What is an advantage of deploying an application across multiple Availability Zones?

The application will have higher availability because it can withstand a service disruption in one Availability Zone.

There is a lower risk of service failure if a natural disaster causes a service disruption in a given AWS Region.

The application will have higher availability because it can withstand a service disruption in one Availability Zone.

There will be better coverage as Availability Zones are geographically distant and can serve a wider area.

There will be decreased application latency that will improve the user experience.

A Cloud Practitioner is asked how to estimate the cost of using a new application on AWS. What is the MOST appropriate response?

Direct the user to the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator for an estimate.

Inform the user that AWS pricing allows for on-demand pricing.

Direct the user to the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator for an estimate.

Use Amazon QuickSight to analyze current spending on-premises.

Use Amazon AppStream 2.0 for real-time pricing analytics.

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 goal? (Choose two.)

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 web application running on AWS has been spammed with malicious requests from a recurring set of IP addresses. Which AWS service can help secure the application and block the malicious traffic?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Treating infrastructure as code in the AWS Cloud allows users to:

automate the infrastructure provisioning process.

automate migration of on-premises hardware to AWS data centers.

let a third party automate an audit of the AWS infrastructure.

turn over application code to AWS so it can run on the AWS infrastructure.

automate the infrastructure provisioning process.

Which of the following is an AWS database service?

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

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 rules for inbound access.

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

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 application security patching.

How can a company isolate the costs of production and non-production workloads on AWS?

Use different accounts for production and non-production expenses.

Create Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for production and non-production workloads.

Use different accounts for production and non-production expenses.

Use Amazon EC2 for non-production workloads and other services for production workloads.

Use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the use of services.

What are the immediate benefits of using the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

Capital expenses are replaced with variable expenses.

User control of infrastructure.

AWS holds responsibility for security in the cloud.

What is the purpose of AWS Storage Gateway?

It connects on-premises data storage to the AWS Cloud.

It ensures on-premises data storage is 99.999999999% durable.

It transports petabytes of data to and from AWS.

It connects to multiple Amazon EC2 instances.

It connects on-premises data storage to the AWS Cloud.

What should users do if they want to install an application in geographically isolated locations?

Deploy the application to multiple AWS Regions.

Install the application using multiple internet gateways.

Deploy the application to an Amazon VPC.

Deploy the application to multiple AWS Regions.

Configure the application using multiple NAT gateways.

Within the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for security and compliance?

AWS and the customer share responsibility.

AWS shares responsibility with the relevant governing body.

How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda usage once the free tier has been exceeded? (Choose two.)

By the time it takes for the Lambda function to execute.

By the number of versions of a specific Lambda function.

By the number of requests made for a given Lambda function.

By the programming language that is used for the Lambda function.

By the total number of Lambda functions in an AWS account.

Which of the following describes the relationships among AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations? (Choose two.)

There are more AWS Regions than Availability Zones.

There are more edge locations than AWS Regions.

An edge location is an Availability Zone.

There are more AWS Regions than edge locations.

There are more Availability Zones than AWS Regions.

What does AWS Shield Standard provide?

Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions and access to resources

A company wants to build its new application workloads in the AWS Cloud instead of using on-premises resources. What expense can be reduced using the AWS Cloud?

hardware required to support new applications

The cost of writing custom-built Java or Node .js code

Penetration testing for security

hardware required to support new applications

Writing specific test cases for third-party applications.

What does AWS Marketplace allow users to do? (Choose two.)

Sell unused Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.

Sell solutions to other AWS users.

Buy third-party software that runs on AWS.

Purchase AWS security and compliance documents.

What does it mean if a user deploys a hybrid cloud architecture on AWS?

Some resources run on-premises and some run in the AWS Cloud.

All resources run using on-premises infrastructure.

Some resources run on-premises and some run in a colocation center.

All resources run in the AWS Cloud.

Some resources run on-premises and some run in the AWS Cloud.

How can a company reduce its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) using AWS?

By minimizing large capital expenditures

By having no responsibility for third-party license costs

By having no operational expenditures

By having AWS manage applications

Which activity is a customer responsibility in the AWS Cloud according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

Ensuring Amazon EBS volumes are backed up

Ensuring network connectivity from AWS to the internet

Patching and fixing flaws within the AWS Cloud infrastructure

Ensuring the physical security of cloud data centers

Ensuring Amazon EBS volumes are backed up

What are the advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

No need to guess capacity requirements

Increased upfront capital expenditure

Physical access to cloud data centers

When comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an on-premises infrastructure to a cloud architecture, what costs should be considered? (Choose two.)

The credit card processing fees for application transactions in the cloud.

The cost of purchasing and installing server hardware in the on-premises data.

The cost of administering the infrastructure, including operating system and software installations, patches, backups, and recovering from failures.

The costs of third-party penetration testing.

The advertising costs associated with an ongoing enterprise-wide campaign.

Which AWS feature allows a company to take advantage of usage tiers for services across multiple member accounts?

Service control policies (SCPs)

What helps a company provide a lower latency experience to its users globally?

Using edge locations to put content closer to all users

Using an AWS Region that is central to all users

Using a second Availability Zone in the AWS Region that is using used

Enabling caching in the AWS Region that is being used

Using edge locations to put content closer to all users

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.

Which AWS service needs to be enabled to track all user account changes within the AWS Management Console?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads?

Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) costs are billed on a monthly basis.

Customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances.

Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.

Customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads.

Which AWS service would simplify migration of a database to AWS?

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

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