What is the AWS customer responsible for according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

Secure disposal of storage devices

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)

Which statement best describes Elastic Load Balancing?

It distributes incoming application traffic across one or more Amazon EC2 instances.

It translates a domain name into an IP address using DNS.

It distributes incoming application traffic across one or more Amazon EC2 instances.

It collects metrics on connected Amazon EC2 instances.

It automatically adjusts the number of Amazon EC2 instances to support incoming traffic.

Which of the following AWS services can be used to serve large amounts of online video content with the lowest possible latency? (Select TWO.)

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

What is the benefit of using AWS managed services, such as Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.

They require the customer to monitor and replace failing instances.

They have better performance than customer-managed services.

They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.

They do not require the customer to optimize instance type or size selections.

Which service provides a virtually unlimited amount of online highly durable object storage?

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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

Multi-factor authentication physical tokens

AWS Trusted Advisor security checks

Amazon S3 copyrighted content detection

When architecting cloud applications, which of the following are a key design principle?

Use the largest instance possible

Provision capacity for peak load

Use the Scrum development process

Which task is AWS responsible for in the shared responsibility model for security and compliance?

Granting access to individuals and services

Updating Amazon EC2 host firmware

Which of the following is a benefit of using the AWS Cloud?

Ability to focus on revenue-generating activities.

Permissive security removes the administrative burden.

Ability to focus on revenue-generating activities.

Control over cloud network hardware.

Choice of specific cloud hardware vendors.

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

A metrics repository with customizable notification thresholds and channels.

A code repository with customizable build and team commit features.

A metrics repository with customizable notification thresholds and channels.

A security configuration repository with threat analytics.

A rule repository of a web application firewall with automated vulnerability prevention features.

Which of the following is an advantage of consolidated billing on AWS?

Eliminates the need for tagging

Which of the following steps should be taken by a customer when conducting penetration testing on AWS?

Request and wait for approval from AWS support, and then conduct testing.

Conduct penetration testing using Amazon Inspector, and then notify AWS support.

Request and wait for approval from the customer's internal security team, and then conduct testing.

Notify AWS support, and then conduct testing immediately.

Request and wait for approval from AWS support, and then conduct testing.

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)

How would an AWS customer easily apply common access controls to a large set of users?

Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group.

Apply an IAM policy to an IAM role.

Apply the same IAM policy to all IAM users with access to the same workload.

Apply an IAM policy to an Amazon Cognito user pool.

Which of the following can an AWS customer use to launch a new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) cluster? (Select TWO.)

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Which of the following is an AWS Cloud architecture design principle?

Implement single points of failure.

Which of the following security measures protect access to an AWS account? (Select TWO.)

Grant least privilege access to IAM users.

Create one IAM user and share with many developers and users.

Activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users.

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

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)

Which of the following is an important architectural design principle when designing cloud applications?

Use multiple Availability Zones.

Use tightly coupled components.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers which of the following benefits over traditional database management?

AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system.

AWS manages the data stored in Amazon RDS tables.

AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system.

AWS automatically scales up instance types on demand.

Which of the following is a component of the shared responsibility model managed entirely by AWS?

Auditing physical data center assets

Patching operating system software

Enforcing multi-factor authentication

Auditing physical data center assets

Which of the following features can be configured through the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Dashboard? (Select TWO.)

Amazon CloudFront distributions

If each department within a company has its own AWS account, what is one way to enable consolidated billing?

Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join.

Use AWS Budgets on each account to pay only to budget.

Contact AWS Support for a monthly bill.

Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join.

Put all invoices into one Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, load data into Amazon Redshift, and then run a billing report.

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