QUESTION NO: 1
Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer responsible for?

A. Ensuring that disk drives are wiped after use.
B. Ensuring that firmware is updated on hardware devices.
C. Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest.
D. Ensuring that network cables are category six or higher.

QUESTION NO: 2
The use of what AWS feature or service allows companies to track and categorize spending on a detailed level?

A. Cost allocation tags
B. Consolidated billing
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Marketplace

QUESTION NO: 3
Which service stores objects, provides real-time access to those objects, and offers versioning and lifecycle capabilities?

A. Amazon Glacier
B. AWS Storage Gateway
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon EBS

QUESTION NO: 4
What AWS team assists customers with accelerating cloud adoption through paid engagements in any of several specialty practice areas?

A. AWS Enterprise Support
B. AWS Solutions Architects
C. AWS Professional Services
D. AWS Account Managers

QUESTION NO: 5
A customer would like to design and build a new workload on AWS Cloud but does not have the
AWS-related software technical expertise in-house.

Which of the following AWS programs can a customer take advantage of to achieve that outcome?

A. AWS Partner Network Technology Partners
B. AWS Marketplace
C. AWS Partner Network Consulting Partners
D. AWS Service Catalog

QUESTION NO: 6
Distributing workloads across multiple Availability Zones supports which cloud architecture design principle?

A. Implement automation.
B. Design for agility.
C. Design for failure.
D. Implement elasticity.

QUESTION NO: 7
Which AWS services can host a Microsoft SQL Server database? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
C. Amazon Aurora
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon S3

QUESTION NO: 8
Which of the following inspects AWS environments to find opportunities that can save money for users and also improve system performance?

A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Consolidated billing
D. Detailed billing

QUESTION NO: 9
Which of the following Amazon EC2 pricing models allow customers to use existing server-bound software licenses?

A. Spot Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Dedicated Hosts
D. On-Demand Instances

QUESTION NO: 10
Which AWS characteristics make AWS cost effective for a workload with dynamic user demand? (Choose two.)

A. High availability
B. Shared security model
C. Elasticity
D. Pay-as-you-go pricing
E. Reliability

QUESTION NO: 11
Which service enables risk auditing by continuously monitoring and logging account activity, including user actions in the AWS Management Console and AWS SDKs?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Config
D. AWS Health

QUESTION NO: 12
Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Choose two.)

A. A global file system
B. An object store
C. A local file store
D. A network file system
E. A durable storage system

QUESTION NO: 13
Which services can be used across hybrid AWS Cloud architectures? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Route 53
B. Virtual Private Gateway
C. Classic Load Balancer
D. Auto Scaling
E. Amazon CloudWatch default metrics

QUESTION NO: 14
What costs are included when comparing AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with on-premises TCO?

A. Project management
B. Antivirus software licensing
C. Data center security
D. Software development

QUESTION NO: 15
A company is considering using AWS for a self-hosted database that requires a nightly shutdown for maintenance and cost-saving purposes. Which service should the company use?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with Amazon EC2 instance store
D. Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

QUESTION NO: 16
Which of the following is a correct relationship between regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations?

A. Data centers contain regions.
B. Regions contain Availability Zones.
C. Availability Zones contain edge locations.
D. Edge locations contain regions.

QUESTION NO: 17
Which AWS tools assist with estimating costs? (Choose three.)

A. Detailed billing report
B. Cost allocation tags
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
E. Cost Estimator

QUESTION NO: 18
Which of the following are advantages of AWS consolidated billing? (Choose two.)

A. The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts
B. Service limits increasing by default in all accounts
C. A fixed discount on the monthly bill
D. Potential volume discounts, as usage in all accounts is combined
E. The automatic extension of the master account’s AWS support plan to all accounts

QUESTION NO: 19
Which of the following Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models provides the highest average savings compared to On-Demand pricing?

A. One-year, No Upfront, Standard RI pricing
B. One-year, All Upfront, Convertible RI pricing
C. Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing
D. Three-year, No Upfront, Convertible RI pricing

QUESTION NO: 20
Compared with costs in traditional and virtualized data centers, AWS has:

A. greater variable costs and greater upfront costs.
B. fixed usage costs and lower upfront costs.
C. lower variable costs and greater upfront costs.
D. lower variable costs and lower upfront costs.

QUESTION NO: 21
A characteristic of edge locations is that they:

A. host Amazon EC2 instances closer to users.
B. help lower latency and improve performance for users.
C. cache frequently changing data without reaching the origin server.
D. refresh data changes daily.

QUESTION NO: 22
Which of the following can limit Amazon Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to specific users?

A. A public and private key-pair
B. Amazon Inspector
C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
D. Security Groups

QUESTION NO: 23
Which of the following security-related actions are available at no cost?

A. Calling AWS Support
B. Contacting AWS Professional Services to request a workshop
C. Accessing forums, blogs, and whitepapers
D. Attending AWS classes at a local university

QUESTION NO: 24
Which of the Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models can change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of RIs of equal or greater value?

A. Dedicated RIs
B. Scheduled RIs
C. Convertible RIs
D. Standard RIs

QUESTION NO: 25
Which AWS feature will reduce the customer’s total cost of ownership (TCO)?

A. Shared responsibility security model
B. Single tenancy
C. Elastic computing
D. Encryption

QUESTION NO: 26
Which of the following services will automatically scale with an expected increase in web traffic?

A. AWS CodePipeline
B. Elastic Load Balancing
C. Amazon EBS
D. AWS Direct Connect

QUESTION NO: 27
Where are AWS compliance documents, such as an SOC 1 report, located?

A. Amazon Inspector
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Artifact
D. AWS Certificate Manager

QUESTION NO: 28
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following activities are the customer’s responsibility? (Choose two.)

A. Patching operating system components for Amazon Relational Database Server (Amazon RDS)
B. Encrypting data on the client-side
C. Training the data center staff
D. Configuring Network Access Control Lists (ACL)
E. Maintaining environmental controls within a data center

QUESTION NO: 29
Which is a recommended pattern for designing a highly available architecture on AWS?

A. Ensure that components have low-latency network connectivity.
B. Run enough Amazon EC2 instances to operate at peak load.
C. Ensure that the application is designed to accommodate failure of any single component.
D. Use a monolithic application that handles all operations.

QUESTION NO: 30
According to best practices, how should an application be designed to run in the AWS Cloud?

A. Use tightly coupled components.
B. Use loosely coupled components.
C. Use infrequently coupled components.
D. Use frequently coupled components.

QUESTION NO: 31
AWS supports which of the following methods to add security to Identity and Access Management (IAM) users? (Choose two.)

A. Implementing Amazon Rekognition
B. Using AWS Shield-protected resources
C. Blocking access with Security Groups
D. Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
E. Enforcing password strength and expiration

QUESTION NO: 32
Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Glacier
B. Amazon RDS
C. AWS Snowball
D. Amazon Redshift
E. Amazon EFS

QUESTION NO: 33
What is one of the advantages of the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

A. It simplifies relational database administration tasks.
B. It provides 99.99999999999% reliability and durability.
C. It automatically scales databases for loads.
D. It enables users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resources.

QUESTION NO: 34
A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales. Which AWS service should they use?

A. Amazon Aurora
B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon ElastiCache

QUESTION NO: 35
Which of the following components of the AWS Global Infrastructure consists of one or more discrete data centers interconnected through low latency links?

A. Availability Zone
B. Edge location
C. Region
D. Private networking

QUESTION NO: 36
Which of the following is a shared control between the customer and AWS?

A. Providing a key for Amazon S3 client-side encryption
B. Configuration of an Amazon EC2 instance
C. Environmental controls of physical AWS data centers
D. Awareness and training

QUESTION NO: 37
How many Availability Zones should compute resources be provisioned across to achieve high availability?

A. A minimum of one
B. A minimum of two
C. A minimum of three
D. A minimum of four or more

QUESTION NO: 38
One of the advantages to moving infrastructure from an on-premises data center to the AWS
Cloud is:

A. it allows the business to eliminate IT bills.
B. it allows the business to put a server in each customer’s data center.
C. it allows the business to focus on business activities.
D. it allows the business to leave servers unpatched.

QUESTION NO: 39
What is the lowest-cost, durable storage option for retaining database backups for immediate retrieval?

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon EBS
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store

QUESTION NO: 40
Which AWS IAM feature allows developers to access AWS services through the AWS CLI?

A. API keys
B. Access keys
C. User names/Passwords
D. SSH keys

QUESTION NO: 41
Which of the following is a fast and reliable NoSQL database service?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon RDS
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon S3

QUESTION NO: 42
What is an example of agility in the AWS Cloud?

A. Access to multiple instance types
B. Access to managed services
C. Using Consolidated Billing to produce one bill
D. Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

QUESTION NO: 43
Which service should a customer use to consolidate and centrally manage multiple AWS accounts?

A. AWS IAM
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Schema Conversion Tool
D. AWS Config

QUESTION NO: 44
What approach to transcoding a large number of individual video files adheres to AWS architecture principles?

A. Using many instances in parallel
B. Using a single large instance during off-peak hours
C. Using dedicated hardware
D. Using a large GPU instance type

QUESTION NO: 45
For which auditing process does AWS have sole responsibility?

A. AWS IAM policies
B. Physical security
C. Amazon S3 bucket policies
D. AWS CloudTrail Logs

QUESTION NO: 46
Which feature of the AWS Cloud will support an international company’s requirement for low latency to all of its customers?

A. Fault tolerance
B. Global reach
C. Pay-as-you-go pricing
D. High availability

QUESTION NO: 47
Which of the following is the customer’s responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Patching underlying infrastructure
B. Physical security
C. Patching Amazon EC2 instances
Patching network infrastructure

QUESTION NO: 48
A customer is using multiple AWS accounts with separate billing. How can the customer take advantage of volume discounts with minimal impact to the AWS resources?

A. Create one global AWS acount and move all AWS resources to tha account.
B. Sign up for three years of Reserved Instance pricing up front.
C. Use the consolidated billing feature from AWS Organizations.
D. Sign up for the AWS Enterprise support plan to get volume discounts.

QUESTION NO: 49
Which of the following are features of Amazon CloudWatch Logs? (Choose two.)

A. Summaries by Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
B. Free Amazon Elasticsearch Service analytics
C. Provided at no charge
D. Real-time monitoring
E. Adjustable retention

QUESTION NO: 50
Which of the following is an AWS managed Domain Name System (DNS) web service?

A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon Neptune
C. Amazon SageMaker
D. Amazon Lightsail

QUESTION NO: 51
A customer is deploying a new application and needs to choose an AWS Region. Which of the following factors could influence the customer’s decision? (Choose two.)

A. Reduced latency to users
B. The application’s presentation in the local language
C. Data sovereignty compliance
D. Cooling costs in hotter climates
E. Proximity to the customer’s office for on-site visits

QUESTION NO: 52
Which storage service can be used as a low-cost option for hosting static websites?

A. Amazon Glacier
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

QUESTION NO: 53
Which Amazon EC2 instance pricing model can provide discounts of up to 90%?

A. Reserved Instances
B. On-Demand
C. Dedicated Hosts
D. Spot Instances

QUESTION NO: 54
What is the AWS customer responsible for according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Physical access controls
B. Data encryption
C. Secure disposal of storage devices
D. Environmental risk management

QUESTION NO: 55
Which of the following AWS Cloud services can be used to run a customer-managed relational database?

Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon DynamoDB

QUESTION NO: 56
A company is looking for a scalable data warehouse solution.

Which of the following AWS solutions would meet the company’s needs?

A. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Kinesis
D. Amazon Redshift

QUESTION NO: 57
Which statement best describes Elastic Load Balancing?

A. It translates a domain name into an IP address using DNS.
B. It distributes incoming application traffic across one or more Amazon EC2 instances.
C. It collects metrics on connected Amazon EC2 instances.
D. It automatically adjusts the number of Amazon EC2 instances to support incoming traffic.

QUESTION NO: 58
Which of the following are valid ways for a customer to interact with AWS services? (Choose two.)

A. Command line interface
B. On-premises
C. Software Development Kits
D. Software-as-a-service
E. Hybrid

QUESTION NO: 59
The AWS Cloud’s multiple Regions are an example of:

A. agility.
B. global infrastructure.
C. elasticity.
D. pay-as-you-go pricing.

QUESTION NO: 60
Which of the following AWS services can be used to serve large amounts of online video content with the lowest possible latency? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Storage Gateway
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
D. Amazon Glacier
E. Amazom CloudFront

QUESTION NO: 61
Web servers running on Amazon EC2 access a legacy application running in a corporate data center. What term would describe this model?

A. Cloud-native
B. Partner network
C. Hybrid architecture
D. Infrastructure as a service

QUESTION NO: 62
What is the benefit of using AWS managed services, such as Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

A. They require the customer to monitor and replace failing instances.
B. They have better performance than customer-managed services.
C. They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.
D. They do not require the customer to optimize instance type or size selections.

QUESTION NO: 63
Which service provides a virtually unlimited amount of online highly durable object storage?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
D. Amazon S3

QUESTION NO: 64
Which of the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities is associated with an access key ID and secret access key when using AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?

A. IAM group
B. IAM user
C. IAM role
D. IAM policy

QUESTION NO: 65
Which of the following security-related services does AWS offer? (Choose two.)

A. Multi-factor authentication physical tokens
B. AWS Trusted Advisor security checks
C. Data encryption
D. Automated penetration testing
E. Amazon S3 copyrighted content detection

QUESTION NO: 66
Which AWS managed service is used to host databases?

A. AWS Batch
B. AWS Artifact
C. AWS Data Pipeline
D. Amazon RDS

QUESTION NO: 67
Which AWS service provides a simple and scalable shared file storage solution for use with Linuxbased AWS and on-premises servers?

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

QUESTION NO: 68
When architecting cloud applications, which of the following are a key design principle?

A. Use the largest instance possible
B. Provision capacity for peak load
C. Use the Scrum development process
D. Implement elasticity

QUESTION NO: 69
Which AWS service should be used for long-term, low-cost storage of data backups?

A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon Glacier
C. AWS Snowball
D. AWS EBS

QUESTION NO: 70
Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is a shared control between a customer and AWS?

A. Physical controls
B. Patch management
C. Zone security
D. Data center auditing

QUESTION NO: 71
Which AWS service allows companies to connect an Amazon VPC to an on-premises data center?

A. AWS VPN
B. Amazon Redshift
C. API Gateway
D. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 72
A company wants to reduce the physical compute footprint that developers use to run code. Which service would meet that need by enabling serverless architectures?

A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
B. AWS Lambda
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. AWS CodeCommit

QUESTION NO: 73
Which AWS service provides alerts when an AWS event may impact a company’s AWS resources?

A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
B. AWS Service Health Dashboard
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Infrastructure Event Management

QUESTION NO: 74
Which of the following are categories of AWS Trusted Advisor? (Choose two.)

A. Fault Tolerance
B. Instance Usage
C. Infrastructure
D. Performance
E. Storage Capacity

QUESTION NO: 75
Which task is AWS responsible for in the shared responsibility model for security and compliance?

A. Granting access to individuals and services
B. Encrypting data in transit
C. Updating Amazon EC2 host firmware
D. Updating operating systems

QUESTION NO: 76
Where should a company go to search software listings from independent software vendors to find, test, buy and deploy software that runs on AWS?

A. AWS Marketplace
B. Amazon Lumberyard
C. AWS Artifact
D. Amazon CloudSearch

QUESTION NO: 77
Which of the following is a benefit of using the AWS Cloud?

A. Permissive security removes the administrative burden.
B. Ability to focus on revenue-generating activities.
C. Control over cloud network hardware.
D. Choice of specific cloud hardware vendors.

QUESTION NO: 78
When performing a cost analysis that supports physical isolation of a customer workload, which compute hosting model should be accounted for in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?

A. Dedicated Hosts
B. Reserved Instances
C. On-Demand Instances
D. No Upfront Reserved Instances

QUESTION NO: 79
Which AWS service provides the ability to manage infrastructure as code?

A. AWS CodePipeline
B. AWS CodeDeploy
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. AWS CloudFormation

QUESTION NO: 80
If a customer needs to audit the change management of AWS resources, which of the following AWS services should the customer use?

A. AWS Config
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 81
What is Amazon CloudWatch?

A. A code repository with customizable build and team commit features.
B. A metrics repository with customizable notification thresholds and channels.
C. A security configuration repository with threat analytics.
D. A rule repository of a web application firewall with automated vulnerability prevention features.

QUESTION NO: 82
Which service allows a company with multiple AWS accounts to combine its usage to obtain volume discounts?

A. AWS Server Migration Service
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 83
Which of the following services could be used to deploy an application to servers running on-premises? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
B. AWS OpsWorks
C. AWS CodeDeploy
D. AWS Batch
E. AWS X-Ray

QUESTION NO: 84
Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Convertible Reserved Instances

QUESTION NO: 85
Which design principles for cloud architecture are recommended when re-architecting a large monolithic application? (Choose two.)

A. Use manual monitoring.
B. Use fixed servers.
C. Implement loose coupling.
D. Rely on individual components.
E. Design for scalability.

QUESTION NO: 86
Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that allows for one-hour target response time for support cases?

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

QUESTION NO: 87
Where can AWS compliance and certification reports be downloaded?

A. AWS Artifact
B. AWS Concierge
C. AWS Certificate Manager
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 88
Which AWS service provides a customized view of the health of specific AWS services that power a customer’s workloads running on AWS?

A. AWS Service Health Dashboard
B. AWS X-Ray
C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
D. Amazon CloudWatch

QUESTION NO: 89
Which of the following is an advantage of consolidated billing on AWS?

A. Volume pricing qualification
B. Shared access permissions
C. Multiple bills per account
D. Eliminates the need for tagging

QUESTION NO: 90
Which of the following steps should be taken by a customer when conducting penetration testing on AWS?

A. Conduct penetration testing using Amazon Inspector, and then notify AWS support.
B. Request and wait for approval from the customer’s internal security team, and then conduct testing.
C. Notify AWS support, and then conduct testing immediately.
D. Request and wait for approval from AWS support, and then conduct testing.

QUESTION NO: 91
Which of the following AWS features enables a user to launch a pre-configured Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance?

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
B. Amazon Machine Image
C. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
D. Amazon AppStream 2.0

QUESTION NO: 92
How would an AWS customer easily apply common access controls to a large set of users?

A. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group.
B. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM role.
C. Apply the same IAM policy to all IAM users with access to the same workload.
D. Apply an IAM policy to an Amazon Cognito user pool.

QUESTION NO: 93
What technology enables compute capacity to adjust as loads change?

A. Load balancing
B. Automatic failover
C. Round robin
D. Auto Scaling

QUESTION NO: 94
Which AWS services are defined as global instead of regional? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon CloudFront
E. Amazon DynamoDB

QUESTION NO: 95
Which AWS service would you use to obtain compliance reports and certificates?

A. AWS Artifact
B. AWS Lambda
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS Certificate Manager

QUESTION NO: 96
Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the AWS customer? (Choose two.)

A. Ensuring that application data is encrypted at rest
B. Ensuring that AWS NTP servers are set to the correct time
C. Ensuring that users have received security training in the use of AWS services
D. Ensuring that access to data centers is restricted
E. Ensuring that hardware is disposed of properly

QUESTION NO: 97
Which AWS service can be used to manually launch instances based on resource requirements?

A. Amazon EBS
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon EC2
D. Amazon ECS

QUESTION NO: 98
A company is migrating an application that is running non-interruptible workloads for a three-year time frame. Which pricing construct would provide the MOST cost-effective solution?

A. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
B. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances
C. Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances
D. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

QUESTION NO: 99
The financial benefits of using AWS are: (Choose two.)

A. reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
B. increased capital expenditure (capex).
C. reduced operational expenditure (opex).
D. deferred payment plans for startups.
E. business credit lines for stratups.

QUESTION NO: 100
Which AWS Cost Management tool allows you to view the most granular data about your AWS bill?

A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost and Usage report
D. AWS Billing dashboard

QUESTION NO: 101
Which of the following can an AWS customer use to launch a new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) cluster?

A. AWS Concierge
B. AWS CloudFormation
C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
E. AWS Management Console

QUESTION NO: 102
Which of the following is an AWS Cloud architecture design principle?

A. Implement single points of failure.
B. Implement loose coupling.
C. Implement monolithic design.
D. Implement vertical scaling.

QUESTION NO: 103
Which of the following security measures protect access to an AWS account? (Choose two.)

A. Enable AWS CloudTrail.
B. Grant least privilege access to IAM users.
C. Create one IAM user and share with many developers and users.
D. Enable Amazon CloudFront.
E. Activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users.

QUESTION NO: 104
Which service provides a hybrid storage service that enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use cloud storage?

A. Amazon Glacier
B. AWS Snowball
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)

QUESTION NO: 105
Which of the following services falls under the responsibility of the customer to maintain operating system configuration, security patching, and networking?

A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. AWS Fargate

QUESTION NO: 106
Which of the following is an important architectural design principle when designing cloud applications?

A. Use multiple Availability Zones.
B. Use tightly coupled components.
C. Use open source software.
D. Provision extra capacity.

QUESTION NO: 107
Which AWS support plan includes a dedicated Technical Account Manager?

A. Developer
B. Enterprise
C. Business
D. Basic

QUESTION NO: 108
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers which of the following benefits over traditional database management?

A. AWS manages the data stored in Amazon RDS tables.
B. AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system.
C. AWS automatically scales up instance types on demand.
D. AWS manages the database type.

QUESTION NO: 109
Which service is best for storing common database query results, which helps to alleviate database access load?

A. Amazon Machine Learning
B. Amazon SQS
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Store

QUESTION NO: 110
Which of the following is a component of the shared responsibility model managed entirely by AWS?

A. Patching operating system software
B. Encrypting data
C. Enforcing multi-factor authentication
D. Auditing physical data center assets

QUESTION NO: 111
Which options does AWS make available for customers who want to learn about security in the cloud in an instructor-led setting? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS Online Tech Talks
C. AWS Blog
D. AWS Forums
E. AWS Classroom Training

QUESTION NO: 112
Which of the following features can be configured through the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Dashboard? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon CloudFront distributions
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Security Groups
D. Subnets
E. Elastic Load Balancing

QUESTION NO: 113
If each department within a company has its own AWS account, what is one way to enable consolidated billing?

A. Use AWS Budgets on each account to pay only to budget.
B. Contact AWS Support for a monthly bill.
C. Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join.
D. Put all invoices into one Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, load data into Amazon Redshift, and then run a billing report.

QUESTION NO: 114
How do customers benefit from Amazon’s massive economies of scale?

A. Periodic price reductions as the result of Amazon’s operational efficiencies
B. New Amazon EC2 instance types providing the latest hardware
C. The ability to scale up and down when needed
D. Increased reliability in the underlying hardware of Amazon EC2 instances

QUESTION NO: 115
Which AWS services can be used to gather information about AWS account activity? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Cloud9
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS CloudHSM
E. Amazon CloudWatch

QUESTION NO: 116
Which of the following common IT tasks can AWS cover to free up company IT resources? (Choose two.)

A. Patching databases software
B. Testing application releases
C. Backing up databases
D. Creating database schema
E. Running penetration tests

QUESTION NO: 117
In which scenario should Amazon EC2 Spot Instances be used?

A. A company wants to move its main website to AWS from an on-premises web server.
B. A company has a number of application services whose Service Level Agreement (SLA) requires 99.999% uptime.
C. A company’s heavily used legacy database is currently running on-premises.
D. A company has a number of infrequent, interruptible jobs that are currently using On-Demand Instances.

QUESTION NO: 118
Which AWS feature should a customer leverage to achieve high availability of an application?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. Availability Zones
C. Data centers
D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

QUESTION NO: 119
Which is the minimum AWS Support plan that includes Infrastructure Event Management without additional costs?

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

QUESTION NO: 120
Which AWS service can serve a static website?

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Route 53
C. Amazon QuickSight
D. AWS X-Ray

QUESTION NO: 121
How does AWS shorten the time to provision IT resources?

A. It supplies an online IT ticketing platform for resource requests.
B. It supports automatic code validation services.
C. It provides the ability to programmatically provision existing resources.
D. It automates the resource request process from a company’s IT vendor list.

QUESTION NO: 122
What can AWS edge locations be used for? (Choose two.)

A. Hosting applications
B. Delivering content closer to users
C. Running NoSQL database caching services
D. Reducing traffic on the server by caching responses
E. Sending notification messages to end users

QUESTION NO: 123
Which of the following can limit Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to specific users?

A. A public and private key-pair
B. Amazon Inspector
C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
D. Security Groups

QUESTION NO: 124
A solution that is able to support growth in users, traffic, or data size with no drop in performance aligns with which cloud architecture principle?

A. Think parallel
B. Implement elasticity
C. Decouple your components
D. Design for failure

QUESTION NO: 125
A company will be moving from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. What would be one financial difference after the move?

A. Moving from variable operational expense (opex) to upfront capital expense (capex).
B. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable capital expense (capex).
C. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable operational expense (opex).
D. Elimination of upfront capital expense (capex) and elimination of variable operational expense (opex).

QUESTION NO: 126
How should a customer forecast the future costs for running a new web application?

A. Amazon Aurora Backtrack
B. Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Cost and Usage report

QUESTION NO: 127
Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

QUESTION NO: 128
Which of the following tasks is the responsibility of AWS?

A. Encrypting client-side data
B. Configuring AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles
C. Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor
D. Setting user password policies

QUESTION NO: 129
One benefit of On-Demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) pricing is:

A. the ability to bid for a lower hourly cost.
B. paying a daily rate regardless of time used.
C. paying only for time used.
D. pre-paying for instances and paying a lower hourly rate.

QUESTION NO: 130
An administrator needs to rapidly deploy a popular IT solution and start using it immediately. Where can the administrator find assistance?

A. AWS Well-Architected Framework documentation
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS CodeCommit
D. AWS Quick Start reference deployments

QUESTION NO: 131
Which of the following services is in the category of AWS serverless platform?

A. Amazon EMR
B. Elastic Load Balancing
C. AWS Lambda
D. AWS Mobile Hub

QUESTION NO: 132
Which services are parts of the AWS serverless platform?

A. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena
B. Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Amazon EMR
C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS
D. Amazon Athena, Amazon Cognito, Amazon EC2

QUESTION NO: 133
According to the AWS shared responsibility model, what is the sole responsibility of AWS?

A. Application security
B. Edge location management
C. Patch management
D. Client-side data

QUESTION NO: 134
Which AWS IAM feature is used to associate a set of permissions with multiple users?

A. Multi-factor authentication
B. Groups
C. Password policies
D. Access keys

QUESTION NO: 135
Which of the following are benefits of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Unlimited uptime
B. Elasticity
C. Agility
D. Colocation
E. Capital expenses

QUESTION NO: 136
Which of the following can a customer use to enable single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Console?

A. Amazon Connect
B. AWS Directory Service
C. Amazon Pinpoint
D. Amazon Rekognition

QUESTION NO: 137
What are the multiple, isolated locations within an AWS Region that are connected by low-latency networks called?

A. AWS Direct Connects
B. Amazon VPCs
C. Edge locations
D. Availability Zones

QUESTION NO: 138
Which of the following benefits does the AWS Compliance program provide to AWS customers? (Choose two.)

A. It verifies that hosted workloads are automatically compliant with the controls of supported compliance frameworks.
B. AWS is responsible for the maintenance of common compliance framework documentation.
C. It assures customers that AWS is maintaining physical security and data protection.
D. It ensures the use of compliance frameworks that are being used by other cloud providers.
E. It will adopt new compliance frameworks as they become relevant to customer workloads.

QUESTION NO: 139
Which of the following services provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports?

A. AWS IAM
B. AWS Artifact
C. Amazon GuardDuty
D. AWS KMS

QUESTION NO: 140
As part of the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following operational controls do users fully inherit from AWS?

A. Security management of data center
B. Patch management
C. Configuration management
D. User and access management

QUESTION NO: 141
When comparing AWS Cloud with on-premises Total Cost of Ownership, which expenses must be considered? (Choose two.)

A. Software development
B. Project management
C. Storage hardware
D. Physical servers
E. Antivirus software license

QUESTION NO: 142
Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the customer? (Choose two.)

A. Maintaining the underlying Amazon EC2 hardware.
B. Managing the VPC network access control lists.
C. Encrypting data in transit and at rest.
D. Replacing failed hard disk drives.
E. Deploying hardware in different Availability Zones.

QUESTION NO: 143
Which scenarios represent the concept of elasticity on AWS? (Choose two.)

A. Scaling the number of Amazon EC2 instances based on traffic.
B. Resizing Amazon RDS instances as business needs change.
C. Automatically directing traffic to less-utilized Amazon EC2 instances.
D. Using AWS compliance documents to accelerate the compliance process.
E. Having the ability to create and govern environments using code.

QUESTION NO: 144
When is it beneficial for a company to use a Spot Instance?

A. When there is flexibility in when an application needs to run.
B. When there are mission-critical workloads.
C. When dedicated capacity is needed.
D. When an instance should not be stopped.

QUESTION NO: 145
A company is considering moving its on-premises data center to AWS. What factors should be included in doing a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon EC2 instance availability
B. Power consumption of the data center
C. Labor costs to replace old servers
D. Application developer time
E. Database engine capacity

QUESTION NO: 146
How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda?

A. Users bid on the maximum price they are willing to pay per hour.
B. Users choose a 1-, 3- or 5-year upfront payment term.
C. Users pay for the required permanent storage on a file system or in a database.
D. Users pay based on the number of requests and consumed compute resources.

QUESTION NO: 147
What function do security groups serve related to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance security?

A. Act as a virtual firewall for the Amazon EC2 instance.
B. Secure AWS user accounts with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.
C. Provide DDoS protection with AWS Shield.
D. Use Amazon CloudFront to protect the Amazon EC2 instance.

QUESTION NO: 148
Which disaster recovery scenario offers the lowest probability of down time?

A. Backup and restore
B. Pilot light
C. Warm standby
D. Multi-site active-active

QUESTION NO: 149
What will help a company perform a cost benefit analysis of migrating to the AWS Cloud?

A. Cost Explorer
B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 150
Which of the following provides the ability to share the cost benefits of Reserved Instances across
AWS accounts?

A. AWS Cost Explorer between AWS accounts
B. Linked accounts and consolidated billing
C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instance Utilization Report
D. Amazon EC2 Instance Usage Report between AWS accounts

QUESTION NO: 151
A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to simplify and consolidate its billing process.

Which AWS service will achieve this?

A. AWS Cost and Usage Reports
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Cost Explorer
D. AWS Budgets

QUESTION NO: 152
A company is designing an application hosted in a single AWS Region serving end-users spread across the world. The company wants to provide the end-users low latency access to the application data. Which of the following services will help fulfill this requirement?

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. Amazon Route 53 global DNS
D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) transfer acceleration

QUESTION NO: 153
Which of the following deployment models enables customers to fully trade their capital IT expenses for operational expenses?

A. On-premises
B. Hybrid
C. Cloud
D. Platform as a service

QUESTION NO: 154
How is asset management on AWS easier than asset management in a physical data center?

A. AWS provides a Configuration Management Database that users can maintain.
B. AWS performs infrastructure discovery scans on the customer’s behalf.
C. Amazon EC2 automatically generates an asset report and places it in the customer’s specified Amazon S3 bucket.
D. Users can gather asset metadata reliably with a few API calls.

QUESTION NO: 155
What feature of Amazon RDS helps to create globally redundant databases?

A. Snapshots
B. Automatic patching and updating
C. Cross-Region read replicas
D. Provisioned IOPS

QUESTION NO: 156
Using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to grant access only to the resources needed to perform a task is a concept known as:

A. restricted access.
B. as-needed access.
C. least privilege access.
D. token access.

QUESTION NO: 157
Which methods can be used to identify AWS costs by departments? (Choose two.)

A. Enable multi-factor authentication for the AWS account root user.
B. Create separate accounts for each department.
C. Use Reserved Instances whenever possible.
D. Use tags to associate each instance with a particular department.
E. Pay bills using purchase orders.

QUESTION NO: 158
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customer responsibilities include which one of the following?

A. Securing the hardware, software, facilities, and networks that run all products and services.
B. Providing certificates, reports, and other documentation directly to AWS customers under NDA.
C. Configuring the operating system, network, and firewall.
D. Obtaining industry certifications and independent third-party attestations.

QUESTION NO: 159
Which managed AWS service provides real-time guidance on AWS security best practices?

A. AWS X-Ray
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. AWS Systems Manager

QUESTION NO: 160
Which feature adds elasticity to Amazon EC2 instances to handle the changing demand for workloads?

A. Resource groups
B. Lifecycle policies
C. Application Load Balancer
D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

QUESTION NO: 161
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customers are responsible for which aspects of security in the cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Virtualization Management
B. Hardware management
C. Encryption management
D. Facilities management
E. Firewall management

QUESTION NO: 162
Which AWS hybrid storage service enables your on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage through standard file-storage protocols?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. AWS Snowball
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. AWS Snowball Edge

QUESTION NO: 163
What is a responsibility of AWS in the shared responsibility model?

A. Updating the network ACLs to block traffic to vulnerable ports.
B. Patching operating systems running on Amazon EC2 instances.
C. Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.
D. Updating the security group rules to block traffic to the vulnerable ports.

QUESTION NO: 164
Which architectural principle is used when deploying an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance in Multiple Availability Zone mode?

A. Implement loose coupling.
B. Design for failure.
C. Automate everything that can be automated.
D. Use services, not servers.

QUESTION NO: 165
What does it mean to grant least privilege to AWS IAM users?

A. It is granting permissions to a single user only.
B. It is granting permissions using AWS IAM policies only.
C. It is granting AdministratorAccess policy permissions to trustworthy users.
D. It is granting only the permissions required to perform a given task.

QUESTION NO: 166
What is a benefit of loose coupling as a principle of cloud architecture design?

A. It facilitates low-latency request handling.
B. It allows applications to have dependent workflows.
C. It prevents cascading failures between different components.
D. It allows companies to focus on their physical data center operations.

QUESTION NO: 167
A director has been tasked with investigating hybrid cloud architecture. The company currently accesses AWS over the public internet. Which service will facilitate private hybrid connectivity?

A. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) NAT Gateway
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Transfer Acceleration
D. AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)

QUESTION NO: 168
A company’s web application currently has tight dependencies on underlying components, so when one component fails the entire web application fails. Applying which AWS Cloud design principle will address the current design issue?

A. Implementing elasticity, enabling the application to scale up or scale down as demand changes.
B. Enabling several EC2 instances to run in parallel to achieve better performance.
C. Focusing on decoupling components by isolating them and ensuring individual components can function when other components fail.
D. Doubling EC2 computing resources to increase system fault tolerance.

QUESTION NO: 169
How can a customer increase security to AWS account logons? (Choose two.)

A. Configure AWS Certificate Manager
B. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
C. Use Amazon Cognito to manage access
D. Configure a strong password policy
E. Enable AWS Organizations

QUESTION NO: 170
What AWS service would be used to centrally manage AWS access across multiple accounts?

A. AWS Service Catalog
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Organizations

QUESTION NO: 171
Which AWS service can a customer use to set up an alert notification when the account is approaching a particular dollar amount?

A. AWS Cost and Usage reports
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost Explorer
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 172
What can users access from AWS Artifact?

A. AWS security and compliance documents
B. A download of configuration management details for all AWS resources
C. Training materials for AWS services
D. A security assessment of the applications deployed in the AWS Cloud

QUESTION NO: 173
What is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides designated Technical Account Managers?

A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

QUESTION NO: 174
Which of the following is an AWS Well-Architected Framework design principle related to reliability?

A. Deployment to a single Availability Zone
B. Ability to recover from failure
C. Design for cost optimization
D. Perform operations as code

QUESTION NO: 175
Which type of AWS storage is ephemeral and is deleted when an instance is stopped or terminated?

A. Amazon EBS
B. Amazon EC2 instance store
C. Amazon EFS
D. Amazon S3

QUESTION NO: 176
What is an advantage of using the AWS Cloud over a traditional on-premises solution?

A. Users do not have to guess about future capacity needs.
B. Users can utilize existing hardware contracts for purchases.
C. Users can fix costs no matter what their traffic is.
D. Users can avoid audits by using reports from AWS.

QUESTION NO: 177
Which of the following is an AWS-managed compute service?

A. Amazon SWF
B. Amazon EC2
C. AWS Lambda
D. Amazon Aurora

QUESTION NO: 178
Which of the following is an important architectural principle when designing cloud applications?

A. Store data and backups in the same region.
B. Design tightly coupled system components.
C. Avoid multi-threading.
D. Design for failure.

QUESTION NO: 179
Which mechanism allows developers to access AWS services from application code?

A. AWS Software Development Kit
B. AWS Management Console
C. AWS CodePipeline
D. AWS Config

QUESTION NO: 180
Which Amazon EC2 pricing model is the MOST cost efficient for an uninterruptible workload that runs once a year for 24 hours?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Dedicated Instances

QUESTION NO: 181
Which of the following services is a MySQL-compatible database that automatically grows storage as needed?

A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
B. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL
C. Amazon Lightsail
D. Amazon Aurora

QUESTION NO: 182
Which Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) feature enables users to connect two VPCs together?

A. Amazon VPC endpoints
B. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) ClassicLink
C. Amazon VPC peering
D. AWS Direct Connect

QUESTION NO: 183
Which service’s PRIMARY purpose is software version control?

A. Amazon CodeStar
B. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
C. Amazon Cognito
D. AWS CodeCommit

QUESTION NO: 184
A company is considering migrating its applications to AWS. The company wants to compare the cost of running the workload on-premises to running the equivalent workload on the AWS platform. Which tool can be used to perform this comparison?

A. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
C. AWS Billing and Cost Management console
D. Cost Explorer

QUESTION NO: 185
Which AWS service provides a secure, fast, and cost-effective way to migrate or transport exabyte-scale datasets into AWS?

A. AWS Batch
B. AWS Snowball
C. AWS Migration Hub
D. AWS Snowmobile

QUESTION NO: 186
Which of the following BEST describe the AWS pricing model? (Choose two.)

A. Fixed-term
B. Pay-as-you-go
C. Colocation
D. Planned
E. Variable cost

QUESTION NO: 187
Which load balancer types are available with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? (Choose two.)

A. Public load balancers with AWS Application Auto Scaling capabilities
B. F5 Big-IP and Citrix NetScaler load balancers
C. Classic Load Balancers
D. Cross-zone load balancers with public and private IPs
E. Application Load Balancers

QUESTION NO: 188
Why should a company choose AWS instead of a traditional data center?

A. AWS provides users with full control over the underlying resources.
B. AWS does not require long-term contracts and provides a pay-as-you-go model.
C. AWS offers edge locations in every country, supporting global reach.
D. AWS has no limits on the number of resources that can be created.

QUESTION NO: 189
Which solution provides the FASTEST application response times to frequently accessed data to users in multiple AWS Regions?

A. AWS CloudTrail across multiple Availability Zones
B. Amazon CloudFront to edge locations
C. AWS CloudFormation in multiple regions
D. A virtual private gateway over AWS Direct Connect

QUESTION NO: 190
Which AWS service provides a self-service portal for on-demand access to AWS compliance reports?

A. AWS Config
B. AWS Certificate Manager
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS Artifact

QUESTION NO: 191
Which of the following AWS services can be used to run a self-managed database?

A. Amazon Route 53
B. AWS X-Ray
C. AWS Snowmobile
D. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

QUESTION NO: 192
What exclusive benefit is provided to users with Enterprise Support?

A. Access to a Technical Project Manager
B. Access to a Technical Account Manager
C. Access to a Cloud Support Engineer
D. Access to a Solutions Architect

QUESTION NO: 193
How can a user protect against AWS service disruptions if a natural disaster affects an entire geographic area?

A. Deploy applications across multiple Availability Zones within an AWS Region.
B. Use a hybrid cloud computing deployment model within the geographic area.
C. Deploy applications across multiple AWS Regions.
D. Store application artifacts using AWS Artifact and replicate them across multiple AWS Regions.

QUESTION NO: 194
How does AWS MOST effectively reduce computing costs for a growing start-up company?

A. It provides on-demand resources for peak usage.
B. It automates the provisioning of individual developer environments.
C. It automates customer relationship management.
D. It implements a fixed monthly computing budget.

QUESTION NO: 195
A startup is working on a new application that needs to go to market quickly. The application requirements may need to be adjusted in the near future. Which of the following is a characteristic of the AWS Cloud that would meet this specific need?

A. Elasticity
B. Reliability
C. Performance
D. Agility

QUESTION NO: 196
Which AWS Support plan provides a full set of AWS Trusted Advisor checks?

A. Business and Developer Support
B. Business and Basic Support
C. Enterprise and Developer Support
D. Enterprise and Business Support

QUESTION NO: 197
Which of the following services have Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation features? (Choose two.)

A. AWS WAF
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon EC2
D. Amazon CloudFront
E. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 198
When building a cloud Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model, which cost elements should be considered for workloads running on AWS? (Choose three.)

A. Compute costs
B. Facilities costs
C. Storage costs
D. Data transfer costs
E. Network infrastructure costs
F. Hardware lifecycle costs

QUESTION NO: 199
What time-savings advantage is offered with the use of Amazon Rekognition?

A. Amazon Rekognition provides automatic watermarking of images.
B. Amazon Rekognition provides automatic detection of objects appearing in pictures.
C. Amazon Rekognition provides the ability to resize millions of images automatically.
D. Amazon Rekognition uses Amazon Mechanical Turk to allow humans to bid on object detection jobs.

QUESTION NO: 200
When comparing AWS with on-premises Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), what costs are included?

A. Data center security
B. Business analysis
C. Project management
D. Operating system administration

QUESTION NO: 201
According to the AWS shared responsibility model, what is AWS responsible for?

A. Configuring Amazon VPC
B. Managing application code
C. Maintaining application traffic
D. Managing the network infrastructure

QUESTION NO: 202
Which service should be used to estimate the costs of running a new project on AWS?

A. AWS TCO Calculator
B. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
C. AWS Cost Explorer API
D. AWS Budgets

QUESTION NO: 203
Which AWS tool will identify security groups that grant unrestricted Internet access to a limited list of ports?

A. AWS Organizations
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. AWS Usage Report
D. Amazon EC2 dashboard

QUESTION NO: 204
Which AWS service can be used to generate alerts based on an estimated monthly bill?

A. AWS Config
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. AWS X-Ray
D. AWS CloudTrail

QUESTION NO: 205
Which Amazon EC2 pricing model offers the MOST significant discount when compared to On-Demand Instances?

A. Partial Upfront Reserved Instances for a 1-year term
B. All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 1-year term
C. All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3-year term
D. No Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3-year term

QUESTION NO: 206
Which of the following is the responsibility of AWS?

A. Setting up AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and groups
B. Physically destroying storage media at end of life
C. Patching guest operating systems
D. Configuring security settings on Amazon EC2 instances

QUESTION NO: 207
Which of the following is an advantage of using AWS?

A. AWS audits user data.
B. Data is automatically secure.
C. There is no guessing on capacity needs.
D. AWS manages compliance needs.

QUESTION NO: 208
Which AWS service would a customer use with a static website to achieve lower latency and high transfer speeds?

A. AWS Lambda
B. Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator
C. Amazon Route 53
D. Amazon CloudFront

QUESTION NO: 209
Which services manage and automate application deployments on AWS? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
B. AWS CodeCommit
C. AWS Data Pipeline
D. AWS CloudFormation
E. AWS Config

QUESTION NO: 210
A user wants guidance on possible savings when migrating from on-premises to AWS. Which tool is suitable for this scenario?

A. AWS Budgets
B. Cost Explorer
C. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
D. AWS Well-Architected Tool

QUESTION NO: 211
Which principles are used to architect applications for reliability on the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Design for automated failure recovery
B. Use multiple Availability Zones
C. Manage changes via documented processes
D. Test for moderate demand to ensure reliability
E. Backup recovery to an on-premises environment

QUESTION NO: 212
What tasks should a customer perform when that customer suspects an AWS account has been compromised? (Choose two.)

A. Rotate passwords and access keys.
B. Remove MFA tokens.
C. Move resources to a different AWS Region.
D. Delete AWS CloudTrail Resources.
E. Contact AWS Support.

QUESTION NO: 213
What is an example of high availability in the AWS Cloud?

A. Consulting AWS technical support at any time day or night
B. Ensuring an application remains accessible, even if a resource fails
C. Making any AWS service available for use by paying on demand
D. Deploying in any part of the world using AWS Regions

QUESTION NO: 214
Which AWS security service protects applications from distributed denial of service attacks with always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations?

A. Amazon Inspector
B. AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)
C. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
D. AWS Shield

QUESTION NO: 215
A company wants to monitor the CPU usage of its Amazon EC2 resources. Which AWS service should the company use?

A. AWS CloudTrail
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. AWS Cost and Usage report
D. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

QUESTION NO: 216
What is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role?

A. A user associated with an AWS resource
B. A group associated with an AWS resource
C. An entity that defines a set of permissions for use with an AWS resource
D. An authentication credential associated with a multi-factor authentication (MFA) token

QUESTION NO: 217
What are the advantages of Reserved Instances? (Choose two.)

A. They provide a discount over on-demand pricing.
B. They provide access to additional instance types.
C. They provide additional networking capability.
D. Customers can upgrade instances as new types become available.
E. Customers can reserve capacity in an Availability Zone.

QUESTION NO: 218
How do Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups help achieve high availability for a web application?

A. They automatically add more instances across multiple AWS Regions based on global demand of the application.
B. They automatically add or replace instances across multiple Availability Zones when the application needs it.
C. They enable the application’s static content to reside closer to end users.
D. They are able to distribute incoming requests across a tier of web server instances.

QUESTION NO: 219
How can one AWS account use Reserved Instances from another AWS account?

A. By using Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances
B. By using AWS Organizations consolidated billing
C. By using the AWS Cost Explorer tool
D. By using AWS Budgets

QUESTION NO: 220
A customer runs an On-Demand Amazon Linux EC2 instance for 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds. For how much time will the customer be billed?

A. 3 hours, 5 minutes
B. 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds
C. 3 hours, 6 minutes
D. 4 hours

QUESTION NO: 221
Which of the following AWS services provide compute resources? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Lambda
B. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
C. AWS CodeDeploy
D. Amazon Glacier
E. AWS Organizations

QUESTION NO: 222
Which AWS service enables users to deploy infrastructure as code by automating the process of provisioning resources?

A. Amazon GameLift
B. AWS CloudFormation
C. AWS Data Pipeline
D. AWS Glue

QUESTION NO: 223
Which AWS services provide a way to extend an on-premises architecture to the AWS Cloud?
(Choose two.)

A. Amazon EBS
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. Amazon CloudFront
D. AWS Storage Gateway
E. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 224
Which of the following allows users to provision a dedicated network connection from their internal network to AWS?

A. AWS CloudHSM
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS VPN
D. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 225
Which services use AWS edge locations? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Shield
C. Amazon EC2
D. Amazon RDS
E. Amazon ElastiCache

QUESTION NO: 226
Which service would provide network connectivity in a hybrid architecture that includes the AWS
Cloud?

A. Amazon VPC
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS Directory Service
D. Amazon API Gateway

QUESTION NO: 227
Which tool can be used to compare the costs of running a web application in a traditional hosting environment to running it on AWS?

A. AWS Cost Explorer
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost and Usage report
D. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

QUESTION NO: 228
What is the value of using third-party software from AWS Marketplace instead of installing thirdparty software on Amazon EC2? (Choose two.)

A. Users pay for software by the hour or month depending on licensing.
B. AWS Marketplace enables the user to launch applications with 1-Click.
C. AWS Marketplace data encryption is managed by a third-party vendor.
D. AWS Marketplace eliminates the need to upgrade to newer software versions.
E. Users can deploy third-party software without testing.

QUESTION NO: 229
Which of the following is a cloud architectural design principle?

A. Scale up, not out.
B. Loosely couple components.
C. Build monolithic systems.
D. Use commercial database software.

QUESTION NO: 230
Under the shared responsibility model; which of the following areas are the customer’s responsibility? (Choose two.)

A. Firmware upgrades of network infrastructure
B. Patching of operating systems
C. Patching of the underlying hypervisor
D. Physical security of data centers
E. Configuration of the security group

QUESTION NO: 231
Which service enables customers to audit and monitor changes in AWS resources?

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. Amazon GuardDuty
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS Config

QUESTION NO: 232
Which AWS service identifies security groups that allow unrestricted access to a user’s AWS resources?

A. AWS CloudTrail
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 233
According to the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for configuration management?

A. It is solely the responsibility of the customer.
B. It is solely the responsibility of AWS.
C. It is shared between AWS and the customer.
D. It is not part of the AWS shared responsibility model.

QUESTION NO: 234
Which AWS service is a content delivery network that securely delivers data, video, and applications to users globally with low latency and high speeds?

A. AWS CloudFormation
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. Amazon CloudFront
D. Amazon Pinpoint

QUESTION NO: 235
Which benefit of the AWS Cloud supports matching the supply of resources with changing workload demands?

A. Security
B. Reliability
C. Elasticity
D. High availability

QUESTION NO: 236
A user is running an application on AWS and notices that one or more AWS-owned IP addresses is involved in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Who should the user contact FIRST about this situation?

A. AWS Premium Support
B. AWS Technical Account Manager
C. AWS Solutions Architect
D. AWS Abuse team

QUESTION NO: 237
Which of the following are benefits of hosting infrastructure in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. There are no upfront commitments.
B. AWS manages all security in the cloud.
C. Users have the ability to provision resources on demand.
D. Users have access to free and unlimited storage.
E. Users have control over the physical infrastructure.

QUESTION NO: 238
Access keys in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) are used to:

A. log in to the AWS Management Console.
B. make programmatic calls to AWS from AWS APIs.
C. log in to Amazon EC2 instances.
D. authenticate to AWS CodeCommit repositories.

QUESTION NO: 239
What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

A. It is an AWS staff member who provides recommendations and best practices on how to use AWS.
B. It is a network of AWS partners who provide recommendations and best practices on how to use AWS.
C. It is an online tool with a set of automated checks that provides recommendations on cost optimization, performance, and security.
D. It is another name for AWS Technical Account Managers who provide recommendations on cost optimization, performance, and security.

QUESTION NO: 240
Which AWS service or feature allows a company to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time?

A. AWS Budgets
B. AWS Cost Explorer
C. AWS Organizations
D. Consolidated billing

QUESTION NO: 241
Which AWS service offers on-demand access to AWS security and compliance reports?

A. AWS CloudTrail
B. AWS Artifact
C. AWS Health
D. Amazon CloudWatch

QUESTION NO: 242
What are the benefits of using the AWS Cloud for companies with customers in many countries around the world? (Choose two.)

A. Companies can deploy applications in multiple AWS Regions to reduce latency.
B. Amazon Translate automatically translates third-party website interfaces into multiple languages.
C. Amazon CloudFront has multiple edge locations around the world to reduce latency.
D. Amazon Comprehend allows users to build applications that can respond to user requests in many languages.
E. Elastic Load Balancing can distribute application web traffic to multiple AWS Regions around the world, which reduces latency.

QUESTION NO: 243
Which AWS service handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, Auto Scaling, and application health monitoring?

A. AWS Config
B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
C. Amazon Route 53
D. Amazon CloudFront

QUESTION NO: 244
Which AWS service provides inbound and outbound network ACLs to harden external connectivity to Amazon EC2?

A. AWS IAM
B. Amazon Connect
C. Amazon VPC
D. Amazon API Gateway

QUESTION NO: 245
When a company provisions web servers in multiple AWS Regions, what is being increased?

A. Coupling
B. Availability
C. Security
D. Durability

QUESTION NO: 246
The pay-as-you-go pricing model for AWS services:

A. reduces capital expenditures.
B. requires payment up front for AWS services.
C. is relevant only for Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon RDS.
D. reduces operational expenditures.

QUESTION NO: 247
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for which security-related task?

A. Lifecycle management of IAM credentials
B. Physical security of global infrastructure
C. Encryption of Amazon EBS volumes
D. Firewall configuration

QUESTION NO: 248
Which AWS service enables users to consolidate billing across multiple accounts?

A. Amazon QuickSight
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Budgets
D. Amazon Forecast

QUESTION NO: 249
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is an example of security in the AWS Cloud?

A. Managing edge locations
B. Physical security
C. Firewall configuration
D. Global infrastructure

QUESTION NO: 250
How can an AWS user with an AWS Basic Support plan obtain technical assistance from AWS?

A. AWS Senior Support Engineers
B. AWS Technical Account Managers
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Discussion Forums

QUESTION NO: 251
Which of the following are pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Choose two.)

A. Multiple Availability Zones
B. Performance efficiency
C. Security
D. Encryption usage
E. High availability

QUESTION NO: 252
After selecting an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host reservation, which pricing option would provide the largest discount?

A. No upfront payment
B. Hourly on-demand payment
C. Partial upfront payment
D. All upfront payment

QUESTION NO: 253
What is an advantage of deploying an application across multiple Availability Zones?

A. There is a lower risk of service failure if a natural disaster causes a service disruption in a given AWS Region.
B. The application will have higher availability because it can withstand a service disruption in one Availability Zone.
C. There will be better coverage as Availability Zones are geographically distant and can serve a wider area.
D. There will be decreased application latency that will improve the user experience.

QUESTION NO: 254
A Cloud Practitioner is asked how to estimate the cost of using a new application on AWS. What is the MOST appropriate response?

A. Inform the user that AWS pricing allows for on-demand pricing.
B. Direct the user to the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator for an estimate.
C. Use Amazon QuickSight to analyze current spending on-premises.
D. Use Amazon AppStream 2.0 for real-time pricing analytics.

QUESTION NO: 255
A company wants to migrate its applications to a VPC on AWS. These applications will need to access on-premises resources. What combination of actions will enable the company to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)

A. Use the AWS Service Catalog to identify a list of on-premises resources that can be migrated.
B. Build a VPN connection between an on-premises device and a virtual private gateway in the new VPC.
C. Use Amazon Athena to query data from the on-premises database servers.
D. Connect the company’s on-premises data center to AWS using AWS Direct Connect.
E. Leverage Amazon CloudFront to restrict access to static web content provided through the company’s on-premises web servers.

QUESTION NO: 256
A web application running on AWS has been spammed with malicious requests from a recurring set of IP addresses. Which AWS service can help secure the application and block the malicious traffic?

A. AWS IAM
B. Amazon GuardDuty
C. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
D. AWS WAF

QUESTION NO: 257
Treating infrastructure as code in the AWS Cloud allows users to:

A. automate migration of on-premises hardware to AWS data centers.
B. let a third party automate an audit of the AWS infrastructure.
C. turn over application code to AWS so it can run on the AWS infrastructure.
D. automate the infrastructure provisioning process.

QUESTION NO: 258
A company requires a dedicated network connection between its on-premises servers and the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service should be used?

A. AWS VPN
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. Amazon API Gateway
D. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 259
Which AWS service can be used to query stored datasets directly from Amazon S3 using standard SQL?

A. AWS Glue
B. AWS Data Pipeline
C. Amazon CloudSearch
D. Amazon Athena

QUESTION NO: 260
AWS CloudFormation is designed to help the user:

A. model and provision resources.
B. update application code.
C. set up data lakes.
D. create reports for billing.

QUESTION NO: 261
Which of the following is an AWS database service?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
C. Amazon S3 Glacier
D. AWS Snowball

QUESTION NO: 262
A Cloud Practitioner must determine if any security groups in an AWS account have been provisioned to allow unrestricted access for specific ports. What is the SIMPLEST way to do this?

A. Review the inbound rules for each security group in the Amazon EC2 management console to check for port 0.0.0.0/0.
B. Run AWS Trusted Advisor and review the findings.
C. Open the AWS IAM console and check the inbound rule filters for open access.
D. In AWS Config, create a custom rule that invokes an AWS Lambda function to review rules for inbound access.

QUESTION NO: 263
What are the benefits of developing and running a new application in the AWS Cloud compared to on-premises? (Choose two.)

A. AWS automatically distributes the data globally for higher durability.
B. AWS will take care of operating the application.
C. AWS makes it easy to architect for high availability.
D. AWS can easily accommodate application demand changes.
E. AWS takes care application security patching.

QUESTION NO: 264
A user needs an automated security assessment report that will identify unintended network access to Amazon EC2 instances and vulnerabilities on those instances. Which AWS service will provide this assessment report?

A. EC2 security groups
B. AWS Config
C. Amazon Macie
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 265
How can a company isolate the costs of production and non-production workloads on AWS?

A. Create Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for production and non-production workloads.
B. Use different accounts for production and non-production expenses.
C. Use Amazon EC2 for non-production workloads and other services for production workloads.
D. Use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the use of services.

QUESTION NO: 266
Where can users find a catalog of AWS-recognized providers of third-party security solutions?

A. AWS Service Catalog
B. AWS Marketplace
C. AWS Quick Start
D. AWS CodeDeploy

QUESTION NO: 267
A Cloud Practitioner needs to store data for 7 years to meet regulatory requirements. Which AWS service will meet this requirement at the LOWEST cost?

A. Amazon S3
B. AWS Snowball
C. Amazon Redshift
D. Amazon S3 Glacier

QUESTION NO: 268
What are the immediate benefits of using the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Increased IT staff.
B. Capital expenses are replaced with variable expenses.
C. User control of infrastructure.
D. Increased agility.
E. AWS holds responsibility for security in the cloud.

QUESTION NO: 269
Which security service automatically recognizes and classifies sensitive data or intellectual property on AWS?

A. Amazon GuardDuty
B. Amazon Macie
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS Shield

QUESTION NO: 270
What is the purpose of AWS Storage Gateway?

A. It ensures on-premises data storage is 99.999999999% durable.
B. It transports petabytes of data to and from AWS.
C. It connects to multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
D. It connects on-premises data storage to the AWS Cloud.

QUESTION NO: 271
What should users do if they want to install an application in geographically isolated locations?

A. Install the application using multiple internet gateways.
B. Deploy the application to an Amazon VPC.
C. Deploy the application to multiple AWS Regions.
D. Configure the application using multiple NAT gateways.

QUESTION NO: 272
A system in the AWS Cloud is designed to withstand the failure of one or more components. What is this an example of?

A. Elasticity
B. High Availability
C. Scalability
D. Agility

QUESTION NO: 273
A Cloud Practitioner needs a consistent and dedicated connection between AWS resources and an on-premises system. Which AWS service can fulfill this requirement?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. AWS VPN
C. Amazon Connect
D. AWS Data Pipeline

QUESTION NO: 274
Within the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for security and compliance?

A. The customer is responsible.
B. AWS is responsible.
C. AWS and the customer share responsibility.
D. AWS shares responsibility with the relevant governing body.

QUESTION NO: 275
To use the AWS CLI, users are required to generate:

A. a password policy.
B. an access/secret key.
C. a managed policy.
D. an API key.

QUESTION NO: 276
Which AWS service is used to provide encryption for Amazon EBS?

A. AWS Certificate Manager
B. AWS Systems Manager
C. AWS KMS
D. AWS Config

QUESTION NO: 277
How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda usage once the free tier has been exceeded? (Choose two.)

A. By the time it takes for the Lambda function to execute.
B. By the number of versions of a specific Lambda function.
C. By the number of requests made for a given Lambda function.
D. By the programming language that is used for the Lambda function.
E. By the total number of Lambda functions in an AWS account.

QUESTION NO: 278
Which of the following describes the relationships among AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations? (Choose two.)

A. There are more AWS Regions than Availability Zones.
B. There are more edge locations than AWS Regions.
C. An edge location is an Availability Zone.
D. There are more AWS Regions than edge locations.
E. There are more Availability Zones than AWS Regions.

QUESTION NO: 279
What does AWS Shield Standard provide?

A. WAF rules
B. DDoS protection
C. Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions and access to resources
D. Data encryption

QUESTION NO: 280
A company wants to build its new application workloads in the AWS Cloud instead of using onpremises resources. What expense can be reduced using the AWS Cloud?

A. The cost of writing custom-built Java or Node .js code
B. Penetration testing for security
C. hardware required to support new applications
D. Writing specific test cases for third-party applications.

QUESTION NO: 281
What does AWS Marketplace allow users to do? (Choose two.)

A. Sell unused Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.
B. Sell solutions to other AWS users.
C. Buy third-party software that runs on AWS.
D. Purchase AWS security and compliance documents.
E. Order AWS Snowball.

QUESTION NO: 282
What does it mean if a user deploys a hybrid cloud architecture on AWS?

A. All resources run using on-premises infrastructure.
B. Some resources run on-premises and some run in a colocation center.
C. All resources run in the AWS Cloud.
D. Some resources run on-premises and some run in the AWS Cloud.

QUESTION NO: 283
Which AWS service allows users to identify the changes made to a resource over time?

A. Amazon Inspector
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Service Catalog
D. AWS IAM

QUESTION NO: 284
How can a company reduce its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) using AWS?

A. By minimizing large capital expenditures
B. By having no responsibility for third-party license costs
C. By having no operational expenditures
D. By having AWS manage applications

QUESTION NO: 285
Which activity is a customer responsibility in the AWS Cloud according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Ensuring network connectivity from AWS to the internet
B. Patching and fixing flaws within the AWS Cloud infrastructure
C. Ensuring the physical security of cloud data centers
D. Ensuring Amazon EBS volumes are backed up

QUESTION NO: 286
What are the advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Fixed rate monthly cost
B. No need to guess capacity requirements
C. Increased speed to market
D. Increased upfront capital expenditure
E. Physical access to cloud data centers

QUESTION NO: 287
When comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an on-premises infrastructure to a cloud architecture, what costs should be considered? (Choose two.)

A. The credit card processing fees for application transactions in the cloud.
B. The cost of purchasing and installing server hardware in the on-premises data.
C. The cost of administering the infrastructure, including operating system and software installations, patches, backups, and recovering from failures.
D. The costs of third-party penetration testing.
E. The advertising costs associated with an ongoing enterprise-wide campaign.

QUESTION NO: 288
Which AWS feature allows a company to take advantage of usage tiers for services across multiple member accounts?

A. Service control policies (SCPs)
B. Consolidated billing
C. All Upfront Reserved Instances
D. AWS Cost Explorer

QUESTION NO: 289
What is one of the customer’s responsibilities according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Virtualization infrastructure
B. Network infrastructure
C. Application security
D. Physical security of hardware

QUESTION NO: 290
What helps a company provide a lower latency experience to its users globally?

A. Using an AWS Region that is central to all users
B. Using a second Availability Zone in the AWS Region that is using used
C. Enabling caching in the AWS Region that is being used
D. Using edge locations to put content closer to all users

QUESTION NO: 291
How can the AWS Cloud increase user workforce productivity after migration from an on-premises data center?

A. Users do not have to wait for infrastructure provisioning.
B. The AWS Cloud infrastructure is much faster than an on-premises data center infrastructure.
C. AWS takes over application configuration management on behalf of users.
D. Users do not need to address security and compliance issues.

QUESTION NO: 292
Which AWS service provides a quick and automated way to create and manage AWS accounts?

A. AWS QuickSight
B. Amazon Lightsail
C. AWS Organizations
D. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 293
Which Amazon RDS feature can be used to achieve high availability?

A. Multiple Availability Zones
B. Amazon Reserved Instances
C. Provisioned IOPS storage
D. Enhanced monitoring

QUESTION NO: 294
Where should users report that AWS resources are being used for malicious purposes?

A. AWS Abuse team
B. AWS Shield
C. AWS Support
D. AWS Developer Forums

QUESTION NO: 295
Which AWS service needs to be enabled to track all user account changes within the AWS
Management Console?

A. AWS CloudTrail
B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
C. VPC Flow Logs
D. AWS CloudHSM

QUESTION NO: 296
What is an AWS Cloud design best practice?

A. Tight coupling of components
B. Single point of failure
C. High availability
D. Overprovisioning of resources

QUESTION NO: 297
Which of the following is an example of how moving to the AWS Cloud reduces upfront cost?

A. By replacing large variable costs with lower capital investments
B. By replacing large capital investments with lower variable costs
C. By allowing the provisioning of compute and storage at a fixed level to meet peak demand
D. By replacing the repeated scaling of virtual servers with a simpler fixed-scale model

QUESTION NO: 298
When designing a typical three-tier web application, which AWS services and/or features improve availability and reduce the impact failures? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Auto Scaling for Amazon EC2 instances
B. Amazon VPC subnet ACLs to check the health of a service
C. Distributed resources across multiple Availability Zones
D. AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) to move Amazon EC2 instances into a different region
E. Distributed resources across multiple AWS points of presence

QUESTION NO: 299
Which cloud design principle aligns with AWS Cloud best practices?

A. Create fixed dependencies among application components
B. Aggregate services on a single instance
C. Deploy applications in a single Availability Zone
D. Distribute the compute load across multiple resources

QUESTION NO: 300
Which of the following are recommended practices for managing IAM users? (Choose two.)

A. Require IAM users to change their passwords after a specified period of time
B. Prevent IAM users from reusing previous passwords
C. Recommend that the same password be used on AWS and other sites
D. Require IAM users to store their passwords in raw text
E. Disable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for IAM users

QUESTION NO: 301
A company is migrating from on-premises data centers to the AWS Cloud and is looking for hands-on help with the project. How can the company get this support? (Choose two.)

A. Ask for a quote from the AWS Marketplace team to perform a migration into the company’s AWS account.
B. Contact AWS Support and open a case for assistance
C. Use AWS Professional Services to provide guidance and to set up an AWS Landing Zone in the company’s AWS account
D. Select a partner from the AWS Partner Network (APN) to assist with the migration
E. Use Amazon Connect to create a new request for proposal (RFP) for expert assistance in migrating to the AWS Cloud.

QUESTION NO: 302
How does the AWS Enterprise Support Concierge team help users?

A. Supporting application development
B. Providing architecture guidance
C. Answering billing and account inquires
D. Answering questions regarding technical support cases

QUESTION NO: 303
An application designed to span multiple Availability Zones is described as:

A. being highly available
B. having global reach
C. using an economy of scale
D. having elasticity

QUESTION NO: 304
A new service using AWS must be highly available. Yet, due to regulatory requirements, all of its Amazon EC2 instances must be located in a single geographic area. According to best practices, to meet these requirements, the EC2 instances must be placed in at least two:

A. AWS Regions
B. Availability Zones
C. subnets
D. placement groups

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/

QUESTION NO: 305
Which AWS tool is used to compare the cost of running an application on-premises to running the application in the AWS Cloud?

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
C. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
D. Cost Explorer

QUESTION NO: 306
A company has multiple AWS accounts within AWS Organizations and wants to apply the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances benefit to a single account only. Which action should be taken?

A. Purchase the Reserved Instances from master payer account and turn off Reserved Instance sharing.
B. Enable billing alerts in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.
C. Purchase the Reserved Instances in individual linked accounts and turn off Reserved Instance sharing from the payer level.
D. Enable Reserved Instance sharing in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.

QUESTION NO: 307
Which situation should be reported to the AWS Abuse team?

A. In Availability Zone has a service disruption
B. An intrusion attempt is made from an AWS IP address
C. A user has trouble accessing an Amazon S3 bucket from an AWS IP address
D. A user needs to change payment methods due to a compromise

QUESTION NO: 308
A company is planning to launch an ecommerce site in a single AWS Region to a worldwide user base. Which AWS services will allow the company to reach users and provide low latency and high transfer speeds? (Choose two.)

A. Application Load Balancer
B. AWS Global Accelerator
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. Amazon CloudFront
E. AWS Lambda

QUESTION NO: 309
Which AWS service or resource is serverless?

A. AWS Lambda
B. Amazon EC2 instances
C. Amazon Lightsail
D. Amazon ElastiCache

QUESTION NO: 310
Which of the following are components of Amazon VPC? (Choose two.)

A. Objects
B. Subnets
C. Buckets
D. Internet gateways
E. Access key

QUESTION NO: 311
AWS Budgets can be used to:

A. prevent a given user from creating a resource
B. send an alert when the utilization of Reserved Instances drops below a certain percentage
C. set resource limits in AWS accounts to prevent overspending
D. split an AWS bill across multiple forms of payment

QUESTION NO: 312
Which of the following will enhance the security of access to the AWS Management Console? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Secrets Manager
B. AWS Certificate Manager
C. AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA)
D. Security groups
E. Password policies

QUESTION NO: 313
The AWS Trusted Advisor checks include recommendations regarding which of the following? (Choose two.)

A. Information on Amazon S3 bucket permissions
B. AWS service outages
C. Multi-factor authentication enabled on the AWS account root user
D. Available software patches
E. Number of users in the account

QUESTION NO: 314
Which functions can users perform using AWS KMS?

A. Create and manage AWS access keys for the AWS account root user
B. Create and manage AWS access keys for an AWS account IAM user
C. Create and manage keys for encryption and decryption of data
D. Create and manage keys for multi-factor authentication

QUESTION NO: 315
How does AWS Trusted Advisor provide guidance to users of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. It identifies software vulnerabilities in applications running on AWS
B. It provides a list of cost optimization recommendations based on current AWS usage
C. It detects potential security vulnerabilities caused by permissions settings on account resources
D. It automatically corrects potential security issues caused by permissions settings on account resources
E. It provides proactive alerting whenever an Amazon EC2 instance has been compromised

QUESTION NO: 316
Which of the following are advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. AWS manages the maintenance of the cloud infrastructure
B. AWS manages the security of applications built on AWS
C. AWS manages capacity planning for physical servers
D. AWS manages the development of applications on AWS
E. AWS manages cost planning for virtual servers

QUESTION NO: 317
A user deploys an Amazon RDS DB instance in multiple Availability Zones. This strategy involves which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

A. Performance efficiency
B. Reliability
C. Cost optimization
D. Security

QUESTION NO: 318
Which AWS services provide a user with connectivity between the AWS Cloud and on-premises resources? (Choose two.)

A. AWS VPN
B. Amazon Connect
C. Amazon Cognito
D. AWS Direct Connect
E. AWS Managed Services

QUESTION NO: 319
Which AWS service is used to pay AWS bills, and monitor usage and budget costs?

A. AWS Billing and Cost Management
B. Consolidated billing
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. Amazon QuickSight

QUESTION NO: 320
Which element of the AWS global infrastructure consists of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, which are housed in separate facilities?

A. AWS Regions
B. Availability Zones
C. Edge locations
D. Amazon CloudFront

QUESTION NO: 321
Which Amazon VPC feature enables users to capture information about the IP traffic that reaches
Amazon EC2 instances?

A. Security groups
B. Elastic network interfaces
C. Network ACLs
D. VPC Flow Logs

QUESTION NO: 322
Which AWS service can be used to automatically scale an application up and down without making capacity planning decisions?

A. Amazon AutoScaling
B. Amazon Redshift
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS Lambda

QUESTION NO: 323
AWS Enterprise Support users have access to which service or feature that is not available to users with other AWS Support plans?

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS Support case
C. Concierge team
D. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 324
A company wants to migrate a MySQL database to AWS but does not have the budget for Database Administrators to handle routine tasks including provisioning, patching, and performing backups.
Which AWS service will support this use case?

A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon DocumentDB
D. Amazon ElastiCache

QUESTION NO: 325
A company wants to expand from one AWS Region into a second AWS Region. What does the company need to do to start supporting the new Region?

A. Contact an AWS Account Manager to sign a new contract
B. Move an Availability Zone to the new Region
C. Begin deploying resources in the second Region
D. Download the AWS Management Console for the new Region

QUESTION NO: 326
A user must meet compliance and software licensing requirements that state a workload must be hosted on a physical server. Which Amazon EC2 instance pricing option will meet these requirements?

A. Dedicated Hosts
B. Dedicated Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Reserved Instances

QUESTION NO: 327
Which AWS service will provide a way to generate encryption keys that can be used to encrypt data? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Macie
B. AWS Certificate Manager
C. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
D. AWS Secrets Manager
E. AWS CloudHSM

QUESTION NO: 328
A company is planning to migrate from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. Which AWS tool or service provides detailed reports on estimated cost savings after migration?

A. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
B. Cost Explorer
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Migration Hub

QUESTION NO: 329
What can assist in evaluating an application for migration to the cloud? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS Professional Services
C. AWS Systems Manager
D. AWS Partner Network (APN)
E. AWS Secrets Manager

QUESTION NO: 330
Which AWS service helps users meet contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated hardware appliances within the AWS Cloud?

A. AWS Secrets Manager
B. AWS CloudHSM
C. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
D. AWS Directory Service

QUESTION NO: 331
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, the customer manages which of the following? (Choose two.)

A. Decommissioning of physical storage devices
B. Security group and ACL configuration
C. Patch management of an Amazon RDS instance operating system
D. Controlling physical access to data centers
E. Patch management of an Amazon EC2 instance operating system

QUESTION NO: 332
Which AWS service is suitable for an event-driven workload?

A. Amazon EC2
B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
C. AWS Lambda
D. Amazon Lumberyard

QUESTION NO: 333
What is a value proposition of the AWS Cloud?

A. AWS is responsible for security in the AWS Cloud
B. No long-term contract is required
C. Provision new servers in days
D. AWS manages user applications in the AWS Cloud

QUESTION NO: 334
What is a characteristic of Amazon S3 cross-region replication?

A. Both source and destination S3 buckets must have versioning disabled
B. The source and destination S3 buckets cannot be in different AWS Regions
C. S3 buckets configured for cross-region replication can be owned by a single AWS account or by different accounts
D. The source S3 bucket owner must have the source and destination AWS Regions disabled for their account

QUESTION NO: 335
What is a user responsible for when running an application in the AWS Cloud?

A. Managing physical hardware
B. Updating the underlying hypervisor
C. Providing a list of users approved for data center access
D. Managing application software updates

QUESTION NO: 336
A company that does business online needs to quickly deliver new functionality in an iterative manner, minimizing the time to market. Which AWS Cloud feature can provide this?

A. Elasticity
B. High availability
C. Agility
D. Reliability

QUESTION NO: 337
Which features or services can be used to monitor costs and expenses for an AWS account? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Cost and Usage report
B. AWS product pages
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. Billing alerts and Amazon CloudWatch alarms
E. AWS Price List API

QUESTION NO: 338
Amazon Route 53 enables users to:

A. encrypt data in transit
B. register DNS domain names
C. generate and manage SSL certificates
D. establish a dedicated network connection to AWS

QUESTION NO: 339
Which AWS service helps identify malicious or unauthorized activities in AWS accounts and workloads?

A. Amazon Rekognition
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon GuardDuty
D. Amazon CloudWatch

QUESTION NO: 340
A company wants to try a third-party ecommerce solution before deciding to use it long term. Which AWS service or tool will support this effort?

A. AWS Marketplace
B. AWS Partner Network (APN)
C. AWS Managed Services
D. AWS Service Catalog

QUESTION NO: 341
Which AWS service is a managed NoSQL database?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Aurora
D. Amazon RDS for MariaDB

QUESTION NO: 342
Which AWS service should be used to create a billing alarm?

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. Amazon QuickSight

QUESTION NO: 343
A company is hosting a web application in a Docker container on Amazon EC2. AWS is responsible for which of the following tasks?

A. Scaling the web application and services developed with Docker
B. Provisioning or scheduling containers to run on clusters and maintain their availability
C. Performing hardware maintenance in the AWS facilities that run the AWS Cloud
D. Managing the guest operating system, including updates and security patches

QUESTION NO: 344
Users are reporting latency when connecting to a website with a global customer base. Which AWS service will improve the customer experience by reducing latency?

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
D. AWS Transit Gateway

QUESTION NO: 345
Which actions represent best practices for using AWS IAM? (Choose two.)

A. Configure a strong password policy
B. Share the security credentials among users of AWS accounts who are in the same Region
C. Use access keys to log in to the AWS Management Console
D. Rotate access keys on a regular basis
E. Avoid using IAM roles to delegate permissions

QUESTION NO: 346
Which AWS feature or service can be used to capture information about incoming and outgoing traffic in an AWS VPC infrastructure?

A. AWS Config
B. VPC Flow Logs
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS CloudTrail

QUESTION NO: 347
A company wants to use an AWS service to monitor the health of application endpoints, with the ability to route traffic to healthy regional endpoints to improve application availability.
Which service will support these requirements?

A. Amazon Inspector
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. AWS Global Accelerator
D. Amazon CloudFront

QUESTION NO: 348
According to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, what change management steps should be taken to achieve reliability in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Use AWS Config to generate an inventory of AWS resources
B. Use service limits to prevent users from creating or making changes to AWS resources
C. Use AWS CloudTrail to record AWS API calls into an auditable log file
D. Use AWS Certificate Manager to whitelist approved AWS resources and services
E. Use Amazon GuardDuty to validate configuration changes made to AWS resources

QUESTION NO: 349
Which service can be used to monitor and receive alerts for AWS account root user AWS Management Console sign-in events?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS IAM

QUESTION NO: 350
Which design principle should be considered when architecting in the AWS Cloud?

A. Think of servers as non-disposable resources
B. Use synchronous integration of services
C. Design loosely coupled components
D. Implement the least permissive rules for security groups

QUESTION NO: 351
Which AWS services can be used to move data from on-premises data centers to AWS? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Snowball
B. AWS Lambda
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
E. Amazon API Gateway

QUESTION NO: 352
A batch workload takes 5 hours to finish on an Amazon EC2 instance. The amount of data to be processed doubles monthly and the processing time is proportional. What is the best cloud architecture to address this consistently growing demand?

A. Run the application on a bigger EC2 instance size.
B. Switch to an EC2 instance family that better matches batch requirements.
C. Distribute the application across multiple EC2 instances and run the workload in parallel.
D. Run the application on a bare metal EC2 instance.

QUESTION NO: 353
Each department within a company has its own independent AWS account and its own payment method. New company leadership wants to centralize departmental governance and consolidate payments.
How can this be achieved using AWS services or features?

A. Forward monthly invoices for each account. Then create IAM roles to allow cross-account access.
B. Create a new AWS account. Then configure AWS Organizations and invite all existing accounts to join.
C. Configure AWS Organizations in each of the existing accounts. Then link all accounts together.
D. Use Cost Explorer to combine costs from all accounts. Then replicate IAM policies across accounts.

QUESTION NO: 354
The ability to horizontally scale Amazon EC2 instances based on demand is an example of which concept in the AWS Cloud value proposition?

A. Economy of scale
B. Elasticity
C. High availability
D. Agility

QUESTION NO: 355
An ecommerce company anticipates a huge increase in web traffic for two very popular upcoming shopping holidays. Which AWS service or feature can be configured to dynamically adjust resources to meet this change in demand?

A. AWS CloudTrail
B. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
C. Amazon Forecast
D. AWS Config

QUESTION NO: 356
Which AWS service enables users to securely connect to AWS resources over the public internet?

A. Amazon VPC peering
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS VPN
D. Amazon Pinpoint

QUESTION NO: 357
Which tool is used to forecast AWS spending?

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS Organizations
C. Cost Explorer
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 358
A company is running an ecommerce application hosted in Europe. To decrease latency for users who access the website from other parts of the world, the company would like to cache frequently accessed static content closer to the users.
Which AWS service will support these requirements?

A. Amazon ElastiCache
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

QUESTION NO: 359
Which of the following is a component of the AWS Global Infrastructure?

A. Amazon Alexa
B. AWS Regions
C. Amazon Lightsail
D. AWS Organizations

QUESTION NO: 360
Which AWS service will help users determine if an application running on an Amazon EC2 instance has sufficient CPU capacity?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS Config
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 361
Why is it beneficial to use Elastic Load Balancers with applications?

A. They allow for the conversion from Application Load Balancers to Classic Load Balancers.
B. They are capable of handling constant changes in network traffic patterns.
C. They automatically adjust capacity.
D. They are provided at no charge to users.

QUESTION NO: 362
Which tasks are the customer’s responsibility in the AWS shared responsibility model? (Choose two.)

A. Infrastructure facilities access management
B. Cloud infrastructure hardware lifecycle management
C. Configuration management of user’s applications
D. Networking infrastructure protection
E. Security groups configuration

QUESTION NO: 363
IT systems should be designed to reduce interdependencies, so that a change or failure in one component does not cascade to other components. This is an example of which principle of cloud architecture design?

A. Scalability
B. Loose coupling
C. Automation
D. Automatic scaling

QUESTION NO: 364
Which AWS service or feature can enhance network security by blocking requests from a particular network for a web application on AWS? (Choose two.)

A. AWS WAF
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. AWS Organizations
E. Network ACLs

QUESTION NO: 365
An application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that access a shared file system simultaneously. Which AWS storage service should be used?

A. Amazon EBS
B. Amazon EFS
C. Amazon S3
D. AWS Artifact

QUESTION NO: 366
A web application is hosted on AWS using an Elastic Load Balancer, multiple Amazon EC2 instances, and Amazon RDS. Which security measures fall under the responsibility of AWS? (Choose two.)

A. Running a virus scan on EC2 instances
B. Protecting against IP spoofing and packet sniffing
C. Installing the latest security patches on the RDS instance
D. Encrypting communication between the EC2 instances and the Elastic Load Balancer
E. Configuring a security group and a network access control list (NACL) for EC2 instances

QUESTION NO: 367
What is the benefit of elasticity in the AWS Cloud?

A. Ensure web traffic is automatically spread across multiple AWS Regions.
B. Minimize storage costs by automatically archiving log data.
C. Enable AWS to automatically select the most cost-effective services.
D. Automatically adjust the required compute capacity to maintain consistent performance.

QUESTION NO: 368
The continual reduction of AWS Cloud pricing is due to:

A. pay-as-you go pricing
B. the AWS global infrastructure
C. economies of scale
D. reserved storage pricing

QUESTION NO: 369
A company needs an Amazon S3 bucket that cannot have any public objects due to compliance requirements. How can this be accomplished?

A. Enable S3 Block Public Access from the AWS Management Console.
B. Hold a team meeting to discuss the importance if only uploading private S3 objects.
C. Require all S3 objects to be manually approved before uploading.
D. Create a service to monitor all S3 uploads and remove any public uploads.

QUESTION NO: 370
A Cloud Practitioner identifies a billing issue after examining the AWS Cost and Usage report in the AWS Management Console. Which action can be taken to resolve this?

A. Open a detailed case related to billing and submit it to AWS Support for help.
B. Upload data describing the issue to a new object in a private Amazon S3 bucket.
C. Create a pricing application and deploy it to a right-sized Amazon EC2 instance for more information.
D. Proceed with creating a new dashboard in Amazon QuickSight.

QUESTION NO: 371
What does the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator do?

A. Compares on-premises costs to colocation environments
B. Estimates monthly billing based on projected usage
C. Estimates power consumption at existing data centers
D. Estimates CPU utilization

QUESTION NO: 372
Who is responsible for patching the guest operating system for Amazon RDS?

A. The AWS Product team
B. The customer Database Administrator
C. Managed partners
D. AWS Support

QUESTION NO: 373
Which AWS services may be scaled using AWS Auto Scaling? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon Route 53
E. Amazon Redshift

QUESTION NO: 374
Which of the following are benefits of AWS Global Accelerator? (Choose two.)

A. Reduced cost to run services on AWS
B. Improved availability of applications deployed on AWS
C. Higher durability of data stored on AWS
D. Decreased latency to reach applications deployed on AWS
E. Higher security of data stored on AWS

QUESTION NO: 375
A user who wants to get help with billing and reactivate a suspended account should submit an account and billing request to:

A. the AWS Support forum
B. AWS Abuse
C. an AWS Solutions Architect
D. AWS Support

QUESTION NO: 376
Which AWS Cloud best practice uses the elasticity and agility of cloud computing?

A. Provision capacity based on past usage and theoretical peaks
B. Dynamically and predictively scale to meet usage demands
C. Build the application and infrastructure in a data center that grants physical access
D. Break apart the application into loosely coupled components

QUESTION NO: 377
Which method helps to optimize costs of users moving to the AWS Cloud?

A. Paying only for what is used
B. Purchasing hardware before it is needed
C. Manually provisioning cloud resources
D. Purchasing for the maximum possible load

QUESTION NO: 378
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a customer responsibility?

A. Installing security patches for the Xen and KVM hypervisors
B. Installing operating system patches for Amazon DynamoDB
C. Installing operating system security patches for Amazon EC2 database instances
D. Installing operating system security patches for Amazon RDS database instances

QUESTION NO: 379
The AWS Cost Management tools give users the ability to do which of the following? (Choose two.)

A. Terminate all AWS resources automatically if budget thresholds are exceeded.
B. Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account.
C. Create budgets and receive notifications if current of forecasted usage exceeds the budgets.
D. Switch automatically to Reserved Instances or Spot Instances, whichever is most cost-effective.
E. Move data stored in Amazon S3 to a more cost-effective storage class.

QUESTION NO: 380
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, the security and patching of the guest operating system is the responsibility of:

A. AWS Support
B. the customer
C. AWS Systems Manager
D. AWS Config

QUESTION NO: 381
Which AWS service makes it easy to create and manage AWS users and groups, and provide them with secure access to AWS resources at no charge?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. Amazon Connect
C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
D. AWS Firewall Manager

QUESTION NO: 382
Which AWS service provides on-demand of AWS security and compliance documentation?

A. AWS Directory Service
B. AWS Artifact
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 383
Which AWS service can be used to turn text into life-like speech?

A. Amazon Polly
B. Amazon Transcribe
C. Amazon Rekognition
D. Amazon Lex

QUESTION NO: 384
What is one of the core principles to follow when designing a highly available application in the AWS Cloud?

A. Design using a serverless architecture
B. Assume that all components within an application can fail
C. Design AWS Auto Scaling into every application
D. Design all components using open-source code

QUESTION NO: 385
A user needs to generate a report that outlines the status of key security checks in an AWS account. The report must include:

The status of Amazon S3 bucket permissions.

Whether multi-factor authentication is enabled for the AWS account root user.

If any security groups are configured to allow unrestricted access.

Where can all this information be found in one location?

A. Amazon QuickSight dashboard
B. AWS CloudTrail trails
C. AWS Trusted Advisor report
D. IAM credential report

QUESTION NO: 386
Which Amazon EC2 pricing model should be used to comply with per-core software license requirements?

A. Dedicated Hosts
B. On-Demand Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Reserved Instances

QUESTION NO: 387
Which of the AWS global infrastructure is used to cache copies of content for faster delivery to users across the globe?

A. AWS Regions
B. Availability Zones
C. Edge locations
D. Data centers

QUESTION NO: 388
Using AWS Config to record, audit, and evaluate changes to AWS resources to enable traceability is an example of which AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar?

A. Security
B. Operational excellence
C. Performance efficiency
D. Cost optimization

QUESTION NO: 389
A user needs to quickly deploy a non-relational database on AWS. The user does not want to manage the underlying hardware or the database software. Which AWS service can be used to accomplish this?

A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Aurora
D. Amazon Redshift

QUESTION NO: 390
A Cloud Practitioner is developing a disaster recovery plan and intends to replicate data between multiple geographic areas. Which of the following meets these requirements?

A. AWS Accounts
B. AWS Regions
C. Availability Zones
D. Edge locations

QUESTION NO: 391
Which features and benefits does the AWS Organizations service provide? (Choose two.)

A. Establishing real-time communications between members of an internal team
B. Facilitating the use of NoSQL databases
C. Providing automated security checks
D. Implementing consolidated billing
E. Enforcing the governance of AWS accounts

QUESTION NO: 392
Which AWS service is used to automate configuration management using Chef and Puppet?

A. AWS Config
B. AWS OpsWorks
C. AWS CloudFormation
D. AWS Systems Manager

QUESTION NO: 393
Which tool is best suited for combining the billing of AWS accounts that were previously independent from one another?

A. Detailed billing report
B. Consolidated billing
C. AWS Cost and Usage report
D. Cost allocation report

QUESTION NO: 394
The AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator is used to:

A. receive reports that break down AWS Cloud compute costs by duration, resource, or tags
B. estimate savings when comparing the AWS Cloud to an on-premises environment
C. estimate a monthly bill for the AWS Cloud resources that will be used
D. enable billing alerts to monitor actual AWS costs compared to estimated costs

QUESTION NO: 395
Which AWS services can be used to provide network connectivity between an on-premises network and a VPC? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Route 53
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS Data Pipeline
D. AWS VPN
E. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 396
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following are customer responsibilities? (Choose two.)

A. Setting up server-side encryption on an Amazon S3 bucket
B. Amazon RDS instance patching
C. Network and firewall configurations
D. Physical security of data center facilities
E. Compute capacity availability

QUESTION NO: 397
What is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan level that will provide users with access to the AWS Support API?

A. Developer
B. Enterprise
C. Business
D. Basic

QUESTION NO: 398
A company has deployed several relational databases on Amazon EC2 instances. Every month, the database software vendor releases new security patches that need to be applied to the databases.
What is the MOST efficient way to apply the security patches?

A. Connect to each database instance on a monthly basis, and download and apply the necessary security patches from the vendor.
B. Enable automatic patching for the instances using the Amazon RDS console.
C. In AWS Config, configure a rule for the instances and the required patch level.
D. Use AWS Systems Manager to automate database patching according to a schedule.

QUESTION NO: 399
A company wants to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to deploy a global commercial application. The deployment solution should be built with the highest redundancy and fault tolerance.
Based on this situation, the Amazon EC2 instances should be deployed:

A. in a single Availability Zone in one AWS Region
B. with multiple Elastic Network Interfaces belonging to different subnets
C. across multiple Availability Zones in one AWS Region
D. across multiple Availability Zones in two AWS Regions

QUESTION NO: 400
A company has an application with users in both Australia and Brazil. All the company infrastructure is currently provisioned in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia, and
Brazilian users are experiencing high latency. What should the company do to reduce latency?

A. Implement AWS Direct Connect for users in Brazil
B. Provision resources in the South America (São Paulo) Region in Brazil
C. Use AWS Transit Gateway to quickly route users from Brazil to the application
D. Launch additional Amazon EC2 instances in Sydney to handle the demand

QUESTION NO: 401
An Amazon EC2 instance runs only when needed yet must remain active for the duration of the process. What is the most appropriate purchasing option?

A. Dedicated Instances
B. Spot Instances
C. On-Demand Instances
D. Reserved Instances

QUESTION NO: 402
Which AWS dashboard displays relevant and timely information to help users manage events in progress, and provides proactive notifications to help plan for scheduled activities?

A. AWS Service Health Dashboard
B. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
C. AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard
D. Amazon CloudWatch dashboard

QUESTION NO: 403
Which AWS hybrid storage service enables a user’s on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage?

A. AWS Backup
B. Amazon Connect
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. AWS Storage Gateway

QUESTION NO: 404
Which of the following acts as a virtual firewall at the Amazon EC2 instance level to control traffic for one or more instances?

A. Access keys
B. Virtual private gateways
C. Security groups
D. Access Control Lists (ACL)

QUESTION NO: 405
What is the most efficient way to establish network connectivity from on-premises to multiple VPCs in different AWS Regions?

A. Use AWS Direct Connect
B. Use AWS VPN
C. Use AWS Client VPN
D. Use an AWS Transit Gateway

QUESTION NO: 406
Which AWS Support plan provides access to architectural and operational reviews, as well as 24/7 access to Senior Cloud Support Engineers through email, online chat, and phone?

A. Basic
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Enterprise

QUESTION NO: 407
Which AWS service or feature helps restrict the AWS services, resources, and individual API actions the users and roles in each member account can access?

A. Amazon Cognito
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Shield
D. AWS Firewall Manager

QUESTION NO: 408
What is the best resource for a user to find compliance-related information and reports about AWS?

A. AWS Artifact
B. AWS Marketplace
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS Support

QUESTION NO: 409
Which Amazon S3 storage class is optimized to provide access to data with lower resiliency requirements, but rapid access when needed such as duplicate backups?

A. Amazon S3 Standard
B. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
C. Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access
D. Amazon S3 Glacier

QUESTION NO: 410
What is an Availability Zone in AWS?

A. One or more physical data centers
B. A completely isolated geographic location
C. One or more edge locations based around the world
D. A data center location with a single source of power and networking

QUESTION NO: 411
Which AWS services can be used as infrastructure automation tools? (Choose two.)

A. AWS CloudFormation
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS Batch
D. AWS OpsWorks
E. Amazon QuickSight

QUESTION NO: 412
Which AWS service enables users to create copies of resources across AWS Regions?

A. Amazon ElastiCache
B. AWS CloudFormation
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS Systems Manager

QUESTION NO: 413
A user would like to encrypt data that is received, stored, and managed by AWS CloudTrail. Which AWS service will provide this capability?

A. AWS Secrets Manager
B. AWS Systems Manager
C. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
D. AWS Certificate Manager

QUESTION NO: 414
Which AWS Cloud benefit eliminates the need for users to try estimating future infrastructure usage?

A. Easy and fast deployment of applications in multiple Regions around the world
B. Security of the AWS Cloud
C. Elasticity of the AWS Cloud
D. Lower variable costs due to massive economies of scale

Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 415
What credential components are required to gain programmatic access to an AWS account? (Choose two.)

A. An access key ID
B. A primary key
C. A secret access key
D. A user ID
E. A secondary key

QUESTION NO: 416
Which of the following are AWS compute services? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Lightsail
B. AWS Systems Manager
C. AWS CloudFormation
D. AWS Batch
E. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 417
How can a company separate costs for network traffic, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and other AWS services by department?

A. Add department-specific tags to each resource
B. Create a separate VPC for each department
C. Create a separate AWS account for each department
D. Use AWS Organizations

QUESTION NO: 418
What is a benefit of consolidated billing for AWS accounts?

A. Access to AWS Personal Health Dashboard
B. Combined usage volume discounts
C. Improved account security
D. Centralized AWS IAM

QUESTION NO: 419
Which AWS service will allow a user to set custom cost and usage limits, and will alert when the thresholds are exceeded?

A. AWS Organizations
B. AWS Budgets
C. Cost Explorer
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 420
Which AWS service provides the ability to detect inadvertent data leaks of personally identifiable information (PII) and user credential data?

A. Amazon GuardDuty
B. Amazon Inspector
C. Amazon Macie
D. AWS Shield

QUESTION NO: 421
Which tool can be used to monitor AWS service limits?

A. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
D. AWS Cost and Usage report

QUESTION NO: 422
A company has distributed its workload on both the AWS Cloud and some on-premises servers. What type of architecture is this?

A. Virtual private network
B. Virtual private cloud
C. Hybrid cloud
D. Private cloud

QUESTION NO: 423
Which of the following describes a security best practice that can be implemented using AWS IAM?

A. Disable AWS Management Console access for all users
B. Generate secret keys for every IAM user
C. Grant permissions to users who are required to perform a given task only
D. Store AWS credentials within Amazon EC2 instances

QUESTION NO: 424
What can be used to automate and manage secure, well-architected, multi-account AWS environments?

A. AWS shared responsibility model
B. AWS Control Tower
C. AWS Security Hub
D. AWS Well-Architected Tool

QUESTION NO: 425
Which AWS service or feature allows a user to easily scale connectivity among thousands of VPCs?
A. VPC peering
B. AWS Transit Gateway
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. AWS Global Accelerator

QUESTION NO: 426
A company needs protection from expanded distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on its website and assistance from AWS experts during such events. Which AWS managed service will meet these requirements?

A. AWS Shield Advanced
B. AWS Firewall Manager
C. AWS WAF
D. Amazon GuardDuty

QUESTION NO: 427
A company’s application has flexible start and end times. Which Amazon EC2 pricing model will be the MOST cost-effective?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Spot Instances
C. Reserved Instances
D. Dedicated Hosts

QUESTION NO: 428
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, what are the customer’s responsibilities? (Choose two.)

A. Physical and environmental security
B. Physical network devices including firewalls
C. Storage device decommissioning
D. Security of data in transit
E. Data integrity authentication

QUESTION NO: 429
A cloud practitioner has a data analysis workload that is infrequently executed and can be interrupted without harm. To optimize for cost, which Amazon EC2 purchasing option should be used?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Dedicated Hosts

QUESTION NO: 430
Which AWS container service will help a user install, operate, and scale the cluster management infrastructure?

A. Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
D. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

QUESTION NO: 431
Which of the following allows an application running on an Amazon EC2 instance to securely write data to an Amazon S3 bucket without using long term credentials?

A. Amazon Cognito
B. AWS Shield
C. AWS IAM role
D. AWS IAM user access key

QUESTION NO: 432
A company with a Developer-level AWS Support plan provisioned an Amazon RDS database and cannot connect to it. Who should the developer contact for this level of support?

A. AWS Support using a support case
B. AWS Professional Services
C. AWS technical account manager
D. AWS consulting partners

QUESTION NO: 433
What is the purpose of having an internet gateway within a VPC?

A. To create a VPN connection to the VPC
B. To allow communication between the VPC and the Internet
C. To impose bandwidth constraints on internet traffic
D. To load balance traffic from the Internet across Amazon EC2 instances

QUESTION NO: 434
A company must ensure that its endpoint for a database instance remains the same after a single Availability Zone service interruption. The application needs to resume database operations without the need for manual administrative intervention.
How can these requirements be met?

A. Use multiple Amazon Route 53 routes to the standby database instance endpoint hosted on AWS Storage Gateway.
B. Configure Amazon RDS Multi-Availability Zone deployments with automatic failover to the standby.
C. Add multiple Application Load Balancers and deploy the database instance with AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
D. Deploy a single Network Load Balancer to distribute incoming traffic across multiple Amazon
CloudFront origins.

QUESTION NO: 435
Which AWS managed service can be used to distribute traffic between one or more Amazon EC2 instances?

A. NAT gateway
B. Elastic Load Balancing
C. Amazon Athena
D. AWS PrivateLink

QUESTION NO: 436
AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations on which of the following? (Choose two.)

A. Cost optimization
B. Auditing
C. Serverless architecture
D. Performance
E. Scalability

QUESTION NO: 437
Which of the following tasks can only be performed after signing in with AWS account root user credentials? (Choose two.)

A. Closing an AWS account
B. Creating a new IAM policy
C. Changing AWS Support plans
D. Attaching a role to an Amazon EC2 instance
E. Generating access keys for IAM users

QUESTION NO: 438
Fault tolerance refers to:

A. the ability of an application to accommodate growth without changing design
B. how well and how quickly an application’s environment can have lost data restored
C. how secure your application is
D. the built-in redundancy of an application’s components

QUESTION NO: 439
A company operating in the AWS Cloud requires separate invoices for specific environments, such as development, testing, and production. How can this be achieved?

A. Use multiple AWS accounts
B. Use resource tagging
C. Use multiple VPCs
D. Use Cost Explorer

QUESTION NO: 440
Which AWS service can be used in the application deployment process?

A. AWS AppSync
B. AWS Batch
C. AWS CodePipeline
D. AWS DataSync

QUESTION NO: 441
What can be used to reduce the cost of running Amazon EC2 instances? (Choose two.)

A. Spot Instances for stateless and flexible workloads
B. Memory optimized instances for high-compute workloads
C. On-Demand Instances for high-cost and sustained workloads
D. Reserved Instances for sustained workloads
E. Spend limits set using AWS Budgets

QUESTION NO: 442
A company is launching an e-commerce site that will store and process credit card data. The company requires information about AWS compliance reports and AWS agreements.
Which AWS service provides on-demand access to these items?

A. AWS Certificate Manager
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Artifact
D. AWS CloudTrail

QUESTION NO: 443
Which AWS service or feature allows the user to manager cross-region application traffic?

A. Amazon AppStream 2.0
B. Amazon VPC
C. Elastic Load Balancer
D. Amazon Route 53

QUESTION NO: 444
Which AWS service can be used to track unauthorized API calls?

A. AWS Config
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 445
A user needs to regularly audit and evaluate the setup of all AWS resources, identify noncompliant accounts, and be notified when a resource changes.
Which AWS service can be used to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Resource Access Manager
D. AWS Systems Manager

QUESTION NO: 446
A user is planning to launch two additional Amazon EC2 instances to increase availability. Which action should the user take?

A. Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.
B. Launch the instances as EC2 Reserved Instances in the same AWS Region and the same Availability Zone.
C. Launch the instances in multiple AWS Regions, but in the same Availability Zone.
D. Launch the instances as EC2 Spot Instances in the same AWS Region, but in different Availability Zones.

QUESTION NO: 447
A company must store critical business data in Amazon S3 with a backup to another AWS Region. How can this be achieved?

A. Use an Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) to cache data globally
B. Set up Amazon S3 cross-region replication to another AWS Region
C. Configure the AWS Backup service to back up to the data to another AWS Region
D. Take Amazon S3 bucket snapshots and copy that data to another AWS Region

QUESTION NO: 448
Which AWS Cloud service can send alerts to customers if custom spending thresholds are exceeded?

A. AWS Budgets
B. AWS Cost Explorer
C. AWS Cost Allocation Tags
D. AWS Organizations

QUESTION NO: 449
What is the recommended method to request penetration testing on AWS resources?

A. Open a support case
B. Fill out the Penetration Testing Request Form
C. Request a penetration test from your technical account manager
D. Contact your AWS sales representative

QUESTION NO: 450
A user needs to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3. Which AWS service can meet these requirements?

A. Amazon Inspector
B. Amazon Macie
C. Amazon GuardDuty
D. AWS Secrets Manager

QUESTION NO: 451
Which components are required to build a successful site-to-site VPN connection on AWS? (Choose two.)

A. Internet gateway
B. NAT gateway
C. Customer gateway
D. Transit gateway
E. Virtual private gateway

QUESTION NO: 452
Which Amazon EC2 pricing option is best suited for applications with short-term, spiky, or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted?

A. Spot Instances
B. Dedicated Hosts
C. On-Demand Instances
D. Reserved Instances

QUESTION NO: 453
Which AWS cloud architecture principle states that systems should reduce interdependencies?

A. Scalability
B. Services, not servers
C. Removing single points of failure
D. Loose coupling

QUESTION NO: 454
What is the MOST effective resource for staying up to date on AWS security announcements?

A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
B. AWS Secrets Manager
C. AWS Security Bulletins
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 455
Which AWS service offers persistent storage for a file system?

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon EC2 instance store
C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
D. Amazon ElastiCache

QUESTION NO: 456
Which of the following allows AWS users to manage cost allocations for billing?

A. Tagging resources
B. Limiting who can create resources
C. Adding a secondary payment method
D. Running all operations on a single AWS account

QUESTION NO: 457
Which AWS service allows users to download security and compliance reports about the AWS infrastructure on demand?

A. Amazon GuardDuty
B. AWS Security Hub
C. AWS Artifact
D. AWS Shield

QUESTION NO: 458
Which of the following AWS services are serverless? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Lambda
B. Amazon Elasticsearch Service
C. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
D. Amazon DynamoDB
E. Amazon Redshift

QUESTION NO: 459
Which AWS managed services can be used to extend an on-premises data center to the AWS network? (Choose two.)

A. AWS VPN
B. NAT gateway
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. Amazon Connect
E. Amazon Route 53

QUESTION NO: 460
Which requirement must be met for a member account to be unlinked from an AWS Organizations account?

A. The linked account must be actively compliant with AWS System and Organization Controls (SOC).
B. The payer and the linked account must both create AWS Support cases to request that the member account be unlinked from the organization.
C. The member account must meet the requirements of a standalone account.
D. The payer account must be used to remove the linked account from the organization.

QUESTION NO: 461
What AWS benefit refers to a customer’s ability to deploy applications that scale up and down the meet variable demand?

A. Elasticity
B. Agility
C. Security
D. Scalability

QUESTION NO: 462
During a compliance review, one of the auditors requires a copy of the AWS SOC 2 report. Which service should be used to submit this request?

A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. AWS Artifact
D. Amazon S3

QUESTION NO: 463
A company wants to set up a highly available workload in AWS with a disaster recovery plan that will allow the company to recover in case of a regional service interruption.
Which configuration will meet these requirements?

A. Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using the additional Availability Zones in the AWS Region for the disaster recovery site.
B. Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using another AWS Region for the disaster recovery site.
C. Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using a local AWS Region for the disaster recovery site.
D. Run across two AWS Regions, using a third AWS Region for the disaster recovery site.

QUESTION NO: 464
A company has a 500 TB image repository that needs to be transported to AWS for processing. Which AWS service can import this data MOST cost-effectively?

A. AWS Snowball
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS VPN
D. Amazon S3

QUESTION NO: 465
Which AWS service can run a managed PostgreSQL database that provides online transaction processing (OLTP)?

A. Amazon DynamoDB
B. Amazon Athena
C. Amazon RDS
D. Amazon EMR

QUESTION NO: 466
Which of the following assist in identifying costs by department? (Choose two.)

A. Using tags on resources
B. Using multiple AWS accounts
C. Using an account manager
D. Using AWS Trusted Advisor
E. Using Consolidated Billing

QUESTION NO: 467
A company wants to allow full access to an Amazon S3 bucket for a particular user. Which element in the S3 bucket policy holds the user details that describe who needs access to the S3 bucket?

A. Principal
B. Action
C. Resource
D. Statement

QUESTION NO: 468
Which AWS service allows for effective cost management of multiple AWS accounts?

A. AWS Organizations
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 469
A company is piloting a new customer-facing application on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for one month. What pricing model is appropriate?

A. Reserved Instances
B. Spot Instances
C. On-Demand Instances
D. Dedicated Hosts

QUESTION NO: 470
Which AWS tools automatically forecast future AWS costs?

A. AWS Support Center
B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
D. Cost Explorer

QUESTION NO: 471
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of AWS?

A. Enabling server-side encryption for objects stored in S3
B. Applying AWS IAM security policies
C. Patching the operating system on an Amazon EC2 instance
D. Applying updates to the hypervisor

QUESTION NO: 472
A user is able to set up a master payer account to view consolidated billing reports through:

A. AWS Budgets.
B. Amazon Macie.
C. Amazon QuickSight.
D. AWS Organizations.

QUESTION NO: 473
Performing operations as code is a design principle that supports which pillar of the AWS Well-
Architected Framework?

A. Performance efficiency
B. Operational excellence
C. Reliability
D. Security

QUESTION NO: 474
Which design principle is achieved by following the reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

A. Vertical scaling
B. Manual failure recovery
C. Testing recovery procedures
D. Changing infrastructure manually

QUESTION NO: 475
What is a characteristic of Convertible Reserved Instances (RIs)?

A. Users can exchange Convertible RIs for other Convertible RIs from a different instance family.
B. Users can exchange Convertible RIs for other Convertible RIs in different AWS Regions.
C. Users can sell and buy Convertible RIs on the AWS Marketplace.
D. Users can shorten the term of their Convertible RIs by merging them with other Convertible RIs.

QUESTION NO: 476
The user is fully responsible for which action when running workloads on AWS?

A. Patching the infrastructure components
B. Implementing controls to route application traffic
C. Maintaining physical and environmental controls
D. Maintaining the underlying infrastructure components

QUESTION NO: 477
An architecture design includes Amazon EC2, an Elastic Load Balancer, and Amazon RDS.
What is the BEST way to get a monthly cost estimation for this architecture?

A. Open an AWS Support case, provide the architecture proposal, and ask for a monthly cost estimation.
B. Collect the published prices of the AWS services and calculate the monthly estimate.
C. Use the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator to estimate the monthly cost.
D. Use the AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator to estimate the monthly cost.

QUESTION NO: 478
Which are benefits of using Amazon RDS over Amazon EC2 when running relational databases on AWS? (Choose two.)

A. Automated backups
B. Schema management
C. Indexing of tables
D. Software patching
E. Extract, transform, and load (ETL) management

QUESTION NO: 479
What does the Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class offer?

A. Payment flexibility by reserving storage capacity
B. Long-term retention of data by copying the data to an encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume
C. Automatic cost savings by moving objects between tiers based on access pattern changes
D. Secure, durable, and lowest cost storage for data archival

QUESTION NO: 480
A company has multiple data sources across the organization and wants to consolidate data into one data warehouse.
Which AWS service can be used to meet this requirement?

A. Amazon DynamoDB
B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon Athena
D. Amazon QuickSight

QUESTION NO: 481
Which AWS service can be used to track resource changes and establish compliance?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS Config
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 482
A user has underutilized on-premises resources. Which AWS Cloud concept can BEST address this issue?

A. High availability
B. Elasticity
C. Security
D. Loose coupling

QUESTION NO: 483
A user has a stateful workload that will run on Amazon EC2 for the next 3 years. What is the MOST cost-effective pricing model for this workload?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Reserved Instances
C. Dedicated Instances
D. Spot Instances

QUESTION NO: 484
A cloud practitioner needs an Amazon EC2 instance to launch and run for 7 hours without interruptions. What is the most suitable and cost-effective option for this task?

A. On-Demand Instance
B. Reserved Instance
C. Dedicated Host
D. Spot Instance

QUESTION NO: 485
Which of the following are benefits of using AWS Trusted Advisor? (Choose two.)

A. Providing high-performance container orchestration
B. Creating and rotating encryption keys
C. Detecting underutilized resources to save costs
D. Improving security by proactively monitoring the AWS environment
E. Implementing enforced tagging across AWS resources

QUESTION NO: 486
A developer has been hired by a large company and needs AWS credentials. Which are security best practices that should be followed? (Choose two.)

A. Grant the developer access to only the AWS resources needed to perform the job.
B. Share the AWS account root user credentials with the developer.
C. Add the developer to the administrator’s group in AWS IAM.
D. Configure a password policy that ensures the developer’s password cannot be changed.
E. Ensure the account password policy requires a minimum length.

QUESTION NO: 487
Which AWS storage service is designed to transfer petabytes of data in and out of the cloud?

A. AWS Storage Gateway
B. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
C. Amazon Lightsail
D. AWS Snowball

QUESTION NO: 488
Which service provides a user the ability to warehouse data in the AWS Cloud?

A. Amazon EFS
B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon RDS
D. Amazon VPC

QUESTION NO: 489
A user is planning to migrate an application workload to the AWS Cloud. Which control becomes the responsibility of AWS once the migration is complete?

A. Patching the guest operating system
B. Maintaining physical and environmental controls
C. Protecting communications and maintaining zone security
D. Patching specific applications

QUESTION NO: 490
Which services can be used to deploy applications on AWS? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
B. AWS Config
C. AWS OpsWorks
D. AWS Application Discovery Service
E. Amazon Kinesis

QUESTION NO: 491
Which AWS service can be used to provide an on-demand, cloud-based contact center?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. Amazon Connect
C. AWS Support Center
D. AWS Managed Services

QUESTION NO: 492
What tool enables customers without an AWS account to estimate costs for almost all AWS services?

A. Cost Explorer
B. TCO Calculator
C. AWS Budgets
D. Simple Monthly Calculator

QUESTION NO: 493
Which component must be attached to a VPC to enable inbound Internet access?

A. NAT gateway
B. VPC endpoint
C. VPN connection
D. Internet gateway

QUESTION NO: 494
Which pricing model would result in maximum Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) savings for a database server that must be online for one year?

A. Spot Instance
B. On-Demand Instance
C. Partial Upfront Reserved Instance
D. No Upfront Reserved Instance

QUESTION NO: 495
A company has a MySQL database running on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The company now requires higher availability in the event of an outage. Which set of tasks would meet this requirement?

A. Add an Application Load Balancer in front of the EC2 instance
B. Configure EC2 Auto Recovery to move the instance to another Availability Zone
C. Migrate to Amazon RDS and enable Multi-AZ
D. Enable termination protection for the EC2 instance to avoid outages

QUESTION NO: 496
A company wants to ensure that AWS Management Console users are meeting password complexity requirements.
How can the company configure password complexity?

A. Using an AWS IAM user policy
B. Using an AWS Organizations service control policy (SCP)
C. Using an AWS IAM account password policy
D. Using an AWS Security Hub managed insight

QUESTION NO: 497
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer’s responsibility?

A. Patching guest OS and applications
B. Patching and fixing flaws in the infrastructure
C. Physical and environmental controls
D. Configuration of AWS infrastructure devices

QUESTION NO: 498
Which of the following tasks is required to deploy a PCI-compliant workload on AWS?

A. Use any AWS service and implement PCI controls at the application layer
B. Use an AWS service that is in-scope for PCI compliance and raise an AWS support ticket to enable PCI compliance at the application layer
C. Use any AWS service and raise an AWS support ticket to enable PCI compliance on that service
D. Use an AWS service that is in scope for PCI compliance and apply PCI controls at the application layer

QUESTION NO: 499
A company is building an application that requires the ability to send, store, and receive messages between application components. The company has another requirement to process messages in first-in, first-out (FIFO) order.
Which AWS service should the company use?

A. AWS Step Functions
B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
C. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
D. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

QUESTION NO: 500
AnyCompany recently purchased Example Corp. Both companies use AWS resources, and AnyCompany wants a single aggregated bill. Which option allows AnyCompany to receive a single bill?

A. Example Corp. must submit a request to its AWS solutions architect or AWS technical account manager to link the accounts and consolidate billing.
B. AnyCompany must create a new support case in the AWS Support Center requesting that both bills be combined.
C. Send an invitation to join the organization from AnyCompany’s AWS Organizations master account to Example Corp.
D. Migrate the Example Corp. VPCs, Amazon EC2 instances, and other resources into the AnyCompany AWS account.

QUESTION NO: 501
Which tool can be used to create alerts when the actual or forecasted cost of AWS services exceeds a certain threshold?

A. Cost Explorer
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost and Usage Report
D. AWS CloudTrail

QUESTION NO: 502
A user has limited knowledge of AWS services, but wants to quickly deploy a scalable Node.js application in the AWS Cloud.
Which service should be used to deploy the application?

A. AWS CloudFormation
B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
C. Amazon EC2
D. AWS OpsWorks

QUESTION NO: 503
Which AWS Trusted Advisor check is available to all AWS users?

A. Core checks
B. All checks
C. Cost optimization checks
D. Fault tolerance checks

QUESTION NO: 504
A web developer is concerned that a DDoS attack could target an application. Which AWS services or features can help protect against such an attack? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Shield
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. Amazon CloudFront
D. AWS Support Center
E. AWS Service Health Dashboard

QUESTION NO: 505
Which AWS service gives users on-demand, self-service access to AWS compliance control reports?

A. AWS Config
B. Amazon GuardDuty
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Artifact

QUESTION NO: 506
A company wants to provide one of its employees with access to Amazon RDS. The company also wants to limit the interaction to only the AWS CLI and AWS software development kits
(SDKs). Which combination of actions should the company take to meet these requirements while following the principles of least privilege? (Choose two.)

A. Create an IAM user and provide AWS Management Console access only.
B. Create an IAM user and provide programmatic access only.
C. Create an IAM role and provide AWS Management Console access only.
D. Create an IAM policy with administrator access and attach it to the IAM user.
E. Create an IAM policy with Amazon RDS access and attach it to the IAM user.

QUESTION NO: 507
A company has a compliance requirement to record and evaluate configuration changes, as well as perform remediation actions on AWS resources. Which AWS service should the company use?

A. AWS Config
B. AWS Secrets Manager
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 508
What are the advantages of deploying an application with Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones? (Choose two.)

A. Preventing a single point of failure
B. Reducing the operational costs of the application
C. Allowing the application to serve cross-region users with low latency
D. Increasing the availability of the application
E. Increasing the load of the application

QUESTION NO: 509
A workload on AWS will run for the foreseeable future by using a consistent number of Amazon EC2 instances.
What pricing model will minimize cost while ensuring that compute resources remain available?

A. Dedicated Hosts
B. On-Demand Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Reserved Instances

QUESTION NO: 510
Which tool can be used to identify scheduled changes to the AWS infrastructure?

A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Billing Dashboard
D. AWS Config

QUESTION NO: 511
Which of the following is the customer’s responsibility when using Amazon RDS?

A. Patching the operating system of underlying hardware
B. Controlling traffic to and from the database through security groups
C. Running backups that enable point-in-time recovery of a DB instance
D. Replacing failed DB instances

QUESTION NO: 512
What is the customer’s responsibility when using AWS Lambda?

A. Operating system configuration
B. Application management
C. Platform management
D. Code encryption

QUESTION NO: 513
A company wants to be notified when its AWS Cloud costs or usage exceed defined thresholds. Which AWS service will support these requirements?

A. AWS Budgets
B. Cost Explorer
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. Amazon Macie

QUESTION NO: 514
Which AWS service provides the ability to host a NoSQL database in the AWS Cloud?

A. Amazon Aurora
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon RDS
D. Amazon Redshift

QUESTION NO: 515
Which AWS service allows customers to purchase unused Amazon EC2 capacity at an often discounted rate?

A. Reserved Instances
B. On-Demand Instances
C. Dedicated Instances
D. Spot Instances

QUESTION NO: 516
Which AWS service or feature requires an internet service provider (ISP) and a colocation facility to be implemented?

A. AWS VPN
B. Amazon Connect
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. Internet gateway

QUESTION NO: 517
Which AWS services offer compute capabilities? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
D. Amazon Cognito
E. AWS Lambda

QUESTION NO: 518
Which AWS service can be used to privately store and manage versions of source code?

A. AWS CodeBuild
B. AWS CodeCommit
C. AWS CodePipeline
D. AWS CodeStar

QUESTION NO: 519
Which AWS service should a cloud practitioner use to identify security vulnerabilities of an AWS account?

A. AWS Secrets Manager
B. Amazon Cognito
C. Amazon Macie
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 520
A company wants to ensure its infrastructure is designed for fault tolerance and business continuity in the event of an environmental disruption. Which AWS infrastructure component should the company replicate across?

A. Edge locations
B. Availability Zones
C. Regions
D. Amazon Route 53

QUESTION NO: 521
Which AWS service or feature is used to send both text and email messages from distributed applications?

A. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
B. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
C. Amazon CloudWatch alerts
D. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

QUESTION NO: 522
Which AWS Cloud design principles can help increase reliability? (Choose two.)

A. Using monolithic architecture
B. Measuring overall efficiency
C. Testing recovery procedures
D. Adopting a consumption model
E. Automatically recovering from failure

QUESTION NO: 523
A company has an AWS environment that consists of a VPC, multiple subnets, and many Amazon EC2 instances in the subnets. An engineer wants to restrict inbound traffic to one particular EC2 instance without affecting the other EC2 instances.
Which AWS service or feature should the engineer use to meet this requirement?

A. Network ACLs
B. Security groups
C. Amazon GuardDuty
D. AWS Shield

QUESTION NO: 524
A company wants to connect to AWS over a private, low-latency connection from its remote office. What is the recommended method to meet these requirements?

A. Create a VPN tunnel
B. Connect across the public internet
C. Use VPC peering to create a connection.
D. Use AWS Direct Connect.

QUESTION NO: 525
Which AWS service can be used to retrieve compliance reports on demand?

A. AWS Secrets Manager
B. AWS Artifact
C. AWS Security Hub
D. AWS Certificate Manager

QUESTION NO: 526
A company has an AWS-hosted website located behind an Application Load Balancer. The company wants to safeguard the website from SQL injection or cross-site scripting. Which AWS service should the company use?

A. Amazon GuardDuty
B. AWS WAF
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 527
How should a web application be deployed to ensure high availability in the AWS Cloud?

A. Deploy multiple instances of the application in multiple Availability Zones.
B. Deploy multiple instances of the application in a single Availability Zone.
C. Deploy the application to a compute-optimized Amazon EC2 instance in a single Availability Zone.
D. Deploy the application in one Amazon EC2 instance in an Auto Scaling group.

QUESTION NO: 528
A company is running a self-managed Oracle database directly on Amazon EC2 for its steadystate database. The company wants to reduce compute costs. Which option should the company use to maximize savings over a 3-year term?
A. EC2 Dedicated Instances
B. EC2 Spot Instances
C. EC2 Reserved Instances
D. EC2 On-Demand Instances

Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 529
An external auditor has requested that a company provide a list of all its IAM users, including the status of users’ credentials and access keys. What it the SIMPLEST way to provide this information?

A. Create an IAM user account for the auditor, granting the auditor administrator permissions.
B. Take a screenshot of each user’s page in the AWS Management Console, then provide the screenshots to the auditor.
C. Download the IAM credential report, then provide the report to the auditor.
D. Download the AWS Trusted Advisor report, then provide the report to the auditor.

QUESTION NO: 530
What are the benefits of consolidated billing for AWS Cloud services? (Choose two.)

A. Volume discounts
B. A minimal additional fee for use
C. One bill for multiple accounts
D. Installment payment options
E. Custom cost and usage budget creation

QUESTION NO: 531
A company is expecting a short-term spike in internet traffic for its application. During the traffic increase, the application cannot be interrupted. The company also needs to minimize cost and maximize flexibility.
Which Amazon EC2 instance type should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Spot Instances
C. Reserved Instances
D. Dedicated Hosts

QUESTION NO: 532
A company wants to track AWS resource configuration changes for compliance reasons. Which AWS feature can be used to meet this requirement?

A. AWS Cost and Usage Report
B. AWS Organizations service control policies (SCPs)
C. AWS Config rules
D. VPC Flow Logs

QUESTION NO: 533
A company is building an application that needs to deliver images and videos globally with minimal latency. Which approach can the company use to accomplish this in a cost effective manner?

A. Deliver the content through Amazon CloudFront.
B. Store the content on Amazon S3 and enable S3 cross-region replication.
C. Implement a VPN across multiple AWS Regions.
D. Deliver the content through AWS PrivateLink.

QUESTION NO: 534
The AWS IAM best practice for granting least privilege is to:

A. apply an IAM policy to an IAM group and limit the size of the group.
B. require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all IAM users.
C. require each IAM user who has different permissions to have multiple passwords.
D. apply an IAM policy only to IAM users who require it.

QUESTION NO: 535
Which cloud computing benefit does AWS demonstrate with its ability to offer lower variable costs as a result of high purchase volumes?

A. Pay-as-you-go pricing
B. High availability
C. Global reach
D. Economies of scale

QUESTION NO: 536
A pharmaceutical company operates its infrastructure in a single AWS Region. The company has thousands of VPCs in a various AWS accounts that it wants to interconnect.
Which AWS service or feature should the company use to help simplify management and reduce operational costs?

A. VPC endpoint
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS Transit Gateway
D. VPC peering

QUESTION NO: 537
How can AWS enable a company to control expenses as an application’s usage changes unpredictably?

A. AWS will refund the cost difference if a customer moves to larger servers.
B. The application can be built to scale up or down automatically as resources are needed
C. Spot instances will automatically be used if the price is lower than on-demand instances.
D. Amazon CloudWatch will automatically predict what resources are needed.

QUESTION NO: 538
Which AWS service or feature can be used to prevent SQL injection attacks?

A. Security groups
B. Network ACLs
C. AWS WAF
D. IAM policy

QUESTION NO: 539
Which AWS service can help a company detect an outage of its website servers and redirect users to alternate servers?

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. Amazon GuardDuty
C. Amazon Route 53
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 540
Which of the following IT tasks does AWS perform to offload a company’s IT resource management responsibilities? (Choose two.)

A. Configuring operating system firewalls
B. Setting up access controls for data
C. Backing up databases
D. Configuring database user accounts
E. Installing operating systems

Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 541
According to security best practices, how should an Amazon EC2 instance be given access to an Amazon S3 bucket?

A. Hard code an IAM user’s secret key and access key directly in the application, and upload the file.
B. Store the IAM user’s secret key and access key in a text file on the EC2 instance, read the keys, then upload the file.
C. Have the EC2 instance assume a role to obtain the privileges to upload the file.
D. Modify the S3 bucket policy so that any service can upload to it at any time.

QUESTION NO: 542
A user can increase operational efficiency in the AWS Cloud by:

A. leveraging AWS managed services.
B. right-sizing AWS infrastructure.
C. manually creating all necessary resources.
D. managing their own software licenses.

QUESTION NO: 543
Which AWS service automatically handles application health monitoring?

A. Amazon API Gateway
B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
C. AWS Lambda
D. AWS Config

QUESTION NO: 544
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which task is the customer’s responsibility when managing AWS Lambda functions?

A. Creating versions of Lambda functions
B. Maintaining server and operating systems
C. Scaling Lambda resources according to demand
D. Updating the Lambda runtime environment

QUESTION NO: 545
A company needs to track the activity in its AWS accounts, and needs to know when an API call is made against its AWS resources.
Which AWS tool or service can be used to meet these requirements?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. Amazon Inspector
C. AWS Cloud Trail
D. AWS IAM

QUESTION NO: 546
According to the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following are AWS responsibilities? (Choose two.)

A. Network infrastructure and virtualization of infrastructure
B. Security of application data
C. Guest operating systems
D. Physical security of hardware
E. Credentials and policies

QUESTION NO: 547
Which of the following services can be used to block network traffic to an instance? (Choose two.)

A. Security groups
B. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs
C. Network ACLs
D. Amazon CloudWatch
E. AWS CloudTrail

QUESTION NO: 548
A company wants to transfer petabytes of data as quickly as possible from on-premises locations to the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service should the company use?

A. AWS Snowball
B. AWS Global Accelerator
C. Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
D. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 549
A company has refined its workload to use specific AWS services to improve efficiency and reduce cost. Which best practice for cost governance does this example show?

A. Resource controls
B. Cost allocation
C. Architecture optimization
D. Tagging enforcement

QUESTION NO: 550
A company hosts images in an Amazon S3 bucket for a public-facing website that is viewed by millions of users around the globe. Which AWS service will deliver this content with reduced latency?

A. AWS WAF
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. Amazon Cloud Front
D. AWS CloudFormation

QUESTION NO: 551
Which of the following is an AWS best practice for managing an AWS account root user?

A. Keep the root user password with the security team.
B. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for the root user.
C. Create an access key for the root user.
D. Keep the root user password consistent for compliance purposes.

QUESTION NO: 552
A company wants to securely access an Amazon S3 bucket from an Amazon EC2 instance without accessing the internet. What should the company use to accomplish this goal?

A. VPN connection
B. Internet gateway
C. VPC endpoint
D. NAT gateway

QUESTION NO: 553
Which statement is true about AWS global infrastructure?

A. Availability Zones can span multiple AWS Regions.
B. A VPC can have different subnets in different AWS Regions.
C. AWS Regions consist of multiple Availability Zones.
D. A single subnet can span multiple Availability Zones.

QUESTION NO: 554
Which AWS service or feature provides information about ongoing or upcoming scheduled events that can affect an AWS account?

A. AWS Config
B. AWS Systems Manager
C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 555
A bank needs to store recordings of calls made to its contact center for 6 years. The recordings must be accessible within 48 hours from the time they are requested. Which AWS service will provide a secure and cost-effective solution for retaining these files?

A. Amazon DynamoDB
B. Amazon S3 Glacier
C. Amazon Connect
D. Amazon ElastiCache

QUESTION NO: 556
A media company wants to distribute video content to millions of users worldwide over the internet. The company wants to use the AWS global network backbone to distribute cached content with low latency and high data transfer speeds.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Global Accelerator
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 557
The AWS global infrastructure consists of Regions, Availability Zones, and what else?

A. VPCs
B. Data centers
C. Dark fiber network links
D. Edge locations

QUESTION NO: 558
Which AWS Trusted Advisor feature is available exclusively to users with AWS Business Support or AWS Enterprise Support?

A. Notification setup
B. Refresh checks
C. AWS Support API
D. Action links

QUESTION NO: 559
A company is required to store its data close to its primary users. Which benefit of the AWS Cloud supports this requirement?

A. Security
B. High availability
C. Elasticity
D. Global footprint

QUESTION NO: 560
Which of the following contribute to total cost of ownership of a workload running in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Hardware maintenance
B. Power and cooling
C. Storage costs
D. Space for data center
E. Network costs

QUESTION NO: 561
Using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), what can be attached to an Amazon EC2 instance to make service requests?

A. Group
B. Role
C. Policy
D. Access key

QUESTION NO: 562
A company previously lost data that was stored in an on-premises data center. To protect against future loss of data, the company wants to use AWS to automatically launch thousands of its machines in a fully provisioned state in minutes, in a format that supports data restoration.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. AWS Storage Gateway
C. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
D. AWS Backup

QUESTION NO: 563
Which aspect of AWS infrastructure enables global deployment of compute and storage?

A. Availability Zones
B. Regions
C. Tags
D. Resource groups

QUESTION NO: 564
A security officer wants to enable IPsec communications to securely connect users from onpremises networks to AWS. Which AWS service or feature should the officer use?

A. Amazon VPC
B. AWS VPN
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. Amazon Connect

QUESTION NO: 565
Which of the following can be used to describe infrastructure as code in the AWS Cloud?

A. AWS CLI
B. AWS CloudFormation
C. AWS CodeDeploy
D. AWS Amplify

QUESTION NO: 566
Which of the following are benefits of running a database on Amazon RDS compared to an onpremises database? (Choose two.)

A. RDS backups are managed by AWS.
B. RDS supports any relational database.
C. RDS has no database engine licensing costs.
D. RDS database compute capacity can be easily scaled.
E. RDS inbound traffic control (for example, security groups) is managed by AWS.

QUESTION NO: 567
Which AWS service is designed to help users who want to use machine learning for natural language processing (NLP) but do not have experience in machine learning?

A. Amazon Comprehend
B. Amazon SageMaker
C. AWS Deep Learning AMIs (DLAMI)
D. Amazon Rekognition

QUESTION NO: 568
Which AWS service or feature allows a user to establish a dedicated network connection between a company’s on-premises data center and the AWS Cloud?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. VPC peering
C. AWS VPN
D. Amazon Route 53

QUESTION NO: 569
A company needs 24/7 phone, email, and chat access, with a response time of less than 1 hour if a production system has a service interruption. Which AWS Support plan meets these requirements at the LOWEST cost?

A. Basic
B. Developer
C. Business
D. Enterprise

QUESTION NO: 570
How can a user achieve high availability for a web application hosted on AWS?

A. Use a Classic Load Balancer across multiple AWS Regions.
B. Use an Application Load Balancer across multiple Availability Zones in one AWS Region.
C. Set up automatic scaling and load balancing with another application instance running on premises.
D. Use the AWS Region with the highest number of Availability Zones.

QUESTION NO: 571
A company would like to host its MySQL databases on AWS and maintain full control over the operating system, database installation, and configuration. Which AWS service should the company use to host the databases?

A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon EC2
C. Amazon DynamoDB
D. Amazon Aurora

QUESTION NO: 572
What AWS billing support resource is available to all support levels?

A. AWS Support concierge
B. AWS Customer Service
C. AWS technical account manager
D. AWS Business Support

QUESTION NO: 573
Which AWS services help to improve application performance by reducing latency while accessing content globally? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS VPN
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. AWS Global Accelerator
E. Amazon S3 Glacier

QUESTION NO: 574
Which AWS service provides the ability to quickly run one-time queries on data in Amazon S3?

A. Amazon EMR
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Redshift
D. Amazon Athena

QUESTION NO: 575
Which task requires the use of AWS account root account user credentials?

A. Closing an AWS account
B. Creating a log file
C. Modifying IAM user permissions
D. Deleting IAM users

QUESTION NO: 576
Which AWS service does AWS Snowball Edge natively support?

A. AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS)
B. Amazon Aurora
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. Amazon EC2

QUESTION NO: 577
A company is building a new archiving system on AWS that will store terabytes of data. The company will NOT retrieve the data often. Which Amazon S3 storage class will MINIMIZE the cost of the system?

A. S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
B. S3 Glacier
C. S3 Intelligent-Tiering
D. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

QUESTION NO: 578
Which type of AWS infrastructure deployment puts AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to end users to run latency-sensitive applications?

A. AWS Regions
B. Availability Zones
C. Local Zones
D. Edge locations

QUESTION NO: 579
Which AWS service enables users to monitor for specific phrases, values, or patterns and set up alarms based on metrics?

A. AWS IQ
B. Amazon Comprehend
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. Amazon CloudWatch Logs

QUESTION NO: 580
A company wants durable storage for static content and infinitely scalable data storage infrastructure at the lowest cost. Which AWS service should the company choose?

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
B. Amazon S3
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

QUESTION NO: 581
Which cloud computing advantage is a company applying when it uses AWS Regions to increase application availability to users in different countries?

A. Pay-as-you-go pricing
B. Capacity forecasting
C. Economies of scale
D. Global reach

QUESTION NO: 582
A user has an AWS account with a Business-level AWS Support plan and needs assistance with handling a production service disruption. Which action should the user take?

A. Contact the dedicated AWS technical account manager (TAM).
B. Contact the dedicated AWS Concierge Support team.
C. Open a business-critical system down support case.
D. Open a production system down support case.

QUESTION NO: 583
A company is looking for a way to encrypt data stored on Amazon S3. Which AWS managed service can be used to help to accomplish this?

A. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
B. AWS Secrets Manager
C. AWS Resource Access Manager
D. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

QUESTION NO: 584
When a user wants to utilize their existing per-socket, per-core, or per-virtual machine software licenses for a Microsoft Windows server running on AWS, which Amazon EC2 instance type is required?

A. Spot Instances
B. Dedicated Instances
C. Dedicated Hosts
D. Reserved Instances

QUESTION NO: 585
How can consolidated billing within AWS Organizations help lower overall monthly expenses?

A. By providing a consolidated view of monthly billing across multiple accounts
B. By pooling usage across multiple accounts to achieve a pricing tier discount
C. By automating the creation of new accounts through APIs
D. By leveraging service control policies (SCPs) for centralized service management

QUESTION NO: 586
A solutions architect needs to maintain a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances so that any impaired instances are replaced with new ones. Which AWS service should the solutions architect use?

A. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
B. Amazon GuardDuty
C. AWS Shield
D. AWS Auto Scaling

QUESTION NO: 587
An application deployed in the AWS Cloud has unpredictable usage patterns and is running workloads that cannot be interrupted. What is the MOST cost-effective Amazon EC2 pricing option for this application?

A. Dedicated Instances
B. Spot Instances
C. Reserved Instances
D. On-Demand Instances

QUESTION NO: 588
A company is migrating its on-premises data center to AWS and wants to provide NFS access to its Linux clients. Which AWS service should the company use?

A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
D. Amazon S3 Glacier

QUESTION NO: 589
An application is receiving SQL injection attacks from multiple external resources. Which AWS service or feature can help automate mitigation against these attacks?

A. AWS WAF
B. Security groups
C. Elastic Load Balancer
D. Network ACL

QUESTION NO: 590
Which AWS service enables risk auditing of an AWS account by tracking and recording user actions and source IP addresses?

A. AWS X-Ray
B. AWS Shield
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS CloudTrail

QUESTION NO: 591
According to the AWS shared responsibility model, which task is the customer’s responsibility?

A. Maintaining the infrastructure needed to run AWS Lambda
B. Updating the operating system of Amazon DynamoDB instances
C. Maintaining Amazon S3 infrastructure
D. Updating the guest operating system on Amazon EC2 instances

QUESTION NO: 592
A company must process a large amount of data from social media accounts by making graphical queries with high throughput. Which AWS service will help the company design a cloud architecture that will meet these requirements?

A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon Neptune
D. Amazon Redshift

QUESTION NO: 593
Which databases are available on Amazon RDS? (Choose two.)

A. Sybase
B. Microsoft SQL Server
C. IBM Db2
D. MongoDB
E. PostgreSQL

QUESTION NO: 594
Under the AWS shared responsibility model, what is the customer’s responsibility when using an AWS managed service?

A. Physical security of the data centers
B. Server-side encryption
C. Customer data
D. Operating system patching

QUESTION NO: 595
Which service is an AWS-managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process large amounts of data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances?

A. Amazon EMR
B. Amazon EC2
C. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
D. Amazon Redshift

QUESTION NO: 596
A company with AWS Enterprise Support needs help understanding its monthly AWS bill and wants to implement billing best practices. Which AWS tool or resource is available to accomplish these goals?

A. Resource tagging
B. AWS Concierge Support team
C. AWS Abuse team
D. AWS Support

QUESTION NO: 597
A company spends several months upgrading its on-premises infrastructure every few years. The company wants to reduce infrastructure procurement time by migrating to the AWS Cloud. What is the main benefit of migrating to the AWS Cloud for this use case?

A. AWS will help move the existing hardware to the AWS data centers.
B. The company will have increased agility with on-demand access to IT resources.
C. Enterprise support will be available to help with recurring application installation and setup.
D. The company will experience less downtime with Multi-AZ deployments.

QUESTION NO: 598
According to the AWS shared responsibility model, when using Amazon RDS, who is responsible for scheduling and performing backups?

A. AWS is responsible for both tasks.
B. The customer is responsible for scheduling and AWS is responsible for performing backups.
C. The customer is responsible for both tasks.
D. AWS is responsible for scheduling and the user is responsible for performing backups.

QUESTION NO: 599
Which of the following can be used to identify a specific user who stopped an Amazon EC2 instance?

A. AWS CloudTrail
B. Amazon Inspector
C. Amazon CloudWatch
D. VPC Flow Logs

QUESTION NO: 600
A company has a managed IAM policy that does not grant the necessary permissions for users to accomplish required tasks. How can this be resolved?

A. Enable AWS Shield Advanced
B. Create a custom IAM policy
C. Use a third-party web application firewall (WAF) managed rule from the AWS Marketplace
D. Use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to create a customer-managed key

QUESTION NO: 601
Which pricing model will interrupt a running Amazon EC2 instance if capacity becomes temporarily unavailable?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Standard Reserved Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Convertible Reserved Instances

QUESTION NO: 602
Which security-related task is the responsibility of the customer in the AWS Cloud?

A. Securing infrastructure at data centers
B. Maintaining firewall configurations at a hardware level
C. Maintaining networking among hardware components
D. Maintaining server-side encryption

QUESTION NO: 603
Which AWS service acts as a data extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool to make it easy to prepare data for analytics?

A. Amazon QuickSight
B. Amazon Athena
C. AWS Glue
D. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

QUESTION NO: 604
A company recently migrated to AWS and wants to enable intelligent threat protection and continuous monitoring across all of its AWS accounts. Which AWS service should the company use to achieve this goal?

A. Amazon Macie
B. Amazon GuardDuty
C. AWS Shield
D. Amazon Detective

QUESTION NO: 605
A user can optimize Amazon EC2 costs by performing which of the following tasks? (Choose two.)

A. Implementing Auto Scaling groups to add and remove instances based on demand.
B. Creating a policy to restrict IAM users from creating new instances.
C. Setting a budget to limit spending on EC2 instances using AWS Budgets.
D. Purchasing Reserved Instances.
E. Adding EC2 instances to a second AWS Region that is geographically close to the end users.

QUESTION NO: 606
Which AWS services or features help decrease network latency for a globally dispersed user base? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon VPC
B. Elastic Load Balancer
C. Amazon CloudFront
D. AWS Direct Connect
E. AWS Global Accelerator

QUESTION NO: 607
AWS Trusted Advisor can monitor and provide advice on what characteristics of an AWS account? (Choose two.)

A. Compliance with security best practices
B. Application performance
C. Network utilization
D. Cost optimization
E. Compliance status

,D

QUESTION NO: 608
Which AWS service would identify if unrestricted access to a resource has been allowed by a security group?

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. VPC Flow Logs
D. AWS CloudTrail

QUESTION NO: 609
Which AWS service or component allows inbound traffic from the internet to access a VPC?

A. Internet gateway
B. NAT gateway
C. AWS WAF
D. VPC peering

QUESTION NO: 610
Which architecture concept describes the ability to deploy resources on demand and release resources when they are no longer needed?

A. High availability
B. Decoupled architecture
C. Resilience
D. Elasticity

QUESTION NO: 611
When using Amazon RDS, what is the customer responsible for?
A. Patching and maintenance of the underlying operating system.
B. Managing automatic backups of the database.
C. Controlling network access through security groups.
D. Replacing failed instances in the event of a hardware failure.

QUESTION NO: 612
Which controls are shared under the AWS shared responsibility model? (Choose two.)

A. Awareness and training
B. Patching of Amazon RDS
C. Configuration management
D. Physical and environmental controls
E. Service and communications protection or security

QUESTION NO: 613
A company has decided to migrate its production workloads to the AWS Cloud. Which actions can help reduce operational costs as part of the migration? (Choose two.)

A. Reduce overprovisioned instances.
B. Rehost all third-party licenses on AWS.
C. Implement a highly available architecture.
D. Use managed services.
E. Improve application security.

QUESTION NO: 614
Which design principles are enabled by the AWS Cloud to improve the operation of workloads? (Choose two.)

A. Minimize upfront design
B. Loose coupling
C. Disposable resources
D. Server design and concurrency
E. Minimal viable product

QUESTION NO: 615
To optimize costs and resource usage, a company needs to monitor the operational health of its entire system of AWS Cloud resources. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

A. AWS Organizations
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS Config

QUESTION NO: 616
If a user has an AWS account with an Enterprise-level AWS Support plan, who is the primary point of contact for billing or account inquiries?

A. Solutions architect
B. AWS Concierge Support team
C. An AWS Marketplace seller
D. AWS Partner Network (APN) partner

QUESTION NO: 617
Which AWS service will track user activity on AWS?

A. Amazon GuardDuty
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. Amazon CloudWatch

QUESTION NO: 618
A cloud practitioner needs an effective method to decrease application latency and increase performance for end users. Which services will help? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) for Kubernetes
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon AppStrearn 2.0
D. Amazon ElastiCache
E. Amazon CloudFront

QUESTION NO: 619
A company is building a business intelligence solution and wants to use dashboards for reporting purposes. Which AWS service can be used?

A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES)
C. Amazon QuickSight
D. Amazon Athena

QUESTION NO: 620
A company needs to transfer a large volume of data from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. The company’s internet connectivity is slow and unreliable. Which AWS service can facilitate this data transfer?

A. Amazon S3 Glacier
B. AWS Snowball
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

QUESTION NO: 621
A security officer wants a list of any potential vulnerabilities in Amazon EC2 security groups. Which AWS service should the officer use?

A. Amazon GuardDuty
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS Artifact

QUESTION NO: 622
A company has multiple departments. Each department uses its own AWS account. Which AWS service or tool can the company use to combine the billing for all accounts into one bill?

A. Amazon Forecast
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Organizations
D. AWS Marketplace

QUESTION NO: 623
A cloud practitioner needs to obtain AWS compliance reports before migrating an environment to the AWS Cloud. How can these reports be generated?

A. Contact the AWS Compliance team
B. Download the reports from AWS Artifact
C. Open a case with AWS Support
D. Generate the reports with Amazon Macie

QUESTION NO: 624
A large company has a workload that requires hardware to remain on premises. The company wants to use the same management and control plane services that it currently uses on AWS.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Device Farm
B. AWS Fargate
C. AWS Outposts
D. AWS Ground Station

QUESTION NO: 625
Which tasks require using AWS account root user credentials? (Choose two.)

A. Creating an Amazon EC2 key pair
B. Removing an IAM user from the administrators group
C. Changing the AWS Support plan
D. Creating an Amazon CloudFront key pair
E. Granting an IAM user full administrative access

QUESTION NO: 626
Which of the following are advantages of using Amazon EC2 instances over traditional onpremises servers? (Choose two.)

A. Pay-as-you-go pricing
B. Automation
C. Self-maintenance of servers
D. Agility
E. Access to physical hosts

QUESTION NO: 627
To avoid malicious compute activities, a user needs a quick way to determine if any Amazon EC2 instances have ports that allow unrestricted access. Which AWS service will support this requirement?

A. VPC Flow Logs
B. AWS WAF
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 628
What are the market advantages of running workloads in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Less staff time is required to deploy new workloads.
B. Increased time to market for new application features.
C. Higher acquisition costs to support peak workloads.
D. Increased productivity for application development teams.
E. A decrease in the average server CPU utilization.

QUESTION NO: 629
Which Amazon S3 storage class allows users to store data backups for long periods of time at the LOWEST cost?

A. S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
B. S3 Standard
C. S3 Glacier
D. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

QUESTION NO: 630
Which of the following technologies provides a secure network connection from on-premises to AWS?

A. Virtual Private Network
B. AWS Snowball
C. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
D. AWS Mobile Hub

QUESTION NO: 631
When comparing AWS Cloud with on-premises Total Cost of Ownership, which expenses must be considered? (Choose two.)

A. Physical storage hardware
B. Operating system administration
C. Network infrastructure of data center
D. Project management
E. Database schema development

QUESTION NO: 632
A company uses Amazon EC2 infrastructure to host steady-state workloads and needs to achieve significant cost savings. Which EC2 instance pricing model should the company select?

A. Reserved Instances
B. On-Demand Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Dedicated Hosts

QUESTION NO: 633
Which guideline is a well-architected design principle for building cloud applications?

A. Keep static data closer to compute resources.
B. Provision resources for peak capacity.
C. Design for automated recovery from failure.
D. Use tightly coupled components.

QUESTION NO: 634
What does the AWS Cloud provide to increase the speed and agility of execution for customers? (Choose two.)

A. Readily available resources with low provisioning times
B. Scalable compute capacity
C. Free Tier services usage
D. Access to AWS data centers
E. Lower resource provisioning cost

QUESTION NO: 635
A company believes an unauthorized user copied data from an Amazon S3 bucket to their own account.
Which AWS service will record the actions taken by the user?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS Infrastructure Event Management
D. AWS Systems Manager

QUESTION NO: 636
Which AWS service provides a simple way to set up a new multi-account AWS environment and govern it at scale?

A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS Security Hub
C. AWS Control Tower
D. AWS Resource Access Manager

QUESTION NO: 637
How does the AWS global infrastructure offer high availability and fault tolerance to its users?

A. The AWS infrastructure is made up of multiple AWS Regions within various Availability Zones located in areas that have low flood risk, and are interconnected with low-latency networks and redundant power supplies.
B. The AWS infrastructure consists of subnets containing various Availability Zones with multiple data centers located in the same geographic location.
C. AWS allows users to choose AWS Regions and data centers so that users can select the closest data centers in different Regions.
D. The AWS infrastructure consists of isolated AWS Regions with independent Availability Zones that are connected with low-latency networking and redundant power supplies.

QUESTION NO: 638
How can moving to the AWS Cloud help users reduce the time dedicated to operating system patching? (Choose two.)

A. Users can take advantage of managed services on AWS.
B. Users can outsource operating system patching to the AWS Support team.
C. AWS Professional Services will upgrade instances to the latest operating system versions.
D. Users have the ability to use license-included Amazon EC2 instances.
E. Users can take advantage of AWS Systems Manager features.

QUESTION NO: 639
A user has an AWS Business Support plan and requires detailed billing information. Which AWS resource will help?

A. AWS Concierge Support
B. AWS Service Catalog
C. AWS Budgets
D. AWS Cost and Usage Report

QUESTION NO: 640
A company has enabled billing alerts in its AWS account and wants to receive a notification through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) whenever its monthly bill exceeds a set amount.
Which AWS service or tool should the company use to achieve this?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. Cost Explorer
C. AWS Cost and Usage Report
D. AWS Pricing Calculator

QUESTION NO: 641
A user wants to move legacy applications to the AWS Cloud to reduce the total cost. Which option is the MOST cost-effective according to best practices?

A. Rewrite the legacy applications in an open-source language, such as Python.
B. Right-size the Amazon EC2 instances to prevent over-provisioning in terms of compute and memory.
C. Migrate relational databases to Amazon DynamoDB.
D. Reserve a data center facility with an upfront payment, which provides an additional discount.

QUESTION NO: 642
According to the AWS shared responsibility model, which task is the responsibility of AWS for workloads running on Amazon EC2?

A. Updating the physical hardware
B. Updating the operating system
C. Updating the database engine
D. Updating the user data

QUESTION NO: 643
A user needs to identify underutilized Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to reduce costs. Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?

A. AWS CloudTrail
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

QUESTION NO: 644
Which AWS service will help a company identify the user who deleted an Amazon EC2 instance yesterday?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 645
A company has existing software licenses that it wants to bring to AWS, but the licensing model requires licensing physical cores. How can the company meet this requirement in the AWS Cloud?

A. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance with default tenancy.
B. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance on a Dedicated Host.
C. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation.
D. Purchase Dedicated Reserved Instances.

QUESTION NO: 646
A company must keep records of all resource changes that are made through the AWS Management Console and AWS APIs. Which AWS service should the company use to meet this requirement?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS CloudTrail
C. AWS X-Ray
D. Amazon Inspector

QUESTION NO: 647
A company requires an isolated environment within AWS for security purposes. Which action can be taken to accomplish this?

A. Create a separate Availability Zone to host the resources.
B. Create a separate VPC to host the resources.
C. Create a placement group to host the resources.
D. Create an AWS Direct Connect connection between the company and AWS.

QUESTION NO: 648
A company needs to monitor and forecast AWS costs and usage. The company also must set event-driven alert notifications that occur if spending limits are exceeded.
Which AWS service or tool should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Budgets
B. Amazon CloudWatch
C. AWS Config
D. AWS Service Catalog

QUESTION NO: 649
Which of the following is a best practice for creating policies for IAM users?

A. Start with a large set of permissions and remove the permissions that are not required.
B. Use only Amazon managed policies.
C. Start with a minimum set of permissions and grant additional permissions as necessary.
D. Attach policies directly to each user individually.

QUESTION NO: 650
A user with an AWS Basic Support plan has determined that illegal activities are being run on their AWS resources. What is the recommended method for the user to report the activity to AWS?

A. Contact the AWS Concierge Support team.
B. Contact an AWS technical account manager.
C. Contact the AWS Abuse team.
D. Contact the AWS Support team.

QUESTION NO: 651
AWS can relieve a company’s IT staff of which of the following IT tasks? (Choose two.)

A. Patching database software
B. Storage capacity planning
C. Creating database schemas
D. Setting up access controls for data
E. Writing application code

QUESTION NO: 652
A company’s security team requires that all Amazon EC2 workloads use approved Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Which AWS service should the company use to verify that the EC2 instances are using approved
AMIs?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. Amazon Inspector
C. AWS Config
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 653
Which of the following are benefits of using the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. 100% fault tolerance
B. Total control over underlying infrastructure
C. Fast provisioning of IT resources
D. Outsourcing all application coding to AWS
E. Ability to go global quickly

QUESTION NO: 654
Which of the following security-related aspects of running an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance is the responsibility of AWS?

A. Security of private keys
B. Hypervisor software updates
C. Security updates to software running on the instance
D. Policies controlling instance access

QUESTION NO: 655
Which AWS service aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes security alerts and findings from multiple AWS services?

A. Amazon Detective
B. Amazon Inspector
C. Amazon Macie
D. AWS Security Hub

QUESTION NO: 656
A developer has an AWS account and needs access to another account’s test database. Which AWS service or feature can the developer use to gain access to the test database?

A. Amazon Macie
B. Security groups
C. IAM roles
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 657
Using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to break down a monolithic architecture into microservices is an example of:

A. a loosely coupled architecture.
B. a tightly coupled architecture.
C. a stateless architecture.
D. a stateful architecture.

QUESTION NO: 658
Which service enables customers to audit API calls in their AWS accounts?

A. AWS CloudTrail
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. Amazon Inspector
D. AWS X-Ray

QUESTION NO: 659
Which VPC component provides a layer of security at the subnet level?

A. Security groups
B. Network ACLs
C. NAT gateways
D. Route tables

QUESTION NO: 660
Which benefit is available for Convertible Reserved Instances but NOT Standard Reserved Instances?

A. The instances can be exchanged for instances of a different instance size.
B. The instances can be exchanged for instances of a different instance family.
C. The instances can be changed to a different Availability Zone.
D. The instances can be changed to a different AWS Region.

QUESTION NO: 661
Which of the following enables users to leverage the power of AWS services programmatically?

A. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. AWS CodeDeploy
D. AWS Management Console

QUESTION NO: 662
Which security credentials are required to run commands by using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?

A. Access Key ID and Secret Access Key
B. AWS root user email and password
C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) key pairs
D. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user name and password

QUESTION NO: 663
Which are customer responsibilities when using Amazon EC2? (Choose two.)

A. Underlying hardware maintenance
B. File-system-level encryption
C. Guest operating system firewall configuration
D. Hypervisor-level software patching
E. Physical security at data center facilities

QUESTION NO: 664
A web developer has limited knowledge of AWS networking services such as Amazon VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling, but wants to host a highly available web application. Which AWS service would automatically handle the deployment and reduce the complexity for the developer?

A. AWS CodeDeploy
B. AWS Resource Access Manager
C. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
D. AWS CloudFormation

QUESTION NO: 665
A company wants to route its traffic directly and privately to a VPC without going over the public internet. Which connectivity option provides this capability?

A. AWS VPN
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. VPC NAT gateway
D. VPC internet gateway

QUESTION NO: 666
A company wants to build an application for a new line of business. According to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, what design principles should be implemented? (Choose two.)

A. Consolidate multiple AWS accounts into a single account.
B. Buy and host hardware in the AWS Cloud.
C. Decouple the AWS Cloud architecture to break up monolithic deployments.
D. Move on-premises network hardware to VPCs.
E. Design elasticity into the AWS Cloud design.

QUESTION NO: 667
A company wants to forecast its AWS Cloud costs for the upcoming year by analyzing its past AWS Cloud spending trends. Which AWS service should the company use to meet this requirement?

A. AWS Control Tower
B. Cost Explorer
C. AWS OpsWorks
D. AWS CloudFormation

QUESTION NO: 668
Which AWS service or feature can help a company determine if it has Amazon S3 buckets that are publicly available?

A. AWS Service Health Dashboard
B. Amazon CloudWatch Logs
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Service Catalog

QUESTION NO: 669
A company’s newly launched application is gaining in popularity very quickly. To improve customer service, the company wants to set up a phone number to manage the increasing volume of calls received by the company’s support staff.
Which AWS service should be used to meet this requirement?

A. Amazon Connect
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. Amazon DirectConnect
D. AWS Trusted Advisor

QUESTION NO: 670
Which credentials used to sign in to the AWS Management Console meet security best practices? (Choose two.)

A. An access key
B. Multi-factor authentication
C. X.509 certificates
D. A secret key
E. User name and password

QUESTION NO: 671
Which of the following are ways to improve security on AWS? (Choose two.)

A. Using AWS Artifact
B. Granting the broadest permissions to all IAM roles
C. Running application code with AWS Cloud9
D. Enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) with Amazon Cognito
E. Using AWS Trusted Advisor security checks

QUESTION NO: 672
Which AWS service or resource helps on-premises applications connect to AWS Cloud-based storage and caches the data locally for low-latency access?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. AWS Storage Gateway
C. Amazon S3
D. AWS Snowball Edge

QUESTION NO: 673
An online retail company has seasonal sales spikes several times a year, primarily around holidays. Demand is lower at other times. The company finds it difficult to predict the increasing infrastructure demand for each season.
Which advantages of moving to the AWS Cloud would MOST benefit the company? (Choose two.)

A. Global footprint
B. Elasticity
C. AWS service quotas
D. AWS shared responsibility model
E. Pay-as-you-go pricing

QUESTION NO: 674
A company wants to ensure that two Amazon EC2 instances are in separate data centers with minimal communication latency between the data centers. How can the company meet this requirement?

A. Place the EC2 instances in two separate AWS Regions connected with a VPC peering connection.
B. Place the EC2 instances in two separate Availability Zones within the same AWS Region.
C. Place one EC2 instance on premises and the other in an AWS Region. Then connect them by using an AWS VPN connection.
D. Place both EC2 instances in a placement group for dedicated bandwidth.

QUESTION NO: 675
Which AWS service supports a hybrid architecture that gives users the ability to extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to data centers, co-location environments, or onpremises facilities?

A. AWS Snowmobile
B. AWS Local Zones
C. AWS Outposts
D. AWS Fargate

QUESTION NO: 676
A company wants to eliminate the need to guess infrastructure capacity before deployments. The company also wants to spend its budget on cloud resources only as the company uses the resources.
Which advantage of the AWS Cloud matches the company’s requirements?

A. Reliability
B. Global reach
C. Economies of scale
D. Pay-as-you-go pricing

QUESTION NO: 677
A retail company wants to provision only the necessary amount of resources to handle the current demand. Which cloud benefit is the company trying to achieve with this goal?

A. Reliability
B. Global reach
C. Scalability
D. High availability

QUESTION NO: 678
A company wants to migrate a small website and database quickly from on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. The company has limited operational knowledge to perform the migration.
Which AWS service supports this use case?

A. Amazon EC2
B. Amazon Lightsail
C. Amazon S3
D. AWS Lambda

QUESTION NO: 679
Which AWS service or feature allows a user to set up consolidated billing?

A. AWS Billing Management Console
B. AWS Organizations
C. AWS Cost and Usage Report
D. WAS Systems Manager

QUESTION NO: 680
Which AWS service can be used to encrypt data at rest?

A. Amazon GuardDuty
B. AWS Shield
C. AWS Security Hub
D. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

QUESTION NO: 681
What is an IAM best practice for AWS account root user access keys?

A. Delete all root user access keys, if possible.
B. Use root user credentials to access sensitive information stored on AWS.
C. Allow the system administrator group to use the root user credentials for daily access.
D. Use root user credentials to access production database instances.

QUESTION NO: 682
A company has performance and regulatory requirements that call for it to run its workload only in its on-premises data center.
Which AWS services or resources should the company use? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Pinpoint
B. Amazon WorkLink
C. AWS Outposts
D. AWS Snowball Edge
E. AWS AppSync

QUESTION NO: 683
Elasticity in the AWS Cloud refers to which of the following? (Choose two.)

A. How quickly an Amazon EC2 instance can be restarted
B. The ability to rightsize resources as demand shifts
C. The maximum amount of RAM an Amazon EC2 instance can use
D. The pay-as-you-go billing model
E. How easily resources can be produced when they are needed

QUESTION NO: 684
A company wants to migrate to AWS and use the same security software it uses on premises. The security software vendor offers its security software as a service on AWS.

Where can the company purchase the security solution?

A. AWS Partner Solutions Finder
B. AWS Support Center
C. AWS Management Console
D. AWS Marketplace

QUESTION NO: 685
A company needs to improve the response rate of high-volume queries to its relational database.

Which AWS service should the company use to offload requests to the database and improve overall response times?

A. Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
B. Amazon ElastiCache
C. Elastic Load Balancing
D. AWS Global Accelerator

QUESTION NO: 686
Which AWS services or features enable users to connect on-premises networks to a VPC? (Choose two.)

A. AWS VPN
B. Elastic Load Balancing
C. AWS Direct Connect
D. VPC peering
E. Amazon CloudFront

QUESTION NO: 687
Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework specifies that resources be provisioned in a timely manner and scale as needed to maintain effectiveness as demand changes?

A. Cost optimization
B. Security
C. Operational excellence
D. Performance efficiency

QUESTION NO: 688
An IT department provisions more servers than are needed to run a workload. Which cloud architecture design principle supports changing this approach?

A. Protect data in transit and at rest.
B. Stop guessing capacity.
C. Improve through game days.
D. Annotate documentation.

QUESTION NO: 689
A solutions architect needs to create a cost estimate for running workloads on AWS. The cost estimate must then be exported for management review.

Which AWS service or feature should be used to accomplish these task?

A. Cost Explorer
B. Amazon QuickSight
C. AWS Pricing Calculator
D. AWS Budgets

QUESTION NO: 690
Which AWS service should a company use to decouple large monolithic applications into smaller microservices components?

A. AWS Direct Connect
B. Amazon Lightsail
C. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
D. Amazon CloudWatch

QUESTION NO: 691
A company has defined the AWS resources that it needs for a new application. The company needs to estimate the costs of running the application on AWS. What should the company do to meet this requirement?

A. Take advantage of AWS on-demand pricing.
B. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to generate an approximate dollar amount.
C. Use Amazon QuickSight to analyze current on-premises spending.
D. Use Amazon AppStream 2.0 for real-time pricing analytics.