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Your customer has recently moved to the AWS Cloud. The Finance department has
reached out to the IT director for assistance in breaking down the costs on the invoice
and identifying the costs source. You have been asked to find a way to get the cost
details and usage across a variety of different views based on filters.
Which AWS service will BEST assist to identify various expenditures?
a. AWS Budgets
b. Amazon QuickSight
c. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
d. AWS Cost Explorer
Comment : Using Cost Explorer Business Intelligence tool, you can evaluate your AWS services
(e.g. EC2, S3, RDS, etc…) cost and usage across a variety of different views based on filter
You have just joined a company that recently migrated from on-premises to the AWS
Cloud. Your team is currently focusing on building effective cost optimization and
monitoring tools.
Which tool can help identify irregular spend and identify root causes?
a. AWS Budgets
b. Saving Plans
c. Cost Explorer
d. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
Comment : AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is used for Automated cost anomaly detection and root
cause analysis.
Comment : Designing for failure is a key principle of the AWS Well-Architected Framework,
which encourage planning for potential failures and building resilient system that can withstand
them. This can be accomplished through techniques such as redundancy auto-scaling, and multi-
AZ deployments.
Comment : AWS CUR is the best solution because it can deliver detailed billing data to persistent
store (AWS Simple Storage Service Bucket) in multiple formats that are compatible with most
business intelligence tools.
Comment : The AWS Shared Responsibility model would let you and your CTO know that
patching of the OS on your Amazon EC2 instances is your responsibility as an AWS customer.
a. Prioritize managed services, which are always the most cost-effective solution for
cloud technology and labor services.
b. Combine cloud technology provided by a cloud service provider (CSP) and hands-
on services and labor into a comprehensive solution.
c. Rely on cloud service providers (CSPs) to handle all aspects of cloud technology.
d. Separate cloud infrastructure from hands-on services and labor.
Comment : Successful cloud strategies separate technology provided by a CSP from hands-on services
and labor or other managed services needed to use cloud technology. Cloud technology and labor
services can be provided by partners or other third parties as one comprehensive solution; however, this is
not always necessary or ideal. Cloud infrastructure should be regarded as a separate “service with distinct
roles and responsibilities, service level agreements (SLAs), and terms and conditions. (B)
a. Create an Network Access Control List to filter traffic to the private subnet.
b. Create a NAT gateway in a public subnet in one Availability Zone in the region,
with a default route in the private subnet pointing to it.
c. Create an internet gateway in the private subnet in the region.
d. Create a NAT gateway in a public subnet of each Availability Zone in the region,
with a default route in the private subnet pointing to it.
Comment : Highly available: NAT gateways in each Availability Zone are implemented with
redundancy. Create a NAT gateway in each Availability Zone to ensure zone-independent
architecture.
a. Cost Optimization
b. Performance Excellence
c. Operational Excellence
d. Reliability
Comment : The Operational Excellence pillar focuses on-Perform operations as code, Make
frequent, small, reversible, changes, Refine operations procedures frequently, Anticipate failure,
Learn from all operational failures.
Who is the BEST contact that could help your company in their AWS Journey?
Comment : The AWS Partner Network allows you to work with AWS experts. These experts can
assist you with solutions or migrations to support you on your AWS Journey.
Which of these job roles would be most suitable to help in this scenario?
a. Cloud Architect
b. DevOps Administrator
c. Security Administrator
d. System Administrator
Comment : DevOps Administrators optimize the use of the cloud. This can be done by creating
and maintaining pipelines where other teams can make small and rapid releases.
Comment : AWS Cost and Usage Reports (AWS CUR) contains the most comprehensive set of
cost and usage data available.
What component of the AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use?
a. Edge Locations
b. AWS Outposts
c. AWS Availability Zones
d. AWS Regions
Comment : To deliver content to end users with lower latency, Amazon CloudFront uses a global
network of Edge Location.
A company would like to monitor all of the API activity inside their AWS account.
Which AWS service would track the API activity?
a. AWS CloudTrail
b. Amazon CloudFront
c. Amazon Inspector
d. Amazon CloudWatch
Comment : AWS CloudTrail allows you to capture and consolidate user activity and API usage
across AWS regions and accounts on a single, centrally controlled platform.
In your organization, the systems administrator is responsible for all the physical on-
premise infrastructure.
After you move the infrastructure to the AWS Cloud, who will be responsible for the
physical infrastructure?
a. Network Engineer
b. Security Administrator
c. AWS
d. System Administrator
Comments: AWS has the responsibility of managing the underlying hardware and infrastructure
under the Shared Responsibility Model.
Your company wants to use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to provision EC2 instances
according to changing business requirements.
Which approach would BEST suit this requirement?
a. Scheduled scaling
b. Predictive scaling
c. Manual scaling
d. Dynamic scaling
Comments: Dynamic scaling scales the capacity of your Auto Scaling group as traffic changes
occur.
You work for a healthcare organization whose IT team has limited experience with
cloud technologies. There is concern about how to ensure that the new cloud
infrastructure is reliable, secure, and cost-effective. To guide the organization's cloud
migration, you recommend using the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Which of the following are benefits of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
(Select TWO)
a. Train employees on AWS
b. Provide step by step prescriptive directions
c. Migrate workloads
d. Build and deploy faster
e. Reduce and mitigate risks
Comments: Well-Architected identifies the risks and help the customer to reduce risk.
As head of procurement, you need to shift your company's thinking, strategies, and
processes for traditional technology to work for the cloud. This includes policies and
structures in your organization.
Which of the following characteristics are benefits of cloud procurement? (Select
TWO)
a. Rigid Terms and Conditions
b. Fixed Expenses
c. Rapid Innovation
d. Fixed Capacity
e. Self-service and pay as you go
Comments: New features and services are continually added to AWS Console. AWS flexible acquisition
process helps enable customers to get the latest innovations at the best prices. Prices are reduced as
economies of scale are passed to customers. (Rapid Innovation)
Comments: Cloud contracts accounts for fluctuating demand, you need a contract that lets you pay for
services as they are consumed. (Self-service and pay as you go)
You are selecting block storage to use with your Amazon EC2 instances. This storage
must persist after instance restarts. Additionally, you need to be able to back up this
storage by creating snapshots.
Which AWS service allows you to meet these requirements?
a. Amazon EFS
b. Amazon S3
c. Amazon EBS
d. Instance Store
Comments: With Amazon EBS, you can create persistent storage volumes to use with your EC2
instances. EBS volumes can be backed up by creating snapshots.
A company is looking to launch a new website. In the short term, they are expecting
irregular workloads that cannot be interrupted.
What purchasing option should a company select to optimize their initial cost?
a. Reserved Instances
b. Spot Instances
c. On-Demand Instances
d. Savings Plans
Comments: With On-Demand Instances, you pay for compute capacity by the second with no
long-term commitments.
Your company is preparing for the holiday shopping season where there will be an
increase in traffic and customer orders for its Amazon EC2-hosted applications.
What service can be used to enable optimal availability to handle the increased
traffic?
a. Amazon Redshift
b. Amazon ECS
c. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
d. AWS Lambda
Comments: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enables you to automatically add or remove Amazon EC2
instances in response to changing application demand.
Your company hosts images that are used by several web applications. You want to
ensure that those images are served with the lowest latency possible to a global set
of customers.
Which AWS infrastructure component could be used to help in providing this low
latency?
a. Elastic Network Interface (ENI)
b. AWS Regions
c. Edge Locations
d. Data centers
Comments: Edge locations provide Points of Presence (POPs) around the globe to help provide
access to your content with the lowest latency possible.
Your company wants to host its infrastructure and data in an AWS region.
Which requirement helps you determine the region to host your data?
a. Compliance
b. Location of data centers
c. Lack of natural disasters
d. Hardware brands
Comments: Data governance and legal requirements will require your company to host its data in
the country of origin
a. Prioritize the lowest price over sustainability, as cost savings is always the most
important consideration.
b. Ignore the environmental impact of cloud computing, as it is not a significant factor in
sustainability.
c. Prioritize on-premises efficiencies, as cloud computing cannot be sustainable due to
the energy consumption required to service millions of customers.
d. Choose a cloud service provider that focuses on energy efficiency and innovation to
reduce its carbon footprint.
Comments: One of the key sustainability considerations for a successful cloud acquisition strategy is
choosing a cloud service provider that focuses on energy efficiency and innovation to reduce its carbon
footprint. For example, AWS uses renewable energy sources, reduces its own data center energy
consumption, and creates custom hardware designed for energy efficiency.
You are a security architect of a financial institution and need to deploy a secure
network architecture in the AWS Cloud. Your organization has internal applications
which are in a private subnet of the Amazon VPC. The instances are unable to access
the public internet.
Which AWS service can BEST be used to successfully install the operating system
patches in the application instances?
a. Transit Gateway
b. NAT Gateway
c. VPN Gateway
d. Internet Gateway
Comments: NAT gateway allows resources in a private subnet to connect to the Internet. This is
an outbound-only connection, which means that the connection must be initiated from within the
private subnet. Resources on the Internet cannot initiate an inbound connection. Therefore, it is a
means of keeping resources private and improving security for VPC resources.
Your CIO has asked you to reduce operational overhead of maintaining a relational
database for an application that is running on Amazon EC2 instances.
What are the most appropriate options for running the database? (Select TWO)
a. Amazon Aurora
b. Amazon RDS
c. Amazon Neptune
d. Amazon DynamoDB
e. Amazon Redshift
Comment : Amazon Aurora is a fully manage relational database engine that’s compatible with
MySQL and PostgreSQL. (A)
Amazon RD is a managed relational database service. (B)
Your company serves streaming video content and applications from a single AWS
Region. It is now expanding its customer base to those across the globe. You have been
asked to support this growth while maintaining low latency and high transfer speeds for
all customers.
a. Use AWS CloudFormation to quickly replicate your infrastructure to each AWS Region
nearest your new customers.
b. Deploy AWS Outposts to improve latency and real-time data processing.
c. Use Amazon CloudFront to distribute and serve the content from multiple AWS Edge
Locations.
d. Increase the number of Availability Zones within your existing AWS Region
Comments: Amazon CloudFront gives you an easy and cost effective way to distribute content
such as videos, applications, data, and APIs with low latency and high data transfer speeds.
With CloudFront, your files are delivered to end-users using a global network of edge locations.
Increase the number of Availability Zones within your existing AWS Region.
Your company has decided to migrate its infrastructure to AWS. Most staff are
unfamiliar with cloud computing, so your team is looking for assistance with
migrating, running, and optimizing your cloud workloads.
What is the BEST approach to take?
a. Purchase directly from AWS, as this is always the easiest and most cost-
effective solution.
b. Urge your company to push back its migration plan, as there is no way to
migrate to the cloud without first implementing a training program.
c. Seek out any IT provider who has experience working with IT infrastructure.
d. Purchase from an AWS Partner, who can design, build, maintain, and/or
optimize your cloud environment.
Comment : AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners help you grow and scale your organization on
AWS . AWS Partners are uniquely positioned to help you accelerate your journey to the cloud and
take full advantage of full advantage of all that AWS has to offer. Partners can help you identify
solutions, build, deploy, or migrate to AWS. (D)
Your company leadership is considering the idea of moving their infrastructure to the
AWS Cloud.
A startup has planned to migrate to the cloud, owing to the high expenses they are
facing from their on-premises data center.
Comment : Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can help with managing demand over time, but
does not necessarily help save cost in comparison to on-premises environments(a)
Your company is considering adopting cloud technology, but your Chief Technology
Officer has concerns about data residency and latency issues for certain applications.
They would prefer to run these applications on-premises while still being able to
take advantage of AWS services and tools such as Amazon EC2.
a. AWS CloudFront
b. AWS Direct Connect
c. AWS Outposts
d. Amazon ECS Anywhere
Comment : AWS Outposts help extend AWS cloud services to on-prem DC’s.
What are the benefits of moving to the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO)
A company wants to be prepared for any unexpected spikes in demand due to the
upcoming holiday season. However, they are dependent on their legacy resources
and procuring new servers can take a long time. A member on the board suggested
moving to the cloud.
What benefit can they achieve by migrating to the cloud with their peak business
right around the corner?
a. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers.
b. AWS personal health dashboard provides personalized view of the health of AWS
services, and alerts when your resources are impacted.
c. 24x7 access to customer service
d. With AWS, you can stop guessing capacity and new IT resources are only a click
away.
Comment : Idle-on-premise resources can be eliminated and any unexpected spikes can be met
almost instantaneously. You can access as much or as little capacity as you need, and scale up
and down as required with only a few minutes
A company is using AWS services to manage and store their data in the AWS Cloud.
To protect their data, they have applied encryption. However, they noticed that their
data is getting compromised and leaked.
a. It is the responsibility of AWS because the data was encrypted, but still
compromised.
b. It is the responsibility of AWS to protect the customer data in their cloud.
c. It is the customer's responsibility to manage and protect their encryption keys.
d. The customer is responsible to protect the physical hardware to prevent any data
leak.
Comment : Customers are responsible for managing their data (including encryption options),
classifying their assets, and using IAM tools to apply the appropriate permissions
AWS Global Infrastructure allows companies to be flexible and not plan for capacity.
a. Scalability
b. Availability
c. Performance
d. Security
Comment : Customers had to over provision to ensure they had enough resources on hand to
handle projected growth. The AWS Cloud allows them to scale up or down as needed.
A small startup company wants to deploy a new web application in the cloud. The
company's IT team is familiar with AWS and has decided to use Amazon EC2 for the
deployment. The budget is limited and they want to minimize the cost of running the
application.
Which of the following options should the company choose to minimize the cost of
running the application on Amazon EC2? (Select TWO)
a. Reserved Instances
b. Spot Instances
c. Dedicated Instances
d. Auto-scaling groups
e. On-demand Instances
Comment : Spot instances are available at a discoundted rate because they are not being used by
other customers. A bid price can be accepted at a lower rate. (B)
a.Feature availability
b.Proximity to your customers
c.High availability
d.Edge Locations
e.Availability Zones
Comments: Not all regions have all services or features available for customers. It's important to
be aware of the limitations if you are planning to use a certain service or feature in the selected
region. (Feature availability)
Comments: Selecting a region closer to your customers can impact time it takes to retrieve
content. Distance can also introduce latency which can impact customer experience. (Proximity
to your customers)
You are the solutions architect of a startup that is trying to build a social networking
application that needs a graph database.
Which database is most suitable for this application?
a. Amazon DocumentDB
b. Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)
c. Amazon Elasticache
d. Amazon Neptune
Comments: Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully-managed graph database service that makes
it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets.
Comments: AWS Config continually assesses, audits, and evaluates the configurations and
relationships of your resources on AWS, on premises, and on other clouds. (AWS Config)
Comments: AWS CloudTrail is an AWS service that helps you enable operational and risk
auditing, governance, and compliance of your AWS account. Actions taken by a user, role, or an
AWS service are recorded as events in CloudTrail. (AWS CloudTrail)
Comments: Amazon Inspector a service that can perform vulnerability scans for your AWS
workloads including applications.
Comments: AWS CloudTrail tracks user activity in your AWS account. AWS CloudTrail allows
you to understand who has done what and when in your AWS account.
Comments: CloudFront caches content in edge locations, and that content can be served directly
from the cache. Since the edge location is physically much closer to the user than the origin
server, it has lower latency.
Comments: As the instances only need to run once a week for doing batch processing and are not
needed for longer term, a spot instance would be the most cost-effective option.