Practice Exam 11

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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