1. Which of the following AWS management tools enables you to retain account activity pertaining to the actions they perform within the AWS infrastructure?
A. AWS CloudWatch
B. AWS CloudFront
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS Config
2. Which of the following are true when you use the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)? (Choose two)
A. Multiple EC2 instances can simultaneously access the same EFS file system.
B. Multiple EC2 instances can’t access the same EFS file system at the same time.
C. EC2 instances can connect only to EBS storage.
D. EFS will automatically scale on demand.
3. Which of the following AWS services enables you to view system-wide resource utilization, application performance, and the health of the various AWS system components?
A. AWS OpsWorks
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS CloudFront
4. Which of the following tools helps you review configuration changes and analyze the resource configuration histories?
A. AWS Config
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Systems Manager
D. AWS CloudWatch
5. Which one of the following AWS services acts as a virtual firewall to control Internet traffic for EC2 instances?
A. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
B. Availability zones
C. Security groups
D. Network access control lists
6. You currently run several web servers by hosting them on the Amazon EC2 instances. You learn that you can move the static web sites to which of the following services, instead of using EC2 instances to run them?
A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
C. Amazon RDS
D. Amazon CodeDeploy
7. Which of the following location-related concepts provides high availability and fault tolerance for the applications that you run in the AWS cloud?
A. Availability zones
B. Content delivery networks
C. AWS regions
D. Edge locations
8. Which of the following are true regarding regions and availability zones? (Choose two)
A. All regions are connected via high-speed links.
B. Availability zones in all the regions are tightly connected with one another.
C. All regions are separated from one another.
D. All availability zones within each region are connected via high-speed links.
9. Which of the following storage types offers “query-in-place” functionality, enabling you to run analytics directly on the data you store (data-at-rest) through Amazon Athena?
A. Amazon Elastic File Service (Amazon EFS)
B. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
D. Amazon Glacier
10. Which of the following AWS services helps you connect your on-premise data center to the AWS cloud with a dedicated network connection from your on-premise network directly to your Amazon VPC?
A. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. Amazon Route 53
D. Availability zone
11. What is the deployment unit in AWS Lambda?
A. A virtual server
B. A container
C. A microservice
D. Code
12. Which of the following storage types offers a file system interface to storage?
A. Amazon EFS
B. Glacier
C. Amazon EBS
D. Instance storage
13. Which of the following AWS services helps you treat the AWS infrastructure as code?
A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS OpsWorks
C. Amazon CloudControl
D. Amazon CloudTrail
14. Which of the following AWS cloud services helps with your IT governance, compliance, and auditing requirements?
A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS OpsWorks
C. Amazon CloudControl
D. Amazon CloudTrail
15. You periodically run several heavy data processing jobs in the AWS cloud. After you complete the data processing, you’d like to retain the data on the Amazon EC2 file system, although you’re going to shut down the Amazon EC2 instance to keep from incurring charges between your jobs. Which of the following AWS cloud services helps you store data in a persistent basis in these types of situations?
A. Amazon Glacier
B. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
D. Amazon RDS
16. Which of the following architecture extends your on-premise infrastructure into a cloud such as the AWS cloud so you can connect the cloud resources to your data center?
A. AWS Direct Connect
B. Amazon S3
C. A public cloud architecture
D. A hybrid cloud architecture
17. You notice huge spurts in your online customer traffic to your e-commerce web site around your heavily promoted quarterly sales events. Which of the following features or services can you use to handle the spurts in customer traffic during the sales events?
A. Auto Scaling
B. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
C. AWS Lambda
D. AWS Snowball
18. Which of the following architectural layers are part of a three-tier architecture? (Choose three)
A. Storage layer
B. Front-end web server layer
C. Database layer
D. Application layer
19. Which of the following AWS cloud services is a fully managed NoSQL database service?
A. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
B. Amazon Aurora
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon DynamoDB
20. Which of the following AWS cloud services enables you to work in a logically isolated section of the cloud where you can launch your AWS resources into a virtual network you define?
A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
C. Amazon Security Groups
D. Amazon API Gateway
21. Which of the following AWS cloud services would you use to decouple your user-facing applications from your backend services such as a database?
A. Amazon CloudTrail
B. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
C. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
D. AWS Lambda
22. Under the shared responsibility security model, which of the following would be the responsibility of the cloud provider? (Choose two)
A. Power supplies to the compute instances
B. Data center physical security
C. Configuration of the AWS provided security group firewall
D. Database credentials and roles
23. Which of the following AWS services helps you automate your code deployment?
A. AWS CodeDeploy
B. AWS CodePipeline
C. AWS Systems Manager
D. AWS CodeCommit
24. You’re interested in finding out the origination point for an API call, as well as the times when the call was made. Which of the following tools will help you get the information you’re looking for?
A. AWS CloudWatch
B. AWS Systems Manager
C. AWS CodeDeploy
D. AWS CloudTrail
25. Which of the following information does the AWS CloudTrail service track? (Choose two)
A. User activity
B. Resource usage
C. Application usage
D. API calls
26. Which of the following is not a means of accessing the AWS cloud platform?
A. AWS SDK
B. AWS CLI
C. AWS Management Console
D. Chef and Puppet
Answers
1. C. CloudTrail tracks all user activity and records the API usage.
2. A, D. A is correct because more than one EC2 instance can access the same EFS file system. D is correct because EFS automatically scales on demand without your having to provision anything.
3. B. CloudWatch is a monitoring series that shows resource utilization, application performance, and the AWS system health.
4. A. AWS Config records configuration changes to all AWS resources.
5. C. Security groups are like firewalls that control traffic into and out of the EC2 instances.
6. B. You can store your static web content in S3 and serve that content directly from S3 instead of launching web servers by hosting them on EC2 instances.
7. A. There are multiple availability zones within each AWS region, thus providing a higher availability and resilience for your applications.
8. C, D. Regions are geographically separated from one another and all availability zones with in a region are connected via low-latency network connections.
9. B. You can directly query data that you store in S3.
10. B. AWS Direct Connect enables you to connect your on-premise data centers and offices to the AWS cloud, to enable fast transmission of data.
11. D. The deployment unit in AWS Lambda is code because it employs a serverless architecture.
12. A. Amazon EFS offers a file system interface to storage in AWS.
13. B. AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service like Chef and Puppet and enables you to treat your infrastructure as code.
14. D. CloudTrail tracks user activity and API usage, and this information is useful for auditors who want to examine your governance, compliance, and auditing requirements.
15. C. EBS offers persistent storage that will remain intact after you shut down the EC2 instances.
16. D. A hybrid cloud architecture is where you use your on-premise and public cloud infrastructures as a single infrastructure.
17. A. Auto Scaling is an AWS feature that helps you handle spurts in demand for your applications by automatically scaling your EC2 instances up or down.
18. B, C, D. The three-tier architecture consists of the web server, database, and application layers.
19. D. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database.
20. B. Amazon VPC is a logically separated section of the VPC where you can launch your AWS resources into your own private virtual network.
21. B. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that helps you decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. SQS helps decouple and coordinate components of a cloud application. You can send, store, and receive messages between software components at high volume using SQS as the messaging service.
22. A, B. In the shared responsibility security model, the cloud provider (AWS) is responsible for securing the cloud infrastructure. This includes securing the power supplies and physical security of the data center.
23. A. CodeDeploy is a service that automates software deployments to compute services such as EC2, AWS Lambda, and instances running in your on-premise data centers.
24. D. CloudTrail tracks and records all user activity and API usage in the AWS cloud.
25. A, D. CloudTrail tracks and records user activity and API usage in the AWS cloud.
26. D. Chef and Puppet are configuration management tools.