Q1. - (Topic 2) 

A user has created a queue named “myqueue” in US-East region with AWS SQS. The user’s AWS account ID is 123456789012. If the user wants to perform some action on this queue, which of the below Queue URL should he use? 

A. http://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/myqueue 

B. http://sqs.amazonaws.com/123456789012/myqueue 

C. http://sqs. 123456789012.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/myqueue 

D. http:// 123456789012.sqs. us-east-1.amazonaws.com/myqueue 

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Q2. - (Topic 2) 

A customer is using AWS for Dev and Test. The customer wants to setup the Dev environment with 

Cloudformation. Which of the below mentioned steps are not required while using Cloudformation? 

A. Create a stack 

B. Configure a service 

C. Create and upload the template 

D. Provide the parameters configured as part of the template 

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Q3. - (Topic 2) 

A user has created an ELB with the availability zone US-East-1A. The user wants to add more zones to ELB to achieve High Availability. How can the user add more zones to the existing ELB? 

A. It is not possible to add more zones to the existing ELB 

B. The only option is to launch instances in different zones and add to ELB 

C. The user should stop the ELB and add zones and instances as required 

D. The user can add zones on the fly from the AWS console 

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Q4. - (Topic 2) 

An organization has created 50 IAM users. The organization wants that each user can change their password but cannot change their access keys. How can the organization achieve this? 

A. The organization has to create a special password policy and attach it to each user 

B. The root account owner has to use CLI which forces each IAM user to change their password on first login 

C. By default each IAM user can modify their passwords 

D. The root account owner can set the policy from the IAM console under the password policy screen 

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Q5. - (Topic 2) 

A user has created a photo editing software and hosted it on EC2. The software accepts requests from the user about the photo format and resolution and sends a message to S3 to enhance the picture accordingly.Which of the below mentioned AWS services will help make a scalable software with the AWS infrastructure in this scenario? 

A. AWS Glacier 

B. AWS Elastic Transcoder 

C. AWS Simple Notification Service 

D. AWS Simple Queue Service 

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Q6. - (Topic 3) 

You have a business-to-business web application running in a VPC consisting of an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), web servers, application servers and a database. Your web application should only accept traffic from pre-defined customer IP addresses. 

Which two options meet this security requirement? Choose 2 answers A. Configure web server VPC security groups to allow traffic from your customers' IPs 

B. Configure your web servers to filter traffic based on the ELB's "X-forwarded-for" header 

C. Configure ELB security groups to allow traffic from your customers' IPs and deny all outbound traffic 

D. Configure a VPC NACL to allow web traffic from your customers' IPs and deny all outbound traffic 

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Q7. - (Topic 3) 

A user has two EC2 instances running in two separate regions. The user is running an internal memory 

management tool, which captures the data and sends it to CloudWatch in US East, using a CLI with the same namespace and metric. Which of the below mentioned options is true with respect to the above statement? 

A. The setup will not work as CloudWatch cannot receive data across regions 

B. CloudWatch will receive and aggregate the data based on the namespace and metric 

C. CloudWatch will give an error since the data will conflict due to two sources 

D. CloudWatch will take the data of the server, which sends the data first 

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Q8. - (Topic 2) 

An organization is planning to use AWS for 5 different departments. The finance department is responsible to pay for all the accounts. However, they want the cost separation for each account to map with the right cost centre. How can the finance department achieve this? 

A. Create 5 separate accounts and make them a part of one consolidate billing 

B. Create 5 separate accounts and use the IAM cross account access with the roles for better management 

C. Create 5 separate IAM users and set a different policy for their access 

D. Create 5 separate IAM groups and add users as per the department’s employees 

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Q9. - (Topic 3) 

A user runs the command “dd if=/dev/xvdf of=/dev/null bs=1M” on an EBS volume created from a snapshot and attached to a Linux instance. Which of the below mentioned activities is the user performing with the step given above? 

A. Pre warming the EBS volume 

B. Initiating the device to mount on the EBS volume 

C. Formatting the volume 

D. Copying the data from a snapshot to the device 

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Q10. - (Topic 1) 

You have a web-style application with a stateless but CPU and memory-intensive web tier running on a cc2 8xlarge EC2 instance inside of a VPC The instance when under load is having problems returning requests within the SLA as defined by your business The application maintains its state in a DynamoDB table, but the data tier is properly provisioned and responses are consistently fast. 

How can you best resolve the issue of the application responses not meeting your SLA? 

A. Add another cc2 8xlarge application instance, and put both behind an Elastic Load Balancer 

B. Move the cc2 8xlarge to the same Availability Zone as the DynamoDB table 

C. Cache the database responses in ElastiCache for more rapid access 

D. Move the database from DynamoDB to RDS MySQL in scale-out read-replica configuration 

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