AWS important questions

 Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework recommends maintaining infrastructure as code?

Operational Excellence

Which of the following options are the benefits of using AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? (Select TWO)

High Availability, Agility

Which of the following is a container service of AWS?

AWS Fargate

Which of the following are the best practices when using AWS Organizations? (Select TWO)

Restrict account privileges using Service Control Policies (SCP, Create accounts per department

A Cloud Practitioner would like to get operational insights of its resources to quickly identify any issues that might impact applications using those resources. Which AWS service can help with this task?

AWS Systems Manager

Which of the following are the serverless computing services offered by AWS (Select two)

AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate

An IT company has a hybrid cloud architecture and it wants to centralize the server logs for its EC2 instances and on-premises servers. Which of the following is the MOST effective for this use-case?

Use CloudWatch Logs for both the EC2 instance and the on-premises servers

A financial services enterprise plans to enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for its employees. For ease of travel, they prefer not to use any physical devices to implement MFA. Which of the below options is best suited for this use case?

Virtual MFA device

Which of the following are advantages of using the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO)

Increase speed and agility, Stop guessing about capacity

A company uses reserved EC2 instances across multiple units with each unit having its own AWS account. However, some of the units under-utilize their reserved instances while other units need more reserved instances. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following would you recommend as the most cost-optimal solution?

Use AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts of all units and then share the reserved EC2 instances amongst all units

Which of the following AWS authentication mechanisms supports a Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) device that you can plug into a USB port on your computer?

U2F security key

Which AWS service can be used to subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of the status of all AWS service interruptions?

AWS Service Health Dashboard

Which policy describes prohibited uses of the web services offered by Amazon Web Services?

AWS Acceptable Use Policy

Which benefit of Cloud Computing allows AWS to offer lower pay-as-you-go prices as usage from hundreds of thousands of customers is aggregated in the cloud?

Massive economies of scale

An organization maintains a separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for each of its business units. Two units need to privately share data. Which is the most optimal way of privately sharing data between the two VPCs?

VPC Peering

A multi-national corporation wants to get expert professional advice on migrating to AWS and managing their applications on AWS Cloud. Which of the following entities would you recommend for this engagement?

APN Consulting Partner

Due to regulatory and compliance reasons, an organization is supposed to use a hardware device for any data encryption operations in the cloud. Which AWS service can be used to meet this compliance requirement?

AWS CloudHSM

Which AWS service can be used to automate code deployment to EC2 instances as well as on-premises instances?

AWS CodeDeploy

A medical device company is looking for a durable and cost-effective way of storing their historic data. Due to compliance requirements, the data must be stored for 10 years. Which AWS Storage solution will you suggest?

S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Which AWS Route 53 routing policy would you use to route traffic to multiple resources and also choose how much traffic is routed to each resource?

Weighted routing policy

An AWS user is trying to launch an EC2 instance in a given region. What is the region-specific constraint that the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) must meet so that it can be used for this EC2 instance?

You must use an AMI from the same region as that of the EC2 instance. The region of the AMI has no bearing on the performance of the EC2 instance.

A startup runs its proprietary application on docker containers. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend so that the startup can run containers and still have access to the underlying servers?

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Read Replica configuration?

Read Replica improves databases scalability

A start-up would like to quickly deploy a popular technology on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS tool would you use for this task?

AWS Quick Starts references

Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to online training with self-paced labs?

Enterprise

An IT company is on a cost-optimization spree and wants to identify all EC2 instances that are under-utilized. Which AWS services can be used to address this use-case? (Select two)

AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Cost Explorer

A photo sharing web application wants to store thumbnails of user-uploaded images on Amazon S3. The thumbnails are rarely used but need to be immediately accessible from the web application. The thumbnails can be regenerated easily if they are lost. Which is the most cost-effective way to store these thumbnails on S3?

Use S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access (One-Zone IA) to store the thumbnails

A company would like to optimize Amazon EC2 costs. Which of the following actions can help with this task? (Select TWO)

Set up Auto Scaling groups to align the number of instances with demand, Purchase EC2 Reserved instances

Which of the following AWS services are part of the AWS Foundation services for the Reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework in AWS Cloud? (Select two)

AWS Service Quotes, AWS Trusted Advisor

A silicon valley based healthcare startup stores anonymized patient health data on Amazon S3. The CTO further wants to ensure that any sensitive data on S3 is discovered and identified. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?

Amazon Macie

Multi AZ (Availability Zone) deployment is an example of which of the following?

High Availability

AWS Organizations provides which of the following benefits? (Select two)

Share the reserved EC2 instances amongst the member AWS accounts, Volume discounts for Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 aggregated across the member AWS accounts

A Cloud Practitioner would like to deploy identical resources across all regions and accounts using templates while estimating costs. Which AWS service can assist with this task?

AWS CloudFormation

A unicorn startup is building an analytics application with support for a speech-based interface. The application will accept speech-based input from users and then convey results via speech. As a Cloud Practitioner, which solution would you recommend for the given use-case?

Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text for downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Polly to convey the text results via speech

A corporation would like to have a central user portal to log in to third-party business applications as well as accounts managed under AWS Organizations. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you use for this task?

AWS Single Sign On (SSO)

A data analytics company is running a proprietary batch analytics application on AWS and wants to use a storage service which would be accessed by hundreds of EC2 instances simultaneously to append data to existing files. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?

EFS

Which of the following S3 storage classes takes the most time to retrieve data (also known as first byte latency)?

S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Which of the following AWS services can be used to forecast your AWS account usage and costs?

AWS Cost Explorer

A financial services company wants to ensure that its AWS account activity meets the governance, compliance and auditing norms. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?

CloudTrail

A company would like to separate cost for AWS services by the department for cost allocation. Which of the following is the simplest way to achieve this task?

Create tags for each department

Which AWS service can help you analyze your infrastructure to identify unattached or underutilized EBS volumes?

AWS Trusted Advisor

Which AWS service can be used to review the compliance and governance-related documents on AWS?

Artifact

An IT company wants to run a log backup process every Monday at 2 AM. The usual runtime of the process is 5 minutes. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS services would you recommend to build a serverless solution for this use-case? (Select two)

Lambda, CloudWatch

Which of the following is a hybrid storage service that allows on-premises applications to access data on AWS Cloud?

AWS Storage Gateway

Which of the following statements is the MOST accurate when describing AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) which allows you to deploy and scale web applications and services

Which of the following are correct statements regarding the AWS Shared Responsibility Model? (Select two)

For abstracted services like Amazon S3, AWS operates the infrastructure layer, the operating system, and platforms; AWS is responsible for Security "of" the Cloud

A startup wants to provision an EC2 instance for the lowest possible cost for a long-term duration but needs to make sure that the instance would never be interrupted. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following options would you recommend?

Reserved Instance

Which of the following AWS services are always free to use (Select two)?

Identify and Access Management (IAM), AWS Auto Scaling

A cyber-security agency uses AWS Cloud and wants to carry out security assessments on their own AWS infrastructure without any prior approval from AWS. Which of the following describes/facilitates this practice?

Penetration Testing

AWS Compute Optimizer delivers recommendations for which of the following AWS resources? (Select two)

Amazon EBS volumes, AWS Lambda functions; Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups

Which AWS service helps you define your infrastructure as code?

AWS CloudFormation

An intern at an IT company provisioned a Linux based On-demand EC2 instance with per-second billing but terminated it within 30 seconds as he wanted to provision another instance type. What is the duration for which the instance would be charged?

60 seconds

AWS Marketplace facilitates which of the following use-cases? (Select two)

AWS customer can buy software that has been bundled into customized AMIs by the AWS Marketplace sellers; Sell software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to AWS customers

Which of the following options is NOT a feature of Amazon Inspector?

Track configuration changes

An organization deploys its IT infrastructure in a combination of its on-premises data center along with AWS Cloud. How would you categorize this deployment model?

Hybrid deployment

Which AWS service would you choose for a data processing project to store unstructured data?

Amazon DynamoDB

A financial services company wants to migrate from its on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend so that the company can compare the cost of running their IT infrastructure on-premises vs AWS Cloud?

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Which AWS service will you use to provision the same AWS infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and regions?

AWS CloudFormation

Data encryption is automatically enabled for which of the following AWS services? (Select two)?

AWS Storage Gateway; Amazon S3 Glacier

The DevOps team at an e-commerce company is trying to debug performance issues for its serverless application built using a microservices architecture. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?

AWS X-Ray

Which service gives a personalized view of the status of the AWS services that are part of your Cloud architecture so that you can quickly assess the impact on your business when AWS service(s) are experiencing issues?

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

A developer would like to automate operations on his on-premises environment using Chef and Puppet. Which AWS service can help with this task?

AWS OpsWorks

What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Multi-AZ configuration?

Multi-AZ enhances database availability

Which of the following AWS services offer block-level storage? (Select two)

EBS; Instance Store