When comparing AWS with on-premises Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), what costs are included?

Operating system administration

According to the AWS shared responsibility model, what is AWS responsible for?

Managing the network infrastructure

Maintaining application traffic

Managing the network infrastructure

Which Amazon EC2 pricing model offers the MOST significant discount when compared to On-Demand Instances?

All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3-year term

Partial Upfront Reserved Instances for a 1-year term

All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 1-year term

All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3-year term

No Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3-year term

Which of the following is the responsibility of AWS?

Physically destroying storage media at end of life

Setting up AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and groups

Physically destroying storage media at end of life

Patching guest operating systems

Configuring security settings on Amazon EC2 instances

Which of the following is an advantage of using AWS?

There is no guessing on capacity needs.

A user wants guidance on possible savings when migrating from on-premises to AWS. Which tool is suitable for this scenario?

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Which principles are used to architect applications for reliability on the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

Design for automated failure recovery

Use multiple Availability Zones

Manage changes via documented processes

Test for moderate demand to ensure reliability

Backup recovery to an on-premises environment

What tasks should a customer perform when that customer suspects an AWS account has been compromised? (Choose two.)

Rotate passwords and access keys.

Move resources to a different AWS Region.

Delete AWS CloudTrail Resources.

What is an example of high availability in the AWS Cloud?

Ensuring an application remains accessible, even if a resource fails

Consulting AWS technical support at any time day or night

Ensuring an application remains accessible, even if a resource fails

Making any AWS service available for use by paying on demand

Deploying in any part of the world using AWS Regions

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)

A company wants to monitor the CPU usage of its Amazon EC2 resources. Which AWS service should the company use?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

What is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role?

An entity that defines a set of permissions for use with an AWS resource

A user associated with an AWS resource

A group associated with an AWS resource

An entity that defines a set of permissions for use with an AWS resource

An authentication credential associated with a multi-factor authentication (MFA) token

What are the advantages of Reserved Instances? (Choose two.)

They provide a discount over on-demand pricing.

They provide access to additional instance types.

They provide additional networking capability.

Customers can upgrade instances as new types become available.

Customers can reserve capacity in an Availability Zone.

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 static content to reside closer to end users.

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

A customer runs an On-Demand Amazon Linux EC2 instance for 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds. For how much time will the customer be billed?

3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds

Which of the following AWS services provide compute resources? (Choose two.)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Which tool can be used to compare the costs of running a web application in a traditional hosting environment to running it on AWS?

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

What is the value of using third-party software from AWS Marketplace instead of installing third-party software on Amazon EC2? (Choose two.)

Users pay for software by the hour or month depending on licensing.

AWS Marketplace enables the user to launch applications with 1-Click.

AWS Marketplace data encryption is managed by a third-party vendor.

AWS Marketplace eliminates the need to upgrade to newer software versions.

Users can deploy third-party software without testing.

Which of the following is a cloud architectural design principle?

Use commercial database software.

Under the shared responsibility model; which of the following areas are the customer's responsibility? (Choose two.)

Firmware upgrades of network infrastructure

Patching of the underlying hypervisor

Physical security of data centers

Configuration of the security group

According to the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for configuration management?

It is shared between AWS and the customer.

It is solely the responsibility of the customer.

It is solely the responsibility of AWS.

It is shared between AWS and the customer.

It is not part of the AWS shared responsibility model.

Which of the following are benefits of hosting infrastructure in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

There are no upfront commitments.

AWS manages all security in the cloud.

Users have the ability to provision resources on demand.

Users have access to free and unlimited storage.

Users have control over the physical infrastructure.

What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

It is an online tool with a set of automated checks that provides recommendations on cost optimization, performance, and security.

It is an AWS staff member who provides recommendations and best practices on how to use AWS.

It is a network of AWS partners who provide recommendations and best practices on how to use AWS.

It is an online tool with a set of automated checks that provides recommendations on cost optimization, performance, and security.

It is another name for AWS Technical Account Managers who provide recommendations on cost optimization, performance, and security.

What are the benefits of using the AWS Cloud for companies with customers in many countries around the world? (Choose two.)

Companies can deploy applications in multiple AWS Regions to reduce latency.

Amazon Translate automatically translates third-party website interfaces into multiple languages.

Amazon CloudFront has multiple edge locations around the world to reduce latency.

Amazon Comprehend allows users to build applications that can respond to user requests in many languages.

Elastic Load Balancing can distribute application web traffic to multiple AWS Regions around the world, which reduces latency.

The pay-as-you-go pricing model for AWS services:

requires payment up front for AWS services.

is relevant only for Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon RDS.

reduces operational expenditures.

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for which security-related task?

Physical security of global infrastructure

Lifecycle management of IAM credentials

Physical security of global infrastructure

Encryption of Amazon EBS volumes

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