AWS

Amazon Cloud Practitioner

Q. Which of these is not an essential characteristics of cloud technology?

Customers pay only for what they use
Resources are accessed over the internet
Many resource are hosted on the same hardware
Resources can change size quickly as needed

Resources are accessed over the internet (You can also have cloud access over your private network)

Q. What are TWO benefits for business when using the cloud?

Don't have to anticipate capacity
Don't have to configure firewalls
Can adapt quickly to changing market demands
Can outsource all development responsibilities
Can outsource all mainteance responsibilites

Don't have to anticipate capacity
Can adapt quickly to changing market demands

Q. Which of the following is a benefit of using the AWS well-architected framework?

It provides prescriptive guidance of how to migrate to AWS
It automates the creation of virtual resources
It helps identify and remediate security and complaince risks in the cloud.
It guarantees cost savings for all workloads

It helps identify and remediate security and complaince risks in hte cloud

Q. If a company is reviewing its disaster recovery procedures for opportunities to improve their recovery metrics, which pillar of the well-architected framework are they working with?

Cost optimization
Reliability
Security
Sustainability

Reliability

Q. Which of the following is classified as CapEx?

Purchase of physical server
Bill for cloud server
Employee training event
Property insurance premium

Purchase of physical server

Q. Which design strategy ensures your website is always available?

Disposability
Elasticity
Scalability
Redundancy

Redundancy (Having multiple copies of something, so if one fails other copy continues to ensure that your website is always available)

Q. Which of the following data transfers is free in AWS?

Data across AWS regions
Data from the internet into an AWS region
Data within an AWS Region across Availability Zones
Data from an AWS region to the internet

Data from the internet int an AWS region

Q. Which CAF (Cloud adoption framework) phase first demonstrates business value ?

Launch
Scale
Envision
Align

Launch

Q. Which AWS resources access option would allow a web server instnace to pull data from a database ?

API

Q. What can a developer do with an access key?

Administrative access to adjust other user accounts from CLI
Programmatic access to te root user account from the Management console
Administrative access to Organization accounts from the Management console
Permissioned access to the developer's account from a CLI

Permissioned access to the developer's account from a CLI

Q. Which cloud deployment model is most often the result of a temporary transitional phase ?

Public cloud
Multi - cloud
Community cloud
Hybrid cloud

Hybrid cloud

Q. Which cloud connectivity option offers the highest security?

Client VPN
Public internet
Direct connect
Site-to-site VPN

Direct connect (Direct connect does not have built in encryption)

Q. A company needs an inexpensive way to avoid having a single point of failure in their server cluster. Which of the following is the least expensive option to meet this requirement?

Spread the cluster across multiple Regions
Spread the cluster across multiple AZs
Spread the cluster across multiple racks
Spread the cluster across multiple hosts

Spread the cluster across multiple AZs

Q. Whcih service should you use to publish software update files while minimizing download time for users throughout the world?

Wavelength
CloudFront
Global Accelerator
Outposts

cloudFront

Wavelength
CloudFront
Global Accelerator
Outposts

Global Accelerator

Q. Which configuration option in EC2 determines how much RAM the instance gets?

Storage
AMI
Tag
Type

Type

Q. A company's stateless data processing workload frequently leaves EC2 capacity unused. Which EC2 pricing option would fix the problem?

Spot
Reserved
On-Demand
Dedicated

Spot

Q. Where are container images stored for creating new container clusters?

Repositroy
EC2 instance store
Marketplace
Kubernetes

Repository

Q. When to use serverless?

Just build your code
Only pay when your code runs
Run code closer to user
Inherently scalable
Update to code, not to server

All of above

Q. When NOT to use serverless?

Troubleshooting troubles
Long run limitations (Lamda functions can run upto 15 minutes)
Cold starts
Security concerns
Legacy conversions

All of above

Q. Which of the following configurations most determines how much it costs to run a Lamda function?

Trigger source
Memory
Destination target
Tag

Memory

Q. Which type of scaling would increase the size of the instance's resources?

Scale up
Scale down
Scale in
Scale out

Scale up

Q. With which of the following services can automatic scaling of hosts NOT be handled using auto-scaling policies set by the customer?

EC2 spot fleets
EC2 ASGs
RDS tables
DynamoDB throughput

RDS tables

Q. When setting up a Database migration in AWS, which service do you start with?

DMS (Database Migration service)

Q. Which database service is optimized to handle OLAP workloads but does not handle OLTP workloads?

RDS
RedShift
Aurora
DMS

RedShift (RDS and Aurora can also be used for OLAP as well as OLTP)

Q. To ge the most automation built into your database deployment make sure to use _______

RDS
Aurora
EC2
MySQL

Aurora

Q. Which task is AWS responsibility when using RDS?

Adding data to database
Controlling database access
Placing DB instance in a VPC
Patching DB instance's OS

Patching DB instance's OS

Q. Which AWS service is designed around non-relational key-value pairs?

RedShift
Aurora
DynamoDB
RDS

DynamoDB

Q. You've setup a new website on EC2 instance. What AWS service can you use to publish your new website address so customers can find you?

EC2
Route 53
VPC
API Gateway

Route 53

Q. Which of the following group is logically the smallest?

Availability zone
Region
Subnet
VPC

Subnet

Q. What kind of resources does NACL protect?

VPC
EC2 instance
S3 bucket
Subnet

Subnet

Q. Which two services or features can be used to configure protections on virual network interface?

NACL
WAF
Firewall manager
Security group

Firewall manager & Security group

Q. Which service helps reduce latency for users sending information to a server?

Cloudfront
Global Accelerator
Origin Shield
Cloudfront Functions

Global Accelerator

Q. What kind of storage is cloud-native by design?

File system storage
Object storage
Offline storage
Block storage

Object storage

Q. What kind of items are saved inside S3 bucket?

Blocks
Folders
Object
Volumes

Object

Q. Which storage could serve as a boot device for Linux EC2 instances?

FSx for windows
EFS
FSx for OpenZFS
EBS

EBS (Elastic Boot Store)

Q. Which service is required to enable encryption of EBS volumes?

KMS (Key management service)

Q. Which process directly provides high availability of a service?

Lifecycle management
Automatic archival
Disaster recovery
Backup

Disaster recovery

Q. Which of these is most likely a critical component of DR design?

AMI
ARN
DDOS
NACL

AMI (Amazon Machine Image)

Q. Which S3 storage tier would emphasize low cost over durability?

Glacier Archive
Intelligent tiering
Standard
One zone-IA

One zone-IA

Q. Which AWS service helps Alexa's voice sound personable?

Lex
Polly
Comprehend
Rekognition

Polly

Q. What service is used to run ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) jobs?

Glue
Kinesis Data streams
QuickSight
Athena

Glue

Amazon Cloud Practitioner​

Q. Which of these is not an essential characteristics of cloud technology?​

Q. What are TWO benefits for business when using the cloud?​

Q. Which of the following is a benefit of using the AWS well-architected framework?​

Q. If a company is reviewing its disaster recovery procedures for opportunities to improve their recovery metrics, which pillar of the well-architected framework are they working with?​

Q. Which of the following is classified as CapEx?​

Q. Which design strategy ensures your website is always available?​

Q. Which of the following data transfers is free in AWS?​

Q. Which CAF (Cloud adoption framework) phase first demonstrates business value ?​

Q. Which AWS resources access option would allow a web server instnace to pull data from a database ?​

Q. What can a developer do with an access key?​

Q. Which cloud deployment model is most often the result of a temporary transitional phase ?​

Q. Which cloud connectivity option offers the highest security?​

Q. A company needs an inexpensive way to avoid having a single point of failure in their server cluster. Which of the following is the least expensive option to meet this requirement?​

Q. Whcih service should you use to publish software update files while minimizing download time for users throughout the world?​

Q. A social media company wants to get user traffic onto AWS's private infrastructure as quickly as possible. Which service will meet this needs?​

Q. Which configuration option in EC2 determines how much RAM the instance gets?​

Q. A company's stateless data processing workload frequently leaves EC2 capacity unused. Which EC2 pricing option would fix the problem?​

Q. Where are container images stored for creating new container clusters?​

Q. When to use serverless?​

Q. When NOT to use serverless?​

Q. Which of the following configurations most determines how much it costs to run a Lamda function?​

Q. Which type of scaling would increase the size of the instance's resources?​

Q. With which of the following services can automatic scaling of hosts NOT be handled using auto-scaling policies set by the customer?​

Q. When setting up a Database migration in AWS, which service do you start with?​

Q. Which database service is optimized to handle OLAP workloads but does not handle OLTP workloads?​

Q. To ge the most automation built into your database deployment make sure to use _______​

Q. Which task is AWS responsibility when using RDS?​

Q. Which AWS service is designed around non-relational key-value pairs?​

Q. You've setup a new website on EC2 instance. What AWS service can you use to publish your new website address so customers can find you?​

Q. Which of the following group is logically the smallest?​

Q. What kind of resources does NACL protect?​

Q. Which two services or features can be used to configure protections on virual network interface?​

Q. Which service helps reduce latency for users sending information to a server?​

Q. What kind of storage is cloud-native by design?​

Q. What kind of items are saved inside S3 bucket?​

Q. Which storage could serve as a boot device for Linux EC2 instances?​

Q. Which service is required to enable encryption of EBS volumes?​

Q. Which process directly provides high availability of a service?​

Q. Which of these is most likely a critical component of DR design?​

Q. Which S3 storage tier would emphasize low cost over durability?​

Q. Which AWS service helps Alexa's voice sound personable?​

Q. What service is used to run ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) jobs?​