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Amazon Aws Cloud Practitioner Practice Exam

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QUESTION 1

You are an AWS Enterprise customer with questions about billing and you overall AWS account? Which of the following AWS support personnel should you contact? a. AWS Concierge b. AWS Technical Account Manager c. AWS Support d. AWS Billing and Accounts

ANSWER

a. AWS Concierge

QUESTION 2

Which of the following are Support Levels offered by AWS? select 3 a. Basic b. Developer c. Business d. Start-up e. Individual

ANSWER

a. Basic b. Developer c. Business

QUESTION 3

Which of the following AWS Support levels offers 24x7 support via phone or chat? a. Developer b. Business c. Basic d. Individual

ANSWER

b. Business

QUESTION 4

Your Development team uses four on-demand EC2 instances and your QA team has 5 reserved instances, only three of which are being used. Assuming all AWS accounts are under a single AWS Organization, how will the Development team's instances be billed? a. All the Dev team's instances will be billed at the on-demand rate. b. All the Dev instances will be billed at the reserved instance rate. c. The Dev team will be billed for two instances at on-demand prices and two instances at the reserved instance price. d. The pricing for the reserved instances will shift from QA to Dev.

ANSWER

c. The Dev team will be billed for two instances at on-demand prices and two instances at the reserved instance price.

QUESTION 5

Which of the following support plans features access to AWS support during business hours via email? a. Business b. Developer c. Enterprise d. Basic

ANSWER

b. Developer

QUESTION 6

True or False: With Consolidated Billing, the Paying Account can make changes to any of the resources owned by a Linked Account. False True

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 7

Which of the following are payment options for Reserved Instances? select 3 a. DURI b. AURI c. NURI d. MURI e. PURI

ANSWER

b. AURI c. NURI e. PURI Reserves instances are available with all upfront, partial upfront, or no upfront (AURI, PURI, and NURI) pricing.

QUESTION 8

Which of the following are criteria affecting your billing for RDS? select 3 a. Data transfer in b. Clock hours of server time c. Standby time d. Additional storage e Number of requests

ANSWER

b. Clock hours of server time d. Additional storage e Number of requests

QUESTION 9

Which of the following best describes a system that is always available — without the need for human intervention? a. Highly Available b. Fault tolerant c. Scalable d. Elastic

ANSWER

a. Highly Available

QUESTION 10

Which of the following are principles of sound design when it comes to reliability? select 2 a. Stop guessing about your capacity requirements. b. When in doubt, over-provision. c. Scale horizontally. d. Manage change at the individual resource level.

ANSWER

a. Stop guessing about your capacity requirements. c. Scale horizontally.

QUESTION 11

Which of the following is correct? a. # of Availability Zones > # of Regions > # of Edge Locations b. # of Regions > # of Availability Zones > # of Edge Locations c. # of Edge Locations > # of Availability Zones > # of Regions d. # of Availability Zones > # of Edge Locations > # of Regions

ANSWER

c. # of Edge Locations > # of Availability Zones > # of Regions

QUESTION 12

Which of the following best describes the ability to scale computing resources up or down easily, while only paying for the resources used? a. High Availability b. Elasticity c. Fault-tolerance d. Scalability

ANSWER

b. Elasticity

QUESTION 13

Which of the following are principles of sound design when it comes to performance efficiency? select 3 a. Use Serverless architectures. b. Mechanical empathy c. Have your IT staff master all new technologies. d. Deploy into multiple Regions to go global in minutes. e. Democratize advanced technologies.

ANSWER

a. Use Serverless architectures. d. Deploy into multiple Regions to go global in minutes. e. Democratize advanced technologies.

QUESTION 14

Which of the following are principles of sound cloud design? select 4 a. Scalability b. Disposable resources c. Infrastructure as code d. Tightly-coupled components e. Limit the number of 3rd-party services. f. Treat your servers like pets, not cattle. g. Assume everything will fail.

ANSWER

a. Scalability b. Disposable resources c. Infrastructure as code g. Assume everything will fail.

QUESTION 15

Which of the following are components of the AWS Assurance Program? select 2 a. Partner Validations b. Compliance with Laws and Regulations c. Customer Testimonials d. Certifications/Attestations e. Following industry best practices

ANSWER

b. Compliance with Laws and Regulations d. Certifications/Attestations

QUESTION 16

True or False: Users are entirely responsible for the security of AWS IaaS services such as EC2 and VPC. False True

ANSWER

True

QUESTION 17

Which of the following services will help you optimize your entire AWS environment in real time following AWS best practices? a. AWS Inspector b. AWS Shield c. AWS WAF d. AWS Trusted Advisor

ANSWER

d. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION 18

Which of the following are components of the AWS Risk and Compliance Program? select 3 a. Information Security b. Control Environment c. Risk Management d. Security Principles e. Physical Security f. Identity and Access Management g. Environment Automation

ANSWER

a. Information Security b. Control Environment c. Risk Management

QUESTION 19

You need to use an AWS service to assess the security and compliance of your EC2 instances. Which of the following services should you use? a. AWS WAF b. AWS Trusted Advisor c. AWS Shield d. AWS Inspector

ANSWER

d. AWS Inspector

QUESTION 20

The AWS Web Application Firewall can go down to which of the following OSI layers? a. 5 b. 4 c. 7 d. 6

ANSWER

c. 7

QUESTION 21

You are using your corporate directory to grant your users access to AWS services. What is this called? a. Federated Access b. Role-based Access c. User Group Access d. Multifactor Authentication Access

ANSWER

a. Federated Access

QUESTION 22

True or False: Customer responsibility for the security of services in the cloud vary by service. False True

ANSWER

True

QUESTION 23

Which of the following is AWS' managed DDoS protection service? a. AWS WAF b. Access Control Lists c. AWS Shield d. Security Groups

ANSWER

c. AWS Shield

QUESTION 24

Amazon Lightsail is an example of which of the following? a. Software as a Service b. Functions as a Service c. Infrastructure as a Service d. Platform as a Service

ANSWER

d. Platform as a Service

QUESTION 25

You need to allow resources in a private subnet to access the internet. Which of the following must be present to enable this access? a. NAT Gateway b. Network Access Control Lists c. Route Tables d. Security Groups

ANSWER

a. NAT Gateway

QUESTION 26

I can interact with Glacier using ________. select 4 a. The RESTful Glacier web service b. The Java or .NET SDKs c. CloudFormation templates d. The AWS CLI e. Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policies

ANSWER

a. The RESTful Glacier web service b. The Java or .NET SDKs d. The AWS CLI e. Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policies

QUESTION 27

An EC2 instance in your VPC needs which of the following for the Internet Gateway to route its traffic to the Internet? a. Public IP address b. Private IP address c. C-Name d. A-Name

ANSWER

a. Public IP address

QUESTION 28

You need to run your code, but you don't want to worry about provisioning or managing servers. Which of the following AWS services would you choose? a. Lambda b. EC2 c. VMWare Cloud d. Elastic Container Service

ANSWER

a. Lambda

QUESTION 29

AWS VPC is a component of which of the following overall services categories? a. Management Tools b. Compute c. Networking and Content Delivery d. Storage e. Database f. Migration Services

ANSWER

c. Networking and Content Delivery

QUESTION 30

You need to ensure that you have the correct number of EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application. Which AWS service should you use? a. Route53 b. Application Load Balancer c. Elastic Load Balancer d. Auto Scaling

ANSWER

d. Auto Scaling

QUESTION 31

True or False: DynamoDB allows the creation of compound primary keys. False True

ANSWER

True

QUESTION 32

Regarding Amazon Glacier, what is a Vault? a. The rules that determine who may (or may not) access archives. b. A container for storing Archives c. An object — like photos, videos, files, or documents

ANSWER

b. A container for storing Archives

QUESTION 33

True or False: By default, all subnets within a VPC can communicate with each other. False True

ANSWER

True

QUESTION 34

Which of the following are components of IAM? select 4 a. Roles b. Users c. Groups d. Permissions e. Authenticator f. Authorizer g. Access controls

ANSWER

a. Roles b. Users c. Groups d. Permissions

QUESTION 35

True or False: Authentication determines which AWS services a user has access to, and Authorization allows a user access to AWS the overall AWS environment. True False

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 36

Which of the following AWS services are free to use? select 5 a. RDS b. EC2 c. S3 d. IAM e. Auto-Scaling f. Route53 g. EBS h. VPC i. Elastic Beanstalk j. CloudFormation

ANSWER

d. IAM e. Auto-Scaling h. VPC i. Elastic Beanstalk j. CloudFormation

QUESTION 37

Which of the following best describes a Resource Group? a. A resource group is a collection of resources of the same type (EC2, S3, etc.) that are deployed in the same Availability Zone. b. A resource group is a collection of resources of the same type (EC2, S3, etc.) that share one or more tags or portions of tags. c. A resource group is a collection of resources that share one or more tags (or portions of tags.) d. A resource group is a collection of resources that are deployed in the same AWS Region.

ANSWER

c. A resource group is a collection of resources that share one or more tags (or portions of tags.)

QUESTION 38

Which of the following features of an Amazon VPC allows your VPC to span multiple Availability Zones? a. None of these b. Network Access Control Lists c. Route Tables d. Subnets

ANSWER

d. Subnets

QUESTION 39

You need to find an item in a DynamoDB table using an attribute other than the item's primary key. Which of the following operations should you use? a. Query b. POST c. Scan d. GET

ANSWER

c. Scan

QUESTION 40

For which of the following categories does AWS Trusted Advisor provide best practices and/or or checks of your AWS environment? select 4 a. Availability of AWS resources b. High-Availability c. Fault Tolerance d. Cost Optimization e. Security f. Performance g. Right-size

ANSWER

c. Fault Tolerance d. Cost Optimization e. Security f. Performance

QUESTION 41

You want to run your application on a PaaS infrastructure, and you need to be able to select both your instance type and your database. Which of the following services should you choose? a. EC2 b. Lambda c. Lightsail d. Elastic Beanstalk

ANSWER

d. Elastic Beanstalk

QUESTION 42

Which of the following are principles of sound design when it comes to performance efficiency? select 3 a. Mechanical empathy b. Use Serverless architectures. c Have your IT staff master all new technologies. d. Democratize advanced technologies. e. Deploy into multiple Regions to go global in minutes.

ANSWER

b. Use Serverless architectures. d. Democratize advanced technologies. e. Deploy into multiple Regions to go global in minutes.

QUESTION 43

Which of the following are advantages of cloud computing? select 4 a. The ability to 'go global' in minutes b. Variable expense c. Elasticity - you need not worry about capacity. d. Requires large amounts of capital e. Increased speed and agility

ANSWER

a. The ability to 'go global' in minutes b. Variable expense c. Elasticity - you need not worry about capacity. e. Increased speed and agility

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