Which of the following provides the ability to share the cost benefits of Reserved Instances across AWS accounts?

Linked accounts and consolidated billing

AWS Cost Explorer between AWS accounts

Linked accounts and consolidated billing

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instance Utilization Report

Amazon EC2 Instance Usage Report between AWS accounts

A company is designing an application hosted in a single AWS Region serving end-users spread across the world. The company wants to provide the end-users low latency access to the application data. Which of the following services will help fulfill this requirement?

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) transfer acceleration

How is asset management on AWS easier than asset management in a physical data center?

AWS performs infrastructure discovery scans on the customer's behalf.

AWS provides a Configuration Management Database that users can maintain.

AWS performs infrastructure discovery scans on the customer's behalf.

Amazon EC2 automatically generates an asset report and places it in the customer's specified Amazon S3 bucket.

Users can gather asset metadata reliably with a few API calls.

What feature of Amazon RDS helps to create globally redundant databases?

Automatic patching and updating

Which methods can be used to identify AWS costs by departments? (Choose two.)

Enable multi-factor authentication for the AWS account root user.

Create separate accounts for each department.

Use Reserved Instances whenever possible.

Use tags to associate each instance with a particular department.

Pay bills using purchase orders.

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customer responsibilities include which one of the following?

Configuring the operating system, network, and firewall.

Securing the hardware, software, facilities, and networks that run all products and services.

Providing certificates, reports, and other documentation directly to AWS customers under NDA.

Configuring the operating system, network, and firewall.

Obtaining industry certifications and independent third-party attestations.

What is a responsibility of AWS in the shared responsibility model?

Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.

Updating the network ACLs to block traffic to vulnerable ports.

Patching operating systems running on Amazon EC2 instances.

Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.

Updating the security group rules to block traffic to the vulnerable ports.

Which architectural principle is used when deploying an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance in Multiple Availability Zone mode?

Automate everything that can be automated.

What does it mean to grant least privilege to AWS IAM users?

It is granting only the permissions required to perform a given task.

It is granting permissions to a single user only.

It is granting permissions using AWS IAM policies only.

It is granting AdministratorAccess policy permissions to trustworthy users.

It is granting only the permissions required to perform a given task.

What is a benefit of loose coupling as a principle of cloud architecture design?

It prevents cascading failures between different components.

It facilitates low-latency request handling.

It allows applications to have dependent workflows.

It prevents cascading failures between different components.

It allows companies to focus on their physical data center operations.

A director has been tasked with investigating hybrid cloud architecture. The company currently accesses AWS over the public internet. Which service will facilitate private hybrid connectivity?

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) NAT Gateway

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Transfer Acceleration

AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)

A company's web application currently has tight dependencies on underlying components, so when one component fails the entire web application fails. Applying which AWS Cloud design principle will address the current design issue?

Focusing on decoupling components by isolating them and ensuring individual components can function when other components fail.

Implementing elasticity, enabling the application to scale up or scale down as demand changes.

Enabling several EC2 instances to run in parallel to achieve better performance.

Focusing on decoupling components by isolating them and ensuring individual components can function when other components fail.

Doubling EC2 computing resources to increase system fault tolerance.

How can a customer increase security to AWS account logons? (Choose two.)

Configure AWS Certificate Manager

Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Use Amazon Cognito to manage access

Configure a strong password policy

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

Which of the following is an AWS Well-Architected Framework design principle related to reliability?

Ability to recover from failure

Deployment to a single Availability Zone

Ability to recover from failure

What is an advantage of using the AWS Cloud over a traditional on-premises solution?

Users do not have to guess about future capacity needs.

Users can utilize existing hardware contracts for purchases.

Users can fix costs no matter what their traffic is.

Users can avoid audits by using reports from AWS.

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

Store data and backups in the same region.

Design tightly coupled system components.

Which of the following services is a MySQL-compatible database that automatically grows storage as needed?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL

Which Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) feature enables users to connect two VPCs together?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) ClassicLink

Which service's PRIMARY purpose is software version control?

AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

A company is considering migrating its applications to AWS. The company wants to compare the cost of running the workload on-premises to running the equivalent workload on the AWS platform. Which tool can be used to perform this comparison?

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

AWS Billing and Cost Management console

Which load balancer types are available with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? (Choose two.)

Public load balancers with AWS Application Auto Scaling capabilities

F5 Big-IP and Citrix NetScaler load balancers

Cross-zone load balancers with public and private IPs

Why should a company choose AWS instead of a traditional data center?

AWS does not require long-term contracts and provides a pay-as-you-go model.

AWS provides users with full control over the underlying resources.

AWS does not require long-term contracts and provides a pay-as-you-go model.

AWS offers edge locations in every country, supporting global reach.

AWS has no limits on the number of resources that can be created.

Which solution provides the FASTEST application response times to frequently accessed data to users in multiple AWS Regions?

Amazon CloudFront to edge locations

AWS CloudTrail across multiple Availability Zones

Amazon CloudFront to edge locations

AWS CloudFormation in multiple regions

A virtual private gateway over AWS Direct Connect

Which of the following AWS services can be used to run a self-managed database?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

What exclusive benefit is provided to users with Enterprise Support?

Access to a Technical Account Manager

Access to a Technical Project Manager

Access to a Technical Account Manager

Access to a Cloud Support Engineer

Access to a Solutions Architect

How can a user protect against AWS service disruptions if a natural disaster affects an entire geographic area?

Deploy applications across multiple AWS Regions.

Deploy applications across multiple Availability Zones within an AWS Region.

Use a hybrid cloud computing deployment model within the geographic area.

Deploy applications across multiple AWS Regions.

Store application artifacts using AWS Artifact and replicate them across multiple AWS Regions.

How does AWS MOST effectively reduce computing costs for a growing start-up company?

It provides on-demand resources for peak usage.

It automates the provisioning of individual developer environments.

It automates customer relationship management.

It implements a fixed monthly computing budget.

Which AWS Support plan provides a full set of AWS Trusted Advisor checks?

Enterprise and Business Support

Enterprise and Developer Support

Enterprise and Business Support

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