AWS Cloud Practitioner - Practise Exam 1 - My personal blog

Question 1

Which of the following services allows you to analyze EC2 Instances against pre-defined security templates to check for vulnerabilities?

AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS WAF
AWS Inspector
AWS Shield

Question 2

Which of the following services relates the concept of “Scaling up resources based on demand”?

AutoScaling
Elastic Load Balancer
VPC
Subnet

Question 3

You have a set of EC2 Instances hosted on the AWS Cloud. The EC2 Instances are hosting a web application. If you get a DDos attack from the internet, which of the following can help in reducing the overall threat to your EC2 Instances?

Choose 2 answers from the options given below

Usage of Security Groups
Usage of AWS Config
Usage of Network Access Control Lists
Usage of the Internet gateway

Question 4

A company currently has an application which consists of a .Net layer, connecting to a MySQL database. They now want to move this application onto AWS. They want to make use of all AWS features such as high availability and automated backups. Which of the following would be an ideal database in AWS to migrate to for this requirement?

Aurora
DynamoDB
An EC2 instance with MySQL installed
An EC2 instance with Aurora installed

Question 5

Your company wants to move an existing Oracle database to the AWS Cloud. Which of the following services can help facilitate this move?

AWS Database Migration Service
AWS VM Migration Service
AWS Inspector
AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 6

Which of the following can be used to increase the fault tolerance of an application?

Deploying resources across multiple edge locations
Deploying resources across multiple VPCs
Deploying resources across multiple Availability Zones
Deploying resources across multiple AWS accounts

Question 7

Which of the following terms refers to another geographic location in AWS?

Availability zone
Data centre
Region
Edge location

Question 8

Your company handles a crucial ecommerce application. This applications needs to have an uptime of at least 99.5%. There is a decision to move the application to the AWS Cloud. Which of the following deployment strategies can help build a robust architecture for such an application.

Deploying the applicationa cross multiple VPCs
Deploying the application across multiple Regions
Deploying the application across multiple Edge locations
Deploying the application across multiple subnets

Question 9

When designing a system, you use the principle of <93>design for failure and nothing will fail<94>. Which of the following services/features of AWS can assist in supporting this design principle. Choose 3 answers from the options given below

Availability zones
regions
Elastic Load Balancer
Pay as you go

Question 10

Which of the following are services where you don’t need to manage the underlying Infrastructure. Choose 2 answers from the options given below.

DynamoDB
EC2
Simple Storage Service
AWS Autoscaling

Question 11

Which of the following services is a serverless compute service in AWS?

AWS EC2
AWS Config
AWS Lambda
AWS Opswork

Question 12

Your company is planning to host a large ecommerce application on the AWS Cloud. One of their major concerns is Internet attacks such as DDos attacks. Which of the following services can help mitigate this concern. Choose 2 answers from the options given below

Cloudfront
AWS Shield
AWS EC2
AWS Config

Question 13

When giving permission to users via the AWS Identity and Access Management tool , which of the following principles should be applied when granting permissions

Principle of least privilege
Principle of greatest privilege
Principle of most privilege
Principle of lower privilege

Question 14

Which of the following initiatives from AWS helps organizations reduce the overall expenditure for IT companies when they host resources on the AWS Cloud?

They decomission old hardware
They continually reduce the cost of cloud computing
They use better security mechanisms so you don't need to think about security at all
They allow deployment of multiple resources

Question 15

Which of the following service is most useful when a Disaster Recovery method is triggered in AWS?

AWS Route 53
AWS SNS
AWS SQS
Amazon Inspector

Question 16

Which of the following are features of an edge location. Choose 3 answers from the options given below

Distirbute content for users
Cache common responses
Distribute load across multiple resources
Used in conjunction with the Cloudfront Service

Question 17

There is a requirement hosting a set of servers in the Cloud for a short period of 6 months. Which of the following types of instances should be chosen to be cost effective?

Spot instances
On-Demmand
No upfront costs reserved
Partial upfront costs reserved

Question 18

Which of the following needs a user name and password to access AWS resources.

AWS Mnaagement Console
AWS Application Programming Interface (API)
AWS Software Development Kit (SDK)
AWS CLI

Question 19

Which of the following is the responsibility of AWS according to the Shared Security Model? Choose 3 answers from the options given below

Managing AWS identity and adccess management (iam)
Securing edge locations
Moniotring physical device security
Implementing service organization control (SOC) standards

Question 20

Your company is planning to use the AWS Cloud. But there is a management decision that resources need to split department wise. And the decision is tending towards managing multiple AWS accounts. Which of the following would help in effective management and also provide an efficient costing model.

AWS Organisations
Amazon Dev Pay
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Cost Explorer

Question 21

Which of the following can be used as an additional layer of security to using a user name and password when logging into the AWS Console.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Secondary password
Root access privileges
Secondary user name

Question 22

You’re planning on deploying a video based application onto the AWS Cloud. These videos will be accessed by users across the world. Which of the below services can help stream the content in an efficient manner to the users across the globe?

Amazon SQS
Amazon Cloudtrail
Amazon Cloudfront
Amazon S3

Question 23

Your company is planning on moving to the AWS Cloud. Once the movement to the Cloud is complete, they want to ensure that the right security settings are put in place. Which of the below tools can assist from a Security compliance. Choose 2 answers from the options given below.

AWS Inspector
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Support
AWS Kinesis

Question 24

A company wants to have a database hosted on AWS. As much as possible they want to have control over the database itself. Which of the following would be an ideal option for this.

Using the AWS DynamoDB service
Using the AWS RDS service
Hosting the database on an AWS EC2 instance
Using the Amazon Aurora service

Question 25

Which of the following services is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the AWS cloud?

Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Elasticache
Amazon Aurora

Question 26

Which of the following is a fully managed NoSQL database service available in AWS?

AWS DynamoDB
AWS RDS
AWS Redshift
AWS Mongodb

Question 27

Which AWS Cloud service helps in quick deployment of resources which can make use of different programming languages such as .Net and Java?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS EC2
AWS VPC
AWS SQS

Question 28

Your company is planning to offload some of the batch processing workloads on to AWS. These jobs can be interrupted and resumed at any time. Which of the following instance types would be the most cost effective to use for this purpose?

On-Demmand
Spot
Full upfront Reserved
Partial upfront Reserved

Question 29

Which of the below cannot be used to get data onto Amazon Glacier?

AWS Glacier API
AWS Console
AWS Glacier SDK
AWS S3 lifecycle policies

Question 30

Which of the following storage options is best when you want to store archive data?

Amazon Storage Gateway
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS
Amazon S3

Question 31

By default who from the below roles has complete administrative control over all resources in the respective AWS account?

AWS Support Team
AWS Account Owner
AWS Security Team
AWS Technical Account Manager (TAM)

Question 32

Which of the following storage options provides the option of Lifecycle policies that can be used to move objects to archive storage?

Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
Amazon Storage Gateway
Amazon EBS

Question 33

Which of the following features of Amazon RDS allows for better availability of databases. Choose 2 answers from the options given below

VPC peering
Multi-AZ
Read replicas
Multi-region

Question 34

Your company is planning to pay for an AWS Support plan. They have the following requirements as far as the support plan goes: * 24x7 access to Cloud Support Engineers via email, chat & phone * A response time of less than 1 hour for any critical faults Which of the following plans will suffice keeping in mind the cost factor.

Basic
Developer
Business
Enterprise

Question 35

Your design team is planning to design an application that will be hosted on the AWS Cloud. One of their main non-functional requirements is given below. Reduce inter-dependencies so failures do not impact other components. Which of the following concepts does this requirement relate to?

Integration
Decoupling
Aggregation
Segregation

Question 36

You have an EC2 Instance in development that interacts with the Simple Storage Service. The EC2 Instance is going to be promoted to the production environment. Which of the following features should be used for secure communication between the EC2 Instance and the Simple Storage Service?

IAM Users
IAM Roles
IAM Groups
IAM Policies

Question 37

Your company is planning to move to the AWS Cloud. You need to give a presentation on the cost perspective when moving existing resources to the AWS Cloud. When it comes to Amazon EC2, which of the following is an advantage when it comes to the cost perspective?

Having the ability of automated backups of the EC2 instance, so that you don't need to worry about the maintenance costs
The ability to choose low cost AMIs to prepare the EC2 instances
The ability to only pay for what you use
The ability to tag instances to reduce overall cost

Question 38

Which of the following networking component can be used to host EC2 resources in the AWS Cloud?

AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS VPC
AWS Elastic Load Balancer
AWS Autoscaling

Question 39

Which of the following terms relate to “Creating systems that scale to the required capacity based on changes in demand”

Disaster Recovery
Elasticity
Decoupling
Aggregation

Question 40

Which of the following does AWS perform on its behalf for EBS volumes to make it less probe to failure?

Replication of the volume across Availability Zones
Replication of the volume in the same Availability Zone
Replciation of the volume cross Regions
Replication of the volume across Edge Locations

Question 41

Which of the following can be used to work with AWS services in a programmatic manner?

AWS Powershell
AWS Bash
AWS CLI
AWS Console

Question 42

Your company is planning to host resources in the AWS Cloud. They want to use services which can be used to decouple resources hosted on the Cloud. Which of the following services can help fulfil this requirement?

AWS EBS volumes
AWS EBS snapshots
AWS Glacier
AWS SQS

Question 43

A company is planning to migrate their existing AWS Services to the Cloud. Which of the following would help them do a cost benefit analysis of moving to the AWS Cloud?

AWS TCO Calculator
AWS Config
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Consolidated Billing

Question 44

Which of the following can be used to view one bill when you have multiple AWS Accounts?

Consolidated Billing
Combined Billing
Cost Explorer
IAM

Question 45

Which of the following features of AWS RDS allows for offloading reads of the database?

Cross Region replication
Creating read replicas
Using snapshots
Using the Multi-AZ feature

Question 46

Your company has just started using the resources on the AWS Cloud. They want to get an idea on the costs being incurred so far for the resources being used. How can this be achieved?

By going to the Amazon EC2 dashboard - Here you can see the costs of the running EC2 insatances.
By using the AWS Cost and Usage Reports Explorer. Here you can see the running and forecast costs.
By using the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard -The dashboard will give you all the costs.
By seeing the AWS Cloudtrail logs

Question 47

There is a requirement to collect important metrics from AWS RDS and EC2 Instances. Which of the following services can help fulfil this requirement?

Amazon Cloudfront
Amazon Cloudsearch
Amazon Cloudwatch
Amazon Config

Question 48

Currently your organization has an operational team that takes care of ID management in their on-premise data center. They now also need to manage users and groups created in AWS. Which of the following AWS tools would they need to use for performing this management function?

AWS Config
AWS Cloud Trail
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMW)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Question 49

A company is deploying a two-tier, highly available web application to AWS. The application needs a storage layer to store artefacts such as photos and videos. Which of the following services can be used as the underlying storage mechanism?

-Amazon EBS volume -Amazon S3 -Amazon EC2 instance store -Amazon RDS instance

Question 50

Which of the following security requirements are managed by AWS? Select 3 answers from the options given below.

-Password policies -User permissions -Physical security -Disk dfisposal -Hardware patching

Question 51

Your 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?

-EBS volumes -EBS snapshots -Amazon machines images (AMI) -Amazon VMWare

Question 52

Which of the following statements are FALSE when it comes to elasticity. Choose 2 answers from the options given below

Diverting traffic to instances based on the demand
Diverting traffic to instances with the least load
Diverting traffic across multiple regions

Question 53

Which of the following can be attached to EC2 Instances to store data?

Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS volumes
Amazon EBS snapshots
Amazon SQS

Question 54

When working with the AWS Cloud which of the following are headaches you don’t need to worry about. Choose 2 answers from the options given below.

Having complete control over the physical infrastructure, so you don't need to worry about what AWS is doing
Having the pay as you go model, so you don't need to worry if you are burning costs for non-running resources
No upfront costs
Having no need to worry about security

Question 55

Which of the following services can provide a complete audit trail of all AWS services used within an account?

AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon EC2 instance usage report
Amazon Cloudwatch
AWS Cloud Trail logs

Question 56

Which of the following disaster recovery deployment mechanisms that has the highest downtime?

Pilot light
Warm standby
Multi site
Backup and Restore

Question 57

Which of the following services helps provide a dedicate connection from on-premise infrastructure to resources hosted in the AWS Cloud?

AWS VPC
AWS VPN
AWS Direct Connect
AWS Subnets

Question 58

You have a devops team in your current organization structure. They are keen to know if there is any service available in AWS which can be used to manage infrastructure as code. Which of the following can be met with such a requirement?

Using AWS Cloudformation
Using AWS Config
Using AWS Inspector
Using AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 59

Which of the following services relates the concept of “Distributing traffic to multiple EC2 Instances”?

Autoscaling
Elastic Load Balancer
VPC
Subnets

Question 60

If there is a requirement to host EC2 Instances in the AWS Cloud wherein the utilization is guaranteed to be consistent for a long period of time, which of the following would you utilize to ensure costs are minimized?

Reserved instances
On-Demmand instances
Spot instances
Regular instances

Question 61

Which of the following from AWS can be used to transfer petabytes of data from on-premise locations to the AWS Cloud?

AWS Import/Export
AWS EC2
AWS Snowball
AWS Transfer

Question 62

You have a set of developers that need to use .Net to call AWS Services. Which of the following tools can be used to achieve this purpose?

AWS SDK
AWS Console
AWS CLI
AWS IAM

Question 63

Which of the following is not a category recommendation given by the AWS Trusted Advisor?

Security
High Availability
Cost Optimisation
Fault Tolerance
Performance

Question 64

Which of the below mentioned services is equivalent to hosting virtual servers on an on-premise location?

AWS IAM
AWS Server
AWS EC2
AWS Regions

Question 65

Which of the following components of the Cloudfront service can be used to distribute contents to users across the globe?

Amazon VPC
Amazon Regions
Amazon Availability Zones
Amazon Edge Locations

AWS Cloud Practitioner Practise Exam 1