Which AWS offering enables users to find buy and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment?

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.

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

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

Which AWS offering enables customer to find, buy, and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment?

AWS Marketplace

Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS?

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Which of the following is AWS's responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?

Maintain physical hardware

Which component of AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery?

AWS edge locations

How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS Management Console?

Enable multi-factor Authentication

Which service can identify the user than made the API call when an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance is terminated?

AWS CloudTrail

Which service would you use to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Where can a customer find information about prohibited actions on AWS infrastructure?

AWS Acceptable use policy

What is a service that can jump start projects and manage simple web and application servers?

Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail is an example of a IAAS, PAAS, or SAAS?

PAAS, platform as a service

Amazon elastic container services eliminates the need for?

managing cluster management infrastructure

True or False? You can launce multiple instances of different types from a single AMI when launching an EC2 instance

True

If your project requires you to run large monthly reports which Amazon EC2 purchasing option would you consider?

Scheduled Reserved Instances

Dedicated Instances

With the "Pay as you go" pricing model, what is the billing interval for compute resources from the time you launce a resource until you terminate it?

Monthly

Your web application needs four instances to support steady traffic all of the time. On the last day of the month, traffic triples. What is the most cost effective way to handle the pattern?

Run four reserved instances constantly. Then add 8 on-demand instances on the last day of each month

Which EC2 option is best for long-term workloads with predictable usage patterns?

Reserved Instances

Which of the following must be specified when launching a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Windows instance?

Amazon EC2 Instance type, Amazon Machine Image

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

EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.

What component of AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low latency delivery?

AWS Edge locations

You can run applications and workloads from a region to ____________ latency to end users.

decrease

True or False? Each availability zone is designed to be isolated from failures in other availability zones

true

What are geographic areas that host two or more availability zones?

AWS Regions

True or False? Availability zones within a region are connected through low-latency links

True

What pricing model allows AWS customers to pay for resources on an as-needed basis

Pay as you go

Economies of scale result from.......

Having hundreds of customers aggregated in the cloud

three ways to access AWS core services?

1. Software development kits 2. AWS command line interface 3. AWS Management console

For certain services like Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS, you can invest in reserved capacity. Reserved instances are available in what 3 options?

PURI, NURI, AURI

What type of AWS data transfer is free for Amazon S3?

Outbound data transfer from S3 to cloudfront, inbound data from internet to S3

There is no charge for what?

Data transfer between services within the same region and inbound data transfer

With the "pay as you go" pricing model, how often do you pay for compute resources from the time you launch a browser until you terminate it?

secondly and hourly

What AWS tool compares the cost of running your application in an on-premises data center to AWS?

Total Cost of Ownership Calculator

When are free data transfers applicable across AWS? (2)

free outbound transfer within the same region and free inbound for EC2 instances

What are the four support plans offered by AWS

Business, Enterprise, Basic, Developer

What does the Developer support plan offer

Business hours access to cloud support associates via email and one primary contact may open a case

What is not available in the business support plan?

access to well architected review delivered by aws architects

Which AWS support level offers 24x7 support via phone or chat?

Enterprise support and business support

What will AWS trusted advisor tell you?

If you are using fault tolerance, Deployed resources running but not being used, and how well the infrastructure is performing

Which AWS support level includes the assistance of a Technical Account Manager?

Enterprise support

Which AWS offering enables customers to find, buy and start using software?

AWS Marketplaces

In a physical data center security is typically considered only in what area?

the perimeter

What is defined as the ability for a system to remain operational even if some of the components fail?

Fault tolerance

What describes a system that is always available without the need for human intervention?

Highly-available

Where can a customer find information about prohibited actions on AWS infrastructure?

AWS Acceptable use policy

What is an AWS IAM instance profile?

A container for IAM role that you can use to pass role information to an EC2 instance when the instance starts

After login what does AWS recommend as best practice for the AWS account root user?

Delete root user access keys

How would a system admin add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS mgmnt console?

Enable multi-factor authentication

What is AWS trusted advisor?

online tool that helps configure resources to follow best practices

What's included in the AWS assurance program

Certification, laws, regulations, and privacy

When creating an IAM policy, what are 2 types of access that can be granted by a user?

AWS management console access and programmatic access

AWS risk and compliance programs is made up of which of the following components?

Information security, risk management, control environment

Which of the following AWS tools help your application scale up or down based upon demand?

Elastic load balancing and auto scaling

Which service would send alerts based on Amazon Cloudwatch Alarms?

Amazon simple notification service (Amazon SNS)

What must be configured on an elastic load balancing load balancer to except incoming traffic?

A listener

What are the minimum elements required to create an auto scaling launch config? (3)

launch configuration name, instance type, amazon machine image

CloudWatch supports what type of monitoring plans?

Basic free monitoring and detailed monitoring at additional cost

Elastic load balancing health checks may be?

status check, connection attempt, or ping

What are three load balancers that ELB offers?

Classic load balancer, network load balancer, application load balancer

What AWS service is best suited for online analytics processing?

Amazon redshift

Amazon Dynamo DB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that needconsistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.41 It is a fully managed database andsupports both document and key-value data models. Its flexible data model and reliableperformance make it a great fit for mobile, web, gaming, ad-tech, Internet of Things (IoT), andmany other applications.

When you create a table in Amazon DynamoDB, in addition to the table name, you must specify the ________ of the table.

primary key

With Amazon S3, Standard Storage is designed to provide 99.999999999 percent durability and what percent availability?

99.99

Amazon EMR offers what type of managed framework to process large amounts of data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances?

Hadoop

With which pricing model do you pay for compute capacity by the hour with no required minimum commitments?

On-Demand Instances

Which services on AWS you can choose for searches?

Amazon CloudSearch

Amazon S3 Storage Glacier is a long-term storage solution that currently starts at what rate per GB per month?

$0.004

With EC2 instances, which of the following is a snapshot of a particular state of that resource?

golden image

Which of the following from Amazon is an interactive query service used to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL and serverless (so you pay for the queries that you run)?

Athena