A company is migrating its on-premises database to Amazon RDS. What should the company do to ensure Amazon RDS costs are kept to a minimum?

Right-size before and after migration.

Use a Multi-Region Active-Passive architecture.

Combine On-demand Capacity Reservations with Saving Plans.

Use a Multi-Region Active-Active architecture.

Sarah has deployed an application in the Northern California (us-west-1) region. After examining the application’s traffic, she notices that about 30% of the traffic is coming from Asia. What can she do to reduce latency for the users in Asia?

Create a CDN using CloudFront, so that content is cached at Edge Locations close to and in Asia.

Replicate the current resources across multiple Availability Zones within the same region.

Migrate the application to a hosting provider in Asia.

Create a CDN using CloudFront, so that content is cached at Edge Locations close to and in Asia.

An organization runs many systems and uses many AWS products. Which of the following services enables them to control how each developer interacts with these products?

AWS Identity and Access Management.

Which of the below is a best-practice when building applications on AWS?

Decouple the components of the application so that they run independently.

Strengthen physical security by applying the principle of least privilege.

Ensure that the application runs on hardware from trusted vendors.

Use IAM policies to maintain performance.

Decouple the components of the application so that they run independently.

What does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provide?

A PaaS solution to automate application deployment.

A compute engine for Amazon ECS.

A scalable file storage solution for use with AWS and on-premises servers.

What is the AWS service that performs automated network assessments of Amazon EC2 instances to check for vulnerabilities?

AWS Network Access Control Lists.

A company needs to host a database in Amazon RDS for at least three years. Which of the following options would be the most cost-effective solution?

Reserved instances - Partial Upfront.

Reserved instances - No Upfront.

Reserved instances - Partial Upfront.

A company has business critical workloads hosted on AWS and they are unwilling to accept any downtime. Which of the following is a recommended best practice to protect their workloads in the event of an unexpected natural disaster?

Deploy AWS resources to another AWS Region and implement an Active-Active disaster recovery strategy.

Replicate data across multiple Edge Locations worldwide and use Amazon CloudFront to perform automatic failover in the event of an outage.

Deploy AWS resources across multiple Availability Zones within the same AWS Region.

Create point-in-time backups in another subnet and recover this data when a disaster occurs.

Deploy AWS resources to another AWS Region and implement an Active-Active disaster recovery strategy.

Which statement is correct with regards to AWS service limits? (Choose TWO)

You can contact AWS support to increase the service limits.

You can use the AWS Trusted Advisor to monitor your service limits.

You can contact AWS support to increase the service limits.

Each IAM user has the same service limit.

There are no service limits on AWS.

You can use the AWS Trusted Advisor to monitor your service limits.

The Amazon Simple Email Service is responsible for sending email notifications when usage approaches a service limit.

Which of the following can help protect your EC2 instances from DDoS attacks? (Choose TWO)

Network Access Control Lists (Network ACLs).

How are AWS customers billed for Linux-based Amazon EC2 usage?

EC2 instances will be billed on one second increments, with a minimum of one minute.

EC2 instances will be billed on one hour increments, with a minimum of one day.

EC2 instances will be billed on one minute increments, with a minimum of one hour.

EC2 instances will be billed on one day increments, with a minimum of one month.

Which of the following will impact the price paid for an EC2 instance? (Choose TWO)

The Availability Zone where the instance is provisioned.

A customer spent a lot of time configuring a newly deployed Amazon EC2 instance. After the workload increases, the customer decides to provision another EC2 instance with an identical configuration. How can the customer achieve this?

By creating an AMI from the old instance and launching a new instance from it.

By creating an AWS Config template from the old instance and launching a new instance from it.

By creating an EBS Snapshot of the old instance.

By installing Aurora on EC2 and launching a new instance from it.

By creating an AMI from the old instance and launching a new instance from it.

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage all of its AWS accounts. Which of the following allows the company to restrict what services and actions are allowed in each individual account?

AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs).

Which of the following statements describes the AWS Cloud’s agility?

AWS allows you to provision resources in minutes.

AWS allows you to host your applications in multiple regions around the world.

AWS provides customizable hardware at the lowest possible cost.

AWS allows you to provision resources in minutes.

AWS allows you to pay upfront to reduce costs.

What are the benefits of using the Amazon Relational Database Service? (Choose TWO)

Complete control over the underlying host.

Scales automatically to larger or smaller instance types.

Supports the document and key-value data structure.

Which of the following is used to control network traffic in AWS? (Choose TWO)

Network Access Control Lists (NACLs).

What is one benefit and one drawback of buying a reserved EC2 instance? (Select TWO)

Reserved instances require at least a one-year pricing commitment.

Reserved instances provide a significant discount compared to on-demand instances.

Instances can be shut down by AWS at any time with no notification.

Reserved instances require at least a one-year pricing commitment.

There is no additional charge for using dedicated instances.

Reserved instances provide a significant discount compared to on-demand instances.

Reserved instances are best suited for periodic workloads.

Why does every AWS Region contain multiple Availability Zones?

Multiple Availability Zones allows you to build resilient and highly available architectures.

Multiple Availability Zones results in lower total cost compared to deploying in a single Availability Zone.

Multiple Availability Zones allows for data replication and global reach.

Multiple Availability Zones within a region increases the storage capacity available in that region.

What is the most cost-effective purchasing option for running a set of EC2 instances that must always be available for a period of two months?

Reserved Instances - All Upfront.

Reserved Instances - No Upfront.

Which of the following is a benefit of running an application in multiple Availability Zones?

Increases the availability of your application.

Allows you to exceed AWS service limits.

Reduces application response time between servers and global users.

Increases available compute capacity.

Increases the availability of your application.

Data security is one of the top priorities of AWS. How does AWS deal with old storage devices that have reached the end of their useful life?

AWS destroys the old devices in accordance with industry-standard practices.

AWS sells the old devices to other hosting providers.

AWS destroys the old devices in accordance with industry-standard practices.

AWS sends the old devices for remanufacturing.

AWS stores the old devices in a secure place.

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