You decide to buy a reserved instance for a term of one year. Which option provides the largest total discount?

All reserved instance payment options provide the same discount level.

An AWS customer has used one Amazon Linux instance for 2 hours, 5 minutes and 9 seconds, and one CentOS instance for 4 hours, 23 minutes and 7 seconds. How much time will the customer be billed for?

2 hours, 5 minutes and 9 seconds for the Linux instance and 5 hours for the CentOS instance.

3 hours for the Linux instance and 5 hours for the CentOS instance.

2 hours, 5 minutes and 9 seconds for the Linux instance and 4 hours, 23 minutes and 7 seconds for the CentOS instance.

2 hours, 5 minutes and 9 seconds for the Linux instance and 5 hours for the CentOS instance.

3 hours for the Linux instance and 4 hours, 23 minutes and 7 seconds for the CentOS instance.

Which methods can be used by customers to interact with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? (Choose TWO)

AWS Network Access Control Lists.

How does AWS notify customers about security and privacy events pertaining to AWS services?

Using the AWS Management Console.

A company has a web application that is hosted on a single EC2 instance and is approaching 100 percent CPU Utilization during peak loads. Rather than scaling the server vertically, the company has decided to deploy three Amazon EC2 instances in parallel and to distribute traffic across the three servers. What AWS Service should the company use to distribute the traffic evenly?

AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB).

Which of the following approaches will help you eliminate human error and automate the process of creating and updating your AWS environment?

Use code to provision and operate your AWS infrastructure.

Use Software test automation tools.

Use AWS CodeDeploy to build and automate your AWS environment.

Use code to provision and operate your AWS infrastructure.

Migrate all of your applications to a dedicated host.

A company is seeking to better secure its AWS account from unauthorized access. Which of the below options can the customer use to achieve this goal?

Require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all IAM User access.

Restrict any API call made through SDKs or CLI.

Create one IAM account for each department in the company (Development, QA, Production), and share it across all staff in that department.

Require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all IAM User access.

Which of the following factors should be considered when determining the region in which AWS Resources will be deployed? (Choose TWO)

The AWS Region’s security level.

Geographic proximity to the company's location.

What are the advantages of using Auto Scaling Groups for EC2 instances?

Auto Scaling Groups scales EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones to increase application availability and fault tolerance.

Auto Scaling Groups caches the most recent responses at global edge locations to reduce latency and improve performance.

Auto Scaling Groups scales EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones to increase application availability and fault tolerance.

Auto Scaling Groups scales EC2 instances across multiple regions to reduce latency for global users.

Auto Scaling Groups distributes application traffic across multiple Availability Zones to enhance performance.

The TCO gap between AWS infrastructure and traditional infrastructure has widened over the recent years. Which of the following could be the reason for that?

AWS continues to lower the cost of cloud computing for its customers.

AWS helps customers invest more in capital expenditures.

AWS automates all infrastructure operations, so customers save more on human resources costs.

AWS continues to lower the cost of cloud computing for its customers.

AWS secures AWS resources at no additional charge.

Which of the following are examples of the customer’s responsibility to implement “security IN the cloud”? (Choose TWO)

Building a schema for an application.

Patch management of the underlying infrastructure.

Which of the following is NOT a factor when estimating the costs of Amazon EC2? (Choose TWO)

The amount of time the instances will be running.

Allocated Elastic IP Addresses.

A company is building an online cloud storage platform. They need a storage service that can scale capacity automatically, while minimizing cost. Which AWS storage service should the company use to meet these requirements?

Amazon Elastic Container Service.

You have just hired a skilled sys-admin to join your team. As usual, you have created a new IAM user for him to interact with AWS services. On his first day, you ask him to create snapshots of all existing Amazon EBS volumes and save them in a new Amazon S3 bucket. However, the new member reports back that he is unable to create neither EBS snapshots nor S3 buckets. What might prevent him from doing this simple task?

There is a non-explicit deny to all new users.

EBS and S3 are accessible only to the root account owner.

The systems administrator must contact AWS Support first to activate his new IAM account.

There is not enough space in S3 to store the snapshots.

There is a non-explicit deny to all new users.

Which of the below options is true of Amazon Cloud Directory?

Amazon Cloud Directory allows the organization of hierarchies of data across multiple dimensions.

Amazon Cloud Directory enables the analysis of video and data streams in real time.

Amazon Cloud Directory allows users to access AWS with their existing Active Directory credentials.

Amazon Cloud Directory allows for registration and management of domain names.

Which of the below options is a best practice for making your application on AWS highly available?

Deploy the application to at least two Availability Zones.

Use Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) across multiple AWS Regions.

Deploy the application code on at least two servers in the same Availability Zone.

Rewrite the application code to handle all incoming requests.

A company wants to grant a new employee long-term access to manage Amazon DynamoDB databases. Which of the following is a recommended best-practice when granting these permissions?

Create an IAM user and attach a policy with Amazon DynamoDB access permissions.

Create an IAM role and attach a policy with Amazon DynamoDB access permissions.

Create an IAM role and attach a policy with Administrator access permissions.

Create an IAM user and attach a policy with Amazon DynamoDB access permissions.

Create an IAM user and attach a policy with Administrator access permissions.

When granting permissions to applications running on Amazon EC2 instances, which of the following is considered best practice?

Use temporary security credentials (IAM roles) instead of long-term access keys.

Generate new IAM access keys every time you delegate permissions.

Store the required AWS credentials directly within the application code.

Use temporary security credentials (IAM roles) instead of long-term access keys.

Do nothing; Applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances do not need permission to interact with other AWS services or resources.

Which of the following will help AWS customers save on costs when migrating their workloads to AWS?

Use existing third-party software licenses on AWS.

Use servers instead of managed services.

Use existing third-party software licenses on AWS.

Migrate production workloads to AWS edge locations instead of AWS Regions.

Use AWS Outposts to run all workloads in a cost-optimized environment.

Which of the following can be used to enable the Virtual Multi-Factor Authentication? (Choose TWO)

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

According to best practices, which of the below options is best suited for processing a large number of binary files?

Running EC2 instances in parallel.

Vertically scaling EC2 instances.

Running RDS instances in parallel.

Vertically scaling RDS instances.

Running EC2 instances in parallel.

What should you do if you see resources, which you don’t remember creating, in the AWS Management Console? (Choose TWO)

Open an investigation and delete any potentially compromised IAM users.

Change your AWS root account password and the passwords of any IAM users.

Stop all running services and open an investigation.

Give your root account password to AWS Support so that they can assist in troubleshooting and securing the account.

Check the AWS CloudTrail logs and delete all IAM users that have access to your resources.

Open an investigation and delete any potentially compromised IAM users.

Change your AWS root account password and the passwords of any IAM users.

Availability Zones within a Region are connected over low-latency links. Which of the following is a benefit of these links?

Make synchronous replication of your data possible.

Create private connection to your data center.

Achieve global high availability.

Automate the process of provisioning new compute resources.

Make synchronous replication of your data possible.

Which of the following are true regarding the languages that are supported on AWS Lambda? (Choose TWO)

Lambda natively supports a number of programming languages such as Node.js, Python, and Java.

Lambda can support any programming language using an API.

Lambda only supports Python and Node.js, but third party plugins are available to convert code in other languages to these formats.

Lambda natively supports a number of programming languages such as Node.js, Python, and Java.

Lambda is AWS’ proprietary programming language for microservices.

Lambda doesn’t support programming languages; it is a serverless compute service.

Lambda can support any programming language using an API.

What are the capabilities of AWS X-Ray? (Choose TWO)

Facilitates tracking of user requests to identify application issues.

Helps improve application performance.

Automatically decouples application components.

Facilitates tracking of user requests to identify application issues.

Helps improve application performance.

Deploys applications to Amazon EC2 instances.

Deploys applications to on-premises servers.

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A company is using EC2 Instances to run their e-commerce site on the AWS platform. If the site becomes unavailable, the company will lose a significant amount of money for each minute the site is unavailable. Which design principle should the company use to minimize the risk of an outage?

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