    • D. Amazon EBS.
    • E. Amazon DynamoDB.
    Answer Correct answer: C, E
  8. What are the Amazon RDS features that can be used to improve the availability of your database? (Choose TWO)
    • A. AWS Regions.
    • B. Multi-AZ Deployment.
    • C. Automatic patching.
    • D. Read Replicas.
    • E. Edge Locations.
    Answer Correct answer: B, D
  9. Sarah has deployed an application in the Northern California (us-west-1) region. After examining the application’s traffic, she notices that about 30% of the traffic is coming from Asia. What can she do to reduce latency for the users in Asia?
    • A. Replicate the current resources across multiple Availability Zones within the same region.
    • B. Migrate the application to a hosting provider in Asia.
    • C. Recreate the website content.
    • D. Create a CDN using CloudFront, so that content is cached at Edge Locations close to and in Asia.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  10. An organization runs many systems and uses many AWS products. Which of the following services enables them to control how each developer interacts with these products?
    • A. AWS Identity and Access Management.
    • B. Amazon RDS.
    • C. Network Access Control Lists.
    • D. Amazon EMR.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  11. Using Amazon EC2 falls under which of the following cloud computing models?
    • A. Iaas & SaaS.
    • B. IaaS.
    • C. SaaS.
    • D. PaaS.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  12. Which of the below is a best-practice when building applications on AWS?
    • A. Strengthen physical security by applying the principle of least privilege.
    • B. Ensure that the application runs on hardware from trusted vendors.
    • C. Use IAM policies to maintain performance.
    • D. Decouple the components of the application so that they run independently.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  13. Your company is designing a new application that will store and retrieve photos and videos. Which of the following services should you recommend as the underlying storage mechanism?
    • A. Amazon EBS.
    • B. Amazon SQS.
    • C. Amazon Instance store.
    • D. Amazon S3.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  14. Amazon Glacier is an Amazon S3 storage class that is suitable for storing […] & […]. (Choose TWO)
    • A. Active archives.
    • B. Dynamic websites’ assets.
    • C. Long-term analytic data.
    • D. Active databases.
    • E. Cached data.
    Answer Correct answer: A, C
  15. What does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provide?
    • A. A PaaS solution to automate application deployment.
    • B. A compute engine for Amazon ECS.
    • C. A scalable file storage solution for use with AWS and on-premises servers.
    • D. A NoSQL database service.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  16. What is the AWS service that performs automated network assessments of Amazon EC2 instances to check for vulnerabilities?
    • A. Amazon Kinesis.
    • B. Security groups.
    • C. Amazon Inspector.
    • D. AWS Network Access Control Lists.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  17. Under the Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following controls do customers fully inherit from AWS? (Choose TWO)
    • A. Patch management controls.
    • B. Database controls.
    • C. Awareness & Training.
    • D. Environmental controls.
    • E. Physical controls.
    Answer Correct answer: D, E
  18. A company needs to host a database in Amazon RDS for at least three years. Which of the following options would be the most cost-effective solution?
    • A. Reserved instances - No Upfront.
    • B. Reserved instances - Partial Upfront.
    • C. On-Demand instances.
    • D. Spot Instances.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  19. Your application has recently experienced significant global growth, and international users are complaining of high latency. What is the AWS characteristic that can help improve your international users’ experience?
    • A. Elasticity.
    • B. Global reach.
    • C. Data durability.
    • D. High availability.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  20. Savings Plans are available for which of the following AWS compute services? (Choose TWO)
    • A. AWS Batch.
    • B. AWS Outposts.
    • C. Amazon Lightsail.
    • D. Amazon EC2.
    • E. AWS Lambda.
    Answer Correct answer: D, E
  21. A company has business critical workloads hosted on AWS and they are unwilling to accept any downtime. Which of the following is a recommended best practice to protect their workloads in the event of an unexpected natural disaster?
    • A. Replicate data across multiple Edge Locations worldwide and use Amazon CloudFront to perform automatic failover in the event of an outage.
    • B. Deploy AWS resources across multiple Availability Zones within the same AWS Region.
    • C. Create point-in-time backups in another subnet and recover this data when a disaster occurs.
    • D. Deploy AWS resources to another AWS Region and implement an Active-Active disaster recovery strategy.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  22. Which statement is correct with regards to AWS service limits? (Choose TWO)
    • A. You can contact AWS support to increase the service limits.
    • B. Each IAM user has the same service limit.
    • C. There are no service limits on AWS.
    • D. You can use the AWS Trusted Advisor to monitor your service limits.
    • E. The Amazon Simple Email Service is responsible for sending email notifications when usage approaches a service limit.
    Answer Correct answer: A, D
  23. What is the AWS tool that enables you to use scripts to manage all AWS services and resources?
    • A. AWS Console.
    • B. AWS Service Catalog.
    • C. AWS OpsWorks.
    • D. AWS CLI.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  24. What are the connectivity options that can be used to build hybrid cloud architectures? (Choose TWO)
    • A. AWS Artifact.
    • B. AWS Cloud9.
    • C. AWS Direct Connect.
    • D. AWS CloudTrail.
    • E. AWS VPN.
    Answer Correct answer: C, E
  25. A company has deployed a new web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Which of the following should they use to ensure that the incoming HTTP traffic is distributed evenly across the instances?
    • A. AWS EC2 Auto Recovery.
    • B. AWS Auto Scaling.
    • C. AWS Network Load Balancer.
    • D. AWS Application Load Balancer.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  26. Which of the following AWS offerings is a MySQL-compatible relational database service that can scale capacity automatically based on demand?
    • A. Amazon Neptune.
    • B. Amazon Aurora.
    • C. Amazon RDS for SQL Server.
    • D. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  27. Which of the following can help protect your EC2 instances from DDoS attacks? (Choose TWO)
    • A. AWS CloudHSM.
    • B. Security Groups.
    • C. AWS Batch.
    • D. AWS IAM.
    • E. Network Access Control Lists (Network ACLs).
    Answer Correct answer: B, E
  28. What is the AWS data warehouse service that supports a high level of query performance on large amounts of datasets?
    • A. Amazon Redshift.
    • B. Amazon Kinesis.
    • C. Amazon DynamoDB.
      1. Amazon RDS.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  29. Which of the following should be considered when performing a TCO analysis to compare the costs of running an application on AWS instead of on-premises?
    • A. Application development.
    • B. Market research.
    • C. Business analysis.
    • D. Physical hardware.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  30. How are AWS customers billed for Linux-based Amazon EC2 usage?
    • A. EC2 instances will be billed on one second increments, with a minimum of one minute.
    • B. EC2 instances will be billed on one hour increments, with a minimum of one day.
    • C. EC2 instances will be billed on one minute increments, with a minimum of one hour.
    • D. EC2 instances will be billed on one day increments, with a minimum of one month.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  31. Which of the following will impact the price paid for an EC2 instance? (Choose TWO)
    • A. Instance type.
    • B. The Availability Zone where the instance is provisioned.
    • C. Load balancing.
    • D. Number of buckets.
    • E. Number of private IPs.
    Answer Correct answer: A, B
  32. A customer spent a lot of time configuring a newly deployed Amazon EC2 instance. After the workload increases, the customer decides to provision another EC2 instance with an identical configuration. How can the customer achieve this?
    • A. By creating an AWS Config template from the old instance and launching a new instance from it.
    • B. By creating an EBS Snapshot of the old instance.
    • C. By installing Aurora on EC2 and launching a new instance from it.
    • D. By creating an AMI from the old instance and launching a new instance from it.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  33. A company uses AWS Organizations to manage all of its AWS accounts. Which of the following allows the company to restrict what services and actions are allowed in each individual account?
    • A. IAM Principals.
    • B. AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs).
    • C. IAM policies.
    • D. AWS Fargate.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  34. Which of the following statements describes the AWS Cloud’s agility?
    • A. AWS allows you to host your applications in multiple regions around the world.
    • B. AWS provides customizable hardware at the lowest possible cost.
    • C. AWS allows you to provision resources in minutes.
    • D. AWS allows you to pay upfront to reduce costs.
    Answer Correct answer: C
  35. What are the benefits of using the Amazon Relational Database Service? (Choose TWO)
    • A. Lower administrative burden.
    • B. Complete control over the underlying host.
    • C. Resizable compute capacity.
    • D. Scales automatically to larger or smaller instance types.
    • E. Supports the document and key-value data structure.
    Answer Correct answer: A, C
  36. What is the connectivity option that uses Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) to establish encrypted connectivity between an on-premises network and the AWS Cloud?
    • A. Internet Gateway.
    • B. AWS IQ.
    • C. AWS Direct Connect.
    • D. AWS Site-to-Site VPN.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  37. What is the minimum level of AWS support that provides 24x7 access to technical support engineers via phone and chat?
    • A. Enterprise Support.
    • B. Developer Support.
    • C. Basic Support.
    • D. Business Support.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  38. Which of the following is used to control network traffic in AWS? (Choose TWO)
    • A. Network Access Control Lists (NACLs).
    • B. Key Pairs.
    • C. Access Keys.
    • D. IAM Policies.
    • E. Security Groups.
    Answer Correct answer: A, E
  39. A company has developed a media transcoding application in AWS. The application is designed to recover quickly from hardware failures. Which one of the following types of instance would be the most cost-effective choice to use?
    • A. Reserved instances.
    • B. Spot Instances.
    • C. On-Demand instances.
    • D. Dedicated instances.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  40. Which AWS Service provides the current status of all AWS Services in all AWS Regions?
    • A. AWS Service Health Dashboard.
    • B. AWS Management Console.
    • C. Amazon CloudWatch.
    • D. AWS Personal Health Dashboard.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  41. Which AWS service or feature can be used to call AWS Services from different programming languages?
    • A. AWS Software Development Kit.
    • B. AWS Command Line Interface.
    • C. AWS CodeDeploy.
    • D. AWS Management Console.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  42. Which AWS Service can be used to register a new domain name?
    • A. Amazon Personalize.
    • B. Amazon Route 53.
    • C. AWS KMS.
    • D. AWS Config.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  43. App development companies move their business to AWS to reduce time-to-market and improve customer satisfaction, what are the AWS automation tools that help them deploy their applications faster? (Choose TWO)
    • A. AWS CloudFormation.
    • B. AWS Migration Hub.
    • C. AWS IAM.
    • D. AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
    • E. Amazon Macie.
    Answer Correct answer: A, D
  44. Which AWS service provides cost-optimization recommendations?
    • A. AWS Trusted Advisor.
    • B. AWS Pricing Calculator.
    • C. Amazon QuickSight.
    • D. AWS X-Ray.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  45. A company has hundreds of VPCs in multiple AWS Regions worldwide. What service does AWS offer to simplify the connection management among the VPCs?
    • A. VPC Peering.
    • B. AWS Transit Gateway.
    • C. Amazon Connect.
    • D. Security Groups.
    Answer Correct answer: B
  46. What is one benefit and one drawback of buying a reserved EC2 instance? (Select TWO)
    • A. Instances can be shut down by AWS at any time with no notification.
    • B. Reserved instances require at least a one-year pricing commitment.
    • C. There is no additional charge for using dedicated instances.
    • D. Reserved instances provide a significant discount compared to on-demand instances.
    • E. Reserved instances are best suited for periodic workloads.
    Answer Correct answer: B, D
  47. Why does every AWS Region contain multiple Availability Zones?
    • A. Multiple Availability Zones allows you to build resilient and highly available architectures.
    • B. Multiple Availability Zones results in lower total cost compared to deploying in a single Availability Zone.
    • C. Multiple Availability Zones allows for data replication and global reach.
    • D. Multiple Availability Zones within a region increases the storage capacity available in that region.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  48. What is the most cost-effective purchasing option for running a set of EC2 instances that must always be available for a period of two months?
    • A. On-Demand Instances.
    • B. Spot Instances.
    • C. Reserved Instances - All Upfront.
    • D. Reserved Instances - No Upfront.
    Answer Correct answer: A
  49. Which of the following is a benefit of running an application in multiple Availability Zones?
    • A. Allows you to exceed AWS service limits.
    • B. Reduces application response time between servers and global users.
    • C. Increases available compute capacity.
    • D. Increases the availability of your application.
    Answer Correct answer: D
  50. Data security is one of the top priorities of AWS. How does AWS deal with old storage devices that have reached the end of their useful life?
    • A. AWS sells the old devices to other hosting providers.
    • B. AWS destroys the old devices in accordance with industry-standard practices.
    • C. AWS sends the old devices for remanufacturing.
    • D. AWS stores the old devices in a secure place.
    Answer Correct answer: B