Q1. - (Topic 3) 

A user has created a VPC with a subnet and a security group. The user has launched an instance in that 

subnet and attached a public IP. The user is still unable to connect to the instance. The internet gateway has also been created. What can be the reason for the error? 

A. The internet gateway is not configured with the route table 

B. The private IP is not present 

C. The outbound traffic on the security group is disabled 

D. The internet gateway is not configured with the security group 

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Q2. - (Topic 3) 

A user is trying to understand the detailed CloudWatch monitoring concept. Which of the below mentioned services provides detailed monitoring with CloudWatch without charging the user extra? 

A. AWS Auto Scaling 

B. AWS Route 53 

C. AWS EMR 

D. AWS SNS 

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Q3. - (Topic 3) 

When you put objects in Amazon S3, what is the indication that an object was successfully stored? 

A. Each S3 account has a special bucket named_s3_logs. Success codes are written to this bucket with a timestamp and checksum. 

B. A success code is inserted into the S3 object metadata. 

C. A HTTP 200 result code and MD5 checksum, taken together, indicate that the operation was successful. 

D. Amazon S3 is engineered for 99.999999999% durability. Therefore there is no need to confirm that data was inserted. 

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Q4. - (Topic 3) 

A user has configured an ELB to distribute the traffic among multiple instances. The user instances are facing some issues due to the back-end servers. Which of the below mentioned CloudWatch metrics helps the user understand the issue with the instances? 

A. HTTPCode_Backend_3XX 

B. HTTPCode_Backend_4XX 

C. HTTPCode_Backend_2XX 

D. HTTPCode_Backend_5XX 

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Q5. - (Topic 1) 

You have a server with a 5O0GB Amazon EBS data volume. The volume is 80% full. You need to back up the volume at regular intervals and be able to re-create the volume in a new Availability Zone in the shortest time possible. All applications using the volume can be paused for a period of a few minutes with no discernible user impact. 

Which of the following backup methods will best fulfill your requirements? 

A. Take periodic snapshots of the EBS volume 

B. Use a third party Incremental backup application to back up to Amazon Glacier 

C. Periodically back up all data to a single compressed archive and archive to Amazon S3 using a parallelized multi-part upload 

D. Create another EBS volume in the second Availability Zone attach it to the Amazon EC2 instance, and use a disk manager to mirror me two disks 

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Q6. - (Topic 2) 

An organization, which has the AWS account ID as 999988887777, has created 50 IAM users. All the users are added to the same group cloudacademy. If the organization has enabled that each IAM user can login with the AWS console, which AWS login URL will the IAM users use? 

A. https:// 999988887777.signin.aws.amazon.com/console/ 

B. https:// signin.aws.amazon.com/cloudacademy/ 

C. https:// cloudacademy.signin.aws.amazon.com/999988887777/console/ 

D. https:// 999988887777.aws.amazon.com/ cloudacademy/ 

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Q7. - (Topic 3) 

A .NET application that you manage is running in Elastic Beanstalk. Your developers tell you they will need access to application log files to debug issues that arise. The infrastructure will scale up and down. 

How can you ensure the developers will be able to access only the log files? 

A. Access the log files directly from Elastic Beanstalk 

B. Enable log file rotation to S3 within the Elastic Beanstalk configuration 

C. Ask your developers to enable log file rotation in the applications web.config file 

D. Connect to each Instance launched by Elastic Beanstalk and create a Windows Scheduled task to rotate the log files to S3. 

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Q8. - (Topic 3) 

A user has setup a custom application which generates a number in decimals. The user wants to track that number and setup the alarm whenever the number is above a certain limit. The application is sending the data to CloudWatch at regular intervals for this purpose. Which of the below mentioned statements is not true with respect to the above scenario? 

A. The user can get the aggregate data of the numbers generated over a minute and send it to CloudWatch 

B. The user has to supply the timezone with each data point 

C. CloudWatch will not truncate the number until it has an exponent larger than 126 (i.e. (1 x 10^126. 

D. The user can create a file in the JSON format with the metric name and value and supply it to CloudWatch 

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Q9. - (Topic 3) 

A user has launched an EC2 instance and deployed a production application in it. The user wants to prohibit any mistakes from the production team to avoid accidental termination. 

How can the user achieve this? 

A. The user can the set DisableApiTermination attribute to avoid accidental termination 

B. It is not possible to avoid accidental termination 

C. The user can set the Deletion termination flag to avoid accidental termination 

D. The user can set the InstanceInitiatedShutdownBehavior flag to avoid accidental termination 

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Q10. - (Topic 3) 

An organization (account ID 123412341234. has configured the IAM policy to allow the user to modify his 

credentials. What will the below mentioned statement allow the user to perform? 

{ 

"Version": "2012-10-17", 

"Statement": [{ 

"Effect": "Allow", 

"Action": [ 

"iam:AddUserToGroup", 

"iam:RemoveUserFromGroup", 

"iam:GetGroup" 

], 

"Resource": "arn:aws:iam:: 123412341234:group/TestingGroup" 

}] 

A. The IAM policy will throw an error due to an invalid resource name 

B. The IAM policy will allow the user to subscribe to any IAM group 

C. Allow the IAM user to update the membership of the group called TestingGroup 

D. Allow the IAM user to delete the TestingGroup 

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