5 Pillars of AWS Architecture
The five pillars of AWS Architecture
what is scalability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, security, and operational excellence
Question 1: What are the characteristics of Amazon S3? (Choose 2 answers)
A. S3 allows you to store unlimited amounts of data.
B. S3 allows you to store objects of virtually unlimited size.
C. S3 should be used to host a relational database.
D. Objects are directly accessible via a URL.
What are A. allows you to store unlimited amounts of data and D. objects are directly accessible via a URL?
Which component of AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery?
A. AWS Regions
B. AWS edge locations
C. AWS Availability Zones
D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
What is B. Edge Locations ?
Upgrading a server with a larger hard drive is an example of __________ . While adding more hard drives to a storage array is an example of __________ .
A. Vertical Scaling, Horizontal Scaling.
B. Vertical Scaling, Vertical Scaling.
C. Horizontal Scaling, Vertical Scaling.
D. Horizontal Scaling, Horizontal Scaling.
What is A.Vertical Scaling, Horizontal Scaling ?
One of the benefits of the AWS Cloud is that there are many services, where you don’t need to manage their underlying infrastructure. Which of the following is an example of these services? (Choose two)
A. DynamoDB
B. EC2
C. Amazon Elastic MapReduce.
D. Amazon VPC.
Enabling traceability and automating
What are design principals of security pillar?
One of the following services has been described as a global content delivery network (CDN) service.
A. Amazon SES
B. Amazon Cloudtrail
C. Amazon CloudFront
D. Amazon S3
C. CloudFront
Upgrading a server with a larger hard drive is an example of __________ . While adding more hard drives to a storage array is an example of __________ .
A. Vertical Scaling, Horizontal Scaling.
B. Vertical Scaling, Vertical Scaling.
C. Horizontal Scaling, Vertical Scaling.
D. Horizontal Scaling, Horizontal Scaling.
What is B.Deploying application across multiple regions?
Your web application is generating digital policy files for verifying users. Once the files are verified, they may not be required in the future unless there are some compliance issues. If you want to save them in a cost-effective way, what is the best possible solution?
A. S3 Intelligent-Tiering
B. AWS RDS
C. AWS EBS
D. AWS Glacier
What is D. AWS Glacier ?
You are planning to host your education website on AWS. Most of your video courses will be streamed to places all around the world. Which of the following AWS services would help you achieve high transfer speeds?
A. AWS Cloud Formation
B. AWS CloudFront
C. AWS Delivery
D. AWS Cloud Distributer
What is B. AWS Cloudfront ?
Foundations, change management, and failure management
What are the best practices for reliability
You work as on-premises MySQL DBA. The work of database configuration, backups, patching, and DR can be time-consuming and repetitive. Your company decided to migrate to the AWS Cloud. Which of the following can help you save time on the regular database tasks and focus on giving them the fast performance and high availability that they need?
A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon RDS
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon CloudWatch
What is B. Amazon RDS?
Which of the following does AWS perform on your behalf for EBS volumes to reduce the possibility of failure?
A. Replication of the volume across Availability Zones
B. Replication of the volume across Regions
C. Replication of the volume in the same Availability Zone
D. Replication of the volume across Edge locations
One of the most important AWS best practices is to follow the cloud architecture principle of elasticity. How could this principle improve your architecture design?
A. By reducing storage required for your application.
B. By scaling automatically to your on-premises resources based on changes on demand.
C. By scaling automatically and provision the required AWS resources based on changes ondemand
D. None of the above
What is C. By scaling automatically and provision the require AWS resources based on changes on demand ?
In order to implement best practices when dealing with “Single Point of Failure,” you should aim to build as much automation as possible in both detecting and reacting to failure. Which of the following AWS services would help you? (Select all that apply)
A. ELB
B. Amazon Route53
C. Auto Scaling
D. Amazon EC2 auto-recovery
What is all answers. A., B., C., D.
Adapt a consumption model and reducing data centers
What are design principals of cost optimization pillar?
Your company has a microservices data store that requires access to a NoSQL database. Your IT department has no desire to manage the NoSQL servers. Which Amazon service provides a fully-managed and highly available NoSQL service?
A. SimpleDB
B. Amazon RDS
C. ElasticMap Reduce
D. DynamoDB
The principle “design for failure and nothing will fail” is very important when designing your AWS Cloud architecture. Which of the following would help in doing so? (Select all that apply)
A. Availability Zones
B. Regions
C. AWS KMS
D. Elastic Load Balancer
What are Availability Zones Regions and Elastic Load Balancer?
What is the main benefit of decoupling an application?
A. Make updates quickly and easily.
B. Optimize costs
C.Increase the integrity of the application's components
D. Reduce inter-dependencies so failures do not impact other components of the application.
You are working on a project that involves creating thumbnails of millions of images; however, time is not really an issue, and continuous processing is not required. Which type of EC2 buying option would be the most cost-effective?
A. Reserved instances
B. Spot instances
C. On-demand instances
D. Dedicated instances
What is B. Spot Instances?
Using a serverless architecture and having mechanical sympathy
What are design principals of performance efficiency?
A company moved to AWS recently. They have a lot of concerns about their security. Which of the following would help them ensure that the right security settings are put in place? (Select all that apply)
A. AWS Inspector
B. AWS Kinesis
C. Concierge Support Team.
D. AWS Trusted Advisor
: You are going to create snapshots from the EBS volumes in another geographical location using the console. Where would you create the snapshots?
A. In another Availability Zone
B. In another data center
C. In another Edge location
D. In another Region
D. In another Region
You have 2 accounts in AWS. One for the Dev and the other for QA. All are part of consolidated billing. The master account has purchased 4 reserved instances. The Dev department is currently using 2 reserved instances. The QA team is planning on using 3 instances, which are of the same instance type. What is the pricing tier of the instances that can be used by the QA Team?
A. No Reserved and 3 on-demand
B. One Reserved and 2 on-demand
C. Two Reserved and 1 on-demand
D. Three Reserved and one on-demand
What is. C. two reserved and 1 on-demand?
: One of the benefits of the AWS Cloud is that there are many services, where you don’t need to manage their underlying infrastructure. Which of the following is an example of these services? (Choose two)
A. DynamoDB
B. EC2
C. Amazon Elastic MapReduce.
D. Amazon VPC.
what is a. and c.?