Quiz
Which of the following use cases is appropriate for using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? (Select the best answer)
A. Massive read/write rates
B. Complex transactions
C. All of these
D. Simple GET or PUT requests
B. Complex transactions
After you move to the AWS Cloud, you want to ensure that the right security settings are put in place. Which online tool can assist in security compliance? (Select the best answer)
A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. Amazon Kinesis
C. AWS Support
D. Amazon CloudWatch
A. AWS Trusted Advisor
Which of the following best describes a system that can withstand some measures of degradation, experiences minimal downtime and requires minimal human intervention? (Select the best answer)
A. Scalable
B. Highly Available
C. Fault-Tolerant
D. Elastic
B. Highly Available
There is an adult at your company and they need to have a log of all access to AWS resources in the account. Which of the following services can assist in providing these details? (Select the best answer)
A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. Amazon Cloudwatch
C. AWS CloudTrail
Which of the following must be configured on an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer to expect incoming traffic? (Select the best answer)
A. A network interface
B. A port
C. An instance
D. A listener
D. A listener
If you are developing an application that requires a database with extremely fast performance, fast scalability and flexibility in the database schema, which service should you consider? (Select the best answer)
A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
C. Amazon Elasticache
D. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon DynamoDB
Which of the following is a measure of your system's ability to provide functionality when desired by the user? (Select the best answer)
A. Fault tolerance
B. Availability
C. Performance Efficiency
D. Reliability
D. Reliability
What is the focus of the sustainability pillar of the Amazon Well-Architected Framework? (Select the best answer)
A. Avoiding unnecessary costs in cloud workloads
B. Design workloads that recover quickly from failures
C. Automating updates to cloud workloads
D. Minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads
D. Minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads
Which of the following AWS tools help your application scale up or down based on demand? (Choose Two)
A. AWS Config
B. Elastic Load Balancing
C. AWS CloudFormation
D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
E. Availability zones
B. Elastic Load Balancing
D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
What are the three types of load balancers that Elastic Load Balancing offers? (Choose three)
A. Compute load balancer
B. Classic load balancer
C. Network load balancer
D. Application load balancer
E. Internet load balancer
F. Auto scaling load balancer
B. Classic load balancer
C. Network load balancer
D. Application load balancer
You need to find an item in an Amazon DynamoDB table using an attribute rather than the item's primary key. Which of the following operations should you use? (Select the best answer).
A. PutItem
B. GetItem
C. Query
D. Scan
D. Scan
What is defined as the ability for a system to remain operational even if some of the components of that system fail? (Choose the best answer)
A. High Availability
B. Fault tolerance
C. High performance
D. High durability
B. Fault tolerance
AWS Trusted Advisor provides insights regarding which five categories of an AWS account? (Select the best answer)
A. Performance, Cost optimisation, Security, Fault tolerance, And Service limits
B. Security, Fault tolerance, High Availability, Connectivity, Service Limits
C. Security, Access control, high availability, performance, service limits
D. Performance, cost optimisation, access control, connectivity, security
A. Performance, Cost optimisation, Security, Fault tolerance, And Service limits
Which of the following are NOT characteristics of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling? (Choose two)
A. Responds to changing conditions by adding or terminating instances
B. Only supports dynamic scaling
C. Enforces a minimum number of running Amazon EC2 instances
D. Delivers push notifications
E. Launches instances from a specific Amazon machine images (AMI)
B. Only supports dynamic scaling
D. Delivers push notifications
Which of the following elements are NOT used to create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launch configuration? (Choose two)
A. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and subnets
B. Load balancer
C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes
D. Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
E. Instance Type
A. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and subnets
B. Load balancer
What should you consider when choosing a database type? (Select the best answer)
A. Data access period
B. Highly available
C. Query frequency
D. Data size
E. All of these
E. All of these
Which design principles are recommended when considering performance efficiency? (Choose Two)
A. Enable traceability
B. Match supply with demand
C. Analyze and attribute expenditure
D. Democratize advanced technologies
E. Use serverless architecture
D. Democratize advanced technologies
E. Use serverless architecture
Which of the following are pillars of the Amazon Well-Architected Framework? (Choose Three)
A. Cost optimisation
B. Operational Excellence
C. Persistence
D. Security
A. Cost optimisation
B. Operational Excellence
D. Security
In Elastic Load Balancing, when the load balancer detects an unhealthy target, which of the following are NOT true? (Choose two)
A. Routes traffic to a healthy target
B. Stop routing traffic to that target
C. Triggers an alarm
D. Resumes routing traffic when manually restart it
E. Resumes routing traffic when it detects that the target is healthy again
C. Triggers an alarm
D. Resumes routing traffic when manually restart it
Which of the following is NOT an element of an Auto Scaling group? (Select the best answer)
A. Maximum Size
B. Health checks
C. Desired capacity
D. Minimum size
A. Maximum Size
Which AWS service is best suited for analysing by using standard structured query language (SQL) and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools? (Select the best answer)
A. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier (Amazon S3 Glacier)
D. Amazon Redshift
D. Amazon Redshift
Which of the following is a principle when designing cloud-based systems? (Select the best answer)
A. Use as many services as possible
B. Make infrequent large-batch changes
C. Build tightly-coupled components
D. Assume everything will fail
D. Assume everything will fail
Which of the following is NOT one of the four areas of the performance efficiency pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select the best one)
A. Monitoring
B. Tradeoffs
C. Traceability
D. Selection
C. Traceability
Which of the following services can help you collect important metrics from Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances? (Select the best answer)
A. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
B. Amazon CloudSearch
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. Amazon CloudWatch
E. Amazon CloudFront
D. Amazon CloudWatch
Which service would you use to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms? (Select the best answer)
A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon Simple notification service (Amazon SNS)
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. Amazon Simple notification service (Amazon SNS)