Which design principles are enabled by the AWS cloud to improve the operation of workloads select two?

1. QUESTION
Which benefits can a company gain by deploying a relational database on Amazon RDS instead of Amazon EC2? (Select TWO.)

Software patching
Schema management
Indexing of tables
Root access to OS
Automated backups

Software patching & Automated backups

2. QUESTION
Which design principles are enabled by the AWS Cloud to improve the operation of workloads? (Select TWO.)

Remove single points of failure
Loose coupling
Minimize platform design
Minimum viable product
Customized hardware

Remove single points of failure & Loose coupling

3. QUESTION
A company needs to publish messages to a thousands of subscribers simultaneously using a push mechanism.
Which AWS service should the company use?

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
AWS Step Functions

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

4. QUESTION
Which of the following AWS features or services can be used to provide root storage volumes for Amazon EC2 instances?

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Amazon Machine Image
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

5. QUESTION
A company has many underutilized compute resources on-premises. Which AWS Cloud feature will help resolve this issue?

Global deployment
Elasticity
Fault tolerance
High availability

Elasticity

6. QUESTION
A company is designing a new a service that must align with the operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Which design principles should the company follow? (Select TWO.)

Anticipate failure.
Perform manual operations.
Make large-scale changes.
Perform operations as code.
Create static operational procedures.

Anticipate failure.
&
Perform operations as code.

7. QUESTION
Which of the following deployments involves the reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

Amazon EBS provisioned IOPS volume
Attach a WebACL to a CloudFront distribution
Use CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment

8. QUESTION
Which AWS feature can be used to launch a pre-configured Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance?

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Amazon AppStream 2.0
Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

9. QUESTION
What advantages does a database administrator obtain by using the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

RDS simplifies relational database administration tasks.
RDS enables users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resources.
RDS databases automatically scale based on load.
RDS provides 99.99999999999% reliability and durability.

RDS simplifies relational database administration tasks.

10. QUESTION
A company is deploying a new workload and software licensing requirements dictate that the workload must be run on a specific, physical server.
Which Amazon EC2 instance deployment option should be used?

Dedicated Instances
Spot Instances
Reserved Instances
Dedicated Hosts

Dedicated Hosts

11. QUESTION
A company is planning to deploy an application with a relational database on AWS. The application layer requires access to the database instance's operating system in order to run scripts.
The company prefer to keep management overhead to a minimum. Which deployment should be used for the database?

Amazon RDS
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3

Amazon EC2

12. QUESTION
Which of the following are valid benefits of using the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)

Ability to go global quickly.
Fast provisioning of IT resources.
Outsource all application development to AWS.
Total control over data center infrastructure.
Outsource all operational risk.

Ability to go global quickly.
&
Fast provisioning of IT resources.

13. QUESTION
A Cloud Practitioner needs a tool that can assist with viewing and managing AWS costs and usage over time. Which tool should the Cloud Practitioner use?

AWS Organizations
AWS Cost Explorer
Amazon Inspector
AWS Budgets

AWS Cost Explorer

When running applications in the AWS Cloud, which common tasks can AWS manage on behalf of their customers? (Select TWO.)

A. Taking a backup of a database
B. Patching database software
C. Application source code auditing
D. Application security testing
E. Creating a database schema

Taking a backup of a database
&
Patching database software

15. QUESTION
A large company is interested in avoiding long-term contracts and moving from fixed costs to variable costs.
What is the value proposition of AWS for this company?

Automated cost optimization
Volume pricing discounts
Pay-as-you-go pricing
Economies of scale

Pay-as-you-go pricing

16. QUESTION
A Cloud Practitioner anticipates an increase in application traffic at a future date and time when a sales event will take place. How can the Cloud Practitioner configure Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to ensure the right number of Amazon EC2 instances are available ahead of the event?

Configure a target tracking scaling policy.
Configure predictive scaling.
Configure a step scaling policy.
Configure a scheduled scaling policy.

Configure a scheduled scaling policy.

17. QUESTION
A Cloud Practitioner is developing a new application and wishes to integrate features of AWS services directly into the application.
Which of the following is the BEST tool for this purpose?

AWS CodeDeploy
AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
AWS Software Development Kit
AWS CodePipeline

AWS Software Development Kit

18. QUESTION
A Cloud Practitioner requires point-in-time recovery (PITR) for an Amazon DynamoDB table. Who is responsible for configuring and performing backups?

AWS is responsible for both tasks.
AWS is responsible for configuring and the user is responsible for performing backups.
The customer is responsible for configuring and AWS is responsible for performing backups.
The customer is responsible for both tasks.

The customer is responsible for configuring and AWS is responsible for performing backups.

19. QUESTION
A company is deploying an application on Amazon EC2 that requires low-latency access to application components in an on-premises data center. Which AWS service or resource can the company use to extend their existing VPC to the on-premises data center?

AWS Direct Connect
AWS Outposts
Amazon Connect
Amazon Workspaces

AWS Outposts

20. QUESTION
Which of the following AWS services are compute services? (Select TWO.)

AWS Batch
Amazon Inspector
Amazon EFS
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Batch & AWS Elastic Beanstalk

21. QUESTION
Which of the following represents a value proposition for using the AWS Cloud?

It is not necessary to enter into long term contracts.
AWS provides full access to their data centers.
AWS is responsible for securing your applications.
Customers can request specialized hardware.

It is not necessary to enter into long term contracts.

22. QUESTION
A company plans to deploy a relational database on AWS. The IT department will perform database administration. Which service should the company use?

Amazon EC2
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon RedShift

Amazon EC2

23. QUESTION
A company is migrating a monolithic application that does not scale well into the cloud and refactoring it into a microservices architecture.
Which best practice of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this plan relate to?

Stop spending money on undifferentiated heavy lifting.
Implement loosely coupled services.
Manage change in automation.
Use multiple solutions to improve performance.

Implement loosely coupled services.

24. QUESTION
A Cloud Practitioner needs to monitor a new Amazon EC2 instances CPU and network utilization. Which AWS service should be used?

AWS Systems Manager
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Inspector

Amazon CloudWatch

25. QUESTION
Which AWS service or feature can assist with protecting a website that is hosted outside of AWS?

Amazon VPC route tables
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Amazon EC2 security groups
Amazon VPC network ACLs

AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)

26. QUESTION
For what purpose would a Cloud Practitioner access AWS Artifact?

Download configuration details for all AWS resources.
Access training materials for AWS services.
Create a security assessment report for AWS services.
Gain access to AWS security and compliance documents.

Gain access to AWS security and compliance documents.

27. QUESTION
Which tasks can a user complete using the AWS Cost Management tools? (Select TWO.)

Launch either EC2 Spot instances or On-Demand instances based on the current pricing.

Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account.
Create budgets and receive notifications if current or forecasted usage exceeds the budgets.

Move data stored in Amazon S3 Standard to an archiving storage class to reduce cost.

Automatically terminate AWS resources if budget thresholds are exceeded.

Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account.
Create budgets and receive notifications if current or forecasted usage exceeds the budgets.

&

Move data stored in Amazon S3 Standard to an archiving storage class to reduce cost.

28. QUESTION
A company is deploying a MySQL database on AWS. The database must easily scale and have automatic backup enabled.
Which AWS service should the company?

Amazon Athena
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora

29. QUESTION
AWS are able to continually reduce their pricing due to:

Compute savings plans.
Pay-as-you go pricing.
Economies of scale.
Elastic compute services.

Economies of scale.

30. QUESTION
Which resource should a new user on AWS use to get help with deploying popular technologies based on AWS best practices, including architecture and deployment instructions?

AWS Config
AWS Artifact
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Quick Starts

AWS Quick Starts

31. QUESTION
Which of the following statements best describes the concept of agility in relation to cloud computing on AWS? (Select TWO.)

The speed at which AWS rolls out new features.

The ability to automatically scale capacity.

The speed at which AWS resources can be created.

The ability to experiment quickly.

The elimination of wasted capacity.

The speed at which AWS resources can be created.
&
The ability to experiment quickly.

32. QUESTION
A user is planning to launch three EC2 instances behind a single Elastic Load Balancer. The deployment should be highly available.

Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.

Launch the instances as EC2 Spot Instances in the same AWS Region and the same Availability Zone.

Launch the instances in multiple AWS Regions, and use Elastic IP addresses.

Launch the instances as EC2 Reserved Instances in the same AWS Region, but in different Availability Zones.

Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.

33. QUESTION
A company is deploying an application in the AWS Cloud. How can they secure the application? (Select TWO.)

Configure public access for the AWS services used by the application.

Enable monitoring by turning off encryption for data in transit.

Enable encryption for the application data at rest.

Limit access privileges according to the principal of least privilege.

Provide full admin access to developer and operations staff.

Enable encryption for the application data at rest.
&
Limit access privileges according to the principal of least privilege.

34. QUESTION
Which AWS service can a team use to deploy infrastructure on AWS using familiar programming languages?

AWS CodeCommit
AWS Config
AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
Amazon CodeGuru

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

35. QUESTION
A company is deploying a new web application in a single AWS Region that will be used by users globally.
Which AWS services will assist with lowering latency and improving transfer speeds for the global users? (Select TWO.)

AWS Global Accelerator
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Direct Connect
AWS Transfer Gateway
AWS Snowcone

AWS Global Accelerator

36. QUESTION
What are AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) access keys used for?

Ensuring the integrity of log files.
Enabling encryption in transit for web servers.
Logging in to the AWS Management Console.
Making programmatic calls to AWS from AWS APIs.

Making programmatic calls to AWS from AWS APIs.

37. QUESTION
A customer needs to determine Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a workload that requires physical isolation. Which hosting model should be accounted for?

On-Demand Instances
Reserved Instances
Dedicated Hosts
Spot Instances

Dedicated Hosts

38. QUESTION
Which AWS service can a company use to discover and protect sensitive data that is stored in Amazon S3 buckets.

Amazon Detective
Amazon GuardDuty
AWS Policy Generator
Amazon Macie

Amazon Macie

39. QUESTION
A company runs a batch job on an Amazon EC2 instance and it takes 6 hours to complete. The workload is expected to double in volume each month with a proportional increase in processing time.
What is the most efficient cloud architecture to address the growing workload?

Run the batch job on a larger Amazon EC2 instance type with more CPU.

Run the batch workload in parallel across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.

Change the Amazon EC2 volume type to a Provisioned IOPS SSD volume.

Run the application on a bare metal Amazon EC2 instance.

Run the batch workload in parallel across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.

40. QUESTION
What is the best practice for managing AWS IAM access keys?

AWS rotate access keys on a schedule.
Never use access keys, always use IAM roles.
Customers should rotate access keys regularly.
There is no need to manage access keys.

Customers should rotate access keys regularly.

41. QUESTION
Which AWS services can a company use to gather information about activity in their AWS account? (Select TWO.)

AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Connect
Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudWatch
&
AWS CloudTrail

42. QUESTION
A company uses Amazon EC2 instances to run applications that are dedicated to different departments. The company needs to break out the costs of these applications and allocate them to the relevant department. The EC2 instances run in a single VPC.
How can the company achieve these requirements?

Enable billing access for IAM users and view the costs in Cost Explorer.

Enable billing alerts through Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon SNS.

Add additional Amazon VPCs and launch each application in a separate VPC.

Create tags by department on the instances and then run a cost allocation report.

Create tags by department on the instances and then run a cost allocation report.

43. QUESTION
Which AWS service provides a managed software version control system?

Amazon CodeDeploy
AWS CodePipeline
AWS DataSync
AWS CodeCommit

AWS CodeCommit

44. QUESTION
What can a Cloud Practitioner use to categorize and track AWS costs by project?

Cost Allocation Tags
AWS Trusted Advisor
Multiple accounts
Consolidated billing

Cost Allocation Tags

45. QUESTION
Which type of credential should a Cloud Practitioner use for programmatic access to AWS resources from the AWS CLI/API?

User name and password
Access keys
SSH public keys
SSL/TLS certificate

Access keys

46. QUESTION
Customers using AWS services must patch operating systems on which of the following services?

Amazon DynamoDB
AWS Fargate
Amazon EC2
AWS Lambda

Amazon EC2

47. QUESTION
A company is planning to move a number of legacy applications to the AWS Cloud. The solution must be cost-effective. Which approach should the company take?

Rehost the applications on Amazon EC2 instances that are right-sized.
Migrate the applications to dedicated hosts on Amazon EC2.
Use an Amazon S3 static website to host the legacy application code.
Use AWS Lambda to host the legacy applications in the cloud.

Rehost the applications on Amazon EC2 instances that are right-sized.

48. QUESTION
How does the AWS cloud increase the speed and agility of execution for customers? (Select TWO.)

Fast provisioning of resources
Secured data centers
Scalable compute capacity
Lower cost of deployment
Private connections to data centers

Fast provisioning of resources
&
Scalable compute capacity

49. QUESTION
A company is launching a new website which is expected to have highly variable levels of traffic. The website will run on Amazon EC2 and must be highly available.
What is the MOST cost-effective approach?

Determine the highest expected traffic and use an appropriate instance type.

Create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group and configure an Elastic Load Balancer.

Launch the website using an Amazon EC2 instance running on a dedicated host.

Use the AWS CLI to launch and terminate Amazon EC2 instances to match demand.

Create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group and configure an Elastic Load Balancer.

50. QUESTION
A website has a global customer base and users have reported poor performance when connecting to the site.
Which AWS service will improve the customer experience by reducing latency?

AWS Direct Connect
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon CloudFront

51. QUESTION
An application uses a PostgreSQL database running on a single Amazon EC2 instance. A Cloud Practitioner has been asked to increase the availability of the database so there is automatic recovery in the case of a failure.
Which tasks can the Cloud Practitioner take to meet this requirement?

Set the DeleteOnTermination value to false for the EBS root volume.

Configure EC2 Auto Recovery to move the instance to another Region.

Configure an Elastic Load Balancer in front of the EC2 instance.

Migrate the database to Amazon RDS and enable the Multi-AZ feature.

Migrate the database to Amazon RDS and enable the Multi-AZ feature.

52. QUESTION
A user needs to identify underutilized Amazon EC2 instances to reduce costs.
Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?

AWS CodeBuild
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Trusted Advisor

53. QUESTION
Which of the following will help a user determine if they need to request an Amazon EC2 service limit increase?

AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Service Health Dashboard

AWS Trusted Advisor

54. QUESTION
A company must provide access to AWS resources for their employees. Which security practices should they follow? (Select TWO.)

Enable multi-factor authentication for users.

Create IAM policies based on least privilege principles.

Create IAM Roles and apply them to IAM groups.

Disable password policies and management console access.

Create IAM users in different AWS Regions.

Enable multi-factor authentication for users.
&
Create IAM policies based on least privilege principles.

55. QUESTION
A company plans to use reserved instances to get discounted pricing for Amazon EC2 instances. The company may need to change the EC2 instance type during the one year period.
Which instance purchasing option is the MOST cost-effective for this use case?

Standard Reserved Instances
Regional Reserved Instances
Convertible Reserved Instances
Zonal Reserved Instances

Convertible Reserved Instances

56. QUESTION
How much data can a company store in the Amazon S3 service?

Virtually unlimited
100 PB
100 TB
1 PB

Virtually unlimited

57. QUESTION
An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) can include multiple:

Edge locations.
AWS Regions.
Availability Zones.
Internet gateways.

Availability Zones.

58. QUESTION
Which AWS Cloud service provides recommendations on how to optimize performance for AWS services?

Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Inspector

AWS Trusted Advisor

59. QUESTION
An individual IAM user must be granted access to an Amazon S3 bucket using a bucket policy. Which element in the S3 bucket policy should be updated to define the user account for which access will be granted?

Condition
Principal
Action
Resource

Principal

60. QUESTION
A company has multiple AWS accounts and is using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. Which advantages will they benefit from? (Select TWO.)

They will be automatically enrolled in a business support plan.

The default service limits in all accounts will be increased.

They will receive a fixed discount for all usage across accounts.

They may benefit from lower unit pricing for aggregated usage.

They will receive one bill for the accounts in the Organization.

They may benefit from lower unit pricing for aggregated usage.

They will receive one bill for the accounts in the Organization.

61. QUESTION
According to the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of AWS?

Patching software running on Amazon EC2 instances.

Configuring network ACLs to block malicious attacks.

Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.

Updating security group rules to enable connectivity.

Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.

62. QUESTION
Which tasks require the use of the AWS account root user? (Select TWO.)

Changing AWS Support plans.
Viewing AWS CloudTrail logs.
Changing payment currency.
Enabling encryption for S3.
Changing the account name.

Changing AWS Support plans.
&
Changing the account name.

63. QUESTION
What is one method of protecting against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the AWS Cloud?

Use Amazon CloudWatch monitoring.
Configure a firewall in front of resources.
Monitor the Service Health Dashboard.
Enable AWS CloudTrail logging.

Configure a firewall in front of resources.

64. QUESTION
Which of the following can an AWS customer use to launch a new ElastiCache cluster? (Select TWO.)

AWS Management Console
AWS Data Pipeline
AWS Systems Manager
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Concierge

AWS Management Console
&
AWS CloudFormation

65. QUESTION
Which of the following is a sole responsibility of AWS?

Customer data access controls
Patch management
Availability Zone management
Application deployment

Availability Zone management

Which of the following is a principle of good AWS cloud architecture design?

Which of the following are advantages of the AWS cloud select two?

Which design principles relate to performance efficiency in AWS?

What are the design principles for operational excellence in cloud?