One benefit of On-Demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) pricing is:

The ability to bid for a lower hourly cost.

Paying a daily rate regardless of time used.

Pre-paying for instances and paying a lower hourly rate.

A characteristic of edge locations is that they:

Help lower latency and improve performance for users.

Host Amazon EC2 instances closer to users.

Help lower latency and improve performance for users.

Cache frequently changing data without reaching the origin server.

What is a value proposition of the AWS Cloud?

No long-term contract is required.

AWS is responsible for security in the AWS Cloud.

No long-term contract is required.

AWS manages user applications in the AWS Cloud.

A company is migrating an application that is running non-interruptible workloads for a three-year time frame. Which pricing construct would provide the MOST cost-effective solution?

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances.

Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances.

How can one AWS account use Reserved Instances from another AWS account?

By using AWS Organizations consolidated billing.

By using Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances.

By using AWS Organizations consolidated billing.

By using the AWS Cost Explorer tool.

What are the benefits of developing and running a new application in the AWS Cloud compared to on-premises? (Select TWO)

AWS makes it easy to architect for high availability.

AWS can easily accommodate application demand changes.

AWS automatically distributes the data globally for higher durability.

AWS will take care of operating the application.

AWS makes it easy to architect for high availability.

AWS can easily accommodate application demand changes.

AWS takes care of application security patching.

AWS supports which of the following methods to add security to Identity and Access Management (IAM) users? (Select TWO)

Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

Enforcing password strength and expiration.

Implementing Amazon Rekognition.

Using AWS Shield-protected resources.

Blocking access with Security Groups.

Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

Enforcing password strength and expiration.

Which service provides a hybrid storage service that enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use cloud storage?

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)

Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?

Convertible Reserved Instances.

A company wants to migrate its applications to a VPC on AWS These applications will need to access on-premises resources. What combination of actions will enable the company to accomplish this goals? (Select TWO)

Build a VPN connection between an on-premises device and a virtual private gateway in the new VPC

Connect the company’s on-premises data center to AWS using AWS Direct Connect

Use the AWS Service Catalog to identify a list of on-premises resources that can be migrated

Build a VPN connection between an on-premises device and a virtual private gateway in the new VPC

Use Amazon Athena to query data from the on-premises database servers

Connect the company’s on-premises data center to AWS using AWS Direct Connect

Leverage Amazon CloudFront to restrict access to static web content provided through the company’s on-premises web servers

A Cloud Practitioner must determine if any security groups in an AWS account have been provisioned to allow unrestricted access for specific ports. What is the SIMPLEST way to do this?

Run AWS Trusted Advisor and review the findings.

Review the inbound rules for each security group in the Amazon EC2 management console to check for port 0.0.0.0/0.

Run AWS Trusted Advisor and review the findings.

Open the AWS IAM console and check the inbound rule filters for open access.

In AWS Config, create a custom rule that invokes an AWS Lambda function to review firewall rules for inbound access.

Which of the following security-related services does AWS offer? (Select TWO)

AWS Trusted Advisor security checks.

Multi-factor authentication physical tokens.

AWS Trusted Advisor security checks.

Amazon S3 copyrighted content detection.

Which of the following AWS features enables a user to launch a pre-configured Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance?

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

Which AWS Cloud benefit eliminates the need for users to try estimating future infrastructure usage?

Easy and fast deployment of applications in multiple Regions around the world.

Lower variable costs due to massive economies of scale.

What can users access from AWS Artifact?

AWS security and compliance documents.

A download of configuration management details for all AWS resources.

Training materials for AWS services.

A security assessment of the applications deployed in the AWS Cloud.

Compared with costs in traditional and virtualized data centers, AWS has:

Lower variable costs and lower upfront costs.

Greater variable costs and greater upfront costs.

Fixed usage costs and lower upfront costs.

Lower variable costs and greater upfront costs.

Lower variable costs and lower upfront costs.

How do Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups help achieve high availability for a web application?

They automatically add or replace instances across multiple Availability Zones when the application needs it.

They automatically add more instances across multiple AWS Regions based on global demand of the application.

They automatically add or replace instances across multiple Availability Zones when the application needs it.

They enable the application’s stalk: content to reside closer to end users.

They are able to distribute incoming requests across a tier of web server instances.

Which of the following can limit Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to specific users?

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.

How should a customer forecast the future costs for running a new web application?

Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms.

Which of the following tasks is the responsibility of AWS?

Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor.

Configuring AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles.

Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor.

Setting user password policies.

Under the shared responsibility model which of the following areas are the customer’s responsibility? (Select TWO)

Configuration of the security group.

Firmware upgrades of network infrastructure.

Patching of the underlying hypervisor.

Physical security of data centers.

Configuration of the security group.

A company is looking for a scalable data warehouse solution. Which of the following AWS solutions would meet the company’s needs?

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

What are the advantages of the AWS Cloud (Select TWO)

No need to guess capacity requirements.

Increased upfront capital expenditure.

Physical access to cloud data centers.

How can the AWS Cloud increase user workforce productivity after migration from an on-premises data center?

Users do not have to wait for infrastructure provisioning.

The AWS Cloud infrastructure is much faster than an on-premises data center infrastructure.

AWS takes over application configuration management on behalf of users.

Users do not need to address security and compliance issues.

What is an example of agility in the AWS Cloud?

Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources.

Access to multiple instance types.

Using Consolidated Billing to produce one bill.

Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources.

Which AWS security service protects applications from distributed denial of service attacks with always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations?

AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF).

Which of the following are advantages of AWS consolidated billing? (Choose two)

The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts.

Potential volume discounts, as usage in all accounts is combined.

The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts.

Service limits increasing by default in all accounts.

A fixed discount on the monthly bill.

Potential volume discounts, as usage in all accounts is combined.

The automatic extension of the master account’s AWS support plan to all accounts.

A company is considering using AWS for a self-hosted database that requires a nightly shutdown for maintenance and cost-saving purposes. Which service should the company use?

Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with Amazon EC2 instance store.

Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

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