4.2 - Exam Prep 2¶

Questions1-10¶

Question 1¶

B. AWS Lambda

C - Amazon SQS

E - Amazon DynamoDB

Question 2¶

A - No upfront capitalized expenditures (capex)

Rationale: You pay for what you use

Question 3¶

C - On-demand instance

Rational - better for timeframe, reserved would be for "few years"

*Got wrong initially

Question 4¶

C - Reserved instance - 1 year - All upfront

Rationale: Max cost saving

*Got wrong initially

Question 5¶

A - AWS OpsWorks

Question 6¶

A - Spot Instance

Question 7¶

D - AWS Route53 (local and AWS DNS)

E - AWS Storage Gateway

*got wrong initially

Question 8¶

A - Both Opex and TCO will decreast

Question 9¶

D - AWS Cloudformation

Question 10¶

A - Cost Optimization

C - Operational Excellence

E - Performance Efficiency

Questions11-20¶

Question 11¶

A - Cost Optimization

B - Fault Tolerance

C - Performance

Question 12¶

C - Edge location

Rationale: Remember that only Cloudfront utilises Edge locations

Question 13¶

D - Setup AWS VPN for the VPC

Question 14¶

D - Utilize Amazon Aurora on Amazon RDS

Rationale: Aurora is MySQL-compatible, the others can be eliminated by MySQL compatibility.

Question 15¶

B - Amazon Well-Architected Framework

Question 16¶

A - Reduced TCO

B - Lower variable opex

E - No need for upfront capex

Question 17¶

D - Amazon S3 Glacier

Question 18¶

D - Consolidated Billing

Question 19¶

D - Multi-site

Question 20¶

D - AWS CodePipeline

Questions21-30¶

Question 21¶

C - Amazon CloudWatch

Question 22¶

A - Cost Optimization

Question 23¶

C - Security Groups

D - Network Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Question 24¶

D - Amazon Cloudfront

Question 25¶

A - AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 26¶

B - AWS Cost Explorer

Question 27¶

B - Variable operational expenditures (opex) tied to usage

Question 28¶

C - AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

Question 29¶

A - AWS Marketplace

Question 30¶

B - Amazon Route53

*Got wrong initally

Questions31-40¶

Question 31¶

B - Performance Efficiency

*Got wrong initially

Question 32¶

B - Cost and Usage Reports (CUR)

Question 33¶

A - Providing least-privilege access to AWS resources

C - Client-side data encryption

Question 34¶

A - Managing network connectivity for data centers

C - Training data center employees

Question 35¶

C - Create a new IAM user that you will use instead of the root user

Question 36¶

D - Elastic Load Balancing

Question 37¶

D - AWS Artifact

*got wrong initially

Question 38¶

A - benefit from massive economies of scale

Question 39¶

C - AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Question 40¶

C - Security

Questions41-50¶

Question 41¶

C - Loose coupling

Question 42¶

D - AWS QuickStarts

Question 43¶

B - Region

*got wrong initially

Question 44¶

B - AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners

Question 45¶

A - AWS CloudTrail

Question 46¶

A - Static Website Hosting

D - Multiple storage classes to support different access needs

E - Lifecycle rules to transition objects between storage classes

Question 47¶

B - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Question 48¶

B - Patch Management

Question 49¶

C - Setup a password policy

Question 50¶

C - Amazon Elasticache

Questions51-60¶

Question 51¶

B - Cost of Servers

C - Cost of data storage

E - Utility costs for data center

Question 52¶

B - AWS Config

Question 53¶

B - Amazon DynamoDB

Question 54¶

D - Amazon Redshift

Question 55¶

C - AWS Shield

*Got wrong initially

Rationale:

Config does resource configuration
Guardduty covers network traffic
Macie covers data protection

Question 56¶

A - Amazon Elastic Block Store

Question 57¶

D - AWS Organisations

Question 58¶

A - Enterprise

Question 59¶

C - AWS Organisations

Question 60¶

C - Dedicated Host

Questions61-65¶

Question 61¶

B - Elasticity

Question 62¶

A - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Question 63¶

D - High Availability

Question 64¶

C - Automatically patches database engine based on configuration settings

D - Can enable high-availability by leveraging multiple availability zones

E - Provides the ability to implement read replicas for most database engines

*Got wrong initially

Question 65¶

A - Business

Initial Evaluation¶

56/65 = 86% = Pass