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An IT company is on a cost-optimization spree and wants to identify all EC2 instances that are under-utilized. Which AWS services can be used to address this use-case? (Select two)

AWS Budgets
AWS Cost and Usage Reports
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Cost Explorer

An AWS user is trying to launch an EC2 instance in a given region. What is the region-specific constraint that the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) must meet so that it can be used for this EC2 instance?

You must use an AMI from the same region as that of the EC2 instance. The region of the AMI has no bearing on the performance of the EC2 instance
You should use an AMI from the same region, as it improves the performance of the EC2 instance
You can use an AMI from a different region, but it degrades the performance of the EC2 instance
An AMI is a global entity, so the region is not applicable

You must use an AMI from the same region as that of the EC2 instance. The region of the AMI has no bearing on the performance of the EC2 instance

Which of the following statements is the MOST accurate when describing AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

It is an Infrastructure as Code which allows you to model and provision resources needed for an application
It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) which allows you to model and provision resources needed for an application
It is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) which allows you to deploy and scale web applications and services
It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) which allows you to deploy and scale web applications and services

It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) which allows you to deploy and scale web applications and services

Which AWS service would you choose for a data processing project to store unstructured data?

Amazon RedShift
Amazon Aurora
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon RDS

Amazon DynamoDB

A start-up would like to quickly deploy a popular technology on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS tool would you use for this task?

AWS Forums
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS Whitepapers
AWS Quick Starts references

AWS Quick Starts references

Which of the following are correct statements regarding the AWS Shared Responsibility Model? (Select two)

AWS is responsible for Security "of" the Cloud
For abstracted services like Amazon S3, AWS operates the infrastructure layer, the operating system, and platforms
For a service like Amazon EC2, that falls under Infrastructure as a Service, AWS is responsible for maintaining guest operating system
AWS is responsible for training AWS and customer employees on AWS products and services

AWS is responsible for Security "of" the Cloud
For abstracted services like Amazon S3, AWS operates the infrastructure layer, the operating system, and platforms

Which of the following are the serverless computing services offered by AWS (Select two)

AWS Fargate
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Lightsail
AWS Lambda

AWS Fargate
AWS Lambda

A Cloud Practitioner would like to get operational insights of its resources to quickly identify any issues that might impact applications using those resources. Which AWS service can help with this task?

AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Amazon Inspector
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Systems manager

Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to online training with self-paced labs?

Enterprise
Developer
Business
Basic

Enterprise

Which of the following AWS services are part of the AWS Foundation services for the Reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework in AWS Cloud? (Select two)

AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Multi-AZ configuration?

Multi-AZ enhances database availability
Multi-AZ improves database performance for read-heavy workloads
Multi-AZ protects the database from a regional failure
Multi-AZ reduces database usage costs

Multi-AZ enhances database availability

Data encryption is automatically enabled for which of the following AWS services? (Select two)?

AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon Redshift
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon EBS volumes
Amazon EFS drives

AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon S3 Glacier

Which AWS service can be used to subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of services' interruptions?

Amazon SNS
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
AWS Service Health Dashboard
AWS Lambda

AWS Service Health Dashboard

An IT company wants to run a log backup process every Monday at 2 AM. The usual runtime of the process is 5 minutes. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build a serverless solution for this use-case? (Select two)

Systems Manager
EC2 Instance
Step Function
CloudWatch
Lambda

CloudWatch
Lambda

A cyber-security agency uses AWS Cloud and wants to carry out security assessments on their own AWS infrastructure without any prior approval from AWS. Which of the following describes/facilitates this practice?

Network Stress Testing
Amazon Inspector
Penetration Testing
AWS Secrets Manager

Penetration Testing

What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Read Replica configuration?

Read Replica enhances database availability
Read Replica improves database scalability
Read Replica protects the database from a regional failure
Read Replica reduces database usage costs

Read Replica improves database scalability

Which of the following options are the benefits of using AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? (Select TWO)

High Availability
Agility
Storage
Fault Tolerance
Less Costly

High Availability
Fault Tolerance

Which of the following AWS authentication mechanisms supports a Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) device that you can plug into a USB port on your computer?

Virtual MFA device
Hardware MFA device
U2F security key
SMS text message-based MFA

U2F security key

A startup wants to set up its IT infrastructure on AWS Cloud. The CTO would like to get an estimate of the monthly AWS bill based on the AWS services that the startup wants to use. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?

AWS Budgets
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

Which of the following is an AWS database service?
Glue
Redshift
Storage Gateway
Database Migration Service

Redshift

Which of the following is CORRECT regarding removing an AWS account from AWS Organizations?

Raise a support ticket with AWS Support to remove the account

The AWS account must be able to operate as a standalone account. Only then it can be removed from AWS organizations

The AWS account can be removed from AWS Systems Manager

The AWS account must not have any Service Control Policies (SCPs) attached to it. Only then it can be removed from AWS organizations

The AWS account must be able to operate as a standalone account. Only then it can be removed from AWS organizations

Which of the following is a recommended way to provide programmatic access to AWS resources?

Create a new IAM user and share the username and password

Use Multi Factor Authentication to access AWS resources programmatically

Use IAM Groups to access AWS resources programmatically

Use Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access AWS resources programmatically

Use Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access AWS resources programmatically

A multi-national corporation wants to get expert professional advice on migrating to AWS and managing their applications on AWS Cloud. Which of the following entities would you recommend for this engagement?

APN Consulting Partner
APN Technology Partner
AWS Trusted Advisor
Concierge Support Team

APN Consulting Partner

A data analytics company is running a proprietary batch analytics application on AWS and wants to use a storage service which would be accessed by hundreds of EC2 instances simultaneously to append data to existing files. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?

S3
Instance Store
EBS
EFS

EFS

A multi-national company has just moved its infrastructure from its on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. As part of the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for which of the following?

Physical and Environmental Controls
Service and Communications Protection or Zone Security
Configuring customer applications
Patching guest OS

Physical and Environmental Controls

AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running on which of the following resources? (Select two)

AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Route 53
Amazon API Gateway
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Global Accelerator

Amazon Route 53
AWS Global Accelerator

AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running on the following resources: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, AWS Global Accelerator

Which of the following AWS services has encryption enabled by default?

Elastic File Storage (EFS)
Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
Amazon S3
CloudTrail Logs

CloudTrail Logs

Which of the following AWS services support VPC Endpoint Gateway for a private connection from a VPC? (Select two)

Amazon EC2
Amazon SQS
Amazon SNS
S3
DynamoDB

S3
DynamoDB

A cyber forensics team has detected that AWS owned IP-addresses are being used to carry out malicious attacks. As this constitutes prohibited use of AWS services, which of the following is the correct solution to address this issue?

Contact AWS Abuse Team
Contact AWS Support
Contact AWS Developer Forum moderators
Write an email to Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, with the details of the incident

Contact AWS Abuse Team

Which of the following represents a serverless stack on AWS Cloud?

Step Function, DynamoDB, EC2
Step Function, DynamoDB, Lambda
EMR, DynamoDB, Lambda
EC2, DynamoDB, Lambda

Step Function, DynamoDB, Lambda

EC2 and EMR are not serverless

A big data analytics company is moving its IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. The company has some server-bound software licenses that it wants to use on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following EC2 instance types would you recommend to the company?

Dedicated instance
Dedicated host
Reserved Instance
On-Demand Instance

Dedicated Host
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts allow you to use your eligible software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle on Amazon EC2. An Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host is a physical server fully dedicated for your use, so you can help address corporate compliance requirements.

not dedicated instances because they may share hardware

Which AWS Support plan provides architectural guidance contextual to your specific use-cases?

Enterprise
Developer
Business
Basic

Business

Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS managed services such as Amazon RDS?

The customer needs to patch the underlying OS
The customer needs to manage database backups
The performance of AWS managed RDS instance is better than a customer-managed database instance
There is no need to optimize database instance type and size

The performance of AWS managed RDS instance is better than a customer-managed database instance

AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) offers protection from common web exploits at which layer?

Layer 3
Layer 4
Layer 7
Layer 4 and 7

Layer 7

Layer 7 is covered by WAF
Layer 4 is covered by Shield

Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective option to purchase an EC2 Reserved Instance?

No upfront payment option with standard 1-year term
No upfront payment option with standard 1-year term
Partial upfront payment option with standard 3-years term
No upfront payment option with standard 3-years term

Partial upfront payment option with standard 3-years term

A startup is looking for 24x7 phone based technical support for his AWS account. Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective AWS support plan for this use-case?

Business
Enterprise
Basic
Developer

Business

Enterprise is more expensive than the business plan

The engineering team at an IT company wants to monitor the CPU utilization for its fleet of EC2 instances and send an email to the administrator if the utilization exceeds 80%. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build this solution? (Select two)

CloudWatch
SQS
Lambda
Cloudtrail
SNS

CloudWatch
SNS

A log archival application deployed on Amazon EC2 instances runs every Monday between 3 AM and 5 AM. Can you suggest a cost-effective EC2 instance purchasing option for this use-case?

Reserved Instances
On-Demand Instances
Spot Instances
Scheduled Reserved Instances

Scheduled Reserved Instances

Which AWS service can be used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images?

Elastic Container Registry
EC2
Lambda
Elastic Container Service

ECR

The container runs on ECS, but is stored and deployed from ECR

Which of the following AWS services can be used to prevent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack? (Select three)

Inspector
CloudFront with Route 53
WAF
Shield
CloudHSM
Trusted Advisor

WAF
Shield
CloudFront w Route53

A multi-national company wants to migrate its IT infrastructure to AWS Cloud and is looking for a concierge support team as well as a response time of around an hour in case the systems go down. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following support plans would you recommend to the company?
Business
Developer
Individual
Enterprise

Enterprise

What are the different gateway types supported by AWS Storage Gateway service?

Tape Gateway, File Gateway, and Volume Gateway

A customer has created a VPC and a subnet within AWS Cloud. Which of the following statements is correct?

Both the VPC and the subnet span all of the Availability Zones in the Region
Both the VPC and the subnet span only one Availability Zone in the Region
A subnet spans all of the Availability Zones in the Region whereas a VPC spans only one Availability Zone in the Region
A VPC spans all of the Availability Zones in the Region whereas a subnet spans only one Availability Zone in the Region

A VPC spans all of the Availability Zones in the Region whereas a subnet spans only one Availability Zone in the Region

According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are responsibilities of the customer for Amazon RDS?

Managing the underlying server hardware on which RDS runs
Applying patches to the RDS database
Database encryption
Applying patches to the underlying OS

Database Encryption

An online gaming company wants to block users from certain geographies from accessing its content. Which AWS services can be used to accomplish this task? (Select two)

Shield
WAF
Protect
Cloudwatch
Route 53

WAF
Route 53

As per the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of AWS from a security and compliance point of view?

Customer Data
Identity and Access Management
Server-Side Encryption
Edge Location Management

Edge Location Management

Which of the following solutions can you use to connect your on-premises network with AWS Cloud (Select two).

VPC
Direct Connect
Internet Gateway
VPM

Direct Connect
VPN

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Which AWS service or feature can be used to find availability status information on all AWS services?

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