Database
A company has decided to migrate its Oracle database to AWS. Which AWS service can help achieve this without negatively impacting the functionality of the source database?
A) AWS OpsWorks.
B) AWS Database Migration Service.
C) AWS Server Migration Service.
D) AWS Application Discovery Service.
Answer: B) AWS Database Migration Service.
Which S3 storage class is best for data with unpredictable access patterns?
A) Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering.
B) Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval.
C) Amazon S3 Standard.
D) Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access.
Answer: A) Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering.
Which service provides DNS in the AWS cloud?
A) Route 53.
B) AWS Config.
C) Amazon CloudFront.
D) Amazon EMR.
Answer: A) Route 53.
What is the AWS feature that provides an additional level of security above the default authentication mechanism of usernames and passwords?
A) Encrypted keys.
B) Email verification.
C) AWS KMS.
D) AWS MFA.
Answer: D) AWS MFA
What is the advantage of the AWS-recommended practice of "decoupling" applications?
A) Allows treating an application as a single, cohesive unit.
B) Reduces inter-dependencies so that failures do not impact other components of the application.
C) Allows updates of any monolithic application quickly and easily.
D) Allows tracking of any API call made to any AWS service.
Answer: B) Reduces inter-dependencies so that failures do not impact other components of the application.
An e-commerce company is expecting a surge in orders over the weekend during a sale and needs a database that can deliver consistent performance and latency measured in single-digit milliseconds. Which AWS service meets these requirements?
A) Amazon RDS
B) Amazon DynamoDB
C) Amazon S3
D) Amazon Redshift
Answer: B) Amazon DynamoDB
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 S3.
D) Amazon Instance store.
Answer: C) Amazon S3.
What is the AWS service that provides a virtual network dedicated to your AWS account?
A) AWS VPN.
B) AWS Subnets.
C) AWS Dedicated Hosts.
D) Amazon VPC.
Answer: D) Amazon VPC.
What are the default security credentials that are required to access the AWS management console for an IAM user account?
A) MFA.
B) Security tokens.
C) A user name and password.
D) Access keys.
Answer: C) A user name and password.
You have noticed that several critical Amazon EC2 instances have been terminated. Which of the following AWS services would help you determine who took this action?
A) Amazon Inspector.
B) AWS CloudTrail.
C) AWS Trusted Advisor.
D) EC2 Instance Usage Report.
Answer: B) AWS CloudTrail
What is the AWS service that provides five times the performance of a standard MySQL database?
A) Amazon Aurora.
B) Amazon Redshift.
C) Amazon DynamoDB.
D) Amazon Neptune.
Answer: A) Amazon Aurora.
The identification process of an online financial services company requires that new users must complete an online interview with their security team. The completed recorded interviews are only required in the event of a legal issue or a regulatory compliance breach. What is the most cost-effective service to store the recorded videos?
A) S3 Intelligent-Tiering.
B) AWS Marketplace.
C) Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
D) Amazon EBS.
Answer: C) Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
Which of the following AWS security features is associated with an EC2 instance and functions to filter incoming traffic requests?
A) AWS X-Ray.
B) Network ACL.
C) Security Groups.
D) VPC Flow logs.
Answer: C) Security Groups.
Your company is developing a critical web application in AWS, and the security of the application is a top priority. Which of the following AWS services will provide infrastructure security optimization recommendations?
A) AWS Shield.
B) AWS Management Console.
C) AWS Secrets Manager.
D) AWS Trusted Advisor.
Answer: D) AWS Trusted Advisor.
What does Amazon CloudFront use to distribute content to global users with low latency?
A) AWS Global Accelerator.
B) AWS Regions.
C) AWS Edge Locations.
D) AWS Availability Zones.
Answer: C) AWS Edge Locations.
A company is using Amazon DynamoDB to store sensitive customer information. What is their responsibility regarding data encryption?
A) AWS automatically encrypts all data at rest and in transit
B) Data encryption is not necessary for DynamoDB
C) Customers must ensure that sensitive data is encrypted at rest and in transit
D) Only AWS is responsible for data encryption
Answer: C) Customers must ensure that sensitive data is encrypted at rest and in transit
A customer is planning to move billions of images and videos to be stored on Amazon S3. The customer has approximately 60 Petabytes of data to move. Which of the following AWS Services is the best choice to transfer the data to AWS?
A) Snowball.
B) S3 Transfer Acceleration.
C) Snowmobile.
D) Amazon VPC.
Answer: C) Snowmobile.
What is the purpose of AWS Transit Gateway?
A) To connect multiple VPCs and on-premises networks through a central hub
B) To manage domain name resolution
C) To cache frequently accessed data for faster retrieval
D) To encrypt network traffic between AWS resources
Answer: A) To connect multiple VPCs and on-premises networks through a central hub
Hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks are recorded every month worldwide. What service does AWS provide to help protect AWS Customers from these attacks? (Choose TWO)
A) AWS Shield
B) AWS Config
C) Amazon Cognito
D) AWS WAF
E) AWS KMS
Answer: A) AWS Shield & D) AWS WAF
You have set up consolidated billing for several AWS accounts. One of the accounts has purchased a number of reserved instances for 3 years. Which of the following is true regarding this scenario?
A) The Reserved Instance discounts can only be shared with the master account.
B) All accounts can receive the hourly cost benefit of the Reserved Instances.
C) The purchased instances will have better performance than On-demand instances.
D) There are no cost benefits from using consolidated billing; It is for informational purposes only.
Answer: B) All accounts can receive the hourly cost benefit of the Reserved Instances.
A manufacturing company has established a highly available architecture for its new extension in the retail sector. To meet the requirement of replication data across multiple Availability Zones. Which AWS services should the company use? (Select TWO)
A) Amazon S3
B) AWS Lambda
C) Amazon DynamoDB
D) Amazon EFS
E) Amazon RDS
Answer: A) Amazon S3 & E) Amazon RDS
Which of the following is not a benefit of Amazon S3? (Choose TWO)
A) Amazon S3 provides unlimited storage for any type of data.
B) Amazon S3 can run any type of application or backend system.
C) Amazon S3 stores any number of objects, but with object size limits.
D) Amazon S3 can be scaled manually to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere.
E) Amazon S3 provides 99.999999999% (11 9’s) of data durability.
Answer: B) And D)
Which AWS services can be used to improve the performance of a global application and reduce latency for its users? (Choose TWO)
A) AWS KMS.
B) AWS Global accelerator.
C) AWS Direct Connect.
D) AWS Glue.
E) Amazon CloudFront.
Answer: B) AWS Global accelerator & E) Amazon CloudFront
Which of the following aspects of security are managed by AWS? (Choose TWO)
A) Encryption of EBS volumes.
B) VPC security.
C) Access permissions.
D) Hardware patching.
E) Securing global physical infrastructure.
Answer: D) Hardware patching & E) Securing global physical infrastructure.
As part of the Enterprise support plan, who is the primary point of contact for ongoing support needs?
A) AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user.
B) Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) engineer.
C) AWS Consulting Partners.
D) Technical Account Manager (TAM).
Answer: D) Technical Account Manager (TAM).