Name that service!
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS
Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB
Misc. Storage and Database Services
100

______________ is a service that provides object-level storage. This service stores data as objects in buckets.

1. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

2. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

3. Amazon Redshift

4. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

5. Amazon DynamoDB

4. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

100

What are two components of Amazon S3? (Select TWO.)

1. Buckets

2. Directories

3. Objects

4. Block devices

5. File systems

1. Buckets

3. Objects

100

Which of the following best describe Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

1. Disk storage that is physically attached to the host computer for an EC2 instance

2. A service that provides block-level storage volumes that you can use with Amazon EC2 instances.

3. A scalable file system used with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.

4. A document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

3. A scalable file system used with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.

100

Which statement best describes Amazon DynamoDB?

1. A service that you can use to migrate relational databases, nonrelational databases, and other types of data stores.

2. A service that enables you to run relational databases in the AWS Cloud.

3. An enterprise-class relational database

4. A serverless key-value database service.

4. A serverless key-value database service.

100

A/An ______________ provides temporary block-level storage for an Amazon EC2 instance. This is disk storage that is physically attached to the host computer for an EC2 instance.

1. EBS Volume

2. Instance Store

3. Bucket

4. File system

2. Instance Store

200

______________ is a service that enables you to run relational databases in the AWS Cloud.

1. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

2. Amazon DocumentDB

3. Amazon RedShift

4. Amazon DynamoDB

1. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

200

A cloud architect wants Amazon S3 to monitor object access patterns. Which storage class should they use? 

1. Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

2. Amazon S3 One Zone-IA

3. Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

4. Amazon S3 Standard-IA

1. Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

200

Which type of storage is ideal for use cases in which a large number of services and resources need to access the same data at the same time?

1. Block storage

2. File storage

3. Object storage

4. Cloud storage

2. File storage

200

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of DynamoDB?

1. It's serverless, so you don't have to provision, patch, or manager servers

2. It can eliminate overhead that comes from using complex join functionality.

3. It's highly scalable to adjust for changes in capacity

4. It uses a tabular schema to store data in an easily understandable and consistent way. 

4. It uses a tabular schema to store data in an easily understandable and consistent way.

200

Which managed database service is best suited for business analytics? 

1. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

2. Amazon DynamoDB

3. Amazon Aurora

4. Amazon Redshift

1. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

300

______________ is a service that enables you to move data between a source database and a target database.

1. Amazon Redshift

2. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

3. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

4. AWS Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)


3. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

300

What is the most cost-effective S3 storage tier for data that is not often accessed but requires high availability?

1. S3 One Zone-IA

2. Glacier

3. S3 Standard-IA

4. S3 Standard

3. S3 Standard-IA

300

Which statement or statements are TRUE about Amazon EBS volumes and Amazon EFS file systems?

1. EBS volumes store data across multiple Availability Zones. Amazon EFS file systems store data within a single Availability Zone.
2. EBS volumes and Amazon EFS file systems both store data within a single Availability Zone.

3. EBS volumes store data within a single Availability Zone. Amazon EFS file systems store data across multiple Availability Zones.
4. EBS volumes and Amazon EFS file systems both store data across multiple Availability Zones.

3. EBS volumes store data within a single Availability Zone. Amazon EFS file systems store data across multiple Availability Zones.

300

Which AWS service should you choose for a data processing project that needs a schemaless database?

1. Amazon RedShift

2. Amazon Aurora

3. Amazon RDS

4. Amazon DynamoDB

4. Amazon DynamoDB

300

A cloud engineer wants to store data in a volume that is attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. Which service should they use?

1. AWS Lambda

2. Amazon ElastiCache

3. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

4. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

4. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

400

______________ is a data warehousing service that you can use for big data analytics.

1. Amazon Neptune

2. Amazon RedShift

3. Amazon ElastiCache

4. Amazon DocumentDB


2. Amazon RedShift

400

Which Amazon S3 storage classes are optimized for archival data? (Select TWO.)

1. Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

2. Amazing S3 Standard-IA
3. Amazon S3 Standard
4. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

5. Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

1. Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

4. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

400

Which of the following are characteristics of the Amazon EBS service? (Select TWO.)

1. Physically attached to the host computer of an EC2 instance
2. Best for temporary data that is not kept long term
3. Separate drives from the host computer of an EC2 instance

4. Best for data that requires retention
5. Data is deleted when an EC2 is stopped

3. Separate drives from the host computer of an EC2 instance

4. Best for data that requires retention

400

What are the scenarios in which you should use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? (Select TWO.)
1. Using SQL to organize data
2. Storing data in a key-value database
3. Storing data in an Amazon Aurora database

4. Running a serverless database

5. Scaling up to 10 trillion requests per day

1. Using SQL to organize data

3. Storing data in an Amazon Aurora database

400

Which of the following AWS storage services can be directly used with on-premises systems?

  1. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

  2. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

  3. Amazon EC2 Instance Store

  4. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

1. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

500

______________ is a graph database service. You can use this service to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets, such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs.

1. AWS RDS

2. Amazon Vertex

3. Amazon DocumentDB

4. Amazon Neptune

4. Amazon Neptune

500

In the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class, Amazon S3 moves objects between a frequent access tier and an infrequent access tier. Which storage classes are used for these tiers? (Select TWO.)

1. S3 One Zone-IA

2. S3 Glacier Deep Archive

3. S3 Standard-IA

4. S3 Standard

5. S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

3. S3 Standard-IA

4. S3 Standard

500

An organization would like to copy data across different Availability Zones (AZs) using EBS snapshots. Where are EBS snapshots stored in the AWS Cloud?

1. Amazon S3

2. Amazon EC2

3. Amazon EFS

4. Amazon RDS

1. Amazon S3

500

Which of the following are NOT Amazon RDS database engines? (Select TWO.)

1. Oracle Database

2. Amazon Aurora

3. PostgreSQL

4. DynamoDB

5. Microsoft SQL Server

6. Redis

4. DynamoDB

6. Redis

500

Which of the following is NOT a typical use case of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)?

1. Enabling developers to test applications against production data without affecting production users

2. Combining several databases into a single database

3. Obtaining a complete history of all the changes that have been made to application data

4. Continuous replication of data to other target sources

3. Obtaining a complete history of all the changes that have been made to application data