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1On a social media website, creative content goes viral for a few days and then rapidly declines in popularity and views thereafter. Which storage class and configuration option would you choose for a cost-effective storage?
- AA. Amazon S3 Standard with object versioning
- BB. Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
- CC. Amazon Elastic File Store (EFS)
- DD. Amazon S3 Standard with lifecycle policies
2An administrator would like to efficiently automate the replication and deployment of a specific software configuration existent on one EC2 instance onto four hundred others. Which AWS service is BEST suited for this implementation?
- AA. AWS OpsWorks
- BB. AWS Beanstalk
- CC. AWS Launch Configuration
- DD. AWS Auto-scaling
3"S3 Intelligent-Tiering" object storage class delivers automatic cost savings by moving data between which of the two access tiers?
- AA. Standard access and Frequent access
- BB. Frequent access and Infrequent access
- CC. Standard access and Infrequent access
- DD. Standard access and One Zone-Infrequent access
4A radio station compiles a list of the most popular songs each year and will seldom refer to the information thereafter. Listeners can get access to this information up to 24 hours after request. Which is the most cost-effective object storage for this information?
- AAmazon S3 Glacier
- BAmazon S3 One Zone - Infrequently Accessed
- CAmazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
- DAmazon S3 Standard - Infrequently Accessed
5A professional educational institution maintains a dedicated web server and database cluster that hosts an exam results portal for modules undertaken by its students. The resource is idle for most of the learning cycle and becomes excessively busy when exam results are released. How can this architecture be improved to be cost-efficient?
- AA. Configure AWS elastic load-balancing between the webserver and database cluster
- BB. Configure RDS multi-availability zone for performance optimisation
- CC. Configure serverless architecture leveraging AWS Lambda functions
- DD. Migrate the web servers onto Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
6A developer would like to automate the installation, updating of a set of applications on a series of EC2 instances and on-premise servers. Which is the most appropriate service to use to achieve this requirement?
- AA. AWS CodeBuild
- BB. AWS CodeCommit
- CC. AWS CodeDeploy
- DD. AWS CloudFormation
7One of a blogger’s articles has gone viral which has resulted in a lot of traffic to their blog. This excessive amount of traffic has in turn caused poor browsing experience for some readers. How can normal service to the blog be restored?
- AA. Set up a Web Application Firewall (WAF) that will allow legitimate traffic and deny maliciously generated traffic.
- BB. Set up Read replicas on the backend RDS instance where the article resides.
- CC. Upgrade the backend RDS instance to a non-relational database.
- DD. Configure Multi-AZ to enhance the performance of the backend RDS instances running the blog.
8In Cost Optimization, what is referred to as EC2 Right Sizing?
- AA. It is a cost-effective solution to determine the appropriate Amazon EC2 resources such as memory, processor type and storage when provisioning an instance type.
- BB. It is a cost-saving solution that analyses data over a period of time to determine and recommend the type of Amazon EC2 instances appropriate for your workload.
- CC. It is the scaling down or scaling up of Amazon EC2 instances and instance types to meet workload demand by maintaining only the threshold resources.
- DD. It is a cost-saving solution that outlines the recommendations of best practice in four aspects namely cost optimization, performance, fault-tolerance and service limits.
9Which AWS service gives the user the ability to group AWS resources across different AWS Regions by application and then collectively view their operational data for monitoring purposes?
- AA. Systems Manager
- BB. Management Console
- CC. Resource Groups
- DD. Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM)
10Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding AWS resource tags? (Select TWO.)
- AA. All AWS resource tags have a semantic interpretation
- BB. Within a resource tag, every defined key must have a value string
- CC. By default, resource tags are assigned as null, null
- DD. Resource tags can be edited or removed at any time
- EE. Placement group does not support tags
11Choose the disaster recovery deployment mechanism that has the lowest downtime.
- AA. Pilot Light
- BB. Warm Standby
- CC. Backup Restore
- DD. Devops
12Which of the following Amazon Web Services can be referred to as a serverless service? (Select three).
- AA. AWS Lambda
- BB. Elastic Load Balancing
- CC. Amazon SNS
- DD. Amazon DynamoDB
13Which of the following scenarios is most appropriate to implement Amazon ElastiCache in order to improve on performance?
- AA. Where there are frequent writes to a database instance
- BB. Where there are frequent reads of static content on a web application
- CC. Where there are frequent reads of dynamic content on a web application
- DD. Where there are infrequent random reads to static content on a web application
14Which of the below cannot be used to get data onto Amazon Glacier.
- AA. AWS Glacier API
- BB. AWS Console
- CC. AWS Glacier SDK
- DD. AWS S3 Lifecycle policies
15Domain :Billing and Pricing
Your company is planning to pay for an AWS Support plan. They have the following requirements as far as the support plan goes
24x7 access to Cloud Support Engineers via email, chat & phone
Response time of less than 1 hour for any business critical system faults
Which of the following plans will suffice to keep in mind the above requirement?- AA. Basic
- BB. Developer
- CC. Business
- DD. Enterprise
16Whilst running an application on an EC2 instance behind an Elastic Load Balancer, an administrator receives a 504 error on their browser. What does this mean?
- AA. The ELB instance has stopped running
- BB. The application running on the EC2 instance is serving the 504 error page because it has exceeded its response timeout
- CC. The URL for the application has expired
- DD. The application is unresponsive so the ELB instance serves the 504 error page
17Which of the following statements are FALSE when it comes to elasticity. Choose 2 answers from the options given below
- AA. Diverting traffic to instances based on the demand
- BB. Diverting traffic to instances with the least load
- CC. Diverting traffic across multiple regions
- DD. Diverting traffic to instances with higher capacity
18Which of the following does AWS perform on its behalf for EBS volumes to make it less prone to failure?
- AA. Replication of the volume across Availability Zones
- BB. Replication of the volume across Availability Zones
- CC. Replication of the volume across Regions
- DD. Replication of the volume across Edge locations
19You have a set of developers that need to use .Net to call AWS Services. Which of the following tools can be used to achieve this purpose.
- AA. AWS SDK
- BAWS Console
- CAWS CLI
- DAWS IAM
20You have an EC2 Instance in development that interacts with the Simple Storage Service. The EC2 Instance is going to be promoted to the production environment. Which of the following features should be used for secure communication between the EC2 Instance and the Simple Storage Service.
- AA. IAM Users
- BB. IAM Roles
- CC. IAM Groups
- DIAM Policies
21Which of the following AWS services use serverless technology. Choose 2 answers from the options given below.
- AA. Dynamo DB
- BB. EC2
- CC. Simple Storage System
- DD. AWS Autoscaling
22In a fully managed service such as Amazon Aurora, what are the implications of the Shared Responsibility Model?
- AA. Amazon is responsible for only the physical infrastructure on which the user’s data resides.
- BB. Amazon is responsible for the EC2 instances, the operating system updates, patching of software and its maintenance
- CC. The user is responsible for the operating system updates, patching of software and its maintenance.
- DD. The user is responsible for the security of the EC2 instances on which the relational database resides.
23What is the most appropriate routing policy to implement in Amazon Route 53, when a web application co-located in two geographically distinct locations is experiencing degraded service in one of the locations.
- AA. Geolocation routing policy
- BB. Weighted routing policy
- CC. Failover routing policy
- DD. Latency-based routing policy
24Which statements regarding VPC Peering is accurate? Select TWO.
- AA. Two VPCs in different AWS Regions and under separate AWS Accounts can share traffic between each other.
- BB. In order for VPC Peering to work each VPC should have a public subnet.
- CC. In VPC Peering, it is possible for traffic from one VPC to traverse through a transit VPC in order to reach a third VPC.
- DD. Traffic between VPC peers in different AWS Regions is not encrypted by default.
- EE. VPC Peering can be used to replicate data to geographically distinct locations for fault-tolerance, disaster recovery and redundancy
25Which of the following security features is associated with a Subnet in a VPC to protect against Incoming traffic requests.
- AA. AWS Inspector
- BB. Subnet Groups
- CC. Security Groups
- DD. Network ACL
26Which of the following statements regarding Amazon Athena are accurate? Select TWO.
- AA. Amazon Athena queries data directly from Amazon S3 and there are no additional data storage commitments beyond the object storage.
- BB. Amazon Athena is not suitable for complex analysis such as large joins, window functions and arrays.
- CC. Amazon Athena resources are allocated in accordance to processing and memory requirements prior to deployment.
- DD. Amazon Athena is compatible with data formats such as CSV, JSON, ORC, AVRO and Parquet
- EE. Amazon Athena uses a variety of query languages including SQL, LDAP, JPQL as well as CQL.
27Whilst working on a collaborative project, an administrator would like to record the initial configuration and the several authorized changes that engineers make to the route table of a VPC. What is the best method to achieve this?
- AA. Use of AWS Config
- BB. Use of VPC Flow Logs
- CC. Use of AWS CloudTrail
- DD. Use of an AWS Lambda function that is triggered to save a log file to an S3 bucket each time configuration changes are made.
28Which statement about Amazon Macie is accurate? Select TWO.
- AA. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Amazon Macie can be able to alert the administrator of sensitive information in a document residing in an S3 bucket.
- BB. Amazon Macie cannot read user data but can formulate access patterns on it.
- CC. Amazon Macie provides comprehensive security for user data by preventing unauthorized access to it.
- DD. Through observing Amazon CloudTrail logs, Amazon Macie is able to detect if a permitted user is accessing data that they seldom do.
- EE. Amazon Macie is a fully managed service that does not need permission to access user data and resources
29Which of the following services helps provide a connection from on-premises infrastructure to resources hosted in the AWS Cloud. Choose 2 answers from the options given below
- AA. AWS VPC
- BAWS VPN
- CAWS Direct Connect
- DAWS Subnets
30Amazon Macie uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in which three main functional components on users’ data?
- AA. Discover, Classify, Protect
- BB. Observe, Design, Alert
- CC. Optimize, Alert, Secure
- DD. Detect, Discover, Alert
31The firm you work for is considering migrating to AWS. They are concerned about cost and the initial investment needed. Which of the following features of AWS pricing helps lower the initial investment amount needed? Choose 3 answers from the options given below:
- AA. The ability to choose the lowest cost vendor
- BB. The ability to pay as you go
- CC. No upfront costs
- DDiscounts for upfront payments
32You have an application developed in .NET. This applications works with the S3 buckets in a particular region. The application is hosted on an EC2 Instance. Which of the following should ideally be used to ensure that the EC2 Instance has the appropriate access to the S3 buckets?
- AA. AWS Users
- BB. AWS Groups
- CC. AWS IAM Roles
- DD. AWS IAM Policies
33To know the account activity, including actions through AWS Management Console, SDK's, Command Lines and other AWS Services, which of the below service would you use?
- AAWS Cloudwatch
- BAWS Cloudwatch Logs
- CAWS Config
- DAWS Cloudtrail
34What is Code Commit?
- AControlling software build versions as well as a private storage for software development assets such as binary files, source code and related documentation.
- BA fully managed service that primarily compiles source code and runs unit tests with the output being artifacts that will be ready for deployment.
- CA deployment service that allows developers to automate the installation of applications to hosts, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS instances, serverless Lambda functions or even on-premises servers. AWS CodeDeploy can enable the update of those applications.
35What is Code Build?
- AControlling software build versions as well as a private storage for software development assets such as binary files, source code and related documentation.
- BA fully managed service that primarily compiles source code and runs unit tests with the output being artifacts that will be ready for deployment.
- CA deployment service that allows developers to automate the installation of applications to hosts, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS instances, serverless Lambda functions or even on-premises servers. AWS CodeDeploy can enable the update of those applications.
36What is Code Deploy?
- AControlling software build versions as well as a private storage for software development assets such as binary files, source code and related documentation.
- BA fully managed service that primarily compiles source code and runs unit tests with the output being artifacts that will be ready for deployment.
- CA deployment service that allows developers to automate the installation of applications to hosts, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS instances, serverless Lambda functions or even on-premises servers. AWS CodeDeploy can enable the update of those applications.
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