AWS Certified Developer Associate Practice Exam Part 3 Quiz Format

A Developer is creating a mobile application that will not require users to log in. What is the MOST efficient method to grant users access to AWS resources? 

A company is building an application to track athlete performance using an Amazon DynamoDB table. Each item in the table is identified by a partition key (user_id) and a sort key (sport_name). The table design is shown below:

Partition Key: user_id
Sort Key: sport_name
Attributes: score
score_datetime
A Developer is asked to write a leaderboard application to display the top performers (user_id) based on the score for each sport_name. What process will allow the Developer to extract results MOST efficiently from the DynamoDB table?

A company recently migrated its web, application and NoSQL database tiers to AWS. The company is using Auto Scaling to scale the web and application tiers. More than 95 percent of the Amazon DynamoDB requests are repeated read-requests. How can the DynamoDB NoSQL tier be scaled up to cache these repeated requests?

A company has multiple Developers located across the globe who are updating code incrementally for a development project. When Developers upload code concurrently, internet connectivity is slow and it is taking a long time to upload code for deployment in AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Which step will result in minimized upload and deployment time with the LEAST amount of administrative effort?

What does an Amazon SQS delay queue accomplish? 

A Developer is using AWS CLI, but when running list commands on a large number of resources, it is timing out.
What can be done to avoid this time-out?

A Development team is working on a case management solution that allows medical claims to be processed and reviewed. Users log in to provide information related to their medical and financial situations. As part of the application, sensitive documents such as medical records, medical imaging, bank statements, and receipts are uploaded to Amazon S3. All documents must be securely transmitted and stored. All access to the documents must be recorded for auditing. What is the MOST secure approach? 

An application uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to ingest and process large streams of data records in real time. Amazon EC2 instances consume and process the data from the shards of the Kinesis data stream by using Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL). The application handles the failure scenarios and does not require standby workers. The application reports that a specific shard is receiving more data than expected. To adapt to the changes in the rate of data flow, the “hot” shard is resharded. Assuming that the initial number of shards in the Kinesis data stream is 4, and after resharding the number of shards increased to 6, what is the maximum number of EC2 instances that can be deployed to process data from all the shards?

Where can PortMapping be defined when launching containers in Amazon ECS?

A stock market monitoring application uses Amazon Kinesis for data ingestion. During simulated tests of peak data rates, the Kinesis stream cannot keep up with the incoming data. What step will allow Kinesis to accommodate the traffic during peak hours? 

While developing an application that runs on Amazon EC2 in an Amazon VPC, a Developer

identifies the need for centralized storage of application-level logs. Which AWS service can be used to securely store these logs?

An organization is storing large files in Amazon S3, and is writing a web application to display meta-data about the files to end-users. Based on the metadata a user selects an object to download. The organization needs a mechanism to index the files and provide single-digit millisecond latency retrieval for the metadata. What AWS service should be used to accomplish this?

An on-premises application makes repeated calls to store files to Amazon S3. As usage of the application has increased, “LimitExceeded” errors are being logged. What should be changed to fix this error?

A Developer wants to encrypt new objects that are being uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket by an application. There must be an audit trail of who has used the key during this process. There should be no change to the performance of the application. Which type of encryption meets these requirements? 

A company has an AWS CloudFormation template that is stored as a single file. The template is able to launch and create a full infrastructure stack. Which best practice would increase the maintainability of the template?

The upload of a 15 GB object to Amazon S3 fails. The error message reads: “Your proposed upload exceeds the maximum allowed object size.” What technique will allow the Developer to upload this object?

An application is expected to process many files. Each file takes four minutes to process each AWS Lambda invocation. The Lambda function does not return any important data. What is the fastest way to process all the files? 

A company caches session information for a web application in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company wants an automated way to delete old items from the table. What is the simplest way to do this?

AWS CodeBuild builds code for an application, creates the Docker image, pushes the image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), and tags the image with a unique identifier. If the Developers already have AWS CLI configured on their workstations, how can the Docker images be pulled to the workstations?

Queries to an Amazon DynamoDB table are consuming a large amount of read capacity. The table has a significant number of large attributes. The application does not need all of the attribute data. How can DynamoDB costs be minimized while maximizing application performance?

An application is running on an EC2 instance. The Developer wants to store an application metric in Amazon CloudWatch. What is the best practice for implementing this requirement? 

A company needs a new REST API that can return information about the contents of an Amazon S3 bucket, such as a count of the objects stored in it. The company has decided that the new API should be written as a microservice using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. How should the Developer ensure that the microservice has the necessary access to the Amazon S3 bucket, while adhering to security best practices?

A web application is designed to allow new users to create accounts using their email addresses. The application will store attributes for each user and is expecting millions of user to sign up. What should the Developer implement to achieve the design goals?

An application is using Amazon DynamoDB as its data store and should be able to read 100 items per second as strongly consistent reads. Each item is 5 KB in size. To what value should the table’s provisioned read throughput be set?

An organization is using Amazon CloudFront to ensure that its users experience low-latency access to its web application. The organization has identified a need to encrypt all traffic between users and CloudFront, and all traffic between CloudFront and the web application. How can these requirements be met? (Choose two.) 

An application uses Lambda functions to extract metadata from files uploaded to an S3 bucket; the metadata is stored in Amazon DynamoDB. The application starts behaving unexpectedly, and the Developer wants to examine the logs of the Lambda function code for errors. Based on this system configuration, where would the Developer find the logs?

A Developer has developed a web application and wants to deploy it quickly on a Tomcat server on AWS. The Developer wants to avoid having to manage the underlying infrastructure. What is the easiest way to deploy the application, based on these requirements?

A Developer is creating a Lambda function that will generate and export a file. The function requires 100 MB of temporary storage for temporary files while executing. These files will not be needed after the function is complete. How can the Developer MOST efficiently handle the temporary files? 

An application runs on multiple EC2 instances behind an ELB. Where is the session data best written so that it can be served reliably across multiple requests?

A company is migrating from a monolithic architecture to a microservices-based architecture. The Developers need to refactor the application so that the many microservices can asynchronously communicate with each other without impacting performance. Use of which managed AWS services will enable asynchronous message passing? (Choose two.) 

An application running on an Amazon Linux EC2 instance needs to manage the AWS infrastructure. How can the EC2 instance be configured to make AWS API calls securely?

The development team is working on an API that will be served from Amazon API gateway. The API will be served from three environments: development, test, and production. The API Gateway is configured to use 237 GB of cache in all three stages. Which is the MOST cost-efficient deployment strategy? 

According to best practice, how should access keys be managed in AWS? (Choose two.) 

A development team is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a two-tier application that consists of a load-balanced web tier and an Amazon RDS database tier in production. The team would like to separate the RDS instance from the Elastic Beanstalk. How can this be accomplished?

An application needs to use the IP address of the client in its processing. The application has been moved into AWS and has been placed behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). However, all the client IP addresses now appear to be the same. The application must maintain the ability to scale horizontally. Based on this scenario, what is the MOST cost-effective solution to this problem? 

A website’s page load times are gradually increasing as more users access the system at the same time. Analysis indicates that a user profile is being loaded from a database in all the web pages being visited by each user and this is increasing the database load and the page load latency. To address this issue the Developer decides to cache the user profile data. Which caching strategy will address this situation MOST efficiently? 

A social media company is using Amazon Cognito in order to synchronize profiles across different mobile devices, to enable end users to have a seamless experience. Which of the following configurations can be used to silently notify users whenever an update is available on all other devices?

A company is using AWS CodePipeline to deliver one of its applications. The delivery pipeline is triggered by changes to the master branch of an AWS CodeCommit repository and uses AWS CodeBuild to implement the test and build stages of the process and AWS CodeDeploy to deploy the application. The pipeline has been operating successfully for several months and there have been no modifications. Following a recent change to the application’s source code, AWS CodeDeploy has not deployed the updates application as expected. What are the possible causes? (Choose two.)

An application displays a status dashboard. The status is updated by 1 KB messages from an SQS queue. Although the status changes infrequently, the Developer must minimize the time between the message arrival in the queue and the dashboard update. What technique provides the shortest delay in updating the dashboard? 

An on-premises application is implemented using a Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) stack. The Developer wants to run this application in AWS. Which of the following sets of AWS services can be used to run this stack?