NEW QUESTION 1
What is AWS's serverless compute service?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. S3
• B. Lambda
• C. EC2
• D. None of the above

Answer: B

Explanation:
AWS has two main compute services, EC2 (server-based) and Lambda (serverless).

NEW QUESTION 2
What best describes the concept of scalability?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. The ability for a system to withstand a certain amount of failure and still remain functional.
• B. The ability for a system to grow in size, capacity, and/or scope.
• C. The ability for a system to grow and shrink based on demand.
• D. The ability for a system be accessible when you attempt to access i

Answer: B

Explanation:
Scalability refers to the concept of a system being able to easily (and cost-effectively) scale UP. For web applications, this means the ability to easily add server capacity when demand requires.

NEW QUESTION 3
What is a main benefit of consolidated billing?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. Faster response from AWS technical support.
• B. Gain a volume discount for usage across all your AWS accounts.
• C. Access to a higher support plan level.
• D. None of the abov

Answer: B

Explanation:
Consolidated billing allows you to view, manage, and pay bills for multiple AWS accounts in one user interface. Volume discounts can be earned by combining the usage from all accounts your own.

NEW QUESTION 4
What are the benefits of DynamoDB? (Select all that apply) Choose the 3 Correct answers:

• A. Supports multiple known NoSQL database engines like MariaDB and Oracle NoSQL.
• B. Automatic scaling of throughput capacity.
• C. Single-digit millisecond latency.
• D. Supports both document and key-value store data model

Answer: BCD

Explanation:
DynamoDB does not use/support other NoSQL database engines. You only have access to use DynamoDB's built-in engine.

NEW QUESTION 5
Which of the following will effect price you pay for an EC2 instance? (Select all that apply) Choose the 3 Correct answers:

• A. Instance Type.
• B. Selected Storage Class
• C. How long you use the instance for.
• D. Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

Answer: ACD

Explanation:
EC2 instance pricing various depending on many variables. 1) The type of buying option 2) Selected Ami 3) Selected instance type 4) Region 5) Data in/out 6) Storage capacity

NEW QUESTION 6
What AWS service help you estimate the cost of using AWS vs. an on-premises data center?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. Cost Explorer
• B. Consolidated Billing
• C. TCO Calculator
• D. None of the above

Answer: C

Explanation:
The TCO (total cost of ownership) calculator helps you estimate the cost of using AWS vs. an onpremises data center.

NEW QUESTION 7
How much data can you store in S3?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. Storage capacity is virtually unlimited.
• B. You can store up to 1 petabyte of data.
• C. Each account is given 50 gigabytes of storage capacity and no more can be used.
• D. You can store up to 1 petabyte of data, then you are required to pay an additional fe

Answer: A

Explanation:
Although there is theoretically a capacity limit, as an S3 user, there is no limited on the amount of data you can store in S3.

NEW QUESTION 8
What is the purpose of AWS's Route 53 service? (Select all that apply) Choose the 2 Correct answers:

• A. Content Caching
• B. Database Management
• C. Domain Registration
• D. Domain Name System (DNS) service

Answer: CD

Explanation:
Route 53 is AWS's domain and DNS management service. You can use it to register new domain names, as well as manage DNS record sets.

NEW QUESTION 9
If you want to have SMS or email notifications sent to various members of your department with status updates on resources in your AWS account, what service should you choose?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. STS
• B. RDS
• C. GetSMS
• D. SNS

Answer: D

Explanation:
Simple Notification Service (SNS) is what publishes messages to SMS and/or email endpoints.

NEW QUESTION 10
You notice that five of your 10 S3 buckets are no longer available in your account, and you assume that they have been deleted. You are unsure who may have deleted them, and no one is taking responsibility. What should you do to investigate and find out who deleted the S3 buckets?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. Look at the S3 logs.
• B. Look at the CloudTrail logs.
• C. Look at the CloudWatch Logs.
• D. Look at the SNS log

Answer: B

Explanation:
CloudTrail is logging service that logs actions taken by AWS users in your AWS account, such as creating/deleting S3 buckets, starting/stopping EC2 stances, etc.

NEW QUESTION 11
What AWS feature acts as a traffic distribution regulator, making sure each EC2 instance in a system get the same amount of traffic?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. Availability Zone
• B. ELB
• C. NACL
• D. Auto Scaling

Answer: B

Explanation:
An Elastic Load Balancer is responsible for evenly distributing incoming web traffic between all the EC2 instances associated with it. This help prevent one server from becoming overloaded with traffic, while another server remains underutilized.

NEW QUESTION 12
You have just set up a brand new AWS account. You want to keep monthly billing under $100, but you are worried about going over that limit. What can you set up in order to be notified when the
monthly bill approaches $100?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. A CloudTrail billing alarm that triggers an SNS notification to your email address.
• B. A SNS billing alarm that triggers a CloudWatch notification to your email address.
• C. A CloudWatch billing alarm that triggers an SNS notification to your email address.
• D. A CloudWatch billing alarm that triggers a CloudTrail notification to your email addres

Answer: C

Explanation:
In CloudWatch, you can set up a billing alarm that will trigger when your monthly bill hit the set threshold. That alarm can then be set up to trigger an SNS topic that will send you a notification that the alarm threshold as been met.

NEW QUESTION 13
What best describes the concept of fault tolerance?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. The ability for a system to withstand a certain amount of failure and still remain functional.
• B. The ability for a system to grow and shrink based on demand.
• C. The ability for a system to grow in size, capacity, and/or scope.
• D. The ability for a system be accessible when you attempt to access i

Answer: A

Explanation:
Fault tolerance describes the concept of a system (in our case a web application) to have failure in some of its components and still remain accessible (highly available). Fault tolerant web applications will have at least two web servers (in case one fails).

NEW QUESTION 14
If an object is stored in the Standard S3 storage class and you want to move it to Glacier, what must you do in order to properly migrate it?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. Delete the object and reupload it, selecting Glacier as the storage class.
• B. Create a lifecycle policy that will migrate it after a minimum of 30 days.
• C. Change the storage class directly on the object.
• D. None of the abov

Answer: B

Explanation:
Any object uploaded to S3 must first be placed into either the Standard, Reduced Redundancy,
or Infrequent Access storage class. Once in S3 the only way to move the object to glacier is through a lifecycle policy.

NEW QUESTION 15
What AWS service allows you to have your own private network in the AWS cloud?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• B. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• C. Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)
• D. None of the abov

Answer: B

Explanation:
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a private sub-section of AWS that is your own private network. You control what resources you place inside the VPC and the security features around it.

NEW QUESTION 16
Children's All Saints Hospital has millions of old medical records that they must save for regulatory reasons. These records will most likely never be accessed again. What is the best and most costeffective S3 storage option that will meet the hospitals needs?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. Standard
• B. Infrequent Access
• C. Glacier
• D. Reduced Redundacy

Answer: C

Explanation:
Glacer is specifically designed for long-term archival storage. It is extremely inexpensive and should only be used for items that you access very infrequently.

NEW QUESTION 17
If you have a set of frequently accessed files that are used on a daily basis, what S3 storage class should you store them in?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. Infrequent Access
• B. Reduced Redundancy
• C. Standard
• D. Fast Access

Answer: C

Explanation:
The Standard storage class should be used for files that you access on a daily or very frequent basis.

NEW QUESTION 18
If you want to learn about AWS architectural or security best practices, where will you find that type of information?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. AWS Yellow Pages
• B. AWS Console Info Section
• C. AWS White Papers
• D. AWS Service Documentation

Answer: C

Explanation:
White papers are a collection of technical documents that outlines many AWS relevant topics.

NEW QUESTION 19
Under what circumstances would you choose to use the AWS service CloudTrail?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. When you want to collect and view resource metrics.
• B. When you want to log what actions various IAM users are taking in your AWS account.
• C. When you want a serverless compute platform.
• D. When you want to send SMS notificaitions based on events that occur in your accoun

Answer: B

Explanation:
CloudTrail is AWS's logging service used to log actions taken by users in your AWS account.

NEW QUESTION 20
Your company's upper management is getting very nervous about managing governance, compliance, and risk auditing in AWS. What service should you enable and inform upper management about?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. CloudAudit
• B. CloudTrail
• C. CloudCompliance
• D. CloudWatch

Answer: B

Explanation:
AWS CloudTrail is designed to log all actions taken in your AWS account. This provides a great resource for governance, compliance, and risk auditing.

NEW QUESTION 21
You have been tasked by your department head to upload a batch of files to an S3 bucket; however, when you select S3 on the AWS console, you see a notification stating that you do not have permission to access S3. What is the most probable cause of this error?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. It takes 24 hours go get access to S3.
• B. The S3 service is currently down for maintenance.
• C. You do not have an S3 access policy attached to your IAM user.
• D. Your boss has not enabled proper bucket permission

Answer: C

Explanation:
If you get an error stating that you do not have proper permissions to access/use and AWS service, then most likely your IAM user does not have the proper permission policy attached.

NEW QUESTION 22
Under what circumstances would someone want to use ElastiCache? (Select all that apply) Choose the 2 Correct answers:

• A. They need a NoSQL database option
• B. They need to use Edge Locations to cache content
• C. The need improved improve the performance of their web application.
• D. They need in-memory data store servic

Answer: CD

Explanation:
ElastiCache is used as an in-memory data store or cache in the cloud. Benefits include improved performance for web applications (that rely on information stored in a database). Edge Locations are used for caching content with the CloudFront service, so that is not a answer here.

NEW QUESTION 23
What AWS database is primarily used to analyze data using standard SQL formatting with compatibility for your existing business intelligence tools?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. ElastiCache
• B. DynamoDB
• C. Redshift
• D. RDS

Answer: C

Explanation:
Redshift is a database offering that is fully-managed and used for data warehousing and analytics, including compatibility with existing business intelligence tools.

NEW QUESTION 24
What best describes a simplified definition of the "cloud"?
Choose the Correct Answer

• A. All the computers in your local home network.
• B. A computer located somewhere else that you are utilizing in some capacity.
• C. An on-premisis data center that your company owns.
• D. Your internet service provider

Answer: B

Explanation:
The simplest definition of the cloud is a computer that is located somewhere else that you are
utilizing in some capacity. AWS is a cloud services provider, as the provide access to computers they own (located at AWS data centers), that you use for various purposes.

NEW QUESTION 25
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