Question 1 (1 point) Saved Which of the following allows you to carve out a portion of the AWS Cloud?

Question 1 options:

AWS Subnets

AWS Regions

AWS VPC

AWS Availability Sones

Question 2 (1 point) Saved John works as on-premises DBA, the work of database configuration, backups, patching, and DR can be time consuming and repetitive. John's company decided to migrate to the AWS cloud. Which of the following can help John save time on regular tasks and focus on applications, so they can have the fast performance, high availability, security, and compatibility that they need?

Question 2 options:

Amazon Redshift

Amazon RDS

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon CloudWatch

Question 3 (1 point) Saved A company decided to migrate to the AWS cloud. AWS offers a wide range of services and instance types. They want to reduce costs as much as they can. Which of the following is a main factor to consider when choosing the instance type of services like Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Elasticsearch?

Question 3 options:

Your team experience with these services.

Workload utilization of CPU & RAM

The type of your current on-premise database.

Sources of traffic

Question 4 (1 point) Saved A company is deploying a new two-tier web application in AWS. The company wants to store their most frequently used data so that the response time for the application is improved. Which AWS service provides the solution for the company's requirements?

Question 4 options:

MySQL Installed on two Amazon EC2 Instances in a single AZ

Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ

AWS Caching service

Question 5 (1 point) Saved You want to run a questionnaire application for only one day (without interruptions). Which AWS EC2 purchase option would you choose?

Question 5 options:

Reserved Instances

Spot Instances

Dedicated Instances

On-demand Instances

Question 6 (1 point) Saved You have developed a web application that has ".Net layer" which connects to a MySQL database. Which of the following AWS databases would provide high availability and automated backups to your application?

Question 6 options:

Aurora

DynamoDB

An EC2 instance with MySQL installed

An EC2 instance with Aurora installed

Question 7 (1 point) Saved A company currently uses VM Templates to spin up virtual machines on their on-premise infrastructure. Which of the following can be used in a similar way to spin up EC2 instances on the AWS Cloud?

Question 7 options:

EBS Volumes

Amazon Machine Images

EBS Snapshots

Amazon VMware

Question 8 (1 point) Saved Which of the following security features is associated with a Subnet in a VPC to protect against Incoming traffic requests?

Question 8 options:

AWS Inspector

Subnet Groups

NACL

Security Groups

Question 9 (1 point) Saved Which of the following features of RDS allows for data redundancy across regions and improves Disaster Recovery?

Question 9 options:

Multi-region replication

Multi-AZ

Using snapshots

Creating Read Replicas

Question 10 (1 point) Saved A user is trying to save some cost on the AWS services. Which of the below mentioned options will not help him save cost?

Question 10 options:

Delete the unutilized EBS volumes once the instance is terminated

Delete the AutoScaling launch configuration after the instances are terminated

Release the elastic IP if not required once the instance is terminated

Delete the AWS ELB after the instances are terminated

Which of the following is true for AWS VPCs

Question 41 options:

Virtual networks and subnets span all AZs in a region

They are global resources and not associated with any particular region or zone

Subnets belong to a single AZ

Subnets are regional resources

Question 42 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is true for GCP VPCs

Question 42 options:

Virtual networks and subnets span all AZs in a region

They are global resources and not associated with any particular region or zone

Subnets belong to a single AZ

Belong to a single region and can span multiple AZs

Question 43 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is a characteristic of an AWS VPC route table?

Question 43 options:

A route table only specifies a destination

By default every route table contains a local route for communication with the VPC

Each subnet does not need to be associated with a route table

Route tables directs incoming traffic to your subnets

Question 44 (1 point) Saved Which Service would you use in GCP to provide AWS-like "private subnet" function.

Question 44 options:

Internet Gateway

Cloud NAT

NAT Gateways

Egress-only Internet Gateway

Question 45 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is true about AWS Security groups?

Question 45 options:

You can specific both allow and deny rules

Rules are evaluated in number order

They are stateless

All rules are evaluated before the decision to allow traffic

Question 46 (1 point) Saved Which AWS service is a firewall that controls traffic at the subnet level?

Question 46 options:

AWS WAF

VPC Flow Logs

Security Groups

Network Access Control Lists

Question 47 (1 point) Saved You have been tasked with auditing the security of your VPC. As part of this process, you need to start by analyzing what traffic is allowed to and from various EC2 instances. What two parts of the VPC do you need to check to accomplish this task?

Question 47 options:

NACLs and Route Tables

Security Groups and Internet Gateways

NACLs and Subnets

Security Groups and NACLs

Question 48 (1 point) Saved The concept of elasticity is most closely associated with which of the following? Question 48 options:

Auto Scaling

Network Security

Serverless Computing

ALBs

Question 49 (1 point) Saved A user has enabled the Multi AZ feature with the MS SQL RDS database server. Which of the below mentioned statements will help the user understand the Multi AZ feature better?

Question 49 options:

In a Multi-AZ, AWS runs two DBs in parallel and copies the data asynchronously to the replica copy

In a Multi-AZ, AWS runs two DBs in parallel and copies the data synchronously to the replica copy

In a Multi-AZ, AWS runs just one DB but copies the data synchronously to the standby replica copy

AWS MS SQL does not support the Multi AZ feature

Question 50 (1 point) Saved What best describes the purpose of having many Availability Zones in each AWS region?

Question 50 options:

Multiple AZs allow for fault tolerance but not high availability

Multiple AZs allow for cheaper prices due to competition between them

Multiple AZ allow for duplicate and redundant compute, and data backups.

Non of the above

Which of the following allows you to have a self-managed database in AWS?

Question 11 options:

Amazon EC2

AWS DynamoDB

Amazon Aurora

AWS RDS

Question 12 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is a benefit of running an application across two Availability Zones?

Question 12 options:

Performance is improved over running in a single AZ

It is more secure than running in a single AZ

It increases the availability of an application compared to running in a single AZ

It significantly reduces the total cost of ownership versus running in a single AZ

Question 13 (1 point) Saved You want to take a snapshot of an EC2 Instance and create a new instance out of it. In AWS what is this snapshot equivalent to?

Question 13 options:

ELP Volume

EC2 Snapshot

AMI

EBS Snapshot

Question 14 (1 point) Saved What does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provide?

Question 14 options:

A scalable storage appliance on top of AWS

An application container on top of AWS

A service by this name doesn't exist.

A scalable cluster of EC2 instances

Question 15 (1 point) Saved What is a Security Group?

Question 15 options:

A firewall for inbound traffic, built-in around every Amazon EC2 instance

A list of users that can access Amazon EC2 instances.

An Access Control List (ACL) for AWS resources

None of these

Question 16 (1 point) Saved Which of the following EC2 Instance Purchasing Options is best suitable for users with urgent computing needs for large amounts of additional capacity?

Question 16 options:

Dedicated Instances

Spot Instances

Reserved Instances

On-demand Instances

Question 17 (1 point) Saved How are the Amazon EBS snapshots backed up on Amazon S3 in order to reduce on storage costs?

Question 17 options:

Using exponential backups

Using incremental backups

Using decremental backups

EBS snapshots are not stored in S3

Question 18 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is true of Amazon EC2 security group?

Question 18 options:

You can modify the outbound rule for EC2-Classic

You can modify the rules for a security group only if the security group controls the traffic for just one instance

You can modify the rules for a security group only if a new instance is created.

You can modify the rules for a security group at any time.

Question 19 (1 point) Saved Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS?

Question 19 options:

AWS Config

AWS Route 53

AWS Direct Connect

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Question 20 (1 point) Saved Which Azure database service can support both relational and non-relational implementations?

Question 20 options:

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure SQL DB

Azure Cache for Redis

Azure Database for MariaDB

Which of the following will fulfill the need of creating a document based database on GCP?

Question 21 options:

Firestore

Cloud BigQuery

Cloud Bigtable

Cloud Spanner

Question 22 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is NOT a cloud service In-Memory database service?

Question 22 options:

Azure Cache for Redis

Memorystore

Amazon Elasticache

Firestore

Question 23 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is NOT a serverless compute service

Question 23 options:

AWS Lambda

Azure Functions

Cloud Run

GCP Compute Engine

Question 24 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is NOT an AWS container exclusive service.

Question 24 options:

Amazon EKS

Amazon ECS

AWS Fargate

Elastic Beanstalk

Question 25 (1 point) Saved Which Azure compute services will be best for the use case of a firm building out AI training models?

Question 25 options:

Azure Functions

Azure Batch

Azure App Service

Azure Service Fabric

Question 26 (1 point) Saved Which of the following represents a software platform that allows you to build, test and deploy applications quickly?

Question 26 options:

Kubernetes

Docker

Container

ECS Cluster

Question 27 (1 point) Saved Which of the following represents an open-source software platform or orchestrating containers?

Question 27 options:

Docker

ECS Cluster

Kubernetes

Fargate

Question 28 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is NOT considered as a GCP IaaS compute service.

Question 28 options:

Google Compute Engine

Google Batch

Google VMware Engine

Google App Engine

Question 29 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is NOT a core tenant of serverless computing?

Question 29 options:

Pay for value

Highly available and secure

Automatic scaling

Infrastructure provisioning

Question 30 (1 point) Saved As a cloud architect working with a new client that's looking to launch an application in the cloud, which of the following will NOT be a top three(3) question to determine the optimal compute service required?

Question 30 options:

What is the application design?

What is the usage patterns?

Which configuration setting will you want to managed?

What is your overall cloud spend budget?

A company has a web application that is running on an Amazon EC2 instance. The app is approaching 100% CPU Utilization. How could they reduce the load on the Amazon EC2 instance?

Question 31 options:

Use the CloudFront distribution method

Use Autoscaling

Create a load balancer and register the EC2 instances with it

Recreate the app to handle the traffic capacity

Question 32 (1 point) Saved There are a lot of advantages in changing your traditional hosting provider to AWS. One of these advantages is the ability to save costs. What does Amazon EC2 provide to save you costs?

Question 32 options:

The ability to only pay for what you use

The ability to chose low cost AMI's to prepare the instance

Having the ability of automated backups of the EC2, so there is no worry about maintenance cost

Ability to tag instances to reduce the overall cost

Question 33 (1 point) Saved A company is using EC2 Instances to run their e-commerce site on the AWS Platform. A busy e-commerce site could lose thousands of dollars for every minute it is unavailable. Which of the below principles would they adopt to ensure that even if some of the EC2 Instances stopped working , their site will continue to run as usual?

Question 33 options:

Using a scalable system

Using a fault tolerant system

Using an elastic system

Using an adaptive system

Question 34 (1 point) Saved Your company uses on-demand EC2 instances dedicated to a project that has just been cancelled. The company does not want to incur charges for these on-demand instances but also does not want to lose the data just yet because there is a chance the project may be revived in the next few days. What should you do to minimize charges for these instances in the meantime?

Question 34 options:

Sell the instances on the AWS On-Demand Instance Marketplace as you can buy other on-demand EC2 instances later if needed.

Terminate the instances as soon as possible

Stop the instances as soon as possible

You cannot minimize changes for this type of instances

Question 35 (1 point) Saved You need to run an amazon EC2 instances that are physically isolated at the host hardware level from instances that belong to other AWS accounts. Which of the following Amazon EC2 instances would be your choice?

Question 35 options:

EC2 Spot Instances

EC2 Reserved Instances

EC2 Dedicated Hosts

EC2 Dedicated Instances

Question 36 (1 point) Saved Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads?

Question 36 options:

Amazon EC2 cost are billed on a monthly basis

Customers retain full administrative access to their EC2 instances

EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed

Customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads

Question 37 (1 point) Saved Which of the following AWS services provides very high query performance on datasets ranging (100 GB to 1 PB or more)?

Question 37 options:

AWS Redshift

AWS RDS

AWS DynamoDB

AWS ElasticCache

Question 38 (1 point) Saved Amazon EBS provides the ability to create backups of any Amazon EC2 volume into what is known as:

Question 38 options:

Snapshots

Images

Instance backups

Mirrors

Question 39 (1 point) Saved You are running a financial services web app on AWS. which of the following AWS services would improve the performance of your app by allowing you to retrieve information from fast, managed, in-memory caches?

Question 39 options:

AWS ElastiCache

DynamoDB

S3

EFS

Question 40 (1 point) Saved Which of the following is true for Azure VNets

Question 40 options:

Virtual networks and subnets span all AZs in a region

They are global resources and not associated with any particular region or zone.

Subnets belong to a single AZ

Subnets are regional resources

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of using Lambda?

Question 51 options:

Run code without provisioning or managing servers

There is no charge when your code is not running

Provide scalable data warehousing solution

Can be called directly from any mobile app

Question 52 (1 point) Saved A manual script that runs a few times a week and completes within 10 minutes needs to be replaced with an automated solution. Which of the following options should an Architect use?

Question 52 options:

Use AWS CloudFormation

Use AWS Lambda

Use AWS Batch

Use a cron job on an Amazon EC2 instance

Question 53 (1 point) Saved An application tier of a multi-tier web application currently hosts two web services on the same set of instances. The web services each listen for traffic on different ports. Which AWS service should a Solutions Architect use to route traffic to the service based on the incoming request path?

Question 53 options:

Amazon Route 53

Classic Load Balancer

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

Amazon CloudFront

Question 54 (1 point) Saved A company's web application is using multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances and storing data on Amazon EBS volumes. The company is looking for a solution to increase the resiliency of the application in case of a failure.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question 54 options:

Create an Application Load Balancer with Auto Scaling groups across multiple AZs. Mount an instance store on each EC2 instance

Create an Application Load Balancer with Auto Scaling groups across multiple AZs. Store data using Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access

Create an Application Load Balancer with Auto Scaling groups across multiple AZs. Store data on Amazon EFS and mount a target on each instance

Launch the application on EC2 instances in each Availability Zone. Attach EBS volumes to each EC2 instance

Question 55 (1 point) Saved You are building an application that will collect information about user behavior. The application will rapidly ingest large amounts of dynamic data and requires very low latency. The database must be scalable without incurring downtime. Which database would you recommend for this scenario?

Question 55 options:

RDS with Microsoft SQL

RDS with MySQL

DynamoDB

Redshift

Question 56 (1 point) Saved An application runs on two EC2 instances in private subnets split between two AZs. The application needs to connect to a CRM SaaS application running on the Internet. The vendor of the SaaS application restricts authentication to a whitelist of source IP addresses and only 2 IP addresses can be configured per customer.

What is the most appropriate and cost-effective solution to enable authentication to the SaaS application?

Question 56 options:

Configure a NAT Gateway for each AZ with an Elastic IP address

Configure redundant Internet Gateways and update the routing tables for each subnet

Use multiple internet-facing Application Load Balancers with Elastic IP addresses

Use a Network Load Balancer and configure a static IP for each AZ

Question 57 (1 point) Saved A Linux instance running in your VPC requires some configuration changes to be implemented locally and you need to run some commands. Which of the following can be used to securely access the instance?

Question 57 options:

Key paris

Public key

SSL/TLS certificate

EC2 password

Question 58 (1 point) Saved A solutions architect is designing the infrastructure to run an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application requires high availability and must dynamically scale based on demand to be cost efficient.

What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question 58 options:

Configure an Amazon API Gateway API in front of an Auto Scaling group to deploy instances to Multiple AZs

Configure an Amazon Application Load Balancer in front of an Auto Scaling group to deploy instances to Multiple AZs

Configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of an Auto Scaling group to deploy instances to Multiple regions

Configure an Application Load Balancer in front of an Auto Scaling group to deploy instances to Multiple regions

Question 59 (1 point) Saved A research company is developing a data lake solution in Amazon S3 to analyze huge datasets. The solution makes infrequent SQL queries only. In addition, the company wants to minimize infrastructure costs.

Which AWS service should be used to meet these requirements?

Question 59 options:

Amazon RDS for MySQL

Amazon Redshift Spectrum

Amazon Athena

Amazon Aurora

Question 60 (1 point) Saved A large media site has multiple applications running on Amazon ECS. A Solutions Architect needs to use content metadata to route traffic to specific services.

What is the MOST efficient method to fulfil this requirement?

Question 60 options:

Use AWS Application Load Balancer with a path-based routing rule to route traffic to the correct service

Use the AWS CLI to update an Amazon Route 53 hosted zone to route traffic as services get updated

Use an AWS Classic Load Balancer with a host-based routing rule to route traffic to the correct service

Use Amazon CloudFront to mange and route traffic to the correct service